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    Name: Barrett Stoler Stoler on Nov 14, 2003
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    Name: Bobbie Rice on Nov 14, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: This is crazy. My son in law got in trouble when he was 22 years old, stole some car rims, did time for shock probation. Has a wife, two children and one on the way and has been informed by his boss that because of this law, he will no longer have a job. So it is putting my grandchildren and daughter on welfare and him in the un employment line. This is stupid..Tell me what to do
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    Name: Kristy Lovell on Nov 15, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Sharon Lewis on Nov 15, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Crystal Weatherford on Nov 16, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: My husband commited a crime in 1995 served his 3 months in jail and got probation and got off on good terms.Since then he has not been in any trouble.Know his job wants to let him go we have 3 kids and one on the way and we will have no way to support our family if they go threw with law 705.We don't want tohave too live off of welfare and have to have tax payers support us exspecial when my husband was doing a good job.
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    Name: Amada Tatom on Nov 16, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: DANIEL FOUST on Nov 16, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: DANIEL FOUST on Nov 16, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Shadow Colvin on Nov 16, 2003
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    Name: Matthew Weatherford on Nov 16, 2003
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    Name: Sara Reckaway on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: If someone who truely repents of his sins no matter how large, he should be able to support bimself. Otherwise to live he will resort to a life of crime again... This is what we should try to prevent. Not this bill which would only lead to more crime in order to survive in a world that already has too much crime.
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    Name: Sadina Ward on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Noahlene Hobbs on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Bradley Taylor on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I know someone that has been affected by this. He made some mistakes in the past. But has not been in any trouble in eight years. Now he has a wife, three kids and one on the way. Now he has no way to support them. The only ones getting hurt by this is the families that really want to make productive lives and do the right things.
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    Name: Toni Arpin on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Linda McCoy on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: HOLLIE MCLAIN on Nov 17, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Cynthia Simpkins on Nov 18, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: If a person has a clear record and has no other reason to be terminated they should not be fired for somehting they did years earlier. People do change and start to raise families that need to be taken care of. Please look into this and reconsider House Bill 705
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    Name: Devan Ambrose on Nov 19, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: People DO grow up and learn from their mistakes!!
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    Name: Melony Weatherford on Nov 20, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Matthew Weatherford on Nov 20, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: My brother has had a job with an Air Conditioning company for a year. He has a felony from his later teenage years they are firing him because of the law. He has a family and now he is unemployed. The unemployment rate has now risen. He will have to go on welfare to survive. This is an outrage he has not been in a drop of trouble for 12 years.
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    Name: Michael Nordeen on Nov 25, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Roy Rrrfordearthe on Dec 13, 2003
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: i've been doing air conditioning heating for 12 years now i might possibly loose my job besause of this a mistake i made 8 yrs ago
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    Name: Kenneth Gary on Jan 19, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Jerry Gillespie on Feb 4, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: HB 705 serves no purpose other than to leagally trample on individual civil liberties. This law needs to be challanged
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    Name: Karen Power on Feb 17, 2004
    State: TX
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    Comments: Yes, being a convicted felon is horrid. I found this petition by looking for what rights I do have when looking for a job. Even when you have served your time and changed your lifestyle, you still don't have the right to work.
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    Name: Sylvia Crunk on Apr 2, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: unfair law
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    Name: RENE MARTINEZ on Apr 13, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Rene Martinez on Apr 13, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: i want to fire the law makers responsible for this unforgiving law this is not fair to people trying to make an honest living
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    Name: Virginia Saenz on Apr 21, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: From what I have read I agree, how are criminals who probably did get into trouble as youths become responsible citizens when they enter society I have a loved one who messed up when he was young. He was a senior in high school when his only living brother died in a horrible car accident. He was five when his favorite brother was killed. This boy suffered a lot of tragedy in his life. He was angry young man and when a gang member threatened his life he let his anger get the best of him. Hence he gets into trouble, put on probation and does something stupid like let a friend put a gun in his truck...BAM he gets locked up. While he's locked up his oldest daughter is murdered and he's denied the right to view or attend his daughter's funeral. He's not a mass murder but he gets treated like it. I'm a cop but justice...SUCKS!
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    Name: Shane Sparks on May 18, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: During my incarceration the state (T.D.C.) put me throuh college hvac school with the tax payers money with the goal for me to be a working part of society, now I'm back to where I was before my incarceration. Extremely limited.
