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I want to thank everyone for the kind words and for your support of TSRA.

Chas.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Charles, congratulations, and thanks for all you do. Are you still on the NRA Board?

Yes, I'm still on the NRA Board. My term expires in 2011.

Chas.

shooter76blue wrote:I would love to attend one of the Texas Self-Defense & Deadly Force seminars. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any scheduled in my area of South West Texas (San Angelo).

You will be able to now.

Chas.

Commander Cody wrote:Mr. Cotton, I have my TSRA membership renewal on my desk now waiting to be mailed. I will change it from one year to life before mailing. You can also count on three more from my home. Best fortune, and thank you for your efforts.

Now that's a commitment!

Thanks,
Chas.

I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the Executive Director position at TSRA. We are taking this position in an entirely new direction and I will be primarily focused on growing TSRA both in terms of membership and financial resources. That said, I will still be heavily involved in legislative matters, but I will be spending the bulk of my time traveling throughout the State promoting TSRA. Speaking engagements and other opportunities will be a major element in this new program.

I have prepared a Strategic Plan designed to dramatically increase TSRA membership and put us in a much stronger position for the 2010 election and the 2011 Texas Legislative Session. The U.S. census will be taken in 2010 and the results will be used for redistricting in the 2011 legislative session. This makes the 2010 elections the most important for a decade and we need to do everything we can to grow TSRA.

Your help is needed now. We have almost 5400 members here at TexasCHLforum.com and we need every one of you to be ambassadors for TSRA. If you are not a member, please click here to Join TSRA. If you are already a member, then please recruit your family and friends to join. If we want to enjoy a successful 2011 Texas Legislative Session, then we need to raise membership from 30,000 to 100,000 or more in a very short time frame. With 300,000 NRA members and over 1 million hunting licenses sold annually, we should be able to reach this goal.

I plan to present the Texas Self-Defense & Deadly Force Laws Seminar throughout the State and hopefully seminars will be placed on the calendar very soon. This is an area where TexasCHLforum.com members can help spread the word and if you know of a potential host for these seminars, then please let me know. There are other programs that will be launched in the coming months, but this seminar and a couple of others are already "in the can" and can be offered soon.

For obvious reasons, this is not a decision I made lightly, but growing TSRA and putting it in a position to protect the rights of Texas gun owners for decades to come is worth personal sacrifice. I hope you will join me in this effort, both by joining TSRA and/or recruiting others to join, and by joining the the TSRA Volunteer Corps I plan to organize shortly.

Chas.