We were on a conference call from D.C. earlier and have confirmed that the Pelosi version of Healtcare with Abortion is scheduled for a VOTE TOMORROW MORNING!!!
Call your Representative right now. It’s not too late for you to help defeat nationalized healthcare with taxpayer funded abortion.
Below are three Texas Representatives who we believe are undecided on healthcare right now. If you live in their district, turn up the heat and ask them to vote against the bill! Forward this to your friends who live in their district and ask them to call now!
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D- district includes east of San Antonio to the southern border) – 202-225-1640 Congressman Chet Edwards (D- district stretches from south of Fort Worth through Waco to Bryan/College Station) – 202-225-6105 Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D- district includes the Greater San Antonio area and stretches west to El Paso) – 202-225-4511
The Travis County Health District will meet next week, Wednesday, Nov. 12th to discuss and possibly vote on $450,000 of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions. See more details from the last hearing on this by clicking here.
STAND WITH US & Call the Travis County Health District (512-978-8000) and tell them you don’t want your tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions and that you want this issue to be discussed in open view by the public! If you live in the Travis County area or know people that do, PLEASE alert them to this problem! They are likely to vote next week and you can rest assured they are being heavily influenced by the abortion lobbyists.
Planned Parenthood had two persons there testifying IN FAVOR of tax dollars being used for abortions.
Email us at legislative@freemarket.org is you would like to come to the hearing next week. We need your local support!
All Constitutional Amendments are pass, with Prop 1 (city/county bond for military buffer areas) and Prop 4 (government fund for some Texas universities) with the smallest margin of “victory”, 55-45 and 57-43, respectively.
Statewide voter turnout for the Constitutional Amendments was about 8 % of registered voters. That’s extremely low.
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We testified last week against Travis County’s efforts last week to use $450,000 of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions. Their response by the Travis County Health District after ours and the testimony of many others, was to run and hide in “executive session”, which means they discussed their intentions on this issue behind closed doors.Is this what the future of healthcare is going to look like? Bureaucrats behind closed doors wasting our tax dollars on life destroying practices? What an outrage.
STAND WITH US & Call the Travis County Health District (512-978-8000) and tell them you don’t want your tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions and that you want this issue to be discussed in open view by the public! They have not yet voted and you can rest assured they are being heavily influenced by the abortion lobbyists.
Planned Parenthood had two persons there testifying IN FAVOR of tax dollars being used for abortions.
As many of you know, there are 11 Texas Constitutional Amendments on the ballot. Early voting continues until October 30th with the general election day on Nov. 3rd.
Unfortunately, many emails are being circulated with false information that certain propositions in the 2009 Texas Constitutional Amendments election would create a new state tax, by Propositions 2, 3 and 5. However, Propositions 2, 3, and 5 relate to proposed reform of property tax and appraisal standards, and DO NOT create a new state tax.
Propostion #2 further explained: currently, a homeowner is entilted to claim one home as a “residence homestead.” However, the law allows property appraisers for tax purposes, to appraise your “homestead” at a value that could be higher than the value of the home, for just basically being used as a home, to live in. This is commonly called the “highest and best use” practice. The legislature explained it this way “ ”This widely accepted standard allows homes to be valued based on the property’s potential use rather than the property’s current use.” This means the “homestead” value could be affected by surrounding commericial development which increases the value of the “homestead” if were to be used for commericial development instead of as a homestead. However, this means it is likely that tax revenues will drop for the taxing entity if the homestead values are not appraised at a higher value.
Proposition #3 further explained: Currently property tax appraisals practices are determined by their local county, and can vary widely across the state, with similar property being appraised by different standards because they are located in different parts of the state. Their is no direct oversight or enforcement powers of the state to ensure uniform, consistent appraisal practices statewide. This amendment would allow the state to have such authority.
Proposition #4 further explained: Texas currently has 3 “tier-one” schools. UT-Austin, Texas A & M, and Rice. A “tier-one” school is is used to describe the status associated with high-performing research universities. Some attributes of these institutions include membership in the American Association of Universities; at least $100 million in federal research grants annually; the size of endowments; the quality of the faculty and the number of faculty with membership in one of the national academies; the number of faculty awards; the number of doctorates awarded; and selective admissions”, according to the Texas House Research Organization (HRO).
Just below that are schools considered to be next in line to be a “tier-one” university, which are considered “emerging research universities.” They are: Texas Tech, UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, UT-El Paso, UT-San Antonio, University of Houston, and University of North Texas, according to the HRO.
So, proposition #4 allows separate funding to be used to help only these 7 universities above to get closer to achieving “tier-one”status. Some believe that having more “tier-one” universities will attract more talented and productive workers to Texas. Others believe this approach discourages reliance on private funding and increases the reliance on taxpayers for such efforts.
Early Voting has already begun and ends October 30th. IF you miss early voting, the final election day is Tuesday, November 3rd.
Every registered voter in Texas can vote for or against these proposed constitutional amendments!! If these measures pass, the Texas Constitution will be amended to add the new language and can only be changed by a subsequent constitutional amendment that passed the Texas House and Senate and then is placed on the ballot for Texas voters and is approved by a simple majority of those that cast a ballot.
That means there are very close to permanent, if they pass. The typical turnout for a Texas Constitutional Amendment election is between 10-15%.
Send questions to Jonathan Saenz, our Director of Legislative Affairs in Austin at legislative@freemarket.org
Please exercise your right to vote and let your voice be heard!!
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