Perry's TTC is the Start of the NAFTA Superhighway: One million Americans to lose their homes

One million Americans to lose their homes or businesses to foreign, privately owned company

North American Union
Point of View Commentary
by Kerby Anderson

I want to talk to you about the establishment of a North American Union and the building of the NAFTA Superhighway. These issues are going to be given a great deal more prominence in the news in the next few weeks. For example, there will be a press conference next week at the National Press Club. Attending will be such people as Howard Phillips, Jerome Corsi, Phyllis Schlafly, as well as members of the House of Representatives who have introduced a resolution (H. CON. RES. 487) calling for an investigation into the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway System. The sponsors of the bill are Virgil Goode, Jr. (R-VA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and Ron Paul (R-TX).

Let me give you some background on these issues. It all started with a meeting in Waco, TX on March 23, 2005 with President George Bush, Mexican President Vincente Fox, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. At the end of the meeting they announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Some people in the press reported it, but no one thought much of it until people began to read the details of the agreement.

Essentially, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (or SPP as most people call it) created a new administrative infrastructure that could transfer these three countries into a North American Union similar to the European Union. And this was done without a treaty and without a vote in Congress.

But don't take my word for this. As we say on "Point of View" so often, read it for yourself. The Department of Commerce has developed a website: www.spp.gov. You can go there and read more about this. You can also print out this commentary and look up the endnotes to find more reading material on this than you might imagine.

If you go to the SPP website and read some of the material, you will find that the SPP has created "20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration." They have produced a number of memorandums of understanding as well as trilateral declarations of agreement. These new trilateral agreements essentially rewrite our administrative law so that it can be harmonized and integrated with these two other countries. And these working groups report to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.

This plan was spelled out in detail in a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 59-page document called "Building a North American Community." It describes a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." The entire task force report of 175-pages is available at www.cfr.org from the Council on Foreign Relations.

So what does this mean to the United States? Here are two examples that Jerome Corsi uses to explain what this would mean to our country. The first is the issue of open skies. The Department of Transportation has agreed to give our GPS system and our wide area navigation system to Canada and Mexico. That means that Mexican and Canadian air traffic controllers will be able to direct airplanes into our air space and land them in our airports as if they are landing them in their own countries. Now in order to do that safely, they also need to know how to identify U.S. military aircraft. So you can see, we will be giving away quite a bit of technology and information.

The second example is the idea known as "trusted trader-trusted traveler." The SPP working groups I just mentioned have announced that they will give biometric cards to all Americans, Mexicans, and Canadians to identify them as trusted North American travelers. Remember the goal here is to erase the borders between Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The North American Union will supposedly protect the perimeter of North America but will essentially remove the borders between these three countries. If you think about this, it will change the nature of the immigration debate. Mexicans who have these biometric cards and come to the United States by definition won't be illegal immigrants.

These working groups provide for the designation of a trusted trader. There is talk about putting a Sentri electronic devices in their trucks so that it would only take a few seconds to cross the US-Mexican border in Laredo, Texas. In a sense, it would be like using an EasyPass on one of our toll roads in America.

That brings us to the other issue: the NAFTA superhighway. The Texas segment (known as the Trans-Texas Corridor) will begin construction next year. You can read about this at a Texas Department of Transportation website: www.keeptexasmoving.com.

In April 2006, TxDOT released a 4000-page Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that describes a corridor that will be 1200 feet wide (the size of four football fields). It will parallel Interstate 35, and be five lanes north and five lanes south (3 cars, 2 trucks). In the middle will be pipelines and rail lines. It will also have a 200-foot wide utility corridor.

The corridor will start in Laredo, Texas run past Austin to the Texas-Oklahoma border. However the plans ultimately call for building some 4,000 miles of highway-railway-utility super-corridors throughout Texas over the next 50 years, using some 584,000 acres of what is now Texas farm and ranchland, at an estimated cost of $184 billion.

The project will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestrusturas in Spain and a San Antonio construction company Zachary Construction Corp. Cintra is an investment consortium owned by the Juan Carlos family in Spain that will collect the tolls. That's right the money for this project will go to Spain. Eventually, this NAFTA superhighway will ultimately connect through Kansas City into Canada.

This NAFTA superhighway will connect with ports in Mexico (specifically Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas) for NAFTA trade. "The plan is to ship containers of cheap goods produced by under-market labor in China and the Far East into North America via Mexican ports. From the Mexican ports, Mexican truck drivers and railroad workers will transport the goods across the Mexican border with Texas. Once in the U.S., the routes will proceed north to Kansas City along the NAFTA Super-Highway, ready to be expanded by the Trans-Texas Corridor, and NAFTA railroad routes being put in place by Kansas City Southern."

The advantage to retail companies like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Home Depot (to mention a few) is enormous. Currently the cost of shipping and ground transportation can nearly double the cost of cheap labor and slave labor from China and the Far East. China will be able to unload these huge cargo ships in these deep water ports in Mexico and bypass much of those costs. Mexican workers undercut the Longshoreman Union port employees on the docks of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Mexican truck drivers undercut the Teamsters. And U.S. truckers and railways will no longer be needed to move goods across the Rocky Mountains.

