Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Doubts cast on Carrollton mayor’s professional, family history
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Statements made by current Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller have recently come under fire.
Miller, who's running for re-election against former Carrollton council member Ron Branson, has stated (one instance here) that she formerly sung back-up for nationally-known entertainers, such as Linda Ronstadt—and that she had a brother who died in Vietnam.
However, spokespeople for the mentioned singers have said they've never heard of Miller, while Miller's father has stated her brother is alive and well in Maryland.
Posted by Chad
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crobi24 Anonymous
Have you heard about the nut job who's running against her? What an interesting coincidence this all came up just before the elections on Saturday. A friend of mine went to the polls the other day for early voting and this freak recoginized him as a Becky Miller supporter and started screaming at him in front of several people.
Carrollton has come a long way in the last few years, from DART rails being built, bond elections to give us new parks, bike paths and renovated fire stations. By 2010 we'll have bike paths that link most of our parks to the 3 new rail stations. We'll have urban development, lofts, apts, new retail around these centers. The old Furneaux Shopping center has been revitalized. Mayor Becky and our council have made all that happen.
I know Becky and I know Ron. I've talked with people and seen what they've done. Both of these people have lived here forever. I've seen what they've both done. Ron is losing by a landslide and chose to string together these silly anticdotes and make this story. Becky is inclusive with the community on issues of race and sexual orientation. Ron is a racist, hates the influx of Latinos, blacks and Gays. Becky embraces the diversity of our community. Becky works hard to effect change in the community, Ron is divisive and critical. It's not just me guys...count the yard signs in carrollton..20 for signs for Becky for each 1 for Ron. He had to do something, he was losing!
Ron is threatening her supporters, he stated publicly that he was out to smear her. He's done it in public before. He warned people that he was putting together some smut, and he did it. Wow, big surprise.
See the DMN Artcle below.
Carrollton mayoral candidate's encounter with firefighters draws criticism.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedconte...
I get it that people who know very little about our suburb want to bash a mayor and believe alot of unsubstantiated rumors put out by a buffoon, who's pissed because she got elected over the baby Sen. Kenny Marchant who was supposed to be elected 3 years ago.
I've been to city counsel meetings, I've talked to Mayor Miller and seen how hard she's worked for the city. I've seen her show up for career day at my son's middle school, shown up at neighborhood block parties, fought for the city to try and repair YEARS of anti-business climate from previous mayors and counsils (Vista Ridge was supposed to be in Carrolton, but city counsel at the time wouldn't have it). So, VR moved to Lewisville with all the development along with it.
Sure, it's fun to poke at our public officials, and believe the worst about them. But really, it's even more fun to watch the media manipulated by some ass. She'll be re-elected, we'll keep trying to improve our city and after this weekend nobody will care.
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