Urgent - call for New Voices legislation - posted 3/7

From Mr. Doerr at Akins High School - the faculty sponsor for New Voices here in Texas. We need your help:

Hi all. This is an URGENT request.

I need you all to call Rep. Hinojosa’s office on Friday to ask her to be our bill sponsor. We need the bill filed before we can think about having a lobby day. Zwiener will be the bill sponsor but they need to know early next week if Hinojosa is out or not as the sponsor so Zwiener knows if she should file the bill for us. We need to know our bill status before the Zoom webinar on Tuesday so we can plan details of Lobby Day on March 17.

Hinojosa’s office number is (512) 463-0668

Simply introduce yourself as a student journalist and officer/leader with New Voices Texas, and express your appreciation for Hinojosa considering becoming our bill sponsor. You can also let them know that we are planning a lobby day on March 17 so we are looking forward to her office filing the bill so that we can promote it to other education committee members when we are at the Capitol.

We can do this in class on Monday and Tuesday. I will remind you then, but if you want to call today, you can. This is totally optional and only if you feel compelled to support New Voices legislation in Texas.