A message from David Van Os

[Vincardog]

Democrat
A REAL Democrat, Fighting for the People!
419 Burr Road
San Antonio, TX 78209

www.VanOsForTexasAG.com

For Texas

Attorney General
Did you know that the Texas Constitution charges the Attorney General with a special duty to protect the people against corporations?

Indeed it does. Article 4, Section 22 of our Constitution provides that the Attorney General “shall especially inquire into the charter rights of all private corporations,” and that, “He shall, whenever sufficient cause exists, seek a judicial forfeiture of such charters.”

According to the Interpretive Commentary accompanying the current edition of Vernon’s Texas Constitution Annotated, “Such a duty was placed on him by the framers because of strong prejudice and distrust which existed at the time against corporations. Such was based to a large extent on a fear of monopolies, a fear of unfair competition, and a fear that there would be a concentration of economic power in the hands of a few.”

Distrust of private corporations, fear of monopolies, fear of unfair competition, and fear of concentration of economic power are not new fears. They were guiding principles for the rugged men and women who gave birth to Texas.

In 2004, I ran for a seat on the Texas Supreme Court because I wanted to restore the highest court of Texas to the people from the corporations and insurance companies to which it now belongs, and because I wanted to restore the Constitutional checks and balances that protect the rights and liberties of the people of Texas. In 2006, I shall run for the office of Texas Attorney General in order to carry on the same fight - to save the Constitutional checks and balances that protect the people's liberties; and to ensure that Texas belongs to the people as our Constitution intended, instead of to the corporations and insurance companies to whom our state has been handed by servants of greed.

The Center for Economic Justice and Texas Watch reported that in 2004, Texans were overcharged by four billion dollars on homeowners and auto insurance policies, overpaying avaricious insurance companies by an average of $600 per home insured and by $200 per vehicle insured. “Insurers Price Gouge Texas Policyholders By $4 Billion in 2004,” A Report by the Center for Economic Justice and Texas Watch, March 31, 2005.

When I take office as Attorney General of Texas, the corporate and insurance price gougers and predators will be served immediate notice: I am going to fight them tooth and nail on behalf of the people of this state, and when I am done, Texas will not be a safe place for them and their kind. Time is overdue for justice for the people of Texas.

David Van Os