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Put simply: We are for limited government that works. At TexasGOPVote, we will work as a watchdog to help our state lawmakers and our congressional delegation pull in the reins on unnecessary spending and government bureaucracy. You better believe we’ll expose politicians who seek to act outside the bounds set by the Forefathers in the Constitutions of Texas and the United States.
June 25th, 2012
Supreme Court UPHOLDS Key AZ Immigration Law - Good for Texas Voter ID!The United States Supreme Court struck down some parts of the Arizona Immigration Law, but the Supreme Court UPHELD a key provision (and...
June 23rd, 2012
Historian Kevin Gutzman discusses “executive privilege.” A few snippets:The Executive Branch was intended by the Constitution’s authors and ratifiers to be precisely that – the executor of policies made by Congress, not a...
June 22nd, 2012
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of...
June 19th, 2012
President Obama Speaks on Department of Homeland Security Immigration Announcementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RXSlMu5EDI&feature=player_embeddedIt is unimaginable what took place Friday in the name of being “the...
June 16th, 2012
Last weekend, I joined many other proud Texas Republicans in traveling up to Fort Worth, Texas to take part in the largest political convention in the country.While there were many highlights to this convention, such as...
June 15th, 2012
Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus had to play some dirty tricks at the State Convention in order to keep from being humiliated by the silent walkout that was planned against him. He wrongly used fellow State Reps as...
June 13th, 2012
Sometimes a few crazy people can make an entire group look bad. Maybe that is what has happened with Ron Paul supporters. We see some crazy Ron Paul people on the news and we paint the entire group as being crazy. It is like...
June 11th, 2012
The Preamble of the new 2012 State Republican Party Platform, just passed Saturday in Ft. Worth, is below. Powerful. Please read slowly for full impact.+++PREAMBLEWe STILL hold these truths to be self-evident,...
June 7th, 2012
The nation's largest gathering of Republicans, the State Convention of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT), kicked off today in Fort Worth Texas with bagpipes blaring, patriotic songs, pledges to the flags of the United...
June 6th, 2012
2012 TEXAS GOP CONVENTION PROGRAM AGENDA/SCHEDULE First General Session – Thursday, June 7th, 2012 – 10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony Steve Munisteri, Chairman, Republican Party of Texas...
June 25th, 2012
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of...
June 22nd, 2012
This is my personal journey to the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, August 27 – 31, 2012. It is my perspective and is meant only to describe what actions were taken by me and the circumstances taken to...
June 20th, 2012
A Farmer gets up early one morning, goes to his barn, feeds and hitches his mule, then goes to plow his field. He works all day but at the end of the day, he has only plowed half of the field. He takes his mule back into the...
June 18th, 2012
Ted Cruz Rocks Texas GOP Convention! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfhmj6vS4BQ There certainly was a lot of excitement at the Texas State Convention in Fort Worth, not only among all the delegates but you could feel the...
June 15th, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba3eNRWMLc8&sns=fbGovernor Rick Perry addressed the Texas delegation on the first day of the convention Thursday, June 7. As usual his speech was motivational and geared to ‘Keep Texas...
June 14th, 2012
[Editor’s note: Mark Ramsey was a member of the State GOP Platform committee in 2010 and 2012, and was also elected to the State Republican Executive Committee from Senate District 7 (SREC SD7), Senator Dan Patrick’s...
June 12th, 2012
I’m working on a couple of blog posts concerning the controversies that occurred at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas held in Fort Worth last week, but thought I’d report on the oddest event of the week, which happened...
June 9th, 2012
Okay, I’ll admit it: I like the word, “susurrus,” and look for excuses to use it. A better term would be “whispers from the crowd that are going around” or . . .There are rumblings that the 2012 Republican Party of Texas...
June 7th, 2012
For most of the last two days, the Temporary Platform Committee (the Permanent Platform Committee won’t be elected formally until the individual Senate Districts meet on Thursday) of the Republican Party of Texas has worked...
June 5th, 2012
This week is the 2012 Texas Republican State Convention in Fort Worth, TX.The State GOP Convention happens every 2 years and is the end of a long process. This year was especially frustrating because of the changes in our...
