Happy Halloween! Don’t let the Old Boys trick you into treating them to your tax dollars!

The Road Repair Priority list discussed and approved unanimously by the Commissioners in February.

Provoked by the smear campaign against the Unit Road System, concerned Titus County citizens have been taking and posting pictures showing how good the roads already seal-coated look today.

In February of this year Commissioners approved and compiled a Priority List of the roads in the county and the order in which they will be seal coated. This list is all about openness and transparency, instead of Commissioners making different promises to different people about repairing their road and then telling them they ran out of money when it does not get done.

The original list has 17 roads; so far nine have already been completed, CRs 1065, 1200, 3210, 4660, 2330, 2470, 3225, 1468, and 3150. These roads will last for 20 years instead of the five years you get when paved with the expensive and short-lived cold mix the Old Boy commissioners use.

Then reason why the hack commissioners use cold mix is that you CAN’T seal coat a road with only the three or four relatives and brothers-in-law you hired to work for you in your own precinct. It takes a REAL public works crew under the direction of a professional engineer to do that kind of job.

Even if they wanted to – and they won’t – John Fitch and Jimmy Parker (The Titus County Gold Dust Twins) will not be able to seal coat any roads in their precincts. The suggestion that they could if they cooperated, along with other commissioners doesn’t wash. The Old Boys keep a tight rein on their little kingdoms so no one knows what they have and how much they’ve spent. This is an old tradition, going all the way back to the previous decade when John Fitch’s father was commissioner for Precinct 1.

The Good Old Boys want to go back to the Bad Old Days of the slapdash and slipshod road work. Titus County voters adopt a smart, efficient and economical system for its road work, and the first things they want to do is roll it back. It will be bad for the Titus County budget, as well as Titus County’s image – we will be a laughing stock among counties in Texas for letting a nepotism-laden small-town political gang plunder our tax dollars in such a brazen fashion.