Tex. Dem. Convention News You Can Use
The information below is from an unofficial newsletter provided as a service to fellow delegates, volunteers and visitors to Texas State Democratic Convention, June 8, 9, 10th at the Tarrant County Convention Center
A Service of METROPLEX DEMOCRATS and Harriet Irby, candidate for SDEC DISTRICT 10 COMMITTEE WOMAN
Produced in-house by volunteers - Faith Chatham - editor
CONVENTION CENTER
PARKING:
There is street construction on the Houston Street side of the Convention Center and the parking lots on Houston Street are closed. The Fort Worth Convention Center operates a covered parking garage and a parking lot on the east side of the Convention Center on Commerce Street. BRING CASH.
The parking garage cost $6.00 a day and they only accept cash.
A couple of blocks north of the convention center there are a number of lots which are several dollars a day less expensive. They also only accept cash.
Street Construction and One Way Streets:
Downtown Fort Worth has many one-way streets. On the west side of the Fort Worth Convention Center there is street construction blocking the south bound lane of Houston Street.
An easy guide to the one-way streets: Commerce runs North
Houston is usually two-way but currently the south bound traffic is being detoured away from the Convention Center.
The Fort Worth Water Gardens (just south of the Convention Center) are fenced off and there is construction in at that site.
CREDENTIALS
AND EXHIBITS
ARE IN
THE SAME ROOM.
Delegates will enter and exit the arena through the
exhibit hall
BID AT THE VAN OS & GILBERT BOOTHS
IN THE EXHIBIT HALL
DURING STATE CONVENTION
Winners will pay for each item with two payments: ? to the Van Os campaign and ? to the Gilbert campaign.
Pol. Adv. for Van Os for Texas Attorney General (Rachel Barrios-Van Os, Treasurer, 1530 N. Alamo St., San Antonio, TX 76215)
Pol. Adv. for Committee to Elect Hank Gilbert Agriculture Commissioner of Texas (Haskell Berry, Treasurer, P.O. Box 1930, Whitehouse, TX 75791
Some Items included in this Auction are:
Lot # 1: Salsa Dance Lessons for you and your guests in your home (DFW Metroplex only) Instructor and Donor: Christopher Youngblood, Candidate for Texas House District 96
Lot # 2: Steaks for ten, from beef raised by Hank Gilbert, grilled for you on the grill in your back yard by Hank Gilbert.
Lot # 3: Gift Certificate for $100.00 in Custom Picture Frames or Ready- Made Frame, Matting, Glass or other services provided by Billy Childress Frames of Fort Worth, Texas
Lot # 9: MEN?S 14 K GOLD RING designed and donated by David Pillow, Candidate for Texas House District 94, featuring
State of Texas and Democratic Donkey
Lot # 10: The Complete First Season of the WEST WING - 22 Episodes plus Special Features on DVD
Plus Gift Baskets of Texas Produce, Homemade Soap, Limited Edition Framed Art, Jewelry, and other items.
To donate items for this auction please contact
Faith Chatham, auction chairperson:
817 795-2519
TOURIN? TEXAS
Downtown Cowtown Newsletter
Tells where to go and what to see in Cowtown
http://www.texfiles.com/tourintexas/jun3/DowntownFtWorth/index.htm
3-D Map of Downtown Fort Worth. Click on the Convention Center and it gives you a 3-D view of the building, entrances and exits. There are other places near the convention center where you can select and see 3-D views of the street and buildings.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/downtownfortworth/3dmap.htm
For the Mobility Impaired:
The Fort Worth Convention Center does not have wheel chairs or electric carts available for use by the mobility impaired. Phone numbers of some of the vendors in Fort Worth who have a limited number of electric carts and wheel chairs for rent and who will deliver and pick-up at the Convention Center: 817 514-9403, 817 338-4848, and 1-800-888-44175. Electric chairs for 4 days and delivery fees range from $135.00 to $180.00. Wheelchairs rent for $10.00 a day at most vendors
NOTE: THERE ARE NO WHEEL CHAIRS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.
YOU MUST RESERVE THEM FROM A PRIVATE VENDOR AND PAY FOR THEM IN ADVANCE.
