From the Perry camp:
Look Who Got Caught Riding a Toll Road
The Master of the Hypocritical Flip-Flop: Carole Strayhorn
NORTH DALLAS TOLLWAY – Wanting to get out of Metroplex congestion yesterday, gubernatorial candidate and One Tough Grandstander, Carole Strayhorn, decided to take a toll road rather than telecommuting to her next event.
This is the same Strayhorn who consistently recommended toll roads, but who as a candidate for governor has labeled them everything negative except “the work of Satan.â€
It seems that when it comes to getting somewhere on time, she prefers the Perry transportation model over her own – which is to have Texans telecommute to baby showers and kids’ ballgames, and to build a bridge from San Antonio to Oklahoma.
This latest flip-flop, on the heels of more than a dozen throughout this campaign, generated not even a word of explanation from Strayhorn. According to the Dallas Morning News, she “just shook her head and laughed.â€
“If we charged a toll every time Carole changed positions, we could fund every road project in Texas,†said Perry spokesman Robert Black.Dallas Morning News (11/02/06):
Strayhorn Express
Carole Keeton Strayhorn has gotten support on the campaign trail from opponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor. About 50 vocal opponents of Gov. Rick Perry’s toll-road project showed up in Waco on Wednesday, waving placards and cheering Mrs. Strayhorn, who has made the issue a central theme of the campaign.
As she does at every campaign stop, she denounced the governor’s toll-road initiative as a “land grab†and “a catastrophe.†She said public roads are the way to go.
Arriving in Dallas at drive-time Wednesday evening, the Strayhorn entourage found the public highways congested. The solution? The Dallas North Tollway, which the Strayhorn entourage used to zip to a campaign stop at City Hall.
Asked about it later on the campaign plane, the independent gubernatorial candidate just shook her head and laughed.