Thread: Why is Carol Strayhorn on this la raza site?

Strayhorn's campaign managers response to my email.

It does not answer my question about the laraza website.



Thank you for contacting us, and we wish you and your family all the best here in Texas. Texans don’t want the corridor, and Carole Keeton Strayhorn is a Texan first who has been leading the charge to stop the corridor. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is absolutely against illegal immigration, and she will first secure our borders, our ports, and all our critical infrastructure and not turn any part over to foreign control. Carole Keeton Strayhorn (my Mom) is absolutely opposed to the secret foreign land-grab of the Trans Texas “Catastrophe.” She is doing and will do all she can to halt and end this land grab.



Just an FYI on the Democratic candidate (who voted for the animal tagging when he was in Congress which allowed Perry to mandate the animal tagging in Texas) earlier this year he said he supported toll roads and wanted to speed up the rail portion of the TTC. Chris Bell said in February of 2006 that “toll roads are fine . . .” His quote can be found at http://polstate.com/?p=4357 Bell stated in February of 2006 that he wanted to “speed up the time-table” for the high-speed rail part of the Trans Texas Corridor. (Dallas Morning News 2006 Voter Guide).

Chris Bell's unedited responses supporting toll roads and supporting efforts to "speed up" the high speed rail part of the TTC. This question was asked and answered in February of 2006 in Dallas Morning News Voter Guide.

Q.: Are you satisfied with current plans for funding high-speed rail as an integral component of the Trans-Texas corridor? Please explain.

A: I think high-speed rail has an important place in our state’s long-term transportation plans, and I will support efforts to speed up the timetable for introducing high-speed rail here in Texas. Texas should not have to wait until 2025 to begin real development on the rail component of the TTC.

link: www.vgt2004.org/a-dallas06/candidate-de ... id=3170238



Carole Keeton Strayhorn has gone to 14 of the recent TxDoT “hearings” from North Texas to South Texas to express in person her constant opposition to this foreign land grab. No other candidate for Governor attended a single hearing besides Carole. Carole received the endorsement of the Blackland Coalition, one of the first pro-property rights and anti-TTC groups to form. No justification exists for tolling existing freeways, and Texas does not need toll roads. She has also received the endorsement of Citizens for a Better Waller County, an the anti-toll Austin Toll Party and San Antonio Toll Party groups.



Carole will keep the tolls/taxes off our roads and bring leadership and fiscal responsibility back to Texas and put the priorities of government back on our safety, our rights, our children, their education, and the basics and not waste taxpayer money on corporate welfare or lobbyists. On our website, under Real Security for our families, Carole states:



First Secure All Texas Critical Infrastructure
--our Borders, Ports, Roads, Rails, and Utilities

Carole Keeton Strayhorn pledged first that she will secure Texas’ borders and ports and protect all critical infrastructure including our roads, rails, and utilities.

“We should have secured our borders and ports six years and 10 sessions ago,” Strayhorn said. Strayhorn has pledged that when elected governor she will give local law enforcement agencies along the border “every state resource they need” and she has said for months that she will deploy the National Guard along the border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.

“In a Strayhorn administration, Texans’ interests will be top priority, not this governor’s special interests, and we will secure our borders and ports. I am adamantly opposed to illegal immigration,” Strayhorn said.

Texans need to have security against terrorism as a top priority, and Texans do not need a foreign company taking control of Texas land and control of our critical infrastructure under a still secret agreement to put toll roads all over Texas.

“Texans need to have security against terrorism as a top priority and need to be wary of this governor’s belated ‘very passionate case’ and instead look at what he has really done which includes allowing a foreign company to take Texas land and control our critical infrastructure under a secret agreement to put toll roads all over Texas,” she said.



