Left-right: Bob McCarn, Silver-Haired Legislator Russell Cain, Calhoun County Precinct #1 Justice of the Peace, Hope D. Kurtz
On February 21, 2012, Calhoun County JP Kurtz swore in Bob McCarn as a Texas Silver-Haired Legislator. Mr. McCarn will join Mr. Mannon Mints in representing the Golden Crescent Area on Aging at the next session, scheduled to begin April 3, in Austin.
The Texas Silver-Haired Legislature (TSHL) provides a nonpartisan forum for discussion and debate of senior issues, advocacy training, and an avenue through which older citizens may serve as a resource to both public and private sectors. It is composed of 116 representatives elected to two-year terms by Texans over 60 years of age. It strives to promote good government for all Texans by directly involving senior citizens in the legislative process. The TSHL has helped to pass a great number of bills in the Texas Legislature since its incarnation in 1985. It selects top-priority resolutions each session and puts all efforts towards incorporating them into legislative acts.
Bob and his wife, former Bobbye Clark, both graduated from Port Lavaca High School in 1952. Bob went on to graduate from Texas A&M in 1956, and began his career as a labor relations representative for International Harvester in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Later, after serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, Bob and Bobbye returned to Calhoun County to farm rice for a couple of years, then returned to A&M for a Masters in Business. After 13 years in industry, Bob again returned to school, this time at St Mary’s Law School. He immediately was recruited back into industry, negotiating labor agreements in 3 foreign countries and 5 US states.
The McCarns retired and returned to Texas in 1992 where Bob became active in Politics. You can spot Bob and Hillary (his blue heeler/border collie) riding around Port Lavaca or Goliad (where Bob is now experimenting with truck crops) in his old pickup. Hillary is a permanent fixture in the pickup.
If you have issues you would like to discuss with Bob, feel free to write him at Bob McCarn, PO Box 51, Goliad, TX 77963.
