HB 2024 provides an exception to the ten-year statute of repose found at Section 16.009 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code. Under the exception, the statute of repose is shortened to six years if a builder or contractor provides a written warranty.
if you would like to sue the builder responsible for the toxic mold in your house, i have bad news. that is that your governor s top campaign contributor is a zillion air homebuilder who does not want to be sued for toxic mold in texas. how is this? so you, texas resident, with mold in your house, you are out of luck. thanks to your governor, rick perry, in most cases you cannot sue your homebuilder. you, instead, have to put your complaint about the mold in your house through something called the texas residential construction commission. you re not allowed to sue. you have to go through this government board instead. after rick perry signed the law creating this board in 2003, his number one campaign contributor, the builder guy, sent rick perry two $50,000 checks for the governor s campaign. three weeks after the checks, according to the new york times this week, rick perry appointed an executive from that contributor s company to his board. to the board that means you can t sue.
family has toxic mold in your house. if you would like to sue the builder responsible for the toxic mold in your house, i have bad news. that is that your governor s top campaign contributor is a zillionaire homebuilder who does not want to be sued for toxic mold in texas. how is this? so you, texas resident, with mold in your house, you are out of luck. thanks to your governor, rick perry, in most cases you cannot sue your homebuilder. you, instead, have to put your complaint about the mold in your house through something called the texas residential construction commission. you re not allowed to sue. you have to go through this government board instead. after rick perry signed the law creating this board in 2003, his number one campaign contributor, the builder guy, sent rick perry two $50,000 checks for the governor s campaign. three weeks after the checks, according to the new york times this week, rick perry appointed an executive from that contributor s company to his board. to
and let me finish tonight with the consequences of voting before you think. we start with pay to play in texas. michael isikoff is nbc national news investigative correspondent and wayne slater is senior political reporter for the dallas morning news. i want to start with michael, who s been working this whole story. let s go straight to some alleged pay to play examples from governor perry s time in office. he s been in the office for a long time. texas home builder, bob perry gave $2.5 million to perry s gubernatorial campaigns. what did he get? the entire state agency was created. the texas residential construction commission to restrict lawsuits against builders like him. dallas billionaire harold simmons gave perry $1.1 million. what did he get? a license for a controversial nuclear waste dump in west texas owned by simmons company. texas accountant george brent ryan gave perry over $563,000. what d he get?
created down there. the texas residential construction commission to restrict that s the purpose of this agency lawsuits against builders over defective homes, which happen to be bob perry s personal crusade. hmm. you get what you pay for. dallas billionaire harold simmons gave perry $1.1 million. what did he get? a license for a controversial nuclear waste dump in west texas owned by simmons company. texas accountant george brent ryan gave perry over $972,000. what d he get? nearly $1 million in tax rebates for his company through an economic development board grant. well, there you have it. it looks to me like there s a pattern. we ve seen this in cities in this country, a lot of big cities play this game. you give money to the politicians, you get what you want. developers do it, it s crooked as hell. but when you re running for president, can you defend it? and is this going to be a part of this guy s problems. one of the things that happened during the debate which was inte