The Concerned Citizens for Enforcing Carrollton Term Limits PAC had it organizational meeting last night at the home of Bonnie and Eric. Tom will be filing papers for the PAC either with the City Secretary or the Texas Ethics Commission soon. Apparently we had either an incompetent city attorney or a city attorney who is not acting with a whole lot of integrity. In 2001, the city put forth two proposed city charter amendments, to change a 3 terms limit of two years per term for a 2 terms limit of three years per term so the city can have fewer elections and save some money. However, the city attorney did not put the correct language in the city charter. In other words, the language of the adopted proposed amendment is different than what showed up in the amended charter.

At any rated, Herb Weidinger was first elected to a 2-year term in 1999, second time elected to another 2-year term in 2001, and for the third time was elected to a 3-year term in 2003. Herb wants to run again because mayor Becky Miller asked him to run for the lame reason of having continuity on the council. Heck, that was the reason we adopted the 22nd amendment to the US Constitution, after FDR continued with too much continuity during World War II.

Similar limit for both Tim Hayden, who was appointed in May 2000, first elected to a 2-year term in 2001, and the second time was elected to a 3-year term in 2003; Larry Don Williams first elected to a 2-year term in 2001, second time elected to a 3-year term in 2003. If these two councilmen are unhappy, they should blame the city attorney because he is the one that screwed up the amended city charter.

I got to meet all the challengers, Charles Thrasher, Cathy Henesey and Diane Harmon tonight. Diane Harmon and her husband, Hank, are real Christians, I found out. Charles Thrasher really knows what he is talking about, sharing something I did not know before, the city raised my tax so Herb Weidinger can spend $30,000 in traveling expenses. Cathy used to travel a whole lot for her job but that's no longer the case so she would like to get involved and give back to the community.