Dallas County Commissioners Said They Didn’t Know What They Were Voting On. Like That’s Something New.
Dallas county has one African American commissioner. He read a resolution and asked for it to be adopted.
The Dallas Morning News reported that commissioners thought they were honoring an annual holiday when they voted unanimously for the “Juneteenth Resolution” sponsored by Dallas County’s only black commissioner, John Wiley Price.
Price even read the text of the resolution, which covered broad topics like slavery and Jim Crow. Many of the commissioners seemed uninterested, playing with their computers or reading documents while he read so they did not seem to notice the final sentence.
Here’s the part they didn’t listen to …
“Be it further resolved that the dereliction that has caused 400 years of significant… suffering to the descendants of those who have been enslaved Africans who built this country, should be satisfied with monetary and substantial reparations to same.”
Dallas County Commissioners voted for reparation. Unanimously. Every damn white boy on commissioner’s court voted for reparations. Because they were looking at cat videos on their computers.
Sometimes idiots are truly entertaining. Especially the Dallas ones.
Thanks to Deb and Frank for the heads up.
OMG! And with a smile on my face, I am off to finish pulling WEEDS! and laying newspaper/mulch. I CAN DO THIS.
1HEHEHE. Hurray for John Wiley Price.
2john Wiley has been looking for a way to gig ’em for forty years. Looks like he succeeded this time. Every day I thank my lucky star that I escaped Big (dumb) D.
3Ho-boy! There’ll be hell to pay. Bet they listen to every darn word he says from now on.
4He sure did live up to his middle name.
5Unfortunately, government by apathy is way too common.
6Oops.
Teeheeteehee….
7And he didn’t pull the stunt on April 1st.
8I’ll bet some of those distracting cat videos were of nekkid kitties…
9Can hardly wait for the excuses. Uh,our votes were taken out of context. We didn’t really vote for that. Our fingers were crossed.
10Hahahahahahahahahaha…..
11Oh, too rich! too rich! I’m sharing this all OVER the internets!
12“cat videos”.
Sure.
Gotta luv it.
13Maybe the Dallas County Commissioners could institute some kind of requirement on themselves to see if they were competent and capable to vote on the issue before them. Perhaps a Literacy Test, or maybe a Poll Tax would determine if they deserve to vote?
14We have a long history of legislative ignorance at all levels of government. Remember, our state legislature once commended a serial killer for innovative population control techniques.
15Laying odds that Commissioner John Wiley Price will keep a pocket full of resolutions for such grand occasions, when he catches the good old boys napping or with minds straying at the virtual cat house. Commissioner Price, job well done, sir!
16To maryelle: You’d think that they would learn from the experience — and, even more, from the bad press they got — but they probably won’t. Evidently the commissioners are partially disabled: unable to hear and unable to read. Now we have to figure out if there’s anything they can do to adequately represent their district on the commissioners court.
17Maybe we oughta take notes. You know, do the whole blahblahblahblah and when they are dozing off, stick in the stuff they didn’t wznt to hear.
18Marge Wood, in a word, these pooty tats are vulnerable. Just contact Commissioner Price and he’ll take care of business.
19Sorry . . . giggling so hard . . . stomach hurts. . . OMG!!!!
20Always something new to learn. Like why does the Texas Railroad Commission not allow staff to have interviews with the media? Personally I think the name of that agency should be THE TEXAS OIL AND GAS COMMISSION; it would be lots less confusing. Maybe we can get Wiley Coyote to sneak up on ’em. My final rant will be take a look at TEXAS PIPELINE WATCH. Now. Hope y’all had a nice day. We ate one of our favorite suppers at Brick Oven, our home away from home.
21They voted for it before they (any minute now) voted against it.
22The thing is, the final passage was just that–a full paragraph of at least 39 words–it’s not as though Mr. Price slipped in just a word or two.
How brain dead or distracted do you have to be to tune out an entire paragraph??? Obviously, once the other commissioners realized that the focus of the address was issues of concern to black Americans, they zoned out.
New tactic for the Dems in the House: preface every significant vote with an address on the concerns of the less privileged–>GOP members will tune out–>measure will pass! VOILA, problem solved!
23I have never met or talked to Commissioner Price. Another Commissioner with whom I am acquainted through my job said to me once 4 or 5 years ago, referring to Commissioner Price, “He acts like he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.” Hmmmm. If that Commissioner’s observation is correct, Commissioner Price could well be right.
24Bwahahaha
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