Oh, by the way, these Mexican ports will be controlled by the Chinese communists through a company we have talked about before on "Point of View." The company is Hutchison-Whampoa. This name should sound familiar. Hutchison Ports Holding owns Panama Ports Company which controls both ends of the Panama Canal.

The Chinese are also working to deepen and widen the Panama Canal so they can sail their enormous container ships to Florida and travel north through another corridor. Ultimately, the plan is to have seven of these corridors in the United States.

And while I am talking about the Panama Canal, I might mention that the man who is considered the father of the North American Union is Robert Pastor. And if that name sounds familiar it should. He is the man who proposed that the United States give away the Panama Canal during Jimmy Carter's presidency. He was the co-chair of the May 2005 CFR report, "Building a North American Community."

So how will the North American Union be put in place? There is good evidence to show that this plan will implemented the same way it was done in Europe: incrementally. There will be various bureaucratic regulations to eventually transform the United States, Canada, and Mexico the way Europe was transformed into the European Union from the Common Market. In fact, Robert Pastor has proposed that we get rid of the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexico peso. Instead we will have what he calls the amero (just like Europeans have the euro).

Just recently (September 12-14, 2006) there was a secret meeting in Banff , Alberta. Apparently its goal was to bring representatives from the three countries to advance the cause of the North American Union. You can read about these proceedings in a recent article that provides both the agenda and the attendee list.

Those who have been investigating this have also been filing Freedom of Information Act requests. Much of this information is posted on www.judicialwatch.com, and additional materials will soon be posted at www.minutemanproject.com. They show memos of governmental officials discussing how our laws can be changed or how the laws of Canada or Mexico can be changed so that we would have North American laws.

So what should we do? First, we need to educate ourselves and pass this information on to others who would also be concerned about the loss of American sovereignty. The success in defeating the Dubai Ports issue (as well as other initiatives) demonstrates that once the American people know what is going on, they call and write their legislators. Get a copy of this commentary from our website and distribute it. Go to the references and endnotes that I provide to get additional information.

Second, find out where your elected representatives stand. Do they support a North American Union or do they support American sovereignty? It is better to find out before the elections.

Those of you in Texas should also ask the candidates for governor and other elected officials where they stand on the NAFTA superhighway. Eventually there will be 4,000 miles of highway. The state will use eminent domain to take this land. Under the Supreme Court Kelo decision, they can take that land even though the superhighway will be built for private benefit. Some have estimated that up to one million people in Texas may lose their land or their business under this eminent domain action. Where do these Texas candidates stand on this issue?

Third, express your support for the resolution (H. CON. RES. 487) introduced by Representatives Goode, Jones, Tancredo, and Paul. Its says that the United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada. And it says that the United States should not engage in the construction of a NAFTA Superhighway System.

We can win this battle with education and action. Go to www.pointofview.net (or StopPerry.com) to get more information and get involved in this crucial battle.

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PROOF that CHRIS BELL SUPPORTS PERRY’S TTC BOONDOGGLE!

Chris Bell, has recently stepped up his rhetoric as he now says he opposes Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor, since it’s become popular to do so. But, the cat is now out of the bag.

THE TRUTH OF BELLS SUPPORT FOR THE TTC WAS EXPOSED by a recent live radio interview with Ron Thulin of KAHL in San Antonio.

While I was live on the air with Ron Thulin yesterday, pushing our launch of the StopPerry.com TV ad campaign this week, I was shocked when Ron told me how he had exposed Chris Bell’s support of the TTC. Chris Bell tried to flip flop, panicked, stuttered, and quickly change the subject, as a guilty man would.

CHRIS BELL'S OWN WORDS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM!
Here are Chris Bells own words in support of the corridor, unedited, from the Dallas Morning News February 2006 Voters Guide (http://www.vgt2004.org/a-dallas06/candidate-detail.go?id=3170238):

Dallas Morning News Question: Are you satisfied with current plans for funding high-speed rail as an integral component of the Trans-Texas corridor? Please explain.

Chris Bells Answer: I think high-speed rail has an important place in our state’s long-term transportation plans, and I will support efforts to speed up the timetable for introducing high-speed rail here in Texas. Texas should not have to wait until 2025 to begin real development on the rail component of the TTC.

The rail portion (NOT light rail) of the TTC is
built after the foreign controlled toll roads
take 580,000 acres of private and state land.

CHRIS BELL TRIES TO TRICK TEXANS AGAIN!
Chris Bell was beginning to be successful at tricking many radio stations across Texas who erroneously repeated Bell’s claim that he was the ONLY candidate against the Trans Texas Corridor.

Bell based this lie on a grain of sand, smoke and some mirrors. Boring Bell saw a report Strayhorn had produced years ago which mentioned using limited traditional toll roads, where tolls pay for the road you drive on. Our group has not opposed traditional toll roads, we’ve been very clear that we oppose tolls on roads we’ve already paid for. Tolling roads we’ve already paid for is Rick Perry’s scam to tax us for something we’ve already been taxed for, creating corporate welfare slush funds. Funded freeways have never been tolled in the history of the country.

Bell took this lie to a whole other level and claimed Strayhorn supported the TTC. None of Bell’s claims were true, as they have been built on a crafty imagination of a man that is known for doing nothing and used as a placeholder for the Gov. campaign.

