Well, I made it into Dave Lieber’s column again. Lieber once referred to me as a member of the Colleyville "silk stocking" City Council, then I progressed from being a "meanie", to "cantankerous" and now wear the label of "Mr. Un-Congeniality".

In fact, Lieber concludes the only way someone with Dennis Marlin’s public indiscretions could win an election was to run against someone with my lack of social refinement. I have another "scoop" for Mr. Lieber, the issues in that race went well beyond my congeniality or lack thereof.

Lieber shared this insight in his June 8^th article. He states the Internet News Web Site, LocalNewsOnly.com (LNO), owned by that "snitch" Thibodeaux, scooped the story about Marlin not paying his taxes. However, he fails to mention that his newspaper ignored the story, while the other large newspaper in the area "snitched" on Marlin as well, over a week after the LNO posting.

While on city council, Lieber bragged to my wife that he knew just how to "punch Thibodeaux’s button". He then proceeded to write a column inferring that her hard work to obtain donations for the first Celebrate Colleyville event was somehow "tainted", because she was the wife of a councilman. Lieber resorted to being critical of my spouse, rather than holding me solely accountable, a scenario most elected officials would take issue with.

I have seen Lieber at a few events. I conducted small talk, did not spill anything on him, didn’t use foul language in front of his children and said nothing outlandish to his wife.

How has the Great Lieberologist managed to uncover all my personality traits without ever having a meaningful private one on one conversation? What’s next? Late night UHF infomercials complete with the Lieberologist psychic hotline! He only speaks to your political enemies, then provides an instant psychoanalysis opinion of your personality faults.

Part of getting your Lieberologist Degree is the ability to give equal balance to political instincts and congeniality versus political integrity and credibility. In addition, one must be able ignore individual attributes and accomplishments, in exchange for making people into inane simplistic caricatures.

I asked my wife and she thinks I can be pretty congenial, from time to time. However, she can count on me to be passionate about issues, I feel are important, all the time.

I recall a politician that once lost a race in which he was considered cantankerous, only much later to be viewed as a great statesman. Using a twist on words from Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential Campaign; "Congeniality, in lieu of being a politician with integrity, is no virtue and being cantankerous, in pursuit of doing the right thing for your hometown, is no vice."