MCC Exclusive: EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE Formed In Missouri City To Look At Potential Candidates For City Council In 2008--

Missouri City Mayoral Exploratory Committee Formed!

Candidates Announcement
Position: Missouri City Mayoral Race 2008

An exploratory committee has recently been formed made up of Missouri City area residents from several neighborhoods to look into the potential run of Greyling Poats, a long-time successful local business owner, citizen of our community and neighborhood activist. Mr. Poats, a former assistant city attorney in Gary Indiana and current city TIRZ board member, ran against Allen Owen in the 2006 mayoral races with only a few weeks campaigning.

Issues that the multi-partisan citizens committee is looking into are term limits, disparity in development, an authentic ethics committee to review recent actions by some on council as well as to improve communications with the police department and the possibility of opening up the cities books for public scrutiny, supporting the schools and single member district representation initiative by community leaders, to name a few. Mr. Poats has been a resident for over 25 years and a taxpayer advocate. He has been very involved in the recent council district races and vigorously supported the opposition for the Blue Ridge Landfill expansion near Missouri City and has been a strong advocate for attracting another hospital to our community after it was announced in 2006 that Christus Hospital had been indefinitely delayed and Hermann closed after several decades of providing health care to our community. In 2005 he provided coalition leadership, which lead to the reduction of a proposed 1500 apartment units to the Sienna community by Houston developers. Poats has continued to be vocal and an active critic of the current administration and its special interest backing. He challenges the incumbent to “just swear off” the out of area campaign financing he has grown dependent on over the years!

Greyling has a wife, Lillian, who serves on the FBISD education foundation, is a university professor and son who is currently attending college. He resides in the Oakwick Forest subdivision.

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