Houston Democrats

Energy

Radnofsky: Promote a national policy of energy independence

* Require mandatory emissions standards
* Develop a balanced policy that emphasizes renewables as well as non-renewables
* Promote energy conservation
* Require fuel efficiency standards

Hutchison: Who Loves Ya, Baby: Liberal tax incentives for Big Oil campaign donors, foreign energy dependence

Opponent liberally gave away billions of tax dollars as incentives to oil companies—which oil company executives later admitted they did not need. Opponent advocated an energy dependence policy: non-renewable foreign oil from Azerbaijan. Opponent: "This small, former-Soviet satellite nation of just eight million people is working to strengthen its ties to the global community through participation in the European Union's Neighborhood Policy, collaboration with NATO and a move towards membership in the World Trade Organization."

Azerbaijan was condemned days later by the U.S. State Department, international agencies, and observers world-wide for dishonest balloting, election fraud, and violence against its citizens; peaceful assembly. Opponent enacted tax giveaways and favoritism, while failing to disclose that she is the single biggest recipient after George W. Bush of Exxon-Mobil contributions, a company that coincidentally has energy interests in Azerbaijan.

Transportation

Radnofsky: Fairness and conservative spending

* Work to ensure that Texas receives 100% of its federal gas taxes
* Oppose liberal spending transportation pork barrel projects for states like Alaska

Hutchison: Liberal spender: Working hard for Alaskans

Opponent short-changed Texans by championing a transportation bill that gave away more Texas taxpayer dollars and continued her longstanding practice of donating Texas federal gas taxes to other states. The bill and its unpopular liberal spending provisions contained a million-dollar bus stop and a $200 million "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska. Opponent's liberal spending guaranteed that Alaskans would receive about $1,500 per capita in highway benefits, while Texans would receive a meager $36. At the time of passage, opponent wrongly claimed that the bill eliminated Texas as a super donor, ignoring the fact that, according to her own figures, Texans will receive back only 91.3 cents for every dollar they give to the country. Opponent's claim that this was a new development was also false; she acknowledged in 2001 that Texas was receiving back a mere 91 cents for each dollar it contributed. In August of 2005, after the transportation bill had become law, she finally admitted that it "short-changed Texas."

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