From the Perry camp:<\/p>\n
Look Who Got Caught Riding a Toll Road
\nThe Master of the Hypocritical Flip-Flop: Carole Strayhorn
\nNORTH DALLAS TOLLWAY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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.
\nThis is the same Strayhorn who consistently recommended toll roads, but who as a candidate for governor has labeled them everything negative except \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the work of Satan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nIt seems that when it comes to getting somewhere on time, she prefers the Perry transportation model over her own \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is to have Texans telecommute to baby showers and kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ballgames, and to build a bridge from San Antonio to Oklahoma.
\nThis 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just shook her head and laughed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we charged a toll every time Carole changed positions, we could fund every road project in Texas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Perry spokesman Robert Black.<\/p>\nDallas Morning News (11\/02\/06):
\nStrayhorn Express
\nCarole Keeton Strayhorn has gotten support on the campaign trail from opponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor. About 50 vocal opponents of Gov. Rick Perry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.
\nAs she does at every campaign stop, she denounced the governor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toll-road initiative as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153land grab\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a catastrophe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She said public roads are the way to go.
\nArriving 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.
\nAsked about it later on the campaign plane, the independent gubernatorial candidate just shook her head and laughed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Perry camp: Look Who Got Caught Riding a Toll Road The Master of the Hypocritical Flip-Flop: Carole Strayhorn NORTH DALLAS TOLLWAY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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 … Continue reading How did I miss this?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-rZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}