Tea Party Touts Ethics, Transparency Reforms
Update, 1:20 p.m.:
A coalition of tea party activists called on the Texas Legislature Tuesday to hold the line on taxes, crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants, make deep spending cuts and enact several ethics and transparency reforms.
The Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee expressed support for Gov. Rick Perry’s so-called “budget compact,” aimed at ending budgetary tricks, limiting spending by Constitutional amendment and stopping any tax increases.
But the conservative group took direct aim at Perry elsewhere in its legislative agenda, entitled “Make Texas Strong.” The activists want the Legislature to zero out the ...
Comments (8)
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Something is clearly amiss. The proposals outlined here seem to actually make sense. Where is the craziness we've all come to expect? Where is the talk of black U.N. helicopters coming to take away our golf courses and federal nullification legislation. The tea party seems to be actually proposing something that is not based upon paranoid lunacy and is not unconstitutional on its face. Could it be that there's an adult somewhere in the background, or could the Mayan Calendar prediction of the end of the world in a few weeks be right?
Matt Taylor
This article has been linked on thejavelina.com
Jason C.N. Smith via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That sounds pretty good except to the extent they try to deny someone a pension they've earned.
Susie Martinez-Dominguez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Whose ethics?
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
For PR purposes,
"fewer racist signs at AstroTurf rallies, and if not possible, fewer spelling mistakes"
should be first on their priority
Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm glad for ethics disclosure... Now we can learn how much money David Koch and Charles Koch are funding the Tea Party with...
Carol Ward via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No double dipping? How 'bout starting with Gov. Perry?
Corena White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nice graphic. I doubt term limits will pass.