Subject: RE: RESEARCH REQUEST: Texas and transportation
From: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
To: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>, "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, RR2 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:24:04 -0700

Cool, thanks Brinster!

From: Brinster, Jeremy
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 8:23 PM
To: Garcia, Walter; Dillon, Lauren; RR2
Subject: RE: RESEARCH REQUEST: Texas and transportation

There really isn't anything very damaging out there that I've seen. The Republicans in the Texas legislature look to be in favor of pretty massive spending on highway infrastructure, the worst thing I've seen is that they refuse to raise taxes to do so (and want to rely on shifting other spending instead): https://www.news-journal.com/news/2016/may/16/panel-of-area-experts-transportation-dependent-on-/ Also, here's an infrastructure report card with info from 2012: http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/state-facts/texas

I think you'd have to tie it to Congress if you want to hit on infrastructure.

From: Garcia, Walter
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 7:32 PM
To: Dillon, Lauren; RR2
Subject: RE: RESEARCH REQUEST: Texas and transportation

Yup, talked to them, and they unfortunately do not have this.

From: Dillon, Lauren
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 7:20 PM
To: Garcia, Walter; RR2
Subject: RE: RESEARCH REQUEST: Texas and transportation

Have you talked to the state party and do they have some examples before we do this?

From: Garcia, Walter
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 6:54 PM
To: RR2
Subject: RESEARCH REQUEST: Texas and transportation

Hi team,

Can you please pull research on how Texas has been impacted by Republican obstruction on infrastructure spending/anything else that you think might be relevant?

Thx!

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Walter Garcia
Western Regional Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
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