Liberty Matters
Action Alert
Last Thursday, over 300 landowners met in Granger, Texas to
organize, educate, and start a demand letter campaign to their state
legislators to stop the construction of the Trans Texas Corridor.
This meeting was lead by some of the same landowners who
filed Open Records Requests leading the Texas Department of Transportation
(TxDoT) to release the Master Development Plan and the coinciding maps with
route information. Since that time, legislators have all indicated not to hold
any stock in that information because the TTC will never be built.
So, those same landowners decided to make them put it in
writing. Attached is a letter everyone needs to send to their elected officials
as soon as possible. Landowners up and down the path of the TTC-35 are
furiously sending thousands of letters to those elected officials who voted for
this land grab. However, anyone else can do the same since most every
legislator voted for this legislation. Every state senator is guilty of voting
for it and most every House member as well.
The letter specifically demands each legislator to
acknowledge how they voted on legislation creating the TTC, if they support a
foreign corporation building and collecting tolls for the next 50 years, if
they support the condemnation of 584,000 acres of private property from nearly
one million Texans, how the $1.2 billion paid by Cintra-Zachry was distributed,
if they support condemnation being used to benefit a foreign corporation, and
if they would sponsor legislation to repeal the TTC authority.
TxDoT and our elected officials need to know we're
organizing and are getting expert legal help. An attorney with Barron, Adler
and Anderson, the premier eminent domain law firm, came to give landowners
advice and information on how to increase the value of their land if TxDoT
tried to condemn them. It was all part of a campaign to let TxDoT know
landowners are not going to take this anymore. The state now knows landowners
are organizing and are informed and any condemnation proceedings just got more
expensive.
Please copy the attached letter and mail it today to your
State House Representative, State Senator and the Governor. Demand answers and
do not let them off the hook. Ask them in person if the opportunity arises how
they have answered this letter.
