A county commissioner who voted against the removal of a board last year is seeking another term to bring it back, and increase transparency in other ways.
In October 2005, Texas Gov. Rick Perry traveled to the border city of Laredo and announced Operation Linebacker, a new initiative that he said would protect the state’s residents from terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Without pointing to evidence, Perry said such terrorist groups, along with drug cartels and gangs, were attempting to exploit the U.S.-Mexico border. A press release from the governor’s office said Perry warned that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, criminal organizations could “import terror, illegal narcotics and weapons of mass destruction.”
An old battle for a project withdrawn from city council consideration by a developer has resurfaced in county government as commissioners take up the cause.