Monday, April 29, 2019

IF I WERE IN U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S SHOES, AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL THAT I'M NOT, I WOULD:


--Insist on full and immediate release of my completed federal-income tax forms to the news media and the American people. This would help to demonstrate that, in fact, I have "nothing to hide" from the American people, as I might declare at a press conference. If those who then review what I publicly release question the level of integrity I exhibited in my income tax returns, I will publicly welcome and directly address each of their concerns at a public-accountability event to be televised by the news media.

---Deliver a televised speech explaining the various incentives that I as a fervent supporter of entrepreneurialism in our capitalist system am seeking to offer. I will offer those incentives as a way of fostering creative, innovative pursuits by courageous, hard-working individuals exhibiting entrepreneurial zeal. In my speech, I would cite numerous ways ever since our nation was founded in which entrepreneurialism has played a very commendable  and noble role in revitalizing and strengthening the American economy and American society.

--Deliver a televised speech explaining why the First Lady and I on a year-round basis participate extensively in recycling of as many recyclable items in The White House as we possibly can, and why my Administration has a policy of praising and rewarding the departments of the executive branch that recycle the most extensively. In my speech, I will also cite many of the reasons why this entire nation and world benefit from extensive year-round participation in recycling by Americans and American society. I might also seize the opportunity to express my strong support for an increasing role in our nation's economy from businesses that provide recycling services or act as consultants to businesses seeking to recycle more extensively.

---Announce to the United Nations General Assembly that upon further review, this particular "referee" in the White House has concluded that ozone layer depletion poses a grave threat to human civilization and to the wildlife of this planet, so I have chosen to reverse my earlier "ruling" on that issue. I will insist on myself personally signing the Global Warming Effect treaty that nearly all other heads of state have agreed to sign.

---Announce that I am determined to see a significant reduction in urban sprawl and the accompanying loss of agricultural cropland and pastureland and wilderness land throughout nearly all of the United States. I will insist on myself sponsoring a White House Conference on Urban Sprawl Containment and myself appointing a federal commission to offer recommendations on how urban sprawl can be successfully deterred throughout this nation.

---Deliver  a "Heart to Heart Talk With the American People" television address in which I devote 30 minutes to explaining why I strongly support a civil and law-abiding response by each and every American citizen or foreign visitor to any and all challenges or crises that they as individuals might ever face. I would offer real-life examples of occasions from my own life in which I was infuriated or alienated or outraged by conduct I'd observed from adversaries or perceived "enemies" of mine.  Despite those occasions in which my own civility and patience were tried and tested to the very utmost, I still found a way, whether as a business owner or as an American citizen or father or uncle or husband or public official, to respond  to that challenge without ANY violence or any verbalized THREAT of violence against ANY of those individuals whose conduct was outrageous to me. The intent behind my "Heart to Heart Talk With the American People" would be to help encourage and inspire Americans and foreign visitors of all ages, including in their teens and twenties, to strive to consistently identify a civil and law-abiding response to any challenge or crisis or any perceived "enemy" they might ever face or encounter in their own life.

---Deliver a new televised speech in which I politely revise a previous statement I had made about my endorsing an "America First" policy. In this new speech, I would emphasize the great benefit to the United States and to our entire world from the U.S. Government's and American people's alliances and friendship with other kind, conscientious, and democratic nations. I would re-state my policy as an "America and Our Allies First" policy, while also emphasizing a great dedication by the U.S. Government and American society toward a consistently peace-loving, cooperative style toward honorable nations that are not currently classified as "allies" or "friends" of the USA.

---Publicly acknowledge the possibility that allegations against me about alleged impropriety are  very serious in nature, and that I can  conceive of circumstances during my current term of office in which I might resign from the Presidency. I would do that, I might emphasize in that scenario, to protect the current and future credibility of the Presidency in the American governmental system.

---Verbalize the phrases "conflict of interest" and "ethical issues" and "transparency" and "honesty in government" on a frequent basis in referring to current or future planned conduct by myself and other members of my Administration. This might help to demonstrate to the American people that I am striving to become a truly conscientious and honorable U.S. President.

---Apologize for any obscene or off-color language I have previously verbalized at any time during my first term of office. I will emphasize at a press conference or during a televised address to the entire nation that I now believe very strongly, with the benefit of hindsight, that profane speech in American society plays a major role in the appallingly frequent incidence of violent crime in our nation. As our chief of state, I want to set a good example for our entire nation, by myself REFRAINING from ever again verbalizing any profane or obscene word or deliberately nasty put-down of any person or group of persons.

---Establish a tradition of each month presiding over a White House ceremony that honors one courageous and vigilant federal employee or federal official who during the most recent 30-day period had contributed significantly toward exposing a possible violation of the law or possible flagrant incompetence by a federal, state, or local government agency or public official, regardless of whether I myself or my own Administration were among those identified as possibly blameworthy by the vigilant federal employees being publicly praised at that ceremony.

---Deliver a televised address to the entire nation in which I declare that I as a very successful landlord and realtor have zero tolerance toward unsafe housing conditions inside rental units anywhere in the United States, and that I will ask the U.S. Congress to approve a new law making it a federal offense if ANY landlord or realtor anywhere in the United States knowingly and deliberately subjects a tenant to unsafe housing conditions inside a rental unit.

---Deliver a "Presidential Humility Address" to the American people in which I quote 1950s Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson as saying that "Self-criticism is the secret weapon of a democracy". I would then add that during the remainder of my first term of office I will be publicly acknowledging mistakes that I and others in my administration have made. In my speech, I will candidly note that my prior days as a business tycoon had overemphasized "chutzpah" and brashness on my part, and that as President I have now chosen to pursue a more statesmanlike, more tactful, more conciliatory, more polite style. I will also announce that from that point onward, I will be limiting my tweets to one tweet per month, since I want to make sure that whatever I do share in tweet form is well-thought-out and tactful and truly helpful.

---Make a point of each week citing recent public-policy actions pursued by a federal, state, or local government agency in the United States that have truly been helpful. In this way, I can convey my own strong support for excellence in government, and thereby address concerns about me from those who might say that my being a businessman might undermine my ability to appreciate government actions at their very finest.

---Sponsor or preside over a public forum I would agree to attend in order to invite very tangible, very specific suggestions from members of the U.S. Congress on which specific alternatives to the proposed wall between the U.S. and Mexico might possibly be as successful or more successful at deterring illegal immigration into the United States by Latin Americans.

