The 11 separate corridors planned will permanently cut across some 1,200 Texas roads, with crossover unlikely for much of the nearly quarter-mile-wide corridor planned to be built. Dozens of small towns in Texas will be virtually obliterated in the path of the advancing Trans-Texas Corridor behemoth. While supporters, like Perry's administration, call it a necessity, critics says the TTC appears to be the test case for future development of a NAFTA superhighway that would extend north through Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Duluth into Canada, largely parallel to I-35. The TTC project at full development will involve the removal of as much as 584,000 acres of productive Texas farm and ranchland from the tax rolls permanently, while displacing upwards of 1 million people from their current residences.
There’s a lot of money being contributed to officials in Texas and Perry is smack dab in the middle of that mess.
If your guy gets the nod the general is going to obliterate him if what I’m finding is even mostly accurate. His associations with those who propose the North American Union would be part of that with conservatives.
Environmentalist activists and political opponents demagogue against necessary transportation infrastructure for a state exploding with commerce and population.
Comptroller Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn [self-identified as, "Grandma"], currently adrift on signature collection waters in her bid for Independent Gubernatorial validity, has been a fixture at CW.org events, railing prodigiously (yet without substance) against the TTC, and the very concept of toll roads. But herein arises a consistent theme when discussing Madame Comptroller; her inconsistency. Because prior to her decision to run against the TTC-proposing Governor Rick Perry, she too saw the meritoriousness of the concept of consumption road funding.
Zachry American Infrastructure was created in 2005 to develop U.S. infrastructure investments in the transportation, energy and water sectors. The Zachry family’s older entity, Zachry Construction Corp., has built more than 1,000 heavy construction projects including more than 110 projects along the U.S. Interstate highway system. Cintra-Zachry in June 2006 reached a $1.3 billion agreement with the state of Texas to build segments 5 and 6 of SH 130. In exchange for its investment, Cintra-Zachry gets the right to collect tolls for 50 years in a revenue-sharing agreement with the state......"
But in the broader scope, these are fairly minor issues, mostly to do with execution more than substance for me at least.
Which brings us to immigration... if Perry were nearly as bad as some here would have you believe, then that would affect my ability to vote for him.
But the fact is Perry wants to shut the boarder, and has spent 100’s of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars fighting the invasion with W and now Obama fighting him every step of the way, he just doesn't think a fence alone is the solution. He is completely against amnesty, and I find it completely ironic that Perry has probably been directly responsible for apprehending more illegal aliens than all the others on that stage combined, and yet he is the one getting attacked for being soft on immigration, If you think about it the accusation (especially coming from Romney of all people) is so preposterous that you can almost see how it left Perry sputtering and almost speechless in shock. It would be like Perry being in a debate with Obama and suddenly Obama starts attacking Perry for being a socialist.