David Mosby
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David Mosby ran for election to the Arlington City Council to represent District 8 in Texas. He lost in the general election on May 6, 2023.
Mosby completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2023
See also: City elections in Arlington, Texas (2023)
General election
General election for Arlington City Council District 8
Incumbent Barbara Odom-Wesley defeated David Mosby in the general election for Arlington City Council District 8 on May 6, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Barbara Odom-Wesley (Nonpartisan) | 59.9 | 10,118 | |
 | David Mosby (Nonpartisan)  | 40.1 | 6,763 | |
| Total votes: 16,881 | |||
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Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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David Mosby completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mosby's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am running for Arlington City Council District 8 which is a city wide district, because I was asked to by local leaders. They know I am not a person who can be bought and paid for by developers to approve apartments in a city which has too many already. My opponent has! I want you to be safe, to lower un-needed expenses to lower your taxes, to show where your money is going and to make Arlington beautiful. My opponent does not stress these things and she supports big spending Mayor Jim Ross. I hope to serve with Amy Cearnal as mayor. Polls show we are within the margin of error. We need to finish and win for the City of Arlington. I am against borrowing hundreds of millions more on top of the hundreds of millions already owed. Too much money floating around ends up in the wrong pockets! I assure you that Jerry Jones does will not invite me aboard his $250 million yacht. I am being outspent 20 to 1 and she owes much to her supporters needing her favors. I would love to show that it does not take money and favors to win. We have a city to improve. I will not help put millions more of your taxes to stadium owner billionaires. Mayor Williams negotiated rent of $2 million on our $500 million investment which is 0,5%, not even one percent!!! Limited tax abatements for massive investments like Summit Racing are OK, This brings money INTO our city. Taking care of our streets and parks on an ongoing basis are necessary. I ask for your support and vote. Thank you!
- Public Safety We need to lower crime, especially violent crime!
- Property tax relief People are being taxed out of their homes and needs to stop.
- Zoning We need top stop building apartments where there are too many already.
Community Question Featured local question
We shut down too much of the economy. Now people are still being paid not to work and business now needs workers. We should never shut down the economy as we did unless the epidemic were much more fatal.Rec
Community Question Featured local question
Crime here is going down but violent crime is up. I would try to strengthen neighborhood watch groups. I would also work with police to be more effective and efficient where needed.
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Downtown Arlington will never be like our neighbors, Dallas and Fort Worth. There has been development to get people to live there which does balance the community for those wishing to live in multi-family complexes.
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Elected government officials must listen to constituents to be effective. Residents must be educated on the consequences of their and the officials' actions. I plan to be the most communicative member of the City Council on Facebook and Linkedin. I want and will ask for their input continuously.
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Record requests must be fulfilled completely and timely. Transparency is my 4th pillar of my platform. This city and others have depended on citizens not knowing what is going on. Now with social media, more people know and that is a very good thing.
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That is my first pillar. People need to feel safe. Violent crime is on the rise and must be slowed. My cousin lost her policeman/husband on a domestic violence call. Our police must be ready to protect themselves for the alternative is the most tragic thing that can happen to a family.
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New development needs to be mixed use. We have too many apartments and any new ones should be highly scrutinized. Yes, much of Arlington needs redeveloping and more needs sprucing up.
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People are being taxed out of their homes and this needs to stop. All of government has some responsibility in this. I will be careful not to spend on un-needed programs so we can lower the property tax rate. We need to provide more equitable help to recent seniors whose taxes are locked in at up to 10 times what older citizens pay.
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Arlington is doing okay for being the 49 and 50th largest city in the USA. Most cities have worse crime. We need to work with neighborhoods and police to make our city safer. Neighborhood watch groups, cameras and more police involvement will help. We also need to prosecute harshly so that criminals do not want to be caught in Arlington Texas.
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I believe the city's environmental health is good. This is much more a national issue. Applying more regulation to business stifles and restricts growth.
