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A page out of our book.
May 27, 2006Looks like another N. Texas city is going to try and recall their mayor.
Ah yes....the democratic process at it's finest.
White Settlement, just west of Fort Worth, just elected three new city council members.
They have five total...and their mayor. Well, those 3 new council members vowed to bring a petition forward to recall the mayor and one of the other council members if elected.
They were...and they did.
Part of their beef...the mayor was behidn a measure to change the cities name to West Settlement from the racist-sounding White Settlement. That's just something that everybody has grown up with around Fort Worth where I'm from.
No good reason to change it. Just like no good reason to abandon the Indians from MSU. The measure for the name change was voted upon in a general election and soundly defeated.
Who knows how the mayoral recall will go. But probably as smoothly as our own recall did.
What was that final tally again...something like 2/3rd's to get the heck out of office?
Here's the story: White Settlement Recall
Posted by Jason Palmer at 2:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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I have heard of White Settlement for 42 yrs now and never even thought about it as having anything to do with "white people" until they mentioned this some time back. Could have been named after Joe Tom White and his family for all I knew. I wonder how many other people thought the same thing UNTIL the racist card was tossed on the table!
Whatever happened to "if it aint broke...don't fix it"???
