Hutchison rightly nails toll roads as “permanent tax raise”

Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, expected to officially announce her campaign for governor against incumbent Tricky Ricky Perry next week, nailed the Trans Texas Corridor dead-on Friday:

“Using toll roads as a permanent tax raise is not good public policy,” she said. “A 50-year lease on a toll road is never meant to be a free road. That is Governor Perry’s transportation strategy and I disagree with it.”

Go, go.

I don’t trust any currently announced Democratic candidate (or Kirk Watson) to beat Perry if he beats Hutchison. Tom Schieffer is probably either clueless about, or else supportive of, the Trans Texas Corridor.