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Listener: Pratt on Texas
Category: Lubbock City Politics
Date: 01 Dec 2009
Time: 10:51:44 -0700
Remote Name: 70.242.183.106
The majority vote of the current Lubbock city council was elected on a promise of lower taxes, responsible government, and conservatism in general. A basic tenet of being a conservative is to recognize that smaller government is best, and that turning to government for so-called solutions to problems is to be rare and limited to basic functions.
If one were to judge Lubbock’s current council and mayor, Tom Martin, against the last council and mayor, clearly there has been solid improvement. But if this mayor and council members are judged against their claimed conservatism, they are little better than the conservative-light congressmen who have so rankled Americans. They are lacking in respect for free market competition, smaller, better government, and less regulation.
The mayor openly supported a public taking of your grocery money to appease an interest group that wants you to subsidize its sporting activities. They initially saw no problem expanding the regulatory power and reach of the city government over, of all things, balloons. And in an action which can only honestly be described as nothing but pure, textbook-defined socialism, they’ve chosen to end private sector utility competition and replace it with a government monopoly. That is what “publicly” owned means - just like the Public Broadcasting Service or any other public agency. It’s government.
This mayor and council have failed to quickly change top management at city hall, a move which most voters thought they were voting for in the last election. We were promised work on Charter Changes as well, changes to help fix some of the inherent problems with management and policy. But, the mayor hasn’t found time for these important activities. Instead we’ve gotten soccer park elections and an end to choice in our local electric market.
What a disappointment it has all been, and what a punch in the gut to we initial supporters.
Pratt
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