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I served on the platform committee. The reason why it was not voted on plank by plank is that it didn't need to be. If the nay's had voiced their opinion in enough of a quantity, then each plank would have been voted on. Take it from me, we did the work on our committee for your benefit. We put in three 15 hour days plus two half days. We wordsmithed it enough that when we were finished we believed that we put together a lean but quite to the point document. The grassroots have spoken. Now that you have the time, read it from front to back and see if I am not right. Our platform is the most conservative of all the state platforms. There are a number of other states who request we send them our platform as soon as it is written for them to study as a guideline for their platform effort. That says a lot.

TX Liberty Lady spent time in the platform committee listening to the proceedings. I am sure she will tell you that we did the job we were called to do.

I thank you for the service you did on the platform committee, it is something that I would not want to do. It was a great platform, that being said there were inconsistancies in it. I do not have the exact wording but one example is with CFR. You first called for Congress to repeal the Shays/Meehan bill and have no CFR. Then you state that you want to limit contributions(type of contributions I believe) of Judges. Also in the Free trade section there were problems. But overall it is nothing to complain about. To bad the elected officals will not follow it.

I did spend time with the platform committee and in the subcommittees. I was impressed with the caliber of people (on the whole) and the subcommittee and committee chairmen did an excellent job in my opinion. Generally I was pleased to see a more conservative committee than we have had at times in the past. Ane YES, the committee did a very good job.