Tonight is the Frisco Chamber Mayoral Runoff Election Candidate Forum at Grace Church located at 5901 Page St near city hall.  The Chamber stage lights will glow, the handshakes will flow, and the carefully polished talking points will land right on cue. But longtime Frisco residents have seen this movie before — and unlike Hollywood, the ending is usually written before the curtain rises. Year after year, the Chamber wraps itself in the banner of “community leadership” while quietly signaling which candidate belongs in the club and which one gets left standing outside the velvet rope.

Every year we listen to these debates and every year we have the same feedback sent to us by email.

The Cage Match Smackdown

Instead of a debate most of the time the Chamber Forums feel like a coordinated WWE RAW match.  If you come expecting civic engagement and balanced moderation, you are about to get body slammed by reality.  

Question Controversy

After the last forum we got several emails from residents, and they had strong feelings about the forum’s questions.  The complaints included:

• Questions are too long. 
• Not enough time for a candidate to answer the question.
• Questions are biased to help the “preferred candidate”
• Not clear how to use the challenge

Chamber of Complicity

Most residents want to believe the Chamber is an independent organization and the questions will be fair and balanced, but that is far from reality.  In 2024, we wrote about the Election Fix related to the Fire Fighters Association propositions on the ballot.  The Chamber allowed Councilman Bill Woodard and representative for the Safety First Frisco PAC ten minutes to speak to residents on why they should VOTE NO to the propositions on the ballot.  However, they did not allow the Frisco Firefighters Association to speak, refute, or reply to the statements made by Woodard.  This is a forum that goes out residents online via YouTube and the Chambers social media platforms, yet they did not let us hear both sides of an issue.  The Frisco Chamber also sent out two email blasts, one in March, and one April of that year before the election to local business and members advocating, they Vote No!

The action they took effectively removed the Chamber as an independent voice on local issues.  The bias was clear and showed the Chamber “FIX” was in!

Then in 2025, after the Tammy Tapes were released and made headline news across the DMN, CBS11, WFAA, Fox4 and NBCDFW, one would expect the Chamber to ask Tammy Meinershagen a question about the tapes, but no.  While everyone waited on pins and needles for the Chamber Team to ask the big question, they never did.  Silence like it never happened.

At the Chamber Forum in 2023, where Mark Piland ran against Mayor Jeff Cheney, the Chamber team specifically asked Mark Piland about a false story that was planted in the DMN by the city to destroy his character just before early voting again.  They went as far as asking Piland about a direct quote in the article.  The point of this question was to push votes towards Mayor, Jeff Cheney!  In fact, the audience booed that night at the question, letting the Chamber know they felt it was unfair and biased. 

Again, this is proof the Chamber “FIX” is in, and they are lean towards a preferred candidate.  It has happened year after year so if residents are expecting anything different this year, it won’t. 

Closing Thoughts

The Chamber stage lights will glow, the handshakes will flow, and the carefully polished talking points will land right on cue. But longtime Frisco residents have seen this movie before — and unlike Hollywood, the ending is usually written before the curtain rises. Year after year, the Chamber wraps itself in the banner of “community leadership” while quietly signaling which candidate belongs in the club and which one gets left standing outside the velvet rope.

By the time the night is over, voters won’t just hear answers from candidates — they’ll see where loyalty truly lies. Watch it closely. Pay attention to who gets protected, who gets interrupted, who gets the softball questions, and who suddenly finds themselves walking into an ambush disguised as “civic engagement.” In Frisco politics, the fix is rarely announced out loud. It’s orchestrated through subtle nods, selective outrage, and a well-connected machine that has perfected the art of appearing neutral while picking favorites behind the curtain.

And if history tells us anything, we should expect at least one underhanded surprise before the final applause. In Frisco, political theaters don’t happen by accident, they are calculated and planned – you’ll see!

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