2006 ACCOUNTABILITY ENDORSEMENT LIST FOR
PEOPLE FOR EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION PAC
(AustinTollParty.com & TexasTollParty.com)
If you live in TRAVIS County Precinct 2 or Precinct 4, or BEXAR County Precinct 2, VOTE in the Democratic Primary (Travis County Precinct map at the bottom of this email and at this link http://www.texastollparty.com/documents/Travis.jpg):
Travis County Commissioner:
Precinct 2: VOTE Sarah Eckhardt*
Sarah Eckhardt is a former prosecutor, ready to fight for accountability and oppose Special Interest Candidate Karen Sonleitner. Sonleitner has 1) Voted to privatize and toll hundreds of millions of dollars worth of our public highways - as a member of CAMPO. Double Taxation 2) Ignored 93% of the public feedback that opposed the toll plan. 3) Raised County Taxes for all Travis County residents. 4) And, after all that, Sonleitner gave herself a Pay Raise!
Precinct 4: Yolanda Montemayor
Bexar County Commissioner:
Precinct 2: Enrique Barrera
A vote for Barrera will give us a majority on the commissioner's court!
All other areas of Texas, VOTE in the Republican Primary:
Texas House of Representatives:
District 47: Bill Welch
District 50: Don Zimmerman
District 52: Barbara Samuelson*
Barbara Samuelson is opposing Mike Krusee in this important Williamson County race. Mike Krusee created the new freeway toll tax, TTC land grab schemes and unaccountable bureaucracies that will cost our Texas families $1,000’s of dollars more a year. As a member of CAMPO, Krusee also voted to privatize and toll hundreds of millions of dollars worth of our Central Texas public highways after ignoring 93% of the public feedback that opposed the toll plan.
District 73: Nathan Macias*
Nathan Macias is opposing Carter Casteel. Casteel backed up Krusee as a Transportation Committee member to help create the new freeway toll tax and TTC land grab schemes.
District 83: Frank Morrison
District 87: Annette Carlisle
District 101: Tom Latham
District 4: Gent Wade
Texas Supreme Court:
Place 2: Steve Smith*
Former Supreme Court Justice Steve Smith is our PET Inc. Attorney who is suing Gov. Rick Perry on the behalf of Texans, to fight double tax tolls and the TTC. He's done months of work Pro Bono! The person who is opposing Steve Smith in this Primary is a special interest funded Gov. Perry appointee that had NO experience before Perry appointed him.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals:
Terry Keel
As State Representative, Terry Keel's independence caused him to be the first elected person in Texas to call freeway tolls "a double tax". In 2004, Terry Keel asked the State Comptroller, Carol Keeton Strayhorn to investigate the first Freeway Tolling Authority in Texas for using gas tax dollars to create freeway tolls. Read the 2005 Comptroller Report that shows "Double Taxation Without Accountability" and "Favoritism And Self-Enrichment": http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/ctrma05/
Texas State Railroad Commissioner:
Major Buck Werner
Texas State Senate:
District 3: Bob Reeves
District 18: David Stall
David Stall is cofounder of CorridorWatch.org. David is a true Texas patriot that has dedicated years of his life educating citizens and elected officials about the truths of the Special Interest Trans Texas Corridor. David Stall is selfless and devoted to Texans.
Collin County Commissioner:
County Judge: Rick Neudorff
Precinct 4: Jeran Akers
Both the Democrat and the Republican Parties have failed to represent us. Special interests, who fund toller campaigns, are being allowed to toll and profit from public highways we've already paid for, and the TTC is taking our land After reviewing and comparing PET PAC's comprehensive questionnaires from candidates and past voting records, our crosspartisan volunteers have endorsed the following Independent Democrat and Independent Republican champions.
IMPORTANT: This is a strategic plan to replace special interest politicians. This strategy includes voting in the primary of any party to stop the looting. We can no longer vote along party lines. We must shop the ballot to de-elect the looters and elect the better candidate. The Strayhorn campaign urges everyone to vote in the very low turnout Primaries where our votes really count. Strayhorn campaign has the money to get all the signatures she needs. Strayhorn is the ONLY candidate that has the millions needed to beat Rick "Toller" Perry AND her campaign is gaining momentum: http://salcostello.blogspot.com/2006/02/strayhorn-gets-big-mo.html Strayhorn has also found Perry's freeway tolls to be Double Taxation and has been fighting with us for almost 2 years!: http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/ctrma05/
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2/22/2006
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1 comment:
Sal,
I am very supportive of your opposition to tolls roads in Austin and I appreciate your efforts in this area. (I mailed a $50 donation check to PET PAC today.) I was surprised to see PET’s endorsement of Donna Howard in the State Rep 48 runoff.
Sincerely,
Vicki
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Hello Vicki,
Thank you for your contribution.
People for Efficient Transportation PAC (PET PAC) overwhelmingly voted to endorse Donna Howard in the special election for House District 48, and here's why:
Our endorsement process includes a phone call followed by the review of a comprehensive questionnaire filled out by the candidates.
During our selection process, our interaction with Ben Bentzin raised some questions in my mind which only increased after I heard about his reluctance to participate in the Ausitn Chamber’s candidate forum if it was broadcast on live television. His seeming fear to go on the record about certain issues prompted me to share our experience with you.
The Ben Bentzin "incident" will be a memorable one. It's also important to note that PET PAC is nonpartisan, and in the last election we endorsed Todd Baxter, a Republican, for this district, as he did fight to keep tolls we've already paid for. We've learned from past endorsements that politicians can be very slippery, even with questionnaires, so we have three rules.
Rules: 1) The CANDIDATE himself/herself MUST fill out the questionnaire. 2) The entire questionnaire must be sent back with all questions answered. 3) The complete questionnaire (questions and answers) must be submitted via email by a specific deadline.
Donna Howard: Filled out the questionnaire herself, Answered all PET PAC questions positively. Donna agreed to consider filing two (2) specific bills to curtail tolls on roads we've already funded. By all accounts Donna was open and honest during all steps of the process and is ready to fight the Perry new tax scheme of tolling our already paid for public highways.
Ben Bentzin: Failed to fill out the questionnaire himself (as rule #1 states). Question number 13, "who filled out this questionnaire", was left blank. Whoever filled out the form agreed to consider filing zero (0) bills. Before the questionnaire was submitted, Bentzin, told me on the phone that he didn't want to fill out the questioner, but wanted our endorsement anyway (On it's own, this was a unique and suspicious request - I told him we would not consider endorsing him without it). After it was submitted, whoever filed it, demanded that it not be seen by the public (this was also a first).
In two years of endorsing candidates throughout Texas, Ben Bentzin is the easily the strangest and most suspicious candidate PET PAC has dealt with.
Sal Costello,
Founder of People for Efficient Transportation PAC
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