SB 2075 -- Texas State Legislature

Well, now the State Senate Committee has done it. They too have re-worded the deferred adjudication bill that was submitted excluding all those with more than a State Jail felony. S.B. 2075 relies on the person wanting expungement to fit in the narrow definition of being able to have gotten an order of nondisclosure. What a crock of shit. This does nothing but continue to punish ALL of us not fitting in the narrow scope to continue to deal with punitive practices of the state legislature. Here's a list of numbers to start calling. These are the state legislators that are responsible for taking a bill that would have allowed Texas to finish its promise to all of us that are being unlawfully held to the list WITHOUT a CONVICTION. Bills of Attainer are ILLEGAL, but yet they pass them every year.

(thanks to tajlr for compiling this list)

Senator John Whitmire (Chairman)
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0115
Capitol Fax: (512) 475-3737
john.whitmire@senate.state.tx.us
Legislative Director Lara Wendler (512)-463-0115
lara.wendler@senate.state.tx.us
Legislative Aide Susan Fontenette

Senator Kel Seliger
kel.seliger@senate.state.tx.us
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0131
Capitol Fax: (512) 475-3733
kel.seliger@senate.state.tx.us
Chief of Staff Bryan McMath (512)-463-0131
Bryan.McMath@senate.state.tx.us

Senator John Carona
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0116
Capitol Fax: (512) 463-3135
john.carona@senate.state.tx.us
Chief of Staff Margie McCloskey
margie.mccloskey@senate.state.tx.us
Administrative Director Detta Haffelder
detta.hoffelder@senate.state.tx.us
Administrative Aide Stephanie Schotz

Senator Rodney Ellis
rodney.ellis@senate.state.tx.us
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0113
Capitol Fax: (512) 463-0006
Chief of Staff Brandon Dudley
brandon.dudley@senate.state.tx.us

Senator Glenn Hegar
glenn.hegar@senate.state.tx.us
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0118
Capitol Fax: (512) 475-3736
Chief of Staff Lisa Craven lisa.craven@senate.state.tx.us
Administrative Director Barbara Erickson
barbara.erickson@senate.state.tx.us

Senator Hinojosa
juan.hinojosa@senate.state.tx.us
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0120
Capitol Fax: (512) 463-0229
Chief of Staff René A. Ramirez (512)-463-0120
Policy Analyst, Capitol Athena Ponce
athena.ponce@senate.state.tx.us
General Counsel, Capitol Jerry Haddican
jerry.haddican@senate.state.tx.us
Legislative Aide, Capitol Carlos Gutierrez
carlos.gutierrez@senate.state.tx.us
Legislative Assistant, Capitol Oscar Garza
oscar.garza@senate.state.tx.us
Media Relations/Policy Analyst, Capitol Arturo Ballesteros
arturo.ballesteros@senate.state.tx.us

Senator Dan Patrick
dan.patrick@senate.state.tx.us
Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0107
Fax: (512) 463-8810
Legislative Director Logan Spence
logan.spence@senate.state.tx.us

Seeing as I do not like this person...

I thought it would be a good idea to compile some publicly available information on her.

Senator Florence D. Shapiro (TX)

Current Office: State Senate
Current District: 8
Party: Republican



Background Information
Gender: Female
Family: Husband: Howard -- Funny, Howard is a defense lawyer who "defends" those charged with sex offenses.. wonder how good THAT money is spent?
3 Children: Lisa, Staci, Todd-- Todd is also an attorney at dear old Dad's shop....
Birth Date: 05/02/1948
Birthplace: New York, NY
Home City: Plano, TX
Religion:

Education:
BS, Secondary Education, University of Texas-Austin.

Professional Experience:
Former Teacher, Richardson Independent School District
Former Owner/President, Shapiro and Company.

Political Experience:
President Pro Tempore, Texas State Senate, present
Senator, Texas State Senate, 1992-present
Governor for a Day, April 9, 2005
Mayor of Plano, 1990-1992
Plano City Council, 1979-1990.


Organizations:
Advisory Director, Plano Chamber of Commerce
Director, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano
Past Vice Chair, National League of Cities Advisory Council
Past President, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Past President, Plano Economic Development Board
Past President, Texas Municipal League.

Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees:
Education Commission on the States
Southern Regional Education Board.

