Short version of the EMANO
Eagle Mountain Alliance of Neighborhood Organizations
"Meet the Candidates for
Tarrant Regional Water District
Board of Directors."
EMANO is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
to help Eagle Mountain Lake developments' owners
and residents become more informed and educated
about neighborhood concerns.
EMANO does NOT endorse any one candidate,
but provides a forum for candidates
to speak for themselves
and let the concerned voter decide.

There are two seats in this hotly-contested,
13-candidate race. Many candidates learned
as much about the voters concerns
as the voting public learned
about the 11 candidates who attended.
Look in the NW Tarrant Co. Times-Record
or Azle News for more information on these candidates.

J.R. Kimball
Clyde Picht (retired FW City Council, against Forced Annexation)
Gary R. Alexander
Marty Martinez
Tom Waltz (NE Eagle Mt. Lake)
Mike Utt
Howard Stone
Timothy Nold (AZLE resident)
Tracey Smith
Gina Puente-Brancato (sent Husband appointed to TRWD, but not elected after running for seat 2004)
Ben Boothe
Jim Lane NOT at Meet the Cand. (retired FW City Council)
Ms. Marty Leonard NOT at Meet the Cand. (of FW downtown store)

We appreciate Nick's Restaurant. Nick's, on Boat Club Road, will donate all proceeeds of Thurs. 4/13/06 to an EM/S ISD school.

For questions, Darlia Hobbs 817-237-7972 EMANO Vice-President

Letter to the Editor: April 10,2006

KAY GRANGER'S PUDDLE LEAVES BITTER TASTE
It's a shame, but what the city of Fort Worth, the Water Board
Tarrant Regional Water District), and the County officials are not
explaining is that extra tax dollars generated by the Trinity Uptown
project will NOT go to the city's general fund to help the neighborhoods
in all of the other districts. They created a TIF there, so those
dollars go right back into that ONE little area.
It WILL NOT benefit our northwest side at all. Nor will it benefit
Azle, River Oaks, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, Richland Hills, Arlington,
Haltom City, etc. But it WILL use OUR federal dollars, our Water Board
tax dollars, and Fort Worth city tax dollars to literally make the
developers filthy rich.
Clyde Picht is a conservative, honorable, intelligent man, blessed
with common sense. He is one of the 13 candidates running for the
Water Board in the May 13th election. In his eight years on the
Fort Worth City Council, he fought FOR citizens' rights,
AGAINST forced annexation,
AGAINST the city hotel, and
AGAINST excessive tax abatements for large corporations
that overburden the individual taxpayers in the long run, just to name a few.
In his own words, he "tells it like it is." Following taken from
HIS letter to AZLE News editor March 2006:
"Trinity Uptown doesn't meet the test of vital flood protection
even though that has been one of its selling points. As a city
council member, I alone opposed the bond program that contained funds
for Uptown.
My objections to Uptown are that it is being falsely promoted as a
flood control project; that it will cause dislocation of more than
80 businesses, some by eminent domain; it will cause loss of jobs in
the near term; funding is insufficient for what has been proposed; and
that it continues to focus resources downtown while suburban needs are ignored.
As council member for an entirely suburban district, I frankly became
very tired of continued tax breaks and economic development in select
areas of town while the city as a whole experienced over $1.5 B in unfunded
infrastructure repair.
As a member of the TRWD board I would like to help the district re-focus
on taking even better care of the lakes and rivers in its 10-county jurisdiction,
enhancing recreation, and most importantly, reevaluating future water sources
to assure ample supplies to satisfy the unanticipated growth of our area.
Thank you for letting me set the record straight." Clyde Picht

Please vote for Integrity and Accountability in the Water Board
- VOTE for Clyde Picht.
Bobby & Darlia Hobbs, Northwest Tarrant County
817-237-7972