Dear Fellow Texans,

How fast these past three years have flown. We're staring down the 2010 election cycle, as it rapidly approaches.

I am flattered by the requests I've received to run for the State Senate (SD 25) in 2010, and we are exploring this possibility. In 2006, we ran a real "grassroots" campaign, literally learning as we went.

If we run again, then we plan to have a much better organized campaign, and for that, we will need all of your help.

I have a problem with campaigns costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially in this economy. I believe that we can do a great deal with a lot less money if you will dedicate yourselves to helping get a progressive elected to represent real family values. We saw the impact regular people" like you and I made on the 2008 election. Many of us donated small sums, but those small sums added up. Many of us donated time, not only in our local areas, but in traveling to other states and/or making hundreds of phone calls to targeted voters.

While I WISH we'd have that sophisticated an election, I'm not sure (unless one of your IT gurus wants to donate a lot of time) that we'll have THAT kind of access to data, but we can do it on a smaller scale.

I'd like to hear from you- what's your "government wish list"- if you could snap your fingers and get the Legislature to work on legislation that would make a real difference for you, your family, your community and/or our state, what would it be?

I look forward to hearing from you. (Kathi@KathiThomas.org)