Galveston Politics STINK!

Most of us who live on Galveston Island, know by now that city politics has hit a new low and there seems to be no end in sight.
The city council is now occupied by at least three new members who pretend to be acting in the best interest of their constiuents, but who we are convinced, just love to watch themselves on Channel 16 re-runs of the meeting.
Council meetings drag on for hours and hours as these three entertain each other, one even laughing out loud at her own remarks, that is, when she is awake.
Next to her sits a black activists who had a short career as a city fireman, then sued the city when they fired him. A lot valuable TV time is focused on him trying desperately to form sentences that are intelligent enough for others to understand. He's the only one on council, who when he finally decides to shut-up, says, "I pass mayor."
At the other end of the council table sits two lady lawyers. One speaks from time to time when she can get a word in edgewide. The other hardly ever shuts up. During her campaign for election she gained the endorsement of the city's only daily newspaper. In that endorsement the paper commented this lady lawyer was sure to raise some points that otherwise would not be raised. That was an under statement. The lady lawyer loves to hear herself talk when others are bored to death and are praying she shut-up.
A sure sign that politics really does stink in Galveston, is when one of the leading political journalists in the city decides to pack up and move to Houston.
Disgusted with the whole damn mess, Jim Guidry, publisher of Guidry News, announced this week that he and wife Lynda, who have been covering city government in Galveston for 25 years, will return to a city of some semblance of sanity. They will leave a reporter behind to endure the misery of city politics in Galveston.
Actually, this is probably not a surprise to many who know Galveston. This so-called tropical resort, with a historical past of gangsters, cronyism, gambling and corrupt government, has long found it difficult to break free of these old habits.
Galveston has forever operated with an undermanned and poorly equipped police department. The department is more of a training ground for new cops who move on to careers elsewhere within a couple years, leaving the city spending more and more money rehiring and retraining new cops rather than provide them pay and benefits which would keep them on the island.
Even at that, the local newspaper brands them rich cops and blames many of the city's financial woes on the expense of providing police service to the citizens of Galveston. The publisher who makes these complaints, feels so safe in his own home, he has erected an 8' high, solid wall around his own home.
The story about the current state of Galveston politics cannot be told better than by Jim Guidry in his Comments on Galveston Municipal Government, published on March 16, 2009.
It's a damn shame when politics is so rotten, that a good and decent, professional journalists, decides to move 60 miles away to get away from the stink.