Carole yesterday called for the Texas Rangers to be put in charge of securing all of Texas in her Secure Texas plan. Carole Keeton Strayhorn has called for a vote on a Constitutional Amendment to protect private property. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is absolutely a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and gun rights and hunting rights, and her husband Ed Strayhorn (a Veteran) is an avid hunter and fisherman, and he is an NRA and TSRA member. Carole has six grandchildren (the latest only two months old), and the oldest two (my children) are both active in the Girl Scouts and many other activities. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is adamantly fighting the secret agreement with a foreign company to take our land and control our roads and other critical infrastructure--Perry calls it the Trans Texas Corridor, we call it the Trans Texas Catastrophe. Carole Keeton Strayhorn will bring leadership back to Texas and put the priorities of government back on children, our senior citizens, education, private property rights, and the basics and not waste taxpayer money on corporate welfare or lobbyists. I will apologize in advance for the length of this email, but I wanted to cover a number of issues.

I also welcome your questions and your good advice. I am Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s campaign manager and one of her sons. Carole is a strong supporter of our children, education and higher education, fiscal responsibility, agriculture, and private property rights. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running for governor to bring leadership back to the Office of the Governor and to put a priority back on our most precious resource our children. Carole has six grandchildren, and the oldest two (my children) are both active in the Girl Scouts and many other activities. Carole is married to Ed Strayhorn (a Veteran and former teacher). Please visit Carole’s website at www.carolestrayhorn.com , which will be updated in the coming weeks (please feel free to forward this info to others who are interested), which has her complete announcement speech and the news section which lays out some of her basic positions. Carole Keeton Strayhorn will lead, and she will address the tough issues, and she will get the job done. My direct email is brad@carolestrayhorn.com . Our children and grandchildren are her top priority. And to quote from her speech:

I want my legacy to be that with every breath of air in Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s lungs, she fought passionately for education, paychecks and jobs, and protecting our most precious resource our children.



Carole wants to drive more of every education dollar directly into the classroom with the students and the teachers where it belongs. The current governor is the first, and he will be the last, governor of Texas to waste over $2 million of our taxpayer dollars on Washington D.C. lobbyists—that is wrong.



Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is absolutely against illegal immigration. Carole strongly believes that the State of Texas under the leadership of the current Governor has misplaced spending priorities (the Governor recently gave $50 million of taxpayer money to study mice cells reported as a “cozy relationship” with a few big contributors), and the State of Texas must do more to protect our own borders especially the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico by taking all necessary steps to secure, in reality, and to protect our borders from terrorism, crime, and illegal immigration. This is a fiscally conservative and common-sense preventative problem to avoid all the overwhelming costs to our taxpayers. Unfortunately, this will not solve all the costs Texans have had to bear for too long. The first step is to secure our border with all resources and policies necessary including using the National Guard. For our State's and our Nation's security, Comptroller Strayhorn knows we must secure our borders including the Gulf of Mexico and our ports. Comptroller Strayhorn stated several months ago:

I am adamantly opposed to illegal immigration. Just like neighborhood patrols against crime, our law enforcement officials and volunteers must work together to combat the illegal immigration on the border. Illegal immigration has become the crisis it is because Gov. Perry has totally ignored the problem for five years. I support law-abiding citizens working hand-in-hand with local and federal authorities to combat all crime including illegal immigration. While illegal immigration is currently a federal problem, it is affecting us locally. I welcome the minutemen volunteers and their efforts to address a problem this governor has promoted by allowing illegal immigrants to pay only in-state college tuition. In a Strayhorn administration, this is not going to be a problem because I will provide local and state authorities all the policies and resources they need to combat illegal immigration.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn absolutely opposes illegal immigration and opposes illegal immigrants getting in-state tuition, which is not a federal requirement but a state law, which should be repealed. While the current Governor signed legislation in 2001 to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants for our colleges instead of demanding foreign tuition or prohibiting access, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn successfully fought this summer for one of our veterans, Carl Basham (who grew up in this state legally), to get in-state tuition here in Texas after Governor Perry’s appointees initially fought against our fine veteran. Governor Perry signed the 2001 legislation allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state resident tuition at our colleges—that is wrong especially when the state fights veterans from getting in state tuition, and when other citizens are denied in-state tuition. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running for Governor to strengthen the State of Texas and to maintain its values, and to restore the prioritization of spending in government to our education, health, and safety and security of Texans including our veterans. The State of Texas should require complete cooperation between all governmental entities to keep our borders secure. Below is the release, we put out June 2nd:

