Hate Crimes Bill For Children Update

2:30 a.. Update-Senate adjourns without voting on this bill.  This should mean that this bill is dead for this session.

10:23 p.m.-Looking more and more like it is safe to safe they will not bring this dangerous bill up for a vote.  I am hearing though that the Senate could work way past midnight, as tonight is the deadline for all House bills to pass the Senate.

7:00 p.m. Update-HB 824, the bill that applies hate crimes laws to children, has not come up for a vote yet on the Senate Floor.

McLeroy/SBOE Vote to Come Tomorrow!!

If you haven’t already called your State Senator, to ask him/her to support McLeroy, please make that call as well at:

512-463-4630.

Don McLeroy-

SBOE Experience:

• Member, 10 years
• Chair, July 2007-Present
• Vice-Chair, 2005-2006
• Planning Committee, 4 years
• Permanent School Fund Committee, 6 years
• Helped lead the efforts to rewrite the English, Language Arts, Reading TEKS, 2006

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1969

• Corp of Cadets
• Yell Leader

Doctor of Dental Surgery University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, 1978

Personal Milestones

• Eagle Scout, 1960
• U. S. Army, 1^st Lieutenant, 1969-1971
• Trustee, Bryan Independent School District 1997-98

McLeroy has been unfairly attacked for his religious beliefs (McLeroy is a Christian), by a fringe Austin group. Ask your state Senator to support Don McLeroy (See phone number above).  The vote could be very close!  McLeroy’s leadership was shown during the Science & Censorship issue, when he led the board to the nearly unanimous vote of 13-2 on the new science standards to continue to allow discussion and debate on critical science issues, including evolution.