GOP politics plays role in Flow Control ruling

Judge Reed O'Connor

I didn’t really have to confirm the fact that U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor was appointed to the bench by 43. I could tell that by his ruling yesterday granting an injunction to put a halt, at least temporarily, to the city’s ambitious plan to convert the McCommas Bluff Landfill into an environmental center.

According to Judge Reed, using reasoning that comes directly from the Bush economic script that plunged this country into its current recession, increasing the profits of a private business at the expense of Dallas property tax payers "is in the public interest."

Yes, the 1 per cent wins again. The poor and the middle class get screwed again. And you wonder why those Occupy Wall Streeters are grumbling.