Initiative for Texas 1750 Timber Ridge Road #116, Austin, TX 78741 (512) 447-2086  ***  Email: mikeford@quik.com web site: www.initiativefortexas.org

• Make sure your name, address, phone and email are in our database.
• Print this page as a to-do list.
• If you are not sure who your state legislators are, Who Represents Me? on our web site will tell you who they are.
• Write a short hand-written note to your state representative, telling her/him that you are a Texan who wants initiative rights.  Ask her/him if they will support it.  Whether they are for, against, or have no opinion, refer them to this web site.  Write a second handwritten note to your state senator.
• After you have received a written response, regardless of what they write, call each of your legislators and tell them you want them to support Initiative rights for Texans.
• Tell your legislator how helpful his/her support would be.  Ask the legislator for a letter stating his/her support for Initiative.
• Please send us copies of any pledges or letters you receive.
• If you find a legislator committed to opposing Initiative, please inform us.
• Write to Governor Rick Perry to support Initiative.
• Write to Lt. Governor  David Dewhurst to support Initiative.
• Write to Speaker of the House Tom Craddick to support Initiative. 
• Write to Land Commission Jerry Patterson to support Initiative. 
• Write to Comptroller Susan Combs to support Initiative. 
• Write to Agriculture Secretary Todd Staples to support Initiative.
• We have a speakers bureau of informed persons around Texas willing to speak on Initiative.  Let us know if your organization wants a speaker.  Should you want to do the speaking yourself, we can help with speech outlines, etc. 
• Persuade at least one friend to also take the actions on this list.

Thank you for your energetic assistance in this battle to preserve
the freedom we have been so fortunate to have inherited.

"There are those occasions under our form of government
when the interests of the represented
and the interests of the representatives are at odds.
I & R are the means by which the represented assure
that their interests ultimately prevail."
John Talley of Longview, Texas