---Publicly declare that I do in fact support population control for this nation, and that my policy on preventing illegal immigration was partly aimed at achieving the admirable goal of zero population growth for the United States. I would then add that I have reviewed my previous statements on birth control, and I now agree, with the benefit of hindsight, that birth control and abstinence (celibacy) can help our entire nation to achieve the goal of zero population growth.

---Express a lot more interest in qualitative aspects of the American economy. I would urge a restructuring of the U.S. economy that reduces the role of the drinking alcohol and tobacco and marijuana and tattoo-parlor industries, and that INCREASES the role of the recycling industry, the pollution-abatement industry, the lifelong-sports industry, the continuing-education programs industry, and the crime-deterrence industry, for instance.

---Insist on presiding over a White House Conference on Mass Homicide that promotes public dialogue about the underlying contributors to mass murder in American society today, along with which public-policy actions by the federal and state and local governments can help to deter mass murder in this nation.

---Promote participation in honorable volunteer groups and other law-abiding civic groups by as many American citizens as possible. I would emphasize to the American people that those who feel "engaged" in their community in that wholesome and law-abiding and honorable manner are significantly LESS likely to experience the intense isolation of "anomie" or develop significant alienation from the world around them. That intense isolation and alienation has been shown to play a role in many of the outbreaks of violence, including mass homicides, that have occurred in the United States, I would emphasize to the American people.

---Deliver a "Heart to Heart Talk" televised speech to young persons and others in which I explain I urge each of them to develop honorable hobbies and pastimes that can help them feel creatively and personally fulfilled on a year-round and multi-year and lifelong basis. "Americans who enjoy their hobbies are FAR less likely to commit a violent crime than Americans who don't have enjoyable hobbies and pastimes pursuits during their leisuretime."

---Deliver a "Heart to Heart" televised speech in which I cite examples of friends and associates of mine who are no longer drug addicts or addicted to drinking alcohol, and how they each benefited greatly from enrollment in a drug-treatment or alcohol-treatment program that helped them to turn their live around and saved their life. I would urge all Americans to either seek treatment for drug or alcohol addiction or help a friend or relative or acquaintance or coworker to obtain treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.

---Deliver a televised address to the entire nation in which I declare that I as President of the United States will not tolerate any cases of continuous-personal-injury-crimes or any cases of thought-control projects that are ever found to be occurring anywhere in the United States. On behalf of my goal of eliminating continuous-personal-injury-crimes and thought-control projects from American society, I will assign very high priority to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for investigating those types of crimes and arresting suspects in connection with those crimes. I will ask my FBI director to establish an FBI Center on Continuous-Personal-Injury Crimes and Thought-Control Projects at the earliest opportunity.
As my tweets at their best have hopefully demonstrated to the American people, I support a vigorous freedom of speech tradition for all Americans, and I very emphatically oppose and am appalled by any form of censorious conduct --- such as might occur through continuous-personal-injury-crime 'punishments' that vigilantee groups in the U.S. might attempt to inflict on a cited victim whose beliefs or personal values or prejudices those vigilantee groups dislike, or through outrageously censorious thought-control projects being inflicted on a person against his wishes --- anywhere in the United States.

CARROTS AS A LIFE-SAVING SUPERFOOD: ELEVEN TANGIBLE HEALTH-BENEFIT REASONS FOR EATING A RAW CARROT EVERY DAY OR COOKED CARROTS ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS


https://guidedoc.com/health-benefits-of-carrots-superfood-improving-eyesight

The above link is to a concise and very informative, very helpful blog written by Melanie Rolland, a writer for Guidedoc.com.


The blog was entitled: "11 Health Benefits of Carrots: Superfood for Improving Eyesight".

Among the many other health benefits from eating carrots on a year-round basis is that it can help to prevent a stroke, Ms. Rolland points out in her blog.


The website for Guidedoc.com is copyrighted in 2019 by GuideDoc Health Inc.

Sunday, April 28, 2019

AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LIAISON VERONICA SALDATE, WHO APPARENTLY REPRESENTS ME ON THE TRAVIS COUNTY S.A.L.T. COUNCIL ('SENIORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TOGETHER' COUNCIL), ON APRIL 28, 2019, RECEIVES A POLITE ONLINE REQUEST FROM MYSELF AT THE OFFICIAL AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT (APD) WEBSITE, IN WHICH I AM SEEKING A WRITTEN STATEMENT IN REGARD TO WHETHER APD AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN SUPPORT SAFE HOUSING CONDITIONS FOR ME INSIDE THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS


http://www.austintexas.gov/department/office-community-liaison

Your Name: "John Kevin McMillan" 


Your e-mail address: "mcmillanj@att.net"


Subject: "seeking safe housing conditions for myself"

Message: "I would appreciate receiving a written statement from you in regard to whether the Austin Police Department and the City Government of Austin both support safe housing conditions for myself on a 24-hour-a-day basis, including during my sleeping hours as I lie alone, asleep and unconscious and probably also snoring, on my own bed inside a locked apartment unit in northwest Austin."

(Apparent APD-generated factual information about myself as provided to me in an APD-generated instantaneous summary of my online message:) No district found for the address provided.

Saturday, April 27, 2019

THE ADVANTAGE TO CELEBRATING YOUR BIRTHDAY DURING YOUR LEISURETIME THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MONTH IN WHICH YOU WERE BORN: YOU HAVE A LOT MORE DAYS EACH YEAR TO CELEBRATE


As my own birthday of April 27 is about to end, I find it satisfying to know that I still have April 28, April 29, and April 30 left in which to savor and delight in the entire month of April.


April will always be my own favorite month of the year. It was the month in which my beloved mother, Iowa native Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, gave birth to me inside Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. 

I also delight in April each year partly because it offers numerous days with the most pleasant weather and natural scenery of the entire year here in Austin, Texas. The verdancy of April in Austin is delightful.

I plan to celebrate the last three days of my "birthday month" this year by writing thank-you cards during my leisuretime to individuals whom I especially appreciate from my own life. 


One of those individuals is British actress Julie Andrews. Her very inspirational and Oscar-winning 1960s movie "The Sound of Music" conveyed the sublimely beautiful message that regardless of where I am situated, I should strive to pursue creative projects and improvisational excellence in a cheerful and people-friendly and resourceful manner.


