Bullock Texas State History Museum
Dear SOSAnista Board
RECEIVED Mon., April 24, 2006
Dear SOSAnista board,
Your Chron/PR letter reminds me of poison ivy, so pretty to see and so impossible to live with [“Postmarks,” April 14]. Truthfully, your clique views the COA as a weapon of mass development.
“You have a secret – Chapter 245 committee that makes every single call about what development is grandfathered and what development isn't. ... You look at your own calendars, tons of meetings where you're doing city business. ... We ask for your calendars, we look in there, the overriding, prevailing characteristic is there's nothing there.” statement of SOSA executive director Bill Bunch, March 9.
Office calendars are not meeting notes, so like President W., SOSA's looking for something that doesn't exist. SOSA believes nothing can overcome the SOS ordinance, but 245 was designed as bulletproof anti-SOS state law. State law supersedes local law, and Texas isn't pro-environment, so SOSA dredges COA office calendars for conspiratorial “insight” and proposes Big Brother “open” government.
How will Austin negotiate when all its thoughts are public and none of its adversaries? What successful negotiation was ever made when everything was subject to constant cyberspace sniping at every stage? Who would negotiate under the conditions the amendments propose? The COA negotiated the Intel/CSC/Silicon Lab structures off the watershed area but could lose that ability should your candy-ass “clean water” amendment be adopted. A state court could legally rationalize such a result, which is why there's an office complex adjacent to Barton Springs when there shouldn't be. SOSA's positions don't advance; their city candidates don't win. So a gangrenous coup is staged by IR proxy, and everyone must fear 20,000 signatures. Didn't Griffith have about 20,000 signatures but less than 11,000 votes? Your “victory” is anything but assured.
Your Chron/PR letter reminds me of poison ivy, so pretty to see and so impossible to live with [“Postmarks,” April 14]. Truthfully, your clique views the COA as a weapon of mass development.
“You have a secret – Chapter 245 committee that makes every single call about what development is grandfathered and what development isn't. ... You look at your own calendars, tons of meetings where you're doing city business. ... We ask for your calendars, we look in there, the overriding, prevailing characteristic is there's nothing there.” statement of SOSA executive director Bill Bunch, March 9.
Office calendars are not meeting notes, so like President W., SOSA's looking for something that doesn't exist. SOSA believes nothing can overcome the SOS ordinance, but 245 was designed as bulletproof anti-SOS state law. State law supersedes local law, and Texas isn't pro-environment, so SOSA dredges COA office calendars for conspiratorial “insight” and proposes Big Brother “open” government.
How will Austin negotiate when all its thoughts are public and none of its adversaries? What successful negotiation was ever made when everything was subject to constant cyberspace sniping at every stage? Who would negotiate under the conditions the amendments propose? The COA negotiated the Intel/CSC/Silicon Lab structures off the watershed area but could lose that ability should your candy-ass “clean water” amendment be adopted. A state court could legally rationalize such a result, which is why there's an office complex adjacent to Barton Springs when there shouldn't be. SOSA's positions don't advance; their city candidates don't win. So a gangrenous coup is staged by IR proxy, and everyone must fear 20,000 signatures. Didn't Griffith have about 20,000 signatures but less than 11,000 votes? Your “victory” is anything but assured.
Sincerely,
Ricky Bird
Ricky Bird
