Taylor: Bandera — the Hill Country town that showed true grit and said no to corporate welfare
William Luther, Staff / StaffIn a rare example of citizen activism to stop corporate welfare, residents of Bandera — “Cowboy Capital of the World” — banded together on Valentine’s Day to kill a proposed tax break intended to spur “economic development.”
The school district in Bandera, “Cowboy Capital of the World,” seen here in 2004, saw beyond the promise of easy money when a solar company rode into town with a Chapter 313 request. The Hill Country community was united against the tax subsidy.The company’s approach to school trustees began in June, according to Brittany Hicks, the school board president. She told me she was skeptical about the proposal but felt a fiduciary duty to learn more.
The difference in Bandera, however, were troublemakers like Lauren Byington, Rene Leith and Susan Hull. I mean the “good trouble, necessary trouble,” as U.S. Rep. John Lewis would have called their activism. Finally, she said, the massive scale of Montague Solar’s project threatened the tourism livelihood of the area. “We are in the middle of the beautiful Texas Hill Country,” Leith said. “We are a tourist-oriented county and this would impact that.”. She published data on topics from the scale of the power generation to other Chapter 313 projects statewide.After her online activism began in November it became a locus of opposition for the community.
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