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Finish up your primary choices in this critical race! Submit questions for the candidates by February 21st to Joanie Bain. Dan Branch is running for Attorney General to defend the Constitution and protect the Texas Miracle from Washington’s overreach. Since 2003, Dan has served in the Texas House, where he led the way in balancing six straight budgets without raising taxes, passing the largest tax cut in Texas history, and championing landmark pro-life legislation. Dan promises to continue the efforts of...

Guest article from Senator Ted Cruz To the great members of Village Republican Women, Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and a blessed holiday season. Thank you for your steadfast support, prayers, and well wishes during my first year in the Senate. As we begin 2014, my focus remains on policies that create economic growth and prosperity.  We must continue our fight to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare. The reason Obamacare is failing is not...

Kathaleen Wall knows Texas politics from the grassroots level up. In 2008, Kathaleen became involved in politics and joined the John McCain campaign in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2010, she successfully turned out the votes in her home Precinct 620 by phone banking and block walking for Jim Murphy’s race for State Representative House District 133. In 2012, Kathaleen served as a member of Dianne Williams Campaign Kitchen Cabinet in her race for State Representative House District 149. She served...

Welcome to 2014; new year, fresh start. However I cannot begin this year without taking a moment to express my greatest appreciation and admiration for the phenomenal work that was done over the last two years by all of the officers and chairwomen of our club. The women of Village have done an incredible job during some of the most politically trying times ever and, perhaps most importantly, have left many a lasting legacy. None more so than our immediate Past...

Come meet the 2014 Republican candidates for Texas Railroad Commissioner at our January meeting. This candidate forum includes: Becky Berger is an oil & gas professional and a degreed Geologist. She has worked for the Department of Energy and on a state Geological Survey.  She also has experience in the mining industry.   Her work has included exploration, exploitation (field development), wellsite geologist, mudlogger, expert witness in civil trials, acquisitions and divestiture of mineral assets. Texans can lead the energy producing states...

Congratulations to Terry Peterson, Member of the Month for October. Terry Peterson was raised in the coastal city of Gulfport, Mississippi. She was the last of ten children composed of “yours, mine and ours.” Her parents instilled Republican conservative values into her blood. Terry’s mother, who was related to Mississippi Republican Governor Ross Barnett, set the example of political involvement when she worked the polls on election days. Terry has been married to Les, a staunch Republican, for 45 years. They...