Friday's Internet Edition, August 29, 2008.
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Two people were air-lifted to area hospitals after a near head-on collision north of Copperas Cove Thursday. The wreck on FM 116 happened around 7 p.m. when a pickup pulling a trailer collided with a mini-van. See Tuesday's Leader-Press for more informatoin. – Photo by LARRY HAUK
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Citizens for a Progressive Copperas Cove Political Action Committee, or CPCC-PAC, approved its bylaws and constitution in a Tuesday meeting, and elected officers.
James Kanzenbach will serve as CPCC-PAC’s first president. Monica Hull was elected vice-president, and Fred Chavez will service as the organization’s secretary-treasurer.
“We’re going to approach this issue by the books,” Kanzenbach said. “Our job is to promote a successful local option election, and we’re going to approach that job carefully and responsibly.”
Kanzenbach said the CPCC-PAC’s first goal is to raise the funds necessary to conduct a local option feasibility study.
“We need to find where the ‘yes’ votes are,” Kanzenbach said. “We need to see if this thing is going to fly.”
Once areas of support for the local option issue are located, Kanzenback said the PAC will circulate the petitions necessary to get the issue on the ballot.
Kanzenbach said CPCC-PAC sees the local option issue is purely an economic one.
“We’re losing thousands of dollars a year in sales tax dollars that are going to other towns and cities by not being able to sell beer and wine in our local retail stores, “ Kanzenbach said. “We think it is time to remedy that situation.”