As the Texas House of Representatives prepares to consider lawsuit abuse reform legislation (SB 30), billboard attorneys are in overdrive trying to protect their profits with desperate, baseless attacks. Earlier this month, Sens. Charles Schwertner and Lois Kolkhorst thoroughly debunked the baseless attacks, including that the bill would falsely somehow protect communist countries like China.
KOLHORST: Does this bill have anything to do with China?
SCHWERTNER: This bill has absolutely nothing to do with China. … I’m not for sure what the angle is from China.
KOLHORST: Let me read you a line, OK? “Communist China will soon have a green light to poison and maim Texans like you.”
SCHWERTNER: It’s ludicrous and completely false. …
KOLHORST: Does this bill in any way, in any way, protect China?
SCHWERTNER: Absolutely not.
KOLHORST: Or a communist country?
SCHWERTNER: No.
KOLHORST: Or a communist company?
SCHWERTNER: No.
As billboard attorneys stand in the way of commonsense reforms to protect consumers, they will do or say anything to try to prevent reforms from being enacted into law, including threatening former employees and businesses that support reforms. As their bottom lines are threatened by reform and increased transparency, their attacks will continue to ramp up. PACT will not let them stand in the way of progress.