There is a new anti-Perry ad on the airwaves that brings up an old issue.

The Back to Basics Political Action Committee’s third ad criticizing Gov. Rick Perry focuses on the Trans Texas Corridor Project the governor once spearheaded.

"Rick Perry said he loves private property rights until he wanted to take people's homes and family farms," the ad states.

The ad is paid for by Houston trial lawyer Steve Mostyn. The ad may ring true from some of the rural Texans who opposed the project years ago.

"Perry would bulldoze half a million acres of private land and give it to a Spanish company to build toll roads and let the company set the tolls," the ad states.

Chris Lippincott is a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation.

"No company was ever given exclusive rights to develop a set of roads across Texas. That's not how Texas state law operates," he said.

Lippincott said the State Transportation Commission would have the final say on a project like the Trans Texas Corridor.

As for the half a million acres of private land, Lippincott said that was never practical. He said the project is dead and the accusations are outdated.

However, critics of the Trans Texas Corridor Project said it's still an issue.

"It's untrue the whole TTC project is dead, just the I-35 portion of it is dead," Chuck Young with Texas TURF, an anti-toll group, said.

Young said a key part of the corridor project is still in the works, but TXDOT officials said those plans have been radically changed.

"The question is not whether it's accurate today, it's whether is it a fair representation of what the argument was. And I'll leave that up to the viewers," Harvey Kronberg with the Quorum Report said.

Kronberg said when Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White is trying to gain rural voters, reminding them of such an issue could be helpful to his campaign.

White said he is not connected with the Back to Basics PAC. Kronberg said Mostyn is connected to White through campaign contributions.

"Mostyn, whether it's intended or not, is a gift to Bill White and has got to be driving the Perry folks crazy because they're good ads. They're the only ones on the air and the buy is big enough to make a difference," Kronberg said.

Perry spokesperson Mark Miner reiterated that the project is dead and added the jab, "much like Bill White's campaign."

Neither gubernatorial candidate has begun attack ads of their own.