Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas
Liberty has a price and a continual surveillance police-state is not something that I subscribe to as being a good idea" Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson tells Insiders Jim Cardle regarding the recent revelations & focus on national security breaches or personal online and phone privacy concerns.
Whether its the 4th Amendment the 5th Amendment or the 2nd Amendment that Im most closely associated with as the author of Texas Concealed Hand Gun Law that we passed back in 1993 (as a then Texas State Senator) ... I would submit to you that the 1st Amendment Right the Freedom of the Press is today actually under equal or greater threat" said Patterson.
As Texas Land Commissioner Patterson plays an instrumental role in many of Texas economic issues and he is also an announced candidate in the 2014 Lieutenant Governors race.
Join Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson as he tells Insiders Jim Cardle exactly whats in store for his race.
Susan Combs was a rumored candidate for Lieutenant Governor I am a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. I have been for about a year & a half and Im not backing up. People around the state want someone who is straight with them ... and I want to be the straight guy" says Patterson. The General Land Office manages about 13 million acres out of about 172 million acres that make up that iconic shape we all know as Texas. And that 13 million is not all surface land ... 2½ million are submerged in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nonetheless between the Permanent School Fund (PSF) and the Permanent University Fund were setting records in revenue primarily because of the oil & gas boom particularly oil said Patterson of his role as Texas Land Commissioner.
We need more leaders who are going to do whats best for Texas and who dont care about the political consequences ... the blogs the pundits the editorial boards.
Just be straight with folks and tell them what youre going to do" Patterson said of his Lt. Governors effort.