FACT: Strayhorn has received the support of 100% of the anti TTC and all “no tolls on roads we’ve already paid for” groups throughout Texas. Not one of these citizen groups in Texas supports Bell, and rightly so. Strayhorn has done more than talk, she’s already delivered results, and that’s why we ALL endorse her.

PERRY AND BELL. CRIPS AND BLOODS.
While Strayhorn has been the only state official fighting the corruption with us over the past years, Gov. Perry has created his boondoggles with dirty Republicans and dirty Democrats who want to ignore the public and eat at the special interest trough.

A reminder, since 2004 our multi-partisan citizen PAC has supported and fought for only independent thinking Republicans (such as Keel, Marcias, and Latham) and independent thinking Democrats (Howard, Coleman and Eckhardt), the good guys and gals are a rare breed indeed.

Boring Bell also failed to show up at dozens of TTC hearings that Strayhorn has taken the time to attend across Texas, along with thousand of Texans who fear loosing their homes to Perry’s TTC foreign profit making scheme. Chris Bell also failed to show up, after being invited, to any of our important anti-TTC events across the state. Most of these events, especially our largest one, Tunes not Tolls, took place before we made any endorsement decisions.

CRIPS AND BLOODS. Why has Chris Bell failed to say he’ll stop the TTC or have any alternative? The corrupt portion of the democrat party machine, desperate to regain power, will most probably want to move into Perry’s TTC territory, profit and sell Texas for their own gain. Sadly, this opinion is simply based on what the two parties have been doing since they were born.

MORE "CHRIS BELL BIG LIES"

A couple weeks ago, Bell’s frustrated, desperate and delusional campaign, at the bottom of every reputable poll was beating its chest about a poll that finally came out showing them in second place.

The Bell campaign quickly sent out press releases, how it was now 5 points away from Perry, and claiming Strayhorn’s campaign was dead.

Like the rest of “Chris Bell’s Big Lies”, Bell just can’t be honest with Texans - The poll Bell bragged about was an online interactive poll that is easily manipulated by having supporters ask to be part of the poll.

I’m sure Bell can get 100% of the vote. If you poll his campaign office and his mom.

I found this text about the online poll: "...database of individuals who have registered to take part in online polls through solicitations on the company's Web site as well as other Web sites that span the political spectrum". Some candidates have actually altered this feeble poll by telling their supporters to go to the poll to deliberately skew the data. Shame on Chris Bell, for tricking Texans.

BORING BELL BEGS KINKY TO DROP OUT, KINKY SAYS NO.
The latest “news” from the desperate Chris Bell campaign is about Chris Bell calling Kinky, to beg him to drop out of the race. Kinky said no.

CHRIS BELL GETS HIS FIRST 1 MILLION DOLLARS THIS WEEK
The simple fact is Texas is a huge state, millions are needed to communicate with millions of Texans via TV. Professional consultants will tell you that at least one million a week is needed to communicate effectively via TV, to have any success in a Statewide campaign. Of course it takes more than money, but money is a real world communications factor.

This week, Chris Bell, finally got funded, a little. One attorney contributed 1 million dollars and a promise to find more. I’m sure Bell will declare that the race is over says he’s the new Governor and president of the universe. FYI: Four years ago about 100 million was spent in the Governors race by the Perry and Sanchez campaigns.

As of this week, Strayhorn has 5 million on hand, and I think Perry has 8 or 9 million. Kinky has zero millions.

The usual Democratic big dollar contributors, who want to remove the Rick Perry cancer, also abandoned Chris Bell from the start. These contributors have sent their precious dollars to Strayhorn instead of Bell from day one.

The united contributors put out a MEMO yesterday, explaining how only Strayhorn can beat Perry—and that Bell and Kinky cannot win even if they had all the money in the world.

THE BARBARIANS ARE AT THE GATE, AND THEY BOTH HAVE GOOD HAIR!

Governor Perry and Chris Bell won’t let Texans vote on large issues. Both oppose I & R.

Perry and Bell won’t let us vote on the largest land-grab in Texas history, or vote for or against tolls on roads we’ve already paid for. And now Perry and Bell don’t want the citizens of Texas to have a voice on the seizure of a half-million acres of Texas private property.

Strayhorn is the only candidate that supports I & R (75% agree we need it), Strayhorn will fight to let Texans have a voice.

PERRY AND BELL ATTACK OUR CITIZENS GROUP AND STRAYHORN

Perry and Bell have not only spread lies about Strayhorn, but they have attacked our citizens group. They have told the press that our two-and-a-half year-old grass roots group is a ‘Strayhorn Campaign front’. Nothing could be farther from the truth! We’ve been fighting these elected crooks since 2004. We’ve worked with and endorsed many candidates who want Texans to have a voice over special interest profits.

And get this new absurd rumors Bell and/or Perry is trying to sell to the press: I with the minutemen! Sure all that spare time of mine I run down to the border with some guns. Pathetic!

Perry and Bell have even said that I’ve been paid off in exchange for our support of Strayhorn. I’ve used $30,000 of my savings, to build our group, and I’ve donated up to 50 hrs a week for the past 2.5 years (which has been a hardship on my family). I’ve not been paid a dime from Strayhorn, or anyone else to do this work. I’ve also not been paid by our PAC. Heck, a couple years ago I was driving a brand new Audi TT sports car. Today, I drive a 1988 Dodge Raider that is falling apart. I don’t pay myself so we can go after the bad guys with every penny we get.

