MINUTES
SENATE COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING
Friday, April 14, 2000
1:30 p.m.
University of Texas at Arlington
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Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule
11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Redistricting
was held on Friday, April 14, 2000, in the University of Texas
at Arlington
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MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT:
Senator Troy Fraser Senator Robert Duncan
Senator Mario Gallegos, Jr. Senator Steve Ogden
Senator Gonzalo Barrientos
Senator Mike Jackson
Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Senator Frank Madla
Senator Jane Nelson
Senator Florence Shapiro
Senator Royce West
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The chair called the meeting to order at 1:47 p.m. There being
a quorum present, the following business was transacted:
Senator Fraser moved adoption of the minutes from the previous
hearing held on March 4, 2000; without objection, it was so
ordered.
The following people testified on Redistricting:
Ake, Delton (Judge Al Cornelius, Ellis County Judge),
Waxahachie
Alonzo, Roberto (Mexican American Democrats of
Texas), Dallas
Archer, Jeff (Texas Legislative Council), Austin
Armstrong, Sharon (Stop Six Poly Association), Fort Worth
Ballard, Rusty (self), Waxahachie
Bell, Judy (City of Crandall), Crandall
Bloom Jr., Luckland (self, Associate Professor of Law at
Southern Methodist Univ.), Dallas
Boyd, Ealy (Congressman Martin Frost), Forest Hill
Brender, Art (Tarrant County Democratic Party County
Chairman), Fort Worth
Burnam, Rep. Lon (Representative), Austin
Coker, Dorothy (self), Fort Worth
Davis, Wendy (self, Attorney-City Council Rep. District 9
Fort
Worth), Fort Worth
Dennie, Robert L. (Johnson County Voters Represented by
Arlene
Wohlgemuth), Burleson
DeLorme, John T. (self), Bedford
Edmonds, Bobbie (Community of SE Fort Worth, Legal Law
Office
of Bobbie Edmonds), Fort Worth
Fernandez, Daniel (Arlington Republican Club), Arlington
Gaines, Jesse (Fort Worth Tarrant County Branch of the
NAACP),
Fort Worth
Geisel, Paul (self, professor of Urban Affairs), Fort Worth
Gladden, Wilhelmina (self), Fort Worth
Groff, Horace (Grayson County Commissioners), Sherman
Hatchell, Jack (Collin County Commissioners Court),
McKinney
Hebert, Felix (Mayor of Benbrook), Benbrook
Hebert, J. Gerald (IMPAC 2000-The Democratic Party's
National
Redistricting Project), Washington D.C.
Lancaster, Carlton (Senior Citizen Services of Greater
Tarrant
County), Arlington
Markham, Douglas E. (self, attorney), Houston
McCloud, Ralph (City of Fort Worth), Fort Worth
Milem, John (Self, business consultant), Dallas
Odom, Elzie (Mayor of Arlington), Arlington
Prabhu, Barbara (League of Women Voters of Arlington and
Tarrant County), Arlington
Putnam, Joe (Mayor of Irving), Irving
Ragley, Buddy (Collin County Republican Party), Plano
Ridgeway, Bill (Northeast Tarrant Chambers of Commerce),
Halton City
Riley, County Judge Mark (self, Parker County Judge),
Weatherford
Scoma, Charles (Mayor of North Richland Hills), North
Richland
Stone, Troy K. (self), Red Oak
Swearingen, Stephen (self), White Settlement
Tabor, John (self), Waxahachie
Thomas, Doris (self), Fort Worth
Thompson, Rep Garfield (Representative), Houston
Ware, Alan (Texas Legislative Council), Austin
White, R.D. (City of Hillsboro), Hillsboro
Registering, but not testifying:
Brown, Ron (self), Red Oak
Burger, Julia (self, Arlington City Council Member
District
5), Arlington
Harris, Belvin R. (Cooke County Texas), Gainesville
Hervey, Madeleine (Common Cause), Dallas
McDaniel, Roland (Precinct and Tarrant County
Democratic
Party), Fort Worth
Paniagua, Joe (City of Fort Worth City Council), Fort Worth
Saltsgiver, Janet (Precinct 1075 Chair), Fort Worth
Southern, David (City of Granbury), Granbury
Taylor, Quincy (Stop Six Poly Association), Stop Six
Written materials submitted:
Boze, Jerry (Greater Kaufman Chamber of Commerce and
Visitors
Bureau), Kaufman
Cade, Chuck (self), Kaufman
Harmon, Roger (Johnson County Commissioner Court), Cleburne
Raymond, Ray (self), Kaufman
Shipley, Jim (Greater Kaufman Chamber of Commerce and
Visitors
Bureau), Kaufman
There being no further business, at 6:40 p.m. Senator Gallegos
moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of
the chair. Without objection, it was so ordered.
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Senator Troy Fraser, Co-Chair
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Senator Mario Gallegos, Jr., Co-Chair
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Tara Cowen Rejino, Clerk