Dear Santa

Dear Santa,


I guess you are pretty busy with all the children's wish lists pouring in.
Before you read my wish list, please accept my apology for the outrageous lists from my own two kids. I've read them, and I don’t think it’s possible to fulfill their demands even for someone of your remarkable thrift and ingenuity.

Like the view government employees take toward their respective budgets, so my kids think that you are operating on a limitless set of funds. (By the way, if you are going to grant my son his wish for a pet alligator, would you please attach a return address so I can send it back. I don't want it to end up in lake Lewisville.)

But I know that your funds are not limitless, and so I hope you’ll accept my Christmas wish list as both a request and token of good will to all my fellow Corinth and Denton County residents.


1. Please make all the school boards, especially Lake Dallas ISD and Denton ISD, give back to all parents a voucher equal to what it now pays per-pupil for its public schools, allowing those parents to use those vouchers at any school they choose.
2. Please help DTCA with smooth implementation of the new rail system or as it’s also known, ”Denton County’s financial black hole “



3. Santa please send a wake up call to the tax payers: In the city of Corinth we have about 13,000 registered voters. Only about 600 show up to vote. Corinth city hall and the council do everything in their power to keep the turn out low. Help them to wake up and remember that local elections occur every May.


4. Please help the Mayor Ruggiere, councilman Mayfield, councilman Booher and Hanson, to understand that a civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions and moral values. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. Taking $2,000 campaign contribution from Ben Penell and immediately voting to rezone a property so he can sell it within weeks for $800,000 it is not moral. To pay an extra $ 62,000 to exiting city manager in exchange for a gag order to protect the council members is not moral. To vote on a budget without seeing it it is not moral. To be a chest-pounding "Conservative" and then turn around and violate property rights of dozens of taxpayers on Church Dr, South Corinth St and Lake Sharon is not moral. To take down all council minutes and agendas prior to 2008 to prevent the taxpayers from following the council behavior and questionable activity is actually border line with braking the law.

5. Please help our tax payers to realize that City of Corinth will not have 28,500 population in 2014, Today we have about 19,750 and in August we added 3 new homes in Corinth.

Denton County will not have 970,000 population in 2014. Today we have about 657,000 and in 2010 we added about 17,000 new residents to the county.

Help the taxpayers realize that all the expansion and the associated debt  ignores the actual, on going, stagnation of Corinth and burdens a much smaller tax payer base to handle a larger proportion of debt!

Denton County and my little bedroom community of Corinth is now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people via inflated, imaginary needs while digging us the tax payers deeper and deeper in debt. They must not be allowed to near tax payers money.

It’s a tall order, Santa, but it’s important. I know that a man of your ingenuity and thrift can make it happen.

P.S. Would you please, on the way back north, take with you, City MGR Berzina, Justin Brown and couple other moochers...?