At Capitol, Tea Party Slams State Transportation Plans

[TexasTowelie]

With large-scale financing plans for transportation and water in the air, Tea Party activists cracked the whip at a Capitol news conference Monday, strongly criticizing officeholders' proposals for those and other projects.

Three days after Gov. Rick Perry raised the possibility of a number of new revenue streams for transportation funding, including the issuing of 100-year bonds to pay for road construction, members of Texas Tea Parties gathered to warn legislators about caving on conservative principles.

“We have to ask the question,” said JoAnn Fleming, the executive director of Grassroots America and adviser to the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee. “After this session, will Texas be stronger? Or will Texas be on a glide path to Washington, D.C.?

She told reporters that the Texas Tea Party sees the issue in stark terms and is prepared to mobilize against transportation revenue increases. Fleming called on legislators to “stop the borrow-and-spend practices in Texas government,” stop diverting money from constitutionally mandated sources of funding, and “stop digging holes” at a time when many Texas pension funds find themselves in serious financial trouble.

More at http://www.texastribune.org/2013/04/15/tea-party-slams-state-transportation-plans-cap/ .

[denverbill]

1. Wow. 100 year bonds on road that will probably have a 20 year lifespan?

Talk about sticking it to your grandchildren.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. If We Follow The Teabaggers' Glidepath, We'll Be On Our Way To

If we Texans follow the Teabaggers' glidepath, we'll be well on our way to becoming like a typical debt-ridden third-world country riven by class barriers, a failing education system, a crumbling infrastructure that fell apart because there wasn't enough money to fix it, and billions of dollars more in debt.