Texas City Tyrant
We have a challenge for the embattled Mayor of Texas City who has the gall to call himself Mr. Transparent. Allow city council to have a public hearing on a billion-dollar neighborhood that can create thousands of jobs and tens of million in new taxes. And while we are at it, we have to keep calling out the Galveston Daily News who are always trying to cover his ass.
Texas City Tyrant
Every time I see a story in the Galveston Daily News about the Mayor of Texas City, Dedrick Johnson,
“Well, I’ve just got to stop for a second to call out the bullshit,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
Because they kiss up to that guy in ways that are simply embarrassing,
Like not challenging the Mayor when he made this whopper,
“The claim that there’s a lack of transparency in this administration is extremely baseless,”
“That fake news headline was part of the story I read recently about the proposed Margaritaville project,” Dolcefino told the camera,
“And no. The developers are not paying me to tell you this,” Dolcefino told the camera,
We’ve told you about it, the 1300-acre planned 55-plus community in Texas City that was single-handedly killed by Mayor Johnson,
Even though it would schedule to bring a billion dollars in new tax value to that city,
“There was no vote by City Council, not even a public hearing, the Mayor ignored the Chamber of Commerce that says the project would bring thousands of jobs,” Dolcefino told the camera,
77 million dollars in new taxes.
“These are people with disposable income, 55 and over. The amount of tax revenue we could generate over a 10-year period is unreal<” Abel Garza said.
“We just want to have open discussion, you know, and have open sit-down conversations,” Tim Culp said.
The Mayor says Margaritaville won’t bring new school kids, that the folks who would live there are a narrowly defined and exclusive demographic.
Whatever that means.
But Johnson knew all that two years ago when he first toured another location in South Carolina.
“So here’s your chance, Mr. Transparency, why don’t you call for a public hearing so folks in Texas City can debate the pros and cons, get the whole story, let the people debate,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“The word that has been commonly used is dictator,” Dedrick Johnson said.
The paper didn’t tell you about this, when four City Councilmembers asked for Margaritaville to be put on the agenda.
Look, they got a letter threatening to arrest them.
“And this is funny, the Island Newspaper let Johnson brag about his transparency and claimed it included fulfilling requests for public information,” Dolcefino told the camera.
The paper knows documents prove the City Secretary violated state law dozens of times.
“They know that we have sued the city. Didn’t see that in the paper, did you?” Dolcefino told the camera.
We actually did the Galveston Daily News a favor the other day, because we posted their article on our website and tens of thousands of people watched it,
And we got a ton of reaction.
“His whole city staff is corrupt.”
“Well, actually, two of the Mayor’s communications folks are currently charged with felonies. Congratulations, Mayor,” Dolcefino told the camera.
And the DA is still investigating Texas City City Hall.
“You wouldn’t know that by reading the paper,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“You literally can’t make this up,” one of our viewers wrote. “I feel like I’m watching a bad episode of Tulsa King.”
“Well, I’ve got another movie suggestion for the dancing dictator of Texas City,” Dolcefino told the camera.
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