Tuesday, March 27, 2018

MORE FROM THE NEW YORK SCENE: A MARCH 2018 IMAGINARY EAVESDROPPER'S REPORT



--"I find it very tragic that 99 percent of all the humor you hear on television these days is focused on President Trump. This implies that the millions of other Americans and millions of topics other than the White House are worthy of only 1 percent of our professional comedians' time and attention. So we have Mr. Trump in the foreground at all times, basking in all the comedians' fascination with him, and all of the rest of American society is mere background. The humor industry in this country is eternally catering to Trump's solipsistic belief that he is the only consequential American citizen of today."

---"If Donald Trump ever does get charged with a felony crime, he will insist on holding a public press conference to announce with a smirk on his face that 'It's good to see that you guys consider me to be a person of interest. I always knew I was a very interesting guy, but the media are now finally acknowledging that about me. And who knows? Maybe I'll get picked as the "Most Interesting Person of Interest of the Year" by People Magazine. That will be absolute proof that I'm now a leading "Person of Interest" in this country. I will look forward to a jury trial, since I feel very confident that if I take my case to the jury, I will prevail in a courtroom.'"

---"I can almost imagine Trump saying: 'Yes, it's true, I'm generally a Tale of Two States kind of guy. When I want to get away from the news media in New York, I head for my estate in Florida. Florida is my escape-the-media state. Maybe I should reward Florida for giving me plenty of peace and quiet, along with favorable PR. I could offer news tips to my favorite newspapers or television stations in Florida, to reward them for showing respect for my privacy, and for my stature."


---"So why are the food-industry companies so insistent on high fructose corn syrup as an ingredient in everything I glance at in the supermarket? To me, the CEOs of those food-industry companies that subject me to high-fructose corn syrup when my guard is down should get charged with a coronary crime."

---"If you summarize the overall message from each of the national news stories these days, it's is always the same. This is an administration so thoroughly corrupt that they make the Tea Pot Dome Scandal of the 1920s look like a very minor gaffe for President Harding."

---"As a Christian myself, I am very sure there is a special place in hell for each of the most corrupt of our American presidents. And Donald has certainly guaranteed himself a spot there---he'll get voted unanimously into the Hellish Presidents Hall of Fame, an honor that he gets to collect posthumously."

---"I think people are so appalled by Donald Trump that no one is asking him or the First Lady what their favorite culinary dishes and recipes are. Everyone loses their appetite when they think about his Presidency, so no one wants to know about his favorite dishes."

--"If you tell me what Donald Trump's favorite dinner entree is, I will ask you to please provide me with indigestion tablets before we discuss that any further."

--"Talking about Donald Trump's favorite dishes is a bit like discussing which entree was Adolph Hitler's favorite. In both cases the dish acquires infamy so severe that it's difficult to find an appetite."'

---"Any day now, I expect a media company favorable to Trump, such as Fox News, will pursue a feature story exploring how very nice and kind Trump is to his favorite pet dog or pet cat. That's how far our nation's estimation of Trump has plunged: we try to reassure ourselves that at least Trump is nice to his pets. But from what I've been told, the very same could have been said of Adolph Hitler in the early 1940s."

---"I plan to enroll in an adult-education course entitled 'How to Pronounce It In Order to Prove You are Culturally Literate in New York'. I still don't know how to say the word 'sriracha', even though it's considered essential these days to make at least one comment per day about 'sriracha' as a bold new flavor sensation that's very trendy. Maybe I should think of that United Nations country, Sri Lanka, and attempt to use that country's name as a guide for how to pronounce 'sriracha' at cocktail parties here. As for 'Edamame', which is a fancy vocabulary word for 'soybeans', I get very nervous whenever I have to say that word at cocktail parties. I am fairly sure it ends with "Mame," as in "Auntie Mame," but the first part throws me off. Maybe I should think of my friend 'Ida', then substitute a long 'e' for the 'i' when I say EDA-MAME'. But this doesn't tell me whether the accent should go on the first syllable, or the third. I'm just assuming the second syllable will not, of course, get the accent."

---"So tell me again what the Dutch paid to the American Indians for this island we now call Manhattan. Today I'm having major doubts about whether the Dutch paid too much for this island from hell, as I like to call it."

---"I think the younger men I'm dating appreciate the fact that I live on the 40th floor of my apartment complex. They often comment after our date that 'you were well worth the special trip I had to take in order to go out with you'. And some of the younger men will comment after we went together on a social outing that 'dating you is a bit like communing with the Gods at Mount Olympus. All that's missing is the ambrosia,' they'll say. That always makes me feel a bit special, as if my 40th floor status gives me a divine aura for members of the opposite sex."