LIVING NEAR A GOOD INTRA-CITY RAIL-TRANSIT LINE CAN BOOST YOUR OWN LEVEL OF PERSONAL HAPPINESS, ACCORDING TO A RECENT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDY THAT'S PUBLICIZED BY THE "CITYLAB" ONLINE NEWS SERVICE IN A FACTUAL ACCOUNT COPYRIGHTED BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY GROUP


https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/09/living-near-good-transit-may-make-you-happier/6867/

Eric Jaffe, a former New York bureau chief for "CityLab", wrote the above-cited online informational report about that noteworthy finding. 


University of Minnesota transportation policy scholar Jason Cao conducted the research for the study.

Mr. Jaffe's September 12, 2013-dated online report was entitled "Living Near Good Transit May Make You Happier".

"CityLab" reports currently contain the copyright date of 2019, and are copyrighted by The Atlantic Monthly Group.

The website for "CityLab" states that "CityLab is committed to telling the story of the world’s cities: how they work, the challenges they face, and the solutions they need."

AUSTIN DISTRICT 6 CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JIMMY FLANNIGAN ON JANUARY 23, 2019, SENDS ME A REPLY LETTER DECLINING TO RESPOND DIRECTLY TO A POLITE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION THAT I HAD POSED TO HIM, WITH THAT COUNCIL MEMBER INSTEAD ADVISING ME TO SUBMIT AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST TO THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT OR CITY OF AUSTIN ON THE CITED TOPIC


From: District 6


To: mcmillanj@att.net

Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 9:31:05 AM CST

Subject: RE: 1-17-19 question for each of you City of Austin officials with ties to gay groups

Hi Mr. McMillan,

Pursuant to section 552.30l(c) of the Government Code, the City of Austin has designated certain addresses to receive requests for public information sent by electronic mail. For requests seeking records held by the Austin Police Department, the address is: management.records@austintexas.gov or APD Public Records Request. For requests seeking records held by any other City department, the address is: public.information@austintexas.gov or City of Austin Public Records Request. Your request will not be considered received unless it is sent to the proper address.

Thank you,
Lizzy Carol
Lizzy Carol, MHA Constituent Relations Director
District 6 | Council Member Jimmy Flannigan
Austin City Hall
301 W Second St | Rm 2117 | Austin, TX | 78701
Main | 512.978.2106 | Direct | 512.978.1428
lizzy.carol@austintexas.gov | www.atxd6.org

Please Note: To comply with City of Austin Ordinance 20160922-005 that took effect on June 1, 2017, the Office of Council Member Jimmy Flannigan has decided to implement an electronic form below to record information as required by City Code Section 4-8-8(E). Optionally, physical forms may completed in the District 6 City Hall and the District 6 Field offices during a meeting. Individuals scheduling or accepting a meeting invitation with Council Member Flannigan or his staff are requested to provide responses to the all of the questions using the following link: http://www.atxd6.org/district-6-scheduled-meeting-log/.
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 8:14 AM

To: Cronk, Spencer <Spencer.Cronk@austintexas.gov>; District 6 <District6@austintexas.gov>

Subject: 1-17-19 question for each of you City of Austin officials with ties to gay groups

January 17, 2019

Dear Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk and Austin City Council Member Jimmy Flannigan (and I need to politely explain to Mr. Flannigan that my repeated attempts through my internet system at updating and changing the cited name ID that is connected to your own correct official e-mail address have each failed; I will try again to make that name change later today),

I have read news-media accounts indicating that each of you City of Austin officials apparently have extensive ties to gay political groups, gay religious groups, gay civic groups, and gay media companies in Austin and elsewhere.


I would appreciate it if either of you very influential city officials would please let me know as soon as possible whether you know of any gay group or any gay-theme communications group that allegedly has been subjecting me to any alleged anonymous communications during my off-duty hours.

That factual information would be invaluable to me. It would give me the opportunity to press legal charges, whether through a lawsuit or through a law-enforcement agency, against any and all groups allegedly violating my own privacy rights in that reprehensible manner.

As you each may be aware, I am not a member of or affiliated with any gay group or any gay-theme communications group anywhere in the world. Nor is any such group authorized to subject me to any anonymous communications or any profanity or any obscene communications or any "medical" services or any "educational" services of any type.

As each of you may be aware, I am the founder and only current approved member of a new and non-Christian, non-Judaistic, non-Moslem, religious group, the Progressive Prohibitionist Religion (PPR). That one total religion of mine specifically opposes subjecting anyone to anonymous communications or thought-control projects against their own wishes in a context that violates their own privacy rights.

I would estimate that 99 percent of more of the persons most appropriate as prospective new members for my own anti-marijuana-minded, anti-drinking-alcohol-minded, anti-tobacco, anti-tattoos, anti-facial-hair-minded religion are, in fact, heterosexual or primarily heterosexual in sexual identity per se. My own religion, PPR, also questions the need for nearly all of the sex change operations currently occurring in the United States. My own religion, PPR, also opposes fraudulent communications and fraudulent "medical care" services. PPR also opposes deliberate and willful sadomasochistic physical torture or deliberate flagrant physical abuse of anyone during his sleeping hours or at any other time.

Thank you in advance for your helpful and informative reply letter in response to this request for information from either of you City of Austin officials.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan,
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Bldg. 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com

TEXAS LEGISLATURE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE DENNIS BONNEN THANKS ME IN WRITING ON MY BIRTHDAY FOR RECEIVING A COURTESY CARBON-COPY ON TWO VERY URGENT CRIME-DETERRENCE-RELATED PUBLIC-POLICY QUESTIONS OF MINE TO STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA OF AUSTIN THAT DIRECTLY REFERRED TO SPEAKER BONNEN BY NAME


On Saturday, April 27, 2019, 1:13:30 AM CDT, Dennis Bonnen wrote:

**This is an auto-reply**

Dear Fellow Texan --

I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to contact me. Your input is invaluable to me as I work to represent your interests at our State Capitol.

If your email is urgent and requires immediate attention, please contact my Capitol office at 512-463-1000. For those of your residing in House District 25 (Matagorda County and southern Brazoria County), I encourage you to call my district line: 512-463-0564 (Austin) or 979-848-1770 (Angleton).

It is an honor and privilege to serve you.

