TX Woman gets over 3000 signatures for Texas Presidential Debate (w/ Mitt Romney & Ron Paul?)

Update: Petition now has over 5000 signatures!

This past weekend at my County Convention in Hardin County, TX, I was pleasantly surprised when a young woman from my county,
Chelsea Willis, approached me and said she had a petition with over 3000 signatures on it. The petition was to try to persuade Mitt Romney to come to a Texas Republican Presidential Debate. The petition is titled "Potential Nominees, attend the GOP Debate (Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012)"

In recent years, Texas has had little say in the Republican Presidential Race. The Texas GOP tried to put Texas on the map by getting together a debate on May 24th in Houston, TX. Mitt Romney was the only candidate to snub this Texas debate.

Even with Santorum suspending his campaign (dropping out of the race), Chelsea knew that the race was not over and many states still have not voted, so on April 14th Chelsea sprang into action by starting an online petition in support of this Texas debate with Gingrich, Paul and Romney. The petition specifically urges Mitt Romney to attend.

Since the start of the petition, Gingrich has also announced he suspending his campaign (dropping out)

Although it now seems unlikely that any other Presidential candidate other than Mitt Romney will get the Republican Nomination, it is encouraging to see that even regular voters in little Texas counties are standing up and trying to make a difference. Getting over 3000 signatures is pretty impressive for this rather low-key controversy.

Even with just Ron Paul and Mitt Romney left in the race, the point is to show Romney that Texas does not like being ignored, so I encourage everyone to go to this link and sign the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/mitt-romney-debate-ron-paul-houston-tx-on-may-24th-2012

Who knows, if she gets enough signatures maybe Romney will actually take notice. I hear that a major news outlet would be interested in a debate with just Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. That would be interesting!

Below is a personal letter from Chelsea Willis regarding her petition:

I created a petition titled "Potential Nominees, attend the GOP Debate (Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012)" because I care deeply about who becomes the GOP nominee.

I understand that the SREC has received a commitment from a major television network to televise the debate, and that the remaining GOP nominees, except Romney, have pledged to be at the debate. In addition, it is my understanding that the SREC passed a resolution that intensely urged the uncommitted nominee to attend the Texas GOP Presidential Debate. In response, I have created an online petition to encourage Romney to debate Gingrich and Paul. The ultimate purpose of the petition is to gather constituent support for the debate, and I could really use your assistance in getting out the word. A substantial number of signatures will convince the uncommitted nominee that attending the debate is in the best interest of his campaign.

To read more about what I'm trying to do and to sign my petition, click here.

It will just take a minute!

Once you are done, please ask your friends to sign the petition as well. Grassroots movements succeed because people like you are willing to spread the word!

Sincerely,
Chelsea Willis

Is Tea Partier State Rep James White Under Assault From His Own Party?

Looks like most of the strongest conservatives in the Texas House of Representatives got hurt in redistricting even though we have a super majority "conservative" republican stronghold...... how sad

https://www.texasobserver.org/floor-play/is-tea-partier-james-white-under-assault-from-his-own-party

State Senator Says TSA Anti Groping Bill is Dead. It Will Not Pass Due To Speaker Straus's Bad Timing

State Senator Says TSA Anti Groping Bill is Dead. It Will Not Pass Due to Speaker Straus's Bad Timing

As I predicted, the State Affairs Committee bailed out again and cancelled their meeting Monday morning. This left the TSA and Sanctuary Cities Legislation looking pretty dead.

Then the unexpected happened on Monday when Speaker Joe Straus, who just recently mocked the Anti Groping Bill by calling it a publicity stunt, did a shocking 180% turn around and revived the TSA bill by ending his block and letting it some to the House Floor for a second reading.

Everyone Start Celebrating right?

To be honest, I actually got very excited at first and was thankful that Joe Straus did the right thing.

But then I got this personal email from a State Senator explaining to me that the TSA Bill will most likely not get passed and was Dead on Arrival.


Here is the email message I got from this State Senator:

The TSA Anti-Groping Bill will most likely not get passed by the end of the session tomorrow. It all comes down to timing. Timing is a matter of Constitutional requirements. One is a House Bill the other a Senate Bill. House still has to vote out on third reading tomorrow.   Even though they are similar, one of them must go back to the other's committee, then back to floor to be voted on separate days after posting for 24 hours in between. Clock will not permit without suspension of rules which Dem's will not give. Sanctuary city Senate bill has been sitting in House for thirteen days with no action.

