(NOTE: THE SPANISH WORD 'CORAZON' IS MASCULINE, I WAS REMINDED THIS MORNING WHEN I RESEARCHED THE SUBJECT ON THE INTERNET. FOR THIS BLOG, I REVISED THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL LETTER, IMMEDIATELY BELOW, BY CHANGING THE TERM 'DE LA' TO 'DEL'. ALSO, FOR THIS BLOG I MADE ONE CLARIFICATION TO MY ORIGINAL DEC. 27, 2016, E-MAIL LETTER, LAST ITEM BELOW, TO STATE REP.-ELECT GINA HINOJOSA--A CLARIFICATION IN WHICH I STATED THE EXACT DATE, JANUARY 10, 2017, WHEN FORMER RECENT AUSTIN ISD SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER GINA HINOJOSA IS OFFICIALLY SWORN INTO ELECTIVE OFFICE AS THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOR STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 49, THE HOUSE DISTRICT IN WHICH I ALSO RESIDE.-- jkm)
On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 10:35 PM, John McMillan wrote:
Dear Rep.-elect Hinojosa,
I am also reminded of the following additional public-policy ideas for you as you prepare for your very influential role as the new State Representative for District 49:
(1) You might want to sponsor a legislative resolution honoring several of the Mexican-style cookery or Latin American-style cookery professional chefs in our state and professional cookbook authors in our state who have contributed the most toward promoting heart-healthy and nutritious meals and beverages that are either Mexican-style or Latin American-style.
(2) You might want to ask the Legislature to sponsor a "Comida del Corazon Day" (or some such phrasing) on an annual basis that invites and urges all Texans to celebrate that day by cooking or eating heart-healthy and nutritious Mexican-style or Latin-American-style culinary dishes and beverages.
(3) There appears to be an urgent need for a new state law that will double or triple or quadruple state funding for educational programs for children under age 5.
Studies have shown that children who do not attend an early-childhood education program suffer immeasurably in a wide variety of ways throughout their lives. Successful early-childhood education programs throughout Texas can help to boost the high-school graduation rate of Texan youths while also promoting law-abiding lifestyles throughout their lives by the Texans who attended early-childhood education programs.
I hope that these additional tentative public-policy ideas are also helpful to you as you prepare your legislative agenda for the next session of the Texas House.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
My E-mail address: mcmillanj@att.net
On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 9:48 PM, John McMillan wrote:
December 27, 2016
Dear State Representative-Elect Hinojosa,
Some additional tentative public-policy ideas I would like to offer you today as a law-abiding, gainfully employed single adult male resident of Texas House of Representatives District 49, include the following:
(1) There appears to be an urgent need for stronger state laws to prohibit and punish anonymous and fraudulent communications in Texas that violate the privacy rights of the person or persons being subjected to those anonymous and fraudulent communications against his or her or their wishes.
(2) I feel very strongly that the Texas Legislature should do a lot more than it has in the past done to address the medically injurious effects of continuous noise pollution in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere.
I am reminded that one highly-regarded Ear, Nose, and Throat medical specialist in northwest Austin, Dr. David Tobey, stated to me several years ago inside his medical clinic in northwest Austin that I myself had sustained significant permanent damage to my own hearing capacity that resulted from continuous noise pollution in Austin that Dr. Tobey stated he was very sure that I myself had not caused or generated, he said.
Dr. Tobey even went so far as to directly and on his own initiative compare the extent of cited permanent damage to my own hearing capacity in Austin to what municipal police officers, such as APD officers, sustain over the course of an entire career as law-enforcement officers in this city, he indicated.
(3) There appears to be an urgent need for stricter penalties under the state penal code for allegedly subjecting anyone to unauthorized or un-requested or injurious or fraudulent "medical services" during periods when the latter individual is sleeping on his own bed inside his locked or bolt-locked residence.
(4) I urge you to consider proposing legislation that will help to finance a doubling or tripling of reliance on renewable energy sources for generating the electricity that is used by institutions owned by or affiliated with the State Government of Texas throughout this entire state.
(5) I recommend that you ask the State Government of Texas to provide you with a list of the 10 or 20 windiest cities or towns or counties of Texas. That "windiest places" list could be invaluable to the Texas Legislature in attempting to decide which places in Texas should get highest or high priority for state funding of wind-power generator facilities in that town, city, or county of Texas.
(6) To help promote healthier dietary lifestyles throughout our state, including among our state's Hispanic residents, I am hopeful that you will sponsor a resolution praising the Mexican-style or Latin-American-style restaurants in our state that offer the greatest variety of heart-healthy and healthful menu options.
Unfortunately, most Texans, even today, regard "Mexican restaurants" in this state as eateries that are harmful for the cardiovascular health of Texans and visitors to our state.
One suggestion on this might be a proposed annual Turkey Whole-Wheat or Turkey Corn Tortilla Enchiladas Bake-off or food festival in Texas designed to highlight low-sodium, heart-healthy options of that type which feature Mexican-style cooking that is "just what the doctor ordered", so to speak.
One restaurant chain in the Houston area, and I forget its name, did in the mid-1990s offer Turkey Enchiladas on its menu. But that was the ONLY Mexican restaurant where I can recall having dined in our state that has offered a turkey enchiladas menu option.
(7) In view of the very healthful role of avocados in the Texan dietary lifestyle, I am hopeful that you will sponsor or co-sponsor a bill or resolution that asks the Texas Department of Agriculture to issue annual update reports on the long-term trend in the total number of cropland acres in our state that are currently being devoted to raising avocados.
Since Texans probably consume more avocados per capita than the residents of just about any other U.S. state, with the possible exception of California, it makes good sense for the Texas Legislature to do everything possible to help promote commercial avocado production throughout Texas.
(7a) If it is legal for the Texas Legislature to do so, possibly you could ask the Texas House to approve a "Miracle Crops Promotion Act" that offers incentives to farmers throughout our state. Avocados could be among the very healthful "miracle foods" crops for which special financial incentives could be offered by the State of Texas on behalf of farmers choosing to raise those crops commercially in Texas.
Rep.-elect Hinojosa, I hope that this follow-up letter is also helpful to you as you diligently work to prepare your legislative agenda for the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a constituent of yours beginning in January (on January 10, when you are officially sworn into office at the Legislature) 2017. I am also the President of the one-member (only myself) and non-Christian, quality-of-life-minded, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: 10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 902, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
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