At Dallas City Hall, Leppert groans while Hunt smiles?

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert said a few days ago he was unhappy with the Army Corps of Engineering for its allegedly slow pace on checking the quality of Trinity River levees.

Well, now that the Corps has found major levee problems, ones too big for even Perot money, or John Wiley Price shakedown best buddies, to fix, he’s probably wishing he’d kept his big mouth shut.

The report also found recent stupidities, like the new Dallas County Jail’s basement being dug into a levee.

Leppert tried to spin the findings vis-à-vis the Trinity toll road, but even supporters aren’t buying:

Michael Morris, director of transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments and one of the road's top supporters, said the news could eventually mean a halt to the toll-road work.

“It's a big deal,” he said.

And critics of the roadway, including Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt, who in late 2007 led an unsuccessful ballot initiative to take the four-and-six-lane toll road out of the Trinity River Corridor, say the findings ought to be red flags.
“What’s it going to take to get them to give up on this road?” Hunt said. “We already have an unsafe levee system, even without pouring tens of millions of tons of concrete into our floodway.”

More than this, Angela, more than this.

You were around a decade ago. You know the lies by deception of not mentioning a toll road in the original bond vote.

And, Tom? I’d just drop that idea of taking over DISD until you get your own house in more order.