Director Flores is now "Mr. Flores," at least for the next two months. He plans to appeal his removal from the MUD Board to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and we will post that filing here as soon as it is submitted.
During this evening's meeting, Flores laid out the core flaw in the Board’s case with indisputable logic:
- The Rule The statute allows a director to be removed for missing one-half or more of the scheduled regular meetings.
- The Allegation The resolution cited 5 absences across 8 regular meetings held over the past 12 months.
- The Problem Board policy dictates one regular meeting every month (12 total). Where did the other 4 scheduled meetings go?
The Board doesn’t get to arbitrarily interpolate or erase its own missed regular meetings to manufacture a disqualifying percentage. The Board’s own success rate for holding scheduled regular meetings is sitting at 66%, a solid D grade. Yet the Board refused to examine the circumstances around those canceled meetings, nor did they ask their legal counsel to review the math.
Instead, the attorney’s answer to Flores was essentially: “You can appeal this to the TCEQ.”
That is pure buck-passing. If a board just wants to throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, it could save taxpayer money on the board attorney and just use AI. When elected officials stand before the flag and recite “with Liberty and Justice for all,” that oath requires being on the front line of justice, not punting due process down the road because an agency exists to clean up the mess. Imagine a judge ignoring clear statutory logic and telling a defendant, "Don’t like it? Take it to the appeals court."
When I first announced my run for this office, I warned that this Board lacked Constitutional integrity. Diagnosis confirmed. As Abraham Lincoln put it, "We have to believe that right makes might."