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TERM LIMIT DEBATE
TURNS UGLY
Mayor Hardberger
Denies 'Dirty Tricks'
Opponents Flooded
With 'Email Bombs'
Signs Stolen Or
Destroyed
The Political
Snitch, SAL Commentary |
Dirty deeds and they're
done dirt cheap.
General Phil Hardberger's raid on
the electorate, fueled by $750,000 in
questionable ammunition, continues to try to
conquer the voters.
As E-Day approaches, it appears that
the Term Limits war is getting uglier.
The Homeowners Taxpayer
Association (HTA) has been targeted by
an orchestrated sabotage assault, by
"persons unkown."
Stolen and destroyed signs and a
vicious email bombing run have plagued HTA of
late.
Martin says virtually all of the
"keep term limits" signage has been
vandalized or stolen.
Meanwhile, the e-bombs keep falling,
at the rate of almost 10,000 a day, crippling
HTA's mail server, and web page..
The electronic handgrenades come
from such bogus names as:
hibernateda@eco-prod.com
ntact@eco-prod.com
keassaulted1@eco-prod.com
ntact@eco-prod.com
radiohertz04@yahoo.com
varoff@fairy.dataforce.net
The content of the messages include
many items, some of which border on the obscene.
Discretion Advised.
Subject: Sharon loved the
results I got from this
Don't' settle for a small tool in your pants;
women WANT you huge - give them what you
want, and see their impression of you change.
As advertised on TV and FHM. Rediscover your
male verve and virility, with the same
product as seen on TV and FHm. Results
indicate 97% of men report rapid growth
within weeks.
And so...
Martin admits
he has no proof of who the guerillas are, but
says he has a pretty good idea.
Christian
Archer, spokesman for Hardberger, denies the
Mayor's involvment in the dirty skirmish.
"We don't waste
our time on the HTA!"
Archer
said HTA is "too small to be bothered
with."
"I'm
not crying over it," Martin retorted.
More
to follow.
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Previous
Stories Below.
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SAL EXCLUSIVE
Is It An Ambush?
Term Limit Trickery May Be Looming
SAL POLITICAL SNITCH - SAL
Commentary 9-18-2008
Go
back, Jack...And Do It Again!
The bid to extend term limits to
twice their length for City Council members and
the Mayor is being touted as the salvation of San
Antonio's otherwise bleak future.
Of course, the biggest touting is
coming from the City Council and the Mayor.
It is such a good thing,
Hardberger is trying to raise $750,000 in
campaign funds, mostly from big business and
other special interest groups, to convince you of
how wonderful it is.
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Hardberger ignores the fact the
voters have twice spoken with their votes. In
2004 they slapped down another such attempt by a
thundering 2-1 margin.
So the politicos at City Hall are
gonna try it again.
But it is an ambush, and I'll tell
you why.
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Here is the langauage that will
appear on the ballot:
Shall the City Charter
be amended effective December 1, 2008 to
revise term limits to allow a mayor or member
of the City Council to serve four 2-year
terms of office, instead of two 2-year terms,
but prohibit the current and former mayors
and members of the City Council, whether
appointed or elected, from being elected to
more than two 2-year terms.
Perhaps the missing question mark at
the end of that convoluted proposal may be a
Freudian slip.
I point to this murky amendment as
not being truly clear in whether past Council
members and Mayors can be elected again, but only
for two 2-year terms. Is it open to
"interpretation?"
I bring this up only because another
charter change in 2001 gave us an independent
City Auditor.
There shall be an
independent department of internal audit
which is charged with conducting financial,
fiscal compliance, and financial procedure
audits of all city departments, offices,
agencies and programs. (City
Charter)
However, when
"independent" Auditor Pete Gonzalez
began looking into the safety of Parks and
Recreation Department playgrounds he was blown
out of the tub.
It didn't matter that Gonzalez was
right about the dangerous situation, which the
City finally admitted.
So the Mayor ordered a special
commission, made up of city hacks and special
interest flacks, to "clarify" the
meaning of "independent." (Express-News)
Now, had he truly wanted to clear up
the confusion, perhaps he could have put the
issue to the voters -- again.
In coming years will the term limit
proposition, if the populace falls for it, be
"clarified" as well?
Once a dog bites you, can you really
trust him again?
More
to follow.
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(See
previous stories below.)
AND WHAT
WAS HE DOING IN SPAIN?!!
Meet 'The
Spanish Fly'
Hardberger's
Secret Plan To Make
SA A 'Real'
World Class Sanctuary City
SAL POLITICAL SNITCH 7-16-2008
THIRTY
SECONDS OVER SAN ANTONIO
This story is
filled with Irony.
Mayor Phil
Hardberger has returned from his latest
"vacation," which included a trip to
Spain.
That
self-imposed exile began the very day AT&T
Corporate went bye-bye with 700 top-flight jobs.
Express-News reports the Mayor was in the air
when the bad news came. AT&T blamed the
"inadequate" SA transportation system.
During that
time San Antonio's highly-touted Toyota plant
grounded the Tundra and prepared to go
thump-thump for at least 90 days, beginning in
August, in a crash course to regain sales.
And ExpressJet
Airlines, which has received about $800,000 in
tax-paid advertising, continues it's slide off
the runway toward a September 1st ball of flames.
Did the Mayor
ponder any of this as his plane touched down at
SA International last starry night?
Absolute
aerial Irony.
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THE
ADVENTURER RETURNS
The City's
website describes Phil Hardberger as:
A noted adventurer,
pilot, sailor and race-car driver, Mayor
Hardberger has completed ascents of Mt.
Rainier and Mt. Kilimanjaro....
After graduating
from college ...he piloted the B-47 bomber.
He then went on to serve as Executive
Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps...
We know Phil vacationed in Spain.
Why appears
to be a secret, at least from us. As noted above
he is an adventurer. And his trip coincided with
the fabled "Running Of The Bulls."
Could it be?
We also know the Mayor is tight with
Spain-based Cintra. Those global toll troopers
are mobilizing, along with Hardbeger supporter
Zachry Construction, over the black-top
possibilities of Texas.
Did Phil meet with them, officially
or unofficially?
Unknown to this writer.
But whether it was cavorting with
the tar-heeled conglomerate or running with the
snorting spanish bulls, Phil is back now and
running with some more baloney.
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SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY!
Though he has wracked up some
stunning setbacks in the last 12 months,
Hardberger is still in touch with the common
herd.
Admired by CNN for his largess with
taxpayer money and his open-armed,
no-questions-asked approach to Katrina survivors,
little is said about the criminal element that
has been visited upon us because the Mayor
refused background checks. New gangs. New
criminals. New World Order.
Hardberger's dream of San Antonio as
a safe haven for illegal immigrants has continued
to grow proportionally with the need for cheap
labor.
Police Chief McManus can't provide
anyone with the number of Mexican illegals
involved in crimes for one simple reason.
He never asks.
New gangs. New criminals. New World
Order.
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NOT
REALLY A SECRET
None
of this is much of a secret, really.
Except,
now comes word from the City Hall Underground
that following the vote to extend term limits,
the Mayor will then turn his attention to making
San Antonio an "official" sanctuary
city.
What
follows is an email sent to many City Officials.
It was sent by SA voter Larry Stewart in an
attempt to clarify the illegal alien situation.
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response came from Phil himself. Not only is
his answer interesting on its face, but
has even more meat between the lines.
The
omissions also say a lot.
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More to follow.
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