THE ILLUSION OF LOCAL CONTROL

Infowars.com | September 10, 2007
Bob Dacy

COMMENT:

The following is the text of a speech I plan to give at the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) public hearing to be held September 10th at 6pm at the State Capitol Building in Austin.

I may not be allowed to speak, because 5 minutes after they confirmed me as speaker #2 at “Citizens Communications,” they called me up to tell me that, unlike the other times, there was not going to be a “Citizens Communications” at this event.

Texas is the front line in the battle to stop the Trans-Texas -Corridor section of the proposed NAFTA superhighway, and Austin is the site of the current skirmish of that battle. These local CAMPO officials are attempting to authorize the tolling of existing highways in the Austin area, over the vigorous objections of just about all of their citizenry. The outcome of this hearing is of vital importance to everyone in America.

My name is Bob Dacy. I am the host of the Simple Truth TV news/talk show here in Austin and am a freelance writer for the New American Magazine. This past July, I, along with my colleague, Kelly Taylor, attended the Texas transportation forum put on by TXDOT at the Hilton.

TXDOT, of course, is your CAMPO partner. while at the conference, I discovered the document “Forward Momentum,” where TXDOT reveals its plan to toll existing interstate highways in Texas. I posted the story on the New American website in early august, and appeared on the Alex Jones Show twice to reveal all the bloody details to a nationwide audience. Alex even scanned parts of the document and put it up on the web. I sent the story to Sal Costello and he posted the New American story on his website. In late August, WOAL news in San Antonio picked up the story and took it into the mainstream. The “stuff” hit the fan. Now TXDOT is faced with explaining why they have been lying to us all these years, just as they are launching their PR campaign to tell us how great toll roads are.

I bring this up because TXDOT is your CAMPO partner, and because mygrandfather, Joe Dacy, always told me you were known by the company you keep. What he actually said was “ if you play with ‘stuff,’ you get some on you.”

TXDOT sent their spokesman, Chris Lippincott, out to do damage control. he proclaimed that tolling local segments of interstate highways would not occur without approval of local officials. Lippincott, by the way, is the same individual who denied press credentials to my TV show when we applied for credentials to cover the conference as local TV news. Kelly and I got in as freelancers for the New American. The way things turned out, he should have tried harder to keep us out.

The point is…we, the people of the capital area, have told you repeatedly and by overwhelming margins, that we do not want you to approve tolling existing right of way. you people are elected officials. We put you in those chairs. If you refuse to listen to us, “local control” is an illusion, and TXDOT’s assurances will be exposed as yet another TXDOT lie.

You tell us we have no choice, that Federal money is drying up. I am telling you the Feds are behind all of this, so they can divert funds to their high priority projects, the North-South routes of the Trans-Texas Corridor and the NAFTA Superhighway. Mike Krusee is fully aware of this and is in agreement. there is no money for our roads, but just watch them use our money to build Mexican roads to link up to the TTC.

If you won’t listen to us, then listen to what is best for your own political skins. If you vote to toll these roads, people like Sal Costello will do a “Karen Sonleitner” on you. We will vote you out of office. You will all become political pariahs in Texas, you will not even be able to run for dogcatcher.

Thank you

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