Perry and Bell have also attacked our coalition partners, like Terri Hall with the San Antonio Toll Party. Terri is a mother and homeschooler of five kids!!! with a sixth on the way, who also fights for Texans without pay.

We do this work because it must be done, paid or not. Perry and Bell never heard of the word “selfless “.

CAROLE KEETON STRAYHORN HAS ALREADY BEEN STANDING WITH THE PEOPLE NOT THE SPECIAL INTERESTS.
Strayhorn is the ONLY candidate with a no land grab alternative. Strayhorn is the only Candidate that will stop Perry’s double tax tolls in their tracks! Carole, the only woman in the race has also been the only candidate to expose Perry’s $2,000 property tax cut lie. Strayhorn is the only candidate with the endorsement of the two largest Texas Teachers Groups, and she has a plan to secure our borders, improve our schools and allow affordable health care for Texans.

THE DEBATE - THE BIG QUESTION
When will Perry answer the crucial question asked during last Fridays Governors debate (by reporter Christine Haas, KVUE-TV Austin) about the ‘three central figures of Cintra’ giving Perry’s campaign ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’, while the TTC deal worth Billions, relies on our public assets and taking private land from Texas families to sweeten the corporate welfare pot?

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STRAYHORN INTERNAL POLLING SHOWS DRAMATIC TIGHTENING IN RECENT DAYS

From QuorumReport.com

STRAYHORN INTERNAL POLLING SHOWS
DRAMATIC TIGHTENING IN RECENT DAYS

Perry campaign questions credibility of poll

Carole Keeton Strayhorn has pulled within seven points of Gov. Rick Perry and has solidified her position in second place, according to internal polling data released by the Strayhorn campaign.

Perry polled 34.9 percent with Strayhorn at 28 percent. Kinky Friedman, meanwhile, held a slight lead over Chris Bell, 15.4 percent to 15.1 percent. Another 6.6 percent were undecided.

The phone poll of 800 likely voters was conducted earlier this week by McLaughlin & Associates. The poll’s margin of error was 3.5 percent, said Strayhorn spokesman Mark Sanders.

Perry campaign spokesman Robert Black blasted the internal polling numbers as unreliable. "The first sure sign that a campaign is going in the tank is when they start releasing phony poll numbers to try and convince voters they’re still relevant," he said. "Another sign that their campaign is flattening is when they leave up their latest attack ad a week before putting up warm and fuzzy ads."

According to Sanders, the poll is significant because it shows Strayhorn gaining ground while support for Perry slips. He said their previous polling showed Perry at 40.4 percent and Strayhorn at 20 percent.

Strayhorn’s poll mirrors the Texans for Insurance Reform PAC poll released earlier this week, which likewise showed support for Perry dropping from above 40 percent to the mid-30s. That poll showed Strayhorn’s support moving upward significantly from the mid-teens to almost 20 percent.

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STATESMAN: "How about an ad showing the overtaxed Austin driver pulverizing Dash with a ballpeen hammer?"

Does PBS&J Fraud Extend to City of Austin?

A federal grand jury is looking into PBS&J for reimbursing it's employees for political contributions.

City of Austin Councilman Brewster McCracken's 30th Day before election (2006) report includes contributions from at least three PBS&J employees. Brewster is planning to run for Mayor. Brewster voted for tolls on roads we've already paid for in 2004 & 2005.

Two of them actually use PBS&J's address. Here are the names and addresses.

Keith and Joyce Jackson
6504 Bridge Point Parkway, Suite 200
Austin, Tx. 78730

Robert McCarty
6504 Bridge Point Parkway, Suite 200
Austin, Tx. 78730

Paul Jensen
8600 Bell Mountain Road
Austin, Tx. 78730

Fort Bend, TX could be getting money back, as TxDOT is. A source has told me they would not be surprised if the City of Austin is due 2 million in refunds from PBS&J, who has been involved in at least 36 million in Fraud.

Is anyone at the City of Austin looking into PBS&J Fraud?

Strayhorn on the Rise...The Big Mo? (Not MoFo)

BurkBlog goes into more details about the latest poll that shows Perry moving down and Strayhorn making headway:

Here are the results, with the August numbers in parentheses:

Perry 33% (41%)
Strayhorn 20% (14%)
Friedman 14% (13%)
Bell 13% (13%)
Undecided 19% (20%)

The poll shows an 8-point drop by Perry and a 6-point rise by Strayhorn. The results could be interpreted to validate pre-Labor Day assertions by the Strayhorn campaign that the inability of the Bell and Friedman camps to raise enough money to go up on TV and stay on for nine weeks would transform a four-way race into a head-to-head race by early October. If that occurs, an interesting cross-tab in the poll involves this question: "There is no runoff in the Governor's race--whoever gets the most votes wins. But, suppose there were a runoff and the candidates were Republican Rick Perry and independent Carole Strayhorn. Which would you probably vote for?" The result:

Strayhorn 42.9%
Perry 41.7%

The key to the election right now is Democratic voters. Bell's 13% represents about half of the Democratic base vote. If the missing half cares more about beating Perry than about party loyalty, the race could get very interesting....

