- just a few of the laws passed in our State since the Lt. Governor was elected.
It’s wrong to say that Dewhurst is running on the Governor’s record. As I’m sure you know, Texas has a quirky system, where our Lieutenant Governor is more powerful than our Governor in many respects. At the very least, they’ve formed a great partnership in the service of Texas If you want to know what Lt. Governor Dewhurst will do in the US Senate, look at just some of the laws he’s helped pass over the last 10 yrs:

Women’s Right to Know Act, an informed Consent law for abortion with 24 hour waiting period, 2003;
Prenatal Protection Act which declared the unborn an “individual” – a person in Texas law – “from fertilization until natural death,” 2003,
Defense of Marriage Act, 2003, with a Second law passed to amend our State Constitution, 2005;
Parental consent for abortion, 2005;
Tort reform, 2005;
Decreased school property tax by 1/3, 2007;
Jessica’s Law, 2009,
Loser Pays, 2011;
De-funded abortionists, including Planned Parenthood, 2011;
Prohibited illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses, 2011;
Photo Voter ID, 2011;
Blocked the law written specifically to force Texas to follow the Democrat’s call to raise school spending at 2009 stimulus levels, 2011;
Sonogram Bill, requiring the abortionist to offer the mother a chance to see her child and hear the heartbeat;
Castle Law 2009 that allows Texans to use deadly force to defend themselves against threats, without having to prove they tried to “retreat”to safety;
Stronger protection for Concealed Carry Permit holders every session since 2003:
Balanced our budget every two years, even when there were projected shortfalls in 2003, 2009, 2011;
Every year since 2005, Texas has spent at least $100Million of our tax dollars to augment border security and that number was doubled in 2011.

Governor Perry, with the help of Lt. Gov. Dewhurst and the Texas Senate, refused to accept those “Stimulus funds” for education and unemployment insurance that would have forced us to change our laws in 2011. Yes, we used some stimulus funds that didn’t require us to change our laws, but, as our former Senator, Phil Gramm said,

“(I)f the Congress had a vote on whether to build a cheese factory on the Moon, I would oppose it based on what I know now, and I cannot imagine the circumstance under which I would support it. But on the other hand, if Congress in its lack of wisdom decided to start a cheese factory on the Moon, I would want a Texas firm to do the engineering, I would want a Texas construction firm to do the construction, I would want the milk to come from Texas cows, and I would want the celestial distribution center to be in Dallas, Texas, or College Station, Texas, or somewhere else in my State.”

These are just the highlights of a career that began the same year that 11 Democrat Senators left Austin on a supporter’s plane in order to hide out in Albuquerque New Mexico for a full month in order to deny the Senate a Quorum and avoid losing the votes on Congressional redistricting.

You might have read that Dewhurst increased taxes, with the misleading statistic that our revenues went up over the last 10 years. Increased revenues do not necessarily mean increased taxes! They also go up with the growth of the economy. Texas’ population went up over 20% and our State added more jobs than all the other States combined in the same time period. These were good jobs, and they went to legal residents who come into our State at the rate of 1000 people a WEEK! The fact is that even the Club for Growth, who is now backing Mr. Cruz, stated last year that Texas’ spending has actually gone down over the last 10 years, when adjusted for population and inflation.

How did we spend that money? Mr Cruz knows exactly how: he was the lawyer who worked out a deal in Federal Court when he was Solicitor General that bound the State to increase spending on Medicaid. He uses this spending from his agreement against the Lt. governor.

You might also read that Dewhurst supported a “payroll tax,” or even an “income tax.” These accusations are based on words in a press release and an editorial against the Lt Governor, from 2006. These weren’t the words used in the Bill that is bandied about, and that Bill never became law. In the law that was eventually passed, there are three ways to calculate our State business franchise tax. One of those is a tax based on employee pay, minus benefits. But there are two other ways, and the business chooses the best way for them. More telling is that our Attorney General won the case proving that the tax is not an income tax, last November. Cruz knew that his claim was wrong as from the beginning of his ads and web campaign against Dewhurst.

To the comments about ads, there have been many showing Dewhurst’s accomplishments and endorsements. The negatives get the “press.”

Claiming that Dewhurst is “big spending” and raises taxes? The Club for Growth, when it was backing Perry last year, praised Texas spending and taxing history as “excellent,” and noted that our spending is *down* compared to inflation and population.

All we have for Ted Cruz’ record is his law cases since he became head of the Appellate division of his law firm. As a man contemplating or running for Texas Senate, he should have shown better judgment than to have gone near the two cases that are the subjects of the ads. He shouldn’t have argued that US patent law doesn’t apply in the Fishman case and that the only victims in the Mericle case was the IRS.

You might have read that Dewhurst increased taxes, with the misleading statistic that our revenues went up over the last 10 years. Increased revenues do not necessarily mean increased taxes! They also go up with the growth of the economy. Texas? population went up over 20% and our State added more jobs than all the other States combined in the same time period. These were good jobs, and they went to legal residents who come into our State at the rate of 1000 people a WEEK! The fact is that even the Club for Growth, who is now backing Mr. Cruz, stated last year that Texas? spending has actually gone down over the last 10 years, when adjusted for population and inflation.

How did we spend that money? Mr Cruz knows exactly how: he was the lawyer who worked out a deal in Federal Court when he was Solicitor General that bound the State to increase spending on Medicaid. He uses this spending from his agreement against the Lt. governor.

and Cruz’ own words in January are that the IRS is the only victim. In order to get the judges to make Traveler’s Insurance pay the court fees and the Civil judgment, Cruz attempted to prove Mericle not guilty of that Civil ruling. http://www.scribd.com/doc/99513725/Mericle-Appeal-Argument-Transcript

based his ads on the Federal Senate race. Take a look at the ads on anmnesty, Obamacare, Cut Cap and Balance etc., all the way back.to July, 2011http://www.daviddewhurst.com/home?page=39

And this was the first negative ad from Cruz that caught my attention in early Fall, 2011. Politifact Texas noted that Cruz was spreading this one in the handout he gave to reporters about Dewhurst (and only Dewhurst) in January. They ruled it a “Pants on Fire” lie. http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/feb/10/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-david-dewhurst-has-record-promoting-/