[Froufrou]

Ping to Perry's road rage.

[TomGuy]

More than 14,000 Texans — almost all opposed to the Trans-Texas Corridor

What is wrong with you Texans???? GW promised Vincente!!! Now, move out of the way --- here comes the dozers.


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[texas_mrs]

I would rather see this huge amount of money spent on a BORDER FENCE. We don't need no stinkin' road to Mexico.

[Dr. Thorne]

You mean the regular folks are opposed to this project? Well, the ungrateful grunts! Don't they know that this is for their own good so that China can send slave labor goods to WalMart to be bought by those same grunts, so the money can be spent by China on nuclear weapons aimed at ...them?

Oh, well. Who cares as long as the we, the wealthy, make a little more money for a short period of time? Waiter! Another bottle of Dom Perignon, and make it snappy!

[horse_doc]

Lost in the shuffle here, is that the Governor of Texas doesn't have nearly as much power as people think that he has.

I think that Perry will have a close shave, but will win - not because his opponents are viable, but because a lot of Republicans are not thrilled with the TTC, and Perry's less-than-muscular approach to border issues. They won't vote for Strayhorn or Kinky, but they'll just stay home on election day.

My prediction - the TTC will eventually die via manuverings in the Legislature, before all is said and done.

[gumboyaya]

Good grief it's a highway for crying out loud. I wonder if we would have an Interstate system if everyone felt this abused back in the 50's. I guess farm to market roads would be just fine today.

[Paleo Conservative]

Or it may not be.

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[kittymyrib]

Let's hear it for the Kinkster! I'd pay to see the apoplectic expressions of the "good ol' boys" in Austin (Craddick et al), the re-baptized Democrat "Republicans", if Kinky wins...or even comes very close to winning. There will be a lot of "reassessment" of positions by this unprincipled bunch.

[deport]

The Texas Farm Bureau — a longtime Perry political supporter — wants the state to scrap the project.

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Yep they don't support the TTC as a organization but they gave him their endorsement for Governor via their pac group the Ag Fund. So as with most people and organizations they have disagreements but can still support someone or something. They don't throw the baby out with the water.

The organization's statewide delegates have voted to officially oppose the corridor plan, and Farm Bureau President Kenneth Dierschke testified against it at the TTC-35 hearing in Waco last month. But the bureau's political committee, made up of the Farm Bureau's board and known as the Ag Fund, voted in February to endorse Perry, who grew up in Paint Rock and for eight years was Texas agriculture commissioner.

[conservativecorner]

No maybe about it in my way of thinking. He signed up with the President's plan lock, stock and barrel as far as I can tell.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[pepperdog]

Flame away, but there will have to be another North/South road sooner or later. Widening I-35 will displace a lot of homes and businesses too and will be no less disruptive to business and homes than the corridor, it will just be different businesses and homes. And you'll still have the tremendous truck traffic that is so dangerous going through major cities. I would think the towns in West Texas would welcome the traffic and the business that will come with it. Right now the traffic is almost bumper to bumper from North of Dallas to San Antonio.