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Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, District 4

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September 13, 2010 


OPEN LETTER TO DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER KENNETH MAYFIELD DISTRICT 4 

Dear Mr. Mayfield, 

As your constituents, we wish to express our gratitude to you for standing firm on fiscal common sense during the Dallas County Commissioner budget process over the last several weeks. As one of three Republicans on the Dallas County Commissioners Court, you—amazingly--were the lone voice standing firm in support of Dallas County taxpayers. We are appreciative of the following: 

We voted for you in the belief we were hiring a fiscal conservative. It looks like we got one. 


You resisted the barrage demands from bureaucrats, public interest groups, and public employees soliciting more of our money. 


You seem to be aware that many of your constituents have suffered job losses, pay cuts, and increases in health insurance costs that are vastly greater than those proposed for Dallas County employees.


You have avoided insulting the intelligence of your constituents’ by suggesting county taxes will remain the same for the average homeowner in the wake of county tax increases due to falling home values. You didn’t expect us to quietly swallow tax hikes in an environment of huge home value losses and reduced income. 


You seem to be cognizant of the fact that the private-sector worker rides the business cycles without shock absorbers. In contrast, the government worker lives a cushioned existence in which terminations take years, salary cuts are often tiny or non-existent, health insurance contributions are generally paltry by comparison, pension amounts are often guaranteed, and recessions are only a thunder in the distance. Yet worse than this division in circumstance is that the private-sector worker is expected to pay for these public-sector cushions with ever-escalating taxes. 


You summoned the courage to stand on Republican principles; a rarity in Dallas County is seems. We are grateful for--and appreciative of--your leadership. This issue will be a significant factor in our voting decisions as we approach the November 2nd election. We thank you for your advocacy on behalf of Dallas County taxpayers. 

 Sincerely,

Sponsor

Dallas Tea Party

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