Transportation:
RAIL: Trinity Rail Express and Amtrak trains arrive a couple of blocks north and one street east of the Fort Worth Convention Center.
The Trinity Rail Express runs between Dallas and Fort Worth on a route through Irving, Hurst/Euless/Bedford into downtown Fort Worth.
The TRE links downtown Fort Worth, downtown Dallas and DFW Airport. Scheduled train service is provided Monday through Saturday.
No regularly scheduled service is available on Sunday.
http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/
Map of bus routes linking to the TRE in downtown Fort Worth:
http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/fortworthmap.html
Map of bus routes linking to the TRE in downtown Dallas:
http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/dallasmap.html
TRE Schedule Weekday Schedule: http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/newweekeb.html
TRE Schedule Weekend Schedule: http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/newweekeb.html
BUS SERVICE
The City of Fort Worth municipal bus system is called the T. Below is a very easy to use trip planner which allows you to enter your starting and ending destinations and plan your T bus schedule and route:
The Greyhound Bus Terminal is one block north of the Fort Worth Convention Center on Commerce Street. It is across the street for the Convention Center Parking Garage.
Visit the Auctions
during the Texas State Democratic Convention
of Barbara Radonofsky ,
Hank Gilbert,
David Van Os and
The Texas State Democratic Party.
Give Directly to the Candidates? Campaigns:
Place checks or cash in the bowls in the Candidates? booths in the Exhibit Hall. Every contribution helps.
TRE Rates
FARE TYPE SINGLE-RIDE DAY PASS* MONTHLY PASS
LOCAL/ 1 ZONE $1.25 $2.50 $40.00
PREMIUM/ 2 ZONES $2.25 $4.50 $70.00
REDUCED/ ALL ZONES $0.50 $1.00 $15.00
* Day Pass valid until 3 a.m. the following day.
Where to buy tickets or passes
DFW Airport and Trinity Rail Express
DFW Airport is connected by rail with both downtown Fort Worth and Dallas by the Trinity Rail Express. DFW Airport Transportation Map & Guide: http://www.dfwairport.com/transport/connect.html
VOTE DEMOCRATIC 2006
Chris Bell for Governor of Texas
VaLinda Hathcox, Land Commissioner
Dale Henry, Rail Road Commissioner
Fred Head, Comptroller of Public Accounts
Hank Gilbert, Agriculture Commissioner
Bill Moody, Justice, TX Supreme Court Pl.2
Barbara Radonofsky, U.S. Senate
Maria Luisa Alvarado, Lt. Governor
David Van Os, Attorney General
J.R. Molina, Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Maria Luisa Alvarado
FOR Lt. GOV.
http://www.onetexasforall.com/about.html
Voicemail/FAX 1-866-281-0460
Campaign to elect Maria Luisa Alvarado, Irma A. Mathis, Treasurer,
P.O. Box 684734 ? Austin, TX 78768-4734
Tentative Convention Schedule Saturday, June 10
Thursday, June 7 8 a.m. Permanent Convention Committees Meet, Convention Center (Rules, Platform, Resolutions and Nominations for SDEC and Party Officers.
9 a.m.
10 a.m. Exhibitors set-up booths
Exhibit booths open
2 p.m. State Democratic Executive Committee Meeting, Hilton Hotel 8:30 a.m.
Blue Star Breakfast, Convention Center (Reserve your seat now! Tickets are $25 per person (Click here)
6 p.m.
Convention Kick-Off Reception, Hilton Hotel (Purchase individual tickets from $$35.00 to $5,000.00 by clicking here) http://www.txdemocrats.org/06Convention/activitiesform06.pdf 9:30 a.m. Workshops, Convention Center
11 a.m. Convention reconvenes, Fort Worth Convention Center
Friday, June 9 Speakers:
9 a.m.-
3 p.m. Caucus Meetings & Workshops
Fort Worth Convention Center Barbara Radnofsky, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Jehmu Greene, Executive Director of Rock the Vote
10 a.m. Credentials & Guest Pass Distribution begins, Credential Booth, Exhibit Hall, Ft Worth Convention Center
Introduction of Congressional Delegation
Introduction of Judicial Candidates
Saturday, June 10. Michael Lange, Democrats Abroad
8 a.m. Permanent Convention Committees Meet, Convention Center (Rules, Platform, Resolutions and Nominations for SDEC and Party Officers. Introduction of State House Delegation
Election for Texas Democratic Party Chair will be held during Saturday?s session
8:30 a.m. Blue Star Breakfast, Convention Center (Reserve your seat now! Tickets are $25 per person (Click here) 2:30 p.m. Close of bidding for David Van Os and Hank Gilbert Campaign Silent Auction ? Exhibit Hall. Winning bidders should pick-up auction items by 3 p.m
HANK GILBERT SPEAKS OUT ON THE TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR
By HANK GILBERT ?
