Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC is proud to endorse Elizabeth Ames Jones in State Senate District 25.

Elizabeth is a principled conservative who has a stellar record of public service in Texas. When Elizabeth represented San Antonio in the Texas House, she was a strong supporter of the historic, comprehensive tort reform bill of 2003 (HB 4), and was a leader and advocate for the medical liability reforms included in that legislation. Elizabeth's character and experience will make her an excellent addition to the Texas Senate.

Elizabeth is running against Sen. Jeff Wentworth, who has been in elected office for thirty-five years. While we do not take the challenge of any incumbent lightly, we believe that SD 25 must have a senator who is committed to the business expansion, job creation, access to health care and respect for the law that meaningful tort reform produces.

Sen. Wentworth is a long-time opponent of lawsuit reform. Although he voted for the original medical liability reform bill in the Senate in 2003, he then actively campaigned against the constitutional amendment (Proposition 12) that was essential to establishing the medical liability caps on non-economic damages, such as mental anguish. On election night, he told the press he was "disappointed" the amendment had passed.

More recently, during the 2011 Special Session, Sen. Wentworth was the only Republican senator to vote with 11 Democrat senators against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) Reform Bill. Opposition to the bill was led by Houston hurricane lawyer Steve Mostyn, who has become rich from hurricane lawsuits against insurers. Mostyn found ways of exploiting insurance statutes to intimidate TWIA into paying him huge attorneys' fees. The trial lawyers, Democrats and Sen. Wentworth tried unsuccessfully to kill those reforms. Mr. Mostyn is the largest Democrat contributor in Texas. He spent $10 million dollars against conservative candidates in the 2010 state elections.

In 2009, Sen. Wentworth sided with personal injury trial lawyers on three anti-tort reform bills. The "Paid or Incurred" Bill would have allowed a plaintiff to recover the "phantom damages" of medical costs that are billed but which have not been paid and are not owed. The Asbestos Bill would have overturned a unanimous decision by the Texas Supreme Court which held that Texas causation law and restrictions on junk science apply in asbestos lawsuits. Wentworth also sided with the trial lawyers who wanted to reverse a correctly decided opinion by the Texas Supreme Court, which held that the Workers Compensation Law does not prohibit a landowner, acting as his or her own general contractor, from buying a comprehensive workers' compensation policy for all workers on the worksite and preventing unnecessary third-party lawsuits.

Elizabeth Ames Jones has demonstrated through her record and experience that she has the courage and commitment to stand up to personal injury trial lawyers and fight for lawsuit reform.
We hope we can count on you to join us in supporting Elizabeth. Together, we can ensure that a true, pro-jobs conservative is elected to represent Senate District 25 in 2012.

Sincerely,

Richard W. Weekley	Richard J. Trabulsi, Jr.
Peter Holt	John Nau III
Red McCombs