Dear Honorable and Very Influential Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, Distinguished and Highly-Esteemed Members of the Texas House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature, and your people-friendly and first-rate staff members,
I would like to thank each of you state lawmakers for having cast a voice vote on June 1, 2009, in support of H.R. 3132. That resolution authored by the people-friendly, innovative, and sagacious State Rep. Dawnna Dukes of Austin, designates SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009, AS "TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY" THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STATE.
As each of you must be very aware, less than a week remains before the first-ever statewide Texas Friendship Day observance and celebration in the recent history of this state that is an event open to any and all persons residing in Texas.
The level of success of the statewide observance of Texas Friendship Day one week from today will be largely determined by how many of you Texas House members are willing to make a public statement this Monday, July 27, or Tuesday, July 28, in which you might very kindly and publicly urge each of your constituents to please observe Texas Friendship Day on Aug. 2, 2009.
Your constituents could each do that by having a thoughtful dialogue with a relative or friend about the role of personal friendships in those constituents' respective lives. Your constituents might also choose to celebrate Texas Friendship Day by doing something special and generous and kind for a mutual-consent personal friend of theirs.
Your constituents could also be encouraged by each of you to consider treating a mutual-consent personal friend to a meal inside a nice restaurant on Sunday, August 2, 2009. You also might want to suggest to your constituents that they consider inviting a personal friend to accompany them on an outing to a cultural event or sporting event taking place next Sunday (Aug. 2).
With help from public support from each of you very fine state representatives and your other colleagues in the Texas House, there will be growing statewide support by many Texans for proposed official approval of "Texas Friendship Day" by BOTH chambers of the Texas Legislature. And that growing support from constituents, in turn, will help to persuade the 82nd Texas Legislature in 2011 to officially approve that annual statewide civic event for our entire state.
This proposed permanent annual "Texas Friendship Day" tradition for our entire state will be a major boon to our state's cultural life and economy, and will help to promote mutual-consent, honest, mutually-enjoyable, and lasting personal friendships that have a huge bearing on the quality of life and medical and emotional health and level of civility and obedience of the law of all Texans.
Finally, I would like to close by reminding each of you state lawmakers that the House Resolution you wisely voted for on June 1, 2009, stated that:
----Texas is the ONLY state in the nation whose name officially refers to friends or friendship, and Texas's state name derives from the Caddo Indian word for "friends."
---The Texas Legislature in February 1930 officially designated our state motto as "Friendship."
---Friendliness and extrovertedness have long been among the most impressive attributes of Texans.
---The Texan cities of Eagle Pass, Dallas, and Burkburnett each host annual friendship festivals, and for the first time, Houston hosted a friendship festival in 2009 that is expected to become an annual event in Houston.
---Texas does not currently have an annual statewide friendship-theme civic event tradition primarily or exclusively for Texans that is open to the general public.
More information about the "Texas Friendship Day" resolution (H.R. 3132) that was approved by you and your Texas House of Representatives colleagues on June 1, 2009, can be found at either or both of the following links:
Additional information about Texas Friendship Day can also be found in several of the blogs I've written, with help from factual research I've pursued during my leisuretime, at my own personal Blog website of:
http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com .
Some culturally influential Texan media companies, including the award-winning "El Campo Leader-News" in El Campo, Texas, and the highly-regarded "Wharton Journal-Spectator" newspaper based in Wharton, Texas, have already published items promoting the "Texas Friendship Day" that's scheduled for Aug. 2, 2009.
Thank you again to each of you very distinguished state representatives for giving consideration to this request for help in promoting and publicizing the upcoming Texas Friendship Day that takes place next Sunday.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
cc: Mr. Chris Barbee, the people-friendly publisher and managing editor of the award-winning "El Campo Leader-News" semi-weekly newspaper in El Campo, and a kindly married gentleman, who very kindly published a recent letter to the editor informing his newspaper's readership about the upcoming Texas Friendship Day on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009.
Mr. Derek England, a people-friendly Texas Rangers professional baseball team Community Relations Representative, who has very kindly made several long-distance phone calls to me from Arlington, Texas, in recent weeks about the possibility of his professional baseball organization in Arlington promoting or saluting "Texas Friendship Day" at the Texas Rangers home game on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, against the Seattle Mariners pro baseball team.
Ms. Taunee Taylor, a Texas-friendly Community Relations Representative for the Texas Rangers pro baseball team, who very helpfully sent me the initial friendly E-mail reply letter on behalf of the Texas Rangers that expressed interest in this Texas House-approved special day for our state on Aug. 2, 2009.
Mr. John Jordan, the people-friendly Office Manager for the "Dallas Morning News" Austin Bureau, who earlier this year sent me much-appreciated reply E-mail letters expressing his tentative support for a statewide "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas. It is apparent from my two or more telephone conversations with John Jordan, whom I have never met in person, that he takes pride in conveying a professionally polite style toward all persons who contact the Austin Bureau of his Dallas-based daily newspaper.
Mr. Ernie Motloch, a people-friendly Central Texan gentleman, married man, and first-rate businessman, who very kindly and helpfully contacted State Rep. Dawnna Dukes's office at the State Capitol in 2009 to encourage Rep. Dukes to author and sponsor a "Texas Friendship Day" resolution in the Texas House this year.
Mrs. Marge Loehlin, a longtime personal friend of my beloved mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan of Westlake Hills. Mrs. Loehlin very kindly stated to me earlier this year that Mrs. Loehlin supports a proposed annual Texas Friendship Day tradition throughout all of Texas.
Mr. Ken McAllister, an official of the Texas United States Tennis Association, who sent me a reply E-mail letter on February 2, 2009, offering his very kind tentative support for a proposed statewide Texas Friendship Day tradition throughout Texas.
Former Harris County District Attorney Rosenthal, a very distinguished member of the State Bar of Texas who sent me a Texas-friendly reply E-mail letter on January 27, 2005 (a copy of which I still have on file inside my private residence) in which then-District Attorney Rosenthal of Houston stated that he supports my idea for a proposed annual "Texas Friendship Day" statewide tradition in Texas; care of State Bar of Texas Officials and the current Harris County District Attorney in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Josh Matter, a Texas-friendly and first-rate restaurant-industry employee and married gentleman in northwest Austin, who very helpfully stated to me earlier this year that Josh strongly supports a proposed annual "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas. I am grateful to Josh Matter for kindly stating to me earlier this year that he planned to contact State Rep. Dawnna Dukes in order to ask her to please sponsor a "Texas Friendship Day" resolution in the Texas House of Representatives this year.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who might be very impressed to learn that a widely-admired prosecuting attorney colleague of hers, Harris County District Attorney Rosenthal, on January 27, 2005, sent me an E-mail reply letter early that morning in which District Attorney Rosenthal kindly endorsed a proposed annual statewide "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas.
Ms. Patricia Sharpe, Senior Editor, "Texas Monthly" magazine, Austin.
Ms. Chelsea Thornton, a legal representative for the Office of the Governor of Texas in Austin.
State Comptroller Susan Combs, Office of the State Comptroller state agency, Austin.
Secretary of State's Office, State of Texas, Austin.
Public Information Office, Texas Department of Public Safety state agency, Austin.
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