Film: Anti-Drug War Coming to Waxahachie?

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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - LEAP - will be making an Ellis County stop.

Now this should provide for an interesting April 8 run-off.

We haven’t spoken in a while and I wanted to make you aware of something we were doing in your area soon.

A production company in Waxahachie has produced a 1st episode of a movie called “The Colombianization of Mexico” and they want one of our top speakers in it. On Sunday, Norm Stamper is flying into DFW and then on Monday or Tuesday he will go down to Waxahachie for 3 hrs of interviews. On the day that he is not in Waxahachie, we want to keep him busy around Dallas. For instance, I have already written Mark Davis to see if he would like to have Norm on his radio show. I will email/call other talk show hosts. I also thought “why not reach out to city council members, the mayor, and others in the criminal justice system like the police chief, sheriff or the DA?”

The Dallas city council is on vacation next wk but we might find a few still in town and available…

City Councilwoman Dr. Elba Garcia, for instance, is the chair of the public safety committee. Good place to start.

Pauline Medrano is chair of the Govt Services committee.

David Neumann is on the public safety committee.

Dwaine Caraway is vice chair of the public safety committee

Vonciel Jones Hill is a judge

Carolyn Davis was recently elected; housing committee

Tennell Atkins—public safety committee

And Angela Hunt appears to be an up-and-comer.

I didn’t list them all but what I intend to do is try to set up some mtgs with a few of these people to talk abt drug policy in general and some Texas initiatives. Being a Texas resident and since you practice in Dallas County, I wondered if you wanted to go along on any of these mtgs? Maybe you have some insight about these people. I haven’t looked at the county leg folks…

Any suggestions for newspaper contacts? TV?

Maybe you could broker mtgs in Kaufmann County? Didn’t know if you wanted to do that since that’s where you run your practice…are there any radio shows down your way in Kaufmann or Ennis?

Finally, I’d like to get you involved in the organization. Maybe you’d like to place a blog entry or two onto the LEAP blog. How about an occasional OpEd? Would you like to speak to a civic club? I’m not asking for everything all at once; once a month is fine for any of the above. No matter. What I’m concentrating on for now is Norm’s visit to Dallas next wk.

Let me know what you can do—I know it is last minute.

Thanks

Mike Smithson

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