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.
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