(NOTE: THE SPELLING OF STATE REP.-ELECT GINA HINOJOSA'S LAST NAME THAT APPEARS IN THE GREETING TO HERSELF, IMMEDIATELY BELOW, AND IN THE NEXT-TO-LAST PARAGRAPH IN THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL LETTER FROM MYSELF, WAS SOMEHOW MIS-TYPED BY ME AS "GINOJOSA" IN THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS THAT I E-MAILED TO HERSELF. FOR THIS BLOG, THOSE TWO TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED BY MYSELF. --- jkm)
On Saturday, December 31, 2016 1:11 PM, John McMillan
Dear Rep.-elect Hinojosa,
Happy New Year to you and your family and friends and first-rate legislative staff members, including Amanda Foster.
Additional tentative public-policy ideas I would like to offer you as a constituent of yours when you are sworn into elective office in January 2017:
(1) The Texas Legislature in the session that begins in January could approve generous financial incentives to all restaurants and cafes in Texas that make it very easy and affordable for each and every restaurant and cafe in Texas to extensively participate in recycling of glass, plastic, and paper products, as well as other recyclable items, and to invite customers or paying guests in those restaurants and cafes to also contribute toward that recycling of items that would have otherwise been discarded as trash by those restaurants or cafes.
(2) The Texas Legislature could approve a new law on behalf of establishing a truly comprehensive and well-organized statewide network of very affordable treatment programs for any and all Texan residents of any age who either choose to seek treatment for an addiction to drinking alcohol, tobacco consumption, or illicit-drug consumption, or who are required by court order or by law to themselves seek treatment for any of those three specifically-cited addictions.
At present, it seems to me that treatment programs for those three types of addictions are not adequately coordinated or adequately staffed, and that there appears to be significant alarming disparity from one city to the next, one town to the next, on whether any given Texan resident with an addiction of any of those three types can qualify to obtain treatment at a facility located within 10 miles from where they reside.
(3) The Texas Legislature could approve a resolution praising efforts by the Mexican Government to help deter consumption of illicit drugs or alcohol addiction by any Mexican citizen, and praising any and all reputable treatment programs for illicit-drug addiction and alcohol-addiction that are currently offered in Mexico.
In addition, the Texas Legislature could approve generous funding for illicit-drug-treatment experts in Texas to visit Mexico and offer consulting assistance to drug-treatment programs and alcohol-addiction-treatment programs in that friendly foreign nation bordering Texas to the south.
The Texas Legislature might also invite civic-minded Texans with a special affinity for Mexico to consider establishing a non-profit group in Texas that seeks to help fund, and help improve, reputable drug-treatment and alcoholism-treatment programs throughout all of Mexico.
(4) To promote healthful Mexican-style cooking, the Texas Legislature could approve a resolution honoring each of the best-known or noteworthy Mexican-style culinary dishes that the Legislature has determined to be good for the cardiovascular health of persons eating those dishes. Among those dishes might be: Pescado Veracruzano, if I remember correctly the name of that seafood dish which features a healthful tomato sauce on top of that fish dish, if I remember correctly; and refried black beans cooked in olive oil or sunflower oil, for instance.
(5) The Texas Legislature could approve funding for full coordination of archives records between the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building (at 1201 Brazos Street, in Austin) and each and every one of the museums throughout our state.
Ideally, it would be nice if any resident of Texas or visitor to Texas could visit the Texas State Library, for instance, and within minutes obtain archives-related information about any and all specified items that can be found in any of the hundreds of museums found in Texas.
(6) The Texas Legislature could approve generous funding for a special new program aimed at identifying which current high school students in our state are the most "at risk" of themselves somehow obtaining a gun or lethal knife and shooting or stabbing or physically assaulting or sexually assaulting their classmates or their teachers or their principal or assistant principal.
This new type of proposed State-approved "at-risk" program, if it features helpful counseling services at the school for each student regarded as possibly being "at-risk" of later committing attempted murder or murder or physical or sexual assault on their campus, could truly be a life-saver every year for this entire state of Texas.
(7) I am hopeful that you will consider authoring a bill before the Legislature that prohibits any municipal bus driver anywhere in Texas from driving for more than 8 (or 7 or 6 or 5?) consecutive hours. I was reminded of this idea when I recently spoke with a Capital Metro bus driver who told me that she would be driving her bus in Austin that day for 10 consecutive hours, with only a very minimal amount of break time, she told me.
Driver fatigue and driver irritability under circumstances of that type could endanger the safety and medical health of the driver, the passengers in that bus, and other motorists on the roadway, as well as the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists and persons riding motorcycles.
(7a) I also tentatively recommend that you please ask the Texas Legislature to approve state funding for a statewide official study on municipal bus drivers in Texas that attempts to identify how widespread and how severe the problem of "driver fatigue" and "drivers feeling irritable or angry behind the wheel" or "bus drivers with road rage" is at present.
