First it was Ag Commissioner Todd Staples that made a visit to the Ellis County town of Midlothian. Now it’s state Sen. Kip Averitt. Do these guys only send out news alerts to newspapers? The questions that were asked to Averitt, according to what the ultra-liberal Waxahachie Daily Light published, were amateur.
If you really want questions, someone better let me know who’s coming to town (odd, but the WDL didn’t see fit to cover a major-party presidential candidate coming to town), because I’ll ask really good questions, like for instance, Mr. Averitt:
- The expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program that you sought - and secured - will cost taxpayers a lot more; wasn’t it a good thing that the Legislature closed a shortfall a few years ago without raising taxes? Shouldn’t the purpose be to get people off of welfare, not back on it?
- You were answering questions regarding community college budgets this session (Gov. Perry vetoed a few million in funding requests), however, were you aware that our service-area community college, Navarro, has admitted publicly to breaking open meetings laws in discussions of passing a property tax on Ellis County citizens?
- Are you aware of the outrage of small business owners under the Legislature-backed new business tax that will force many to pay 10 times what they were paying under the franchise system? And what do you think of that, Mr. Compromise?
Those are just two that I can come up with now. I don’t need a script like the “audience” members were playing off of. I don’t need softball questions like the WDL submits to their reporters to ask. Damn. I’m really getting sick and tired of these politicians playing us like fools.
I guess the cool thing about a blog is that you can bitch and complain and really give readers the “other” side of things, instead of these flake-puff little softball questions and community coverage.
Ed Harrison, I hope you’re reading this. We really need you down in the Senate.
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