Emails (excerpted), David Polyansky, president, New Strategies Group, June 13, 2014

 From: David Polyansky

Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 1:20 PM

To: Selby, Gardner (CMG-Austin)

Subject: Re: Inquiry for a PolitiFact Texas fact check

The executive summary of the 2030 Committee Report produced to TTI uses the 15 million figure on the first page

http://texas2030committee.tamu.edu/documents/final_03-2011_summary.pdf

The population projections in the State Water Plan projects 37.7 million people by 2040, a growth rate that averages 1,150 per day from 2010.

http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/state_water_plan/2012/03.pdf

Thanks!

David 

On Jun 13, 2014, at 5:20 PM, David Polyansky wrote:

In reviewing this, our focus was on the impact of population growth on the highway system.  We do have an average of 1,000 new Texans a day, but this includes natural population growth as well as in-migration.  This ad should be phrased differently, although the consequences to Texas drivers is the same.

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