Why the negative vote against school choice?

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

We recently had 13 propositions on the Republican Primary ballot.  If you look at the results of the votes on these 13 propositions, you can say that the Democrats pushed the "no" vote high on issues that Democrats care about.  For example, the largest "No" vote was against having closed primaries (number 9).  The Democrats like to vote in our primaries to "mess with you", as one Democrat told me.

Democrats would definitely be against school choice (proposition #11) because they want all children in public schools, from which the atheists have removed prayer and the Bible.  So you might think that the "no" vote against school choice was all Democrats, but you would be wrong.  Proposition #11 had the fourth highest negative vote (23% said no in Collin County).  There are Republicans who voted against it.  I know this because I have heard home school folks speak against "school choice", where funding follows the child.

At the 2-20-24 Plano Republican Women meeting, Evelyn Brooks, SBOE 14 (we are in 12), spoke against the school choice proposition. She had printed an article to distribute to explain the concerns some people have about strings that could be attached to any money that comes from the state.  It was a lengthy article, but very informative.

The article is Vouchers: “School Choice” Trap by Alex Newman

available for your viewing here in PDF format

https://thenewamerican.com/print/vouchers-school-choice-trap/_pdf/

Here are a few paragraphs from pages 7 & 8 from  the article.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, offered vouchers for Christian and private schools. However, they came with hundreds of regulations attached, including a prohibition on requiring Bible classes or chapel for voucher students. Similarly, Alaska introduced a program to offer financial assistance to homeschooling families that ended up being used by most homeschool families in the state. The only catch: No religious material or curricula allowed.  

Prominent conservative attorney William Olson was recently commissioned by Moore’s organization to write a legal report on this issue. Headlined “Government-Funded Vouchers Endanger Biblically Faithful Christian Education,” the report cites a “long trail of cases” in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that even where government could not directly regulate private institutions, it could do so by imposing requirements and “strings” attached to public funding.

Olson first fell in love with the voucher idea after reading Milton Friedman in college. Working in the Nixon administration, he was enthusiastic about trying it out in New Hampshire, only to have the plan quashed by government-school forces, he explained to The New American. Then he read Education, Christianity and the State by J. Gresham Machen and spoke with prominent conservatives, and radically changed his view.

“I came to be more concerned about protecting Christian education from the control of the state, than getting a piece of the pie for Christian schools,” Olson said.

You might already know that Hillsdale College does not accept any Federal money.  They do not even take money borrowed by students from Federal loans.  The college rejects Federal money to avoid the Federal government from interfering with their school, which is the reason some home schoolers don't want school choice money coming to them from the state.

Public education is becoming a threat to our liberties and the morality of our country because Marxists have been pushing a godless agenda into our schools for over 100 years.  The author Alex Newman has written a short but informative book that describes how public schools have always had the intention of removing God from the schools.  The history of the anti-God movement is well described in a small book by Alex Newman:  Indoctrinating Our Children to Death

https://www.amazon.com/Indoctrinating-Our-Children-Death-Government/dp/B0CSLW85TL/

 You can hear famous filmmaker Curtis Bowers interview Alex Newman about  his book on this Rumble podcast:  Indoctrinating Our Children to Death with Alex Newman, the CurtisBowersAGENDA podcast.  It is 40 minutes long but worth your time.

https://rumble.com/v4f0o58-indoctrinating-our-children-to-death-with-alex-newman.html

I was very impressed that Evelyn Brooks spent the time and money to print many copies of the 9 page article for the attendees of the PRW meeting.  It was an important topic and worth your time to consider. 

Evelyn Brooks said something unexpected.  She raised up a small book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, and recommended it to everyone.  Yes, it is an excellent book. It is well researched and correlates well with many other books I have read.

https://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-Conspiracy-Allen/dp/B0CLFLKJB3/

I try hard to keep you informed.  I hope this article is of value to you.

Robert Canright

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Why I Support Ellen Loveless for CC GOP Chair

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

You might know that I endorse Ellen Loveless for party chair.  I have been asked to offer reasons why I take this position.  First, I will tell you that I spent hours talking with Howard Powers and Ellen Loveless.  They are both great people.  I sent a check to each of them at the beginning.  Finally, I decided Ellen would be the better choice.  To begin with, here are notes I took from a Candidate's Forum hosted by Collin County Patriots, 1-9-2024, Tuesday night at Collin College.

	Ellen Loveless	Howard Powers	Shelby Williams
Should it be possible to remove a bad County Chair?	Yes	Pass	No
Should we have closed primaries?	Yes	No	Yes
Should the Republican Party decide who can be on its ballot?	Yes	No	No
Should the CC GOP endorse in municipal elections?	Yes	Yes	No

I thought that these were important questions so I took notes and compared them to other people's notes, trying to be accurate.  I liked Ellen's answers to these questions.

