The Polling Center: First Take on the February 2010 Results | 2/12/10
The University of Texas / Texas Tribune poll, conducted from February 1-7, shows Gov. Rick Perry holding a 24-point lead over U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest, with Debra Medina posing a surprisingly strong challenge to Hutchison for second place. Perry garnered 45% of the vote, Hutchison 21%, Debra Medina 19%, with 16% undecided. The sample of 366 Republican primary voters has a margin of error of +/- 5.12 percentage points.
In the Democratic primary, former Houston Mayor Bill White has a 48%-14% advantage over businessman Farouk Shami. Thirty-eight percent of the Democratic sampled ...
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Ouija wrote on 2/4/2010 10:24 a.m.
Interesting story, but it totally ignored the issue of the statewide road-building lobby, construction empires such as Zachry, the engineers, and legal, bond and finance firms.
The story mentioned that some employees were aghast at the idea that meetings would be open to the public, when Meadows suggested the agency conduct day-long workshops to explain its business and plans in detail. Hint: perhaps they weren't aghast only because of their insulated nature within the agency, it's an insulated nature within the "industry" itself. Transparency means lower costs, lower bids and that's bad for the businesses who recycle agency employees into their roster once they retire.
Left hand, meet right hand. Transparency within TxDOT threatens the end of a long, deep money trench. Sure, more money is needed for roads, but how much? If you ask an alcoholic how much wine we need for next week's party, he'll give you a different number than the average person.