STRAYHORN WILL SECURE BORDERS AND PORTS FIRST,

CALLS PERRY’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION RECORD

‘NON-EXISTENT, WINDOW-DRESSING’

(AUSTIN) – Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn today described Gov. Rick Perry’s record on illegal immigration as “non-existent, window dressing that is heavy on rhetoric and light on real action,” and she pledged first that she will secure Texas’ borders and ports and protect all critical infrastructure.



An aide to the governor said the governor is making a “very passionate case” about the need to secure the border in a speech today at the Republican Party of Texas convention.

“Texans don’t want to hear a ‘very passionate case’ from their governor after six years of sitting around, they want action,” she said.

“We should have secured our borders and ports six years and 10 sessions ago,” Strayhorn said. “It is no coincidence that it is an election year and Gov. Perry – after sitting in office for six years – has now discovered that illegal immigration is a problem and maybe he better dust off some tough-sounding rhetoric. But his hollow words and his failed record over the last six years have done nothing to solve the problem.”



Strayhorn has pledged that when elected governor she will give local law enforcement agencies along the border “every state resource they need” and she has said for months that she will deploy the National Guard along the border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center report on March 21, 2005, of the six states with the largest number of illegal immigrants, Texas is the only one in which the percentage of the population that is illegal has actually increased in recent years. The Center reports that Texas has 1.4 million illegal immigrants – 14 percent of the total population of illegal immigrants in the United States. (http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf)

“This governor’s administration has been marked by failed leadership and misplaced priorities,” Strayhorn said. “In a Strayhorn administration, Texans’ interests will be top priority, not this governor’s special interests, and we will secure our borders and ports.”

“Texans need to have security against terrorism as a top priority and need to be wary of this governor’s belated ‘very passionate case’ in a speech today and instead look at what he has really done which includes allowing a foreign company to take Texas land and control our critical infrastructure under a secret agreement to put toll roads all over Texas,” she said.

PERRY REAL RECORD CONTRADICTS HIS ‘PASSIONATE CASE’:

· He signed a law allowing illegal immigrants, not our Texas veterans and their spouses, to pay in-state, rather than the more expensive out-of-state, college tuition in Texas.



· He complained that the federal government is not giving him enough money for border security, but took no action.

· He complained that the federal government has released illegal immigrants onto our streets, but took no action.



· He abandoned the border to the point where ordinary citizens are now fighting illegal immigration.

· He gave a paltry $10 million to Operation Linebacker, while pouring five times that -- $50 million of taxpayer money – from his corporate welfare slush fund to study mice with two of his big contributors benefiting; giving Vought Aircraft $35 million of taxpayer money to create jobs when in fact 600 employees have been laid off; wasting $11.9 million on seven special sessions of the legislature; and spending over $7 million of taxpayer dollars on Washington, D.C., lobbyists.

· He waited until the legislature adjourned and until the day before the state Republican Convention to announce he will ask the next legislature for $100 million to help secure the border, but took no action when lawmakers were here last month for the seventh special legislative session he called.

The state budget under the governor has increased almost 45% and 44 billion dollars from 98 billion before 2001 to over 142 billion now with funding for schools at an all time low. A lot of that money has been wasted by the governor’s corporate slush fund, from which just this summer he gave $50 million dollars of your taxpayer money to study mice cells with a company owned by his largest contributors. The current governor led the charge to destroy Comptroller Strayhorn’s school performance reviews and Texas Performance Reviews, which had made recommendations for over $16 billion dollars in cost savings measures without increasing your taxes. The first action Carole would take is to reinstitute the School Performance Reviews and Texas Performance Reviews and at the same time eliminate the corporate slush fund. She would also cancel the current governor’s over $7 million taxpayer dollar contracts with Washington, DC lobbyists.

