“Central Texas and the Hill Country are a great place to call home, and it’s important that we maintain a strong local economy and are good stewards of the area’s natural resources so that we can continue to sustain this growth.” -- State Rep Jason Isaac
Editor's note: Rep. Isaac released his re-election announcement (below, edited for length) in an email to constituents Tuesday Nov. 29. (See his website for more info.) Isaac has no known challengers as of now. Filing deadline for state and local office candidates is Dec. 15.
Isaac probably received more than the normal local coverage of his votes and actions in the last legislative session than past state reps representing Hays County. So more voters should know by now that Isaac is a no-holds-barred social conservative (sonogram/abortion bill and voter ID), as well as a no-new-taxes pledge signer. Recall he voted for $4 billion in state education cuts and publicly opposed the Dripping Springs ISD tax increase measure in last month's election.
In his re-election announcement Tuesday, Isaac also makes it clear he will be an advocate for the "club for growth" (our phrase) in Hays and Blanco counties. Being "good stewards of the area's natural resources so that we can continue to sustain this growth" is nice sounding campaign speak which means more developer-friendly, taxpayer-subsidized bills filed in the Texas Lege. Voters and constituents should not let Isaac off lightly in the run-up to the election. He's got a lot of splanin' to do of exactly what his agendas will be next session under social engineering, growth & development, education and natural resources.
Send your comments and questions to roundup.editor@gmail.com, to Mr. Isaac at Jason.Isaac@house.state.tx.us, or click on the "comments" at the bottom of the story
Jason and Carrie IsaacAUSTIN, TX – Yesterday, Rep. Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) filed for re-election to serve House District 45 in the Texas Legislature.
Rep. Isaac stated, “Now more than ever, Texans need a strong conservative voice in Austin, and I am grateful that my constituents have allowed me to represent them at the Capitol. It is my hope that I can continue my efforts to stand up for our families and protect our economy during the next legislative session.”
Under the new map, House District 45 loses Caldwell county and will consist only of Blanco and Hays counties. Because of the population in this area, the district is unlikely to change even amidst the current challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Although I will no longer have the privilege of representing the people of Caldwell, this change illustrates the incredible growth that we are experiencing in our region,” Rep. Isaac said. “Central Texas and the Hill Country are a great place to call home, and it’s important that we maintain a strong local economy and are good stewards of the area’s natural resources so that we can continue to sustain this growth.”
Rep. Isaac is a small business owner who lives in Dripping Springs (Belterra subdivision) with his wife, Carrie, and their two boys, who attend public schools in the area.
15 comments:
Thank you for taking a stance against the attempts by the DSISD to increase property taxes on those of us deemed "second class citizens" in these county mandated "planned communities". We already bear the brunt of the tax burden in this county.
Thank you also for protecting property rights of landowners to access the groundwater beneath their own property. Wentworth, unfortunately is more than willing to divert water from the property owners here for the benefit of constituents elsewhere under the pretext of "conservation". It was never about conservation - only about who received the economic benefit of the water.
Wentworth's time to go passed many years ago. He's not going to give up a bird in the hand, however, until he gets a cush privileged state position with A&M or some other institution for the rest of his life. Wentworth will not be getting my vote. Will someone else be running against him (party affiliation irrelevant)?
Isaac will definitely get my vote for another term in the House. I hope he will continue to remember and represent the constituents here.
Rep. Isaac stated:
"Now more than ever, Texans need a strong conservative voice in Austin, and I am grateful that my constituents have allowed me to represent them at the Capitol. It is my hope that I can continue my efforts to stand up for our families and protect our economy during the next legislative session.”
By "strong conservative" I think Isaac really means a big government social conservative who forces his "family values" on women and their husbands or mates as part of his anti-abortion, anti-family planning "conservative" responsibility.
OK, what about supporting laws that curtail the unfettered ownership of guns that kill minority children in the inner cities?
Additionally, I'm sure Isaac has "conservative" disdain for the government welfare state that must pay for the child born to a mother who cannot afford to raise a child without government assistance.
So with that logic, doesn't an unwanted child further necessitate yet another "big government" entitlement program?
In other words, the baby must be protected from the world before it is born, but once born, the baby is on its own.
That is, until a child gets to the age where it can go off to fight and die in wars. Then all of a sudden children are important again.
Or by "conservative" Isaac must mean that it is OK to cut funding for public schools as part of the State's austerity efforts while at the same time supporting various special interest influenced tax avoidance subsidies to the private sector in Texas, who for all practical purposes owns the Texas Legislature politicians in Austin with their campaign finance funding money.
So, in the final analysis, let me see if I can get this all straight.
