Comments on: Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s Mouth http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/23/why-i-love-blogging-part-242-hearing-it-from-the-horses-mouth/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:10:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Barack Obama » Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s Mouth http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/23/why-i-love-blogging-part-242-hearing-it-from-the-horses-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-132097 Barack Obama » Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s Mouth Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:28:30 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/23/why-i-love-blogging-part-242-hearing-it-from-the-horses-mouth/#comment-132097 [...] Deep Jive Interests wrote an interesting post today on Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s MouthHere’s a quick excerpt You may have heard about one Texas Senator, named Kirk Watson, an how he spectacularly flubbed on national television, when, as a Barack Obama supporter, was grilled by Chris Matthews (on CNBC) about Obama’s record — and came up blank. Thanks to things like blogs, Mr. Watson gets to set the record straight on his own terms and without being misquoted.  And in fact does so right on his own blog. What’s refreshing is that this a great post.  From a politician, its refreshingly honest, insofar a [...]

]]> By: Sal "The Muckraker" Costello http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/23/why-i-love-blogging-part-242-hearing-it-from-the-horses-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-132091 Sal "The Muckraker" Costello Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/23/why-i-love-blogging-part-242-hearing-it-from-the-horses-mouth/#comment-132091 THE FACT IS Sen. Kirk Watson is a snake. And, Karma is a bitch. It’s just too bad that it has to make a presidential candidate look bad. In October, Sen. Kirk Watson voted to ignore the public and divert nearly a Billion tax dollars to convert portions of Austin existing freeways (183, 290W, 290E, 71E, and 71W) into tollways. This is a Gov. Perry scheme to shift freeways to tollways. Why is Watson selling out citizens for special interests? This double tax, of tolling drivers to use public expressways to drive to work, school and shop, benefits Watson contributors, developers he was hired to lobby for and the City of Austin, who pays Watson $450 an hour to do land deals. http://salcostello.blogspot.com/ THE FACT IS Sen. Kirk Watson is a snake.

And, Karma is a bitch. It’s just too bad that it has to make a presidential candidate look bad.

In October, Sen. Kirk Watson voted to ignore the public and divert nearly a Billion tax dollars to convert portions of Austin existing freeways (183, 290W, 290E, 71E, and 71W) into tollways. This is a Gov. Perry scheme to shift freeways to tollways.

Why is Watson selling out citizens for special interests?

This double tax, of tolling drivers to use public expressways to drive to work, school and shop, benefits Watson contributors, developers he was hired to lobby for and the City of Austin, who pays Watson $450 an hour to do land deals.

http://salcostello.blogspot.com/

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