A Dallas Republican and an Austin environmental leader make an unlikely team that's urging legislators to use $1 billion of Texas’ surplus to help buy land...
The duo’s constrasting political beliefs and the divergent allies those differences attract have led to the most tantalizing and hopeful opportunity that Texas has had in at least three decades to finally buy and build enough state parks to catch up with a surging population.
This is another reason why the Deason and Metzger collaboration is notable and drawing interest, attention and support at the Capitol in Austin, even from Gov. Greg Abbott who has already publicly encouraged lawmakers to approve additional investments in parks. In the 1920s, as America entered the automobile age, many Texans, especially auto dealers and women’s groups, wanted a modern state highway system. National parks were just coming online and the car salesmen, garden clubs and women’s clubs called for a new system of state parks as well.
Their efforts caught on, said state parks historian and advocate George Bristol of Fort Worth. “It just was an idea whose time had come.” “It was a tenuous move at best,” said Bristol, whom former President Bill Clinton named to the National Parks Foundation. For the next 16 years, the Legislature did so only haltingly, diverting most of what’s now a $200 million annual revenue stream for other priorities. The 2001 Texas Tech study became a rallying cry. Commissioned by the department, it lamented that the system was falling far behind its growing population – and would need 1.4 million new acres.
Doug is the son of Affiliated Computer Services billionaire Darwin Deason. Doug Deason has been on the board of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. A few years ago, he successfully advocated “right on crime” bills in Congress and the Texas Legislature. He’s still active on that front. This session, he’s chairman of Texans for Free Enterprise, which is pushing state-funded education savings accounts, which would help families afford private schools.
Though Metzger and Deason said they’ve jointly met with a few lawmakers, they generally work the ones they’ve long cultivated – for Metzger, mostly Democrats; for Deason, mostly Republicans.
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