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Arlington is built up about 93% now. The infrastructure is in place and must be maintained well. I would like to expand the tiers of the water department billing. Lower quantity users will pay less per gallon while higher quantity users will pay more. This is fair because the higher users create the need for more infrastructure and marginal cost which is expensive. The City should not be making a "profit" on this and adding that amount to the general fund.
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I do not believe in promoting the chief from outside the community. We need to groom our people to be promoted. As a former management lecturer and Dean of Business, I am very knowledegable on good management practice. Good management keeps retention better which many believe that only higher pay accomplishes. We need both.
Community Question Featured local question
At the local level not much else could be done at the time. Everyone was dealing with the unknown. Our national and international health organizations did a terrible job on data collection. This involves Long Covid as well which still mildly afflicts me. More effort for everyone to complete a complete survey should have been done.
With hindsight 20/20, the government should never have convinced people that they were safe because of vaccination. Anyone with a little common sense should have been able to figure that almost all air breathed in and out was not filtered by the mask. Most of the air went around the mask edges. I let my guard down and it has affected me for three years now.
I have long believed that people can spend their money better than government can. In Arlington, we don't need 400,000 paying to put air conditioning into an ugly stadium and giving away so much money and control on top of that. I will go through the budget and look to cut un-needed programs. Arlington has spent $200,000 on Sister Cities in the last 5 years and that program is a sad joke. A former Council Member receives $5000 a quarter for and has no appreciable positive outcomes. I believe in the program because I was a board member of Fort Worth Sister Cities where we won Best Program in America two out of three years. I have been endorsed by The Arlington Spectator, the Conservative Green Card, and Chandler Crouch, who has saved Tarrant County taxpayers more money than anyone in our history. I have thousands of hours of volunteer work in Adopt A School, where I headed Career Visits at OD Wyatt High School. I have chaired projects for Rotary hosting international visitors, Sports and Social Chairman, etc. I was TCU MBA Alumni President. I have a passion and talent for leading and it is time for me to do it for the People of Arlington.
I look up to my parents who forged a value system inside me that remains to this day. I look up to Ronald Reagan because he brought more of the country together like no other before or after. He had great accomplishments such as slowing the growth of government and was a great communicator. These are things I aspire to do.
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
The most important characteristic is honesty. I have long complained about Council Members deceiving the public to get their stadium built or to believe the member is not raising taxes. Deceptive members need to be identified and voted out by the public.
Honesty, financial analysis, and good communicator
That I made a difference in people's lives.
I remember John Kennedy Jr saluting his father's coffin in 1963 when I was 6. In 1999 while vacationing on the Tuscan coast, I learned of his death, which hurt. I feel I grew up with him. I have good knowledge of his father's presidency, and we should remember that he listened to some war mongers and almost created nuclear war. There were other good things President Kennedy did, but also left a shadow to his name being a philanderer. I tell the truth because lying is not in my character.
My first job was at Six Flags Over Texas on the Parking Lot at age 16. The next year I was promoted to foreman, the youngest person to hold that position. I then transferred to being a Fireman then Engineer on the steam locomotive driven railroad where I became good friends with a person 70 years older, Charlie Patton. We loved working together and conversing. I am thrilled that a member of the US Cavalry who marched into Paris in 1918 was a very good friend until his passing at age 102. I worked at Six Flags until I graduated UTA in 1980. I have gone back over the years because they needed me and it was fun. My last year was 2015.
The Bible. Following Jesus is always the right answer.
True Love Ways by Buddy Holly
My six year old son loves me to sing that to him.
My six year old son loves me to sing that to him.
Sometimes I am too busy to have a good focus on what is important. After family, my service to the community will take most of my time.
The little known power is that the Council Member has a strong voice to the people. The people can then put pressure on other Council Members to do the right thing.
I believe that there is room for a few newbies in the City Council. They bring fresh ideas that people that have been serving longer don't have. It is best if the Council is diverse in age, gender, race, and experience.
The office holders should be good listeners and be good in formulating and implementing plans.
How do you catch a squirrel?
You climb up a tree and act like a nut.
The Arlington Spectator
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See also
2023 Elections
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