TRWD plans eminent domain action with landowner
“The Tarrant Regional Water District board voted 4-1 on Tuesday to exercise its power of eminent domain in order to route a massive pipeline through an East Texas property controlled by Monty Bennett, a wealthy Dallas businessman who is suing the district in an effort to keep the pipeline off the property.
The lone dissenting vote came from Mary Kelleher, the only successful challenger to three incumbent board members in a heated 2013 election in which Bennett contributed more than $100,000 to an Austin-based political action committee that in turn provided campaign funding for John Basham, a water board candidate who ran on the same slate with candidates Kelleher and Timothy Nold.”
Smith, Jack. Fort Worth Business Times 18 February 2014.