Bill In Texas For Legal Home Bakeries! Calling All Texans!
Decorating By kelleym Updated 7 Feb 2011 , 11:14pm by kelleym
Our bill would not be addressed in a special session.
Awww.... I am so sad for you guys! What a bunch of shmucks to just let it die after all your hard work!!
I briefly skimmed through this and the previous thread that started it all, and was hoping for good news. I live 8 miles south of Cincinnati Ohio, in Ky and they have cottage food laws, and we don't. It seems a simple thing to just move up there, but it's actually inner city slum, and outer city slums until you get about 20 miles in, plus I have 3 kids in a real good school, which is hard to find, and one of them is just starting kindergarten this year so I CAN"T move! We also have a really awesome church we attend 3 days a week and don't want to drive from outta state to get there.
Maybe I could get some pointers the next time you start this up again, I am keeping my fingers crossed mentally (hard to hold a spatula or icing bag with physically crossed fingers 
) for you!
I find that highly disrespectful to play Taps as some sort of joke, by the government no less.
I read this quote in one of the links posted...
"Could you slow down a little? I'm having trouble keeping up with all these bills we're passing," state Rep. Dan Gattis, R-Georgetown, commented sarcastically from the microphone early in the evening.
I have much respect for Gattis calling out these fools, yet again.
You know I, like most Americans, would be fired if I performed so poorly at my job.
YOU CAN FIRE THEM!! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! and talk to everyone you see about doing the same thing. A new survey concludes that 80% of Americans are conservatives, yet we have the most liberal government we ever have had in the history of the nation.
I will be sending out an email update soon. I work on the bill every day.
You know your name will go down in the history books...and TOTALLY deserved. Thanks for all your hard work, girlfriend. See you in February!
please let me know what I can do. Thank you for all you are doing!
All of your hard work is much appreciated Kelly! Let us know if we can help/or what we need to do to help out. We will make this happen 
Sorry im behind on the thread...what is happening in Feb???
Please make sure you are on my email list, email me at [email protected] if you're not. Also, feel free to friend me on Facebook, Kelley Ferguson Masters. My FB friends tend to hear all the news first. 
Just tell me your cc username in the friend request.
Thanks!
Just something to think about.... Maybe their are other options? I am open to any ideas!
Please feel free to start a new thread if you'd like to discuss this more (although be forewarned that it will likely turn ugly and eventually be locked).
This thread is so large already that I prefer it be about the Texas bill and only that. We worked our butts off this spring, and are getting ready to do it again next session. Thanks!
Kelley, I just found this thread recently and am very happy to see it! I emailed to be put on the list and am fully supportive! Thanks for working so hard!
The Texas bill would allow for the licensing and inspection of home kitchens. As it is now there are plenty of unlicensed home bakers. The conditions you're describing are just as likely, or even more so, from unlicensed home bakers.
Toxoplasmosis is most often caused by eating undercooked meat, not by owning a cat. Tax evasion has nothing to do with maintaining a hygenic kitchen. How in the world would you know if someone bought her cake supplies with food stamps and how would it affect you? With your income and family size you're probably eligible for food stamps, like I am, and if you've ever gotten them you know it's not enough to really feed the family each month, much less have leftover money for cake supplies.
Anyhow, I'm getting sidetracked here...but what you posted is insulting.
Well said Texas_Rose! Ditto all of that-
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Enough, please. Will both sides please refrain from responding - this is a great thread with a ton of information and a lot of supporters and many of us would hate to have it locked or removed.
Enough already, let's get back on the topic. Kelley, keep us informed-and thank you for working so hard for all of us Texans!
Please see my edit of my last post, and then have a nice day!
P.S. Thank you for your concern over my monthly cycles, Texas hose, but they have yet to resume as I am a breastfeeding mother. Please don't get the thread shut down for everyone else by your INTENTIONALLY insulting post.
And Moderators: Please don't shut this down due to this nonsense, I will voluntarily delete anything you find INTENTIONALLY insulting, as I hope others would. It would not be fair to those who have worked so hard and have so much information to share.
I would hope that this thread doesn't get locked down, but that you Annacakes, would be disqualified as a member here. Calling people names as you just have, is completely unacceptable here, and it shows the true nature of who you are. And we all know this was not an 'accident'. I think you owe a big apology to Texas Rose.......
I'd say we're about even.
Hope you feel better Annascakes!
Oh and cs_confections, I didn't let myself go to AGS this weekend. Budgeting for the kids toys for Christmas, I'll buy mine in Feburary 
Anyway, to save the original intent and integrity of this thread, let's keep it a SUPPORT AND INFORMATION thread and refrain from allowing it to be turned into a DEBATE thread.
While we can't stop someone from making a post in an attempt to antagonize and change the nature of this thread, we can choose to not respond and let them take their need to argue elsewhere.
And before it's addressed: It's not about not allowing free speech, it's about keeping the thread in line with the original topic and intent, as per CC's rules we all agreed to when becoming members. Now have a great day!
Kellym I hope this will pass. I have contacted Leo Berman in the past about this.
OK, Anna, THAT IS ENOUGH.
This is a positive thread that means a lot to Texas bakers. If you have an issue, you need to bring it up individually in PM. Please take your negativity somewhere else and not ruin the one place we have to discuss an important issue. You are going to get it deleted or locked with your behavior, AND IT NEEDS TO STOP NOW.
wow. I hope you Texans are able to get this bill passed & I love seeing AMERICANS ban together to make it happen. Aplauses to you KellyM. From a VA baker where we are allowed at home businesses...without roaches.
From a VA baker where we are allowed at home businesses...without roaches.
Ah come on you know roaches are just protein right?
With all that sugar a little bit of protein would be good for ya
As Rodney King said "Can't we just all get along"!!!!!
Sweet...last weekend in Feb is the Austin cake show! I am link impaired so go to capitalconfections. com and there is a link. Lots of great stuff to see and EAT! They always have something for the kids to do also. Last year I think it was decorating cupcakes. Great vendors and new products. Cake and a weekend in Austin. Priceless!
KM...I am putting together my cookie list for the holidays and have got all my reps and senator right at the top. Just a suggestion for all you TCFL supporters!
If anyone who is already coming to the Austin show on Feb. 27-28 could spend an hour manning our "Baker's Bill" table, please email me!
We are working hard behind the scenes to set the stage for 2011. Become a fan on Facebook and invite all your Texas friends and family! 
I just want to make sure everyone who participated in this last session knows that we are going again. Please come to the Facebook page for more information! When our bill is actually filed, I will start a new thread here on CC so that we don\\'t have to wade through two years and 136 pages of information to find out what\\'s happening now!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Bakers-Bill/292920830821
The 2011 bill has been filed. A new thread was started, please use it for all discussion of HB 1139.
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-708967.html
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