the Controversial Committee Report
“We don’t raise sacred cows...we just butcher them.”
“As the Swamp Turns Swirls”
(Irving’s noxious soap opera)
Nowadays, the information overload for national, state and local issues can keep your head spinning…just by attempting to distinguish fact from fiction, or truth from rumor (FF/TR).
You be the judge if some of the following items conceivably could be factual and true as the fetid legal swamp — created by Billy Bob and Chris Allen — flows through ‘beautiful downtown Irving.’
To consider some of these local items, staff of the CCR has identified several matters which you, dear readers, might want to ponder as to what is going on regarding the FF/TR front.
Be alert, as the CCR staff fished some of these items directly from the disingenuous legal swamp — to bail Billy Bob out, again — which was created with suits filed against Irving and the ARK entertainment center.
FF/TR: Councilman Webb defeated Councilman Meagher in the city spelling-B when Meagher failed to accurately spell recuse. The winning word, for Webb to take home the trophy, was objectivity.
FF/TR: Now that the Dallas County Commissioners Court has moved the Texas driver’s license bureau and Justice of the Peace courts to Grand Prairie, is Dallas County Commissioner Dr. Elba Garcia in talks to move the Irving Toyota Music Factory to Grand Prairie, too? Would Councilman Meagher possibly be considered a water toter to assist her in executing this move and closing the deal?
FF/TR: To ensure their cases have terrific representation — in the law suits filed against the city and ARK — and are as strong as possible by using the same lawyer, has Billy Bob and Chris Allen hired former council member Tom Spink to write all their future legal briefs and motions?
FF/TR: Did one of the parties, in the law suits filed against the city and ARK, pull political bro-strings to have the Dallas DA office “invite” the FBI to join in the legal swamp party? Would it be good research, for the FBI, to check phone records, text messages, “social meetings” after hours, and e-mails of, perhaps, a couple city servants who are perched on the other side of this legal swamp, for possible collusion?
FF/TR: Has the level of the legal swamp raised two feet due to all the bad PR created by Billy Bob and Chris Allen’s law suits, thereby causing Live Nation to issue life jackets to all concert attendees?
FF/TR: Will Pollstar magazine move the Irving Toyota Music Factory, from 9th place worldwide for the top fifty amphitheaters, to 113th place due to the bad PR and fetid aroma of the legal swamp?
FF/TR: Did any member of the city council vote to deny the zoning case for a cell phone tower because this financial Golden Goose wouldn’t be laying their gold eggs in their backyard?
How was your FF/TR score? Any factual items present, or did fiction prevail? Did you unmask the true issues from any of the opinionated rumors?
Stay tuned, dear readers, and be sure to stay hydrated. It’s going to be a long hot summer in ‘beautiful downtown Irving.’
……………………………….Mark Holbrook