Sincerely,

Dennis Bonnen
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
State Representative - District 25
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From: John McMillan


To: Gina Hinojosa ; Dennis Bonnen ; Dennis Bonnen ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov ; Dayna Blazey ; robert.kepple@tdcaa.com ; Jalayne Robinson ; Shannon Edmonds ; diane.beckham@tdcaa.com ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director ; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016) ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; TBPP General Counsel Bettie Wells ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Rainn Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov ; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; Gerald Daugherty ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; Texasadvocacyproject Info ; Celia Israel ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; news@cbsaustin.com ; texasmonthly ; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald ; David Maxwell ; Rep. Sheryl Cole (2019 CentralTX) ; Rep. Vikki Goodwin (2019CentralTX) ; Texas Observer Editors ; Texas Tribune Editor In Chief Evan Smith ; The University of Texas at Austin ; ACC President Richard Rhodes ; NPAP Assistant ; Miami Herald Letters To Editor ; patsy.spaw@senate.texas.gov ; Hubert Vo ; Rep. Erin Zwiener (2019CentralTX) ; Donna Campbell ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor ; Letters To the Editor ; Open_records ; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov ; Rey Arellano ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; district6@austintexas.gov>; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; district9@austintexas.gov ; Travis County Commissioner Jeff Travillion (2017) ; Travis County Criminal Justice/Public Safety Director ; roger@northwestfellowship.com ; Victoria Neave ; University of North Texas at Dallas Pres. Bob Mong ; Fort Worth Star-Telegram Newstips ; Amy Lee ; Michael Eveleth ; APD Interim Police Chief Brian Manley ; Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016) police2@cedarparktexas.gov>; Leander Police Chief Minton ; Houston Police Dept (2015) ; Dallas Police Chief David Brown ; news@kut.org ; KLRU ; KXAN TV News Investigations ; Kirk Watson ; Senator Kirk Watson Constituent Services Rep. Walcott (2016) ; Wind River Crossing GM Ann Coker ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016) ; Florida Sexual Crimes Investigators Assoc Pres. Minton (2016) ; Florida Sexual Crimes Investigators Assn. Exec Dir Moore (2016) ; California Sexual Assault Investigators Assn Pres. (2016) ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Criminal Justice Journalists Board Member Rashbaum ; Criminal Justice Journalists Brd Wenger (2016) ; Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center ; State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (Austin area) ; Garnet F. Coleman ; Dwayne Bohac ; Justin Holland ; Jonathan Stickland ; Robert Nichols ; Tony Tinderholt

Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019, 1:13:21 AM CDT

Subject: Re: 4-25-19 urgent question for Rep. Hinojosa from a constituent


To: District 49 State Representative Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin.
Your Capitol Address: Room E2.314, P.O. Box 2910, Austin, TX 78768
Your Capitol office phone number: (512) 463-0668; FAX: (512) 463-0957.

April 27, 2019

Dear Rep. Hinojosa,

Thank you for your very prompt reply note (below) to me on this.

Is there any way that Speaker of the House Bonnen might be willing to have a new bill of this very urgently needed type be voted on during the current legislative session?

Otherwise, do you believe that House Speaker Bonnen might let you introduce a non-binding resolution on this topic during the current session?

That non-binding resolution could urge all local law-enforcement agencies to publicly disclose---including to the local district attorney--- the total combined number of occasions during the most recent calendar year in which their own agency's Sex Crimes Unit declined to authorize a forensic rape-evidence exam on a self-identified rape victim who had requested that exam.

Thank you again for your reply note. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely and Best Wishes from a law-abiding, crime-deterrence-minded, gainfully-employed, permanently drinking-alcohol-free, single adult Anglo male constituent of yours in northwest Austin,
John Kevin McMillan.

My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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On Friday, April 26, 2019, 4:40:36 PM CDT, Gina Hinojosa wrote:

John,

Thank you for your email. The deadline to file legislation this legislative session has passed. We'll be sure to look into your idea for legislation next session.

Thank you,

Representative Gina Hinojosa
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From: John McMillan

Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:07 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov;
Dayna Blazey ; robert.kepple@tdcaa.com; Jalayne Robinson ; Shannon Edmonds ; diane.beckham@tdcaa.com; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director ; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016) ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; TBPP General Counsel Bettie Wells ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Rainn Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; Gerald Daugherty

Subject: 4-25-19 urgent question for Rep. Hinojosa from a constituent

April 25, 2019

Dear State Representative Hinojosa,

Are you dismayed to learn (as I myself learned in the last few days) that the Austin Police Department here in our state capital city apparently DOES NOT compile annual statistics on the total combined number of occasions citywide during the most recent calendar year in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic rape-evidence exam on an individual requesting one?

Also, are you willing to sponsor legislation before the Texas House as soon as possible that will require each and every local law-enforcement agency to each year compile an annual statistic of the type cited above, and to also promptly share that statistical update with the news media, the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency, and the local district attorney's office?

Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa,for your helpful reply letter to me on this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan,
10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

Friday, April 26, 2019

MY DULY-ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE TEXAS HOUSE, REP. GINA HINOJOSA, PROMISES IN WRITING TO CONSIDER SPONSORING A BILL IN 2021 THAT WILL REQUIRE THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT (APD) TO COMPILE AN ANNUAL STATISTIC ON THE TOTAL COMBINED NUMBER OF TIMES DURING THE MOST RECENT CALENDAR YEAR THAT APD's SEX CRIMES UNIT DECLINED TO AUTHORIZE A DNA-SWAB FORENSIC RAPE-EVIDENCE EXAM ON AN INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING ONE ON HIMSELF OR HERSELF


From: Gina Hinojosa


To: 'John McMillan'

Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019, 4:40:36 PM CDT

Subject: RE: 4-25-19 urgent question for Rep. Hinojosa from a constituent

John,

Thank you for your email. The deadline to file legislation this legislative session has passed. We'll be sure to look into your idea for legislation next session.


Thank you,

Representative Gina Hinojosa
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From: John McMillan  

Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:07 AM

To: Gina Hinojosa ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Dayna Blazey ; robert.kepple@tdcaa.com; Jalayne Robinson ; Shannon Edmonds ; diane.beckham@tdcaa.com; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director ; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016) ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; TBPP General Counsel Bettie Wells ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Rainn Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; Gerald Daugherty

Subject: 4-25-19 urgent question for Rep. Hinojosa from a constituent

April 25, 2019

Dear State Representative Hinojosa,

Are you dismayed to learn (as I myself learned in the last few days) that the Austin Police Department here in our state capital city apparently DOES NOT compile annual statistics on the total combined number of occasions citywide during the most recent calendar year in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic rape-evidence exam on an individual requesting one?