--"The only major issue I'm facing right now is whether to eat whole-milk plain Greek yogurt in the morning or low-fat lime-flavored Greek yogurt in the morning. The other day I saw a New York-based healthy-living expert on television who said he urges me to drop my low-fat yogurt, and instead go for whole-milk plain yogurt that's sugar-free, he said. The lowest sugar content I could find was 6 grams per serving from Stonyfield's Greek yogurt, so I don't know where that healthy-living expert found the sugar-free whole-milk yogurt. This is beginning to feel like a wild-goose chase. Maybe I should call Stonyfield, which is based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and ask if I can special-order a whole-milk plain Greek yogurt from them that's sugar-free. That reminds me that I would love to make a special trip to New Hampshire in order to ask for a guided tour of their famous yogurt-production facility. Yogurt is my favorite life-saver, so it makes sense to see the yogurt being produced in person and thank the people who made that revitalizing yogurt possible for me. Unless you have a better idea for why I should make a special trip to New Hampshire."

---"New York is the only city I've ever lived where if I say 'good night' to my roommate before I retire to my bedroom, I am never 100 percent sure that particular night will, in fact, be a good one for him. There are crazies all over New York, as Woody Allen once famously declared in one of his movies, and some of those crazies might well break into our apartment and ruin my roommate's attempt at a peaceful and rejuvenating sleeping experience. But at least he can count on me to dial 911 and immediately report the incident, if I ever hear any moans emanating from his bedroom that sound suspicious. Then I'll time NYPD to see how fast they get to the scene. I've got a special stop-watch I can use to keep tabs on how many minutes NYPD will take to get here. If it takes them more than five minutes, I plan to greet them with, 'So what took you so long?' when I open the front door to let them in. At least that will remind them that I expect results from NYPD, and I expect results ASAP!"

to be continued


BOOK PROJECT AND DOCUMENTARY FILM IDEA FOR MY PRAGMATICALLY-IDEALISTIC 'PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION': THE HISTORY OF 'TO-DO LISTS AS A CULTURAL TRADITION', AND THE ROLE OF 'TO-DO LISTS' IN EVERYDAY LIVES, AND IN AMERICAN HISTORY

I am also very hopeful that my still-one-member (myself, only) and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" will help to persuade at least one school system in the United States to offer enrichment courses and educational workshops devoted to the theme of "to-do lists" and their potential role in the life of a grade-school student.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

STATE REPRESENTATIVE GINA HINOJOSA OF HOUSE DISTRICT 49 ACCEPTS ADDENDUM TO MY MARCH 24, 2018-DATED PUBLIC-POLICY LETTER TO HERSELF


On Saturday, March 24, 2018 12:30 PM, John McMillan wrote:

March 24, 2018


Dear State Representative Hinojosa in Austin, Texas,

As a brief addendum to the public-policy letter (below) that I sent you earlier today, I would like to offer you the following apparently pertinent factual information:

---Formula 1 race cars reportedly in the year 2016 achieved only 4 to 7 miles per gallon of fuel (an edited version here for this Blog--jkm).

I obtained this factual information today from an online report written by Christina Valimaki and posted on May 4, 2016. The title of her posting was "Formula 1 Racing: Innovation with Environmental Impact."
Formula 1 racing, as you know, is currently being highlighted and emphasized at well-publicized "sporting" events in Austin.

---Professional race car events in general consume an unconscionably excessive quantity of fossil fuels.

Shortly before the 2015 "Daytona 500" professional race-car event at Daytona Beach, Florida, for instance, NASCAR estimated that the drivers of the 43 cars racing in that professional "sporting" event would consume a combined total of 5,375 gallons of racing fuel, according to a Feb. 22, 2015, "Time" Magazine account I reviewed online that was written by Jack Linshi. I might add that the cited estimate from NASCAR was probably low.

NASCAR, as you may know, is the "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing" that co-sponsors the professional race-car events.

Rep. Hinojosa, I hope that this additional information is helpful to you as you review whether the Texas Legislature should approve a new state law that either prohibits or imposes major restrictions on professional race-car events in Austin Texas, and elsewhere throughout our state.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from John Kevin McMillan, a dependably civil and law-abiding single adult Anglo male constituent of yours who is also myself a permanent resident of Austin City Council District 10.
District 10, as you will recall, is a district of Austin for which my one total duly-elected City Council Member from that district under the "Direct Representation by District" system, Dr. Alison Alter, has reportedly refused to accept any direct communications of any type from myself, according to Austin Police Department Officer James Turner, who indicated to me on March 9, 2017, inside my apartment unit at that time (Apt. 902 at Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road in NW Austin) that he was officially authorized by Council Member Alter to speak to me on her own behalf that day.

