Van de Putte says she expects redistricting measure to pass

San Antonio Express News ^ | August 4, 2003 | Guillermo X. Garcia

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet, FRiend! My pleasure...

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey ! I oughta apply for that job !! It looks real, and legitimate. Cool!

[MeekOneGOP]

Yes he could. And btw, I added that Texas GOP site to my favorites . . .

[My back yard]

TAXPAYER FUNDS AND BENEFITS
SENATORS CONTINUE TO RECEIVE

Salary $600.00/mo
Health insurance* $300.27/mo
Retirement $36.00/mo
Social Security $37.20/mo
Medicare $8.70/mo

Total per senator $982.17/mo
Total for all 11 $10,803.87/mo

SOURCE: Senate Payroll Office, Employee Retirement System

[hocndoc]

That's hilarious.
I've read and heard several people wish for this.

[hocndoc]

I'd read that the Senators had refused their per diem, but continue to draw their salaries.

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping, M&M!

[hocndoc]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958161/posts
Did y'all see this one?

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet !

[potlatch]

Thanks for the link, I read it.

[potlatch]

LOL, I bumped our Lone Star Chat thread a few days ago, it has totally gone to sleep!!

[CindyDawg]

Decided that instead of chasing everyone down, I would just wait to be pinged. Waited and waited and...... :')

[potlatch]

LOL, went to sleep too, huh??

[GUIDO]

Also ou may want to add to the biography of VandePutte that her husband was the Band Director @ Thomas Jefferson High School were she graduated whose family had a business, THE DIXIE FLAG COMPANY. He has been involved and a part of that business since they married. So don't bring out the violins for VanDePutte's finances. She does very well for herself with 2 family business's and well enough to send her children to Private schools.

Back about 5 yrs ago a team of us went to lobby for school choice, vouchers etc... and we lobbied her because I know her personally as I went to high school with her. Of course lobbying a politician whose childrend go to private schools and who is against school choice is kind of a no brainer. She tried telling me that she retunred and lives in the old neighborhood that she grew up in as she wanted her children to know the simple life, and I asked, OH SO YOUR CHILDREN GO TO THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH LIKE YOU?, knowing they didn't and she sputtered, and admitted they didn't.

[GUIDO]

A BUMP TO THE TOP!!!!

[MEG33]

That is truly arrogant and hypocritical.

[hocndoc]

She told us the story of dating Roy Barrerra, the current Republican Chairman of Bexar County, as a favor to a sorority sister, while she was at the University of Texas at Austin. She said it was a disaster and that she later nominated him for the worst kisser on campus.

[hocndoc]

One good ping deserves another or "What I did on my summer vacation."

[GUIDO]

If you have seen Roy Barrera and seen her husband, well I know looks aren't everything but.........

Roy is not a bad looking guy at all, I don't know about his kissing but he has brains. Coming from a staunch democratic family he was the first to register Republican and his brother Bobby is also a Republican now or as of 3-4yrs ago he was.

[GUIDO]

is truly arrogant and hypocritical.

I am assuming that you are talking about her being against school vouchers /choice and then sending her children to private school? If so then you need to check it out, most politicians that are not for choice usually have their children in private schools.