The trans-Texas corridor is a super-highway that our Republican leadership thinks we need to attract industry into Texas. It amounts to the largest land-grab in the history of our great state. It will travel some 578 miles across the most productive agricultural part of our state and consume 146 acres of farmland per mile. This highway will be 1/4 mile wide, and destroy family farms all along its' path. The part being kept real quiet is the huge water transmission lines between the 2 highways that will be used to pull water from underground and East Texas lakes to send to industry in the metroplex areas of Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.
This entire project is being "farmed out" to a company in Spain, who in turn will build the structure and charge tolls on the highway for the next 50 years! If they had truly talked with industry, they would know that transportation is not the limiting factor for not coming to Texas. The limiting factor is an illiterate work force, due to the 40%+ high school drop-out rate...another Republican-caused problem!!!
The grass fires that ran rampant a month ago in the Texas panhandle was Texas agriculture's Katrina. Homes, barns, equipment, fences, human lives and over 25,000 head of livestock perished in these wildfires. Our fair-haired governor (who himself served as Texas Agriculture
Photo by Robert Russell
* Agriculture Teacher for 14 years
* Active in livestock and agriculture
business all of adult life
* Small business owner
* A DEMOCRAT who supports
family farmers and ranchers
* Important to everyone who
Hank Gilbert discusses
the Trans-Texas Corridor,
Mad Cow Disease and
other issues on Burnt Orange Report:
http://www.burntorangereport.com/postComment.do#post
http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=979#7350
Pol. Adv. for Committee to Elect Hank Gilbert Agriculture Commissioner of Texas (Haskell Berry, Treasurer,
P.O. Box 1930, Whitehouse, TX 75791
Commissioner) allowed these fires to burn for almost 4 days before he mobilized any help to the region. The current commissioner, Susan Combs, to this date has still done nothing to help these people...not even a visit to the region. Perry did visit, via helicopter, with Rep. David Swinford -R from Dumas. In a communication sent through the Texas Farm Bureau (the Republican party's chief agriculture sponsor....just a huge insurance company the uses the word "Farm" as a tax break), Perry promised the farmer and ranchers Federal assistance.
Now, our current sitting President, Fidel Bush, threatens to veto the current appropriations bill before him if the committee doesn't remove the disaster relief from the bill!!! It's good to know that our "Texans" in power really care for Texans. Just the more reason that not another of them stupid, pugnant ?[$#!%??s] will ever be elected to a major public office again...at least, not as long as farmers and ranchers like myself have anything to do with it!