I believe that our executive committee meetings will be more productive under Ellen.  Our productivity problems, from my observation, come from having the county party chair fight with the executive committee (EC).  The conflict has come from the chair trying to thwart the will of the executive committee.  Is the role of the chair to be a dictator or a facilitator?  We members of the executive committee, who are grassroots activists and citizens of Collin County, are educated, successful and independent minded people who won't be pushed around.

Quite a lot of men confuse leadership with bullying.  Two of our party chairs have tried to bully me, and I think that is why they were poor leaders, because they resorted too quickly to bullying others.  I do not believe Ellen Loveless will try and bully anyone.  Furthermore, I do not believe that she will allow herself to be bullied by others.  She has backbone.  She is feisty.

Our party chairs have, in my opinion, bent under pressure.  Most recently, Chair Abraham George, after the EC voted to ask Jim Pikl to resign as SD8 Committeeman, started working against the EC.  After the Pikl vote, we were not allowed to conduct business for 3 months.  That was a 3 month delay in endorsing the Republicans in the Princeton election for city council and ISD.  Voters were seen at the polls in Princeton holding push cards that showed our endorsement.  The work we do matters and we should not have a party chair that fights us.  I believe after the Pikl vote that pressure was applied to our chairman and he bent under the pressure.  That has to stop.  I believe Ellen will not bend under pressure because she has no ambitions for higher office. 

Moving beyond political reasons for supporting Ellen, there are qualitative reasons for supporting her.  I think she has a good heart.  She is chair of the prayer team.  She is a devout Christian, and I believe we need God's blessings in these difficult times.  Besides the American flag, her house flies the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

That means something to me.  You can read about it here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag

Furthermore, she is supported by people I respect.  I was privileged to sit at her table at the Lincoln Day dinner, along with Sharron Albertson, Karl Voigtsberger, and Bunny Pounds.

There are a number of reasons, both political and personal, that led me to support Ellen Loveless for party chair.

She will be forward looking as the party chair, she will be cooperative instead of combative, and we will become more productive as a party.  I will be voting for her and I encourage you to join me in voting for Ellen Loveless for GOP chair.

Thank you for your time,

Robert Canright

Consider attending the Texas State GOP Convention

 

Do please consider attending the Texas Republican State Convention in San Antonio on May 23 to 25.  You will want to attend as a delegate so you can have voting privileges.

As a delegate you can vote for:

planks to the Texas GOP party platform,

members to the State Republican Executive Committee,

the Texas delegates to the National GOP Convention,

the Texas representatives to the Republican National Committee (RNC), 

the Texas members of the Electoral College,

the Chair and Vice Chair of the Republican Party of Texas.

This is important.  We are defining the purpose and leadership of our party.  This is particularly special because it is a Presidential election year.

I will mention that I am running for a spot on the State Republican Executive Committee, running against an incumbent.  I hope to gain your vote for this position, SREC SD8 Committeeman.  You cannot vote for me unless you attend.  I'll tell you more about this in a later email.

Be patient while I explain the process of becoming a delegate. You are elected to be a delegate to the state convention at an earlier convention, an SD convention.  The Senate District (SD) conventions are held on March 23, 2024 Saturday.  Almost all of you will be in SD8, Angela Paxton's district.  A few of you might be in SD2, Bob Hall's District, or SD30, Drew Springer's district.

At a precinct  convention, to be held on March 9, 2024 Saturday, after the primary election, you apply to be a delegate to the RPT State Convention.  To attend your precinct convention you should vote in the Republican primary.  The Collin County GOP will tell you the location of the precinct conventions and the SD conventions later, but for now you know the date is March 9, which is shortly after the March 5 primary election.

You need to know your precinct number, which is on your registration card.  You just show up at the precinct convention, which is a number of people from your precinct huddled around in a circle of chairs.  At the precinct convention you will apply to be delegates to the State Convention.  That is the most important part of attending your precinct convention.

At your precinct convention you can propose planks for our party platform that will be considered at the SD convention.  Additional proposals for party planks can be made at the SD convention.   You will vote at the SD convention for which planks you want to recommend to the state convention.  Also at the SD convention you will vote on who will be delegates to the state convention.

In a nutshell, to attend the state convention you (1) vote in the primary election, (2) attend the precinct convention, and (3) attend the SD convention.  The precinct convention and SD conventions are short.  The precinct convention is a couple of hours long.  The SD convention might be all day, 8 am to 5 pm.  The State convention is 3 days long, but you can go earlier if you want to testify at committee hearings.

Here is the home page for the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) state convention:

https://texasgop.org/2024-state-convention/

Here is more info on the precinct conventions

https://texasgop.org/precinct-conventions/

Here is more info on the SD conventions

https://texasgop.org/countysenatorial-district-convention/

Here is an overview of the process

https://texasgop.org/rpt-conventions/

Don't feel overwhelmed.  If you just show up at the precinct and SD conventions, people will help you through it.  If you do become a delegate to the state convention, I could host some zoom meetings to help you understand the state convention.