Also, are you willing to sponsor legislation before the Texas House as soon as possible that will require each and every local law-enforcement agency to each year compile an annual statistic of the type cited above, and to also promptly share that statistical update with the news media, the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency, and the local district attorney's office?

Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa,for your helpful reply letter to me on this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA, MY DULY-ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE TEXAS HOUSE, IS URGED BY ME TO SPONSOR NEW LEGISLATION THAT REQUIRES THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ANNUALLY COMPILE A STATISTIC ON THE TOTAL COMBINED NUMBER OF OCCASIONS DURING THE MOST RECENT CALENDAR YEAR IN WHICH APD's SEX CRIMES UNIT DECLINED TO AUTHORIZE A RAPE-EVIDENCE EXAM ON SOMEONE WHO HAD REQUESTED ONE ON HIMSELF OR HERSELF


From: John McMillan

To: Gina Hinojosa ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov ; Dayna Blazey ; robert.kepple@tdcaa.com ; Jalayne Robinson ; Shannon Edmonds ; diane.beckham@tdcaa.com ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President ; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director ; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016) ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; TBPP General Counsel Bettie Wells ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Rainn Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov ; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; Gerald Daugherty

Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019, 12:06:59 AM CDT

Subject: 4-25-19 urgent question for Rep. Hinojosa from a constituent

April 25, 2019

Dear State Representative Hinojosa,

Are you dismayed to learn (as I myself learned in the last few days) that the Austin Police Department here in our state capital city apparently DOES NOT compile annual statistics on the total combined number of occasions citywide during the most recent calendar year in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic rape-evidence exam on an individual requesting one?

Also, are you willing to sponsor legislation before the Texas House as soon as possible that will require each and every local law-enforcement agency to each year compile an annual statistic of the type cited above, and to also promptly share that statistical update with the news media, the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency, and the local district attorney's office?

Thank you in advance, Rep. Hinojosa,for your helpful reply letter to me on this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan,
10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

AUSTIN (TX) POLICE DEPARTMENT ON APRIL 24, 2019, RECEIVES A REPLY TO ITS OFFICIAL APD STATEMENT IN WRITING (BELOW) THAT THE APD SEX CRIMES UNIT HAS NO TRADITION AT ANY TIME IN THE MOST RECENT SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD OF EVER COMPILING AN ANNUAL STATISTIC ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCASIONS CITYWIDE DURING THE MOST RECENT CALENDAR YEAR THAT THE SEX-CRIMES UNIT DECLINED TO AUTHORIZE A RAPE-EVIDENCE EXAM ON AN INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING ONE FROM APD


From: John McMillan

To: Austin Public Records Center ; APD Interim Police Chief Brian Manley ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; ACLU ; TRA General Counsel Kenneth Besserman ; Gina Hinojosa ; Kirk Watson ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (Austin area) ; Dawn Buckingham ; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin ; Rep. Sheryl Cole (2019 CentralTX) ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov ; Dayna Blazey ; Rainn Info ; Safeaustin Info ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; FBI Dallas Bureau ; Fbinaa Info ; California Sexual Assault Investigators Assn Pres. (2016) ; Mncasa Info ; Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigators Assn. Brd Member Dunphy (2016) ; Florida Sexual Crimes Investigators Assoc Pres. Minton (2016) ; Attorney General of Massachusetts ; Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Assoc (2016) ; Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016) ; Williamson County (TX) Attorney (2016) ; Leander Police Chief Minton ; Rep. James Talarico (2019 Central TX) ; Rep. Erin Zwiener (2019CentralTX) ; Rep. Vikki Goodwin (2019CentralTX) ; Travis County Auditor Patti Smith 2019 ; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016) ; Rep. John Bucy 2019CentralTX ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Open_records ; Houston Police Dept (2015) ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov ; Rey Arellano ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; brooke.grona-robb@dallascounty.org ; Dallas Police Chief David Brown ; Gerald Daugherty ; Texasadvocacyproject Info ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; district9@austintexas.gov ; District 8 ; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; margaret.gomez@traviscountytx.gov ; Celia Israel ; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; Christian Hawley ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy ; Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (2016) ; Harvard Club of Austin 2017 ; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago) ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016) ; zpatton@governing.com ; Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci ; Pflugerville TX City Manager ; Texas Observer Editors ; news@dailytexanonline.com ; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; Kami (Denny's Lakeline Manager) ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Ncvc Webmaster ; Public Information ; Yessenia (Denny's Lakeline) ; Unknown National ; Sona Nast ; Cbsaustin News ; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters <60m cbsnews.com="">; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights ; Bnaibrith Info ; Trevor Glynn ; Brandon Creighton ; Jennifer A. DeCamp ; Steven Rich ; suo-inquiry@stevenson.edu ; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management ; Garnet F. Coleman ; sarah@nshhcoalition.org ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Attorney Cousin Jack Dane ; Todd Hunter ; Daily Texan Alumni Association (2016) ; National Freedom of Information Coalition (2016) ; swjc@swjc.org ; Abby Levine ; Bethany United Methodist Church Assoc Pastor Sheri Clifton

Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 11:42:44 PM CDT

Subject: Re: [Austin Public Records Center] :: R015598-042219

April 24, 2019

Dear Open Records Unit officials of the Austin Police Department in Austin, Texas,

Thank you for your reply letter (below) to me today in response to my most recent online public-information request (directly quoted, below) to your municipal law-enforcement agency in this state capital city for Texas.

Your reply letter apparently indicates that the APD Sex Crimes Unit has not had any tradition at any time since January 1, 2012, for instance, of ever at any time compiling an annual citywide statistic on the total number of occasions citywide during the most recent calendar year in which that Sex Crimes Unit has specifically declined to authorize a rape-evidence exam on an individual requesting one.

Please let me know if this paraphrasing of the content of your April 24 reply letter to me strikes you as being in any way inaccurate.

One hopefully-polite follow-up question for you:

Is ANY APD office or APD official (such as a civil-rights compliance officer for APD; the Office of the APD Police Chief; an Internal Affairs officer for APD; or an APD official compiling an annual report on behalf of APD to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement state agency, the Governor of Texas, the Texas Legislature, the U.S. Department of Justice, or to the FBI) currently assigned or expected to compile or obtain an annual statistic on the total overall number of occasions citywide during the most recent calendar year in which APD's Sex Crimes Unit has specifically declined to authorize a rape-evidence medical exam for one or more respective individuals who had each requested one on himself or herself?

