[Trupolitik]

Listen guys, the information is right there in our face. Regardless of your view on a possible emergence of a "North American Community", this toll road scheme stinks to high heaven.

County after county is voting it down, yet the contracts keep getting signed.

My fellow Texans, for the love of God, come November 7th we MUST send Perry packing.

We CANNOT allow a "Big Dig" scenario to fester in what is my opinion, the Greatest State in the Union.

DONT MESS WITH TEXAS!

[Calpernia]

Memories.....

[hershey]

Mexico can't make it as a nation, so they're 'integrating' with the US. Their terms, our dime. Talking heads on TV already discussing 'fixing' Mexico's education system because most of the illegals are functionally illiterate in any language. (Don't laugh, the teachers' union's probably drooling at the thought of moving to Mexico and giving the natives the benefit of all their expertise.) Now we're being told we're to fix Mexico's roads so the 'Trans-Texas Corridor' will run smoothly.

[YCTHouston]

Thanks for generously bolding so I can tell what's important!

[DustyMoment]

Trans-Texas Corridor paved with campaign contributions?

Is there any doubt!!?? The TTC has gone beyond just an agenda item, it is someone's religion and it is a bad idea that will only get worse with age.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

ping?

 

 

 

[wolfcreek]

I love the fact that, in the same week the public hearings begin, they dangle the '85 mph' carrot into the mix.

[Calpernia]

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/htm/tn.006.00.000224.00.htm#224.004.00
TRANSPORTATION CODE

CHAPTER 224. ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE

SUBCHAPTER A. ACQUISITION GENERALLY

[Aggie Mama]

I really am begninng to loath anything having to do with Perry. That man is starting to become a Huey Long.

[Calpernia]

Excerpt:

The Texas Transportation Department and private companies that it hired to build the Trans-Texas Corridor toll road sued Friday to keep part of their agreement confidential.

The toll road, proposed by Cintra-Zachry, would connect the Dallas-Fort Worth area to San Antonio, running roughly parallel to Interstate 35.

Cintra-Zachry contends that the release of financial and other information would give an advantage to competing companies for future projects.

The petition, filed in state district court in Travis County, seeks to overturn a ruling by Attorney General Greg Abbott this month that the documents should be public.

More:
http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2005/06/txdot-cintra-zachry-file-suit-to-keep.html

[Jedidah]

ping, please?

[sinkspur]

My fellow Texans, for the love of God, come November 7th we MUST send Perry packing.

In favor of whom? Another Ann Richards? A drug-addled gadfly who will make Texas a national laughingstock?

Perry's going to win in a walk.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's an awful lot of expense and effort to solve a problem that with a little political courage could be rendered moot by a Federal takeover of the Longshoreman's Union and a serious effort to make West Coast ports economically competitive.

[TXnMA]

"Besides, they threw in to the deal over $1 billion that the State of Texas could use however we want to."

Over here in the Piney Woods, we call that,

"Ponyin' up the big bribe money to get the contract..."

(A few miles east and south of here, the word is "lagniappe"...)

[lapsus calami]

 

This article is omitting a few things, for one, according to some digging around in public records by a newspaper in San Antonio, Strayhorn was among the many that also had received contributions from Zachry, or Cintra-Zachry, etc. And though Strayhorn and "Kinky" may be in opposition, to my knowledge none, Demo Chris Bell included, have committed in writing that if elected the TTC is stopped, done for, over with. I'm left wondering how much it would cost the taxpayers of Texas to get out of those contracts - haven't heard any comment on or about that.

 

I have a handout from Bell about his position on the TTC, and after wading through all the usual leftist venting, his promise, if elected would be "slamming the brakes on the whole plan and dragging it back into the public light" which comes across as rather non-committal to actually pulling the plug.

 

Here's a scan of the actual doc, found at an anti-TTC meeting amongst campaign materials from other Democrats running for various offices around the state.

Chris Bell on the TTC

 

Funny how the Bell handout and this WND article sure have similar talking points.

 

I don't know much about that San Antonio Toll Party outfit, but I do know Campaigns for People, TexasTollParty and People for Efficient Transportation are ate up with leftists and outright Marxists.

 

It's the eEeEevil corporations, you know.

 

 

[unixfox]

This won't be like the "Big Dig" in Boston, but it will be the "Big Shin Dig" in Texas.

I'm just glad I won't be around to pay for the damn thing.

[Texans]

Bump