Two Candidates show up for Lone Star meeting

By Mac Shadix

Forty-five people showed up to hear two of the candidates for Flo Community Water Supply Corporation answer questions on Tuesday night February 27. At the Lone Star Community Center. The group included several past directors, current employees and family members of Board President Gary Bell. Bells wife Pat said that Bell did not attend because it would have made a quorum which is not allowed under the Texas Open Meetings Act.

Presumably Directors Ann Boykin and Richard Moran were absent for the same reason. Candidates Ron Carmichael, and Richard Blanchard were absent because they were ill, Candidate and moderator Hollis Bradshaw told the group. Candidate Ken Jones was traveling, and the other two candidates possibly did not want to attend a forum with one of the opposition candidates as moderator where they had no previous notice of the rules, or program.

Both Nancy Spivey and Bradshaw spoke about their qualifications and their hopes for Flo CWSC. Both these candidates, and Blanchard and Carmichael are opposing the candidates of the group calling itself The Flo Water Reform Committee.

Several questioned the mailer that the Reform Committee had sent out, with Mrs. Bell saying that she thought that they were trying to make it seem that they represented the Corporation and were telling people how to vote.

Flo WSC member Stan Stevens who had earlier in the meeting been critical of some of the letters in the newspapers about the issues seemed to disagree, asking the group.

“Did you’all get the same one I got?”

“Who gave them permission to form this Committee? Bell also asked.

“They didn’t need permission.” Bradshaw told her.

Interviews and photos of all the candidates for the Flo Water Corporation Board are in this weeks Buffalo Press.

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