This just posted at Quorumreport.com

October 4, 2006 2:09 PM
NEW PAC SPONSORED POLL SHOWS GOVERNOR VULNERABLE SHOULD ANTI-PERRY VOTE COALESCE
Strayhorn shows the most movement in ballot test question

While all polls have shown incumbent Governor Rick Perry holding solidly ahead of his three challengers with numbers from the low to high 30% range.

The only polling that has been generally available have been from out of state operations like Zogby and Rasmussen, both of which have their own idiosyncracies.

So far, no poll has seriously tested second choices which could be decisive if the so-called "anybody but Perry" vote were to solidify behind one of the three most prominent challengers.

Texans for Insurance Reform PAC (which is largely funded by individual trial lawyers) has just posted poll results testing 603 voters using the same methodology utilized for decades. The posting is not a simple executive summary with bullet points. Instead TIR has posted the questions and cross tabs giving the most complete picture to date of the race. They have also posted the results of previous polls in order to establish trend lines

Most importantly, they have explored the all-important "second choice" question.

The rest of the story, subscribers only

A few more letters from Texans to Gov. Perry about the TTC from yesterday:

I'm sorry I ever voted for a SOB like you.
– Robert of COLLINSVILLE, TX

How can you say you represent the people of Texas? Shame, shame, shame on you Gov. Perry!
– Margie of Waco, TX

I guess you think all texas people follow the republican party and the bush family blindly!!! We are watching in more & more places ; stop this land grab for a foreign country ( mexico ) we do not owe then a living and there is no reason for us to sell the rights to a toll road to a foreign power.
– Jerry of Sweetwater, TX

I am simply horrified at this TOLL ROAD RIP-OFF! The voters in Texas --especially those whose farms will be affected by this proposal should have been advised and had a chance to VOTE for changes THIS drastic to their --make that OUR way of life!
– Helene of Elgin, TX

NO TTC GET PERRY OUT!!! HE HAS A PROBLEM TELLING ALL OF THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TTC AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND TAXES....GET HIM OUT ,,, GET HIM OUT....... VOTE STRAYHORN.....
– Edmund of Bartlett, TX

You should be spending our money on finding ways to help our poor and keeping those poeple from crossing our borders and stealing all our jobs and making us poor. My Father-in law has always said that the hispanics would take Texas back without a shot ringing out.....well sir, just look around you.........stop waisting the money we pay you ......
– Carol of Boerne, TX

This blatant disregard for our state is shameful. As an Aggie I ask you quit calling yourself one. No true Aggie would be handing over control of any roads in this state to foreign interests nor ignoring the land rights of its citizens.
– Julie of Cedar Park, TX

Since there is no logical reason to build such transportation corridor--other than to make it a part of a continent spanning highway to erase borders and the sovrenity of the United States, I object. To have started it with out public knowledge is treasonous. You should be impeached.
– Albert of Burleson, TX

I THINK THIS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA FOR THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS. SECURE OUR BORDERS!
– Rogene of North Richland Hills, TX

Governor Perry has completely lost sight of his fiduciary responsibility to act on the behalf of his constituencies. He has failed us, the voters of Texas, in many ways during his tenure in office. The thought of privatizing and tolling of Texas freeways is repulsive, and unnecessary. I
don't know what kind of kick-backs the governor is receiving from this, or what "buddly-list" he is playing for, but his actions most certainly do not represent the voting majority of Texans. We will refuse to be double-taxed (the public is NOT a corporate entity), and "our" land is not for-sale for the ridiculous Trans-Texas Corridor, for which our leader is pushing his own political propoganda. We, the voter's of Texas will take a firm stand againt Perry to ensure the future viability and prosperity of this great state.
– With much disgust, Matt of Lubbock, TX

I've already written to you once before regarding the highway 121 toll project that I disagree with. Here you are again, trying to take more of our money. I remeber when the national gas tax went up 5 cents to take care of our roads and highways. Where did it go?...Boston's Big Dig. And you wonder why so many people are fed up with you and the other republicans?
– Steven of McKInney, TX

I think the 90 day notice to vacate scheme is really clever and would only come from our Texas Legislature. I am promoting no incumbents this election.
– Walter of Plano, TX

I'm a rancher and rather lay my life on the line then let anyone steal my land and that what it is stealing.
– Erika of san benito, TX

Political theives like you should be rode hard, horsewiped, and put up wet before all the people of this great state. We all know that polliticians rake money off the people, but you give politicians a bad name.
– Ed of Lufkin, TX

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If you, Governor Perry, do not reject the TTC project before election day, this lifelong Republican and his family will be voting for whichever of your opponents is polling the strongest on election day. You are a disgrace to Texas and A&M for trying to give away land belonging to decendents of those who fought for Texas independence.

From David in Louise, TX

LUFKIN DAILY NEWS: The ever-presumptive Mr. Perry

Chris Bell: Failed Candidate Abandoned by his Own.

I met with Chris Bell about a year and a half ago.

Bell’s campaign advisor Jason Stanford asked me to have a meeting with them at the Capitol, to give them insight on Gov. Rick Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) and tolling of roads we’ve already paid for. They asked me to this meeting because I’m the founder of People for Efficient Transportation PAC.

