WITNESS LIST
Elections Committee
April 23, 2003-2:00P
HB 310
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Mitchell, Seth (Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff)
Smith, Tom (Public Citizen)
Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
Against: Carlson, Pat (Tarrant County Republican Party)
Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Lundquist, Karen (Texas Ethics Commission)
HB 382
For: DeBeauvoir, Dana (County and District Clerks Association
of Texas)
Valentine, David (First Baptist Church of Huntsville,
TX)
On: Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
Reynolds, Carl (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Barber, Anthony (Self and NAACP National Voters Fund,
H.O.W. Foundation Drug/Alcohol Treatment Center)
Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Farahkhan, Ethea (NAACP- Houston Branch, Voter
Empowerment Program)
Foster, Claude (NAACP National Voter Fund)
Hankins, Barbara (League of Women Voters of Texas)
Lanez-Correa, Ana (Texas LULAC)
Longbottom, Stephen (Self)
Martin Rountree, Meredith (ACLU of Texas, Prison & Jail
Accountability Project)
Ortiz, Hector Luis (William C. Velasquez Institute)
Owens, Eva (Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition)
Romero, Jesse (Center for Policy Alternatives)
Ruiz, Roseanna (Self)
Sanchez, Joe (MALDEF)
Solomon, Emmett (Restorative Justice Ministry Network)
Against: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 482
For: Webb, Justin (National Youth Rights Association)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Ortiz, Hector (William C. Velasquez Institute)
Sanchez, Joe (MALDEF)
Against: Carlson, Pat (Tarrant County Republican Party)
Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 1362
For: Agan, Steve (Self)
Hankins, Barbara (Self)
Howard, Robert (Americans for Approval Voting)
Kunkee, Randy (Self)
McBride, Micah (Self)
Riddering, Hannah (Self and Texas National Organization
for Women)
St. Denis, John (Self)
Against: Sherbet, Bruce (Dallas County, Texas Association of
Elections Administrators)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Cantu, Rebecca (Students for Universal Living Wage-UT
Austin)
Friedley, Tom (Self)
Hill, Claire (Self)
Lanez-Correa, Ana (Texas LULAC)
Romero, Jesse (Center for Policy Alternatives)
Smith, Tom (Public Citizen)
Smith, Tom (Self)
Vidheecharoen-Glatz, Joy (Self)
Webb, Justin (Self)
Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
Against: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
HB 2085
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Lanez-Correa, Ana (Texas LULAC)
Ortiz, Hector (William C. Velazquez Institute)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 2496
For: Maxey, Glen (Self)
On: Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Carlson, Pat (Tarrant County Republican Party)
On: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 2756
For: DeBeauvoir, Dana (County and District Clerks Association
of Texas)
Peacock, J.R. (Self)
Ruiz, Philip (Texas Democratic County Chair Association)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Cantu, Rebecca (Self)
Carlson, Pat (Tarrant County Republican Party)
Malcolm, Molly Beth (Texas Democratic Party)
Mendez, Mark (Tarrant County Commissioners Court)
Smith, Tom (Public Citizen)
Webb, Justin (Self)
On: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 2871
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Lanez-Correa, Ana (Texas LULAC)
Martin Rountree, Meredith (ACLU-TX)
Ortiz, Hector (William C. Velazquez Institute)
Romero, Jesse (Center for Policy Alternatives)
Sanchez, Joe (MALDEF)
Against: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
HB 3119
For: Acevedo, Fidel (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Lanez-Correa, Ana (Texas LULAC)
Martin Rountree, Meredith (ACLU-TX)
Ortiz, Hector (William C. Velasquez Institute)
Romero, Jesse (Center for Policy Alternatives)
Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
Against: DeBeauvoir, Dana (County and District Clerks Association
of Texas)
Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
HB 3166
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
Registering, but not testifying:
On: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
HB 3222
Registering, but not testifying:
On: Lundquist, Karen (Texas Ethics Commission)
HJR 29
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Castanon, Ricardo (Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project)
Ortiz, Hector (William C. Velasquez Institute)
Sanchez, Joe (MALDEF)
Against: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)
HJR 41
For: Howard, Robert (Americans for Approval Voting)
Riddering, Hannah (Self and Texas National Organization
for Women)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Cantu, Rebecca (Self and Students for Universal Living
Wage- UT Austin)
Neavel, Nancy (Self)
Ramsey, Lesley (National Organization for Women in
Texas)
Romero, Jesse (Center for Policy Alternatives)
Against: Lewis, Jesse (The Republican Party of Texas)
On: Hanshaw Winn, Elizabeth (Secretary of State)