South Texans’ Property Rights Association Supports Staples
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – “There is only one candidate who fully understands the issue and has a plan that can solve this huge disaster. I get discouraged when I hear candidates spouting one dimensional, hot button solutions without having any idea of what they are talking about,” said Lavoyger Durham, a South Texans’ Property Rights Association (STPRA) board member, as STPRA endorsed Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples and his campaign for Lieutenant Governor.
The South Texans’ Property Rights Association (STPRA) is a leading property rights and border security organization.
For years, Staples has spent time in the South Texas working with landowners who are threatened daily by cartel activity. He has taken savings from his agency to aid in the expansion of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Operation Drawbridge. This initiative installs and monitors low-cost, high-tech motion-detecting cameras on landowners’ properties to improve surveillance capabilities along the Texas/Mexico border.
“I am honored to receive the endorsement of the South Texans’ Property Rights Association. These tremendous Texas leaders recognize we need a proven advocate for property rights and border security as our next Lieutenant Governor,” Staples said.
“South Texas landowners are regularly becoming victims of intimidation, aggression and outright violence by armed trespassers that often have direct ties to Mexico’s drug cartels. As Lieutenant Governor I will work with property owners, law enforcement and the federal government to secure our border and reform immigration,” Staples said.
STPRA organized in 2006 to advocate for private-property owner rights. STPRA’s top issues include land rights, border security and immigration reform.
“Our whole organization was founded on the issue of border security,” said Lavoyger Durham, a STPRA board member.
“Todd has been down here to South Texas many times and has talked to us and gone all over our farms and ranches to understand the issue first-hand. He has done as much as any single office-holder in Texas to find a solution to the problem and bring it to the public’s attention. And he is the only one who has had the courage to talk about the real solution. As a board member of the South Texans’ Property Rights Association, I am very proud that we have endorsed him.”
Throughout his public service, Staples has been an advocate for private-property rights. He helped lead the effort to reform Texas’ eminent domain laws. In 2009, Staples recognized the abuse in the system and worked to pass a state constitutional amendment protecting landowners from eminent domain abuses.
Since January 2012, Operation Drawbridge has led to the apprehension of more than 18,000 individuals and the confiscation of nearly 40 tons of drugs. Staples has a six point plan to reform immigration that starts with border security, and it does not include amnesty.
To learn more about the South Texans’ Property Rights Association, please visit http://www.stpra.org/.
