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My apologies for being so long getting out an update.
The road goes on forever and there never seem to be enough hours in the day or we just don’t use them wisely. We attended the Houston Area COC meeting last week and it was the largest turnout we have seen there in some time. We received promises of support for Legislative Day and the coming session. We didn’t get any members but they did take up a collection for travel expenses that came to $ 522.00. That helped us somewhat. Thanks to DF/W COC and the Houston COC our travel expenses are being pretty well covered right now. Hopefully some will join in the future.
Attended the Permian Basin Chapter meeting this week. Needless to say that trip cost $ 130 so you can see that travel is a tough decision on which trip to make or not. Dean and Jan will both be unable to make Legislative Day, Jan for health reasons and Dean’s job will have him out of state. Just wanted to impress on others how important Legislative Day and this session are to our cause. There was a TV crew at the meeting and Dean did a fine job representing our stand on specific issues for the coming session.
Not a whole lot going on at our capitol right now with everyone changing offices and getting ready for the Christmas and New Years holidays. However there are a couple of ridiculous Bills introduced by Rep. Tony Goolsby. That has been his forte for a good while. HB245 changes the seatbelt law to do away with the exemption for one ton vehicles. HB 246 seeks to set up Special Police Forces and Neighborhood Police Departments owned by private enterprises. These private police forces would have all the power of regular police officers except the power to write traffic tickets. Just what we need, more police officers. Especially those owned by private enterprise. Is Texas planning to set up Serfdoms like we are supposed to be getting rid of in Iraq?
While attending a committee hearing today we received a new calendar from Rep. Keel. After arriving back at the office we received another signed by Rep. Ryan Guillen. Now the secretary can keep track of our appointments.
Spoke with Rep. Pena on HJR 17 and learned that he was planning to support HJR 13 because his would take too many recorded votes. We told him to remove the part about hiring and firing people and stick with his Resolution. He seemed to be comfortable with that. Had planned to speak with Rep. Branch also about HJR 13 but he wasn’t in today.
Mike came down and spent Sunday tutoring Terry, our new secretary, on how to use the membership program. She seemed to get the hang of it by processing some memberships with Mike there to answer any questions. We will be making some changes in membership once she gets her feet on the ground. Most changes will be to improve communication with members. We will make a list of all the Email addresses on the membership list and use those for quick response messages during this session.
This now lets Mike get back to spending full time doing what he is best at and will improve the association’s efficiency.
We will be sending out notices to those who have expired in the past year to make them aware of what is happening legislatively and ask them to join our efforts again. We will also be sending out notices to those who will be expiring prior to their expiration date. We are hoping to put this association back on it’s feet and reinstill the pride you felt at being a Warrior.
It appears Kansas may be getting close to a helmet battle in their state once again. Guess neither side ever really gives up.
For those who have been getting and forwarding the message about the release of cell numbers to telemarketers you can rest at ease. This is a Hoax!!! Checked it out on the gov. site and it is illegal for telemarketers to call you on any number that requires you to pay the charges. This includes all the variations of 800 #’s.
We will be working in the office tomorrow and then go back to the hospital on Wednesday. To get the results of the tests ran last week. My cell phone will still be on and I can get Emails from home.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Have I done that which I can do to the best of my ability?
HELL NO !! - but I'm trying.
Sputnik
