The Cause of the Poor: Ever before Me

Mosley Knocked Out of Commissioner Court Race via Self-Defeat

Commentary by Eddie Griffin

Thursday, January 31, 2008

I am not ashamed to say that I represent “the poorest of the poor”. Any local public official knows that I will engage in protests and demonstrations on behalf of the poor. If necessary, I use grassroots organizing to put people in front of the faces of our elected officeholders. I don’t think kindly of criticism, because you criticize, not me, but the poor in destitute.

There is no greater defender of the cause of the poor than incumbent Roy C. Brooks, Tarrant County Commissioner, Precinct 1. Challenging his seat is an unknown Cory L. Mosley.

What do we know about the challenger?

I know nothing of Ms. Mosley except that, by entering the race for Commissioners Court, she impedes the cause of the poor. A leader must be proven in the field, and Lord knows I have beaten Roy Brooks over the head with the plight of the poor, and he heard our cry through this incumbent’s voice.

I have never seen this woman, Cora Mosley, in my life, and Roy Brook should be tired of looking at me every day, and hearing me cry in his ear, everywhere he goes. I guess you can call me a stalker. But that’s my job, stalking officeholders and office seekers.

Brooks, the lone Democrat on the Commissioners Court, is always challenged to raise the issues of the poor, such as addressing the high infant mortality in the African-American community, poverty and homelessness- not to say the less, also for ex-offenders like me, to become re-socialized and integrated back into the community through the Commissioner’s Reentry Initiative.

A Whiff of Mosley

I caught a brief glance of Ms. Mosley and a whiff of her as she made a swift exit- even before she took the podium at the TCU Democratic Rally on Saturday. At the rally were all the powerhouse Democrats, supporters, and volunteers. There was energy in the room, from all races and economic and class background- the broadest base of the local Democratic power base- and Ms. Mosley exited the rally, “with a more important function”, i.e. her “political club” meeting.

Here was the largest political club of allegiance, and Ms. Mosley cut out before I could light into her. On the other hand, when Roy Brooks mounted the podium, FIRED UP & READY TO GO, he inspired the room, a proven leader among the Democratic Party, second generation of the famous Brooks family civil rights legacy, son of the eminent late Dr. Marion Brooks, Ms. Mosley “Knocked Out of Commissioner Court via Self-Defeat”. She bowed out of a room, full of greatest, to get together with petty little friends in a lust for office. On the Commissioners court, she would be lion’s food.