TX-Gov: Rick Perry Refuses to Rule Out a Future Trans-Texas Corridor

by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 05:27 PM CDT

The Texas Democratic Party recently attacked Perry for "taking a toll on Texans" -- and today they attacked Hutchison for voting to allow toll roads to be built, then hypocritically rallying against them.

This video shows how Perry still does not plan to actually end his beloved TTC project:

Question: "Would Proposition 11 prevent future Trans-Texas corridors from seizing private land."

Perry: "This is where a government entity can take a piece of property and hand it over to a private developer for development, to enhance tax revenues. When we're building highways in the state of Texas, that still stays the sovreign land of the state of Texas. So when the next road that's built in the state of Texas and there's eminent domain [unclear word] that goes into place..."

[Camera operator]: That's quite the spin.

From the YouTube channel "Perry's Reality" -

The account that puts up this -- and other -- anti-Perry YouTube videos is most likely run by a Hutchison operative (though I have no way of knowing that -- it could be someone from one of the Democratic campaigns as well).

Regardless, the fact that Perry was asked -- rather point blank -- about whether or not the constitutional amendment  prohibits future Trans-Texas Corridors, and ducked the question, is newsworthy.