Rep. Leibowitz just filed HB 719, which would ban the conversion of free roads to toll roads unless approved by a public vote. Also: Join in the discussion, in the comments area of the "Victory Battle" post below.
1/25/2007
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I have had positive dealings with this legislature before on HOA/Developer issues. This sounds like a real reform attempt!
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This is victorious, keep up the great work!!
D
A law to keep politicians from breaking the law. WOW. This is great!!!!! Just hope it passes.
It is about time a elected offical does something for the people.
Sadly, Rep. Mike “King Toller” Krusee chairs the House Transportation Committee and will most probably never let the bill see the light of day.
Leibowitz, or others, could try the stealth move of attaching it to another bill as an amendment or do a back door play and try and frame it differently to get it passed through another committee that might be more friendly to it.
More about Krusee here:
http://salcostello.blogspot.com/2006/07/5-of-12-state-rep-krusees-close.html
Sal
FROM DAN:
My name is Dan Jasinski. I bough my Oak Hill home May 1980. I never was politically active until Phase II tolling was sprung April 2004, and they tried to make my neighborhood William Cannon overpass the Golden Gate cashcow for local tolling -- I have been pointedly vocal to CAMPO members at their meetings since then. With regard to Fix290/Phase II tolls, Carol Cespedes is a "good cop" while I can be considered a "bad cop."
One must always consider the source of information. Bottom line is that one responsibilty of Bob Daigh's job (his livelihood depends on it) is to be the spokesman (to CAMPO) for/of TxDOT policies -- set by incumbents with self-serving, special interests that seek to profit on tolls to the detriment of local constituents. At the May 2004 CAMPO meeting, Daigh stated the he would correct identified "errors" in the CTRMA/TxDOT presentation going around the Central Region communitites for the impending CAMPO toll plan vote -- at three subsequent meetings attended by me, the identified "errors" were never corrected but further repeated -- for me "TxDOT's oversights" were no longer "errors" but sound bites of misinformation in a disinformation campaign to get the CTRMA/TxDOT Toll Plans approved (under false premises). Lieu for any public good, Bob Daigh is the talking puppet for some conniving special interests!
Since the spring 2004, I have witnessed Bob Daigh repeatedly and consistently spiel bad info and/or data that always advocate tolling implementation. "I don't know but I'll get back to you" is his most oft repeated answer to CAMPO toll questions. At one CAMPO vote meeting, he again emphaticly "advised" that his supervisors would frown on tolling delays and "most likely" pull funding from CAMPO -- during my subsequent "three minutes alloted speaking time," I repeatedly asked Daigh to name those supervisors (for accountability purposes) until Barrientos intervened saying that I was badgering a specific board member against meeting protocol -- how can one forget/not know their own bosses who give them orders to follow and relay! Bob Daigh does not have zero creditability -- his is negative; anything out of his mouth should be verified! I say this based on 33 months of observation verifiable in public documentation.
At the Covington public CAMPO hearing/meeting mid-January, I approached Commissioner Daugherty and asked about pass-through financing. If Williamson and Hayes counties have it, how come Travis didn't and instead is getting all the intra-city tolling? Daugherty stated to me that he wasn't against pass-through financing but rather that Travis County lacked any collateral equity funding to be able to get into the financing concept. At least, that is what I thought he explained to me.
Dan Jasinski
May the God of his choice bless David Leibowitz for filing HB 719. This is a brave man, willing to stand up to the avarice of Governor Perry and his lackeys. I urge everyone to write their legislators and ask them to support HB 719!
WooHooo!
This is another way to put the poeple out. They have been paid for aleady. I'm to busy trying to pay for school lunchs because someone states I make to much money (ya)
I can still remember the speech that Gov. Perry gave where he stated "..I will never tax any existing roads..." so I'm glad that Sal got this whole thing rolling. Thank you Sal for being there.
I've certainly pissed off a few people but also gained quite a few more in waking up to this theft and raping of the public. I just hope the one's I've pissed off are mad enough to question why. Maybe they'll see the light someday.
Thank you Rep. Leibowitz for standing up for what is right and doing what your constituents expected you to do, look out for their interests!
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