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Old 07-09-2008, 03:34 AM
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A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster's, is perhaps "the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape."

Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.
Someone should give these morons a "neutral-colored" eye...
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Old 07-09-2008, 04:03 AM
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This could only happen in Texas,
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This is just too much,wait till Sharpton hears about this..
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Dayum, these are the people we have running our government functions? Is this the best we can do?
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Sounds like Mr. Wiley needs to go back to science class.
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This could only happen in Texas,
Or West Virginia, or Louisiana...
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Or West Virginia, or Louisiana...
...or Michigan, California, Oregon, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Missouri, Iowa, S. Dakota,........
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Was aaronssongs at that meeting? LOL
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...or Michigan, California, Oregon, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Missouri, Iowa, S. Dakota,........
but never in New Jersey,
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but never in New Jersey,
Nope...

They don't even have county meetings...

But something like this could happen during a crack transaction in Camden...
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