First, you are an excellent writer. Professional quality. In fact, I’d bet you’d be a hell of a publisher, too.

It’s true I don’t like people who act like aristocracy, but I am very fond of, and very familiar with, finance and commerce, so your stereotype of me is off-the-mark. Gosh, I hate hypocrisy.

Clearly, you don’t like a certain local politician. Fine. Noted. I’m not worried about this politician’s methods if they are ethical, legal and serve the greater good of the community.

Again, I think proponents are using personalities to defend the Trinity Tollway. It’s disappointing, and their venom is perplexing? Why is so much energy being devoted to defending this cluster?

Actually, you can ask questions whenever you like. See how I asked them in the prior post? That’s strong evidence that I can ask them. You don’t have to live in a particular councilperson’s district to ask what their proposed solution is to a problem they raise with a program that affects the entire city. Where did you get that idea?

Regardless, (1) I live in Ms. Hunt’s district, not in HP or Oak Lawn (though two houses would be nice); and (2) I’m not a proponent of anything relating to the Trinity project other than consensus and progress. Your arguments suffer from the same ad hominem fallacies you complain are directed at Ms. Hunt. Not everyone who supports the Trinity project, or who simply questions Ms. Hunt’s methods, is a Beemer-driving member of the aristocracy you so clearly detest. Likewise, not everyone who opposes the Trinity project lives in the M Streets, rides a bicycle, and yells at people in their McMansions. Take a break from the stereotyping and it will serve you well in making reasoned argument.

Nonsense. You can ask those questions IF you are in her district or IF she runs for mayor. (Tip: If you owned two houses (e.g. one in HP and one near your office on Oak Lawn) you could not do the former, but you could do the latter.)

Until then, your argument has everything to do with her personality, which is the M.O. of the parkway proponents whenever they are losing the debate. Like now.

Every time someone exposes this Trinity parkway fraud, its proponents redirect the conversation to the opponents’ personalities. Wick tried to do it with his ham-handed posts. The DMN has long done this.

As Freaking said, “nice try.”

Note what this comment does not contain: an insult protected by anonymity. There’s no valid reason we can’t disagree in an electronic forum without returning to the island from Lord of the Flies.

In my view, Hunt has proven adept only at exploiting weaknesses in her opponents’ ability to argue in favor of their theories–not weaknesses in the theories themselves. More important, where are HUNT’S ideas? We cannot continue to suffer the “pothole mentality” of the Laura Miller era that drove major projects and opportunities away from Dallas. Let’s hear it, Angela. What should we do to improve our city? Give us an idea, not a perpetual critique.