Hey Folks,

I’m back Houston today with President George H. W. Bush talking about Proposition 15.

President Bush announced his support for Proposition 15, a ballot measure that will establish the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas that I am passionately behind and committed to making a reality here in Texas.

I’m honored that the President asked me to join him in speaking in support of this critical proposition that will go to voters on Nov 6.

The President and I share a passion in fighting cancer. The President is a founding member of a unique organization called C-Change which is a group…

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Our Texas Proposition 15 tour ended this afternoon in San Antonio at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC). A crowd of supporters greeted us under a somewhat cloudy sky, but luckily the rain stayed away.

I met pediatric and adult patients at the Center and signed some autographs and took a tour with CTRC president Karen Fields.

My mom and I visited with Connor, a 3-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Connor was just waking up from radiation. Mom and I agreed that he was a really cute kid. CTRC is the only NCI-designated cancer center in this part of…

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Hello from Houston. Survivor One is loaded with our team and Texas legislators for day two of our bus tour.

We started our day at the Kelsey-Seybold clinic near downtown Houston. Dr. Jim Hoyle, director of Kelsey-Seybold, welcomed us and we addressed a big crowd of supporters and patients on the second floor of the clinic. Senator Nelson and Representative Rose joined us again, along with Representative Morrison, Representative Bohac, Representative Coleman, Representative Cohen, Representative Allen, Representative Vo and Representative Hernandez.

Dr. Grace Butler, a cancer survivor, devoted advocate, LAF friend and founder of Hope Through Grace, inspired the crowd with lengthy…

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The bus tour continued on to Fort Worth this afternoon and to Cook Children’s Hospital, which was also one of the first LAF grantees way back when.

Several legislators and reporters and the great Cathy Bonner, who is the mother of Prop 15, are onboard with us. Between meetings and interviews, we had sandwiches for lunch and we watched the movie, Spinal Tap, which I’ve never seen.

Cathy Bonner is a talented and tireless Texas businesswoman who, after losing her good friend, Texas Governor Ann Richards, to cancer last year, was inspired to get the Texas legislature to do something about it.

The…

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From my vantage point at the City Hall building here in Granbury, Texas, there is no party line. It has been vanquished by a more formidable foe — cancer.

Cancer is not a partisan issue. Proposition 15 is not a partisan initiative.

The legislators who sponsored the bills that became Proposition 15 are a testament to that — Democrats Patrick Rose and Kirk Watson and Republicans Jim Keffer and Jane Nelson. The couple hundred locals who came out to see us at lunchtime also heard from other lawmakers from both parties.

It is clear that cancer is what we have in common. We…

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