Fred Hill |
After the jump, what Fred Hill has been up to lately.
Fred Hill retired from the legislature after the 2007 session and became a paid lobbyist for several north Texas cities and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). Hill explained his lobbying goals to "Texas Watchdog":
"[It] boils down to local control. I'm not down in Austin asking anybody to give any money to anybody. I'm just simply there to try to protect local governments and keep them from having to come up with the money to mandates simply because some legislator thought it was a great idea. We constantly get these great ideas without the money to fund them."
Recent issues Hill has been involved with include property tax caps and use of local sales tax revenues to fund public transit. Hill lobbies for local control over those issues and resists attempts from Austin to dictate to local government what they can and cannot do. Some who value tax cuts/freezes/caps more highly than local autonomy attempt to paint Hill as being an enemy of taxpayers. To me, he's living up to the principles he stood for in his battle against autocratic rule in Austin in 2007.
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