I have, of course, honored Council Member Alter's request on that. I wish to add, however, that I would welcome any opportunity to myself file a civil-rights lawsuit against the City Government of Austin for alleged illegal disenfranchisement of this particular law-abiding single adult male gainfully employed District 10 resident --- myself --- by a City Government apparently exhibiting alleged possible antipathy and possible malice toward me in alleged possible violation of the state penal code and state laws of Texas.

I mention this partly because I have been informed by the City of Austin officials whom I have spoken with about this that NO OTHER CURRENT RESIDENT OF AUSTIN of whom that City of Austin official is aware has been prohibited by their own direct-representation City Council member for their district of Austin from directly contacting that Council member of theirs with public-policy-related concerns or suggestions or information.

My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My current home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA ON MARCH 24, 2018, ACCEPTS AN URGENT REQUEST FOR A NEW STATE LAW REQUIRING ENVIRONMENTAL-IMPACT STATEMENTS FOR EACH AND EVERY PROFESSIONAL RACE-CAR EVENT IN TEXAS


On Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:20 AM, John McMillan wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa, the duly-elected official House District 49 representative in the Texas Legislature in Austin.

March 24, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As you may recall, I am a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours residing in House District 49 and Austin City Council District 10.

Thank you again for recently indicating to me that you are diligently pursuing factual research on behalf of developing proposed new legislation for the next session of the Texas Legislature in Austin--including, I assume, new legislation that will benefit law-abiding constituents of yours.

Rep. Hinojosa, do you have any plans to recommend to the Texas Legislature that it approve a new law requiring each and every city or county sponsoring a professional race-car event in Texas to submit to the Texas Legislature, the Governor of Texas, or some agency of the State of Texas, an environmental impact statement on that event at least six months before and within six months after that event has occurred?

As you must be painfully aware, the growing role of our state capital city of Austin as a host city for professional, semi-professional, and amateur race-car events poses a major concern for many environmental-protection-minded and fossil-fuels-conservation-minded Texans.

This state-capital city declaring itself to be "eternally wedded to weirdness" inevitably invites responsible, conscientious, and honorable members of the Texas Legislature---and you have emphasized that you yourself fit that admirable and wholesome description---to oppose manifestations of "weirdness" in Austin that do, in fact, comprise very injurious or harmful conduct.

I might add that the race-car events in Austin raise public-safety-related concerns in regard to whether the medical health and safety of the drivers, and of the spectators at those events, is needlessly jeopardized and put at risk by those types of events.

It also seems to me that the race-car events in Austin also significantly undermine efforts by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Austin Police Department to ensure that all motorists in Austin who are not participating as a driver in a race-car event at the time, must themselves drive within the speed limit at all times.

The cultural message conveyed to Central Texans by the professional race-car events in Austin is that "the faster you can drive, the more you will be publicly honored".

In everyday life, as you are no doubt aware, the opposite is in fact the case: the faster you drive, the more you will be publicly DISHONORED. Motorists in Austin who exceed the speed limit in flagrant defiance of the law often cause collisions with other motorists, as well as with pedestrians and bicyclists, and also cause major property damage, such as to traffic signs and buildings, that are truly unconscionable and very injurious.

Finally, I am very hopeful that you will please initiate a request to our Lt. Governor and Governor and applicable legislative committee chairpersons for legislative hearings and State of Texas-sponsored studies as soon as possible that explore public-safety-related issues and environmental issues relating to race-car events in Texas.

Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa, for your helpful reply note to me about this very important public-policy issue currently facing our city, county, state, and nation.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, president and only current approved member of the environmental-protection-minded, energy-conservation-minded, public-safety-minded, factually-focused, and non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...

'TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION' (THHSC) STATE AGENCY REP CECILIA LYNCH ON MARCH 22, 2018, AGREES IN WRITING TO LIMIT HER OPEN-RECORDS SEARCH FOR RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS TO THE TIME PERIOD EVER SINCE JANUARY 1, 2016, IN REGARD TO DOCUMENTS GENERATED BY A LITIGATION ATTORNEY FOR THAT STATE AGENCY WHICH EACH REFER TO A POSSIBLE PLANNED LAWSUIT BEING FILED BY THHSC THAT DIRECTLY REFERS TO MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF AUSTIN


On Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:53 AM, "Lynch,Cecilia (HHSC/DARS)" wrote:

Thank you.
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 


Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:30 PM

To: HHSC Open Records Request ; Lynch,Cecilia (HHSC/DARS) ; APD Officer James Turner ; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016) ; Sao State Tx Webmaster ; rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Gina Hinojosa ; Amanda Foster ; Kirk Watson ; AMA Council On Science and Public Health ; FBI Dallas Bureau ; National Health Care Anti-Fraud Assn (2015) ; Texas Public Health Assoc. (2015) ; Texas Association for Home Care 2017 ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Sherri Fleming ; Travis County Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator Eckstein ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Gerald Daugherty ; Public Information ; statesman ; District 8 ; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; Christian Hawley ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (Austin area) ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; Unknown National ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; Dayna Blazey ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; White House Fellows Program 2017 ; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; WallStJournalNewstips ; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters <60m cbsnews.com="">; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Texasadvocacyproject Info ; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management ; zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; Justin Holland ; Texas Observer Editors ; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith ; Texas Monthly Editors (2017) ; Letters To the Editor ; KXAN TV News Investigations ; Liz Laurence ; Bruce Garrison ; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor ; Steven Rich ; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy ; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton ; ACLU ; Rainn Info ; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago) ; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights ; Sona Nast ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Travis County Republican Party (2016) ; Trevor Glynn ; Leslie DeGraffenried ; Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (2016) ; Traviscountydemocrats Info ; Republican Party of Texas ; ACC President Richard Rhodes ; Democratic National Committee ; The Republican National Committee ; isonx001@umn.edu; Kami (Denny's Lakeline Manager) ; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (2015) ; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (2015) ; Jennifer A. DeCamp ; Center for Investigative Reporting

; Charles Schwertner ; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald ; Southwestern University (Georgetown) ; Missouri Synod Lutheran HQ2015 ; Dawn Buckingham ; Donna Campbell ; john.cyrier@house.texas.gov; terry.wilson@house.texas.gov; Jason Isaac ; State Rep. Paul Workman (Central TX) ; Tony Dale ; larry.gonzales@house.texas.gov; Celia Israel ; Dawnna Dukes ; Oig Hhs Webmaster

Subject: reply to HHSC on PIR re: referral to 2 of HHSC's top litigation attys

To: THHSC paralegal Cecilia Lynch, "Open Records and Subrogation", Office of Chief Counsel, Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency, Austin, Texas.

Your office phone number: (512) 424-6619. Your office FAX: 512-424-6665.

March 21, 2018

Dear Ms. Lynch,

Thank you for your March 21, 2018-dated e-mailed reply letter to me, seeking clarification on the date range for my March 18, 2018-dated public-information request (below) to your state agency.

I hereby wish to clarify that the date range for the cited Open Records request is any time from 12:01 a.m. January 1, 2016, through the present.

With your kind permission, I seek to revise the following opening paragraph from my March 18, 2018-dated email public-information request to your state agency, WITH THE FOLLOWING BOLD-FACED TEXT BEING INSERTED AT THIS TIME:

"This is a public information request in which I seek to obtain from your state agency in Austin a copy of any and all e-mail correspondence or letters or legal notes or phone messages generated AT ANY TIME SINCE 12:01 A.M. JANUARY 1, 2016, by any of your state agency's litigation attorneys in Austin that cite a legal issue that your state agency has identified in regard to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, for which a possible lawsuit referring to myself by your state agency has been determined by your state agency as a possible legal option for your state agency to pursue."

Thank you again for your reply note. I hope to hear from you soon in response to this public-information request from myself.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
Home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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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On Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:43 AM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

March 18, 2018

Dear Public Information Coordinator for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency of the State Government of Texas in Austin, Texas,

This is a public information request in which I seek to obtain from your state agency in Austin a copy of any and all e-mail correspondence or letters or legal notes or phone messages generated by any of your state agency's litigation attorneys in Austin that cite a legal issue that your state agency has identified in regard to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, for which a possible lawsuit referring to myself by your state agency has been determined by your state agency as a possible legal option for your state agency to pursue.

This public-information request was prompted by the following e-mail reply letter (last item, below) from your state agency I received on Feb. 26, 2018, in which an official of your state agency in Austin invited me to contact two of the top litigation attorneys for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in Austin, Texas.

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth is April 27, 1957. My e-mail address is: mcmillanj@att.net. My home address is: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759.

