Coalition Demands Eliminating Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
March 13, 2019
March 13, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas, March 13 -- Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release:
Today, a coalition of conservative groups called on the Texas legislature to support measures that would significantly limit or eliminate the ability of local governments to use taxpayer dollars to pay for lobbyists. In the last session, local Texas governments spent some $41 million of taxpayer money on contract lobbyists. A poll taken last December by WPA Intelligence showed that 91 percen . . .
Today, a coalition of conservative groups called on the Texas legislature to support measures that would significantly limit or eliminate the ability of local governments to use taxpayer dollars to pay for lobbyists. In the last session, local Texas governments spent some $41 million of taxpayer money on contract lobbyists. A poll taken last December by WPA Intelligence showed that 91 percen . . .