Elizabeth Phillips
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got in touch with him, then Karen Rove, who's married to Karl Rove.
She's a lobbyist in Austin.
Uh, and then another victim, their daughter was a counselor that, uh, went down with those girls.
There are two counselors that we, Chloe and Catherine, we call heroes because they could have left and saved themselves, but they went down with those girls.
And they were both going to UT in the fall.
One was gonna be pre-med, one was gonna be a special education teacher.
And they stayed with those girls till the end.
And they followed orders, which were, stay in place.
And it killed them all.
And, um... Anyway, so...
Chloe being one of the counselors, and Blake, my friend's husband, Lila's dad, after I told them, like, here's some of the possibilities, we rallied the troops, like the lobbyists we all knew in our group,
There was one girl in Birmingham who died in the flood, Sarah Marsh.
That's why we're bringing camp safety bills to Alabama next.
I called my sponsors for Trey's Law.
Representative David Faulkner in Alabama represents Sarah Marsh's district, and he's gonna carry this camp safety reform legislation for us in Alabama.
Um, I also have one of my friends in Missouri who has been House Judiciary Chair during this whole journey for me with Trey's Law and Statute of Limitations Reform in Missouri.
She's gonna sponsor Camp Safety Reform in Missouri.
And, um...
Because this just touched everyone at the deepest level.
Anyone who's a parent can't fathom losing a child, period.