The website of H2O4Texas is hosted by a former legislative director to Texas State Senator Kip Averitt, former State Senator Averitt himself is advocating passage of Prop 6, and a former Texas Water Development Board project manager emerged in support of Prop 6 passage. Is there coordination between former & current elected officials of Texas and current employees of Texas state agencies to shill for passage of Prop 6? Hard working, taxpaying middle class Texans need to know before going to the polls, as early voting begins in a few short weeks.
A search on whois.net using www.h2o4texas.org reveals the domain was created on August 6th, 2009 and was last updated on June 6th, 2013. A Josh Meeks of Austin, Texas is listed as the registrant of the domain. Last week BJP published this post reporting Texas State Senators Tommy Williams and Troy Fraser serve as honorary co-chairs of another group, Texans For Prop 6-Yes. That’s one clue that some advocates of Prop 6 passage are representative of elected officials of Texas and are anything BUT representative of middle-class Texans.
So who is Josh Meeks? Is his support of H2O4Texas impartial and truly representative of everyday middle class Texans? Or is he associated with a former elected official?
According to a LinkedIn profile, there is a Josh Meeks of Austin, Texas who lists his current role as “Legislative Director / Communications Director at State Senator Kip Averitt”
Tsk, tsk Josh. Time to update your LinkedIn profile; Texas State Senator Kip Averitt stepped down from his seat in March 2010 citing health problems.
There is a also a Josh Meeks serving as Director at ROSS Communications. The website for ROSS Communications contains a biography of Josh Meeks that reads ” …where he served a communications director and legislative director for state Senator Kip Averitt, and as communications director for the Senate Committee on Natural Resources.”
The Josh Meeks of ROSS Communications appears to be the same Josh Meeks listed in the LinkedIn profile I referenced earlier.
Former Texas State Senator Kip Averitt BTW now serves a team member of Averitt & Associates and as a Board of Trustee of the Texas Water Foundation. The H2O4Texas website also publishes the logo of Averitt & Associates under the section “Keystone Sponsors.”
Lastly, one Angela Dean Kennedy posted a comment on this blog in support of Prop 6.
Once again I headed to Linkedin and found an Angela Kennedy currently serving as an Engineer at DSHS since May 2013 after previously serving as Project Manager for the Texas Water Development Board.
Just your average, middle class Texans in support of Prop 6 passage right?