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    Name: John Austin on Jun 18, 2004
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    Name: Juanita Mathewson on Jul 7, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: What has happened to paying ones debt to society How can a good person who made a mistake ever become a good citizen if he cannot even find employment. Doesn't anyone care anymore Is there no understanding of someone's making a mistake and trying to make up for it Why can't we be big enough to give the people who make mistakes a chance to recoup Are we, ourselves, so perfect Do we dare "throw the first stone"
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    Name: Richard Diaz on Aug 17, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Jo Ann Livingston on Oct 28, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Connie Derington on Oct 29, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: This bill is unconstitutional.
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    Name: David Elmore on Dec 2, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I AM AN EX OFFFENDER. I HAVE A SEMESTER OF HVAC CLASSES UNDER MY BELT. HOW AM I TO FIND A JOB THAT IS NOT A SERVICE.
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    Name: SAM STEVENSON on Feb 9, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: OWNED OWN BUSINES FOR 15YRS CONVICTED 18YRSAGO CANT FIND AJOB DUE TO BILL705
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    Name: Ron March on Jun 8, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Larry Hillmann on Sep 9, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Ann Schober on Sep 12, 2005
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Please keep me posted about this Bill.
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    Name: CHRISTY BEAVER on Jan 18, 2006
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments: I am in another state getting ready to relocate to Austin, Texas. My Fiance in an ex-con. While He was in Prison he took some college classes and received his universal technician license for heating & a/c & electrical. I don't understand why they would offer classes like that in prison if when they did their time and got out they could not get a job in that field or any service field. I guess to a degree I can understand If someone was in prison for murder or child molester. but leave it up to the employers to run the background check and decide wether or not to hire them. No wonder they end up back in prison because we take away every bit of life left in these people and they have no other choice. I hate to say it but I'm going to HATE living in Texas.
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    Name: James Click on Jan 24, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Convicted Felon from 1994. Licensed by the State of Texas as a Journeyman Plumber since 2001. Just found out about this law via denial of employment.
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    Name: Christina Crabtree on Jan 26, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: i really hope something is actually being done with this petiton and that its not just collecting names. 20 years is a rediculous amount of time to hold somebody liable for a crime that they may have only spent 2 years in jail for. obviously the reason for placement in jail is punishment so why are these people still being prosecuted for something that they've already paid they're dues for i know a felon and he commited a crime in 1994. it is now 2006 and he has not broken the law since 1994 yet it is impossible for him to get a job and because of that his kids are going without so if this law was passed to hurt families or children its doing just that, i'd say its very effective in doing more distruction than any good it might have thought to do. people change some for the better and some for the worse. im sure the people or persons who passed this law are not the same people or persons they were even 5 years ago and i think that speaks volumes. i signed this petition because im outraged that anyone who didnt commit a crime that had a life sentence stil has to pay for the rest of their life. i am not a felon so i dont get anything out of this if the petition is effective i only get the satisfaction of knowing that people know wrong when they see it.
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    Name: JESS PARENT on Jan 26, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I THINK IT SAD THAT A PERSON IS LABELED FOR HIS OR HER MISTAKES.ALL AMERICANS THAT CAN WORK SHOULD WORK IF THERE HEART DESIRES AND SHOULD NOT BE TURNED AWAY BECAUSE OF THE CRIMES THEY HAVE ALREADY PAYED FOR!WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES THAT IS WHAT MAKES OUR COUNTRY GREAT AND WHAT MAKES US HUMAN!
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    Name: Michael Smith on Jan 27, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: just another way Texas gov't adds to recidivism to request more inmate funds to misappropriate. It's about $ not safety.
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    Name: Cathy Hankamer on Jan 27, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree!!! Let people get their lives back on the right track.
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    Name: Larry King on Jan 29, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: Felons who have paid their debt to society should not be blackballed from employment. If they are unable to find employment, recidivism or dependence on welfare is inevitable. With greater and greater portions of our society being institutionalized, we need to be finding ways to encourage employment of this very large segment of our society.
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    Name: Mark Smith on May 24, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: This law keeps people from working and forces them to do whatever possible to live. It creates more crimes
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    Name: Jimmy Smith on May 24, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I am not a convicted felon. I read this law and was horrified to think that we Texans are in favor of a law that will effectively bar the hiring of convicted persons. Maybe that was not the intent of the law, but that is the outcome. People who have been effectively doing a job for years are now being fired. Please take the time to read the legislation.
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