It’s important to say that our grassroots organization has endorsed good Republicans and Democrats over the last 2 years. We’ve never endorsed an independent candidate. We endorse great candidates who will ignore the party machine and vote for the people.

Frankly, I never thought I’d write about his meeting, but Chris Bell has crossed the line one two many times, and it’s time someone set the record straight.

CHRIS BELL: ALOOF AND ARROGANT
Back to the meeting...I was not impressed with Bell, as he spent more time looking at his laptop screen than joining the conversation at our cafeteria capital small table. I remember how shocked I was when our meeting ended - that I'd wished Jason Stanford was the candidate. Chris Bell was aloof, arrogant and far from the friendly Stanford who simply asked questions and actually listened.

My opinion of Chris Bell hasn’t improved over the last year in a half.

He’s failed to show up, after being invited, to any of our important anti-TTC events across the state. Most of these events, especially our largest one, Tunes not Tolls, took place before we made any endorsement decisions. He’s also failed to show up at dozens of TTC hearings that Strayhorn has taken the time to attend across Texas, along with thousand of Texans who fear loosing their homes to Perry’s TTC foreign profit making scheme.

Why has Chris Bell failed to say he’ll stop the TTC?

The democrat party machine will most probably want to move into Perry’s TTC territory and sell Texas for their own gain. This opinion is simply based on what the two parties have been doing since they were born.

Strayhorn will stop Gov. Perry's TTC.

Strayhorn has presented a no land grab alternative to the TTC, using existing right of way. Bell has proposed nothing. Nothing for transportation, or education, or any other issue in Texas. Bell has been too busy scrambling to raise a real campaign war chest over the last many months. And, he has failed at that as well.

CHRIS BELL: SPINNING LIES
Recently Chris Bell has tried telling Texans that Strayhorn was pro-TTC. An outright lie.

Strayhorn has already taken real action while Chris Bell has done nothing. Chris Bell is actually known for nothing.

While Bell has been attacking Strayhorn over the past many months, and ignoring Perry (who has lead in 100% of all the polls), Strayhorn has received the support of 100% of the anti TTC and all “no tolls on roads we’ve already paid for” groups throughout Texas.

Chris Bell’s desperation, fabrications, SMOKE AND MIRRORS become more clear as the election gets closer.

This week he’s beating his chest about being 5 points away from Perry, and claiming Strayhorn’s campaign is dead. The Chris Bell spin fails to be honest with Texans - The poll they brag about is an online interactive poll!

The vast majority of the respondents from online polls are from a "database of individuals who have registered to take part in online polls through solicitations on the company's Web site as well as other Web sites that span the political spectrum". Such online polls work for counting college students who all have access to the internet and check e-mail regularly, but I think I can trust your intelligence to realize the flaws when using such methods on the general population.

And some candidates have actually altered this feeble poll by telling their supporters to go to the poll to deliberately skew the data. Shame on Chris Bell, for desperately trying to trick Texans.

CHRIS BELL: ABANDONED BY HIS OWN
The usual crucial Texas Democratic supporters have abandoned Chris Bell for INDEPENDENT Carole Keeton Strayhorn.

Two of the largest voting blocks in Texas have abandoned Chris Bell, the Texas State Teachers Association & Texas Federation of Teachers. And just as important, the usual big dollar Democrat donors have sent all their millions to Strayhorn.

Why have the usual supporters abandoned Chris Bell? Because they know he just can’t win.

CHRIS BELL: UNFUNDED
The facts is Benjamin Franklin could run for governor and loose, if he didn’t have the millions of needed dollars to communicate with millions of Texans via TV.

Strayhorn, the only woman in the race, has raised over 8 million dollars, Perry has 10 million dollar, Bell has zero million dollars, Kinky has zero million dollars. Oh, and I have the answer to Kinky’s question, “Why the hell not?”. Answer: Kinky is irresponsible.

Tony Sanchez was the last Dem to run 4 years ago. He had 40 million dollars and he still lost.

It’s simple, Chris Bell, one of the four white guys in this Gov. Race, was destined to loose in Texas, and the lack of proper campaign funding gives this old and tired candidate the political dirt nap.

Strayhorn’s TV ads began running a couple weeks ago. The ads were pulled out of respect when Ann Richards passed away. In a few weeks, the real polls, with real numbers will prove that Chris Bell (and his desperate attempt to be a whole candidate) if full of hot air.

CHRIS BELL: DESPERATE
Sure the 10% of hardcore Texas Dems (some of which are my friends) will be stubborn, and vote for Chris Bell while he’s in forth place a month from now, allowing more of a chance of Perry being the longest serving Governor in Texas history.

But the majority of Texans who want to remove Gov. Perry, along with his corporate welfare schemes, will vote for who is number two (2) in the polls October 23rd, when early voting starts.

Common sense says that’ll be Carole Keeton Strayhorn, as she is the only candidate with the millions to compete with Perry via the TV commercial wars taking place now across Texas.

Accident at Toll plaza Incinerates Man - click here - Also, see links at right: Why Tolls are MORE Dangerous than Freeways

US 'toll-road market' "at the tipping point."

Gov. Perry gave me a heart attack in 2003.

