I'm 99% certain that Stafford is part of Tom DeLay's district. It certainly isn't poor, with a mix of some older middle class neighborhoods, some new middle class subdivisions, and a majority of its land is industrial, retail, or office. So a much lower number of tax users vs. potential tax generators as compared to most Texas towns. Most cities and towns would kill to have their ratio of commercial development.
The old town center (though not historic) is strung out between 2 parallel roads that were converted to one-way operations and operate as Hwy 90. It is a major route connecting DeLay's suburbs to the booming medical center, so TXDOT wanted to upgrade the highway to remove all traffic lights and replace them with grade-separations. The intersections at the center of Stafford is a huge bottleneck at rush hour and weekends, with a very busy railroad track next to the highway that cloggs things up further. The mayor (Scarcella) held up agreements to upgrade this stretch for awhile with all kinds of grandstanding and hyperbole. The offer to grade-separate both the intersection and the railroad all the way through town wasn't enough, he was insisting that the railroad also be rerouted many miles outside the town (at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.) Of course that wasn't going to happen but he succeeded in delaying a much needed project, and in the end got nothing out of it but ink.
Indeed. DeLay's office is in Stafford.
This Scarcella guy sounds like a world-class goon. And here I thought that Keith Woods character from Brookshire was the worst local politician ever!
Your right I think it is in Delay District. It is right across the line from Harris COunty