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We have said farewell to 2014- and what a year it was. We saw Republicans take the Senate for a complete Congressional majority for the first time in 20 years. Perhaps we may now take some comfort that in 2015 some level of sanity will be visited upon the halls of Congress. Let us hope that 2015 lives up to potential for real change in Washington. In 2014 we also elected a new HCRP Chair with the hope that Paul Simpson would...

Since taking office as Harris County Republican Chairman, Paul Simpson has worked tirelessly to revamp the Harris County Republican Party’s approach to winning elections. At our November 2014 meeting, he will share the results of the new strategies used in this month’s elections. Find out what worked, what didn’t, and what we MUST do to WIN IN 2016. A lawyer and engineer by profession, Paul’s lifelong passion has been conservative political activism. A pro‑life conservative, Paul has been a Republican political...

By the time this newsletter makes it to press, the 2014 Mid-Term elections will be behind us. As I sit and write this, I can only hope that all of our hard work has cemented some critical elections. The only thing that I am sure of is that we will elect a lot of politicians and if we are very lucky, even a few statesmen. UPDATE: Voters have spoken! We won! The difference between a politician and a statesman has been...

Village Republican Women are pleased to welcome to our October 2014 meeting Eric Golub a/k/a the Tygrrrr Express. Eric is a Republican Comedian teaching conservatives how to use humor to beat the left at their own game. Eric is an accomplished speaker, author and entertainer who left a successful career in the Stock Market and Oil industries in 2009 to enter the full time speaking circuit. He published his first book, Ideological Bigotry in April, 2009 with back cover endorsements from...

Village started off this month with a real “bang”… our “Shooting for Victory” fundraiser was a real success with great weather, great participants and it raised great funds for our campaign coffers. It could not have been the success that it was but for the outstanding energy and leadership of our 3rd Vice President – Ways and Means: the incomparable Buffie Ingersoll. She and her event committee did an outstanding job of taking care of all of the details in pulling...

I do hope everyone had a restful summer and that you are reinvigorated and ready to get to work for November. There is much to do, both in Texas and nationally, to reverse the course of destruction upon which the current administration is set. We can all rest in December. But do not, for a moment, think that taking control of the Senate means our job is over; indeed it is just the beginning. We will blink and find ourselves in...