Anger Management Required for League City Mayor Pat Hallisey

Mayor Hallisey,

Are you losing your cool because you are afraid your Green Team is losing this election?  Perhaps you're realizing that a full-frontal assault on the city staff (particularly the manager and attorney) was a mistake.  I mean, what happens if your Green Team loses?  So now, you've resorted to petulant, childish, half-truth riddled posts on Facebook to try to defend yourself and rouse your  base of malcontents into getting their friends to vote for you? 

Here's the thing Pat, if you or the Green Team offered anything positive, ANYTHING at all positive to voters, perhaps you wouldn't be so nervous.  Outside of the endorsement of the police union, have y'all accomplished anything?  You've managed to get Greg Gripon's name dragged in the dirt (although, that DID get him to finally pay up his back taxes to the city/school district, so I guess that's a positive accomplishment), you've managed to get Monica Millican to show her true colors by having her attack Larry's opponent Brian's capability to serve the city (Since, you know, his wife just had a baby)... this is Brian, the ONE person who has run the most positive, clean campaign.  But I guess y'all realized he was splitting the anti-"Tea Party" vote, and had to be stopped.  Brian, kudos for keeping it clean, but perhaps next time you'll realize that all of the friendly words from the Green Team Goons on League City Politics is a Full Contact Sport are just empty words.  I suggest you find a new forum to spread your message - perhaps start your own Facebook group to rival Chris John Mallios's.  He clearly has failed at creating a place for discussion - it's a "mutual admiration society" for anti-progress NIMBY old-timers.  I don't agree with your path for the future of League City, and feel the local government SHOULD take an active role in attracting businesses, but I certainly do appreciate your honesty and dedication to your principles.  But back to the Green Team and anything they've contributed - outside of Greg's loopy idea to require reclaimed water lines (which is not done without a large cost and brings in it's own risks), the ONLY idea which y'all have is to oppose progress, fight development (you know, that thing that can be used to steer us to lower property taxes) and pretend that investing is the same thing as wasteful spending.  You've promised to fight the city staff and the rest of the council, but they were freely elected, just as you BARELY were. 

Mr. Hallisey, the Galveston Daily News was correct when it said there isn't likely to be any couples counselling for you and the city manager.  And for good reason - seeing what you and your wife and your minions have spouted on Facebook, how could any reasonable person be expected to be willing to work with you?  You've made no effort to hide the fact that you are out to get the city manager and city attorney for perceived slights against you.  You completely fail to realize that your only real enemy is the city council (after all, the CM and CA will do as the majority of council asks); or perhaps, you just realize you can't really do anything about them.  But you really should rethink your position, the fact that they've so effectively implemented the will of the council to resist you, wouldn't you want them on your side should your band of followers take control?  Of course, after seeing the way you've handled it when council member Nick Long corrected your alternative history regarding your votes and positions and pointed out some of your half-truths (you handled it by calling him immature and accusing him of pounding his chest, thus revealing your own lack of decorum and professionalism), I highly doubt the CM or CA would ever work well with you, as I doubt anyone except your puppets would willingly work with you. 

So I ask you to answer the following scenario-driven questions:

Scenario A - Your Green Team wins enough seats to have control of the council

1)  How do you plan to pay for the golden handcuffs that are part of the contracts for the CM and CA?  Will you dip into our tax revenues to pay for this?  Perhaps you can tap Ralph Parr for donations, since he loves to fund your Quixotic quests for power.  Be prepared that I will highlight just how much taxpayer money you waste on this childish grudge.

2) What will you do the same and what will you do differently in this city, and how do you anticipate that impacting our taxes?  Your supporters are resistant to any development, and are resistant to attracting businesses, yet they want more road and water work done.  How will you fund all of this without raising our taxes? 

3) If you DO get rid of the CM and CA, how do you plan to attract a skillful and professional CM in the future?  Word will get out of how you handled things.  Then what?

4) Many of your supporters pushed for the new animal shelter, and are pushing for a dog park.  How will you give them that without utilizing eminent domain to acquire land and without raising taxes?

Scenario B - Your Green Team doesn't win enough seats to control council

1) How do you expect the city staff and council to work productively with you since you've openly insulted them  during this election?

2) How will your tone change when you realize there IS no widespread mandate for the will of you and your Green Team?