A government-mandated program like the mandatory sonogram program that is supposed to protect a child before it is born is GOOD.
But programs that protect a child after it is born - such as 1) assistance to poor families, 2) food stamps, 3) funding for Planned Parenthood - which reduces the real need for abortions and mandatory sonograms, 4) public school funding for education - that would help keep children out of poverty and less dependent on government assistance, 5) gun laws that would help curtail children getting killed during drive by shootings in the Texas inner cities, and 6) government subsidies for the funding for Texas specific clean energy that would wean us from our dependence on foreign oil - which is a direct cause of our current wars and the terrorism against us - are BAD?
Isaac clearly represents just too much hypocrisy and very weak eocnomic problem solving from any politician I will support.
Isaac got my vote last time around, when I ignorantly believed that he was a real small government conservative.
I won't get fooled a second time.
Isaac's idea of "conservative" will actually make government bigger in the long run.
Unfortunately, he just doesn't get it. But more sadly, neither does the voters who will probably re-elect him.
If Rocky blames gun ownership on the killing of inner city minority children, then I guess I should blame his keyboard for the long winded rants he continues to spew about Jason Isaac.
Yes, Mexico's restrictive gun laws sure seem to be working well south of the border.
Rocky said:
OK, what about supporting laws that curtail the unfettered ownership of guns that kill minority children in the inner cities?
Uh, didn't know you thought this was such a problem in Wimberley/Woodcreek there Rocky. I guess I haven't seen many minorities in Wimberley....is this why?
Obviously Nacho and the last Anonymous can't think "policy" beyond their own front porch.
Isaac's votes affect all of Texas, because he votes as a legislative entity that implements government policies for everyone, not just Hays County.
Isaac could be a forward thinking conservative that votes for the benefit of all Texans, as is his macro political responsibility. Unfortunately he does not have those faculties.
And naturally I get attacked for my reference to gun policy, rather than my ACCURATE assessment of Isaac's short-sighted and ultimately ineffective larger issue mindset.
And of course Nacho, like Isaac, doesn't get it, as he states:
"Mexico's restrictive gun laws sure seem to be working well south of the border."
This thinking is ignorant of the facts.
It is a known fact Mexico's drug cartels buy their assault weapons in the United States, not in Mexico where the guns laws exists.
Next!
To Anonymous, 4:51 PM:
Rocky was talking about minority chilren in the central core ("INNER city) of LARGE Texas cities). I don't think Wimberley falls under that definition, bud.
Like Rocky, I voted for Jason Isaac last time, thinking he would be less hooked up with land developers than Patrick Rose was. But Isaac turned out to be a fast learner in that department.
I won't vote for him again, either.
Filing has begun of candidates for elective offices. Where online can we find who has filed -- so far-- for various positions?
@Anonymous "bud", 12/01/2011 6:27 PM who said:
Rocky was talking about minority chilren in the central core ("INNER city) of LARGE Texas cities). I don't think Wimberley falls under that definition, bud.
Rocky's rant feigning concern for minority children in other cities is hypocritical at best. Wimberley is one of the whitest cities in Texas. At 88% white population, that's higher than the U.S. as a whole and much, much higher than Texas as a whole. No one needs to apologize for pointing out the hypocrisy-laden hot air blowing out of Wimberley.
Instead of whining about everyone else's backyard, maybe Borschert could address the problems in his own. You've got plenty of crime and corruption right there in Wimberley and the area is full of loud-mouthed hypocrites.
Why do you think the minority population is so low in Wimberley? It isn't because of guns.
Let's look at some of the economic offenses over there. Let's see, take the millions of dollars spent for the personal benefit of Baker and his clan at WVWA. The first few million got Baker out of a loan he made with affiliates of the Mitchell family. The second 1.7 million got him out of a lawsuit that he provoked. And then there is the annual "maintenance" contract that taxpayers are being forced to subsidize his organization with. After paying millions of dollars the county lets Baker & clan's organization keep title to a large part of the property. The county winds up with....well gee, Conley was so anxious to buy the votes of Baker's clan that the transaction was rushed through without any surveys being done.
Then there is Rocky's WPOA organization which is foreclosing or threatening to foreclose to gift its involuntary members' property over to the Baker clan. All this is supposedly under the pretext of "conservation" of groundwater for the benefit of "Blue Hole" and "Jacobs Well" - at least that's the story from the Baker clan and the local politicos in Wimberley. Yet everyone knew that the Jacobs Well hole-in-the ground was nothing but an overflow valve and when there wasn't an over-abundance of water, the overflow would not be flowing - but the county pays a premium for it anyone.
