[bradactor]

Guys I am a member of clout and listened to Dan's show. This is the email he just sent me:
Dear C.L.O.U.T. If you missed the show today, we had a surprise caller. Lt. Gov Dewhurst called and talked for almost 30 minutes. Jon will replay in the morning. He says he is with us and will work for appraisal cap relief as part of his tax cut bill in special session. I think we have his attention to our issue. He said there was nothing he could do about the vote last night. He admitted that about 20 Senators said they would not vote for it and send him a note. He can't call for a vote unless he has 21 votes. Many people were given cloudy information last night including us and all of the newspapers. It is still cloudy. However, I believe he did fight for us and I also believe some Senators tried to make him the goat. I am encouraged that he toook the time to speak to us and give us his support. As I said earlier today in my first e-mail, we will win on the issue. Now your fax to him 512 463 0677 should say thank you for standing tall and telling us the truth on what happened and that we are counting on you to get this done in special session! Dan

[Diddle E. Squat]

Why is that more and more the words 'special session' make me smile?

This is going to be the summer from hell for the Democrats...

[PetroniDE]

I am a member of C.L.O.U.T. too. I will send fresh facsimiles to Governor Perry and Lt. Governor Dewhurst tomorrow.

If C.L.O.U.T. plans some event in Austin, I'm in.

[FreePaul]

I am a member of CLOUT. I listen to Dan Patrick frequently and agree with him most of the time including reducing the cap on property taxes. He has done a great job on this matter and I don't know of anything he could have done differently which would have guaranteed success. Dan's only weakness, as I see it, is that he trusts politicians. Maybe he is learning something from this. For Dewhurst to say he is "with us" when he allowed every obstacle in the political spectrum to crop up in the path of this bill is absurd. He will be "with us" when he does the arm twisting that his job requires to get this passed. Until then we will judge him by his performance which has shown that he is against us.