TEXT TAKEN FROM HANK GILBERT?S BLOG on BURNT ORANGE REPORT, June 3, 2006
CAUCUS TIME LOCATION
Friday June 9, 2006
How to Find Democrats - TDP Voter File 9:00 am - 3:00 pm 105
Progressive Hispanics Democrats 9:00 am - 10:00 am 204 A
List Serve Caucus 9:00 am- 11:00 am 110 B
Democratic Vets Board 9:00 am - 12:00 n 202 B
Asian American Democrats of Texas & CONAC 9:00 am - 11:00 am 112
Stem Cell Research 10:00 am - 11:00 am 202 D
Energy Caucus * 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 111
Democracy for Texas 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 121 B
Pro Choice Caucus * 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 113 B
Tejano Democrats Caucus 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 202 A
Mexican American Democrats 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 200
Coalition of New American Communities (CONAC)
[Candidates Forum] 12:00 n - 3:00 pm 102
Texas Young Democrats * 12:00 n - 1:00 pm 121 D
Grass Roots Training 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 203 C
CD 10 Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 201 A
Coalition of Black Democrats 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 201 C
Progressive Populist Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 121 C
Network of Spiritual Progressives Caucus * 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 113 A
TSTA 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 101
Wes Clark Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 113 B
Stonewall Democrats 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 121 A
Pro-Life Democrats Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 111
Small Business Caucus 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 110 B
Dealth Penalty Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 112
Computer/Technology Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 110 A
Hispanic Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 100
Motorcycle Rights Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm Ballroom B
Labor Caucus 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 202 D
Environmental Caucus 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 116
Democratic Veterans 1:00 pm - 3 :00 pm 202 B
CWA 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm 202 D
United Steel Workers 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm 202 D
Peace in Iraq 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 204 B
Peace in Iraq 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 204 B
County Chairs 101 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 204 A
County Chairs Budget 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 204 A
Universal Health Care 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 202 C
Schedule Saturday, June 10, 2006
Grass Roots Training 9:30 am - 10:45 am 203 C
Compliance Workshop 9:30 am - 11:00 am 116
Texas Freedom Network 9:30 am - 11:00 am 100
Consumer Caucus 9:30 am - 11:00 am 112
How to Find Democrats - TDP Voter File 9:30 am - 12:00 n 105
Non-Urban/Ag/East/West Texas 10:00 am - 11:00 am 201 B
Women's Caucus 10:00 am - 11:00 am 101
County Chairs 10:00 am - 11:00 am 204 B
Committee Schedule
Credentials 6/9 - TBA pm 121 F
Rules 6/10 - 8:00 am 121 F
Resolutions 6/10 - 8:00 am 121 A
Platform 6/10 - 8:00 am 121 B
Nominations 6/10 - 8:00 am 121 E
SENATORIAL CAUCUS
SD 1 3:00 - 5:00 pm 201 A
SD 2 3:00 - 5:00 pm 121 D
SD 3 3:00 - 5:00 pm 203 B
SD 4 3:00 - 5:00 pm 202 C
SD 5 3:00 - 5:00 pm 204 B
SD 6 3:00 - 5:00 pm 204 A
SD 7 3:00 - 5:00 pm Ballroom B
SD 8 3:00 - 5:00 pm Ballroom C
SD 9 3:00 - 5:00 pm 116
SD 10 3:00 - 5:00pm 121 A
SD 11 3:00 - 5:00 pm Ballroom A
SD 12 3:00 - 5:00 pm 121 F
SD 13 3:00 - 5:00 pm 121 B
SD14 3:00 - 5:00 pm 102
SD 15 3:00 - 5:00 pm 203 C
SD 16 3:00 - 5:00 pm 201B
SD 17 3:00 - 5:00 pm 101
SD 18 3:00 - 5:00 pm 110 A
SD 19 3:00 - 5:00 pm 121 E
SD 20 3:00 - 5:00 pm 202 A
SD 21 3:00 - 5:00 pm 100
SD 22 3:00 - 5:00 pm 110 B
SD 23 3:00 - 5:00 pm 200
SD 24 3:00 - 5:00 pm 122
SD 25 3:00 - 5:00 pm 202 B
SD 26 3:00 - 5:00 pm 121 C
SD 27 3:00 - 5:00 pm 201 C
SD 28 3:00 - 5:00 pm 202 D
SD 29 3:00 - 5:00 pm 203 A
SD 30 3:00 - 5:00 pm 113 A & B
SD 31 3:00 - 5:00 pm 111
Saluting the
Democratic Team
and the
Citizens of Texas
VICTORY
in
NOVEMBER
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Volunteers will assembly Candidates Literature Bags Wednesday afternoon, June 7th
at the Fort Worth Convention Center
Contact Daniel Clayton, Executive Director, Tarrant County Democratic Party
to volunteer:
(817) 335-8683
Birthday Party ? Fund Raiser for Maria Luisa Alvarado
Wednesday, June 7th
La Madeleine French Bakery & Cafe Sundance Square
305 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) 332-3639
Contact Felix Alvarado for information
(817) 246-4144