Thank you in advance for your helpful reply note to me on this.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
from public-information requestor John Kevin McMillan.
My current home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Bldg. 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net


John Kevin McMillan


On Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 3:38:30 PM CDT, Austin Public Records Center wrote:




--- Please respond above this line ---



Re: Open Record Request of April 22, 2019, Reference # R015598-042219
Dear John McMillan,
The Austin Police Department (APD) received a Public Information request from you on April 22, 2019, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:
“a copy of one page only from each annual-review report generated by the Austin Police Department at any time since January 1, 2012, that specifically contains a factual statistic on the combined overall total number of separate occasions throughout the entire city during the most recent calendar-year period, in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic DNA-trace sexual-assault exam on a cited person (regardless of how many persons fit that description) who had specifically requested that type of exam on himself or herself.”
A thorough search of records of the Austin Police Department provided no responsive information. 
 Thank you for contacting the Austin Police Department.


Open Records Unit
Austin Police Department

AUSTIN (TX) POLICE DEPARTMENT (APD) INDICATES IN WRITING ON APRIL 24, 2019, THAT THE APD SEX-CRIMES UNIT DOES NOT COMPILE ANY ANNUAL CITYWIDE STATISTIC ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TIMES IN THE MOST RECENT CALENDAR YEAR THAT THE APD SEX-CRIMES UNIT SPECIFICALLY DECLINED TO AUTHORIZE A FORENSIC RAPE-EVIDENCE MEDICAL EXAM ON RESPECTIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD EACH REQUESTED THAT FORENSIC RAPE-EVIDENCE EXAM ON THEMSELVES


From: Austin Public Records Center


To: mcmillanj@att.net

Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 3:38:30 PM CDT

Subject: [Austin Public Records Center] :: R015598-042219




Re: Open Record Request of April 22, 2019, Reference # R015598-042219

Dear John McMillan,

The Austin Police Department (APD) received a Public Information request from you on April 22, 2019, to request copies of records pertaining to the following:

“a copy of one page only from each annual-review report generated by the Austin Police Department at any time since January 1, 2012, that specifically contains a factual statistic on the combined overall total number of separate occasions throughout the entire city during the most recent calendar-year period, in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic DNA-trace sexual-assault exam on a cited person (regardless of how many persons fit that description) who had specifically requested that type of exam on himself or herself.”

A thorough search of records of the Austin Police Department provided no responsive information.

Thank you for contacting the Austin Police Department.


Open Records Unit
Austin Police Department

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

A CLASSIC CONUNDRUM FOR AN AUSTIN RESIDENT ON A HEART-HEALTHY DIETARY LIFESTYLE: WHICH OF THESE TWO CHOBANI STRAWBERRY YOGURTS IS BETTER FOR YOUR HEALTH?


If you want a flavorful strawberry Greek yogurt with 12 grams of protein per 150-gram serving, and either of the two options below fit that description, do you choose the one that's significantly lower in sugar content or do you choose the other one that is significantly lower in saturated fats?


Option number one is the new Chobani (registered trademark name) "Less Sugar Greek Yogurt Monterey Strawberry", with 9 grams of sugar per serving and 1.5 grams of saturated fat per serving. This product features milk that has 2 percent milkfat.

Option number two is the Chobani "Greek Yogurt with Strawberry on the Bottom." This product contains 15 grams of sugar per 150-gram serving and zero grams of saturated fat per serving. The leading ingredient for this product is cultured pasteurized nonfat milk.

Chobani, LLC, is headquartered at New Berlin, New York, zip code 13411. The official website for Chobani is chobani.com. Information about Chobani that is printed on its packaging contains the copyright date of 2018.

For more information, you may contact Chobani at the toll-free phone number of 1-877-847-6181.

AN OFTEN-OVERLOOKED CLOTHES-WASHING NECESSITY: THE INFORMAL JACKET THAT I WEAR DURING COOLER WEATHER


Today, I finally addressed a long-overlooked clothes-washing need for myself by putting my jacket in the washing machine, using cold water only.

I did this after I checked the back side of my jacket's label and read today that it can be washed in a washing machine, and that I should only use cold water for that. Also, the back of my jacket's label advised me to select "tumble dry" when I put it into a dryer, which I also plan to do.

Of all the items of apparel I own, my jackets and coats are the items for which I am MOST likely to procrastinate about  getting them cleaned.


Here in Austin, where a high percentage of the Anglo adult men my age or younger whom I observe in public are very disheveled-looking, riddled with vulgar tattoos, hairy-faced, and hideously defiant of the norms for elegance and hygienic stylishness, I cannot recall the last time I myself took an item of clothing of mine to a dry cleaners here.

I am no longer living in the North, so I now suspect that here in Texas I became rather "casual" about washing my jackets and coats on a regular basis.

There is much less of a sense of showmanship or public display of one's own body and attire in public here in Austin, Texas, than there was in Minneapolis or Boston when I previously lived in those two respective northern cities.

I also need to candidly add that the percentage of all of the Anglo single adult residents my age or younger in Austin, Texas, who are notably unattractive to me is much higher than in Minneapolis, for instance. The incentive for presenting myself as attractively as possible here in Austin is significantly lower than it was for me in a northern city such as Minneapolis or Boston.

Another reason for my not making use of the dry cleaners here in Austin is strictly financial. It is very true that I'm low income and financially challenged.

MY BELATED ADVICE TO THE ANGLO ADULT GERMAN-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN IN HIS 20s WHO IN A RECENT PRIOR YEAR EXPRESSED TO ME A KEEN INTEREST IN FINDING A CAREER FOR HIMSELF THAT MAKES FULLER USE OF HIS OWN VERY STRONG MECHANICAL SKILLS


I greatly appreciated your taking the time to politely and calmly discuss with me your career-related goals. I don't have a current e-mail address or phone number for you, and I have not run into you or talked with you for several months, so I have decided to offer this to you through my blogsite:


Have you considered registering with the "Linked In" website, at no financial charge to yourself? 

That career-focused website could be very helpful to you, particularly since it offers lots of career-related suggestions.

In my own life, I am finding that my involvement with "Linked In" as a registered member is potentially very helpful to me.


Numerous career-minded professionals --- including one former City Attorney of Austin, Ms. Karen Kennard --- have each directly contacted me through my "Linked In" account, and have each directly requested that I agree to let them cite themselves as a current "connection" of mine.

