Give your representatives a piece of your mind. Tell 'em to head off the stampede in the Legislature to convert our highways and byways to tollways
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Contact your representatives here:
Governor Rick Perry: http://www2.governor.state.tx.us/contact/
Senate, District 25: (State Sen. Jeff Wentworth): http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/Members.htm
House of Representatives, District 45: (State Rep. Patrick Rose): http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/welcome.php
1) KILL SB 220! Contact your Senator NOW!
Under the guise of protecting taxpayers from freeway to tollway conversions, Senator Robert Nichols authored a bill, SB 220, that would actually LEGALIZE taking FREEways and converting them into tollways (like on parts of 281, 1604 in San Antonio and on 290 in Austin, etc.)! He refused to take sections 1, 3, & 5 out of the bill (which is the disastrous language that MUST be removed) in committee and now the bill is being FAST TRACKED to a floor vote ANY DAY! We want the house version of the bill to become law, Rep. David Leibowitz' bill, HB 13.
Call/write your Senator and ask him/her to VOTE NO on SB 220! Tell them we want the House version to become law.
2) Register in favor of HB 2557
Representative Linda Harper-Brown ( watch her defend taxpayers in this video ) authored this bill to revoke a TxDOT Minute Order that requires ALL new capacity to Texas highways be studied for tolls FIRST. TxDOT's Minute Order is not only bad for taxpayers, it violates FEDERAL LAW (NEPA). HB 2557 will be heard in the House Transportation Committee Tuesday.
Read the bill here: HB 2557
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