Good News: Engineering Firms Contributing to “Keep Houston Moving” PAC Also Contributed to the 2010 Prop 1 “Rain Tax” PAC

Yvonne Larsen

If you didn’t like the vote-buying, special interest, sweetheart dealings associated with the 2010 Proposition 1 “Rain Tax” imagine how thrilled you’d be to learn that some of those same engineering and related firms, still at work preserving their taxpayer subsidies, are now contributing to the “Keep Houston Moving” PAC.

What’s the “Keep Houston Moving” PAC?

Thanks to Charles Kuffner, this is the PAC behind the recent Houston Metro general mobility payments poll.  “ The poll was commissioned by Keep Houston Moving Forward PAC, a group formed to pass a ballot measure this fall that will determine the future of the mobility payments.” He wrote.

Here’s the contributions information:

As this Houston Chronicle piece noted in February 2010, the campaign for Renew Houston “could be led by some of the very engineers who could benefit the most from the infrastructure boom a referendum would initiate.” 

And so it is for Houston METRO through the Keep Houston Moving PAC  as well….