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…

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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…

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Hello from the bus, Survivor One. We are heading north on I-35 in Texas, with stops along the way to meet voters and promote Proposition 15, a ballot initiative aimed at making Texas the global leader in cancer research.

Our first stop this morning was Temple, Texas, where a cheering crowd of more than 200 doctors, nurses, patients and locals, greeted us at the Scott and White Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Al Knight, Scott and White CEO, welcomed us and Representatives Dianne White and Patrick Rose promoted Proposition 15. Dr. Roy Smythe, who is the director of surgery, said,…

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