City Fathers

The city fathers and muthers are PUBLIC OFFICIALS, public people, and they work for the city, county, state.   This is what they chose to do.  They do not have privacy!  Any constituent can say whatever he wants about them, print almost anything about them and that is their right because the person decided on their own to go public.

They use public parking, get public gas, use public computers, public telephones and they get paid by the public, they work for the guy working down the street.  If they were elected by a group, a zip code, etc ..... that is who they officially speak for.  They do not speak for the entire city.  The mayor is elected to speak for the city.  The city manager can speak for the city.  The Police commissioner can speak for the city.  But the district 3 elected public official cannot.

If the elected official is speaking to some rich guy about bringing in a baseball team for the city ...... he should be referred to the mayor's office.  If the elected official does speak to the rich guy over lunch and he buys lunch, the elected official has just betrayed his oath, and is than in a state of moral bankruptcy.

We have open government.  So every communique he receives, 24/7 belongs to the public, they are paying him.   The reason any person, would speak to a government official is to lobby.  The elected official is allowed only honest graft, he is allowed to shake hands, say hello, participate in public debate, give an opinion, kiss babies.

Public officials are not allowed to go to Texas Tech and receive free medical care, free chemotherapy ...... that is stealing.  If Texas Tech does not bill, for something, than the public official is obligated to go and find out about the liability.  If he fails to pay, he is stealing from the State, and the state employee that manipulated the financial scheme is now guilty of conspiracy.  

If you want doctor patient privileged information, use your own insurance.  But if you get free care because you are an elected official that is a bribe.  Rewriting the city ordinance to try to cover your butts and to keep the public from knowing your politics is not only ethically wrong, but also legally.  Your records are not yours, they are the public records, their tempering, their destruction, constitutes destruction of public property, that includes your mail, your email, your text.  And the elected official cannot decide which records are and which are not his.