Rick Perry makes me sick. I am a Native Texan and for the first time in my 64 years, I have considered moving out of state. He's gone crazy! He gave me a heart attack in 2003 from worry for my home, my escrow went up $2,000.00 a year to cover property taxes and insurance. I almost lost my home of 16 years.

An email today from Richard in Cedar Hill, TX

Taylor Anti-Corridor Meeting Tonight

Taylor Anti-Corridor Meeting Tonight!
Thursday, September 21, 6 p.m.
Taylor, Knights of Columbus Hall

Scheduled to speak are David Stall, co-founder of Corridor Watch and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, "One Tough Grandma."

STATESMAN COMMENTARY (STRAYHORN): Trans-Texas Corridor to benefit special interests, not the public

KXAN Report, "It's my land. It's my private property, and I have a right to know what's in that contract if it's going to affect me."

Waco Tribune-Herald: "Governor wastes our dollars defending secrecy."

Compare This Tollers!

I've been busy with the launch of our new “Perry Gone Wild - Eminent Domain 4 foreign profits” Movie, but here’s a thought about a recent toll article in the Austin Statesman this week.

I’d like to say I enjoyed Ben Wear’s article comparing the gas tax to the toll tax, but I didn’t.

Why? Because he didn’t do the job.

1) The article failed to mention that tolling freeways creates a whole new tax, not to mention the bureaucracy that comes with it. Tolls are a whole new unaccountable double tax, when we already have one form of accountable taxation - the gas tax. We should have and still can index our gas tax, as other states have done.

2) The article also failed to compare the real cost of tolls compared to the additional 5 to 17 cent gas tax needed to replace the tolls. If you pay 20 cents per mile for a toll road x 20 mpg for the average car, you'll pay the equivalent of $4.00 per gallon more for the tolls! Compare that to the 5 to 17 cents per gallon for the additional gas tax.


Which one do you choose?
$4.00 Toll Tax per mile or .05 to .17 cents Gas Tax per mile?

It's simple. Bureaucracy ALWAYS costs more.

TAKE ACTION NOW! Share this funny and informative "Perry's Eminent Domain" video with the people you know ALL ACROSS TEXAS. Nothing else can tell the whole TTC story in only 2 minutes! Use this page to send an automatic message to them now.

"Gov. is pushing the collection of tolls just past the November election because he knows it's going to cost him votes and probably the election."

CBS DALLAS: Texas Toll Roads Causing Political Showdown

Selling the Publics Property! Everything must go!

Public Private Partnership
North American PPP 2006: The Infrastructure Finance Conference

September 19th and 20th. Waldorf Astoria
conference fee: US $1999.00 Per Delegate

READ THE ACTUAL SALES FLYER!
See how Perry's TxDOT sells our Texas Roads,
Land and Water to the special interests! (Copy and paste):
http://www.euromoneyseminars.com/pdfs/ELE795.pdf

Gov. Rick Perry 500,000+ acre TTC Land Grab Upsets Texans!

Make sure you see Gov. Rick Perry's "JibJab" style animated cartoon at www.DumpPerry.com...and pass it on to everyone you know in Texas.

I’ve been reading the emails that go from www.DumpPerry.com to Rick Perry and other Reps. for over 2 years now. It’s never boring.

I thought you’d be interested in what a couple of folks have sent via email to Gov. Perry in just the last hour:

From Tracey in Houston, TX -

My vote coming the Novembers elections will not be for Perry. This will be the 1st year I will not vote for a Republican. My father is probably rolling over in his grave (which you will probably dig up to get your road).

From Bill in Allen, TX -

Of all the eminent domain abominations that have occured across the country, this would be the worst of them all. And ceding control of any US soil to a foreign company in this day is just insanity.

Joe in Austin, TX -

Privatization of toll roads is a very bad idea. Any candidate supporting toll roads will not get my vote.

Doris from Irving, TX -

I am NOT voting for YOU and a lot of other people that are turning America over to FOREIGNERS.

This from David in Adkins, TX:

Perry you should be ashamed to have  a commercial on home land
security. You now want to open a gate to terrorist to just drive into our state
as free as a jay bird can fly into our Texas skies. Terrorism will
drive to  the nuclear plants, electrical plants, Dams, Aquifers,and any
city that they want to reek havoc on. Perry and all others that are for
the TTC you are taking away our freedom. I will vote against you all come
election day, this may be the last free speech that I will probably be
able to express with as long as you money, land grabbers are in our
government. Perry you dont have enough National Guardsmen to secure a
highway this large. You can't even secure our borders now you want to build
a highway and gate to have easier access into our country. I heard
people talk about the clowns that are in the office, now you proved it.

and this from Jack from Dallas, TX -

FUCK RICK PERRY! Tired of hearing about all these complaints and nothing getting done. The only thing the politicians in Austin care about are there fucking bank accounts and not what is right for The Lone Star State. I'm fucking tired of people looking out for themselves when they are supposed to be doing something positive for the state. Someone needs to go in there and regulate (i.e. fire the turds who are fucking everything up).

Federal grand jury investigates PBS&J (Toll Road profiteers) for illegal campaign contributions

KXAN TV: Online Cartoon Attacks Perry's Transportation Plans

Gov. Perry stars in animated cartoon!

