{"id":1076,"date":"2016-03-18T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1076"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:28:19","slug":"we-received-an-unsolicited-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/truthinaddison.com\/?page_id=1076","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u201d received an \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u201d received an \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter?
\n<\/strong>I Smell Another Rat\u2026
\n<\/strong>By Susan M. Halpern
\n<\/strong>Former Addison Councilmember (1992-1999)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Oh how those facts do matter\u2026.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start here: Former City Manager Ron Whitehead is not running for office. There are six candidates who are<\/em> running for office, and I\u2019d like to hear about their qualifications.\u00a0 But Meier is orchestrating a different campaign.\u00a0 You see, three candidates are incumbents who were part of the Sam\u2019s redevelopment debacle, and Addison mayor Todd Meier is desperate to keep them in office because, well, they do what he tells them to do.\u00a0 And that suits his dictatorial style just fine.<\/p>\n

Meier is so scared that Addison voters might elect people who are truly independent thinkers that he\u2019s pulling all the stops out. His first order of business, for reasons clear only to him, has been to try to besmirch Former City Manager Ron Whitehead, the architect of much of the beauty you see around you and the success Addison enjoyed for three decades before this current group came along.\u00a0 I guess Meier is deeply concerned that Ron\u2019s 32 years in Addison and vast municipal experience might cause people to listen to what he has to say.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n

The latest effort to smear Ron appears in a \u201cnewsletter\u201d being circulated by Meier supporters. They\u2019ve published the text of a supposedly unsolicited letter that they say \u201cwe\u201d received.\u00a0 There\u2019s no mention of who \u201cwe\u201d is, and they don\u2019t show you the actual letter.\u00a0 That seemed odd to me.\u00a0 And when you\u2019re given the author\u2019s background, it\u2019s all East coast: Kentucky, North Carolina. \u00a0You had to think: Holy smokes, some guy in North Carolina has something to say about Addison and Ron Whitehead? \u00a0Wow.\u00a0 This must be important, right?\u00a0 And of course, this \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter conveniently trashes Ron and inexplicably endorses the incumbents you\u2019re led to believe the author doesn\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n

I found it all a little too convenient. So I looked around.\u00a0 I found the author\u2019s website.\u00a0 He\u2019s a political consultant.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find an address on the website, but in addition to the Kentucky and North Carolina credentials, I immediately noticed experience on the FRISCO Charter Review Commission and the FRISCO Board of Adjustment.\u00a0 Then I went to his Linked In page.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same guy, I can tell by the photo.\u00a0 And there it was: his address is Frisco, Texas.<\/p>\n

But it gets better. On his Linked In page, I noticed that we had a link in common. Guess who: Janelle Moore.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, the author is a local political consultant from Frisco who knows one of the three incumbents. He\u2019s not some random guy from the East coast.\u00a0 That explains why he knew things that weren\u2019t even in the news article on which he was supposedly commenting. Sort of changes the nature of the supposedly \u201cunsolicited\u201d letter that allegedly showed up in a mailbox belonging to whoever \u201cwe\u201d is, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

See, the facts do matter, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

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