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No secrets – Who and What? – “Texans for Lawsuit Reform”.

Now that’s a special interest group. Who are they? They are a group funded by Bob Perry, Speaker Craddick, Dr Leininger and their friends who think justice is a quaint anachronism. “Out of control courts”, “runaway juries”, “activist judges”: all of these are code for justice, but skewed to sound wrong.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC is all about corporate special interests. Special interests who want nothing but free reign to run roughshod over Texas and Texans. They can’t have courts, attorneys and the government standing in their way. You may have heard them shout about “free markets” and “de-regulation”. You’ve seen where unbridled de-regulation gets us. Credit default swaps imploding and Wall Street’s credit markets paralyzed out of fear of the unknown complexities of the global market.

Make no mistake, their Political Action Committee has an innocuous name, sounding like it is about one issue, out to protect small business – but it is the same old corporate power special interests in play. They have no interest in small business or entrepreneurship. Their bought and paid for representatives are there to serve their corporate masters first. It is not as obvious as all that to these representatives; they have been convinced of their righteous positions. These are the same interests who repeal environmental regulations, who care nothing for the “reform” to the Texas Franchise tax that rolled a steamroller over small business, and left a Mack truck size loophole for the energy producers industry to drive through.

They are after more than just than their pet lawsuit reform – what a good idea that sounds like! – we just need to put the brakes on those greedy trial lawyers. Surely they serve no decent social purpose, especially when we have government regulatory agencies to protect our families from greed… We don’t need the courts, for we have already achieved ubiquitous common decency; social consciousness in our corporate decision making. No, it is not pleasant to admit: our society is not that perfect, yet. We still need trial attorneys and the community organizations so many of them support, to crusade against the wrongs in society, and a jury of our peers to investigate and decide on matters of right and wrong. After all, didn’t our forefathers fight and die for this dear freedom, this tenet of our free society? Apparently, to these special interests: these old ideas are misplaced; outmoded. By any means necessary to knock them down; To reduce our government from three branches to two; and then perhaps to one.

And there it is, why I dare to stand up and serve.

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