Poll: Paul Ford 67%, Mayor David Green 33%

The ProDuncPAC.com mayoral poll for Duncanville shows some surprising results:

Former District 3 Councilman Paul Ford, who hasn't announced publicly whether he intends to seek the top job, leads Mayor David Green by a 67%-33% margin. The poll isn't scientific, but it only allows one vote per user per every seven days.

ProDuncPAC.com Poll: http://produncpac.blogspot.com/2009/11/may-2010-polling-paul-ford-for-mayor.html

MAYOR: In a Head-to-Head Match-Up, Who Would You Choose? Selection Votes Mayor David Green 33% Councilman Paul Ford 67% Other 0% 0 I Don't Live in Duncanville 0% 0 votes total

Green, by the way, had Ford arrested in a public meeting earlier this year. Made national media attention. Great stuff. Classy. Pure classyness.
I had no idea Ford was on the Alex Jones show:

Grady Smithey: We Don't Want Your Toll Road Crushing Our Homes!

That's Smithey coming back in the Cedar Hill Recreation Center after taking an "important" phone call in the middle of a Loop 9 Coalition Task Force meeting Thursday, Nov. 19.

Grady, right, and someone believed to be his old lady.

Mmm, look at that stomach on him.

The Suburban: Smithey, Green Vote in Favor of Contracts of Political Contributors

I'm glad to see The Suburban, based in Duncanville, is calling these guys on the carpet.

See Also: GradySlimey.com and ProDuncPAC.com.

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Note: This appeared in the brand new Nov. 5 issue out on stands.

May 2010 Polling: Paul Ford for Mayor

We're stepping up the coverage here for Duncanville residents by posting a few interactive polls that we hope constituents in and outside of the city can participate in.

Rules: Only one vote per computer IP address is allowed every 14 days. So that means one vote from your computer is allowed.

MAYOR: In a Head-to-Head Match-Up, Who Would You Choose?
	Mayor David Green
	Councilman Paul Ford
	Other
	I Don't Live in Duncanville
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Should Paul Ford Run for Duncanville Mayor?
	Yes He Should!
	Please, No!
	Undecided
	Other
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Duncanville Would Allow Felons to Serve on City Boards

Duncanville's city boards and commissions would and could be filled with convicted felons under a buried policy change in Focus Daily News' latest article from Rita Cook:

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While reviewing the Board and Commission Appointment/Reappointment Guidelines, the City Council determined that they did not wish to exclude applicants from consideration because of a previous felony conviction. Therefore, it was decided to develop additional guidelines related to this particular question. The City Council concluded that, in addition to an interview with the City Council (which is required of all new applicants), a background check would be required for any applicant with a felony conviction.”

I say "buried" because that hugely newsworthy item/paragraph was buried way down in the story.
Some people can go to prison for all sorts of things, from securities fraud to smuggling Cuban cigars, so I understand that Duncanville would not want to exclude people based off of felonies (I don't agree that felons can't vote...everyone should vote), but I think that perhaps this policy change is the result of two things:

• The old white men who run Duncanville might one day go to prison for the corruption they're to their eyeballs with and want to keep their seats warm;
• The old white men who run Duncanville don't want to appear racist towards at-large Councilwoman Dorothy "Planting Dirty Underwear on Co-Workers" Burton, who is black.

Grady Smithey Supports Property Tax Hike

I wonder how District 4 residents feel about paying a higher property tax in the worst economic crisis since The Depression. Hmm.

Originally Published in The Duncanville Suburban (published 08/25/2009):

Councilmember Grady Smithey of District 4 favored raising the property tax rate in lieu of cutting services. However other council members were not willing to entertain that idea. Smithey persisted in
his position and stated that it was not a matter of whether taxes were going to be raised, but when.

If my memory serves me correct, in 2004, A group calling themselve, "Citizens for more shopping and less taxes", convinced our voters to approve beer and wine sales, in our community,suggesting that the increased tax revenue would result in lower taxes. That did not happen.

Also as a dry community, Duncanville had very little crime. Since we voted wet crime has significantly increased.

–Wendell Jenkins

Beware of iPennyBid.com

My friend's PennyAuctionWatch.com site is giving me a whole bunch of ideas...maybe branching my Internet companies (here and here) out into the penny auction business.

Of course, if not for PennyAuctionWatch.com, I wouldn't know about the scamming and shill corporations and the scam-software used to make things appear like they're legit. I of course am referring to iPennyBid.com, among others who are questionably suspect. And yes, I know all about the IPennyBid.com's attempts to sue PennyAuctionWatch.com, which is why I'm ready to help my friend throw iPennyBid.com straight out of business.

Defamation? Haha.When an expose Web site (such as PennyAuctionWatch.com) is accused of being a scam for exposing certain sites or raising questions about companies like iPennyBid.com, you know there's an effectiveness to this...

For more information about penny auctions and questionably suspect "penny" bid sites like iPennybid.com, click here:

http://www.pennyauctionwatch.com/?s=ipennybid