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Founder Linda Curtis
Independent Texans
PO Box 6718 *** Austin, TX 78762
512-535-0989 *** indytexans.org
EMAIL: info1@indytexans.org
Available for Interview
Linda Curtis
ON THE NEW TEXAS TWO STEP
HOW THE STATE OF TEXAS WENT FROM BEING
A NATIONAL POSTER CHILD OF PARTISAN DYSFUNCTION TO
HAVING TWO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
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Linda Curtis is the leading spokesperson, analyst and tactician for the Texas independent political movement. An impassioned advocate for independent voters and a seasoned organizer, Curtis has fought against the corrupting effects of partisanship for over 25 years.
Curtis has been involved in the electoral campaigns of over 100 insurgent and independent candidates from the local to the national level and organized in over 20 states. With roots in the anti-war and women's health movements of the 1970's, she was a leading national field organizing for the ground breaking independent presidential campaign of Dr. Lenora Fulani who in 1988 became first woman and first African American to qualify for the ballot in all 50 states.
After the 1992 elections, Curtis became involved in a joint effort with the Perot movement (Perot joined the effort later) to create a multiracial, pro-reform, national political party-the Reform Party.
In 2001 she founded Independent Texans (indytexans.org) - an association of 500 independent and ticket-splitting voters which seeks political recognition for the state's approximate 4.2 million independent voters.
Curtis has championed numerous political reform initiatives on the local level including: statewide initiative and referendum, campaign finance reform through a group she founded called Austinites for A Little Less Corruption!), toll tax relief as well as helping to successfully defeat the Austin City Council's decision to use public funds on a baseball stadium without voter approval. Currently, she is working alongside farmers, ranchers and suburbanites throughout the state attempting to take down the mega-special interest deal of Texas history -- the Trans Texas Corridor. The TTC is a project of Gov. Rick Perry's and the Texas Transportation Commission.
Curtis's political commentary on independent politics have been published in The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle (numerous times), the Austin American-Statesman, The San Antonio Express News, and the Waco Tribune. She has appeared as a political commentator on dozens of political talk radio programs around the state.
Born in 1951 in Miami, Florida, Ms. Curtis was the daughter of a sub-contractor and later cattle and horse rancher. She attended the University of Florida. She currently working fulltime as the Executive Director of Independent Texans.
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