Gadfly 2025 Nominations
So, here we go! The one award you either wear with a badge of honor, or you hang your head. It means you have made the Review’s radar, and we are watching you.
So, there are four names this year! And here they are, and here is why we nominate them, and we ask you to vote.
Now, how do you vote? This year it is different.
Please vote by email this year. You can email your vote by clicking setreview@gt.twcbc.com, and we will cast your vote. We need all votes in by December 26, 2025, at 5 p.m.!
So here we go!
Say hello to Mr. Joey Hillard. He beat Mike Getz in the general election by coming up with ideas not on how to help the city, but on how bad Getz is. He is the bastard child of the Fire Department Union—and frankly, kind of a trick pony. He is not willing to listen and simply doesn’t know what he is doing running the government. He has some dope known as Dillon Richardson telling him what to do and not to do. When did we elect Dillon Richardson?
Meet Joe Evans, who just lost his seat on the board of Trustees at the Beaumont ISD. He is (or was) the former Jefferson County Republican Chairman. Anyone in politics loves Joe Evans. He dropped out because he wants to be a judge. And he will be a good one if elected. We chose Joe because he is pretty good at riding the political wave. But, he has the Scarlett letter on him in the BISD takeover. Good boy, meet bad boy?
Jeff Darby, the new mayor of Nederland! He came in with the idea of the DOJ, but ended in anger with many in the community. Not about his ideas, but as a sales gig for coming across in a different way they the citizens were used to. Talk about pissing people off, and being a Gadfly, that is Jeff Darby! If you know him, you like him; if you don’t, then you don’t. The jury is still way out.
Mike Williams. What can you say about him? He tried being the nice guy. He blew it. He tried being a statesman. He blew it. He tried being a leader on the city council. He blew it. Is he a bad guy? No. Is he a good guy? No. Is he really trying to do something – okay, yes. But he is a part of the two blind mice with Hillard that have fractionalized the city council. In fact, many are saying that he and Hillard are worse than 10 Mike Getz’s. The black community is going to target him. You watch. He needs to sit down, shut up, read the manuals, apply the manuals, and feed off the anger of the public, not feed the anger to the public (think about what we just said there). He, too, is the perfect candidate to be a Gadfly.
So there you go – pick your guy. We will keep this up for a week. Then we will announce on the weekend of the 27th.
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