TX Governor signs "Parking Lot Bill"

[C. Richard Archie]

It would appear that the Legislature and Governor of Texas think more of their citizen's need to provide for their own personal safety and security than they do of the dollars offered by Big Business.

[Sky King]

Texas has been working on this for several years. I have yet to be able to read the final signed law but the versions of the introduced legislation in past years has been very good IMHO. Theirs along with Florida are what I have felt would be good models.

At this time I wonder if Joshua Evans feels he has fullfilled his commitment to not allow amendments to his bill and therefor when January comes around, allow his bill to be what it was origionally intended or will he remain stubborn and let Vance Dennis and Barrett Rich tell him what to do.

At this time all I can say is, "WAY TO GO TEXAS". As more and more states implement this important protection for the PEOPLE who are the employees, it is good to see these legislative bodies have some real backbone and stand up to the corporate lobby. Obviously Mr. Dennis and Mr. Rich don't understand this principle. The minority in the General Sub-committee of the Judiciary committtee once again prevented a bill that would have passed if allowed to get to the floor. Their statements that Mr. Evans bill didn't have a chance as origionally written I believe it totally bogus. I don't know where they get that idea. Conversations I have had with other member of the House and the reactions on the floor when the bill got to the floor show that there WAS support for this legislation.

In my real opinion, a FEW members of the General Sub-committee of the Judiciary Committee, (enough to stall legislation) are in the pockets of the large corporate lobby. They were looking at the bill that was going to open the flood gates of corporate campaign contributions and they didn't want to fall from their good graces with election year comming up next year. SO they capitulated to the big money. Obviously the legislators in Texas have more stones than ours.

The corporate lobby is slowly loosing this battle in state after state and the courts are upholding their actions. One of these days, Tennessee will learn to be a leader in protecting our rights instead of playing catch up.

[C. Richard Archie]

[ProguninTN]

Good for TX. While TN lacks parking lot protection, we have lawful open carry and TX does not. (Open carry is illegal in a state of cowboys and cowgirls. Imagine that !) TX needs to catch up in that area. (I know some people choose not to open carry but we have the option, and we don't have to fear criminal charges in the event of an accidental exposure.)