Texas Early Voting and Election Day info/times/locations - 2014 Republican Primary Election

2014 Texas Republican Primary Election

Early Voting is February 18th through February 28th

Election Day is March 4th, 2014

to find out when and where to vote anywhere in Texas, go to the Texas Secretary of State website here: http://votetexas.gov/voting/where or call your local County Clerk or County Elections Administrator.

Hardin County TX 2014 Early Voting and Election Day info/times/locations including Lumberton, Silsbee, Kountze - Republican Primary

Vote David Bellow for Hardin County Judge - click here for more info www.BellowForJudge.com 

Early Voting times and locations for the 2014 Hardin County Republican Primary Election:
Feb 18th, 2014 through Feb 28th, 2014

Early Vote every day at the Hardin County Courthouse in KOUNTZE, TX February 18th through Feb 28th from 8am - 5pm

Lumberton Early Voting February 20, 21 and 22 9am - 7pm Lumberton City Hall
Silsbee Early Voting February 20, 21 and 22 9am - 7pm First Assembly of God Church
Sour Lake Early Voting February 20 and 21 9am - 7pm Sour Lake Community Center

Election Day for 2014 Hardin County Republican Primary:
Tuesday March 4th, 2014
7am to 7pm

Election Day Polling Places/Voting Locations
PCT. 1  Hardin County Courthouse
             300 W Monroe Street
             Kountze, TX 77625

PCT. 2  Word of Life Church
             7955 Mormon Church Rd
             Silsbee, TX 77656

PCT. 3  Saratoga Fire Station
             16628 FM 770
             Saratoga, TX 77585

PCT. 4  Batson Community Center
             9153 Main St
             Batson, TX 77519

PCT. 5  Votaw Thicket Fire Station
             FM 787
             Thicket, TX 77374

PCT. 6  Crestwood Baptist Church
             1150 Hwy 69 North
             Kountze, TX 77625

PCT. 7   Honey Island Assembly of God Church
              9097 FM 1293
              Kountze, TX 77625

PCT. 8   Village Mills VFW Post 1514
              Hwy 69 North
              Village Mills, TX 77663

PCT. 9   First Assembly of God Church
              950 Bus Hwy 96 South
              Silsbee, TX 77656

PCT. 10 St. Johns Episcopal Church
              1305 Roosevelt Dr
              Silsbee, TX 77656

PCT. 11 Wiley Mae Pentecostal Church
              8545 FM 92
              Silsbee, TX 77656

PCT. 12 Assembly of God Church
              1055 North Hwy 69
              Kountze, TX 77625

PCT. 13 Trest Community Center
              140 East Chance Rd
              Lumberton, TX 77657

PCT. 14 Idylwild Golf Club
              1100 East Pine Shadows Dr
              Sour Lake, TX 77659

PCT. 15 Sour Lake Community Center
              250 South Ann St
              Sour Lake, TX 77659

PCT. 16 Parkway Life Church
              1865 FM 3513
              Lumberton, TX 77657

PCT. 17 Pine Ridge Baptist Church
              13480 FM 421
              Sour Lake, TX 77659

PCT. 18 Lumberton Church of Christ
              90 West Chance Rd
              Lumberton, TX 77657

PCT. 19 Keith Road Fire Station
              8890 Keith Road

              Lumberton, TX 77657

Ken Paxton Betrayed Conservatives – Backed Down vs. Straus – Ted Cruz would NOT Have Backed Down

Some people have asked me how I know that Ken Paxton is not the right man to be our next Texas Attorney General. There are many reasons. Do I think Ken Paxton is conservative? Of course I do, but I do not believe he is the best conservative and I do not believe he is the best leader. I believe Barry Smitherman is the better conservative and a far better leader who will not back down. Unfortunately, I know for sure that Ken Paxton will back down, even after promising not to back down. How do I know that Ken Paxton cannot be trusted when he says he will not back down? Because Paxton already broke that promise just 3 years ago. He betrayed conservatives and backed down from challenging Joe Straus even after he promised just the day before that he would not back down and would take it to the floor (see video below). We need more people like Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz faced a losing Obamacare battle but he stood for nearly a day and took the fight all the way to the end. Cruz is the kind of conservative leader we need. Ken Paxton is no Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz would have never pulled out and betrayed conservatives right before the Joe Straus big vote. Cruz would have taken it to the floor. Ken Paxton did not do that and he will forever be known in my mind as someone who, although he is conservative, is not strong enough to follow through no matter what. He will back down. If he caved in to Straus, what do you think he will do when he faces Obama? Barry Smitherman on the other hand has already sued Obama 7 times and has not backed down.

Paxton PROMISED to Challenge Liberal Texas Speaker Joe Straus and Take It To The Floor. Paxton Had No Guts and Backed out the Day of the Vote, Leaving Conservatives Hanging and Betrayed

Texas has a liberal, pro-abortion Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus. Straus got elected by teaming up with all the Democrats to rally against the Republicans to get him elected.

Conservatives demanded that Joe Straus be challenged. Conservatives even kicked out several moderate Republicans and replaced them with conservative ones who would vote against Straus.

