UPDATE Jan 2015 Here is a video of me sparring with the mayor on freedom of speech
Doctor, Mayor Cluck turned off my mic when I asked him not to interrupt me during my speaking time addressing City Council. He interrupted saying I was off topic (as he had done numerous times before). I was speaking about Lisa Parr’s health effects and how the lower elevation of her home where heavy hydrocarbon fall out could be similar to the elevation of some homes near the proposed drill site being voted that night (Arlington Horse Farm drill site). The Parr family is in Dallas today suing over harm done to them...took a few years…but at some point all shale survivors may get their time in court. This blog and my back up files have all the evidence of my trying to warn our officials not to embrace urban drilling without first doing a health and environmental impact study.
About a year later when council was deciding on the fate of the drill site by my home by the ATT/Cowboys Stadium, I was escorted out. Earlier that evening in addressing City Council, I did not have enough time (we only get two min.) to tell them about the “Lipsky flaming Weatherford TX water/EPA stepping in” breaking story that happened just before the meeting started. I had to blurt it out because Councilman Meth Mel Leblanc was doing a gas drilling commercial during the deliberation.
Mel wasn’t playing fairly (I heard that he even had a link or mentioned his website from the city internet site on his council profile page to his own personal site called Shale Play Advisors, LLC), so I was justified in blurting out. The mayor was seen on video instructing to have me arrested if I stepped foot on city property.
Mayor Cluck also recklessly hit me with his temperamental outburst in raging through a glass door (shown in above picture) that swung back and hit me in the shoulder. This was just after a council meeting ended and he was going after someone who spoke out against him.
The other time I was escorted out of council chambers was after the Superbowl snow storm. I took a sample/show-n-tell of some mysterious white taffy looking stuff/residue from Elzie Odom crystal mountain where a burst pipe was leaking water for several days after the freeze behind some apartments. The water left this residue all the way down into the Trinity River. I held up the bag asking for a fracking investigation of what this stuff was because around the same time frame another family on the other side of town near the Fulson Drill Site complained about some white stuff turning up in their city water tap. But the unknown contents (from our own city tap?) was deemed a “threat” to council??? and I was escorted out.
Mayor Cluck is in my opinion a public enemy especially having a medical background and shutting off my mic during relevent medical testimony when I was detailing Lisa Parr’s health effects and how her pathology reports matched air testing pollutants found.
Thanks, Kim , for all you’re doing to alert the town, State,World of the polluting , contaminating dangers of gas wells; We have such here, too. Trying to shut us up or discredit us in exposing the Industry dangers. Is there anyone in Texas who can hear you and has political clout??
we are working on it…Lon Burnman was and didn’t get re-elected but is suing because of questionable illegal votes…the frackers had been working for years to gerrymander his territory to one day oust him…but it ain’t over yet!!!