SA EXPRESS: "Activists say they were sandbagged"

They tell us to stay away, and the local special interest politicos go in full force on our taxpayer dime!

by Pat Driscoll, San Antonio Express:

Toll-road critics said they were told by state Senate staff that a moratorium bill would sail through a committee hearing Wednesday, and so were asked to keep their army of activists at bay.

"CorridorWatch was requested not to have more than one speaker," organizers David and Linda Stall said in a wordy bulletin written tonight.

Instead of marshalling some 1,600 fiery warriors as they did for a March 1 hearing by the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, the group sent Heidi Ullrich of Ledbetter to endorse a bill to freeze toll-road privatizations for two years. More than two thirds of legislators back the measure.

Ullrich must have felt like she walked into the Twilight Zone... Read the rest of the article HERE.