Posted on 11/25/2015 5:07:41 PM PST by jimbo123
The battle for the Alamo's 38,000 books, maps, flags and other artifacts from the state's earliest days will reportedly continue early next year.
A Feb. 22 court date has been set to determine ownership of disputed items in the library collection, managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas since the 1950s.
The Daughters filed a lawsuit in March to block the Texas General Land Office from assuming ownership of the collection.
"We're puzzled by (Land Commissioner) George P. Bush's actions during his first year in office," said Mary Goodwin, first vice president of the DRT's Mary Hall Mantooth Chapter of Lufkin and historian general of the statewide organization. "What appeared to have been a promising career seems to be at risk due to bad judgment and his overreach in an attempt to generate publicity. We're curious as to who is advising him on his management of the state's land office, if anyone.
"In addition to his efforts to claim ownership of the Daughters' private library collection, he's been criticized for being away from the office to campaign and for firing GLO staff in order to make what some have characterized as political hires. It's just disappointing, and it fuels further erosion of the public's confidence in its leaders."
(Excerpt) Read more at lufkindailynews.com ...
Family tradition.
I guess the P stands for pissonyou!
All of the governments, city, state and federal are made up of thieving politicians. The time has come for Americans to start electing Americans and tell the professional politicians to take a hike.
George P Bush doing the bidding of Mexico.
But it's traditional on FR to provide an actual link to the article cited.
Jimbo, do you have a link to the whole article?
Thanks,
The firings look like a good thing to me, bye bye bureaucrats.
Don’t know why he’s trying to steal private property though.
George P. Bush reboot of land office has campaign, family ties
In all, Bush has hired at least 29 people who worked on his campaign or have political connections, according to a review of thousands of pages of personnel records. The agency did not advertise any of the openings publicly.
Bush, a former Fort Worth resident, has given top jobs to two of his law school classmates, two relatives of members of two Bush presidential administrations and at least three others with ties to the family or other political leaders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3339996/posts
Since the thousands of new immigrants to Texas from south of the border might be offended at having to see the Alamo (and suffer microaggressions as a result), perhaps the entire edifice ought to be torn down in the interest of diversity and peace...(sarc/off)
I’m not opposed to the spoils system. Who was fired? Career civil servants who may be democrats?
Sounds like a lot of positions were cut and not restaffed, which seem like a positive thing to me. Not sure that belongs on the list of things to criticize him for.
“I guess the P stands for pissonyou!”
Or maybe Pancho?
Can’t swear to the veracity of the person who told me but he said there was a bicycle found in the basement of the Alamo;
Choose between more Bush sponsored government bureaucracy and a group of dedicated folks who helped me research ancestors & provided access to their archives without jumping through hoops and paying fees...
Which way should I turn?
Ping
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