Border Coalition Ready to Spend $20k a Month to Fight Wall

By Steve Taylor
Rio Grande Guardian

BROWNSVILLE, August 2 – The Texas Border Coalition executive committee has tentatively agreed to hire a top management and communications consulting firm to help get its message out to Middle America and win political support for its agenda in Washington, D.C.

At a cost of around $20,000 a month, Austin-based ViaNovo would work on one issue of immediate importance to TBC – stopping or slowing down the construction of a border wall. A longer term goal would be securing more federal dollars for infrastructure projects at border ports of entry.

“To deal with Middle America, we need a professional effort to push this effort in a professional way, in the media and in Washington,” said TBC treasurer Mike Allen….