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Rep. Terry Keel and Sen. Rodney Ellis Brokering the Tulia Bonds

It can’t be said that the Lege moved on its own initiative – that credit goes to much hard and relentless work by family, local citizens, pro bono lawyers (and journalists), the NAACP, the ACLU, and a host of other civil rights organizations. But Austin Republican Keel and Houston Democrat Ellis put together the legislative strategy to make it bureaucratically and politically possible for the unjustly convicted and jailed Tulia defendants to breathe free air for the first time in many months. The battle is far from over, in the Panhandle or elsewhere, but credit is due to elected officials who finally managed to do the right thing. Keep it up.

Rep. Terry Keel
PO Box 2910
512/463-0652

Sen. Rodney Ellis
PO Box 2910
512/463-0113