Harris County Judge Ditches Lobbying Group

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett voted Tuesday to withdraw the county’s membership in the Alliance for I-69 Texas, an organization that has supported converting U.S. 59 into an interstate highway.”It’s no longer an alliance for I-69,” said County Judge Ed Emmett.

“It’s an alliance for the Trans-Texas Corridor.”

Harris County this year paid a $50,000 membership fee to the alliance, a coalition of counties, towns, chambers of commerce and others.

It will ask the alliance to return more than two-thirds of this year’s fees.

$50,000 of our tax money to lobby against us. A refund is a nice start but how about passing a law that says no government agency can spend a penny for any lobbying firm? Yeah, that’ll go over well.

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