If the Legislature won’t act on tax relief and even if they will, Carole Keeton Strayhorn wants to give the power to the people through Initiative & Referendum, which will take away the control of the “special” interests, and let voters approve such good ideas. Carole also supports truly open elections where all candidates qualify in the same manner for a spot on the ballot, and if no candidate gets over 50% of the vote, then the top two are in a runoff.

No justification exists for tolling existing freeways, and Carole Keeton Strayhorn is adamantly opposed to toll roads. On the Trans Texas Corridor—Carole Keeton Strayhorn (mom) calls it the Trans Texas CATASTROPHE, below are some news releases we have put out, and please feel free to forward them along to any interested in her position. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is extremely concerned about protecting private property rights and opposed to the toll roads and the Governor’s Trans Texas “Catastrophe” and the Governor’s secret deal with Cintra, a foreign corporation from Spain. The typical toll section will require 146 acres of right of way per mile. The total anticipated right of way for 4,000 miles of corridor is 584,000 acres, which is the largest land grab in Texas history. As for as we know, no limit will be placed on the amount of the tolls to be charged, but Carole Keeton Strayhorn is against the secret Trans Texas “Catastrophe.” To quote from Carole’s announcement speech and her heart on property rights:

And you know that Texas property belongs to Texans, not foreign companies.

We will not sit quietly by and let this Governor embark on the most historic land grab in history and cram toll roads down our throats.

This is not the Texas way, and it cannot continue.

Texas is great, but we can do better.

Here is the news release we put out May 31, 2006:

STRAYHORN DEMANDS PERRY REVEAL SECRET FOREIGN TOLL ROAD DEAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL’S RULING Shocking Admission of Foreign Control of Land Grab Made

On the one-year anniversary of an Attorney General Ruling that foreign-based Cintra-Zachry and Gov. Perry’s Texas Department of Transportation must make public their secret contract, Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn demanded the governor release the contract to the public and explain a shocking statement by his transportation chairman.



“We need government in the sunshine,” Strayhorn said. “I’m calling on Gov. Perry to order his transportation department to drop its lawsuit and release to all Texans the secret contract with a foreign company.”

Last week Perry’s appointed Chairman of the Texas Department of Transportation Ric Williamson told North Texas elected officials and business leaders: “If you aggressively invite the private sector to be your partner, you can’t tell them where to build the road.”(Fort Worth Star-Telegram (5/26/2006).



“Texas property belongs to Texans, not foreign companies; Texas freeways belong to Texans, not foreign companies,” she said. “We will not sit quietly by and let this Governor embark on the biggest land grab in history and cram toll roads down our throats.”



Strayhorn said Williamson’s admission that a foreign company – Cintra, not Texans, will be deciding where new highways are to be built is even more reason for the secret contract to be made public.

“Texans have a right to know what the Governor has promised this foreign company in a contract the Attorney General says is public,” she said. “Apparently the Governor and his transportation chairman believe what a foreign company wants, a foreign company gets, and Texans have no say over our freeways and critical infrastructure.”

Perry’s transportation department and Cintra filed a lawsuit last year to fight the Attorney General and keep details of the contract secret, and continue to keep it tied up in the courts.

“Rick Perry was beaming as the cameras were rolling while he looked over the shoulders of his highway henchmen signing the secret contract with a foreign company,” she said. “The contract that Rick Perry saw cannot be seen by you or me.”



“Hard working Texas taxpayers have the right to read the full details of a contract they will be stuck with for the next 50 years,” she said. “It should have never been secret in the first place and certainly should have been released a year ago when the Attorney General ruled. If Gov. Perry has nothing to hide, he should release the contract today on this anniversary of the Attorney General Ruling.”

