Taxpayer funded lobbying

Frank Sturzl (recently retired as the Executive Director), who has headed the lobby association Texas Municipal League, is joining a binaries lobby firm - Hillco Partners. He will be director of municipal practices.

Yes, taxpayers, our opposition to taxpayer-funded lobbying has resulted in firms beefing up their gravy train practice. Taxpayers - you are funding this effort. Hillco Partners is only one of a number of lobby firms along with individuals who lobby using your tax dollars...often lobbying to raise your taxes. Hillco Partners last session earned as much as a million dollars or more lobbying the state legislature on behalf of local governments.

AFP has a solution -- rely on your elected officials at the local and state levels to communicate with one another and act in your best interests. We should not be paying lobbyists from public funds. Period.

From friends at AFP.