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John Birch Society - Melissa, Texas Chapter
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John Birch Society - Melissa, Texas Chapter
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This is the Local chapter for the John Birch Society in the Melissa, Texas / McKinney, Texas area.
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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Monday, 29 June 2009
by Kautt
Texas Governor Rick Perry Calls a Special Session of the Texas House to Push Sale of Texas Roads to Foreign Corporations!
Taxpayers' one victory, killing private toll contracts (CDAs), could be erased in special session
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Rick Perry wants to try and force the Legislature to continue to give his highway department the authority to sell-off Texas roads to private, foreign toll operators which will charge Texans 75 cents a mile to access PUBLIC roads. Perry has called a special session to start July 1, right when Texans are tuned out for 4th of July. We won't have much to celebrate on Independence Day if Perry succeeds in selling off TEXAS highways to SPAIN!
Remember, the Texas Attorney General refuses to sign-off on the contracts (called CDAs) that would privatize public freeways I-820 and I-635 (LBJ) because they're so egregiously costly and fiscally irresponsible. Re-authorizing them is a fiscal NIGHTMARE! Killing CDAs = killing the Trans Texas Corridor & the vast majority of the toll roads!
URGENT ACTION ITEM
Be ready to DEFEAT CDAs next week!
Call your STATE legislators today and tell them to vote NO on CDAs!
Capitol switchboard (512) 463-4630.
Taxpayers' one victory, killing private toll contracts (CDAs), could be erased in special session
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Rick Perry wants to try and force the Legislature to continue to give his highway department the authority to sell-off Texas roads to private, foreign toll operators which will charge Texans 75 cents a mile to access PUBLIC roads. Perry has called a special session to start July 1, right when Texans are tuned out for 4th of July. We won't have much to celebrate on Independence Day if Perry succeeds in selling off TEXAS highways to SPAIN!
Remember, the Texas Attorney General refuses to sign-off on the contracts (called CDAs) that would privatize public freeways I-820 and I-635 (LBJ) because they're so egregiously costly and fiscally irresponsible. Re-authorizing them is a fiscal NIGHTMARE! Killing CDAs = killing the Trans Texas Corridor & the vast majority of the toll roads!
URGENT ACTION ITEM
Be ready to DEFEAT CDAs next week!
Call your STATE legislators today and tell them to vote NO on CDAs!
Capitol switchboard (512) 463-4630.
SLEDGEHAMMER ALERT TO STOP
TOLL ROADS -- KILL THE CDAs !!
Call as many state reps (phone numbers at bottom) as you can and tell them to:
1) KILL CDAs (Comprehensive Development Agreements)
2) KILL toll roads
3) KILL Trans Texas Corridor
Focus your calls on the House Transportation Committee (11 members): http://www.house.state.tx.us/committees/list81/470.htm Also, call all the state reps you can (listed below).
Learn more at: http://www.texasturf.org/
Special Legislative Session begins July 1st. Start making phone calls NOW to prevent end to moratorium & stop the selling our PUBLIC highways to PRIVATE corporations.Tell your state reps and senators to KILL CDAs, KILL toll roads and KILL the Trans Texas Corridor. Tell them to vote "NO" on any bill that contains "comprehensive development agreements" which are always in toll roads.
NO CDAs = NO TOLL ROADS = NO TTC
TAKE URGENT ACTION BELOW!!!
Tell your elected representatives to vote NO on any bill that contains CDAs, toll roads or the TTC!
The Texas House is poised to vote to sell our PUBLIC highways to PRIVATE, foreign corporations in sweetheart deals that will charge the traveling public 75 cents a mile to use our PUBLIC roadways. That's more than $3,000 a year PER COMMUTER on average. If these bills pass the Senate and pass the House in the special session, they'll go to the Governor who will happily sign them into LAW! What's at stake... So get their phones ringing and keep them ringing! If we don't KILL these private toll contracts (CDAs), foreign corporations will have the power to control EVERY MILE WE DRIVE for a half century at a time! So far the Legislature hasn't passed final bills to end gas tax diversions, restrain toll taxes for every new lane of highway, prevent the conversion of FREEways to tollways, properly fund our state highways with the gas tax, finally repeal the Trans Texas Corridor or pass a bill to protect landowners from eminent domain abuse, but they're rushing to sell-out Texans to benefit private road lobbyists drinking from the public trough! These private toll contracts are eating up virtually ALL of our available gas taxes and other highway funds to prop-up toll projects that aren't even toll viable (can't work without subsidizing them). They tell us the private operators are bringing the money to the table, not taxpayers, so it's okay to sell us out in sweetheart deals (like non-compete agreements that prohibit ANY new lanes or NEW roads from being built that would "compete" with the private operators toll cash cow as a way to GUARANTEE congestion on free roads). But the FACT is our GAS TAXES and other PUBLIC money are going into these deals, in some cases more public cash than private, but you'll have to pay a DOUBLE TAX, a toll of 75 cents a MILE to a foreign toll operator, in order to access our PUBLIC roads. This is an ALL-OUT ASSAULT on our freedom to travel! We will be buried in high toll charges for decades to come! For more info on just how bad these private toll contracts are for the taxpayers, read more here on how bad CDAs are: http://texasturf.org/ images/stories/pdf/FactSheet-CDAs-P3s.pdf |
URGENT 30 SECOND ACTION ITEM! So get their phones ringing and keep them ringing! These bills would END the private toll moratorium and sell our highways to the highest bidder! Tell them to vote NO on any bill with CDAs (comprehensive development agreements) in them. Contact your Texas STATE representative and tell them: "VOTE NO on CDAs (Comprehensive Development Agreements) and toll roads. We don't want you to sell our public roads to private corporations and charge us toll taxes to get to work!" Below are all the members of the Texas House of Representatives. Also, the list of Senators is here: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/senmem.htm Call as many as you can. All the phone numbers BEGIN with 512-463-0### Texas state representatives: call as many as you can
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