The Dragon Lady Is Back

Just when we thought we’d heard the last out of Arlene Wohlgemuth for all eternity, she shows up…again.

This time, she’s teamed up with another ex-legislator—Talmadge Heflin (who is running against Hubert Vo in HD 149 this year after being defeated last cycle)—to raise funds for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a think think founded by James Leininger.

Regardless of whether or not you believe that “Republicans” an “think” belong together in the same sentence, you can probably guess what, according to Capitol Inside (sorry, sub. required) they are using as their battle cry to raise money.

Yep. You guessed it. The woman who left CHIPs on life support believes that the state is spending too much money.

In the fund-raising letter the pair claim that TPPF must raise $292,700 this year:

“to prove to policymakers that OUT OF CONTROL spending doesn’t have to be the rule!”

Does anyone else think the song “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette should be playing right about now? Of course, lobbyists like The Dragon Lady talking about “out of control spending” is as ironic as a fly in your chardonnay. She also mentions “bloated budgets and reckless spending.” Silly me, I thought lobbyists made their livings off of bloated budgets and reckless spending.
Heflin, whose website shows you what kind of campaign he’s running to unseat Vo, is actually on the TPPF payroll warns about how

“the forces arrayed against us grow more powerful each year. These days there is a great incentive to spend whatever comes in; and there is always `something else’ to spend tax dollars on.”

I’m sorry. Are we talking about state spending or Armageddon? I get a little confused some times.

Here’s some more from Capitol Inside:

Wohlgemuth says that TPPF doesn’t receive any public funds and is outspent as a result as much as one thousand to one by special interest groups that she contends are armed with taxpayer dollars in their fight for bigger government and more spending.

“These include teacher and administrator associations, other public employee unions, advocates of universal health care, extreme environmental groups, radical left wing activists, and a host of other special interests who believe government’s role is to take the money of hard working Texas families and redistribute it to pet causes,” Wohlgemuth asserts in the fundraising letter.

Ahhh! Conservatives should be quaking in their boots! We all know that when teachers pair up with radical left wing activists there’s going to be bloodshed.

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