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Bastrop County better up its game or we’ll LITERALLY be run over by this type of ‘in your face’ bullying by developers. Previously, Double Eagle and the change from 1-2 acre density to 6 to the acre. Today, Elon Musk.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/elon-musk-s-boring-co-is-feuding-with-texas-over-a-driveway

Commercial, industrial, and large residential developers need to be required to provide traffic studies, sewerage studies, and environmental studies BEFORE they put any shovel in the ground.

I get that Texans want to be able to use their land as they’d like, but once they sell to money-hungry developers, it’s no longer theirs and they don’t have to worry about what happens to their neighbors.

How would you like your water source polluted by unapproved sewerage disposal uphill from you on your neighbor’s property? Can you afford that fight? Can the taxpayers of Bastrop County?

It’s beyond time for legislation to protect CURRENT property owners from developers whose only goal is economic enrichment.

I always find it interesting to see where a candidate gets his or her money. What PACs (Political Action Committees) donate to a candidate? Sometimes development interests, energy interests, and out of state interests far exceed local donations. To whom will a candidate be beholden when they are elected?

Candidate financial reports are all online at Texas Ethics Commission (https://www.ethics.state.tx.us/). Search by a candidate name to find the reports. Use the arrows at top right to move through the multiple pages of reports. Follow the money and see if you think it tells a story.

I’m subscribed to the Grassroots America We The People newsletter. Always very interesting, great calls to action, and to me, very often full of inspiration.

For example, in today’s newsletter, JoAnn shared this truth:

When the dark spirit of financial and political greed and the desire to be a Machiavellian kingmaker result in character assassination and personal destruction for sport, how much better is the conservative hireling from the rabid, soulless character on the political Left? This is a point to ponder – for as night follows day, a reckoning will surely come. If not in this life, in the one to come.

Look at any championship sports team and you’ll see cohesion, not division. Yes, some will excel, some will be outspoken, some will quietly engage in a background supporting role, but all will work to make the team one well oiled machine.

Republicans would do well to remember this during primary season. We have a deep bench. We have a supportive public on the issues.

We must elect candidates who will make decisions looking through the lens of conservatism, not looking through their list of financial supporters.

We must elect candidates with strong core values, not whose direction is determined by the prevailing winds or PAC money.

Electing the best candidate to be our true Conservative standard bearer in the General election is our mission.

Remember it. Work together to accomplish it. Bury the “dark spirit of financial and political greed and the desire to be a Machiavellian kingmaker”.

The survival of our Republic depends on it.

Below is the letter to the editor I sent twenty years ago. I lived in Denville NJ, worked for Morris County NJ. I could see the towers from “The Hill”, a cluster of county buildings. I could see the smoke for what seemed like forever from the hills in Denville.

I’m sad to say, it seems like we have forgotten. I’m sad to say our country does not share the patience of the terrorists. I’m sad to say today’s President has turned victory into defeat and handed an entire country and our military equipment to the terrorists.

May we find our response once again as we did after 9-11. And, may God continue to bless us all, especially these United States.

September 21, 2001

To the Editor:

One of the greatest lessons my parents taught me was that we can achieve anything if we want it badly enough and work to achieve it with relentless patience, fairness, truthfulness, diligence and determination.

It is clear now that these ice-hearted terrorists lived next door to us, sent their children to our schools, learned their trades in our schools, and profited from our financial institutions FOR YEARS. They were focused, patient, and determined. They planned this, and other, despicable acts over YEARS.

When their first attempt to down the towers didn’t work, they didn’t point fingers, wail, and place blame.

Over several more YEARS, they planned and hit other US targets: our Embassies and the USS Cole.

They steeled themselves to do better the next time, learning from their mistakes. They kept, and still keep, their eyes focused on their goal. To win this war, to maintain our freedom, we must be as steeled.

Our President has asked that we
be equally as focused, patient, and determined. We must resolve that we can spend five years, ten years, twenty or more planning and executing this war to rout terrorism from the globe.

We must remember that a ten-year battle to preserve a 225-year heritage of democracy and freedom is SO little to give, so little to sacrifice.

To those who have been stung by the sudden loss of their loved ones, I offer my sincerest condolences. To Mayor Guiliani and every American who has stepped forward to lead and to assist, thank you, for you have defined heroism in front of our eyes, untiringly, day after day.

Everything we stand for, everything we live for, is at stake. We must put COUNTRY first, as without that, the foundations of our families, our communities, our workplaces, and every other aspect of life as we know it will be destroyed.

We must stay the course for a long, long time.

God Bless America!

Carol A. Spencer

Former Mayor, Denville Township, NJ