Committees:
Administration, Member
Committee of the Whole Senate, Member
Education, Chair
Finance, Member
Transportation and Homeland Security, Member


Senator Florence D. Shapiro (TX)

Current Office: State Senate
Current District: 8
Party: Republican

BiographicalVoting RecordIssue Positions
(Political Courage Test)Interest Group RatingsCampaign Finances

Senator Florence D. Shapiro REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY
RESPONSES TO CITIZENS ON ISSUES THROUGH THE 2006
NATIONAL POLITICAL AWARENESS TEST WHEN ASKED TO DO SO BY

Key national leaders of both major parties including:
John McCain, Republican Senator
Geraldine Ferraro, Former Democratic Congresswoman
Michael Dukakis, Former Democratic Governor
Bill Frenzel, Former Republican Congressman
Richard Kimball, Project Vote Smart President

Over 100 news organizations throughout the nation also urged their candidates to supply their issue positions through the National Political Awareness Test.

Her voting record speaks for itself. Consistently, Shapiro has voted against Women's Rights to choose, has voted to raise taxes against the common citizen, voted no against AIDS/HIV awareness/prevention, voted for christian only expression in schools, and voted against requiring loan companies informing individuals about terms of complex loans.

http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=5456

This doesn't surprise that the top 80% of her finances comes from special interest groups in Finance, the lobby, general business and the construction industries.

http://votesmart.org/finance.php?can_id=5456
UPDATED:

We see what her game is by passing all of these feel good laws, and backing business over the people.

Name FLORENCE SHAPIRO US SENATE EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE INC
Connected Organization Name --
Address 5700 GRANITE PARKWAY SUITE 900
PLANO, TX 75024
Interest Group Category --
Affiliated Party Republican
Affiliated Candidate Florence Shapiro

She has aspirations of ruling from the Capitol...
If you follow the money on contributors list, funny but they seem to all be millionaires and business owners...

Family:

Lisa Shapiro Strauss -- Plano HS grad 1990, Oh Look She's on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Shapiro-Strauss/578082415
http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQJtVzTh4X9fdEt7rwL12WNAAAAAnEDbH_3M3KAmjAisPzNsKb

Now THIS is interesting. Texas lege Shapiro was given a place on the national board for Holocaust survivors (which I say nothing derogatory about). HOWEVER, it is pretty handy that her Son-In-Law,Rabbi Brian Strauss, serves on the board of the Holocaust Museum Houston .. hmm, wonder how he got THAT job? Way to go Ma!

Staci Shapiro Rubin --Oh gee, she's on Facebook too. http://www.facebook.com/people/Staci-Shapiro-Rubin/1079406166

There is a picture, but only of her kids (I imagine, and I won't link that alone).

Get a trend here. Let's cash in on the NAME.. So I'll keep- Shapiro..

Again will update later. For those that think it is too much to include the kids in on this, I say NO WAY. If MY kids and wife are exposed to the hatred, then HER family will be as well. I am looking for further info on Todd, and will post it as soon as I can.

and in case anyone is wondering, here is an opinion from SC Justices Scalia on the matter:

http://abovethelaw.com/2009/04/justice_scalia_responds_to_for.php

Discussions of privacy rights in the digital era should distinguish between such confidential data as medical records and information that might be personal but is easy to find out, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...

Texas, New Bill Passed for de-registration

Sex offenders who were convicted despite having consensual sex with their victims would be allowed to petition for removal from the state's sex offender registry, under a bill the House passed on Wednesday.
The bill allows offenders who were no more than four years older than their victims - and whose victims were at least 13 years old - to ask a judge to remove them from the sex offender registry if their relationship was consensual. The bill passed 131-12.
Under current law, young men who were convicted after having sex with their underage girlfriends are often forced to register for years, a stigma that keeps them from finding work or renting apartments. Many of the men who came to testify on the bill this spring were married to the women they were convicted of assaulting.
"This is one of the most morally compelling pieces of legislation that I have ever filed," said Rep. Todd Smith. "We rarely have the opportunity to do something that takes people out of a living hell."

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/05/de-registration-bill-for-conse.html

Although This is a great bill, now moving to the Governors Office. If passed, it will be a good thing for those of us that were trapped with their underaged girlfriends that have been placed under the bullshit laws. It does not go far enough in my opinion, but This is still a good step.

I would like to point out that even the good legislator brings to the front the truth.. " We rarely have the opportunity to do something that takes people out of a living hell. "

Florence Shapiro

It's time for this cunt to go. Florence Shapiro (R-Plano) has been in the State Senate since 1993. It is time she goes. She is so out of touch with the facts and reality she need to go back to her bullshit small business.

These next elections, lets get this bitch out of office and off of the people's tax money.

correction Texas S.B. 689

it seems that the pinheads from Plano have gotten their bill through. Senate Bill 22 originally made it illegal NOT to give up your online identifiers, excluding email addresses. Now it seems they substituted extra into the bill, requiring email addresses, as well as game tags and a few other things.

This is where I say Fuck the government.

There is a companion of cshb 22 that is identical..