Thank you in advance for your prompt and authoritative reply letter to me in response to this public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
10926 Jollyville Road, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...
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On Monday, February 26, 2018 5:18 PM, HHSC Contact <Contact@hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your inquiry received at the Office of Ombudsman. You may call Russ Harris at 512-487-3355 or Ralph Longmire at 512-487-3440 to discuss legal
matters.

I hope this information is helpful.

If you have any questions or need additional information, you may contact our office at 1‑877‑787‑8999 or visit us online at www.hhsc.state.tx.us/ombudsman.

Thank you,

Laura Miyakawa
Ombudsman I- Hotline Unit
1-877-787-8999

To learn more about the HHSC Office of the Ombudsman visit:
http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/ombudsman.




John Kevin McMillan

Friday, March 23, 2018

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE (TDI) GENERAL COUNSEL IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, INDICATES IN WRITING ON MARCH 23, 2018, THAT RECENT NEWS ABOUT A CITED REFERRAL OF MYSELF TO LITIGATION ATTORNEYS AT THE TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN MIGHT COMPRISE A BASIS FOR AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST FROM MYSELF TO THEIR OWN TDI STATE AGENCY


On Friday, March 23, 2018 9:04 AM, AgencyCounsel wrote:

Hello Mr. McMillan,

Your email was sent to an incorrect address if you were wishing to place an open records request. Public information requests sent by email or fax must be sent to Ellen Webking, Public Information Coordinator, at OpenRecords@TDI.Texas.gov or 512-490-1021. You may also submit a request by mail to Ellen Webking, Public Information Coordinator, Texas Department of Insurance, P.O. Box 149104, Mail Code 110-1C, Austin, Texas 78714-9104; or in person at 333 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78701.

Sincerely,


Mary Shannon
Program Specialist
General Counsel Division – Open Records Office
(512) 676-6955
Mary.Shannon@TDI.Texas.gov
Texas Dept. of Insurance
333 Guadalupe Street | Austin, Texas 78701
Fax: (512) 490-1021 | tdi.texas.gov | @TexasTDI

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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 1:22 AM
To: Amie Ely ; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016) ; Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center ; Attorney General of Utah ; Idaho Attorney General Victim Services (2016) ; IowaAttyGeneralTomMiller ; Attorney General of Maryland ; Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (2016) ; Attorney General of Louisiana ; Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; Rainn Info ; AMA Council On Science and Public Health ; National Health Care Anti-Fraud Assn (2015) ; AgencyCounsel ; Oig Hhs Webmaster ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs Exec. Dir. Irvine ; Attorney General of New York ; Federal Law Enf. Officers Assn ; smccown@law.utexas.edu; hway@law.utexas.edu; National Consumer Law Center (Boston) ; MITProgram On HumanRights&Justice ; Texas Freedom Network ; Open Society Foundations ; Texas Library Assn Intellectual Freedom Director ; ACC President Richard Rhodes ; Texas Secretary of State Open Records and General Counsel ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director ; National Internal Affairs Investigators Association Pres. Darrell Harris (2016) ; Safeplace Info ; Safeaustin Info ; cji@uh.edu; Attorney Cousin Jack Dane ; Cousin Jim Dane ; Minnesota Attorney General (2016) ; Minnesota Center Against Sexual Assault Violence and Abuse ; UT-Austin Institute On Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault ; NBC Nightly News Headqrtrs 2016 ; inthesetimesmag ; In These Times (2016) ; Texas Apartment Association ; Austin Board of Realtors Andrei Lubomudrov (2015) ; Austin Board of Realtors Lara2015 ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Commissioner Jeff Travillion (2017) ; Travis County Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator Eckstein ; Tamara Smith ; Texas Medical Board State Agency ; Miami Herald Letters To Editor ; Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newstips ; Center for Investigative Reporting

