[COMMENT: There is a legal technicality being ignored here, if anyone wants to force the issue. If nobody does/says anything, then they will just get away with this by default. The indifference of the Americans to what their government is doing is becoming frightening. The resolution for this water agency stated that it would go into effect on April 30. However, to hold a referendum under the law, the voters have to be notified at least 30 days in advance. So if Annona sets an election date on May 11, it will be too late for the water agency, which did not go into effect as scheduled because of more screw-ups by nincompoop Huddleston. He and their high-powered Vinson & Elkins attorney David Tuckfield should have written the resolution to have the agency begin on, say, August 1, to give everybody plenty of time to hold referenda and such like, if necessary. It could well be that they will have to go through this entire process a THIRD TIME, just to finally get it legally perfect. R.]

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Alice in Wonderland closed her eyes and tried. Then she laughed. "It's impossible!" she cried. "One cannot believe impossible things!"
"I daresay that you haven't had much practice trying," scoffed the Queen. "Why, when I was your age, I could believe six impossible things before breakfast!"

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ANNONA, Texas -- A group of petitioners who recently presented a list of 20 registered voters' signatures to the Annona city secretary may have its voice heard.

The petition requested city officials to hold a referendum to allow Annona residents the chance to vote on whether the city should participate in re-establishing and joining the Wright Patman Regional Water Supply Agency.

Annona Mayor George H. English said Wednesday he plans to put the petition on the agenda for discussion at the Council's next regular meeting at 7 p.m. May 11.

English said he believes it won't make much difference, even if the referendum is held.

"I'm pretty confident that things will stay the same," he said. "A lot of citizens really didn't know what this was about at first, but when I explained it to them, after they had questions about it, they understood and now we are all pretty much on the same page."

Last week, Annona and 10 other city councils simultaneously met and passed a proposed resolution re-creating the agency. Annona and four other cities voted to pass the issue on Feb. 5.

Texas law allows for a referendum petition that contains the signatures of at least "10 percent of the registered voters of a public entity."

The group of about five concerned area residents obtained 20 signatures, which accounted for more than 10 percent of the estimated 172 registered voters living in Annona.

An organizational meeting of the proposed WPRWSA is pending.