Based on past experience, there will be informative films for you. 

Here's a story of how we make a difference.  A neighbor went to the precinct convention and proposed a plank, also called a resolution.  It was rejected at the SD convention, but she went to the state convention, gave testimony, and her proposed plank was merged in with another plank so that her efforts improved our party platform.  You can make a difference.  That's what the grassroots is all about, us making a difference.

At the state convention we picked eight (8) planks to make priorities for our legislators and then we watched the legislators and nudged them to get them to listen to us.  And when they don't listen to us, then we have a reason to remove them from office.

This is what grassroots politics is all about: us making our voices heard.

Do please mark these dates on your calendar:

March 9, 2024 Saturday is when we have our precinct conventions
March 23, 2024 Saturday is when we have our SD conventions
May 23 – 25, 2024, is the Texas State Republican Convention at the
Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio, located on the River Walk

Republican Primary Propositions Listed

 

Here is a rundown of the 13 propositions Republican voters in the Lone Star State can vote on: 

1) Property Tax 

“Texas should eliminate all property taxes without increasing Texans’ overall tax burden.” 

2) Manpower for Border Protection 

“Texas should create a Border Protection Unit and deploy additional state law enforcement and military forces to seal the border, to use physical force to prevent illegal entry and trafficking, and to deport illegal aliens to Mexico or to their nations of origin.” 

3) Expanding Mandatory Use of E-Verify 

“The Texas Legislature should require the use of E-Verify by all employers in Texas to protect jobs for legal workers by preventing the hiring of illegal aliens.” 

Currently, Texas law only requires that “state agencies, institutions of higher education, and sexually oriented businesses,” as well as entities looking to qualify for certain public contracts, use E-Verify to verify the legal status of employees. 

4) Taxpayer Funds for Unlawful Migrants’ Education 

“The Texas Legislature should end all subsidies and public services, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools, for illegal aliens.” 

5) Cutting Pathways for Unlawful Migrants to Become Lawful 

“Texas urges the United States Congress not to grant any form of amnesty or a pathway to legalization for illegal aliens.” 

6) Texas National Guard Deployment Abroad 

“The Texas Legislature should prohibit the deployment of the Texas National Guard to a foreign conflict unless Congress first formally declares war.” 

7) Move Toward a Texas Gold-Backed Digital Currency 

“The Texas Legislature should establish authority within the Texas State Comptroller’s office to administer access to gold and silver through the Texas Bullion Depository for use as legal tender.” 

Although stalled in committee, SB 2334 was put forward this spring as a way to curb nationwide inflation by establishing a new digital currency based on deposits of gold and silver that the state would hold in trust. This proposition appears related to this initiative by Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola). 

8) Curbing Mandatory Vaccination Initiatives 

“The State of Texas should ensure that Texans are free to give or to withhold consent for any vaccine without coercion.” 

9) Republican Primaries for Republicans Only 

“The Republican Party of Texas should restrict voting in the Republican primary to only registered Republicans.” 

Texas’ primaries are currently open, meaning anyone can vote in any party’s primaries regardless of their registration status. 

10) Prosecuting Election Crimes 

“The Texas Constitution should be amended to restore authority to the Texas Attorney General to prosecute election crimes.” 

11) School Choice 

“Texas parents and guardians should have the right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student.” 

12) No Vote Without Proof of Citizenship 

“The Texas Constitution should be amended to require proof of citizenship before any individual can be registered to vote.” 

13) Land Sale Ban 

“Texas should ban the sale of Texas land to citizens, governments, and entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.” 

 

 

Voting Recommendations for the Republican Primary

 Folks, I have been under the weather, so I am posting my recommendations late. Tomorrow is Election Day, March 5, 2024.  Here are my recommendations.

Some Races are not contested.
President	Donald J Trump
U.S. Senator	Ted Cruz
CD3 Congress	Kieth Self
CD4 Congress	Don Horn
CD32 Congress	Darrell Day
Railroad Commissioner	Christi Craddick
Texas Supreme Court, Pl 4	John Devine
Court of Criminal Appeals	David J. Schenck
Court of Criminal Appeals	Gina Parker
Court of Criminal Appeals	Pl 8, No recommendation
State Board of Education	Chad Green
State Senate, SD30	Jace Yarbrough
State Rep, HD33	Dennis London
State Rep, HD61	Keresa Richardson
State Rep, HD66	Wayne Richard
State Rep, HD67	Daren Meis
State Rep, HD70	Steve Kinard
State Rep, HD89	Abraham George
Judge, 401st District	Joel Petrazio
Sheriff	Jim Skinner
Tax Assessor-Collector	Scott Grigg
County Commissioner, Pct 3	Darrell Hale
Constable, Pct No 1	Matt Carpenter
Constable, Pct No 4	No recommendation
County Chair	Ellen Loveless