MGrimmett

**Name:** Matthew Grimmett

**State:** Texas

**Political Party Affiliation or Ideology:** Moderate Conservative


 * Issues: **

I think the most important issues are the ones about debt and taxes, and relationships with other countries. I think debt and taxes are an important issue, because they cause argument and keep coming up in newspapers, website, etc. Relationships with other countries are important, because they wouldn't want to have a war and they would be able to help with creating more communist countries.


 * 5 Interesting Facts about Texas: **
 * 1) Texas is popularly known as "The Lone Star" state.
 * 2) The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site.
 * 3) Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.
 * 4) More species of bats live in Texas than in any other part of the United States.
 * 5) Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies.


 * 5 Reasons you would want to Visit Texas: **
 * 1) The Alamo
 * 2) Grand Opera
 * 3) Blue Bell Creamery
 * 4) The Big Texan
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fort Worth


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The 3 Top Employers in Texas: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dell Inc (City: Round Rock & # of Employees: 21,000)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">University of Texas At Austin (City: Austin & # of Employees: 21,000)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">University-Texas MD Anderson Cancer (City: Houston & # of Employees: 17,000)


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Texas's Main Resources: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Possessing enormous natural resources, Texas is a major agricultural state and an industrial giant. Second only to Alaska in land area, it leads all other states in such categories as oil, cattle, sheep, and cotton. Texas ranches and farms also produce poultry and eggs, dairy products, greenhouse and nursery products, wheat, hay, rice, sugar cane, and peanuts, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sulfur, salt, helium, asphalt, graphite, bromine, natural gas, cement, and clays are among the state's valuable resources. Chemicals, oil refining, food processing, machinery, and transportation equipment are among the major Texas manufacturing industries.

> Things that need to be addressed are: how to determine what is harassment, how to prevent harassment, or how to address harassment if it occurs.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3 Key Issues: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">One issue that I am concerned about is the issue of //Sexual Harassment//. In my opinion schools and parents need to do more to prevent this issue. By this I mean some schools may talk about sexual harassment as a type of bullying, but the AAUW report cautions against this. “Distinguishing between the terms is important, because they have different definitions and are regulated by different laws,” the report says. “Schools are likely to promote bullying prevention while ignoring or downplaying sexual harassment.” The AAUW has also conducted a poll in 2001, 83% of girls and 79% of boys reported having experienced sexual harassment.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Another issue I feel is very important is //Child Obesity//. I think parents and schools need to educate their students/or children of health eating, because we need to do a better job of caring for the young of this generation. Obesity has been described as both a medical condition and a lifestyle disorder. No single factor is responsible for its onset, as it is influenced by one's genetic background, personal behavior, and the political and social environment. "Economic growth, the globalization of food markets, and urbanization allow greater access to high-fat, high-sugar, energy-dense foods. In general, mass-marketed foods are cheaper, particularly in urban areas, while fresh foods are more expensive. Globalization of agricultural policies has contributed to progressive cost reductions in meat, butter, oils, fats, and sugars, while the relative price of fruit and vegetables has climbed." I think in this day and age we need to educate our children even more, and why we need to be careful when caring for our children.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The final issue I'm concerned about is //Animal Rights.// I think that animals have more rights then we realize. The legal and moral rights of animals is a topic that can arouse great passions, both pro and con. Traditionally, the law has conveyed no rights upon animals, but in the past two centuries more and more people have come to argue that animals do have moral rights and should have legal rights.


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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Presidential Endorsement 2012: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I would endorse Mitt Romney for president, because he has a history of "turning things around". So he is going to try to help turn around our struggling economy and create more jobs for Americans. He also is the only republican running that has executive experience. Since he was governor of Massachusetts, he has had to do many similar duties as a president would have had to do. He is fiscally conservative. Another reason I would endorse Romney is that he is pro-life meaning no abortion. That is why I would endorse Mitt Romney.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">HB5 - Changing Energy Resources for Healthier Living
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Link To Bill: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I am working on this bill with Caroline Lukehart. Our bill is about changing energy resources that are nonrenewable like oil, gas, and coal to energy resources that are renewable like wind, water, and solar power. We believe that if we keep using nonrenewable resources then the air will start affecting our health. So switching to renewable resources will not only improve our health, but the health of the environment and the living thing in them.

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