Amendment 132
Vince Leibowitz | Mar 30, 2007 | Comments 0
Amendment 132 by Dunnam is another good one. It would bar any money from HB 1 to be used for hiring professional lobbyists including TxDOT’s $1 million-a-year-plus lobbyists. Dunnam notes there is no need to spend millions of our own tax dollars to lobby our own elected officials.
CHISUM: Whether you like it or not, you have lobbyists…for us to just drop having any lobbyists is just poor business practice.
Chisum moved to table the Dunnam amendment.
DUNNAM: We’ve only had lobbyists for the state of Texas since 2003. We’ve only had K Street lobbyists since 2003. And if you listen to the debate we just had, we’re told we’re not getting our shares. Do you really believe that we have to pay a K Street Lobbyist to get Kay Bailey Hutchison will take care of the state of Texas? Do you really believe this…this is really simple: Do you want Texas tax dollars to go to K Street?
70-59, motion to table previaled.
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