Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mayor Calvin Tillman Needs Your Help

Here is the recent letter from Calvin Tillman.


Many of you have told me to let them know if I ever needed your help. Well, I could use your help at the moment. As you may have noticed I have become a lightening rod for personal attacks from our friends in the natural gas industry. The latest is that they are accusing me of not providing the information that they asked for in a public information request to the town of DISH. Please know that I completely cooperated with their request. The only thing that I questioned with the request was that they were asking for personal medical information from the citizens of DISH. Of course they only wished to use this information to vilify the very citizens that they are poisoning. So, I questioned the legality of their request, like any good mayor would do. However, from the latest letter they are threatening to file suit against the town and file a complaint with the attorney general. However, we have been more than cooperative with with those in the Texas Pipeline Association, who made this public information request. What they are trying to do is come of with frivolous allegations, to run up the legal fees for our community. As with with everything that I have done thus far, I am only trying to protect the citizens of this community, and I will not back down. I have long ago quit worrying about myself, and now only worry about my family and my citizens. I would ask that each and every person who supports what I have done and what am doing, please call the following people and ask them to clean up their mess in the town of DISH, and to LEAVE US ALONE!!!! Please see attached threatening letter.

Patrick Nugent 512.478.2871



Celina Romero 515.472.8800

Please forward this message to as many people as you can and ask for their help.




"Together we bargain, divided we beg".
Calvin Tillman Mayor, DISH, TX


(940) 453-3640



"Those who say it can not be done, should get out of the way of those that are doing it"

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't believe this. This is an attempt to shut him up. The Pipeline Association has no right to those medical records. Hello HIPA!!!! They are just bullying. I am so sick of this industry using their lawyers to scare and shut up anyone who is trying to tell the truth. Too many are telling the truth now and the industry is squirming!!!

Anonymous said...

This looks like pre-discovery to me. Probably the risk management group wanting to see what the possible legal exposure is. If the town has in fact complied with the law and disclosed everything, there is nothing to worry about. I mean residents of a town of 200 vs. the big O&G companies, who do you think a jury of their peers would side with?

Anonymous said...

You got it, Mayor! Be sure to contact channel 8...

Anonymous said...

What a great idea. Thank God for News 8 and the few others that have the guts to stand up to the Gas Mafia and speak the truth!!
And thank God for Mayor Tillman. Flower Mound could use a Mayor like that right now. May can't get here soon enough.