Dewhurst to get Texan of the Year award
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is joining some pretty elite company.
Dewhurst, the second-term Republican who presides over the Texas Senate, will get the Texan of the Year award tonight from the Texas Legislative Conference. Others who have received the award during the conference's 42-year history include President Bush, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Lady Bird Johnson.
The conference meets annually in New Braunfels and puts forward ideas that members think state leaders need to address and perhaps implement.
"Conference organizers credited Dewhurst's initiatives to bring together Republicans and Democrats to pass legislation to create jobs and economic opportunity, improve schools, and protect public safety as a catalyst for his selection," said Michael Meek, president of the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the conference.
"He led the effort to pass one of the toughest Jessica's Laws in the nation and his Texas Children First Initiative imposes tough new penalties against child predators."
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