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Toll & Corridor Summit

Friday night David and Linda arrived in Austin with everything they needed to host Saturday's Toll & Corridor Summit. This picture shows the room as speakers and volunteers are arriving. (11.13.04)

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Linda moderated the entire Summit from 9am to 5pm. (11.13.04)

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Linda speaks to the group of 50 attendees. The program was video taped by Internet news site, keathmilligan.net. Reporters in the room included newspapers, Time Magazine and the New Yorker. (11.13.04)

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State Representative Terry Keel (R-Austin) gave and inspiring keynote address during the lunch. Yes, that is Linda on the screen behind him. (11.13.04)

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Linda listens to Representative Keel tell the gathering that he has never seen such a genuine grassroots movement in his entire political career. (11.13.04)

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Representative Keel explains how the laws put into place last year can be changed during the next session. Keel is Chairman of the House Jurisprudence Committee and prior to his election to the House was the Sheriff of Travis County (Austin). David's laptop computer and tape recorder are in the foreground. The conference room was set-up with wireless Internet access during the summit meeting. (11.13.04)

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Following the lunch program an hour was set aside for media. Here one of the participants is being interviewed by KXAN-TV the Austin NBC affiliate. The resulting story ran on the 6pm and 10pm news Saturday and again at 8am Sunday morning. New 8 Austin (TV) and radio stations from Austin and San Antonio also covered the Summit. (11.13.04)

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The afternoon workshop took place for two hours around this table. At the end of the day a consensus was reached on the adoption of a Joint Statement. Organizations represented included anti-toll groups from Austin, Dallas and Houston together with the Sierra Club, Texas Wildlife Association, Citizens' Transportation Coalition, Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods, Save Our Springs and the Texas League of Conservation Voters. (11.13.04)

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To David and Linda's surprise several participants wanted to have a group picture. The reporter from The New Yorker magazine took this photograph and more with a dozen other cameras the participants quickly produced. As the ad hoc picture organizers put chair in front for David and Linda they called them the Summit's mom and dad. Two days later an article in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper proclaimed, "Saturday's meeting at the Clarion ballroom may take on a July 1776 aura in the retelling." (11.13.04)

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