[mathluv]

Excellant article - 1 correction. The House dims fled from a regular session. The Senate dims fled at the end of the first special session, and are absent from the second.

[Congressman Billybob]

Several keen-eyed Texas readers have pointed out that my article as written contains a serious error. To make the article correct, the following two paragraphs should replace paragrah seven of the original.

Admin -- I know you don't do editing. But do you do footnotes, so readers won't be misled?

Note to all readers on this thread: This correction has already been made on my two submissions of this for publication. Anyone else who thinks others in the media should see this are welcome to send it thither and yon. Just BE SURE TO MAKE THE PARAGRAPH CHANGE before sending it out. And preserve my byline and copyrght -- that's all I ask.

Billybob

Here are the substitutes for paragraph seven:

The first Regular Session was brought to a screeching halt when one-third of the House (all Democrats) skedaddled off to a Holiday Inn in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and had meals and press conferences in a nearby Denny’s. The First Special Session was brought down by a Senate rule which allowed one-third of the Senators to block introduction of any matter. When Senate leaders proposed to change this rule and the Governor called a second Special Session, that’s when Senate Democrats took action.

Now it’s the Senators (all Democrats) who have gotten out of Dodge and are now located in a luxury resort in New Mexico. (They were flown there in a jet belonging to a bank, raising a federal legal problem.) The Texas Senate is still nominally in session, so the Senators are still receiving their salaries and per diem expenses in the amount of $125.