I did agree to Ms. Kennard's unexpected request, my impression being that Ms. Kennard herself apparently supports privacy rights and safe housing conditions for me in Austin, Texas.

Meanwhile, I have myself discontinued my own involvement with "Facebook" (an involvement that led to my having been victimized by an apparent woman who somehow entered my online Facebook account without my permission and claimed to "represent" me, when she --- or possibly he, but citing a female name for himself --- had no such authorization from me).

That apparent woman posted on my own Facebook page several scantily-clad photos of a dark-haired woman, citing a "name" for herself of "Kathy Miller", with each of those photos having NOT been approved by me or authorized by me. She (or he?)  also apparently "replied" enthusiastically on my own apparent behalf to various men in Arab countries and elsewhere through a Facebook "account" that somehow used my own e-mail address of "mcmillanj@att.net".

A HEART-HEALTHY BREAKFAST CEREAL BLEND I RECOMMEND: BUY A BOX OF 'NATURALLY FLAVORED HONEY NUT CHEERIOS MEDLEY CRUNCH (A REGISTERED-TRADEMARK ITEM)' FROM GENERAL MILLS OF MINNESOTA AND A BOX OF 'GRAIN BERRY (REGISTERED BRAND NAME) HONEY NUT WITH ONYX SORGHUM (TRADEMARKED ITEM) WHOLE GRAIN TOASTED OAT CEREAL' FROM SILVER PALATE KITCHENS, INC., OF NEW JERSEY, THEN COMBINE THE TWO BOXES OF CEREAL INTO A MIXTURE YOU STORE IN A TUPPERWARE BIN IN A STORAGE CABINET OF YOUR KITCHEN


That combination will then help you to minimize sugar content per serving (7.5 combined grams per serving) while also enjoying the health benefits from whole grain oats, whole grain wheat, and a special high-antioxidant sorghum blend in a combined vitamin-rich cereal that contains ZERO saturated fats and is low in sodium.


Many health experts recommend consuming a whole-grain wheat cereal for breakfast. And whole grain oats can possibly help lower cholesterol levels.

This combination you can prepare on your own inside your own home also enables you to enjoy two delicious cereals with good texture and crunch to them that are combined into one.

General Mills is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Grain Berry Honey Nut cereal is distributed by Silver Palate Kitchens, Inc., of Cresskill, New Jersey.


APPARENT NEED FOR A LOW-SODIUM STUFFED OLIVES PRODUCT FOR THOSE PURSUING A HEART-HEALTHY DIET


This Monday night, I did discuss this issue with a member of the management team at the H.E.B. chain supermarket near where I live. H.E.B. Supermarkets are headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

I myself am under doctor's orders to limit my own sodium intake each day to no more than 2,000 milligrams. I am also under doctor's orders to minimize my own daily consumption of saturated fats (as distinct from monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats, either of which are actually heart-healthy).


The American Heart Association's current official website states: "The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day and moving toward an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults."

I found that information a matter of minutes ago at the following American Heart Association-sponsored webpage:
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-smart/sodium/how-much-sodium-should-i-eat-per-day

The H.E.B. manager I spoke with this Monday night inside his store stated that he is not aware of any low-sodium bottled olives product at present.

However, he kindly indicated that he will attempt to find out whether he can locate a low-sodium olives product on the market and then offer that product at that particular H.E.B. location in northwest Austin.

Monday, April 22, 2019

AUSTIN (TX) POLICE DEPARTMENT (APD) RECEIVES ONLINE APRIL 22, 2019, PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FROM ME FOR RECENT COMBINED TOTAL ANNUAL CITYWIDE STATISTICS ON HOW OFTEN PER YEAR APD's SEX CRIMES UNIT HAS DECLINED TO AUTHORIZE A RAPE-EVIDENCE EXAM ON AN INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING IT


Reference No: R015598-042219


Logged In As: mcmillanj@att.net

Thank you for your interest in the public records of the Austin Police Department. Your request has been received and is being processed. Your request was received in this office on 4/22/2019 and given the reference number R015598-042219 for tracking purposes.

Please be advised that the Austin Police Department’s Central Records Division receives over 2500 requests for information a month. These requests are processed in the order received, and we strive to respond to each request promptly, as required by law.

Please know that, as a result of the large volume of requests received, the anticipated timeframe for responding to your request is approximately 45-60 business days.

You will be contacted about the availability and/or provided with copies of the records requested. PLEASE NOTE: The Texas Public Information Act does not require a governmental body to create new information, to do legal research, or to answer questions.

You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you’ll receive an email when your request has been completed.

Again, thank you for using the Austin Public Records Portal.


Austin Police Department
___________________

THE EXACT VERBATIM TEXT OF THE CITED APRIL 22, 2019, ONLINE OPEN RECORDS REQUEST FROM ME TO APD:

"a copy of one page only from each annual-review report generated by the Austin Police Department at any time since January 1, 2012, that specifically contains a factual statistic on the combined overall total number of separate occasions throughout the entire city during the most recent calendar-year period, in which the APD Sex Crimes Unit specifically declined to authorize a forensic DNA-trace sexual-assault exam on a cited person (regardless of how many persons fit that description) who had specifically requested that type of exam on himself or herself."

Saturday, April 20, 2019

THE VERY INFLUENTIAL PITTSFORD, NEW YORK-BASED GATEHOUSE MEDIA COMPANY ON APRIL 20, 2019, RECEIVES AN ONLINE FOLLOW-UP LETTER FROM ME AT THAT NATIONWIDE MEDIA COMPANY's OFFICIAL WEBSITE


http://www.gatehousemedia.com/contact-us/editorial-contact/

I would appreciate learning from your very influential Pittsford-based media company as soon as possible whether "American-Statesman" City Hall-beat reporter Philip Jankowski (in Austin, Texas) is authorized to represent the entire metro desk of his daily newspaper by himself prohibiting me from ever again contacting the Statesman Metro Desk. I am posing this question to you online because I have not received any reply letter on this (see below) from either Mr. Bridges or Mr. Church.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan

To: Austin American-Statesman Managing Editor John Bridges ; bchurch@statesman.com

Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 3:03:52 PM CDT

Subject: Fw: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission

To: Austin American-Statesman Managing Editor John Bridges and Editor-in-Chief Bill Church.

April 17, 2019

Dear Mr. Bridges and Mr. Church,

Earlier today, I received the following very surprising rejection letter from a reporter for your newspaper who apparently indicated that he represents the entire Metro Desk staff, including any and all editors, reporters, and other members of your Metro Desk staff.

