“Within thirty years’ time, under existing comprehensive development agreements, we’ll bring free roads in this state to a condition of ruin.”-Sen. Carona, December 2006
...a few months later...
"A moratorium at this time in my opinion would be disastrous."
-Sen. Carona, March 2007
...a few months later...
"A moratorium at this time in my opinion would be disastrous."
-Sen. Carona, March 2007
Politicians sicken me. All of them. Every self serving last one of them. Today, especially the ones who beat their chests to play the hero, and seek only to gain something for themselves, a payoff, a favor, and leave the public out in the cold. The lies and disingenuousness of those holding public office sicken me - as they play trivial games while we starve for representation.
The politicos certainly discount the depth of the public’s outrage. Total strangers have come up to me over the years and told me they will use a gun to protect what is theirs.
So-called representatives Sen. John Carona, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee now says he will not bring the bill up for a vote, even though more than 2/3rds of the Senate and House are signed on!
In yersterday's committee meeting Sen. Carona (512.463.0116), in a clear flip-flop said a moratorium "ought to remain a last resort" and "With North Texas in need of so many major road projects, a moratorium at this time in my opinion would be disastrous." Politicos never gave us the opportunity to vote on Texas tolls, and now they tease us by playing games with our lives, roads, land and our money.
This from the Statesman, with headline, "Tollway Freeze Bill Frozen":
Carona aide Steven Polunsky said that although Carona thinks that some sort of controls on private toll road contracts are in order, a two-year freeze might remove the only option available to get some badly needed road projects done.
Carona and his committee, which includes Nichols, spent most of Wednesday afternoon listening to — and sometimes debating with — local elected officials from the Dallas-Fort Worth area concerned that a moratorium on such toll road arrangements might delay by several years road work nearly ready to begin.
"To put a moratorium on these projects is like a stake in the heart for many of us," said Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes. "We feel we're going to be very, very damaged."
2 comments:
I wonder if John Carona got paid some big bucks to shut his mouth and change direction... How else can anyone explain his sudden flip flop?? TXDOT/CAMPO/CTRMA and Rick Perry are nothing but a bunch of goons, not much different than the MAFIA.. Absolutely sickening!
Another perspective: There are ways to achieve mischief with methods other than brown envelopes left under car seats. Sometimes, these folks get caught in compromising situations, either through stupidity or being set up. And no one should ever dismiss the line from the Godfather: Either your signature or your brains (or those of your wife or kids) will be on that contract. This is very, very serious big business and it operates on a level that the average Joe just does not see or even wants to see. And sometimes, at 30,000 feet, your propeller simply falls off.
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