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I emailed my rep, Vicki Truitt, and got this response from a staffer:

Rex,

There seems to be a lot of misinformation being disseminated recently. I have included several helpful resources below to help you better understand the background and purpose of each amendment as well as what opponents and supporters say. Please see below.

The text of the amendments (from the Secretary of State's Office):

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/vo ... lang.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Statements explaining the intended effect of passage of each amendment (from the Secretary of State's Office):

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/vo ... texp.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A more in-depth analysis of the amendments (from the Texas Legislative Council and the House Research organization, non partisan legislative resources) :

http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/pubsconamend ... yses09.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ; http://www.hro.house.state.tx.us/focus/amend81.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Again, I hope you find this helpful. This may be more information than you were hoping for! If you know of others that may have concern about the proposed amendments, please share this information with them. Please let me know if you still have questions after reading this and I will certainly do my best to help answer your questions.

Also, I might add that Representative Truitt is planning to hold a meeting this Saturday, October 24 at the Colleyville Library (second floor) to try to clear up questions and concerns of constituents about the proposed constitutional amendments. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10am and is open to the public.

Terra Taylor
Representative Vicki Truitt
District 98
(512) 463-0690
(512) 477-5770 Fax

Yes, it's a pork thing, but those bases have to be somewhere, and for strategic and other reasons they can't all be on the coasts.
And once a base is established, it becomes an integral part of the local economy. In some cases it IS the local economy.
And when one like that closes, the town withers.

But enough speculation. i'm writing my rep.

With all the base closings over the last couple decades, perhaps this allows a city to take steps that might help them retain a base

From what I read I'll probably vote for all of them.

Anyone see any negatives that did not occur to me?