Cancer fightin' and fundraisin'
Patrick Rose wound up getting a turnout of at least one thousand people to attend his $25 a plate fundraiser in Dripping Springs. I had a bit of deja vu, since the stage set-up was the same as last year, and so was the music they played after Rose was introduced --John Mellencamp's "Small Town". If you need a refresher...
Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Probly die in a small town
Oh, those small communities
But I digress. What differed from last year was the appearance of special guest Lance Armstrong. Rose was the House sponsor of what's now Proposition 15, and Armstrong lobbied hard (even in the dizzying last week of the session) to make sure it got out of committee and to successful floor votes in both chambers.
Senate Finance Chair Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, opposed the cancer research bill all along, saying to me this spring, "I don't think we need to be borrowing three billion dollars." Alas, Ogden wound up on the losing side of that battle, and now the HJR is a Proposition up before voters November 6th.
