TLR's good buddy won't mind if his balls get cut off ,,,,anything for the team!

Posted on August 18, 2007 at 08:04:43 AM by D1

Mike Scott

Mike Scott serves on the Texans for Lawsuit Reform statewide committee and he is a regional director in Corpus Christi. He has been a valuable advisor to the Texans for Lawsuit Reform since it was founded in 1994 and as a key TLR supporter. He is an active advocate for civil justice reform and a spokesman on behalf of TLR.

Mike is vice president of H&S Constructors, Inc., with two offices in Corpus Christi, one in Alice, Texas and one in Edinburg. H&S currently employs 650 people and has employed as many as 1,800 people. As a businessman, Mike has seen firsthand the effect of lawsuit abuse and the effect of successful tort reform legislation.

Among his many civic activities, Mike served as a charter member and chairman of BACALA (Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse), although he is no longer chairman, he continues to serve on the BACALA Board, past president of the Contrators Safety Council of the Coastal Bend, past chairman of the Craft Training Center, and he served for several years on the board of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Chamber of Commerce Committee to Investigate Lawsuit Abuse in the Coastal Bend. He sits on the Board of Directors for Northwest Regional Hospital. He is a member of the Texas Civil Justice League. He is a member of the United State Parachute Association, a member of the American Welding Society, a member of the American Concrete Institute, a millennium member of the National Rifle Association and a member of the Texas State Rifle Association. Mike is a member of the Navy and Marine Corps League, a life member of the Khe Sahn Veterans, a life member of the Third Marine Division Association, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Vietnam Veterans of America. Mike is also a member of the Riverhills Baptist Church.

He is very active in politics and has put together many fundraisers for political candidates, including Governor George Bush, Governor Rick Perry, Senator John Cornyn, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, Comptroller Carl Strayhorn, AG Commissioner Susan Combs, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Senator Phil Gramm, all of the Texas Supreme Court Justices, District and County Judges, and City Council Members and Mayors. Scott worked on the passage of Proposition 12 to limit Medical Malpractice caps, and has testified numerous times in front of the Texas House on the ill-effects of frivolous lawsuits in Texas. He graduated from Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, spent four years in the Marine Corps with two years in Vietnam, and later received an Associates Degree from Coastal Bend College in Mechanical Engineering. After Coastal Bend College he attended A&I which is now known as Texas A&M Kingsville. In 1981 Scott and his partner Pat Horne formed H&S Constructors. He is married to his wife Connie, who incidentally is Executive Director for Bay Area Citizens Against Law Suit Abuse, and with whom he has four daughters and three grandsons.