Northern, Filidoro, and Lyda Run for Re-Election in Flower Mound

These bullies time should be up. Ruin FM reputation regionally, what a joke these three are!

I disagree with you on that matter. They re not a joke and they have not ruined FM. The administration prior to them were on a path to industrialize FM and sell it off to they highest bidding gas company.

It is me again. It was Jody Smith and a couple of the council members who are no longer on the council that were the issue.

Norther & Lyda came to the town council and with the group that also included Filidoro and the rest of the council they accomplished a lot in the last two years. Morris 6 expansion to 6 lanes (which wasn't needed) was stopped. This would have been a give away of our tax $M by the Smith council to a developer. New, tighter ordinance on gas drilling. Renegotiations of our trash service, etc.

I urge everyone to remember what it was like 2 years ago when 600 people showed up at a January town council meeting to speak out against a change in a gas related ordinance and the then current Jody Smith led council (along with Levenik and others). They passed the ordinance against the wishes of the town. One of those voting for the change sold mineral rights to the gas company who was going to benefit from the change (and had removed a permit request - without which that certain council member would not have been able to vote). Then there was the developer soccer land swap that Smith and team put forward to the voters that was all about allowing a developer to drill for gas within 300 feed of homes. This was not disclosed. Luckily that did not pass.

I urge everyone to dig deep into each of those running for council. Find out how they have voted on issues (if they are current of former council members). Find out their stand on issues.

Please, can we live in the present for the benefit of the future residents in Flower Mound. Gas drilling is a bugaboo that will be used in this campaign by NFL. It is decided, it's done get over it. They will also beat their collective chests and take credit for ANYTHING positive they can find while running from all the negative decisions that have been made in the last two years.

First UNDERSTAND the issues, and don't adopt heresay as FACT. The council meeting where 600 showed up? It was adopt ordinances to REGULAGE a CCF, so that if one DID come, we'd have SOME measure of control over it. Prior to that, a CCF could be built on "ag" land without any restrictions from the Town.

Perpetuation of misinformation has been one of the biggest crimes of the current council and their supporters.

Digging deep into issues is excellent advice. Make sure you UNDERSTAND the issue, don't rely on heresay. The council meeting where 600 showed up? The vote was to put in place RESTRICTIONS for CCFs, it wasn't to ALLOW CCFs.

The perpetuation of misinformation has been one of the biggest crimes of the NFL and their supporters.

talk about heresay

Wouldn't it be easy to resolve the dispute about this meeting by simply going back to the agenda and minutes from the meeting? Sure it would but who is going to take the time to do that??? It is much more fun I guess to throw mud than actually state the facts with backup of the minutes that either prove or disprove what has been stated. Don't you just love small town politics?

What was discussed at that meeting is irrelevant. As a voter, I am interested in what these candidates and their opponents plan to do moving forward for the future.

From what I read in the Austin American-Statesman (article here) that was the January 2010 meeting that had 600 people.

Here are the minutes from the meeting.

I put the document on Scribd to avoid forcing people to download a PDF file just to look at something (still wondering why people use these, but that's for another day).

The document is searchable; hover over the document to see the search form at the bottom or press Ctrl+F. Have fun with that, because I'm not about to try to sort out who is right or wrong here.
-BC

P.S. I also uploaded the (large) agenda packet here but as of this writing it is still processing the file.

You mean the last two groups of people that were NOT controlled by the Chamber of Commerice and outside financial interests? Yep, that's pretty horrible.