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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...

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...

We had such a fabulous meeting in February; getting to hear from all four men who want to lead the Republican Party of Texas was enlightening. The differences were clear. I can only hope that the SREC will make the right choice and if they don’t, that the delegates at convention will do better. As each of them answered, I kept listening for answers that would meld into my idea of a great leader. If the election cycles of the last...

This month’s program may be one of the most important of the year: it will give each of you a chance to meet three of the men vying to become the next Chair of the Republican Party of Texas. Hopefully you’ll have an opportunity to ask them the questions that you feel will reveal their abilities, their plans and maybe even their prejudices – all important information to have. Why is the next RPT Chair so important? Because the single most...

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...

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...