Link to article here.
Schlafly’s article chronicles the GOP’s loss of Reagan Democrats and middle class voters due to jobs and free trade policies, which also spills over to health care and other kitchen table issues. Read on…
The Race To The Middle For 2008
by Phyllis Schlafly
Eagle Forum
Published in Texas Insider
11-30-06
The best postmortem on the 2006 [...]

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TxDOT’s gas tax figures pure propaganda
Nothing justifies a 300% gas tax hike San Antonio, TX, November 29, 2006– TxDOT’s at it again. Using scare tactics and exploiting their ready access to Express-News reporters to push their unjustified, overly expensive road building frenzy, today’s story can only be called propaganda. The article may as [...]

Link to article here. We must be winning if such absolute drivel is considered news.

OK, let’s do a math lesson…TxDOT’s state gas tax revenues have gone up 178% over the last 20 years (and that’s adjusted for inflation and population). Just since Rick Perry took office their budget has more than doubled (gone up 117%) [...]

Link to story here.
This wreaks of government abuse of our personal information. TxDOT began collecting data on drivers using the toll roads in Austin before they charged tolls. It begs the question, why are they collecting information if they’re not yet collecting tolls and the purpose of collecting information on toll roads is supposed to [...]

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Link to PDF of Paul Burka’s Texas Monthly article here.
Some highlights from the article:
“Existing highways built with tax dollars ought not to be converted to toll roads; this is double taxation. Commuters should not be forced to tithe for the privilege of using a freeway overpass…”
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“All the rhetoric over whether to toll or not to [...]

Link to photos and info here.
Texas Good Roads, the largest special interest group of road builders in the State, began their billboard campaign to push the Trans Texas Corridor on a public who clearly doesn’t want it. What’s interesting is they waited until AFTER the election to begin their brainwashing and propaganda campaign…hmmm. Is there [...]

Yet another example of how TxDOT’s approach to tolling makes NO SENSE! The first Executive Director of the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (our tolling authority), Tom Greibel, swore up and down that the toll roads would be all electronic (of course, he’s been proven a liar already since the Hwy 45 tollway that just opened [...]

Link to article here.
THE NAU: IT’S THE ELEVENTH HOUR – GET BUSY
By: Devvy Kidd
November 20, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
“The global theory of free trade is siphoning off America’s wealth and bringing her economy to the level of others. The theory is displacing American workers who otherwise would be employed.” Senator George Malone, 1958
First plank of the communist [...]

Link to editorial here.
Seems the Editorial Board needs to tune into other local news sources who have already broke the story that our politicians have diverted nearly $10 billion in gas taxes to unrelated earmarks like tourism promotion and cemeteries. This State doesn’t lack money and our repeated surpluses and TxDOT’s 117% budget increase on [...]