"Proposition 1 is an open-ended welfare fund for the friends of Rick Perry"
Gov. Perry pushes corporate welfare
November 27, 2005
The Victoria Advocate
Copyright 2005
Editor, the Advocate:
Only a short time until the campaigning begins for next year's election, so I'd like to talk about welfare and who gets it. Republicans tend to oppose welfare to the poor and propose welfare for the rich. Proposition 1 is an open-ended welfare fund for the friends of Rick Perry that will make them fabulously wealthy. It will also prop up Perry's floundering Trans-Texas Corridor in spite of Perry's promise that it wouldn't use tax dollars.
Sen. Ken Armbrister, in SB 3, proposed "zero interest loans" for developers of "conjunctive use" water projects. A description that just happens to fit the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project (LGWSP). A welfare plan for the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA). Armbrister got a lot of money from HillCo Partners Inc., a lobbying firm employed by, among others, GBRA. But then so did most of the other who served on the Armbrister's Senate Select Committee on Water Policy. Log on to the State Ethics Commission Web site to see how much a senator costs.
This past year, while our schoolchildren's books waited on the loading docks to be paid for, various river authorities around the state sat on a couple hundred million in budget surpluses. While teachers wait to be reimbursed for wages taken away from them, river authorities, which are quasi-state agencies, spend untold amounts of money lobbying the Legislature for more of the taxpayer's money.
It seems like the only constant in the big picture has been Ron Paul, who stood with the people of the Lower Guadalupe basin, Water Research Group and me and promised to oppose federal permits for the LGWSP. He also stood by the Hawes family and authored legislation that would return that family's property to them. He has consistently obeyed his oath of office and voted against every piece of legislation that would violate the Constitution.
We now have a water conservation district with a board of solid, community-minded citizens as directors. I promise the people of Victoria County that if we do not stand behind them next fall, we could very well have ours and every other district in the state abolished and replaced with a state-controlled district. And guess which senator from District 18 proposed that idea.
Water Research Group will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the Victoria Electric Coop. Funds will be collected to help mount a new offensive against the LGWSP.
KENNETH SCHUSTEREIT
Victoria
© 2005 The Victoria Advocate: www.thevictoriaadvocate.com
November 27, 2005
The Victoria Advocate
Copyright 2005
Editor, the Advocate:
Only a short time until the campaigning begins for next year's election, so I'd like to talk about welfare and who gets it. Republicans tend to oppose welfare to the poor and propose welfare for the rich. Proposition 1 is an open-ended welfare fund for the friends of Rick Perry that will make them fabulously wealthy. It will also prop up Perry's floundering Trans-Texas Corridor in spite of Perry's promise that it wouldn't use tax dollars.
Sen. Ken Armbrister, in SB 3, proposed "zero interest loans" for developers of "conjunctive use" water projects. A description that just happens to fit the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project (LGWSP). A welfare plan for the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA). Armbrister got a lot of money from HillCo Partners Inc., a lobbying firm employed by, among others, GBRA. But then so did most of the other who served on the Armbrister's Senate Select Committee on Water Policy. Log on to the State Ethics Commission Web site to see how much a senator costs.
This past year, while our schoolchildren's books waited on the loading docks to be paid for, various river authorities around the state sat on a couple hundred million in budget surpluses. While teachers wait to be reimbursed for wages taken away from them, river authorities, which are quasi-state agencies, spend untold amounts of money lobbying the Legislature for more of the taxpayer's money.
It seems like the only constant in the big picture has been Ron Paul, who stood with the people of the Lower Guadalupe basin, Water Research Group and me and promised to oppose federal permits for the LGWSP. He also stood by the Hawes family and authored legislation that would return that family's property to them. He has consistently obeyed his oath of office and voted against every piece of legislation that would violate the Constitution.
We now have a water conservation district with a board of solid, community-minded citizens as directors. I promise the people of Victoria County that if we do not stand behind them next fall, we could very well have ours and every other district in the state abolished and replaced with a state-controlled district. And guess which senator from District 18 proposed that idea.
Water Research Group will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the Victoria Electric Coop. Funds will be collected to help mount a new offensive against the LGWSP.
KENNETH SCHUSTEREIT
Victoria
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