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If you’ve already contacted Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst’s office and told him that you support campus carry, this is what we need you to do THIS WEEKEND:

Send an email to the nineteen Senators listed below (you can include all 19 Senators in one mass email), asking them to support Senator Wentworth’s amendment to Senate Bill 5. Give a brief explanation (as short as one sentence or as long as 300 words) of why you support campus carry. If you’re currently affiliated with a college or university, be sure to mention the college and your affiliation (i.e., "I’m a student at Texas Tech,” “I teach at Texas A&M,” “I’m employed by the University of Texas,” “I have a daughter at the University of North Texas,” etc). And as always, be sure to include your name, address, and phone number. You can say that campus carry is completely germane to SB5 and campus carry is the most important legislation that we need passed for higher education this year.

These nineteen Senators currently support campus carry, but our opponents are trying to dissuade them from supporting Senator Wentworth’s amendment to SB 5, claiming that a vote to attach Wentworth’s amendment is nothing more than a vote to kill SB 5. We must persuade these legislators to be unwavering in their support of campus carry!

SENATE EMAIL ADDRESSES:

brian.birdwell@senate.state.tx.us
john.carona@senate.state.tx.us
bob.deuell@senate.state.tx.us
robert.duncan@senate.state.tx.us
kevin.eltife@senate.state.tx.us
craig.estes@senate.state.tx.us
troy.fraser@senate.state.tx.us
chris.harris@senate.state.tx.us
district18.hegar@senate.state.tx.us
joan.huffman@senate.state.tx.us
mike.jackson@senate.state.tx.us
jane.nelson@senate.state.tx.us
robert.nichols@senate.state.tx.us
dan.patrick@senate.state.tx.us
kel.seliger@senate.state.tx.us
florence.shapiro@senate.state.tx.us
carlos.uresti@senate.state.tx.us
john.whitmire@senate.state.tx.us
tommy.williams@senate.state.tx.us

done, and also E-mailed Dewhurst again
http://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/contact.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and FAX
512-463-0677 (FAX)
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Usually, mine are too lengthy, I kept it shorter this time:
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Please support Senator Wentworth’s amendment 7 to Senate Bill 5

If SB 5 disappears, please support any and all Campus Carry bills.

I was on Staff at San Jacinto College and at University of Houston.
I support campus carry by licensees.
I am NOT a member of any NRA or other organization.
I vote.
Thank you very, very much.

BTW, before I get chewed out ...
I never said I don't "contribute" to pro-gun organizations, only that I'm not a "member" (yet)

Hope y'all got some use out of those holsters I sent you at "Empty Holster Week" and even if y'all didn't, I hope someone can use them

Done for all 20. Lengthy (you folks knew that already.. ), but all I can do is hope it makes a difference.

I actually have a nephew going into college this fall, so I have a stake in this. Will email tonight.

I will fax them all tonight and tomorrow.

Monday May 2
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/ ... 110502.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Regular order of business calendar
REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS
Monday
May 2, 2011

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

SB 5 (CS) (LC) Zaffirini
Relating to the administration and business affairs of public institutions of higher education.
Committee report printed and distributed 06:20 PM, 04/11/11
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It's also back on the Intent calendar
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLook ... ll=SB00005" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
S Placed on intent calendar 05/02/2011
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/ ... 110502.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
NOTICE OF INTENT
Monday
May 2, 2011
SCR 39 (LC) Shapiro
Designating the month of April each year from 2011 through 2020 as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
Committee report printed and distributed 04:38 PM, 04/26/11

SB 5 (CS) (LC) Zaffirini
Relating to the administration and business affairs of public institutions of higher education.
Committee report printed and distributed 06:20 PM, 04/11/11
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So, E-mail and Fax today

Lt Gov Dewhurst ... and...

your own Senator... and...

Please Email these 19 Senators Today!!!
See: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=44657" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





Hopefully some thinkin' and talkin' occurred. Kinda looks like it, but I guess we'll see soon what's happening if a deal was cut or what

I suggested that if she became the 21st vote on SB 354, perhaps Amendment 7 to SB 5 might go away.
And I've pointed out that it's less risky and cheaper for schools to pass Amendment7/SB 354 because the IMMUNITY paragraphs make for cheaper insurance rates for schools than risking a HOUSE bill passing which contains NO Immunity clauses.
If she really is interested in saving schools money during budget cuts, she'll help on SB 354/Amendment 7 rather than risk the other bills passing.




(P.S. The anti-gun group has NOT Tweeted this info yet, so get your faxes in before they use up all the fax paper again over the weekend )

@martinbartlett Martin Bartlett
There is word of a deal that might give new life to bringing concealed handguns into college, univ buildings. We'll see how/if this goes http://twitter.com/#!/search/%20MartinBartlett" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Done.

I Hope we can get this one through. With movement on HB 681 in the House, this may prove to be a busy week.

Done and done.

19 Senators and a Lt Governor pestered for the greater good, from a 28 year old first time college student of Lone Star college in Montgomery County. Now the auto reply's are pouring in

Sent all my emails today as well, also had called David Dewhurst's office last week. Want to give my Senator Dan Patrick a shoutout, I think he's doing a great job!

Fired off emails to the Campus 19.

Should we send Wentworth an attaboy email?

txsccc, thanks for posting this in the manner you did. Adding that data made it very easy to do the task, since I flat don't have much time available to react to these. Thank you!

OldSchool wrote:txsccc, thanks for posting this in the manner you did. Adding that data made it very easy to do the task, since I flat don't have much time available to react to these. Thank you!

+2 - copy/paste all the email addresses in one fell swoop, and hit them all with a single email. Much more efficient than using the web based form on the Senate website!

Well, perhaps it is a little late, but I just emailed the following:

Dear Senator,

I am writing to express my support for eliminating the restriction on CHL holder's to carry on college and university campuses in the state of Texas. I would have preferred for one of the existing bills, such as Senator Wentworth’s SB354, to have passed on it's own merit. However as we seem to be left with the prospect of attaching this legislation as an amendment to SB 5, I would ask you to support this measure as well. As SB 5 is a bill pertaining to higher education matters, the amendment is completely germane to SB 5.

As a 15 year employee of a private university, I have first hand experience at being dis-armed on a daily basis just because my place of work resides inside of an arbitrary boundary. And while this bill will still allow my university to 'opt-out' and will therefore not immediately have an impact on me (I actually preferred the language in HB 86); I would still choose not to deny my peers at public universities to practice the God given and constitutionally protected right of self defense that has been denied us for so so long.

Further, my daughters are 15 and 13 currently and will likely attend college in Texas in a few short years. Even though they will be under 21 for much of this time, I would know - and more importantly criminals would know - that they do not reside in a supposedly gun free zone.

Sincerely,

FYI: my note to Hegar was deleted before reading.

Another person who doesn't like my prose....