; Austin American-Statesman Investigative Reporter Andrea Ball ; Austin American-Statesman Investigative Reporter Tony Plohetski ; Austin American-Statesman Editor Debbie Hiott ; admin@anglicanchurch.net; The Economist ; The London Times Letters To Editor ; BBC News Story Ideas (2017) ; Polis Cam Ac Webmaster ; Georganne Rogers ; wwsdean@princeton.edu; Letters ; DenverPostEditors ; Fort Worth Star-Telegram Newstips ; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith ; Texas Monthly Editors (2017) ; Wharton County (TX) Attorney's Office ; El Campo City Attorney Ronald B. Collins ; Hubert Vo ; rafael.anchia@house.texas.gov; Senfronia Thompson ; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald ; Southwestern University (Georgetown) ; Kami (Denny's Lakeline Manager) ; Suzanne M. Abrego ; The Progressive Magazine ; Texas Association for Home Care 2017 ; Public Enquiries (CD) ; releases@startribune.com; isonx001@umn.edu; Wade Zwiener ; Missouri Synod Lutheran HQ2015 ; david_garland@baylor.edu; SouthwestStudyCenter-TXStateU ; Texas Christian Univeristy ; Rice Univ. Polit. Sci. Prof. Brace ; stein@rice.edu; hamm@rice.edu; The Australian Daily Newspaper (Sydney) ; Sydney Herald Australia 2017 ; James Keller ; dwalmsley@globeandmail.com; dalas-gr@international.gc.ca; Der Spiegel (2016) ; Texas City Attorneys Assn. General Counsel Scott Houston ; Dagens Nyheter Sweden 2016 ; ChristianScienceMonitor Editors

Subject: Fw: 3-18-18 PIR re: HHSC referral to 2 of HHSC's top litigation attys

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following,
from John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, USA.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
_________

On Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:43 AM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

March 18, 2018


Dear Public Information Coordinator for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission state agency of the State Government of Texas in Austin, Texas,

This is a public information request in which I seek to obtain from your state agency in Austin a copy of any and all e-mail correspondence or letters or legal notes or phone messages generated by any of your state agency's litigation attorneys in Austin that cite a legal issue that your state agency has identified in regard to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, for which a possible lawsuit referring to myself by your state agency has been determined by your state agency as a possible legal option for your state agency to pursue.

This public-information request was prompted by the following e-mail reply letter (last item, below) from your state agency I received on Feb. 26, 2018, in which an official of your state agency in Austin invited me to contact two of the top litigation attorneys for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in Austin, Texas.

My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth is April 27, 1957. My e-mail address is: mcmillanj@att.net. My home address is: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759.

Thank you in advance for your prompt and authoritative reply letter to me in response to this public-information request from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan.
10926 Jollyville Road, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...
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On Monday, February 26, 2018 5:18 PM, HHSC Contact <Contact@hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote:


Mr. McMillan,


Thank you for your inquiry received at the Office of Ombudsman. You may call Russ Harris at 512-487-3355 or Ralph Longmire at 512-487-3440 to discuss legal
matters.

I hope this information is helpful.

If you have any questions or need additional information, you may contact our office at 1‑877‑787‑8999 or visit us online at www.hhsc.state.tx.us/ombudsman.

Thank you,


Laura Miyakawa
Ombudsman I- Hotline Unit
1-877-787-8999

To learn more about the HHSC Office of the Ombudsman visit:
http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/ombudsman.

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE STATE GOVERNMENT AGENCY'S GENERAL COUNSEL IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, INDICATES IN WRITING ON MARCH 23, 2018, THAT THEIR OFFICE IS APPARENTLY NOT WILLING TO REVIEW THE CONTENTS OF A RISK-MANAGEMENT-RELATED PUBLIC-POLICY IDEA FROM MYSELF


On Friday, March 23, 2018 9:04 AM, AgencyCounsel wrote:

Hello Mr. McMillan,

Your email was sent to an incorrect address if you were wishing to place an open records request. Public information requests sent by email or fax must be sent to Ellen Webking, Public Information Coordinator, at OpenRecords@TDI.Texas.gov or 512-490-1021. You may also submit a request by mail to Ellen Webking, Public Information Coordinator, Texas Department of Insurance, P.O. Box 149104, Mail Code 110-1C, Austin, Texas 78714-9104; or in person at 333 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78701.

Sincerely,

Mary Shannon
Program Specialist
General Counsel Division – Open Records Office
(512) 676-6955
Mary.Shannon@TDI.Texas.gov
Texas Dept. of Insurance
333 Guadalupe Street | Austin, Texas 78701
Fax: (512) 490-1021 | tdi.texas.gov | @TexasTDI
____

From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:10 AM

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Subject: Fw: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following March 10-dated public-policy letter of mine to my duly-elected state lawmaker in the Texas House, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin, Texas, in which I cited a state law in Oklahoma.

It is my hope that the cited Oklahoma state law might possibly offer ideas for state lawmakers here in Austin on how the Texas Legislature could expand the number and scope of circumstances in Texas in which a municipal-government employee or a municipal-government official, such as a City Manager or a City Council member or department head, could be legally required by a municipal government in Texas to undergo drug testing.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, anti-"medical-marijuana"-minded, crime-prevention-minded, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.