So all of this for nothing!?  It was all just a show?

It seems like the real Publicity Stunt is Speaker Joe Straus waiting till the last minute to bring the bill to the house floor for a vote and doing so with the knowledge that it does not stand a chance to pass because it was brought to the floor too late. I suppose it makes sense though. The Speaker gets a win win. He kills the bill that he didn't like by waiting to bring it to the floor, and at the same time he gets to say that he actually tried to get the bill passed.

This State Senator also makes another very interesting point. The Senate PASSED the Sanctuary Cities Bill and it sat in the House State Affairs Committee for13 days with no action! The Sanctuary Cities Bill was an emergency item this session and is actually part of the Republican Party platform and yet a Republican controlled House could not get it passed.

The State Affairs Committee was in charge of the TSA and Sanctuary Cities Legislation. It is headed up by Byron Cook who was part of the Gang of 11 Republicans who joined forces with the Democrats to get Straus elected as Speaker. Straus could have gotten whatever bills he wanted out of that important committee.


The Bottom line is that, at the end of the day, a Republican Dominated House could not get these important Republican Bills passed in this Special Session, and it all comes down to the leadership of Speaker Joe Straus and his elaborate "publicity stunt".

I sure hope I am wrong and I hope that something miraculous will happen so that these bills can get passed. It can only be possible if the rules are suspended and this is not easy to do so is not looking good... I hope they can do it though

Don't get me wrong. Overall this was a good session and the super-majority of Republicans were able to get some good bills passed. But these special session stunts, and even the regular session stunts like some of the strongest conservatives getting hurt in redistricting, took everyone by surprise and they reflect poorly on the Speaker

Texas Needs a New Speaker of the House to Represent the new Conservative Republican Majority

This is David Bellow, State Republican Executive Committeeman for SD 3


I believe we need a new speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. One who is more Conservative and more Republican than our current speaker Joe Straus. Below are the facts that I have read that have proved to me that Joe Straus is not the man to lead our Conservative Republican state.

Please read the info Below about Straus

There is also a letter calling for a more conservative leader for Texas signed by many important Texas Leaders. This letter can be read here http://www.empowertexans.com/issues/letter_on_leadership

If you are a County Chairman or a leader of an organization like a Tea Party or a Republican Women's group, and you agree with this letter, please ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LETTER. Myself and many other Republican Leader have added their names to the list and it would really help if you added your name to the list as well.

You can add your name by going to this website http://www.empowertexans.com/contact-us and filling out the info or calling the number

Sincerely,
David Bellow
409 656 5128
mdbellow@gmail.com

http://www.davidbellow.com/



JOE STRAUS:

Under Joe Straus as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives , many popular conservative measures were killed in the last legislature, including Voter ID (which had a 90% support rate among Republicans) and a very popular pro-life bill (which had nearly 70% support). Both measures had already passed the Republican Senate and Governor Perry was waiting to sign them, but these (and many other conservative measures) were killed in the Hous e by the Republican Speaker and his liberal lieutenants.

Jow Straus is for higher property tax. I believe property tax is the worst tax of all because a person can never own their own land. They are always leasing it from the government. Straus actively opposes a property tax cap. click here


Speaker Joe Straus hosted a fundraiser on May 12, 2010 for liberal Democrat Patrick Rose, who has a strong conservative Republican opponent, Jason Isaac

Speaker Joe Straus hosted a fundraiser on June 2, 2010 for liberal Democrat Trey Martinez-Fischer in Austin, Texas


Speaker Joe Straus very recently appointed Mike Villareal, a liberal Democrat, and Aaron Pena, another liberal Democrat, to chair and oversee redistricting committees across the state


Speaker Joe Straus, as a first-term state representative, took $1000 from Planned Parenthood and voted for SB 419, which would have made it easier to perform late-term, third-trimester abortions. In the 2007 session, he received a 100 percent voting record from the radical pro-abortion group NARAL

Speaker Joe Straus, as a state representative, voted to enrich (by "potentially tens of millions of dollars" - Texas Observer) his own family's gambling business interests (decade-old stock in the Austin Jockey Club, ownership in 3 horse &/or dog racetracks) by voting to increase gaming and gambling (HB 2265) and voting for casino gambling (HB 10) in Texas (specifically, slot machines allowed in racetracks.