We returned from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia representing Texas at the Southern Cross Conference for 2007. Last year at the SCC in Old Sawmill Town we laid out specific goals to be accomplished by each state during the upcoming year. When the results were posted at this year’s Conference only Texas had met those goals.
While I am terribly proud of those riders who put in the effort and money to keep Texas Riders at the forefront of the fight for Liberty, I could see no reason to travel that many miles to point it out to others. The concept was good but nearly all who attended the Conference agreed that other states were not yet prepared to meet such stringent goals at this time. Regrettably we voted to disband the SCC until sometime in the future.
Gwen & I were hosted by my little Brother Penny and her husband Bernie up on their own little part of the mountains (56 acres). The weather was perfect and I was able to breathe like brand new. Penny rode me all around her mountain in their Honda Trail Wagon and the rest of the time I rode it all over the Blue Ridge Mountains when we weren’t busy.
National Traffic Safety Bureau’s scary statistics intended to prompt Legislatures to require motorcycle helmets.
Note this is NOT any type of federal helmet law. Some very slanted stats were put together by the NTSB with recommendations that all states reinstate a mandatory adult helmet law. When confronted with facts like "There has been a very large increase in the number of motorcycles on the road today", their response was "All the more reason to have a helmet law, there are more riders out there to get killed." Normal unelected officials double talk.
Legislators in several states have said it won’t happen in their state.
Others are already making noises like they will introduce a Bill next session including Florida, Pennsylvania and others.
Texas Riders can be certain that Senator Carona will jump on this opportunity with both feet but we have plenty of riders to keep it from happening if we will all join in the effort to stop it.
TMRA 2 will be on it as soon as it is introduced We will pass the word immediately to all concerned.
With the new Task Force members to be trained in each Regional COC and the ever present support from Texas Abate Confederation we will have the man power to make sure nothing comes of such a Bill. We showed Carona this session we could stop him in his tracks. In fact we will pre-file our own helmet law amendment Bill in October and begin talking to them about it to show we are still united.
Dana will be in charge of teaching the COC members the basics of working campaigns and dealing with legislators. If the Jimmie Vaughan Concert is a success then we will be able to travel the state doing workshops on the finer points of how to win elections and successfully move our Bills into becoming law. We will be selling chances on the 2001 Suzuki Volusia 800 during the Concert. It is customized with a beautiful custom paint job and will be on display at the concert. The bike has only 2800 actual miles and will make someone a great ride. (I sure hope it is me.) ha ha ha
Terri’s computer went down hard. The motherboard and hard drive both crashed. We were unable to salvage the Member List from the hard drive and it must be completely rebuilt from the applications stored in the filing cabinets. This will be a major chore and can only be worked on for short periods at a time until after the Jimmy Vaughn Concert this Saturday. Bear with us and we will get everything back on track as soon as possible.
The Howl-O-Weeen Rally at Groesbeck will be held on the first weekend of November at the Lost Prairie Cycles Ranch. The drawing for the Suzuki Volusia will be held on Saturday night at this Rally. There will be a $1000 gift given to the largest Club in Colors during the Awards Ceremony.
The official count will be taken at the registration gate for those members paying for their registration wearing their OWN PERSONAL CLUB COLORS.
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