John Kevin McMillan

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org .

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;


---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.

---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".

---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?
Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

A SIGN OF INTEGRITY: STATE SENATOR DAWN BUCKINGHAM OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES A REPLY NOTE TO ME SENT BY HER OFFICE THIS WEEK WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:


***PLEASE NOTE: No campaign or political business is conducted through my State office. All such inquires may be directed to dawn@dawnbuckingham.com or (512) 766-7324.**

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

STATE LAWMAKERS WITH CENTRAL TEXAS CONSTITUENTS RECEIVE REQUEST FOR SPONSORSHIP OF A NEW BILL EXPANDING SCOPE OF DRUG-TESTING ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES AND CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS


On Monday, March 19, 2018 11:14 PM, John McMillan wrote:

March 19, 2018

Dear Distinguished State of Texas Legislators from the greater Austin area,

My duly-elected representative in the Texas House, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, earlier today indicated (below) to me in writing that she is not willing to sponsor any proposed legislation in the Texas House that will cite additional specified circumstances in which the State of Texas will either require or authorize the City Government of Austin to conduct drug testing on a City of Austin employee or on a City of Austin official---such as the Mayor, City Manager, a City Council Member, or a City of Austin department head.

The proposed new legislation will also, of course, be applicable to other municipal governments in Texas.

Are any of you state lawmakers from the greater Austin area willing to consider sponsoring new legislation of the type that I am myself recommending (see below) in the next session of the Texas Legislature?
If so, please let me know as soon as possible, as I do not currently have any local sponsor for proposed new legislation of the type I am advocating for our state.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only current approved member of the lawfully non-Christian and public-safety-minded as well as crime-deterrence-minded "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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

On Monday, March 19, 2018 4:35 PM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your email. Rep. Hinojosa is not planning to recommend any revisions you mentioned regarding drug testing municipal employees or municipal-government officials for next session.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
(O) 512-463-0668
amanda.foster@house.texas.gov

________
From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; Kirk Watson; Keysha Walcott; Gerald Daugherty; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Public Information; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Municipal League (2016); Texas Municipal League General Counsel Bennett Sandlin; Texas City Attorneys Assn. General Counsel Scott Houston; Texas City Attorneys Assoc. Pres. (2016); APD Officer James Turner; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; FBI Dallas Bureau; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan; statesman; Christian Hawley; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Unknown National; White House Fellows Program 2017; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Observer Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Scott Goldstein; Dallas City Attorney's Office; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; Houston Police Dept (2015); Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; District 8; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016); Sherri Fleming; Austinstone Info; Hpbc Info; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Letters To the Editor; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith; KLRU; UT-Austin Law School Dean Ward Farnsworth; smccown@law.utexas.edu; hway@law.utexas.edu; University of Oklahoma President; The Oklahoman Editor 2017; The Oklahoman ME Shannon (2017); DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; WallStJournalNewstips; kathryn.walker@normanok.gov; The University of Texas at Austin; Dustin Burrows; Carlos Uresti; Charles Schwertner; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Jon Heining; Republican Party of Texas; Texas Christian Univeristy; david_garland@baylor.edu; Rice Univ. Polit. Sci. Prof. Brace; KXAN TV News Investigations; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas Department of Health and Human Services Ombudsman; Usnews Webmaster; CommentaryMagazineEditors; BBC News Story Ideas (2017); Cedar Park (TX) City Manager Brenda Eivens (2014); Leander Police Chief Minton; Attorney General of Utah; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Dailytexanonline News; Steven Rich; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016; Trinity University (San Antonio) Assoc. Prof. Political Science John Hermann; CommunityAnti-DrugCoalitionsofAmericaEditor; Imla Info; Temple (TX) Police Chief Floyd Mitchell (2016); Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci

Subject: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org .
According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.

---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".

---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...

Monday, March 19, 2018

REPUBLICAN STATE REP. DREW SPRINGER OF MUENSTER---A NORTH TEXAS CITY SITUATED BETWEEN DALLAS AND WICHITA FALLS---ON MARCH 19, 2018, ASSERTS IN WRITING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY OF HIS LEGISLATIVE STAFF MEMBERS HAVE ANY RECORD OF ANY WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS OR PHONE MESSAGES THAT REFER TO MYSELF, JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN OF NORTHWEST AUSTIN


On Monday, March 19, 2018 3:49 PM, Representative Drew Springer wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan:

I am writing in response to your requests for records under the Public Information Act, about obtaining a copy of any and all email correspondence, letters, legal notes or phone messages generated or received by Rep. Springer or his office in regards to yourself. After conducting a thorough search of the records of this office, we have determined that we have no records that are responsive to your request.

