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By April Castro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Just three months into his
leadership term, Texas House Speaker Tom
Craddick has commanded the chamber
through two of the most contentious debates
the legislature has seen in years.
The Republican has solidified his grip on
the membership with his highly competitive,
win-at-all-costs style, even luring a few well-
placed Democrats to his team along the way.
Craddick’s first battle as speaker was over
a bill that combined medical malpractice and
a measure to limit civil litigation in Texas.
Craddick and Gov. Rick Perry cam
paigned on lawsuit reform. Several other
legislators, including Democrats, cam
paigned on medical malpractice reform.
It became clear early on it was a battle
Craddick wasn’t going to lose.
While Democrats made last-ditch efforts
to block consideration of the bill with polit
ical maneuvers and objections, Craddick
tipped the scales, making his wishes plainly
known to members and casting his own
deciding vote on more than one occasion.
Historically, the House speaker doesn’t
vote and more than one vote on the same
issue is widely considered unprecedented.
After the divisive fiasco of tort refomi,
many Capitol insiders thought the proverbial
wheels had surely fallen off the House, and
wondered how they could move forward.
But, with the House divided down the
aisle, Craddick brushed off the chasm, say
ing he learned long ago that there’s “always
another tomorrow, always another bill.”
The people of Texas have
made a change in the leader
ship and their philosophy.
— Tom Craddcik
Texas house speaker
This time, it would be a state budget that
slashed $9.9 billion in spending, including
programs and services for Texans, as a result
of a revenue shortfall.
Craddick, Perry and Lt. Gov. David
Dewhurst vowed that the massive shortfall
would be overcome with cuts to spending.
After three days of debate, the bill’s most
severe state cuts were more than 275,(XX) chil
dren from the Children’s Health Insin
Program, 17,()()() low-income prep
women from Medicaid and 56,(X)0 eldsi
and disabled people left without homecait.
Lawmakers filed almost 300 amei;
ments to the budget bill. But, in theei
only those amendments approved byt
Republican leadership were passed.
“We had no say,” said Rep. Jim Duim-
a Waco Democrat.
As Democrats fought to restore someofl
cuts, Craddick called them “obstructionisii’
“They're the ones, in my opi*
who have made the House partissi
Craddick said.
“The people of Texas have madeacliais
in the leadership and their philosophy."
With the legislature’s end approach
Craddick still has a full plate in front (ft
“The session’s really winding doin'
Craddick said.
But. it seems the two most difficultm
are behind him.
“Tort reform debate was more gruels
as far as, just time consuming and one I:
after the other,” Craddick recalled Thursl
“It’s harder voting on things that affectya
constituents more closely, from the buit
aspect. But we’ve got a lot of morevotei
come.”
Family shares memory of Air Force pile
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Laughing and crying, the family of
Air Force Capt. Eric Bruce Das of Amarillo gathered to share fond
recollections of a man who made them proud.
On April 7, Das, 30, was piloting an F- 15E Strike Eagle on a bomb
ing mission near Tikrit, Iraq, when his plane went down. On Thursday
night, the family was notified that he had been killed in action.
The pilot’s mother, Rosie Das, described him as someone who
planned get-togethers and campouts in Palo Duro Canyon.
“I don’t know how many nights there would be a group of guys
around this table, playing cards,” she said. “He would get the little
details together. He was definitely a leader.”
On Friday, parents Bruce and Rosie Das, their daughters, Elisa,
Melody and son-in-law Stephen Neumann joined Eric’s wife. Air
Force 1st Lt. Nicole Das, at the table where they enjoyed many
meals together.
Nikki Das served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, as an intelligence
officer in Qatar. She and Eric were married Oct. 20, 2001, in
Amarillo and lived in Goldsboro, N.C.
“Eric and my brother flew in the same squadron up in Alaska,”
she said in Sunday’s Amarillo Globe-News. “And 1 met Eric when
my brother introduced us and ’Amarillo by Morning’ came up on
the jukebox. Eric asked my brother if he could dance with me. That
was in August of ’99. We did not start dating until after the turn of
the millennium. That was our first kiss, on the turn of the millenni
um. We were pretty much inseparable after that.”
Eric Das graduated from Amarillo High School in 1991, attend
ed the Air Force Academy and graduated in 1995.
Bruce Das, his father, said Eric was born in the Netheik
while the family served there as missionaries. Eric and his ft
enjoyed camping and hunting together.
Rosie Das remembered a prayer meeting a week ago wtiei
group of beefy guys prayed for Eric’s safe homecoming. Thetei
flowed, she said, as many remembered how he had spiritually aft-
ed their lives.
“Big guys, all sitting around in the living room, 20 of theme
ing and praying for Eric,” she said. “That’s just a small, littlenuf
of how Eric’s life has been.”
Doug Hall, a childhood friend, said Eric taught him a vaW
lesson when they were just kids, one that has stuck with him O'
the decades. Hall remembered one day the two boys headed totk
favorite ball field and trampled a neighbor’s bushes.
“That guy came out there and said, ’Did y’all stomp throughe
bushes?’ I went, ’It wasn’t us, it wasn’t us.’And Eric was, 'Yeah.'
did it, and what can we do to make it right?’... You havetorespf
a person a lot for something like that,” Hall said.
Melody Neumann, his older sister, said the death carries
important message for all Americans.
“Freedom isn’t free. We live in this great country because of pel
pie like Eric and like Nikki who give up their lives, and they donV|
to be together,” she said between sobs. “They live with daw®
jobs. ... We have hope for our children because of people likfcfftj
The Das family will have a memorial service for Eric atlp'j
Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Amarillo.
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