Posted on 10/15/2006 3:55:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
New ad hammers a key campaign theme. Sunday, October 15, 2006
"Beyond," Carole Keeton Strayhorn's latest ad, is expected to be viewable starting Monday at http://www.carolestrayhorn.com.
KEY POINT
'Tolls across Texas?'
ANALYSIS
Strayhorn hammers one of her familiar Perry critiques — that he's out of step with voters by advocating networks of congestion-relieving toll roads around the state.
KEY POINT
'Gov. (Rick) Perry's plan is beyond anything we've ever known. It's the largest land grab in Texas history.'
ANALYSIS
Perry's envisioned Trans-Texas Corridor might eventually require nearly 600,000 acres for roads, rail lines and rights of way. That would not be a record, Perry's camp said Saturday, noting that the state's farm-to-market roads absorbed more acreage.
KEY POINT
'A deal to seize more than a half million acres of private property and hand it over to a foreign company — so they can charge us tolls.'
ANALYSIS
Three foreign companies, joined by 15 U.S.-based companies, have tentatively been awarded the contract to build the segment of the corridor parallel to Interstate 35 from San Antonio to Oklahoma. But needed land will be owned by the Texas Department of Transportation, which must pay fair market value for it.
KEY POINT
'I believe Texas property belongs to Texans, not foreign companies. And I believe we ought to protect our property rights and stop this land grab. Austin doesn't.'
ANALYSIS
As the state comptroller, Strayhorn has previously recommended that the transportation department consider toll roads. As a gubernatorial candidate, she's said she'll stop the corridor plans, looking alternatively at making portions of urban highways two levels to relieve congestion.
KEY POINT
'It's time to shake Austin up.'
ANALYSIS
In vowing to shake up Austin, Strayhorn overlooks her own career as a state and local officeholder, starting after her election to Austin's school board in 1972.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
CUE SPOOKY MUSIC!!
I think there are two issues here. One is the Trans-Texas Corridor, which apparently will run all the way to Canada and be controlled by foreign interests. How much of this is true I don't know, but it's a scary business to think that Mexico may have customs agents stationed in Kansas City.
The other issue is Carole Strayhorn. She's a loose canon, a loser, an opportunist, who is certainly most unlikely to do anything about the dangers of this corridor.
"One Dumb Grandma"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ar6uKN4310
Well, here's another liar only interested in promoting herself. Why can't the public get rid of these people?
but it's a scary business to think that Mexico may have customs agents stationed in Kansas City.
You pegged it.
On the surface, we definitely need new highways. What's got everyone's dander up is the way this whole project has been handled. (All three of Gov. Good Hair's opponents are basically against the plan).
On Carole whatever her name is this week - she pretends to be an outsider championing the cause of the little people, but no one believes her. It's not clear to me who her base is (other than I've heard Kay Bailey is behind her).
Trial lawyers
Yikes! Head for the hills . . .
She reversed her support of vouchers to suck up to them.
Do we really want a huge corridor going straight through the country where American laws don't apply? Mexican customs agents in Kansas City on land that is sovereign Mexican territory. The whole works controlled by a Mexican corporation.
I generally trust Phyllis Schafly on these matters. Read what she has to say here:
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2006/sept06/psrsept06.html
There have been "news" threads about the TTC for several years. More recently, the threads about the TTC being a plot to destroy America began to appear, based on articles by Corsi, Phyllus, and others. These threads always get moved to chat.
This is a "news" thread.
AAAAAH!
Like I needed yet another reason not to like her.
Well, my chief point was that it's possible not to like the highway and not to like Strayhorne, both. If there's a problem, she's not the right person to fix it.
Many will see the election as a referendum on the TTC.
Perry has lost the conservative rural vote over this issue. He just might miss it....
Nobody showed up. 100 in San Antonio. 20 in Hillsboro. 6 in Greenville.
Oh, Phyliss is where you are getting your info is it?..... Why don't you go to the source rather than take second hand info that is wrong?
Again I ask you what bothers you about a Mexican Custom office being in KC inspecting shipments being exported from the US into Mexico?... What difference does it make whether they inspect the outbound shipments in KC or across the border in Mexico? It does help the businesses that are exporting as it cuts down on border crossing time..... Time is money you know.
That sounds like such a great plan....
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