Bastrop Conference: “The Future is Independent”, Oct. 13-14
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If you’re coming to the Bastrop Training Conference/Retreat, “The Future is Independent” above are places in Bastrop to stay.
We appreciate all the survey feedback we received for our next conference retreat in Bastrop, Oct. 13-14, “The Future is Independent”. Much of the last conference dealt with issues. This conference is focused on “how to” get things done!
If you have been around for a long time, or just joined our Impeach Perry effort, this event is for you to learn how to build the independent & impeachment movements in your community. This includes supporting or working to defeat candidates in the 2008 election. Remember all Texas House and Congressional seats are up next year. Some State Senate seats are up, as well as US Senate, John Cornyn’s seat. So, it’s not just a presidential election year!
Please note that by popular request, we are including a panel focused on “apolitical” organizing loosely referred to as “local coordination”. This panel is for those of you who are not electorally focused people, who want to work WITH local officials to slow down, mitigate or otherwise hold accountable decisions being made on your behalf regarding the use of resources in your area, whether that be infrastructure (road & bridges), water or the so-called “animal tagging” plans of the state of Texas.
If you are attending, please send a reservation to Marie Day at Marie.Day@shell.com or call her at 361-772-8306. There will be a $15 registration fee. This will cover your food and materials for the entire day on Saturday! The BBQ is going to be great - brisket, sausage and more donated by Arlan Foster, President of AFSCME Council 7. We’ll even have pecan pie! So come early and stay late and get to know your fellow independent minded friends.
The event is being held at the brand new beautiful Bastrop Library conference room on Saturday. This full conference facility comes with kitchen, overhead projector and TV/DVD. The BBQ is at Bastrop State Park — the great piney woods! And Sunday’s strategy session will be at Aqua Water’s Board Room (where we met the last time). You can stay anywhere in Bastrop because it’s all close to where we’re meeting. If you want to stay at the Loblolly Pines Village, rooms are available for $60-65. Call 512-321-2499. The Bastrop Holiday Inn and Comfort Inns are the nicest places to stay in Bastrop. See the list of places to stay below, which includes camp grounds (no more cabins are available). If any of you good Bastrop area folks can offer a free space for someone, please let us know by calling me at the number below.
Below is our conference agenda. If you have something to offer any of the panels, please feel free to offer your services by sending a note to: ljcurtis@indytexans.org.
The Future is Independent!
Bastrop Library, 1100 Church
10 Welcome Coffee, Danish & Donuts
10:30 Who Ya Gonna Call? — Deal Busters! How to use initiative, referendum and recall!
* OD Atwell, Citizens for Responsible Government, Victoria
* Linda Curtis, Independent Texans
11:30 How to Petition: Led by those who worked the HOT Rodeo booth
* Jesse Mills, Corsicana
* Big Bad Bob Wilson, Hewitt
* Jeff Harper, Ft. Worth
12:15 Lunch Break
1:00 Fundraising: this will be a round table discussion to talk about our collective fundraising experiences led by Terri Williams, Texas Motor Cycle Rights Association & Linda Curtis, Independent Texans.
1:45 Local Coordination to Stop the Corridor, Bad Water Deals, NAIS (Animal Tagging)
* Judith McGeary, Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance on NAIS (Animal Tagging)
* John Long, Seguin (on the Corridor)
* Marie Day, Lavaca County (on Water)
3:00 Running a Successful Meeting, Working the Media, Using the Internet
* Margie Raborn, Ron Paul campaign
* Agnes Voges, Blackland Coalition
* Justin Rosales, former Dallas Council
candidate
4:30 Running for Political Office: Do’s and Don’ts, Wills and Won’ts
* Arlan Foster, Liberty County
* Julia Soto Cabrera, Dallas
* Paty Jacob, Bastrop
* Jerry Pikulinski, Arlington
6:00 Adjourn for BBQ
Sunday, Oct. 14, 10-2 Strategy Meeting
Aqua Water Board Room, 415 Old Austin Hwy.
Topics:
I. Statewide Propositions in November — Will we actively work to defeat or pass any of them and which ones and why. Led by Marie Day.
II. What’s our plan for the Presidential Race? A roundtable discussion
III. Discussion on Local Campaigns: Linda Curtis
* How to defeat Rep. Mike Krusee
* How to defeat Rep. Edmund Kuempel
* How to get in on the scramble for Delisi’s seat in Bell County
* What about the race against Sen. Kim Brimer of Ft. Worth?
* What about the race against Sen. Mike Jackson of Galveston?
I hope to see y’all in the piney woods of Bastrop next weekend!
Linda Curtis
Independent Texans
http://IndyTexans.org
email me at: ljcurtis@indytexans.org
512-535-0989
PO Box 14294
Austin, TX 78761