In Error-Riddled Letter, 17-Term Grapevine Mayor Defends His Intelligence

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After 49 years in office, many people are saying Grapevine Mayor William D. Tate is having his Biden moment after a passive-aggressive, error-filled message he sent to the school board president was leaked.

Grapevine’s mayor and the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board are locked in a fight over closing two struggling schools that many families have already fled. Mayor William D. Tate says he never threatened the board president, but his own email says he “tried to intimidate” her, fueling accusations of interference and misinformation.

The two sides exchanged sharply worded letters, before Tate sent the following email to Shannon Braun, President of GCISD’s Board of Trustees.

In the letter, Mayor Tate pushed back on what he inferred to be a claim by Braun that Colleyville residents were smarter than those in Grapevine. However, the letter itself contained more than 20 grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors.