National Healthcare Debate Came To Dallas On Monday

ABC Affiliate Channel 8 News - The national health care debate came to Dallas on Monday:

A few hundred invited guests of the debaters and local health care organizations packed Cityplace Conference Center, listening to Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, both of Dallas, debate healthcare reform. So far, this townhall discussion is the only bipartisan congressional town hall meeting on health care in the nation during the August recess. Johnson is a registered nurse with 15 years' experience at patients' bedsides.

Organizers said they couldn't be more pleased with the outcome of the two-and-a-half hour meeting at Cityplace. The audience was very respectful of the speakers, and that gave everyone involved time to absorb a lot of information about the pros and cons of health care reform.

Nearly a quarter of the state's 24 million people are uninsured, and North Texas has some of the highest health care costs in the state. Johnson said that in 2008, there were 690 personal bankruptcies in her district, primarily because of health care costs. She also cited Parkland Memorial Hospital's more than $500 million in uncompensated care to treat the uninsured.

This year, Texans and their employers are paying $1,800 per family and $630 per individual in higher premiums to help pay for the uninsured, according to the Center for American Progress, primarily a Democratic think tank. The cost shift represents about 13 percent of all private premiums paid, far more than the national average – slightly above 8 percent.

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Full video of complete Dallas town hall discussion on CBS Affiliate channel 11 click here.
Noted with picture in the NYTimes here.
Noted with picture in Reuters here.

Texas has the highest percentage of those without health insurance in the entire country. A U.S. Census Bureau report released last August showed that nearly 25 percent of Texans (just over 5.5 million residents) lacked insurance (compared to a national average of 15.5 percent). A Families USA report released in March found that the number of uninsured in Texas throughout 2007 and 2008 is much higher, around 9.3 million:

The report went further to say that 7.5 million Texans were uninsured for six months or more during that same time period and about 82.6 percent, were in working families, either working full or part-time.

An estimated 5,550 Texans are losing their health coverage each week, Families USA says in another report out in July 2009. “Rising like a deadly tide, escalating health care costs will have caused 866,580 Texans to lose their health coverage between January 2008 and December 2010,” the organization says.

Selected videos of the event from the iflizwerequeen YouTube channel:

		August 17, 2009 Mary Warren, President Park Cities/Central Dallas Democrats is shown in this video clip outside the Conference Center where Representatives Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) and Pete Sessions (R) are scheduled to appear in a panel discussion on health care reform. Those who stood for healthcare reform in the crowd on the outside outnumbered those who were against it five to one. More citizens should get out there with their Flip videos and capture the truth. AMERICANS DO WANT HEALTH CARE REFORM AND NOW.
		August 17, 2009 The numbers grew as the time drew closer to the scheduled panel discussion with Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and Pete Sessions. However the ratio remained as you see it in these two videos--about 5 to 1 in favor of health care reform
		This young woman and her husband are both cancer patients and they have two young children. Her healthcare insurance is paid for by her employer. However she worries about her job security since she works in the financial industry. If she loses her job, she and her husband are uninsurable--tell that to their two young children.

New Poll 57% of Republicans Believe Or Aren’t Sure About “Death Panel” Claim

theplumline: A forthcoming poll by the nonpartisan Research 2000 for DailyKos finds that 57% of Republicans either believes or is uncertain about the veracity of claims that the Dem health care proposal will create “death panels” to determine whether the sick or injured get health care depending on their “productivity in society,” versus only 43% of of Republicans who don’t believe it.

Question: Do you think the health care reform plan being considered by President Obama and Congress creates “death panels” which have the authority to subjectively determine whether or not a gravely ill or injured person should receive health care based on their “level of productivity in society”?

Republicans Answered:

Yes: 26
No: 43
Not sure: 31

More at dailykos.com

Rightwing Blasting "Usolicited" Healthcare Reform Mis-Information Spam

In this video FOX News is making a big deal about people allegedly receiving "unsolicited email" from the White House or OFA or some other pro-healthcare reform legislation group as the right wing itself blasts "unsolicited" healthcare reform mis-information email spam.

Go to Reality Check to get the straight information!

The following are just a few samples of the "unsolicited" healthcare reform mis-information email spam being sent by the right wing:

EUTHANASIA ADVOCATES AUTHORED PART OF OBAMACARE

Tell Congress to Oppose Obama Health Care Bill

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Alert: Part of the controversial Obamacare proposal pending in Congress that discusses "end-of-life" counseling and medical procedures that could be rationed based on the age of the patient and other factors was written by suicide advocates who argue openly for the "right" to death, according to reports.

The sources for the Obamacare provisions have been documented on a blog for Family Research Council Action and discussed by prominent pro-life columnist Jill Stanek.

"Come again that promotion of euthanasia isn't part of Section 1233?" Stanek wrote in her new explanation of the dangers of Obamacare. "Kudos to FRC's The Cloakroom …for drawing attention to the fact that the two authors of Section 1233 are major proponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide."

The authors include an Oregon congressman who has argued for assisted suicide before federal courts and an organization that openly boasts it helps "thousands of clients each year by ... guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death...."

FRC Action reports on its website the group "has been getting some heat" for its criticism of the plan.

"Today comes (a) smoking gun … with the group Compassion & Choices coming out defending the questionable rationing portions of the bill and admitting THEY ACTUALLY WROTE THE LANGUAGE!" FRC Action said.

Stanek took up the explanation:

"The group Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, also says it had a hand in crafting Section 1233, writing July 27: 'Compassion & Choices has worked tirelessly with supportive members of Congress to include in proposed reform legislation a provision requiring Medicare to cover patient consultation with their doctors about end-of-life choice (section 1233 of House Bill 3200),'" she wrote.

"Compassion & Choices calls itself part of the 'aid-in-dying movement,'" she continued, quoting from the organization's description of itself:


... An organization dedicated to care of terminally ill patients, including those seeking a hastened death....

Compassion & Choices... improves care and expands choice at the end of life....

Our professional staff and trained volunteers help thousands of clients each year by... guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death....

We offer information on self-determined dying...

The second party claiming authorship of some of the controversial parts of the plan is Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., who wrote about his state's "Death with Dignity" law that allows doctors to give patients fatal doses of medication:

"The amicus brief I have filed with other members of the delegation supports the (appellate) court's decision to uphold Oregon's Death with Dignity law. In 1994, Oregon overwhelmingly approved physician-assisted suicide in a statewide vote. … Former U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft repeatedly attempted to undermine the Oregon law using various methods. Each time the judge ruled in favor of the Oregon law. I am pleased that Attorney General Gonzalez' attempt to overturn the will of the people has been no more successful than his predecessor's."

While physician assisted suicide is a contentious issue, it is an issue handled at the state level and the attorney general should not be permitted to deprive the citizens of Oregon and the nation the opportunity to make end of life decisions."
Blumenauer has condemned criticism of Obamacare's provisions.

"The provision included in H.R. 3200 simply allows Medicare to pay for a conversation between patients and their doctors if the patient wishes to speak about his or her preferences and values," the congressman said. "The new Medicare benefit would allow doctors to be compensated for these conversations every five years, and more frequently if a patient has a life-limiting illness or health status changes."

He said without such "discussions," "families are left struggling to make decisions in the midst of turmoil."

Compassion and Choices also condemned criticism of the bill.

Citing its work on the language of the bill, it said, "Anti-choice extremists and their allies in Congress have begun attacking this critical provision, saying it will 'promote euthanasia' and that it's part of a cynical plan to deny health care to the elderly and terminally ill."

On Stanek's blog, participants shared her alarm.

"What's conspicuously absent is a provision that the patient consents to orders written after the counseling session. Or that the orders be written by the patient's primary care physician," wrote one.

"'Self determined dying' sounds as innocent and good for us as 'women's reproductive health,'" said another. "Have to dress it up to sell it."

"Frankly, the death culture has strongly permeated our nation, especially among the liberal elite," wrote a third. "Many of them will either deny, make fun of or outright oppose the pro-life position."

Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, has had his organization analyze the plan, and confirmed it contains health care rationing, a national health ID card complete with government access to personal bank accounts, government decisions on what health care benefits are available and mandatory taxpayer support for abortion.

Staver condemned the health plan as worse than China's mandatory one-child policy.

The Liberty Counsel analysis said under Section 1308, the government will dictate marriage and family therapy as well as mental health services, including the definitions of those treatments, and under Section 1401, a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research would be set up, creating a bureaucracy through which federal employees could determine whether any treatment is "comparatively effective" for any individual based on the cost, likely success and probably the years left in life.

It also, according to Staver, "covers abortions, transsexual surgeries, encourages counseling as to how many children you should have, whether you should increase the interval between children."

The Liberty Counsel analysis also pointed out the government would be allowed to ration health care procedures, prevent "judicial review" of its decision, tell doctors what income they can have, impose new taxes for anyone not having an "acceptable" coverage, regulate whether seniors can have wheelchairs, penalize hospitals or doctors whose patients require "readmission," prevent the expansion of hospitals and set up procedures for home visits by health care analysts.

Under Section 440, Liberty Counsel said, the government "will design and implement Home Visitation Program for families with young kids and families that expect children." And Section 194 provides for a program that has the government "coming into your house and teaching/telling you how to parent," LC said. (WND)

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PROOF: OBAMACARE WILL LEAD TO 'MEDICAL MURDER'

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Alert: Imagine lying in some government-run hospital, hospice or nursing home many years from now. Imagine languishing unattended for days in soiled sheets, suffering from hunger and thirst, covered with bed sores, your flesh aboil with untreated infections. Imagine living in fear of resentful, underpaid health aides who take out their anger on you and abuse you. And imagine spending your final moments on earth in the company of a government health care worker with a syringe, who injects you with a lethal cocktail.

Do you find this hard to imagine? You should. In any civilized country, such things should not happen ever. But President Obama's health care proposals have the very real potential to turn this nightmare into a reality for many Americans, according to an in-depth investigation reported in the August edition of Whistleblower magazine, titled "MEDICAL MURDER: Why Obamacare could result in the early deaths of millions of baby boomers."

Especially vulnerable are the 80 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. "If you belong to that group, take note," says Richard Poe, author of the August cover story. "Your generation has been targeted for a program of age-based medical rationing such as our country has never before experienced."

Adds Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian, "If this dire end-of-life scenario sounds too awful to be possible, that is only because the reality of Obamacare has not been sufficiently reported. For this is not a fantasy it is what is already occurring in other 'civilized' nations, including Canada and Britain, that have adopted the same government-run system."

For instance, the cover story, "Medical Murder," documents how British seniors, under a government-run system, "are routinely denied treatment for cancer, heart disease and other deadly illnesses," many dying "in filthy, overcrowded hospitals or nursing homes, rife with pestilence, including the deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs." Numerous horror stories of needed medical care intentionally denied reveal the stark reality of government-run health care worldwide.

To a small degree, Obamacare's ominous implications are starting to leak out. Here's how columnist Charlotte Allen explained it recently in the Los Angeles Times:

In looking for a way to fund healthcare, Obama has set his eye on the oldest and sickest. You see, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about 30 percent of Medicare spending nearly $100 billion annually goes to care for patients during their last year of life. What if there were no 'last year of life,' the president seems to be asking. ... [W]hy not save billions of dollars by killing off our own unproductive oldsters and terminal patients, or since we aren't likely to do that outright in this, the 21st century why not simply ensure that they die faster by denying them costly medical care? The savings could then subsidize care for the younger and healthier.

And for those who have been paying close attention, Obama himself has ever-so-gently hinted at his true intentions. At a town hall event in June televised by ABC News, Obama cited the case of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died on the eve of his election, suggesting one way to cut medical costs would be to stop expensive procedures on people about to die.

Families, Obama said, need better information so they don't approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."

"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller," the president offered.

Obama was slightly more explicit in a May 3 interview with the New York Times, when he said there ought to be a national "conversation" over whether "sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model." Such decisions, added Obama, shouldn't be left to patients or their relatives, but to a "group" of "doctors, scientists, ethicists" who are not part of "normal political channels."

One such elite medical decision-maker would be Obama's special adviser for health policy, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel. He's a longtime advocate of "age-weighted medical rationing" meaning, the older you are, the less care you get, as in Britain. But what about the Hippocratic Oath, you might ask, the sacred vow doctors have always taken to do all they can to heal their patients? As Whistleblower documents, Emanuel advises doctors to stop taking that oath so literally, and instead to be "prudent" in assessing how much time, effort and money each patient is worth, for the greater good of society.

Moreover, as "MEDICAL MURDER" reports, a bill being pushed hard by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, will take from Congress all authority over federal health spending and decree that such decisions in the future would be made by a secretive committee of "experts" modeled after are you ready? the Federal Reserve Board.

"Obamacare is arguably the single most important issue of our time," said Kupelian. "It's not about taxes, debt, wasteful spending or burdensome regulations it's about our very lives, and the lives of our loved ones. Americans seriously need to wake up and see the horror staring them in the face, and then they need to let their elected representatives know, in no uncertain terms, exactly what they think of Obamacare." (WND)

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OBAMACARE WILL REPLACE MEDICARE

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Alert: Political Insider Dick Morris is worried that complacency among citizens could result in a disastrous healthcare overhaul costing Americans for generations to come.

In an exclusive interview Morris was asked whether he thinks Democrats will do what Sen. Chuck Schumer has alluded to: Ram health reform through without any Republican support using a process called “reconciliation.” That requires only a simple majority instead of 60 votes.

"Yeah, I think they're going to try it. I think there's no chance that they’ll get 60 votes, there's no chance of any real Republican support," Morris said. "They're going try and jam this thing through, and of course, it will pass the House because they march in lockstep."

"So it is absolutely crucial for us to be aggressive and active in taking the steps to fight it," he said.

The key is spreading information about the mammoth healthcare bills and mobilizing the conservative grass roots, Morris said.

"The fact that public opinion is moving against this legislation does not guarantee its defeat, because he (Obama) can still ram this thing through."

Morris contends that senior citizens will pay the biggest price under the overhaul.

"This healthcare reform proposal really is the repeal of Medicare," Morris said. "That's really what it comes down to, because they're going to provide medical care to 50 million new people without expanding the number of doctors or nurses," he said.

"You can't do that; you can't just write a check for more healthcare, got to have more doctors or more nurses to administer it," he added. "That means there's going to be less health care for each person and that will force rationing."

What will endanger the elderly most, Morris said, is the rationing of heart and hip operations, which constitute the bulk of elder care.

"Rationing involves a decision that is supposedly rational as to who should get care and who doesn't get it," Morris explained. "And inevitably that's going to mean saying no to the elderly, no to people that want hip transplants, no to people that need new knee surgery, or no even to people who have bypass surgery."

Morris cited the medical care system in Canada as an example of why socialized medicine doesn't work.

"In Canada, where they have a system like this . . . there is an eight-week wait for cancer radiation: You have cancer, you have to wait eight weeks. There's an eight-month wait for colonoscopies and as a result the incidences of colon cancer in Canada is 25 percent higher than in the United States," he said. "The top drug we use to treat colon cancer, Avastin, is not permitted in Canada and the result is 41 percent of Canadians who get colon cancer die of it as against only 32 percent in the United States. Sounds horrific, but those are the stakes," Morris said.

Since Democrats have enough votes to pass the overhaul without any Republican support, why are they trying to win some GOP votes?

"They're worried about needing Republican support because they know how unpopular this thing is going to be when it’s adopted and after it's taken effect, and we're not just talking about the medical portion, we're talking about the tax hikes, too," Morris said.

"So they want to be able to say this was a bipartisan bill, don't blame the Democrats, Republicans put it over the top, too, just like they do with the stimulus package now where they got three Republicans to come on board. But I don’t think the Republicans are going to bite on this one." (Newsmax)


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Sen. Hutchison Statewide Kickoff Campaign Tour Of TX

Houston Chronicle: LA MARQUE — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison this morning formally announced as a Republican primary challenger to Rick Perry, the longest serving governor in Texas history.

Appearing at La Marque High School, the Class of '61 graduate launched both her campaign and a five-day, 19-city tour of Texas.

In her announcement, Hutchison made no direct reference to her stated plans to resign her Senate seat in either October or November to concentrate on the March 2 GOP primary. But she promised to fight President Barack Obama's health care overhaul "while I'm in the Senate."

Hutchison made it clear that she plans to aggressively contest Perry on issues. But she also is going after his political base among social conservative and rural voters by reminding them of Perry's past support for state-mandated vaccinations against a sexually transmitted disease.

"Let me start by saying this about Rick Perry. He's a dedicated public servant. I know he loves Texas. But now he's trying to stay too long — 14 years, maybe longer," said Hutchison.

Hutchison said she will propose term limits of eight years for governor. Hutchison in 1994 had promised a self-imposed term limit of two full turns in the Senate, a promise she broke in 2006 to successfully seek a third full term in the Senate.

Hutchison will bring her statewide kickoff campaign tour to Dallas, TX on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm at Eddie Deen's Ranch, 944 South Lamar - View Map

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• Governor’s Race Exposes Republican Rift in Texas
  
• March 2010 Texas primary could define GOP future
• I'll Just Say No To Judge Sotomayor, Says TX Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

As the storm of controversy surrounding the health care reform bills rages on, Texas Senators Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn are throwing themselves into the thick of things to oppose reform, teaming up with the Texas Medical Association for a series of town hall meetings across the state.

(KERA audio) At a Dallas press conference, Sen. Hutchison blamed illegal immigrants for making Texas the national leader in uninsured residents while bashing Pres. Obama's Healthcare reform, presumably to bolster her credentials with the far right conservative base. But hospital officials and state statistics don't back her up. Sen. Cornyn also opposes Pres. Obama's Healthcare reform.

Obama's Administration Waffling On A Public Option?

Is President Obama's administration signaling it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on CNN's State of the Union Sunday program that government alternative to private health insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul. (video left)

Obama himself seemed to be waffling on the public option commitment in his statement at a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, CO.,"All I'm saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."

On the other hand, speaking on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs emphasized that President Barack Obama still supports a “public option” for health care. Gibbs' statement seems to run contrary to Sebelius' statements on CNN's State of the Union Sunday program, that a public option is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul.

Update Monday August 17, 2009 @ 10:18 AM - A White House official told the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she said that a public health care option was not “essential” to the administration’s health reform efforts.

After comments made by President Barack Obama and Sebelius over the weekend implying that the White House would be willing to sign into law a health reform bill that doesn’t offer a public health care option, members of the administration countered that Pres. Obama does strongly support the public option.

The push to emphasize that the president will indeed fight for a public option reflects continued strong support for a public option from progressive Congressional Democrats as well as nationwide progressive groups, such as the President's old campaign organization that reorganized under the DNC as Organizing For America. According to an article at Politico.com, more than 100 liberal Democrats in the House are unlikely to vote for a health reform bill that does not include a public option.

Sen. Curt Conrad (D-ND) told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday that the U.S. Senate will not allow a public option, adding his belief that, “to continue to chase that rabbit is just a wasted effort.”

If it comes down to an either/or choice, the lion's share of Democrats agree with Democratic strategist James Carville who suggests that instead of just throwing in the towel on a universal public health insurance option, Pres. Obama and Democrats in congresss should allow the conservatives to defeat it, then defeat those conservatives at the ballot box in 2010.

At a roundtable discussion on CNN's State of the Union Sunday program, Carville argued that if the Democrats can come up with an agreement that is supported by most Democratic members of Congress, they should let the GOP filibuster it, thereby killing health care reform and effectively painting the Republicans as being the party that opposed fixing the system.

That, Carville implied, would backfire on the GOP in upcoming elections. "Put a bill out there, make them filibuster it," Carville said. "Make them be what they are — the party of no. ... And you know what? Run on it. Let them kill it. Let them kill it with the interest group money, then run against them. That's what we ought to do."

From CNN's Web site:

“What about this?,” Carville said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, “Suppose they pass a House bill that can get 56 Senate Democrats.” Then, Carville suggested, instead of using reconciliation, a special budgetary maneuver in Senate procedure that frustrate GOP attempts to mount a filibuster, Democrats should call for a vote. “And make [Republicans] filibuster it. But the old kinda way is that they filibuster it and make’em go three weeks and all night and [Democrats] will be there the whole time.

“Then, you say, ‘They’re the people that stopped it. We had a majority of Democrats. We had a good bill. They stopped it.’"

(Video Courtesy of Crooks & Liars and HBO) Real Time with Bill Maher reporter (and comedian) Dana Gould asks WFT after he first visits a healthcare town hall conservative protest and then visits a Remote Area Medical traveling clinic -- of the type that that usually operates in third world countries -- in downtown Inglewood, CA.

Charting America's Health Care Future Event

An event started by the Progressive Center, and joined by MoveOn and Organizing For America OFA, is encouraging people to participate in a non-confrontational SILENT MAJORITY demonstration outside of the Charting America's Health Care Future event, with Congresspersons Eddie Bernice Johnson and Pete Sessions' forum in Dallas on Monday morning Aug. 17th.

This forum has been moved from the SMU campus to CityPlace Tower - 2711 Haskell & I-75 in Dallas. This is likely the only time that Congressional members of both the Democratic and Republican parties will meet in the North Texas area to discuss health reform. They recognize that this is an excellent opportunity to showcase the differences between advocates of health reform and the opposition. The call is out for progressives to stage a peaceful demonstration of support. We WILL showcase that difference.

Event contact phone number: 979-319-2443. Please RSVP to this number or this link to sign up for Monday demonstration so that we can get a headcount to prepare properly. We want everyone to be safe and comfortable. Thanks!

Democratic Party of Collin Co. Honors Gov. Ann Richards

Democratic Party of Collin Co. Annual Ann Richards Dinner About Tx Gov Richards

The Democratic Party of Collin County had a substantial turnout for its annual fundraiser dinner honoring former governor Ann Richards. In addition to keynote speaker Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins, U.S. Senate Candidate John Sharp also briefly addressed the dinner attendees.

Sharp, who served as Texas State Comptroller from 1990 through 1999, told the Collin County Democrats that turning out the Democratic vote in Collin Collin will be key in electing Democrats to statewide office in future elections.

Sharp reminded dinner attendees that the first of those statewide elections, the special election to fill U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's vacated senate seat, could be in the not so distant future.

On Monday (Aug. 17) U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison will begin a five-day statewide campaign tour to formally announce that she will oppose Rick Perry in the March 2, 2010 Republican primary. Sen. Hutchison is scheduled to kick off her gubernatorial campaign tour of Texas at 8 A.M. Monday morning (Aug 16) in the gym of her hometown high school in La Marque.

Hutchison's formal gubernatorial campaign announcement will be no surprise, but everyone is waiting to see if she will surprise with a resignation announcement. There has been much speculation over her possible senate resignation and rumors are once again circulating that she will announce a resignation date during her Monday morning La Marque High School campaign kickoff event. (see Sen. Hutchison Says Will Resign Senate Seat In Oct. Or Nov.)

John Sharp

Sharp told county Democrats that when Sen. Hutchison does resign, Gov. Rick Perry will appoint a temporary replacement to U.S. Senate until he can order a special election.

Unlike most other states, Texas allows the Governor to make a temporary senate appointment only until he can order a special or emergency election. Texas election law allows Perry to call that special election as soon as 36 days after Hutchison resigns.

After a ceremonial bill signing of House Bill 3 at R.L. Turner High School in Carrolton in late July Gov. Perry said he might quickly call a special election to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison because too many important things are going on in Washington, D.C. [StarTelegram blog, July 29]

So, Texas could have a special election as soon as November 3, 2009, or at any time as late as May 8, 2010 depending on exactly when KBH resigns. Sharp said it is even possible that Texans will go to the polls on the November 3, 2009 uniform election date to vote on the dozen or so amendments to the Texas Constitution, scheduled to be on the ballot, and then return to the polling place again sometime later in November or December 2009 to vote for a new U.S. Senator in a special election, if Hutchinson resigns in October, as many Texas politicos are now speculating.

Shawn Stevens

During his remarks, the new Democratic Party of Collin Co. Chair, Shawn Stevens, reminded the audience that:

"Comparing 2008 to 2004, there were 20,000 more straight ticket Democratic voters in 2008, while the Republicans’ straight ticket votes were virtually unchanged. Also, the raw Democratic vote in Collin County went up by 40,000 votes, while the raw Republican vote went up by only 10,000, a 30,000 net gain for the Democrats, reducing the vote gap between the Democratic and Republican vote by around 17.5 points."

"Increasing the Democratic vote in Collin County is critical on a statewide, and perhaps national, level. Because of our large population, a few more percentage points in our county can tip a statewide race blue."

Stevens observed that in November 2008 the Democratic vote for Pres. Obama was just under 38 percent. That turnout was a significant increase from the 28 percent given to presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 and the 24 percent given to presidential candidate Al Gore in the November 2000 election. Stevens told the county Democrats that if they can help bump the Democratic vote turnout by just another 5 or 6 points, to 43 percent, in statewide races, this county can provide the margin of victory for Democratic gubernatorial, U.S. Senatorial and other statewide candidates.

A representative for Houston Mayor Bill White, who has also announced his intention to run for for Kay Bailey Hutchison's vacated U.S. Senate seat, also made a few remarks during the dinner event.

Sworn in as Dallas County District Attorney on January 1, 2007 -- keynote speaker Craig Watkins -- was the first elected black district attorney in Texas. In November 2006, Watkins, then 39, was elected as part of a Democratic sweep in Dallas in which the party took 42 judgeships and six other countywide offices.

For his pursuit of a range of reforms designed to protect the wrongly accused and appropriately punish the guilty and for his willingness to stake out politically precarious territory to create a "conviction integrity unit," an operation that has freed prisoners who have been wrongly incarcerated, Mr. Watkins in 2008 was named "Texan of the Year" by the Dallas Morning News.

Dallas DNA Promo Segment

The Discovery Channel is currently running a six part series called Dallas DNA featuring Mr. Watkins and the work being conducted by the Dallas County District Attorney office's "conviction integrity unit."

Dallas DNA chronicles the pioneering CIU where post-conviction DNA testing is being used to clear the innocent, as well as confirm the guilty.

Mr Watkins maintained a mostly non-partisan tone during his keynote speech emphasizing that elected officials must always remember that they were elected by the people to serve the community, not themselves or their political party.

Marlene Byndon

Marlene Byndon, Democratic Party of Collin Co Chair Vice Chair, served as the MC for Saturday evening fundraiser dinner. As evidence that the Democratic Party is gaining momentum in Collin County, attendance at this this year's Ann Richards dinner was significantly higher than in past years.

Related posts and links:

• Sen. Hutchison Says Will Resign Senate Seat In Oct. Or Nov.
  
• Governor’s Race Exposes Republican Rift in Texas
  
• March 2010 Texas primary could define GOP future
• Is The GOP Shrinking In Collin Co. Like It Is Nationally?
• Republican Brand Growing Weak In Texas
• Where Did All the Republicans Go?
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Obama Weekly Address - Special Interests, Lobbysits Engaging In Fear To Stop Health Care Reform

The President talks about how the chatter and ruckus around health insurance reform on television obscures the reality of what's happening in America. He discusses how in most towns people and Members of Congress are having constructive conversations, and how people are learning how reform will help them and their families with the real problems they have faced with the insurance system. August 15, 2009.

Health Care Speaker Dr. Winfred Parnell - Sat. Aug. 22nd

Joe Duffy, Dallas Field Organizer for OFA and Dr. Winfred Parnell, member of Doctors for America will be available for an informative discussion on HealthCare Reform Legislation on Saturday, August 22 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM @ Schimelpfenig Library in Plano.

Discussion agenda includes an overview of how you can support HealthCare Reform Legislation on a local and national level. Dr. Parnell will also give a presentation on Health Care legislation now going through the legislative channels.

(Schimelpfenig Library - 5024 Custer Road, Plano, TX 75023 - map)

For additional details available on the OFA site click here.

The Town Hall Mob

The Town Hall Mob
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published in NYTimes: August 6, 2009

There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” (left) depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don’t like what he’s saying, but they’re letting him speak his mind.

That’s a far cry from what has been happening at recent town halls, where angry protesters — some of them, with no apparent sense of irony, shouting “This is America!” — have been drowning out, and in some cases threatening, members of Congress trying to talk about health reform.

Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds.

And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received. So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it? . . .cynical political operators are exploiting that anxiety to further the economic interests of their backers.

Does this sound familiar? It should: it’s a strategy that has played a central role in American politics ever since Richard Nixon realized that he could advance Republican fortunes by appealing to the racial fears of working-class whites.
Read the rest of the story in the NYTimes:

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The Health Care Debate Is Making Me Sick by Brian Unger NPR - The health care debate is toxic, revealing a lot about us as a nation. And it feels embarrassing — like the whole world can see our underpants. Or hear us fighting in the kitchen.

Republican “Death Panel” Talk Just "Nuts" Say GOP Lawmakers

In the multi-million dollar PR campaign to kill off health care reform, insurance companies, special interest groups and Republicans are lying to seniors telling them that health care reform will literally kill them; That government agents will be sent to senior's homes to ask them how they want to die or they will be required to have five-year medical reviews that could result in death sentences, if Pres. Obama's health care reform is enacted. Many Republicans in Congress are completely on board with this "kill granny" campaign of terror against senior citizens.Last week, Sarah Palin echoed the audacious "kill granny" claim that President Obama plans to institute a system of “death panels” where “bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of people's level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.”

On his radio show Glenn Beck said that he thinks Palin has a point. ” I believe it to be true, but that’s quite a statement,” said Beck, adding, “I believe she at least should be listened to and you should question, ‘Is it evil?’” Listen to video above left:

Georgia’s junior Republican senator Johnny Isakson says that “death panel” talk is just “nuts.” The Republican lawmaker made that assessment in an interview with the Washington Post.

“In the health-care debate mark-up, one of the things I talked about was that the most money spent on anyone is spent usually in the last 60 days of life and that’s because an individual is not in a capacity to make decisions for themselves,” Isakson said. “So rather than getting into a situation where the government makes those decisions, if everyone had an end-of-life directive or what we call in Georgia ‘durable power of attorney,’ you could instruct at a time of sound mind and body what you want to happen in an event where you were in difficult circumstances where you’re unable to make those decisions.”

How someone could take end of life directives or living wills as [“death panels”] is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up.”

The senator noted that all fifty states — including Palin’s Alaska — have some power of attorney or end-of-life directives aimed at protecting guardians from having to make life-or-death decisions.

“All 50 states now have either durable powers of attorney or end-of-life directives and it’s to protect children or a spouse from being put into a situation where they have to make a terrible decision as well as physicians from being put into a position where they have to practice defensive medicine because of the trial lawyers,” Isakson said.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) of Palin's home state doesn't much like Palin's "death panel" talk either. Speaking to a crowd of over 100 at an event in Alaska, Murkowski took aim at her former governor, Sarah Palin, by talking some sense about "death panels." "It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels," Murkowski said.

Quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't [in the bill]. There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill.

Southern Republicans, It Seems, Have Seceded From Sanity

In a recent column Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote:

". . .Not all Southern Republicans are wing nuts. Nor does the GOP have a monopoly on ignorance or racism. And, the South, for all its sins, is also lush with beauty, grace and mystery. Nevertheless, it is true that the GOP is fast becoming regionalized below the Mason-Dixon line and increasingly associated with some of the South's worst ideas.

It is not helpful (or surprising) that "birthers" -- conspiracy theorists who have convinced themselves that Barack Obama is not a native son -- have assumed kudzu qualities among Republicans in the South. In a poll commissioned by the liberal blog Daily Kos, participants were asked: "Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?"

Hefty majorities in the Northeast, the Midwest and the West believe Obama was born in the United States. But in the land of cotton, where old times are not by God forgotten, only 47 percent believe Obama was born in America and 30 percent aren't sure.

Southern Republicans, it seems, have seceded from sanity.

Republicans have been harvesting Southern votes for decades from seeds strategically planted during the civil rights era. When Lyndon B. Johnson predicted in 1965 that the Voting Rights Act meant the South would go Republican for the next 50 years, he wasn't just whistling Dixie.

A telling anecdote recounted by Pat Buchanan to New Yorker writer George Packer last year captures the dark spirit that still hovers around the GOP. In 1966 Buchanan and Richard Nixon were at the Wade Hampton Hotel in Columbia, S.C., where Nixon worked a crowd into a frenzy: "Buchanan recalls that the room was full of sweat, cigar smoke, and rage; the rhetoric, which was about patriotism and law and order, 'burned the paint off the walls.' As they left the hotel, Nixon said, 'This is the future of this Party, right here in the South.' "

That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing, but Southerners weaned on Harper Lee heard the dog whistle.

The curious Republican campaign of 2008 may have galvanized a conservative Southern base -- including many who were mostly concerned with the direction Democrats would take the country -- but it also repelled others who simply bolted and ran the other way. Whatever legitimate concerns the GOP may historically have represented were suddenly overshadowed by a sense of a resurgent Old South and all the attendant pathologies of festering hate and fear.

What the GOP is experiencing now, one hopes, are the death throes of that 50-year spell that Johnson foretold. But before the party of the Great Emancipator can rise again, Republicans will have to face their inner Voinovich and drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie. "

White House Introduces 'Healthcare Myth' Fact Check Website

The White House is introducing a new health care website section today that “debunks some common myths” and provides visitors “with online tools and content to share the facts with friends, family and anyone else in your social network.” Click here.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) write in a USA Today op-ed, condemn the “ugly campaign” this August to “to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue.” “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” write the two House leaders.

Jon Stewart took on these town hall uprisings and their leaders in two segments, the first focusing on the media hypocrisy over the coverage of these events, and the second mocking the "death panel" debate.

Last Public Hearing On Implementing Voting Centers

Updated: Monday August 10, 2009 @ 11:15PM - see bold text in box below.
Dr. Robert M. Stein of Rice University in Houston spoke to the Site Selection Committee for over an hour during the committee's August 6th meeting. Dr. Stein, a Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice University, is an expert on urban politics, elections, voting behavior and public policy.

Final Meeting of the County Wide Election Day Polling Place Site Selection Committee Meeting --------------- Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 7:00pm–9:00pm Collin College Preston Ridge Campus Founders Hall Shawnee Room F–148 9700 Wade Blvd, Frisco, TX (map)Agenda: Public Comments Final Report on Proposed Election Day Locations

Dr. Stein has extensively researched how Voting Centers affect overall voter turnout behaviors as several election jurisdictions around the U.S. implemented voting centers over the past six years. Dr. Stein's presentation given Site Selection Committee on August 6th can be accessed at these links:

• MS PowerPoint 1 - Colorado Comm on Elect Reform 121608.ppt
• MS PowerPoint 2 - Lubbock Co. Commissioner 032309.ppt
• Audio Recording - Dr. Stein's presentation 8-6-09.WMA (No .mp3)
• (See just one of the papers that Dr. Stein has written or co-authored: pdf-Engaging the Unengaged Voter - Vote Centers and voter turnout)

Below (bottom of post) is the list of 63 county wide polling locations identified by the Site Selection Committee as of the committee's Aug. 6th meeting.

However, the Collin County Commissioners, apparently, seeing this as an opportunity to cut the cost of running elections in the county, has reportedly asked the Site Selection Committee to cut the list of proposed November 3, 2009 polling locations from 63 down to 51.

The 12 locations on the chopping block are indicated with an “X” in the left “Cut” column in the table below.

A source close to the planning activity has indicated that the County Commissioner’s Court may vote against forwarding the Countywide Election Day Polling Place Application to the Texas Secretary of State unless the Site Selection Committee agrees to cut 12 Election Day polling locations from the current plan.

Commissioner's Court Judge Keith Self, reportedly, has added an item to the Court's August 10th 9:30 A.M. Monday morning meeting agenda seeking a Court Resolution that the Court will not approve any Site Selection Committee Plan that has more than 51 polling places for Election Day, November 3, 2009. This would be a reduction from the 63 Voting Centers currently under consideration by the Site Selection Committee and a reduction from the 59 polling places used in the comparable November 2007 election. The potential outcome of the Court's Monday morning vote is the rescission of the court's earlier vote to pursue a Collin County Vote Center plan this year.

There appears to be a 3-2 split in the Commissioner's Court on both the issues of polling place reduction and whether or not to continue pursuing the Voting Center trial. The Site Selection Committee is apparently similarly split between keeping the number polling places in a range of 59-63 Voting Centers for the first Voting Center trial-run experience on Nov. 3rd vs. reducing the number of polling places down to 51 Voting Centers, as may be demanded by the Commissioner's Court on Monday morning.

Update: Monday August 10, 2009 @ 1:05PM - The Commissioners Court voted during their session today to require that the Site Selection Committee limit the number of polling places to 57. Update: Monday August 10, 2009 @ 11:15PM - After an hour of public comment and some short discussion among Site Selection Committee members, the committee voted 5-3 to recommend all 63 locations as vote centers for the November 3, 2009 election. Now it's up to the Commissioners Court and the County Elections Administrator to decide on if and then how to proceed in submitting a vote center plan and application to the Texas Secretary of State befor the Aug 15th deadline.

Shawn Stevens, the Democratic Party of Collin County Chair and voting member of the Site Selection Committee, said in an interview for this blog,

"In my view, the intent of the concept of countywide voting centers is to make it more convenient for all voters so that more people have an opportunity to vote on Election Day, and of course I support making it more convenient for citizens to vote. However, there are some that are interested in the voting centers because they perceive it as an opportunity to reduce the number of polling locations on Election Day, which they falsely assume will be a cost savings. The goal of this proposal shouldn’t be to save money, it should be to make it easier for people to vote. The Site Selection Committee's charge is to recommend how many and where the polling locations are to be, according to the criteria we approve. I intend to recommend to the County Commissioners’ Court that if we do this, we use a maximum number of locations. The Site Selection Committee must be able to make its recommendation without political pressure from the Commissioners’ Court to cut locations because they think it will save money. However, especially after having heard Professor Stein give his presentation on the studies of voting centers, I have serious reservations about the implementation of voting centers in Collin County for the November 2009 election at all, for numerous reasons. We have to be mindful of the following: The extremely compressed time frame we have been given to implement anything (and the Site Selection Committee has not been able to visit locations or even review all of the parking and other characteristics of each proposed voting center); The unknown potential impact on minority, low-income, and mobility impaired voting populations (with the Voting Rights Act obviously being a related concern); The huge potential for voter confusion in not only our county due to the back and forth between election schemes between fall elections and the Primary election and any special election for U.S. Senate, but the potential to confuse voters in neighboring counties; and The extremely high likelihood of voter confusion because we have numerous cities in Collin County that are situated in multiple counties, for instance Dallas, Frisco, and Richardson --and communicating and getting voters to understand who in the area can vote at a voting center and who can’t will be extremely difficult. This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that Collin County is only one county in the 7th largest media market in the U.S. Several of these issues can only be solved by implementing the voting centers region-wide instead of just for Collin County. However, instituting voting centers for the entire DFW Metroplex is not allowed under the current enabling legislation, which means waiting until after the 2011 Regular Session of the Texas Legislature that spring. If we put this off until 2011, we would have the time to do this in a careful fashion and not rush into it without looking before we leap. Additionally, we could inform the Legislature about the problems we have been running into so they could take our realizations into account with more carefully considered legislation.”

Dr. Stein, in his presentation to the Selection Committee last Thursday, described Vote Centers as spacious "Big Box" polling place venues like shopping malls, large retail stores (like Fry's Electronics) and even large car dealerships.

Dr. Stein described Vote Centers as voting venues with lots of floor space to accommodate large numbers voters, up to a dozen ePollBook check-in stations to check in voters and a score or more of electronic voting machines. Dr. Stein also said Vote Centers must have convenient access and lots of parking to accommodate the large numbers of voters that concentrate into these "Big Box" voting centers.

In contrast, the Collin County Elections Office has proposed Vote Center locations that are, in the great majority of cases, the same locations that have been traditionally used as precinct polling places. The same schools and libraries that have always had limited parking and limited floor space to accommodate voter lines, voter check in tables and voting machines. The Collin County Elections Office and some of the County Commissioners just want to allocate fewer of these traditional precinct polling places and then call them "Vote Centers" because, as for early voting, Collin Co. voters would be allowed to vote at any of the fewer precinct polling places.

The Site Selection Committee currently plans to meet for a final time on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. (See notice box above) During this final meeting the Site Selection Committee will review and vote on its final Site Selection Report which will be presented to the Commissioners' Court for approval. If the Commissioners vote to approve the Site Selection Plan adopted on Monday evening the plan will be forwarded to the Texas Secretary of State before the August 15th application deadline.

Color Key to Table: X-Proposed 12 to cut from list in 51 plan X-Proposed 6 to add back in 57 plan - Early Voting Locations Used Again On Election Day

(see 'Vote Centers Coming To Collin Co. For Election Day November 3, 2009?' for more details.)

List of 63 county wide polling locations identified by the Site Selection Committee as of the committee's Aug. 6th meeting:

Cut	Polling Place	Address	City
	Suncreek United Methodist Church	1517 W. McDermott Dr	Allen
	Allen Municipal Courts Blding	301 Century Pkwy.	Allen
	Lovejoy ISD-Spurgin Administration Building	259 Country Club Road	Allen
	Texas Star Bank	402 W. White Street	Anna
	Blue Ridge High School Library	11020 CR 504	Blue Ridge
	Celina Senior Center	140 N. Ohio	Celina
	Mitchell Elementary School	4223 Briargrove Lane	Dallas
	Renner-Frankford Library	6400 Frankford Road	Dallas
	Farmersville City Hall	205 South Main	Farmersville
	CCCC Preston Ridge Campus	9700 Wade Blvd.	Frisco
	Benton Staley Middle School	6927 Stadium Drive	Frisco
XX	Liberty High School	15250 Rolater Road	Frisco
X	Lowry Crossing City Hall	1405 S. Bridgefarmer Rd	Lowry Crossing
	Fire Station #7	861 Independence Pkwy.	McKinney
	Fire Station #5	6600 W. Virginia Pkwy.	McKinney
	Old Settlers Recreation Center	1201 E. Louisiana	McKinney
	Scoggins Middle School	7070 Stacy Road	McKinney
	Country Lane Seniors Community	2401 Country View Lane	McKinney
XX	Valley Creek Elementary School	2800 Valley Creek Trail	McKinney
	Collin County Elections Office	2010 Redbud Blvd., Ste. 102	McKinney
	McKinney Senior Recreation Center	1400 South College	McKinney
	CCCC Central Park Campus	2200 W. University Drive	McKinney
	Melissa High School	1904 Cooper Street	Melissa
	Murphy Municipal Complex	206 N. Murphy Road	Murphy
	First Baptist Church - Lavon	209 Main Street	Nevada
	Community ISD Technology and Conference Center	615 FM 1138	Nevada
	Parker Community Center	5700 E. Parker Road	Parker
	CCCC Spring Creek Campus	2800 E. Spring Creek Pkwy.	Plano
X	Schimelpfenig Middle School	2400 Maumelle	Plano
X	Carpenter Middle School	1501 Cross Bend Road	Plano
X	Hendrick Middle School	7400 Red River Drive	Plano
	Armstrong Middle School	3805 Timberline Drive	Plano
X	Robinson Middle School	6701 Preston Meadow Dr	Plano
	PISD Administration Center	2700 W. 15th Street	Plano
	Haggard Library	2501 Coit Road	Plano
	Dart Station	1012 16th Street, Suite 105	Plano
	Shepton High School	5505 Plano Pkwy.	Plano
	Harrington Library	1501 18th Street	Plano
	Parr Library	6200 Windhaven Pkwy.	Plano
	Clark High School	523 Spring Creek Pkwy.	Plano
XX	Sigler Elementary School	1400 Janwood Drive	Plano
XX	Barron Elementary School	3300 Avenue P	Plano
	Plano Senior Center	401 W. 16th Street	Plano
	Douglass Community Center	1111 H Avenue	Plano
XX	Tom Muehlenbeck Recreation Center	5801 W. Parker Road	Plano
	Carpenter Park Recreation Center	6701 Coit Road	Plano
XX	Meadows Elementary School	2800 18th Street	Plano
	Bowman Middle School	2501 Jupiter Road	Plano
	Fowler Middle School	3801 McDermott Road	Plano
	Princeton High School	1000 East Princeton Dr	Princeton
	First Baptist Church - Branch	7011 FM 546	Princeton
	Prosper HS Library	300 Eagle Lane	Prosper
	NSERL - Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory	875 Synergy Park Blvd.	Richardson
	Richardson Police Sub-Station	2003 E. Renner Road	Richardson
	Woodcreek Church	3400 E. Renner Road	Richardson
	Royse City Middle School (Old)	1400 Bulldog Road	Royse City
	Cox Elementary School	7009 Woodbridge Pkwy.	Sachse
	Westminster Volunteer Fire Dept.	311 E. Houston	Westminster
	Weston Community Center	117 Main Street	Weston
	Seis Lagos Utility District	220 Seis Lagos Trail	Wylie
	Wylie Municipal Complex	2000 N. Hwy 78	Wylie
	Wylie High School	2550 W. Hwy 544	Wylie
X	McMillan Junior High School	1050 Park Blvd.	Wylie

Related Posts:

• Vote Centers Coming To Collin Co. For Election Day November 3, 2009?
• Consolidated Polling Centers Coming To Collin Co. Next Election Day?

Related Links:

• Collin County Vote Center Public Hearings Calendar