Then after county taxpayers have been put into debt by local government under the pretext of "conserving groundwater" (i.e., as opposed to inflating Baker's bottom line), Wimberley is dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of treated, drinkable, "conserved" groundwater on the ground purely to create the facade of an oasis that doesn't really exist.
Sorry, but I find Rocky's concerns about the rest of the world to be an exercise in ranting. If he isn't going to do something about what's happening in his own backyard - well, it's pretty clear he isn't really interested in trying to change anything anywhere else either.
Anyone know where I can send 'my 2 cents' donation to Isaac?
Anonymous says:
"Instead of whining about everyone else's backyard, maybe Borschert could address the problems in his own. You've got plenty of crime and corruption right there in Wimberley and the area is full of loud-mouthed hypocrites."
By "plenty of crime and corruption right here in Wimberley" do you mean the overzealous floodlighs the Houston transplants impose on the rural landscape?
Or do you mean "my WPOA" and the oh so dangerous and ruthless boogeymen at WVWA and CARD?
Hey, if you can show me PROOF - other than your own very suspect accusations - that there is clear malfeasance by those ORGs - AND you can get local, county or state government attorneys to agree with you and initiate legal action for racketeering or whatever "crimes' you say they are purportedly engaging in, you will have my financial and personal support.
Until then, and the onus is now on you to be get the legal proof, you are the same whiner and hypocrite you accuse me of being (which puts you in pretty good company actually).
In other words, you show me yours - and I will show you mine.
Get him Rocky!
Here are some candidates who have either filed or announced to run for various positions:
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE - District 25
Lloyd Doggett (D)
Donna Campbell (R)
Wes Riddle (R)
Bill Burch (R)
Michael Williams (R)
U.S. SENATOR
David Dewhurst
Ted Cruz
Tom Leppert
Ric Sanchez
Stanley Garza
STATE REPRESENTATIVE - District 45
Jason Isaac (R)
STATE SENATOR - District 25
Jeff Wentworth
HAYS COUNTY COMMISSIONER - Pct. 3
Sam Brannon (R)
Will Conley (R)
TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR
Luanne Caraway
SHERIFF
Gary Cutler
CONSTABLE - Precinct 3
Darrell Ayres
CONSTABLE - Precinct 4
Ron Hood
CONSTABLE - Precinct 5
Matt Mancillas
@ Rocky who said:
By "plenty of crime and corruption right here in Wimberley" do you mean the overzealous floodlighs the Houston transplants impose on the rural landscape?
Look who's talking - a part-time resident from out of state. Last time I looked, possession and use of a floodlight wasn't a crime. I suspect that former Houstonians aren't the only smart people in the area who have recognized they need to watch out for the wackos in Wimberley.
Or do you mean "my WPOA" and the oh so dangerous and ruthless boogeymen at WVWA and CARD?
CARD's Jim McMeans tells lots of lies but his group hasn't received millions of dollars from the county coffers. He's mostly about denying property rights to people that aren't here yet while creating special exceptions for himself. WVWA and WPOA on the other hand have a lot of rotten history together.
Hey, if you can show me PROOF - other than your own very suspect accusations - that there is clear malfeasance by those ORGs - AND you can get local, county or state government attorneys to agree with you and initiate legal action for racketeering or whatever "crimes' you say they are purportedly engaging in, you will have my financial and personal support.
How generous of you to want to "join" after all the work has been done. Rocky, your "personal support" after-the-fact is something that isn't particularly appealing and frankly quite irrelevant. When you become of victim of the WPOA maybe you'll realize what a problem the WPOA and WVWA are. When McMeans is trying to deny water to your subdivision (as he recently tried to do for 3 established Driftwood subdivisions), then maybe you'll also understand the games that McMeans wants to play with your home and the homes of all your neighbors for his ego. You might want to at least show up to an HTGCD meeting - there is one in Wimberley this Thursday evening (12/15/2011 )
WPOA and WVWA's dealings are recorded at the Hays County Clerk's office. As to the crooked land deals around the Jacobs Well area, one cannot expect the DA to investigate since the DA was involved in the deal to begin with. In fact the DA did a better job representing the Baker clan than the DA did of representing the county taxpayers. The specific exclusion of all the developer water tap rights from the deal illustrated that it wasn't about conserving water. The failure to survey the property, the way-above-market financing, and the "conservation easement" that destroyed all value in the property into perpetuity to the detriment of the county taxpayers should raise questions in many taxpayers' minds about whose interest your county commissioner and DA were acting in.
The Democrat who has filed to run against Jason Isaac in Texas House District 45 is John Adams. I know nothing about him.
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