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Village Republican Women in cooperation with West Houston Chamber of Commerce Present the Candidates for Houston Mayor Come meet the candidates who want to be your next Mayor. What are their qualifications? Their platforms? Do you agree with their plans for Houston? Chris Bell – Attorney, Former US Congressman, Former City Councilman
Steve Costello – City Council Member at Large, Engineer, Business Owner
Ben Hall – Former City Attorney, Businessman, Radio Entrepreneur
Bill King – Former Managing Attorney, Business Owner, Columnist
Marty McVey – Former...

I can hardly believe that summer has flown past and it’s September. At this rate, Christmas can only be a week away! Although the club has been on a “meeting break” since May, your club and its leaders have been quite busy and, although we are in the final stretch of my term as President, there is much still on the horizon. Joanie and Bruce Bain hosted our “Summer CHAT” at their home – held with Magic Circle – and it was...

Professor Jeffrey Addicott will provide the details you always wish you knew about Domestic Jihad & ISIS at our May 2015 meeting. He is a talented speaker with a plethora of information. Come ask your questions and get straight answers. An active duty Army officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for 20 years (he retired in 2000 at the rank of lieutenant colonel), Professor Addicott spent a quarter of his career as the senior legal advisor to the United States...

Welcome to May; the month that signals that we are nearly at the half-way mark of another year. This year we get a respite from the state and national elections, but please do not forget about the local elections this November. I will say it again: elections matter; all elections have consequences. Take the time to get informed and get involved. We have many important things to accomplish at our May meeting; please plan on attending. We have some new Standing...

Lisa began her media career as a TV news reporter with WTVM in Columbus Georgia and later worked for KPRC-TV in Houston. She spent 11 years in broadcast sales; working for now Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, planning and producing campaigns, and in these roles honed her writing and production skills, as well as “the art of the media deal”. She co-founded Cohn-Moscarelli Marketing and Communications in 1999, which by 2011 was ranked by volume among Houston’s, top 5 advertising...

The 2016 Presidential primaries are still nearly a year away, but the starting gun has been fired and the candidates are leaving the gates – more every week. It won’t be long before we are in full blown primary mode and working hard for the candidates. While at the NFRW Legislative Day last month I had the opportunity to hear Newt Gingrich speak and he said something that really gave me a moment of pause. He said, “Don’t vote for the...