INSTEAD of speaking of contenders
for Judge ECKELS' job, I'd like to speak of the likely
contenders bidding for County Judge ECKELS' favors in the
private sector (read privatize here). The local temptations from
a New York bank could be GOLDMAN SACHS or UBS and the
international bidders could be MACQUARIE or CINTRA FERROVIAL.
That is my private opinion and tendered here without any
expectation of gilt (sp., guilt?) or power.
The doors that swing between government
and the privatized, er private, sector are made of solid gold
and impart seductive powers. The first
assignment for MR. ECKELS after hitting the "open road" might be
sitting down with MARY PETERS, that U.S. DOT transportation
magician, to "fast track" the TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR I-69 into the
deep pockets of his new employer. Removing the
legal obstacles might require assistance from DOT General Legal
Counsel & "a frequent swinging door professional", DAVID JAMES
GRIBBIN, IV. Giving up his Directorship of Macquarie Holdings,
the lure of "public service" returned Gribbin to the fold. Yes,
THAT MACQUARIE (MIG, Media, etc.).
Governor PERRY has suggested my "public service" might
come as a result of Eminent Domain on TTC -69.
What do you think?
Am I one of the "kooks" TxDOT's Good Will Ambassador RIC
WILLIAMSON says question Texas Transportation visions &
policies?
martha in waller county (but
only temporarily IF PERRYonistas have their way)
My Comment Preview:
Gov.39% RICK PERRY's
transportation visions of "sugar plumbs" & RIC WILLIAMSON's Atilla
the Hun tactics of "MY WAY or the delapidated highways"
have inspired more than a million and a half
of our state taxes to be funneled quietly into the deep pockets of
the media amplified "professional propaganda machines" to "counter"
the "KOOKY" 61% of the voters. KOOK
Demographics MUST BE commanding a GROWING "share".
An INDEPENDENT transportation SURVEY by "KOOK E. Transportation
TRENDS" of the I-35 congestion in Austin recently revealed the
culprit at the exits near the CAPITOL:
the focal point of the "congestion" is found
on the roads to the STATE TROUGH taken by the special interest
privateers & their elected state partners!
That may also account for the difficulty of the "KOOKS" in paying
the parking fees in the "Left Field" Lot and merging onto the
recently narrowed high road lane to reach the CAPITOL and be
"heard". It is reported by a "far out" blogger that
they have "appropriated $1000. under suspicious circumstances" to
purchase & stockpile "low tech cardboard megaphones" to blast the
airwaves on the CAPITOL steps
(left side) on TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY on FRIDAY, MARCH 2.
LEGE traffic will probably be "outbound" and asleep at the
wheel both Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
The following
VALENTINE was posted on an Austin blog.
PROCEED WITH CAUTION as this may cause YOU to "change lanes"!
...martha estes (possibly only temporarily located on a ranch in
Waller County)
YIELD to
>>>>> Eileen Welsome>>>
TXDOT BUSTED TRYING to BUY
LOVE
February 14th, 2007
By: Eileen Welsome
The Texas Department of
Transportation has hit another rough patch in the road. In a memo to
state Sen. Royce West, a Dallas Democrat, the Legislative Budget
Board says TXDOT violated state law by failing to report that it
awarded a contract for more than $1 million to the Rodman Group, a
Washington, D.C. lobbying firm. (The Rodman Group also received
almost $500,000 more that was to be split among four subcontractors,
including Garry Mauro, a Democrat and former Texas Land
Commissioner, ViaNovo, Chad Bradley & Associates and the Federalist
Group.) West and other senators questioned TXDOT officials
extensively about the expenditures at a recent Senate Finance
Committee hearing. Coby Chase, director of TXDOT’s government and
business enterprises division, said the department hired the
lobbyists because of the strong negative reaction it is receiving on
its Trans-Texas Corridor project, a network of super-highways which
will contain multiple lanes for trucks, cars, trains, and a swath of
land for cable, pipelines and underground utilities. (With all that
infrastructure, critics complain the TTC will make a heck of a
target for terrorists, not to mention a fiery collision). Chase said
the TTC, which will be one of the largest construction projects on
the planet, has also required one of the world’s “largest public
hearing processes.” He seemed genuinely puzzled by the
overwhelmingly negative response to the department’s plan, which
reveals a lot about the parallel universe in which TXDOT apparently
lives. “It left a lot of scars,” confessed Chase. Well, sniffed one
senator, “if you’re outreach leaves a lot of scars, then it hasn’t
been efficient.” Source:
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=84
Posted by
martha in waller county
at February 17, 2007 11:52 AM
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