📣MAJOR UPDATE: City Recalled — Full Focus on the Annexation Lawsuit!
We have an incredible update to share: The City of Granbury recall succeeded! 🎉🎈
Thanks to the incredible dedication and support of this community, a massive milestone has been reached. But the fight isn't over yet—now it is time to finish what was started.
We are pushing full speed ahead with our Annexation Lawsuit against the City of Granbury.
Important Note for Donors: This GiveSendGo campaign is EXCLUSIVELY dedicated to funding the annexation lawsuit. Every single dollar raised through this page will directly support the legal fees, filings, and costs required to hold the city accountable and fight this unlawful annexation in court.
How You Can Help:
- Donate: Every contribution, no matter the size, powers the legal team forward.
- Share: Pass this link along to neighbors, friends, and local community groups who care about the future of Granbury.
Thank you for standing firm with us. Let's take this victory and keep pushing forward for justice!
📢 CAMPAIGN UPDATE: The Fight Isn't Over—We Are Taking City Hall to Court!
To all of our Granbury neighbors, supporters, and defenders of local democracy:
As many of you have seen in recent news, the City of Granbury released statements declaring that our citizen-led recall petitions against the Mayor and City Council members “shall not be certified” and are “moot and failed.”
We want to be 100% clear with you: This is an administrative roadblock, not the end of the line.
What Happened Behind Closed Doors
The City Secretary and City Attorney threw out the vast majority of your signed recall petitions based on hyper-technical paper traps.
Among their primary reasons for invalidating qualified voters:
- Missing the word "Granbury": Signers who wrote down their full street address, house number, and zip code—or whose entry was clearly alongside other local residents—were disqualified simply for not manually writing out the word "Granbury" on every line.
- Missing Full Year: Signers who wrote standard date formats like 05/10 or 5/10 were thrown out for omitting 2026.
- Legal Veto by City Attorney: The City Attorney stepped in to declare our statement of grounds "too vague," overriding the constitutional petition right of registered voters.
Why Their Rejection Violates Texas Law
City Hall is banking on us giving up. But under Texas Election Code § 277.002(c), the law explicitly states:
"The use of ditto marks or abbreviations does not invalidate a signature if the required information is reasonably ascertainable."
When a verified, registered Granbury voter puts down their street address, date of birth, or voter ID number, their identity and eligibility are 100% verifiable against Hood County voter rolls.
Why We Need Your Help NOW: Filing a Writ of Mandamus
Because state agencies cannot issue emergency court orders to municipal clerks, our only legal remedy is to file a Writ of Mandamus in Hood County District Court.
A Writ of Mandamus is an emergency civil lawsuit asking a District Judge to step in, enforce Texas Supreme Court precedent under In re Woodfill, and order the City Secretary to count our valid signatures and place the recall on the ballot.
To get this emergency filing before a judge immediately, we must retain specialized municipal and election law attorneys.
- Goal: Retainer and court filing fees for the Writ of Mandamus.
- Urgency: Every day we wait allows city officials to push forward on controversial infrastructure debt, rate hikes, and Knox Ranch development approvals.
We signed the petitions, packed the city council meetings, and stood up for transparency in Granbury. Now we need to back our voices with legal force.
Please consider donating today—even $25, $50, or $100 gets us closer to retaining our legal counsel and holding City Hall accountable in court. If you cannot donate, please share this campaign update across Hood County!
Thank you for standing strong with Granbury.
Hood and Somervell County have become the largest Energy and Data Center Cluster
proposal IN THE NATION!!! That is what we are fighting, that is what is at stake.
A 2,090 acre campus is looming within only a couple miles of the award winning historic downtown square and the beloved lake.
Out of state developers and foreign investors are trying to force 12 of these massive resource guzzling projects upon our small rural community hoping that we wont have the means to fight them off.
The cumulative proposals amount to over 10,000 acres of industry replacing prime agricultural land in what is supposed to be a protected watershed.
WE CANNOT WAIT! AND WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!!
Citizens are fighting back with legal challenges but even with pro bono legal help, court costs and specialized supporting attorneys cost money. Please help support the citizens as they try to protect this beloved destination and recreation town from this invasion!
All donations received will go directly to supporting the legal costs associated with the fight against the City of Granbury for rolling out the red carpet for a 2,090 acre data center and power plant project behind closed doors while lying to the public.
Any extra funds (if we should be so lucky) will support the legal battles against the other projects in Hood County.
Has a Foreign billionaire investor been working hand in hand with city officials in secret meetings to ram through a massive 2,090 acre power plant and data center project against the wishes of the citizens of Granbury and Hood County?
This project is located just off the beloved historical downtown square and within close proximity to several schools, many residences and a hospital. It will turn 2,090 acres of our beautiful valley with ancient oak trees into an industrial wasteland that poses a threat to our water supply, power grid, our beloved Lake Granbury—and our citizens’ health, safety and welfare.
Some of our local citizens are taking a stand and fighting to protect our beautiful, rural historic small community from this onslaught, but we can’t do it alone. Even though our attorney is working pro-bono, the cost of litigation, court fees and consulting attorneys is significant.
Going up against a city government that has appeared to have turned its back on the very people it is supposed to represent is a daunting task, this is truly a David vs Goliath situation and we need your help!
Please donate what you can, share this with everyone you know, and above all, pray for us as we try to save our community from this devastation.
WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO FIGHT THIS!