That reporter of yours was apparently responding to an e-mail carbon-copy I had directly sent to the "metrodesk@statesman.com". His own e-mail address and name were not specifically cited in carbon-copies I had e-mailed to a variety of public officials, civic groups, and media organizations on a very recent letter (below) of mine.



I am also sending you a courtesy carbon-copy verifying for you that it was the Statesman Metro Desk staff, rather than any particular reporter or editor at your Metro Desk, to whom the cited public-policy-theme e-mail letter of mine had been addressed.

I would appreciate receiving a courtesy reply letter from either of you high-ranking editors, clarifying whether you believe that that one reporter of yours can in fact "represent" and speak on behalf of your entire Metro Desk staff, such as by himself prohibiting any additional e-mails from me at your Metro Desk e-mail address of metrodesk@statesman.com .

If you do in fact endorse that reporter's conduct toward me that was apparently on behalf of the entire "Metro Desk" staff, I would appreciate your informing me of which editors or reporters or officials on your staff, such as your distinguished publisher, ARE willing to accept e-mails from me, along with the correct e-mail addresses for my contacting those Statesman editors or reporters or other officials.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: Jankowski, Philip

To: John McMillan

Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 2:04:17 AM CDT

Subject: Re: Fw: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission


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From: John McMillan


To: Michelle Friedman ; Elena Smart ; adrienne.sturrup@austintexas.gov ; Jacqueline L. Angel ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov ; Gerald Daugherty ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Gina Hinojosa ; Rey Arellano ; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov ; Dayna Blazey ; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; The University of Texas at Austin ; michael@dell.com ; District 8 ; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin ; Kirk Watson ; AARP Inc ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; metrodesk@statesman.com ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; news@texasmonthly.com ; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald ; Miami Herald Letters To Editor ; Ghbc Postmaster ; Hpbc Info ; Bethany United Methodist Church Assoc Pastor Sheri Clifton ; roger@northwestfellowship.com ; esharp@uachurch.org ; pastor@redeemer.net ; Austinstone Info ; National Center On Elder Abuse ; Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault ; Rainn Info ; sarah@nshhcoalition.org ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; patsy.spaw@senate.texas.gov ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; news@cbsaustin.com ; KLRU ; Megan Curtis ; Debbie Bolton ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence Dir. Debbie Tucker (AustinTX) ; Unknown National ; Bennie DiNardo ; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016) ; Public Information ; Reader's Digest Editors 2016 ; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; Daily Texan Alumni Association (2016) ; news@dailytexanonline.com ; Letters To the Editor ; isonx001@umn.edu ; Ncvc Webmaster ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ)

Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 12:01:38 AM CDT

Subject: Fw: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:03 AM John McMillan wrote:

I apologize to each of you for two typographical errors I somehow committed in my very recent brainstorming letter, below, that was directly addressed to City of Austin Commission on Seniors staff members.

The two errors occurred when I attempted to accurately transcribe a 2016 quote from then-Precinct-3 Constable (and currently Travis County Sheriff) Sally Hernandez that I had found this month in an online edition of the "Oak Hill Gazette" newspaper.

The following is the corrected version of that statement from Ms. Hernandez, with the word "me" now being inserted and the word "senior" now being correctly spelled, and each of those two corrections being bold-faced by me in order to highlight them in this particular context:

"With over 34 years of law enforcement experience, I can tell you the two areas of crime that anger me the most are crimes against children and crimes against our senior citizens."

As a courtesy to each of you, I have also inserted each of those typographical corrections into the text of my brainstorming letter, below.

Thank you to each of you for your kind patience and understanding on this. I value having very fine credibility as an accurate and honest writer and philanthropy-minded single adult resident.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: John McMillan

To: Michelle Friedman ; Elena Smart ; adrienne.sturrup@austintexas.gov ; Jacqueline L. Angel ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov ; Gerald Daugherty ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Gina Hinojosa ; Rey Arellano ; spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov ; Dayna Blazey ; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; The University of Texas at Austin ; michael@dell.com ; District 8 ; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin ; Kirk Watson ; AARP Inc ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt

Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 12:03:16 AM CDT

Subject: 4-16-19 ideas and info for your commission

Dear Austin Commission on Seniors Staff Members,


I would also like to share with your very influential advisory commission some online links that might prove to be helpful:

http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/senior-citizen-quotes.htm

This link offers an abundance of insightful and memorable quotations about senior citizens. My hope is that with permission from the editor or publisher of the above online webpage, Senior Citizen Centers in Austin could permanently display on their walls several or many of these fine quotes, along with portraits of the authors of those quotes.

One of the better quotes from that webpage comes from Benjamin Franklin: "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

Another link that might be of keen interest to your advisory commission is to a website for the Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System in Baton Rouge, with that institute's phone number being (225) 763-2973:

https://idrp.pbrc.edu/information/faqs/

It is very likely (and I haven't found the time yet to research this online) that the UT-Austin Dell Medical School will be conducting or has conducted medical research that is especially helpful to senior citizens in this state-capital city. Any such research findings could then be presented at a very inspirational symposium or workshop here in Austin that's possibly co-sponsored by your Austin Commission on Seniors.

I would also like to share with you a very impressive statement I found online from then-Precinct-3-Constable Sally Hernandez (herself currently the Travis County Sheriff), as quoted in the "Oak Hill Gazette" of August 18, 2016:

"With over 34 years of law enforcement experience, I can tell you the two areas of crime that anger me the most are crimes against children and crimes against our senior citizens."


I would like to respectfully recommend that your commission consider inviting Sheriff Hernandez to give a speech before your advisory board inside City Hall. In that speech, Sheriff Hernandez could offer your commission public-policy recommendations on how the City Government of Austin could do more to deter and investigate violent crimes and other crimes that victimize senior citizens here.

I am also hopeful that your advisory commission will consider inviting a speech before your group by an expert on state and federal laws that protect senior citizens in Austin from being victimized by various forms of elder abuse, including sexual abuse or physical abuse.

The invited speaker could give a statement to your group on what the impact of anti-abuse state and federal laws have been on senior citizens here in Austin, and whether the City Government of Austin and residents of Austin could do more to comply in full with that law.

I hope that this follow-up brainstorming letter is helpful to your Austin Commission on Seniors.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
10926 Jollyville Rd., Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net