Voice of the Conservative Vote

Richard Morgan is the Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation, the only official Republican Party of Texas auxiliary with a primary focus on the 18-40 age demographic. He also serves as Technology Director for the Dallas County Republican Party and occasionally as a guest blogger for TexasGOPVote.

In addition to his political involvement, Richard is a software engineer specialized in creating interactive web applications using today’s cutting edge JavaScript frameworks including AngularJS, BackboneJS, and ExtJS. As a Zend Certified Engineer with over a decade of backend experience, he brings a full-stack perspective to his role as a front-end engineer. He has consulted for some of the top brands in the county, including two major cloud computing providers and a cloud virtualization provider as well as the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer and the Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Richard Morgan

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate. ATR organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to the American people to oppose all tax increases. In the 113th Congress, 219 House members and 39 Senators have taken the pledge. On the state level, 14 governors and 1,035 state legislators have taken the pledge. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Grover Norquist

Sharyl Attkisson is a Washington-based CBS News Investigative Correspondent.

In September 2012, Attkisson won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for the "Gunwalker: Fast and Furious" story. In June 2012, Attkisson received the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting for the same story. Attkisson also received an Investigative Emmy Award in 2009 for "Outstanding Investigative Reporting of a Business News Story" for her exclusive investigations into TARP and the bank bailout. She received an Investigative Emmy Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism" for her series of exclusive reports about mismanagement at the Red Cross. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Sharyl Attkisson

Rep. Harvey Hilderbran was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1988 and was most recently re-elected in 2010 to serve the people of District 53.

In 2011, he was appointed chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which deals will all legislation relating to the state’s tax code. As chairman of the committee, he authored and passed legislation that will generate over $294 million for the state without raising taxes. The chairman also sits on the Legislative Audit Committee and the Legislative Budget Board, the latter of which prepares the draft appropriations bill and budget estimates for each state agency. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Harvey Hildebran

First elected to the Texas Senate in 2006, Robert Nichols represents 16 counties including the greater part of East Texas and Montgomery County.

Nichols serves as chair of the Transportation Committee and sits on the Health and Human Services Committee, Intergovernmental Relations Committee, Natural Resources Committee and the State Affairs Committee. He also serves as vice-chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Robert Nichols

Mark C. Brown is Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation, which seeks to grow the Republican Party within the crucial under 40 demographic, focusing particularly among 22 – 35 year olds. As Chairman, Mark provides strategic leadership for a statewide organization of 15 federated clubs to provide political education, develop new leaders, and lead members in political activism. Mark is the owner of Red Door Management, Inc, a property management firm focusing on small apartments and rental homes and has previously served on the zoning board of adjustments in San Marcos, TX. Mark earned a Masters Degree in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, after completing field research and writing a thesis on Iquito, a nearly extinct language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Classics from Baylor University. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Mark C. Brown

Born in 1962, Harris County Deputy Sheriff Daniel McCool and his 4 siblings were abandoned by their mother on his first birthday, and they spent the next almost three years living in an orphanage- as it was near to impossible for a single father to take care of five children on his own back in the early 1960's. However, his father remarried (which then added four more children to the mix – for a total of 9 children) and they moved from Oklahoma to Texas. His father believed Texas was a place that a person who was willing to work hard could succeed. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Daniel McCool

Luke Bowen is a native Texan who, after spending his childhood in Ecuador, his high-school years in Alaska, and his college years in Chicago is glad to be back in his home state, where he currently is the Research Administrator at the Texas Patriots PAC, a tea party group based in The Woodlands.

Luke received his B.A. in Political Science along with a minor in English in 2011 from Wheaton College (IL) - a private, Christian liberal arts school outside of Chicago. While in college he completed an internship with the office of Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell of Alaska, and was heavily involved in the college newspaper, the Wheaton Record, serving as the Photo Editor and a news writer for all four years, and winning multiple statewide awards from the Illinois College Press Association. He was also a founding member of the campus organization Wheaton Students for Free Markets and Free Minds, which later became Wheaton Students for Liberty. Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Luke Bowen

A life-long hunter and shooter, Roy Huntington retired from the San Diego Police Department in 1998, after growing a second career as a free-lance writer, focusing on firearms and police topics. His intimate knowledge of the firearms industry allowed him the freedom to move right into the outdoor industry after retirement, first as a sales and marketing manager, then editor of POLICE Magazine, and ultimately editor of FMG Corporation's American Handgunner Magazine. Roy is now the Publisher of FMG's consumer magazines, founded American COP magazine for FMG, and remains very active in the industry. He is careful to stay in close touch with his readers to keep a finger on the pulse of what concerns them. He lives and works with his wife, Suzi — also a retired police officer — on acreage in Missouri Read more about Voice of the Conservative Vote: Roy Huntington