Your help is need!!! Subject: HB to Eliminate UT Statues - URGENT >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:07:47 -0600 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 > >Currently there is a Bill pending in the Texas Legislature of immediate >concern to Texas genealogists and historians. HB 953. This bill calls for >the removal of ALL statues related to the Confederate States of America, >which just happen to be the statues by Pompeo Coppini. The bill allows for >these statues to be destroyed, if so desired by the UT Regents, but at the >least to be HIDDEN AWAY FROM VIEW OF THE PUBLIC. These are magnificient >works of art. > >Below you can find the web site for the bill - type in HB953 and you can see >the action thus far. Right now, these bills are in committee. Once the >committee discusses and votes, they get voted upon. You can contact the >Clerk (phone listed below) and the representatives who are on the committee. >I have copied the phone numbers and the (very few) e-mail addresses next to >their names for your convenience. If you prefer to write: Texas State House >of Representatives, P. O. Box 2910, Austin, TX 78768-2910. Be sure to >contact your own representative, even if he/she is not on the committee. If >you aren't sure who that person is, go to: >http://www.house.state.tx.us/house/member.htm and search by your address. > >What items are next to be destroyed because of the poor knowledge of history >and playing the race card in every action? > >Marilyn Maniscalco Henley > > >http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/billnbr.htm > >By Burnam H.B. No. 953 > Line and page numbers may not match official copy. > Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. > A BILL TO BE ENTITLED > 1-1 AN ACT > 1-2 relating to Confederate statues at the University of Texas at > 1-3 Austin. > 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: > 1-5 SECTION 1. The University of Texas of Austin shall remove > 1-6 from public view all statues of Jefferson Davis, president of the > 1-7 Confederate States of America; Robert E. Lee, General in Chief of > 1-8 the Armies of the Confederate States; John H. Reagan, Postmaster > 1-9 General of the Confederate States; and Albert Sidney Johnston, >1-10 General of the Confederate States Army, located on the campus of >1-11 the university. The statues may be placed in storage away from >1-12 public view or disposed of in any other way considered appropriate >1-13 by the board of regents of The University of Texas System. >1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. > >Clerk: Jeff Blaylock > Phone: 463-0814 > Room: EXT E2.108 > >Chair: Rep. Steven Wolens (512) 463-0746 >Vice-Chair: Rep. Sylvester Turner (512) 463-0554 >Sylvester.Turner@house.state.tx.us > >Members: > Rep. Kevin Bailey (512) 463-0924 > Rep. Kim Brimer (512) 463-0632 > Rep. David Counts (512) 463-0480 > Rep. Tom Craddick (512) 463-0500 > Rep. Debra Danburg (512) 463-0504 > Rep. Paul J. Hilbert (512) 463-0572 >Paul.Hilbert@house.state.tx.us > Rep. Bob Hunter (512) 463-0718 > Rep. Delwin Jones (512) 463-0542 > Rep. John Amos Longoria (512) 463-0618 > Rep. Kenny Marchant (512) 463-0468 > Rep. Brian McCall (512) 463-0594 >Brian.McCall@house.state.tx.us > Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon (512) 463-0708 > Rep. Tommy Merritt (512) 463-0750 > > Administrative Associate/Research Construction Industry Institute 3208 Red River St., Suite 300 Austin, TX 78705-2697 phone: 512-232-3002 fax: 512-499-8101 email: cfoster@mail.utexas.edu