To be clear, six members of the Cypress Valley Navigation District want:

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who worked to help the Caddo Lake Institute get the $400,000, to change her mind about a project she obviously supports. This is highly unlikely.

The federal government to take back grant money it has already given to the Caddo Lake Institute. Even if the first highly unlikely event takes place, this seems even more unlikely, unless there were some evidence of wrong-doing.

The federal government to then take the money it has taken back from the Caddo Lake Institute and give it to the Cypress Valley Navigation District, for, well, uh, stuff. So far as we know, the CVND has no grant application pending. Does anybody think that this would ever, ever happen, even if the first two highly unlikely events were to come true?

We guess at least six people must think so.
(Vernon Lewis, Tom Wagner, Martin Clark, Ralph Meisenheimer, David Ozee)

The CVND’s stated cause is to clean water plants from the lake and improve navigation and this is a highly worthy goal. It could be that there is a way the CVND or some entity could get just a grant.

But neither the government, nor any private entity, issues grants for wishes, hopes or dreams. They want serious plans. They want to know what is going to happen step-by-step and they want every penny of the grant money accounted for in some fashion.