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ATTENTION: Monday, June 27th: if you’re able to go to the Capitol. Please go to the rotunda 2nd floor, West wing. Go to the pages desk & ask to fill out a message card to your member. The page will then hand carry your note onto the House floor to your member. You may then watch the proceedings from the gallery (on the 3rd floor) or attend the Sen. Transp. Comm. hearing to register your support of HB 41/SB29 (attached and safe to open).

PLEASE SHARE!!!

Steve Baysinger
Chair, Tenth Amendment Center (Texas)

http://tenthamendmendmentcenter.com

(From New American)

Excerpt: Those paying attention to recent events in the Texas Legislature know that a battle royal has been raging for weeks over the Travelers’ Dignity Act, the anti-TSA groping bill sponsored by state Representative David Simpson. The bill would make Transportation Security Administration agents liable for sexual assault when groping passengers without probable cause in their invasive airport searches.

Looks like Texas House Speaker Joe Strauss has unilaterally overturned the will of the people of Texas to deny the TSA free reign to grope and fondle us. The anti-TSA groping bill had unanimous support in the Texas House, and was poised to pass the Senate, too, when the Feds sent a letter threatening to turn Texas into a “no-fly” zone and 10 senators withdrew their support, to their eternal shame and disgrace.

There is still a chance that this bill can become law in Texas and force the TSA to adhere to Constitutional limits on searches of citizens. There must be PROBABLE CAUSE, not merely a “reasonable suspicion.”

Concerned Texans all across the state are rallying their fellow citizens to call once again and put pressure on the offices of Governor Rick Perry (512/463-2000), Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst (512/463-0001), and Speaker Joe Straus (512/463-1000) to pass the bill.

More than 5,300 Texans have now signed a letter calling on members of the Texas House to elect a conservative as the state’s third-ranking constitutional officer!    

The signatories include 132 tea party organizers, Republican leaders and conservative movement activists, and more than 5,200 individual Texans. They come from all regions of the state, and are united in wanting the Texas House led by a conservative.    

The letter and most updated list of signers can be found online:

http://www.empowertexans.com/issues/letter_on_leadership      

While the letter is not an endorsement of any candidate for speaker, it does notes that the near super-majority of Republicans in the Texas House is “a mandate for conservative policy leadership.” The signers add that “[a] change to a more conservative Speaker is in order. The voters who labored hard for this conservative majority expect it to diligently represent their conservative values.”     

Individuals can add their name at ConservativeSpeakerMandate.com.

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