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Texas Politics: Time to act with intelligence and speed

19 March 2009 at 5:31:21 AM

pstern

Legislators need to "get on the ball"

Dear Lawmakers:

The Texas community needs positive change. Decade-long political games and maneuvering have no place in today's government. There are long-time issues still requiring urgent resolution, but the Senate and House are bogged-down in another dimension.

On behalf of hard-working and hardly-working Texans and their families, I am requesting that you shelve the typical power & control issues and work more expediently in the best interests of the majority who voted you your jobs.

Some urgent issues:

Stop the diversion of our tax dollars to other interests
Approve the bill providing 100% Disabled Veterans with property tax exemptions
Work quickly to find alternate and across-the-board sources to finance public education
Ensure a high quality of education for all Texas children [regulate higher education]
Provide real property tax relief to all Texas homeowners [perhaps by increasing exemptions?]
Rescind deregulation of various industries [electricity, higher education, communication, etc.], providing some needed oversight
Work to lower the premiums of doubled home insurance without decreasing coverage [Texas is #1 in the nation in high premiums]
Revamp and provide more oversight to TxDOT
Search for alternate and more cost-effective methods to tolling roadways
Work with the health care industry to ensure that all Texans and their children are covered affordably
Provide jobs for any Texan who wants one [provide initiatives for companies to hire, also public works projects]
Continue to cut waste in government
Increase our sensitivity to our environment and work toward energy independence re: green methods
Work to increase and maintain our clean water levels
Provide judges with the means to accelerate court cases intelligently and prevent further overcrowding of our penal systems
Stop diverting state taxes, fees and penalties onto local government
Develop legislation to permit local governments more control over their own issues, priorities and revenue sources with oversight by residents
Elect an independent commission to redistrict every 10 years
Provide the legislation to recall the governor if needed
Enable legislation for a gubernatorial runoff if a candidate wins with less than 50% of the total votes
Provide more visibility and accessibility for Texans to communicate with their lawmakers
Develop a law to stop lobbying inside the Capitol during legislative sessions
Place a reasonable limit on campaign contributions and perks.

As may be seen by the partial list of urgent issues, there is much for lawmakers to do during this session; consequently, there is no time to waste over microscopic issues and/or power & control politics.

Texans require that legislators act intelligently and expediently in resolving some of the long-term issues that have become critical to Texans and their families.

The time to act is now. It is not the time to get bogged-down in unnecessary political and special interest machinery.

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