Galveston County Daily News, Nov. 26, 2008 The writer of this guest column said that residents need to vote to tax themselves and set up a hospital district to fend off efforts in Austin to further reduce the size of UTMB. The column quoted State Rep. Lois W. Kolkhorst as making the following statement before Hurricane Ike hit Galveston: "There is serious discussion up here about do we need a medical school at UTMB Galveston or do we need to just pick up and move to Austin. If the citizens of Galveston do not start participating in trying to help keep UTMB in Galveston - I can assure you that the state of Texas is going to abandon some of those buildings and move it to a more productive part of the State."