Of the people... A TX legislator
has a salary of $7,200 per year; a salary nobody can live on. You work 140
days, every other year, with the occasional 30 day, mandatory, special session.
How many employers allow an individual the flexibility to accommodate that
schedule; make a sufficient second income?
None. It helps to be
independently wealthy.
If you are a legislator long enough you can qualify for a retirement
pension, based on a judge’s salary!
Who can retire on, say, 80% of $7,200 a year?
Nobody.
By the people... If a Texan wants to vote you must have one, of a
specific and limited kind, of picture id. If you don't have such an id, and/or
you don't have the specific document needed to attain said id, the state offers
no assistance. The cost and travel involved in getting your picture id are
going to be all yours! All to solve the problem of voter fraud that, study
after study has discovered, happens a very small fraction of 1% of the time
votes are made in person.
If you want to communicate, especially if you want to visit in person,
with your candidate or legislator (or any other elected official) it helps to
be a campaign donor; the larger the donation the better the odds.
Who is easily able to participate in the day to day functions of
government in TX?
It helps to be wealthy, generous, older, white and male!
For the people... Corporations are legally defined as people. As the
owner of a LLC (Limited Liability Corporation) I know it to be my property; not
a person in any way, shape or form.
Political contributions are protected as
free speech, not as paid access to elected officials that it actually is.
Political Action Committees are tax exempt entities that can collect large
amounts of money, from anonymous donors, for political expenditures. If you
don't have enough money, to compete with those who do, for the attention of
your candidates and elected officials, oh well.
Tough luck!
This must change!
Give, “Hope and Change,” a Chance... and a Push!
Help Turn Texas Blue!
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