Perry’s $184 billion Trans Texas Corridor is estimated to be 4,000 miles, which is more mileage than Texas’ 3,200-mile share of the interstate system.



The Corridor’s first projects are supposed to be toll roads paralleling Interstate 35 from Oklahoma to Mexico and the proposed I-69 route from Mexico, bypass Corpus Christi and Houston, to Texarkana.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn will fight for all the children’s health, safety, and education. What is most heartbreaking, is to see the State of Texas abdicating its responsibility to protect the children of Texas from prenatal care and through early childhood and beyond in areas of health, safety, and education. Carole Keeton Strayhorn will fight for all the children. What is most heartbreaking, is to see the State of Texas abdicating its responsibility to protect the children of Texas from prenatal care and through early childhood and beyond in areas of health, safety, and education. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running for Governor in large part because too many children in Texas have been forgotten and abandoned from foster kids to school kids. Carole called for the adoption of “Jessica’s law” last summer and during each of the last three Legislative sessions, but the governor refused to add the protection of our children from violent sexual predators to the special session agenda any of the last three times. Carole did a study of Texas foster children entitled the “Forgotten Children,” www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren/execsumm , to shed light on some unimaginable situations Texas foster kids currently face with strong proposals to help the children. Comptroller Strayhorn absolutely was appalled at the over medication and abusive situations she uncovered. We can and we must do better for our children and our future.



If you would like to support Carole Keeton Strayhorn, you can start now by emailing around the website www.CaroleStrayhorn.com or www.OneToughGrandma.com to all your family and friends to support Carole Keeton Strayhorn for Governor. Carole Keeton Strayhorn will be a Governor for all Texans.





Thanks,
Brad

Brad McClellan
Son & Campaign Manager
Carole Keeton Strayhorn for Governor
brad@carolestrayhorn.com
www.OneToughGrandma.com
512-469-9393











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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:59 PM
To: Brad McClellan
Subject: Email to the Campaign Director



I wanted to send this Mexico Tourism Video to La Raza. I did a search and found Carole Strayhorn at http://www.laraza.com/. I'm confused as to

why she is on a site who wants to make illegal aliens legal here in the USA.



I also found this below. I'm just confused.
Texans do not want this Corridor.





* Independent candidate for governor, Carol Strayhorn took over $13,000.00 from Zachry when she ran for Comptroller of Public Accounts four years ago. Chris Bell, Democratic candidate for governor, has urged her to return nearly $30,000.00 she’s accepted in campaign contributions since 2000 from the Zachry family. Zachry Construction Corp. is partnered with Cintra, a corporation based in Madrid, Spain, to develop the Trans Texas Corridor

Did I miss it? I saw nothing regarding her stand on amnesty or a path to legalization (as the Dems like to call it) for illegal immigrants. Additionally, nothing on where she stand on a guest-worker program.

Of course the email was rather long, maybe I missed it.

Originally Posted by MW

Hey, anyone know Spanish? What does this poll say?

Elvira Arellano debe...

173 seguir la ley y ser deportada
170 continuar su refugio

Total: 343

Ver Resultados

It is on the site:

http://www.laraza.com/

The poll can be found on the left side, about midway down.

173 keep the law as is and deport

170 continue refuge

Must be a self correcting poll? It was 174 to deport when I left.

Brad McClellan sounds familiar...like Scot... I never trusted Scot nor do I trust someone who keep jumping political parties like a rats jumping a sinking ship
They never answered the money thing now did they...I got unsubscribed because I questioned them... Boo Hoo!My OWN INDEPENDENT party...
Dang I just bought the new party dress....kidding

Response about Srayhorn La Raza ad

Linda Curtis
Independent Texans( for Strayhorn)
512-

Oh, now I see. Yes, it appears that she is advertising in this newspaper. I'm thrilled she's spending some of her dollars educating the Mexican-American community against the Trans-Texas Corridor. Caroel is the only candidate in this race who has made this an issue. Watch the videos on our web site if you want to educate yourself -- about the 3 anti-Perry candidates.


