On August 4th Steve Baysinger and Dagne Florine met with Jesse Hereford, San Antonio Regional Director and State Outreach Director for Kay Bailey Hutchison. Here are the notes from their meeting.

Steve Baysinger and I met with Jesse Hereford, San Antonio Regional Director and State Outreach Director for Kay Bailey Hutchison on Tuesday, August 4, 2009. We spent approximately 30 minutes with him.

The purpose of the meeting was to follow up on our previous meeting about the Petitions and to address several new issues.

Regarding the petitions, Hutchison has signed S.B. 604 to audit the Federal Reserve. She currently intends to vote no on Cap and Trade legislation and no on Socialized Medicine. Jesse said that she “is basically in line with us on the rest of the issues”. We did not go into the other issues, as legislation is not pending. The Senator has not returned a written response to our Petitions because she has not yet received them. Due to increased security since the anthrax attacks, it takes 8 weeks for actual documents to get to a legislator. Jesse said he did write a summary of our previous visit and the Petitions and had sent those to her.

We discussed the insanity of “Cash for Clunkers” and asked Jesse to state clearly to Hutchison that the program needs to stop, as it only encourages more debt and is more Socialism.

We discussed the state of the economy and provided several papers showing that the economy is not in great shape and is getting worse. Dagne emphasized that “green shoots” are another disconnect between Washington and the people. We are tired of lies out of Washington.

Jesse said that at this time, the Senator does not have plans to hold a “meet-and-greet” in the San Antonio area during August recess. Both Dagne and Steve stated in no uncertain terms that that would be a huge mistake, that the voters need to have an opportunity to talk to her (especially about healthcare) and to hear what she has to say. We said that the voters are both angry and afraid. We both stated that the legislators that do not go out to meet the people are perceived as cowards and that will make the voters even more angry. It seems that Texas legislators are attending “sanitized”, costly luncheons rather than going out to deal with the wrath of the voters. Jesse is going to pass on our stern comments/recommendation to the Senator.

Lastly, we received important information about upcoming luncheons that will be attended by Henry Cuellar, Ciro Rodriguez and Charlie Gonzalez.

It was a VERY VALUABLE meeting.

Dagne

Please call Sen. Hutchison’s office and politely request that the senator add a San Antonio meeting during the recess.  After all, she does have a whole month off.  Her local office is located at 3133 General Hudnell Drive, Suite 120 San Antonio, Texas 78226.  210-340-2885, 210-349-6753 (FAX)

Also call her Washington office at 202-224-5922.

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