"The Sunset staff recommendation to abolish the 'fundamentally flawed' TRCC [Texas Residential Construction Commission] now goes to the lawmaker-controlled Sunset Advisory Commission, which will offer its own advice on the matter to the very legislature that huddled with homebuilders to create this lemon agency in 2003."

You've GOT to see this article.

QUESTION: Did the Texas home building industry, which brings in some $35 Billion per year, buy its way into favorable regulation (or lack thereof) at the expense of consumers? That's the impression one gets from this damning report. The top builder contributor was Houston builder Perry Homes ($2,877,299), and the top recipient was Texas Governor Rick Perry ($649,218).

Lobby Watch
9/25/2008

Source: http://www.tpj.org/page_view.jsp?pageid=1336&pubid=1106

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