Rep.-elect Hinojosa, I want to thank you again for your very diligent and hard-working style during this crucial period in which you prepare your preliminary legislative agenda as an incoming new state legislator for District 49 in the Texas House of Representative.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, president and only approved current member of the quality-of-life-minded and lawfully-non-Christian, drinking-alcohol-free and anti-marijuana-minded, anti-cocaine-minded, and public-safety-minded "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address ever since late September 2015:
10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 902, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My e-mail address: mcmillanj@att.net
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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Additional tentative public-policy ideas I would like to offer you as a constituent of yours when you are sworn into elective office in January 2017:
(1) The Texas Legislature in the session that begins in January could approve generous financial incentives to all restaurants and cafes in Texas that make it very easy and affordable for each and every restaurant and cafe in Texas to extensively participate in recycling of glass, plastic, and paper products, as well as other recyclable items, and to invite customers or paying guests in those restaurants and cafes to also contribute toward that recycling of items that would have otherwise been discarded as trash by those restaurants or cafes.
(2) The Texas Legislature could approve a new law on behalf of establishing a truly comprehensive and well-organized statewide network of very affordable treatment programs for any and all Texan residents of any age who either choose to seek treatment for an addiction to drinking alcohol, tobacco consumption, or illicit-drug consumption, or who are required by court order or by law to themselves seek treatment for any of those three specifically-cited addictions.
At present, it seems to me that treatment programs for those three types of addictions are not adequately coordinated or adequately staffed, and that there appears to be significant alarming disparity from one city to the next, one town to the next, on whether any given Texan resident with an addiction of any of those three types can qualify to obtain treatment at a facility located within 10 miles from where they reside.
(3) The Texas Legislature could approve a resolution praising efforts by the Mexican Government to help deter consumption of illicit drugs or alcohol addiction by any Mexican citizen, and praising any and all reputable treatment programs for illicit-drug addiction and alcohol-addiction that are currently offered in Mexico.
In addition, the Texas Legislature could approve generous funding for illicit-drug-treatment experts in Texas to visit Mexico and offer consulting assistance to drug-treatment programs and alcohol-addiction-treatment programs in that friendly foreign nation bordering Texas to the south.
The Texas Legislature might also invite civic-minded Texans with a special affinity for Mexico to consider establishing a non-profit group in Texas that seeks to help fund, and help improve, reputable drug-treatment and alcoholism-treatment programs throughout all of Mexico.
(4) To promote healthful Mexican-style cooking, the Texas Legislature could approve a resolution honoring each of the best-known or noteworthy Mexican-style culinary dishes that the Legislature has determined to be good for the cardiovascular health of persons eating those dishes. Among those dishes might be: Pescado Veracruzano, if I remember correctly the name of that seafood dish which features a healthful tomato sauce on top of that fish dish, if I remember correctly; and refried black beans cooked in olive oil or sunflower oil, for instance.
(5) The Texas Legislature could approve funding for full coordination of archives records between the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building (at 1201 Brazos Street, in Austin) and each and every one of the museums throughout our state.
Ideally, it would be nice if any resident of Texas or visitor to Texas could visit the Texas State Library, for instance, and within minutes obtain archives-related information about any and all specified items that can be found in any of the hundreds of museums found in Texas.
(6) The Texas Legislature could approve generous funding for a special new program aimed at identifying which current high school students in our state are the most "at risk" of themselves somehow obtaining a gun or lethal knife and shooting or stabbing or physically assaulting or sexually assaulting their classmates or their teachers or their principal or assistant principal.
This new type of proposed State-approved "at-risk" program, if it features helpful counseling services at the school for each student regarded as possibly being "at-risk" of later committing attempted murder or murder or physical or sexual assault on their campus, could truly be a life-saver every year for this entire state of Texas.
(7) I am hopeful that you will consider authoring a bill before the Legislature that prohibits any municipal bus driver anywhere in Texas from driving for more than 8 (or 7 or 6 or 5?) consecutive hours. I was reminded of this idea when I recently spoke with a Capital Metro bus driver who told me that she would be driving her bus in Austin that day for 10 consecutive hours, with only a very minimal amount of break time, she told me.
Driver fatigue and driver irritability under circumstances of that type could endanger the safety and medical health of the driver, the passengers in that bus, and other motorists on the roadway, as well as the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists and persons riding motorcycles.
(7a) I also tentatively recommend that you please ask the Texas Legislature to approve state funding for a statewide official study on municipal bus drivers in Texas that attempts to identify how widespread and how severe the problem of "driver fatigue" and "drivers feeling irritable or angry behind the wheel" or "bus drivers with road rage" is at present.
Rep.-elect Hinojosa, I want to thank you again for your very diligent and hard-working style during this crucial period in which you prepare your preliminary legislative agenda as an incoming new state legislator for District 49 in the Texas House of Representative.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, president and only approved current member of the quality-of-life-minded and lawfully-non-Christian, drinking-alcohol-free and anti-marijuana-minded, anti-cocaine-minded, and public-safety-minded "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address ever since late September 2015:
10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 902, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My e-mail address: mcmillanj@att.net
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...
John Kevin McMillan
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