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It could have been prevented.
Despite the laws concerning public parks and waterways and public opposition, the EISD continued to stick to the schedule to begin the destruction of our city park.
Why was everything proving the need for a school and their plans for the park not made public in the months before the vote?
Maybe because the supporters of the bond knew if the voters were aware of the threat to their park, the bond wouldn't pass.
Why were there no figures published concerning what updating the high school would cost as compared with the $11.5 million for the new school?
Perhaps because the sponsors of the bond knew the financially strapped people of Electra would respond better to emotional guilt trips than to a cheaper, more practical plan.
Why was a very small, blurry, and unclear plan for the park was printed AFTER the bond was voted in.?
It would seem, since a plan was produced immediately after the vote, that the bond backers already planned to destroy the park.
Why was the responsibility of an inquiry about the legality of the school accessing the park given only to the city attorney and not sent to Austin?
Was that not stupid?
Why was the Water Conservation Districts' ruling on watercourses ignored?
Possibly because the park plan would have been stopped dead.
And so it goes. And goes. And goes. The city park is only the more recent example of the town's authorities' willful disregard for the wishes of the voters.
I'm not too proud of what I consider the unethical, dishonorable, manipulative way these authorities are doing business these days, but the destruction of the park is really the cherry on the sundae for me.
For the people we elected to represent us who went along with this scheme: I will vote for you again only if the person running against you is the medical mafia candidate. That includes not only the city commission, but the hospital board, the school board and any other position in which the public has a say. I hope everyone else who has opposed the destruction of the park will have the guts to stand up and be counted at the next election.
For those who say "it won't do any good," agree because someone yells louder and longer, or "because my vote wasn't going to make any difference," and make other excuses for their cowardice and apathy, here's my opinion: these 'reasons' for voting-or not-are just chickenshit.
13. Who steamrollers public opinion and overrides the law?
Anita Huguelet McMurtrie
