Rodney Ellis

Template:TOCnestleft Rodney Ellis is a State Senator from Texas.

COCO connection

August 2019 the Coalition of Community Organizations is celebrating their new office/studio at the East End Chamber of Commerce. Recently, they showed off their new space with a ribbon cutting and open house fundraiser. Attendees were able to find out what COCO has to offer and view the new digs. COCO’s mission is to educate, empower, and enhance lives, to make informed decisions with the goal of obtaining healthy and sustainable communities. Some in attendance were COCO founder and director Rev. James Caldwell, Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Councilwoman Karla Cisneros, Denise De La Garza, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, Blanca Blanco, and Frances Dyess.

Supported Progressive Health Care Reform

In late 2009, Rodney Ellis was one of more than 1,000 state legislators to sign a letter entitled "State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform". The letter was a project of the Progressive States Network and was developed in consultation with national health care reform advocates, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Community Catalyst, Families USA, Herndon Alliance, National Women's Law Center, Northeast Action, SEIU, and Universal Health Care Action Network. The letter reads in part,

"Failure to pass national comprehensive health reform now will further jeopardize state and local budgets, undermining public services like education, public safety, and transportation infrastructure... We, the undersigned, call on President Obama and the Congress to enact bold and comprehensive health care reform this year – based on these principles and a strong federal-state collaboration – and pledge our support as state legislators and allies in pursuit of guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for all."

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