Tea Party Colleyville Resident Republican Konni Burton Lies to Senate District 10 Voters On Mail Ad

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This Ad is the second one received in her home town of Colleyville, TX. One would think that she is a liberal according to her promises. Konni's fellow Tea Party Conservatives have been in a constitutional school funding lawsuit for several years with AG Gregg Abbott filing Appeals at each decision or waiting until after Nov 4 to appeal again, giving time to Burton so as to cover up her lie. Tea Party members both in Texas and nationally want to privatize each and every school, ending public education and the neighborhood schools, that we all know and love.

She makes two points (quoting):

1. Konni wants to give parents, teachers, and school districts more local control and make sure that our tax dollars are going to our local school districts and teachers and not Austin Bureaucrats.

2. Konni will fight to repeal the business franchise tax and end corporate subsidies that choose winners and losers in the marketplace.

Burton is in no way working to close any loopholes for Millionaire neighbors or Multi-billion dollar Big Oil and Gas Corporations.

In my opinion, Burton is a liar, as she would never try to undo what her Extremist Tea Party members and politicians have done. Her Ad says that she is a leader we can trust. What a deceitful sham she is pulling over voters in Wendy Davis' old Senate District for voters paying little to no attention to what Republicans ACTUALL stand for.

Democrat Libby Willis is the real problem solver for District 10 and for Texas.

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1. Conservatism is about making the benefits of government flow to those in power using trickery and

and deceit as necessary. Wendy Davis has championed the working class families instead of the extremist profiteering elite. How do Texas Republican Senators work with education profiteer Jeb Bush in the Texas Legislature? Do you think that Konni's corn really wants the public school district to have our tax dollars or use the money to promote private Charter Schools that Jeb Bush is trying to restart in Texas? I believe that Konni Burton is a supporter of ALEC and has no intention of promoting public schools in Colleyville or anywhere else.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Pulling_Up_The_Ladder

We will set aside all discussion of whether the commercial was worth the candle politically; Davis has been less of a candidate than people thought she would be, and remains likely to lose the election. And we will set aside the simple argument about whether Abbott's actions in office make him a hypocrite. The Davis ad is an important one because it strikes at the heart of what movement conservatism has made of the Republican party, which once was the party of the Pure Food and Drug Act, trust-busting, the Interstate Highway System, the Clean Water Act, and the EPA. Over the past three decades, however, beginning with that epochal moment when Ronald Reagan said, in his first inaugural, that government was the problem -- not if you were a defense contractor, one thinks, or a mullah who wanted missiles -- the Republican party has profited uniquely from a massive internal contradiction that would have given a less well-funded institution the blind staggers. And the party has doubled down on that contradiction year after year, decade after decade. Simply put, the Republican party deliberately has transformed itself from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of I've Got Mine, Jack. And it rarely, if ever, gets called to account for that. As a result, and without substantial notice or paying a substantial price, and on many issues, individual Republicans have been able to justify the benefits they've received from government activity that they now oppose in theory and in practice. This is not "hypocrisy." That is too mild a word. This is the regulatory capture of the government for personal benefit. That it makes a lie, again and again, of the basic principles of modern conservatism -- indeed, that it shows those principles to be a sham -- is certainly worthy of notice and debate. It is certainly worthy of notice and debate that the conservative idea of the benefits of a political commonwealth means those benefits run only one way. Modern conservatism is not about making the government smaller. It's about making the government exclusive. It's not about streamlining the benefits of the political commonwealth. It's about making sure those benefits flow only to those people who have proven through their ability to work all the other levers of power that they deserve those benefits.

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2. Wendy Davis will win the election. Education is the most important point just as she has said.