One of the most important fundamentals of government at any level is that it should be representative of the people as a whole.  However, all too often our elected officials and their appointees become so convinced of the “rightness” of their office and their own opinions (primarily due to their tenure in office) they stop caring what the people might consider important or what our needs are.  The elected official begins to believe that his or her actions (all of their actions) are above reproach.  In more direct terms, they loose touch with the people they are supposed to be representing and forget to include the people who elected them in the process of change.

Fort Worth and Tarrant County are not immune to the above.  Here in Cowtown we call this menacing disease “incumbency syndrome” and know it’s effects all to well.  It has given us “critical” neighborhood street repairs that have doubled since Mike Moncrief was elected, now totaling almost a $$BILLION dollars and getting worse everyday.

Now Mayor Moncrief is actively supporting higher taxes and fees to be placed on the citizens of Fort Worth to support commuter rail and street repairs that he willingly chose to ignore since his election as Mayor in 2003.