If reaching out to the Hispanic community is "pandering" -- then I think you're right -- Carole is the wrong candidate for you. In my view (and I speak for myself not anyone else), this state is made up of lots of different people. Everyone deserves representation -- unless you're making the biased assumption that because someone reads a Spanish newspaper, they aren't US citizens and voters.


Last, don't try to tell me and the groups in this state who have built the movement to stop the Corridor -- that we're "dishonest". How is that? Because we don't agree with you on how you feel about this newspaper and/or the proper role of the Mexican-Åmerican community in the life of Texas. It's statements like that that make me ashamed to be an American -- you know, the melting pot that has made our country like no other in the world.


Good luck to you and the candidate of your choice.


Linda Curtis
Independent Texans
512-

On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Erin wrote:


www.laraza.com.
These are the folks helping push the trans Texas Corridor...Yet she is pandering to them...hummmm..
And is this like that 30,000.00 she took from the Zachaery Construction folks...I am out to push hard for Kinky now...Truth Be Tolled
Very sorry but I just can't take all the dishonesty etc...this Nov. and I will not support the folks who support the anti American agenda of LA RAZA

I can read between the line of this response...no response to the money, no response to the support of la raza and the Tran Texas Corridor...I don't believe the Strayhorn is the great medicine woman sent to educate them they already have an agendaDo you see where I made the biased assumption that I was talking non citizen or voter...I think they busted themselves and again did I call the group dishonest no...I was speaking about the money donated from the same folks who are building the corridior...
Oh well just my feelings and my own ramblings of a angry TEXAN

Well, here's the situation:

TTC/ foreign-owned toll roads:

Gov. Rick Perry (R) - For
Chris Bell (D) - For
Carol Keaton Strayhorn (I) - Against (cornerstone issue of her candidacy)
Kinky Friedman (I) - Against

Illegal immigration:

Perry -

Plan - Status quo; claims he is securing the border with a few thousand
unarmed National Guardsmen

Deportation stance - Vascillates, but tends toward leaving such actions
to the feds

Visits to the beleaguered border - 1, to shoot a campaign ad

Bell -

Plan - NG troops (already being done by Perry), cracking down on illegal
employers, pathway to citizenship (amnesty by any other name...)

Deportation stance - soft

Visits to the beleaguered border - unknown

Strayhorn -

Plan - Place Texas Rangers in charge of border and port security,
provide public funds to "improve border communities infrastructure,"
provide "all" Texas high school grads (read: illegals included) with free
technical or community college education.

Deportation stance - conspicuously silent

Visits to the beleaguered border - unknown, though she claims that her
her NextStep idea (free college tuition for students including illegals)
was "inspired by her visit with a grandmother living in a colonia."

Friedman -

Plan - 10,000 Texas National Guard troops stationed on border with live
ammo and authorized to use it.

Deportation stance - Tends toward leaving actual deportation issues to
the feds.

Visits to the beleaguered border - At least one, to provide moral support
to the border patrol and to ask them what they need to get the job done.

Illegal immigration and the TTC land grab and handover of Texas toll roads to foreign interests are the two big issues for me. Though Strayhorn is promising the most positive action on the TTC/ toll roads issue, I can't get past her extreme softness on illegals. Kinky has some kooky ideas, like decriminalizing marijuana, but he's the only candidate hitting on all cylinders on the major issues. If freeing up some prison space for violent criminals by letting some potheads out early is the worst I have to deal with as a consequence of voting for him, I'm okay with that. Besides, we have a number of mutual friends, meaning that I could probably have direct access to him on major issues. I'm going to try to arrange a sit-down with him before the election, but our schedules are both pretty tight for the next month and in fact mine just got considerably tighter today. Still, if anyone has any questions or concerns they would like for me to address with him, please PM me and I'll see what I can do.