In what can only be called propaganda for the establishment and a total 180 from AAA’s previous position on Governor Perry’s version of toll roads, its article in the Jan/Feb issue of Texas Journey touts Ric Williamson’s ilk about as friendly and uncritical as Joe Krier.
This is a total betrayal of AAA’s former mission [...]

Link to article here.
Of greatest importance: “The prospect of expanded trade in Mexican states controlled by some of the country’s most dangerous cartel leaders could pose serious national security challenges for the United States, an internal DEA report obtained by the Daily Bulletin explains…
“Even as Congress held numerous immigration field hearings during the summer to [...]

Press Release
Source: Texas Legislative Conference
Tuesday, December 19
Governor Perry Named Texan of the Year by Legislative Conference
Honor to be Presented in New Braunfels on March 23
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Governor Rick Perry has been named Texan of the Year by the Texas Legislative Conference, according to conference Advisory Committee chair Robert Howden.
Perry will [...]

You’ve got to read this…
Link to Texas Toll Party blog on how TxDOT doles out millions to losing bidders for highway contracts here.
Link to Texas Observer article here.
The Highwaymen
Even the losers win as Texas rushes to privatize its roads
by Eileen Welsome
Texas Observer
December 15, 2006
Ric Williamson, a former state legislator and longtime pal of Gov. [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Terri Hall, Regional Director, San Antonio Toll Party
A&M Report: Don’t need to raise gas tax; don’t need tolls
TxDOT overinflated “needs” by $30 billion;
Pulls rug out from under pro-toll argumentsSan Antonio, TX, December 13, 2006– In a stunning admission that increasing the gas tax and tolls are NOT NEEDED for future transportation projects, [...]

This directly affects us here in San Antonio since some of this cargo is set to come through the Port of San Antonio (formerly Kelly AFB) via the Trans Texas Corridor. In the age of terrorism and known drug activity at the border, do we really want the risk of uninspected, merely tracked, cargo coming [...]

Link to article here.
Proposed Texas Toll Road Could Drive Away Truckers
From Transport Topics
December 4, 2006
A planned multi-billion dollar toll road in Texas that would recoup its costs by charging tolls may prompt truckers to avoid the highway, the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald newspaper reported Monday.
The proposed Trans-Texas Corridor was touted by backers as a way to [...]

See the Texas Monthly blog entry by reporter Paul Burka here.
See Burka’s His Way or the Highway article blasting privatizing our public highways and the non-competes in these CDA contracts here.
Also, to view the video of David Ellis, of the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M, giving this testimony before the Study Commission on Transportation [...]

View the spendometer here. Texas government spends $2,200 a SECOND!

A little GOP perspective that addresses the growing discontent of the citizenry with the establishment…
OPINION: Some elected officials have short memories
by William Lutz
Lone Start Report
Week of Decmber 11, 2006
Isn’t it fascinating, the chasm between what leadership says in October and in December?
Just a few weeks ago, all of the state’s major leaders – from [...]