BIG NEWS: Trans Texas Corridor Grassroots Activist David Stall, founder of CorridorWatch.org, announces run for State Senate!

NOVEMBER 7, 2005
P R E S S R E L E A S E
CONTACT:
David Stall
david.stall@stallforsenate.org
November 06, 2005

David Stall Announces
As Candidate for State
Senate District 18!

Fayette County resident David Stall has announced his candidacy for Texas Senate District 18.

The formal announcement came in a five-minute speech broadcast via the Internet Monday afternoon, November 7. Stall is widely known as a Republican grassroots activist and co-founder of CorridorWatch.org, a statewide non-partisan organization opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor project. Stall acknowledges that the run for Senate has been stimulated by his objections to the Trans-Texas Corridor.

“I agree that the state population is growing and we need better and safer roads. I also understand that we need to address congestion, but I have serious concerns about the Trans-Texas Corridor and how it is being advanced,” says Stall. “After nearly two years of attending state agency and legislative meetings and visiting with thousands of Texans, I see a bigger picture and bigger problems. There is a tremendous disconnect between the will of the people and the leadership in Austin.”

As examples of how the leadership is out of step Stall says, “Texans are asking for lower taxes and the legislature is giving them more debt and bigger government. And they’re doing it in ways that are hidden from the public and lack fundamental accountability.”

In his announcement speech Stall said, “I have watched our legislature in action – and failing to act.” Moments later Stall said, “And maybe worst of all, in the last four years we have seen our state government spend more time and money accomplishing less than ever before.”

Stall has been actively involved in Texas politics and local government for 30-years. His background includes emergency management, law enforcement, municipal finance, and, business management. Stall, a police officer and arson investigator, retired from law enforcement with twenty-one years of continuous service that began as a patrolman and concluded at retirement with the rank of Fire Marshal Chief. Since 1991 he has been a professional city manager serving urban and rural communities in Colorado and Harris counties. In 2003 he earned the designation of Credentialed Manager from the International City/County Management Association.

Stall has previously been elected to city council and during his public career been appointed to numerous positions particularly in the areas of parks, emergency management, and municipal finance.

Stall has served on the board of directors of many community organizations, including art alliance council, transportation partnership, water purification plant, convention & visitor’s bureau, tourism, volunteer fire department, emergency medial corps, and service clubs.

In 2000, after twenty-five years of living and working in the Houston metropolitan area David Stall and his wife Linda relocated to a 90-year-old farmhouse near the charming town of Fayetteville in Fayette County.

Presently Stall is vice-chairman of the United States Selective Service System Local Board that serves five counties within District 18, a director of the Columbus Lion’s Club, member of the Clean Texas Citizen Advisory Board, Texas Farm Bureau, and is active in several other civic organizations.

The David Stall for State Senate Campaign is taking full advantage of modern technology and making good use of the Internet. “David and I have spent the last year and a half meeting thousands of Texans across the state and in District 18. By using the Internet all of our supporters across the District could listen to David make his announcement,” said the candidate’s wife Linda Stall.

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Public Announcement and Webcast
of speech is scheduled for:
2:00pm Monday, November 7, 2005
via an Internet audio broadcast at
www.StallForSenate.org

Media can access advance
copy of speech text at:
www.StallForSenate.org/press/dsfss-spch-110705.htm

Additional candidate information is
also available on the Internet at:
www.StallForSenate.org

"Our legislature has placed a proposition on the ballot that opens the door to unlimited public debt without identifying how we will ever repay it. Friends, I’m talking about Proposition One. It is a measure that effectively subsidizes giant profit-making corporations with taxpayer money. And yet, the same legislature failed to provide protection against seizure of your property if the government thinks someone else can make better use of it than you!"

– David Stall from speech above