51 Quotes by Kathy Walt

We felt very strongly that we needed a more bipartisan approach.

We certainly have been monitoring it at the governor's level and it is a concern, just as an increase in violence in the adult prison system would be a concern.

As the governor has said, once he has a bill or bills on his desk that substantially reduce property taxes and reform the business franchise tax, he'll open the call to other issues.

The state's hiring of a bipartisan lobby team helped us secure $5 billion in additional federal funding for Texas.

The state is not going to restrict their First Amendment rights, just as we don't restrict the political giving of thousands of people who contract with the state of Texas.

Once there is a bill on his desk addressing that, he's willing to open it to other issues.

This is still a legal matter and I think it would be the wrong time for the governor to weigh in. Let's let the legal system work.

There's a very good reason that right now the focus is on property tax reduction, and that is because the governor and the leadership see it as the way to address the Supreme Court mandate.

There's been a whole lot of disaster planning that has occurred since 1998, and what the governor has directed . . . is to pre-position assets, firefighters and equipment in location so they can be moved as quickly as possible to areas that have the need.