{"id":208370,"date":"2012-08-23T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208370"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:20:09","slug":"cornyn-visits-tyler-to-hear-small-business-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208370","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn Visits Tyler to Hear Small Business Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=208371\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/thumb_johncornyn1-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_johncornyn\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-208371\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Small businesses across the country: struggling, not only to turn a profit, but just keep their doors open.  KETK reports some are getting a little sympathy from Washington.   Texas Senator John Cornyn dropped by Tyler Wednesday lending an ear to some East Texans trying to turn a profit in this shaky economy.   Four men representing three very different East Texas businesses met with Cornyn to discuss very similar concerns.  Cornyn commented that one common theme is uncertainty &#8212; about regulation, taxes, and the cost of doing business. The senator says, &#8220;Businesses like these are unwilling, for good reason, to hire new employees and to make any significant investment in growing their businesses because they just don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s gonna happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Chamblee, owner of Chamblee Rose Nursery in Tyler, hosted the discussion.    Chamblee says the meeting definitely gave Cornyn an unfiltered view of exactly what&#8217;s happening.   What the businessmen are up against are rising costs of operation and trepidation about expanding their businesses &#8212; and they don&#8217;t feel the president understands their importance to the economy.   One participant chimed in that without such businesses, &#8220;There would be no taxes to collect to build a road, to build a bridge, or to hire policeman, or to get an inspector or to even fund the president&#8217;s job.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>Both the senator and the business owners believe Wednesday&#8217;s discussion will go a long way in making their voices heard in Washington.    Cornyn says, &#8220;I think this is a powerful way to tell a story that people would not otherwise listen to.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Small businesses across the country: struggling, not only to turn a profit, but just keep their doors open. KETK reports some are getting a little sympathy from Washington. Texas Senator John Cornyn dropped by Tyler Wednesday lending an ear to some East Texans trying to turn a profit in this shaky economy. Four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornyn Visits Tyler to Hear Small Business Concerns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 10:56:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208370"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208644,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208370\/revisions\/208644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}