Citizen Group Adds to Eminent Domain
Debate in Texas Governor Race with
Online Video Campaign

Austin, Texas -- The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) project championed by Gov. Rick Perry will bring about mass evictions of Texans from their homes, farms, and ranches, according to an online video released by a citizen group.

An official web site promoting the TTC project confirms plans for use of eminent domain to evict families from their homes in record numbers.

"This is the largest land-grab in Texas history. Perry plans to force Texas families from their homes, kicking and screaming, so a foreign company can profit for the next 50 years. And, the details of the land grab are still being withheld from the public, for more than a year." said Sal Costello, founder of People for Efficient Transportation PAC.

A new video has been created by the group to help inform more Texans of the more than half a million acre Perry TTC plan, and it is easily available for viewing online at StopPerryLandGrab.com. The video was also created to shine a light on the secret deal made between Gov. Perry and Cintra behind closed doors that will result in the start of the massive evictions in order to begin construction the TTC, according to Costello.

In an effort to help the public visualize the impact of the TTC, the video shows a cartoon of Perry literally kicking families out of their homes and off their farms and ranches all across Texas.

"Texas families getting kicked out of their homes to benefit foreign construction companies is a horrific lottery with scary odds," said Costello. "They are forcing the TTC on Texans, and depending where they draw the line on the map will determine who gets booted from their homes."

The Texas Dept. of Transportation (TxDOT) has confirmed the plans in the "Myth vs. Reality" section of a web site created to promote the TTC plans (see http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/faqs/myth_vs_reality.aspx).

"The video also focuses on the TTC contract that has been kept a secret for over a year. A lawsuit was filed in June of 2005 to keep the details from being made public. The attorney general ruled the contract must be made public over a year ago. Why is the deal still a secret after a whole year?" asked Costello.

(Cintra Zachry, LP and the TxDOT vs Greg Abbott, District Court of Travis County, GN502207.)

The site does not deny the concerns expressed by the opposition of thousands of angry Texans who have appeared at recent hearings. Instead it provides excuses and justifications for the actions that are planned, and actually confirms those plans.

"Their own web site clearly states that property will be taken through eminent domain, and that they plan to use ‘Quick Take' authorized by HB 3588 to force homeowners out in just 91 days. They even state that they plan to do this just as soon as the environmental process and public hearings are completed," explained Costello.

"They admit that large amounts of farm land will be divided by the TTC, but they excuse it away by saying they will build cross over roads and places for livestock to cross under. They also admit that hundreds of thousands of acres of properties will be taken off the tax roles, costing local governments in lost taxes," he added.

The TTC site responds to concerns that the right of "quick-take" will be used to take private property for the TTC project by explaining how quick-take works. It does not, however, deny that quick-take will be used.

"The state has attempted to create an illusion that there is nothing to worry about and the fears that have been expressed at hearings all over the state are unfounded. In reality a careful reading of their own web site reveals that the state has confirmed all those fears," said Costello.

Contact:
Sal Costello
People for Efficient Transportation PAC
Sal@TexasTollParty.com

Perry victor would get an immediate opportunity to STOP TTC & Freeway to tollway conversion boondoggles.

PERRY TTC WATER GRAB SCHEME...

Gov. Perry and his special interests Trans Texas Corridor pals are now in the process of privatizing our water. They will use the TTC’s mega pipelines to siphon the water, sell it to the highest bidder while Perry’s special interest pals profit.

Like the Regional Mobility Authorities who privatize and toll our local public highways (that have already been paid for) Perry’s unaccountable water bureaucracies siphon, privatize and profit from our water.

Some of the SAME local special interests that have been trying to profit from the Freeway Toll plan in Central Texas are deeply involved in the buying and selling our water for profit scheme, such as Winstead Consulting (Pete Winstead), Bury + Partners and Martin & Salinas Public Affairs.

VIDEO: One Tough Grandma TV spot #2

VIDEO: One Tough Grandma TV spot #1

CHRIS MATTHEWS HARDBALL INTERVIEW: Carole Keeton Strayhorn abandons party to run as Independent candidate for Texas governor

"THIS IS A SHAM" From Statesman Letters to Editor Today

Red-light cameras bad idea

Re: Aug. 28 column by Austin City Council Member Jennifer Kim, "Let's test red-light cameras":

With all due respect to Kim, her elected position and her research, the red-light cameras plan is the dumbest idea I've heard since Gov. Rick Perry's toll-road boondoggle.

The citizens and environment of Austin would be infinitely better served if the city adjusted the lights to correspond with traffic flow instead of using dubious means to fill its coffers.

I cannot disagree more with Kim. Rather than promote safer streets, an increase in idling cars will result in further road rage and reckless driving in an already too-crowded metropolis. Don't we spend enough time in Austin stuck at red lights wasting precious oil and waiting on no one while the ineffective light system keeps us hampered from getting from point A to point B? This is a sham that I'm not buying.

FLETCHER LENZ

UPDATED: Circle of Parasites: Deadbeat Mike Heiligenstein (CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE UPDATE - Mike's new wife is a TxDOT certified contractor!

DALLAS: Perry pushed for land auction

STAR TELEGRAM: Strayhorn says she'd stop tolls on Texas 121 (Perry Double Tax Toll on Dallas Freeway we've already paid for)