Respectfully Submitted/jgm
__________________________________

Jonathan Mathers
Chief of Staff for Rep. Drew Springer (HD68)
Associate Professor of Government at ACC
P: 512-463-0526
E: Jonathan.Mathers@house.texas.gov
E: Jmathers@austincc.edu

DEMOCRATIC PARTY-AFFILIATED STATE REPRESENTATIVE GINA HINOJOSA OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, ON MARCH 19, 2018, INDICATES IN WRITING TO A HOUSE DISTRICT 49 SINGLE ADULT MALE CONSTITUENT OF HERS (MYSELF) THAT REP. HINOJOSA WILL NOT SUPPORT INCREASED STATE-MANDATED DRUG TESTING ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES OR ON CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS---SUCH AS THE MAYOR, CITY MANAGER, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENT HEADS


On Monday, March 19, 2018 4:35 PM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Dear Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for your email. Rep. Hinojosa is not planning to recommend any revisions you mentioned regarding drug testing municipal employees or municipal-government officials for next session.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
(O) 512-463-0668

amanda.foster@house.texas.gov
________

From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; Kirk Watson; Keysha Walcott; Gerald Daugherty; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Public Information; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov; Texas Municipal League (2016); Texas Municipal League General Counsel Bennett Sandlin; Texas City Attorneys Assn. General Counsel Scott Houston; Texas City Attorneys Assoc. Pres. (2016); APD Officer James Turner; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; FBI Dallas Bureau; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan; statesman; Christian Hawley; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Unknown National; White House Fellows Program 2017; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Observer Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Scott Goldstein; Dallas City Attorney's Office; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; Houston Police Dept (2015); Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; District 8; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016); Sherri Fleming; Austinstone Info; Hpbc Info; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Letters To the Editor; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith; KLRU; UT-Austin Law School Dean Ward Farnsworth; smccown@law.utexas.edu; hway@law.utexas.edu; University of Oklahoma President; The Oklahoman Editor 2017; The Oklahoman ME Shannon (2017); DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; WallStJournalNewstips; kathryn.walker@normanok.gov; The University of Texas at Austin; Dustin Burrows; Carlos Uresti; Charles Schwertner; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Jon Heining; Republican Party of Texas; Texas Christian Univeristy; david_garland@baylor.edu; Rice Univ. Polit. Sci. Prof. Brace; KXAN TV News Investigations; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas Department of Health and Human Services Ombudsman; Usnews Webmaster; CommentaryMagazineEditors; BBC News Story Ideas (2017); Cedar Park (TX) City Manager Brenda Eivens (2014); Leander Police Chief Minton; Attorney General of Utah; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Dailytexanonline News; Steven Rich; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016; Trinity University (San Antonio) Assoc. Prof. Political Science John Hermann; CommunityAnti-DrugCoalitionsofAmericaEditor; Imla Info; Temple (TX) Police Chief Floyd Mitchell (2016); Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci

Subject: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.


During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. 
Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org .

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;

---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.

---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".

---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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 ...

Monday, March 12, 2018

CITY GOVERNMENT OF SAN ANTONIO REP MORAIMA MONTENEGRO REQUESTS IN WRITING ON MARCH 12, 2018, THAT I REFRAIN FROM SENDING ANY ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF MINE TO HER MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS


On Monday, March 12, 2018 11:06 AM, Open Records wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Please remove the City of San Antonio from the mailing list as your request is based out of Austin and the City of San Antonio would not have any responsive documents.

Thank you,
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Fw: 3-10-18 idea for TX Leg: expand drug testing of municipal employees

A respectful FYI to each of you on the following March 10-dated public-policy letter of mine to my duly-elected state lawmaker in the Texas House, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin, Texas, in which I cited a state law in Oklahoma.

It is my hope that the cited Oklahoma state law might possibly offer ideas for state lawmakers here in Austin on how the Texas Legislature could expand the number and scope of circumstances in Texas in which a municipal-government employee or a municipal-government official, such as a City Manager or a City Council member or department head, could be legally required by a municipal government in Texas to undergo drug testing.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, anti-"medical-marijuana"-minded, crime-prevention-minded, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

My home address: 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
John Kevin McMillan
On Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:
https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: 
spaulson@omag.org.


According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.
---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".
---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
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