Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I bring you good news, an example of your Texas Republican Party doing good work.
Representative Andrew Murr, who led the kangaroo court that improperly impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton, will not be seeking reelection. This is largely due to the work of the RPT (Republican Party of Texas) SREC (State Republican Executive Committee). The SREC is essentially the ruling body of the RPT. They met in September and announced that they had enough evidence to hit Andrew Murr with a Rule 44 Censure. They said then (I was present) that they could not yet vote on the censure because they needed to give Representative Murr time to come and defend himself to the SREC.
Instead of going to the SREC and defending his actions, Murr announced his retirement from the Texas House. Here is an article about it:
Paxton Impeachment Leader Andrew Murr Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election in 2024
Here is the text of Murr's announcement.
Murr announces retirement
When I attended the December SREC meeting, they did the vote to censure Murr under SREC Rule 44.
Under a Rule 44 censure, Murr cannot run as a Republican in the primary and if he filed for any race in the 2024 Republican Primary, the SREC would spend money to educate voters about his censure. This was enough incentive for Andrew Murr to announce his retirement from the Texas Legislature. Here is the full text of the censure of Murr:
If I heard the SREC correctly, they will try the same approach to Dade Phelan. Phelan's supporters in the SREC delayed the work of censure so it is taking longer to censure Phelan.
The Republican Party at the national level seems pretty ineffective at times. The county GOP parties sometimes go into the weeds. But the SREC is doing well, which means that overall the GOP in Texas is doing well. Many Republican elected officials are terrible, but they are not the party. You and I, the grassroots, are the party by voting and going to the Republican Conventions. The SREC and RPT are the GOP in Texas, not our elected officials.
We organize as a party to elect good politicians and to remove bad politicians. We got rid of Murr with a Rule 44 Censure. We are getting rid of our state reps in Collin County at the ballot box. Our GOP is a good party only when we get rid of the bad eggs in political office.
State Representative Justin Holland made himself famous by insulting the Republican Party.
If you don't have a Twitter account, here is what he said:
Our elected officials will not respect us voters in the Republican Party unless we vote disappointing incumbents out of office.
We are going to fix Texas and we are going to fix America. We can do it!
God bless Texas! God bless America!
Robert
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