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

Attend the Republican State Convention

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

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

I think I missed a few items, but you get the idea.  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.

You are elected to be a delegate to the SD convention at an earlier convention, a precinct  convention, to be held on March 9, 2024 Saturday, after the primary election.  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.  You will determine who will be invited to be delegates to the SD Convention.  That is the important part of attending your precinct convention is that you get to go to the next convention as a delegate, your SD 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.  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 at the convention that you might like.  

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

Robert

I recommend Scott Grigg for Tax Assessor-Collector

 Dear Friends and Neighbors,

I attended a candidate's forum Tuesday night, 1/9/24, at Collin College that was sponsored by Collin County Patriots.  The three candidates for Tax Assessor-Collector participated:

Scott Grigg

Cam McCall

Angela Powell

My conclusion is that Scott Grigg was head-and-shoulders above the other candidates both in his pertinent experience and his ability to discuss the job of Tax Assessor-Collector.

Here is a video of the entire forum.  You can fish around and find the section for the Tax Assessor race.

https://www.facebook.com/host1776/videos/collin-primary-debates/1571792920300167/

I will be voting for Scott Grigg.

Robert

Yes Illegal Aliens Can Vote in Some Cities

 I was asked about illegal aliens voting.  It is not legal yet in Texas, but it is legal in some cities across America.  

"Federal law does not prohibit non-citizens, including those who are undocumented and not authorized to legally live or work in the U.S., from voting in local or state elections."

"While no states grant undocumented immigrants the right to vote in state elections, more than a dozen municipalities nationwide allow undocumented immigrants to vote in local elections."

Source: https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/non-citizen-allowed-vote-local-elections-some-municipalities/536-c688a57f-ec61-4949-b8c5-1490093a5968

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

 Dear Friends and Neighbors,

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals undermined honest elections in Texas by stripping the Texas Attorney General of the power granted to him by the legislature to prosecute election fraud.  This means that in counties controlled by Democrats, the Democratic party is free to cheat in the elections knowing that a Democrat District Attorney will not prosecute their party and that the Attorney General has been made powerless by the judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

The Attorney General (AG) has had the power granted by the legislature to prosecute election fraud for many years.  You can read the AG's case here in his petition to have the case reheard by the full court:  

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/executive-management/Stephens_Rehearing%20final_0.pdf

Fourteen State Senators and the Lt. Governor wrote a "friend of the court" brief supporting the AG.  The Senators said that the legislature gave the AG the power to prosecute election fraud and declared that this power was not unconstitutional.  You can read what the State Senators submitted here:

https://senate.texas.gov/members/d07/press/en/a20220125a.pdf

What the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did was just dirty politics, much like many courts run by Democrats around the country throwing Trump off the ballot by making false statements about the 14th amendment to the US Constitution.  Judges and District Attorneys and prosecutors can be dishonest and so can the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals be dishonest.  But we can vote out the bums on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Many of us called and emailed the Judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and told them that we would wait for their reelection and do our best to remove them.   That time has come.  It is hard to get an attorney to primary a sitting judge, but we have challengers for all three of the judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals who are up for reelection.

Here are the challengers that we want to vote for:

For PRESIDING JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

vote for

DAVID J. SCHENCK OCCUPATION: FORMER JUSTICE/ATTORNEY

For JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS PLACE 7
vote for

GINA PARKER OCCUPATION: ATTORNEY

For JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS PLACE 8
vote for
LEE FINLEY OCCUPATION: ATTORNEY

I have successfully donated to Gina Parker at this website:  https://ginaparkercampaign.com/

There is a problem with David Schenck's donation software.  I hope he fixes it soon: https://126270.campaignpartner.net/

As a candidate, Lee Finley seems to have some problems haunting him; problems related to a civil judgement:  

https://thetexan.news/elections/2024/new-paxton-connected-pac-targets-court-of-criminal-appeals-candidates/article_35a80f04-9ac0-11ee-887a-db3f77e6b4bb.html

Here is additional information about Mr. Finley's problems, but this article requires a paid subscription to the magazine:  https://www.currentrevolt.com/p/many-people-are-saying-121523

Mr. Finley might have some problems with his campaign, but surely he must still be an improvement over the incumbent.

We must remove bad Republicans from office.  This is serious business.  Republicans helped Biden steal the 2020 election and people are dying in the Ukraine and losing their jobs and homes in America because Biden is a disaster.

We must vote out Republicans who collaborate with Democrats in stealing elections.  The incumbents on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in this election must go.  Your vote is important.

Thank you,

Robert Canright