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Well it was an interesting Convention. As you may know, Shirley Weaver had passed away just before the convention and that kind of changed the atmosphere, it got very emotional at times. She was our VP and was going to run for President.

Here are the results:

President : Dale Miller (former President) announced at the convention and ran un-opposed won by acclamation.

Vice-President: Terry Stubblefield (was Trustee) ran un-opposed won by acclamation.

Sec/Treas.: Janis Cassens ran un-opposed for re-election won by acclamation.

Now here is where it got real interesting for the Trustee positions:

We had 3 trustee positions open with the 4th one hinging on whether Terry Stubblefield won as VP, which he did and a 4th position opened. NOTE: Reason so many were open was we passed at our 2001 convention that a state officer could not also be a State or Asst. State Steward.

Trustee Position 5 had Polly Alexander (who won last year for the un-expired 1 year term) running again against Ed Warren.
Polly Alexander = 250
Ed Warren = 267 (elected)
There were 521 votes cast but 5 were ineligible for various reasons for 517 total votes.

Trustee Position 2 (was held by Jenny Lewallen, Asst. State Steward) had Frieda Hartman announced for running. At the convention Chuck Moore (from my Local 076) announced his intentions of running.
Frieda Hartman = 256
Chuck Moore = 265 (elected)
There were 521 votes cast.

Trustee Place 3 (was held by Patsy Black, Asst. State Steward) had Victor Rodriquez (from my local 076), Tommy Smith (from my local 076) and Robert Fair.
Victor Rodriquez = 117
Tommy Smith = 29
Robert Fair = 375 (elected)
there were 521 votes cast.

Now this next one got a little exciting, so hopefully I got my notes correct <G>.
Trustee Place 4 (opened when Terry Stubblefield was elected VP) had Dart Stoddard (who had not announced which position he was running for), then Frieda Hartman was nominated, then Victor Rodriquez was nominated, and the nominations were closed. However, just before the ballots were handed out for voting, it was announced from the floor(and forgive me but I forget who as I was on the Teller 1 committee handling the ballots at this time) that there was another nomination but the person who was going to nominate got called out on Association business and had not returned. it was asked of the Delegates if it would be okay to allow this nomination, and it was voted to allow. This is when Polly Alexander was nominated for this position. As ballots had already been handed out to some locals already, it was decided to recall those and hand out new ones (we used 10 different colors, for reasons like this). As the new ballots were being handed out, Victor announced he was withdrawing from consideration. This left Dart Stoddard, Polly Alexander and Frieda Hartman running for this position.
Frieda Hartman = 120
Polly Alexander = 173
Dart Stoddard = 226
519 votes were cast and 259 were needed for simple majority. Now normally our C&BL call for that when more then 2 candidates for the same office, the one receiving the least number of votes shall be dropped at each succeeding ballot until there is an election. However, at this Convention a C&BL was passed that , in part stated, that AFTER THE THIRD BALLOT the one receiving the least number of votes shall be dropped at each succeeding ballot until there is an election. This was passed in order to bring our C&BL into agreement with the NRLCA C&BL. consequently, Frieda Hartman withdraw consideration for the trustee position. So now the candidates for Place 4 Trustee were Dart Stoddard and Polly Alexander.
Polly Alexander = 204
Dart Stoddard = 313 (elected)
517 votes were cast.

so here are the TRLCA State Officers:
President = Dale Miller
Vice-Presidnet = Terry Stubblefield
Sec/Treas. = Janice Cassens
Trustee Place 1 = Roger Rodenbeck (1 year remaining)
Trustee Place 2 = Chuck Moore
Trustee Place 3 = Robert Fair
Trustee Place 4 = Dart Stoddard
Trustee Place 5 = Ed Warren

also, three cities were considered for the 2004 state convention. Amarillo, Beaumont and Bryant/college station.
Amarillo = 147
Beaumont = 29
Bryant/college station = 342 (site of 2004 convention)
518 votes were cast.

Now as far as the Delegate ballot, we had 126 nominations. Of the 5507 sent out, 1290 ballots were returned for a 23% return of the ballots. In my opinion, this is pitiful!!

OF THE 1290 BALLOTS BEING RETURNED FOR TABULATION:
1188 valid ballots counted (42 containing address corrections)
7 invalid ballots (too many candidates marked)
95 ballots were UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED:
19 Forwarding Order Expired
14 Insufficient Address
8 Attempted/Unknown
2 Moved Left No address
2 Refused
2 No Mail Receptacle
1 Address Not Shown in Window of Envelope
15 No such number
5 Due to 911 change cannot be delivered
27 Undelivered as Addressed

the Elections Committee also made the following recommendations:
That envelopes containing address corrections be entered into TRLCA Data System.

that envelopes marked with any of "Undeliverable as Addressed" endorsements be checked in data system for corrections and that efforts be made to correct addresses even to contacting post office of address in order that future ballots be correctly delivered.

Texas is eligible for 52 National Delegates at this time based on last year. However, as of July 1st this number will more then likely go up or down, depending on what happens after the purging of the list by National.

Paul H. Lillibridge
PO Box 118410
Carrollton TX 75011-8410
VP-Tarrant-Dallas Local 076
Elected National Delegate
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