Ken Paxton says he will challenge Straus. I supported Ken Paxton as the clearly better choice over Joe Straus. Ken Paxton PROMISED that he would take it to the floor and have an open vote for Speaker of the House. Paxton promised that he would never back out of the race no matter what. He promised he would take it to the floor. Conservatives were trusting him to actually challenge Straus and force a vote on the floor. Even if Paxton was not going to win, by taking it to the floor and forcing a vote, the conservatives in Texas could see which representatives supported the liberal Straus. By seeing which State Representatives voted for Straus, the conservatives in Texas could rally and defeat those State Reps and get conservatives elected who will vote against Straus and defeat him once and for all.

On the day of the election, Ken Paxton dropped out of the race. He allowed Straus to become the speaker again without a challenge and without a floor vote. No one even got to see which Reps would have voted for Straus.

Conservative State Reps got Punished for Supporting Paxton. Paxton refused to help them

There was no floor vote so no one got to see who the moderates were. No one got to see who would have supported Straus. On the other hand, everyone know who the State Representatives were who supported Paxton. There were several brave, conservative State Reps who publicly spoke out in favor of Paxton and in opposition to Straus. The voters never got to see who would have voted against Straus, but Straus got to see who openly opposed him. The state Representatives who openly opposed Straus were: Leo Berman (HD-6), Cindy Burkett (HD-101), Erwin Cain (HD-3), Wayne Christian (HD-9), Dan Flynn (HD-2), Jim Landtroop (HD-85) , Phil King (HD-61), Jodie Laubenberg (HD-89), Tan Parker (HD-63), Ken Paxton (HD-70), Charles Perry (HD-83), David Simpson (HD-7), Van Taylor (HD-66), James White (HD-12), Bill Zedler (HD-96)

This list of conservatives were targeted by Straus. Straus hurt them in redistricting. He botched their districts so that they would not win, or he put them in districts where they would have to run against his well-funded Chairmen. Most notably, Wayne Christian had 80 percent of his district moved to a completely different area. The change in his district was absolutely unneeded for redistricting and was clearly a way to push him out. Also, my current State Representative James White opposed Straus and, during redistricting, was put into the same district as Straus Chairman Mike Hamilton. Mike Hamilton had the money backing of friends of Straus so they thought White would lose easily to Hamilton. Also Conservative anti Straus Reps Charles Perry and Jim Landtroop were paired together in the same district so that one of them would lose for sure. All of these changes were not needed for redistricting. Wayne Christian made a youtube video that breaks down exactly how Straus was attacking anti-Straus conservatives in redistricting, and Bryan Hughes even accused a Straus leader of directly telling him that he would be hurt in redistricting if he supported Straus.

I spoke privately with one of these conservative state reps who supported Paxton and was attacked by Straus in redistricting. I asked the State Rep to give me the inside story and promised that I would not reveal his name so I am not. His information was true though after I checked into it so his points are valid. What happened was these conservative State Reps reached out to Paxton for help. They stood up for him and they were asking him to help them defend against the attacks from Straus.

Paxton was sitting on around $800,000. Paxton had no serious challenger and could have used the money to help out his fellow conservatives who were being attacked in the election by Straus. In the end, I can only find on the Texas Ethics website where Paxton only ended up giving money to one of the State Reps, Jim Landtroop. A small $2500 donation while he sat on nearly a million.

Bottom line, Paxton is not a liberal, he is a conservative. He is NOT the best man to be our next Texas Attorney General. He is no Ted Cruz. Paxton has proven that he WILL back down when the going gets tough, even after promising not to back down. Texas needs a guy like Barry Smitherman who will not back down and is super conservative.

Don’t Take My Word for It – Watch the Video Below and See Ken Paxton Himself Back Down From Challenging Straus After Promising to Take It To The Floor

Barry Smitherman New TV ad about Securing the Texas/Mexico Border

from Texas GOP Vote:

As the run-up to early voting, which starts in just over two weeks, Texas Attorney General candidate, Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman, is taking his message to the voters with a new television ad which launched this morning.

“My first ad focuses on border security and prosecution of crime along the border because that will be one of my top priorities as the next Attorney General,” said Barry Smitherman.

“Too many Texas landowners, farmers, ranchers and south Texas families," Smitherman continued, "are being subjected to trespass, vandalism, violence and mayhem. We have got to restore law and order, keep people safe, protect their property and stop heinous crimes like drug, sex and human trafficking where it starts: on our border with Mexico."

"Stopping crime along the border before it migrates throughout the rest of the state is critically important. As the only former prosecutor in the race and the only candidate that has effectively run large state agencies like the Office of the Attorney General, I am uniquely qualified to lead the effort to stop crime along the border,” concluded Smitherman.

From the very beginning of his campaign, Smitherman has not only made border security and illegal immigration top priorities, but he has also detailed out specific plans on how to assist border sheriffs and prosecutors to increase enforcement as stated in two prior interviews done with TexasGOPVote. Interview 1 - Interview 2

- See more at: http://texasgopvote.com/issues/fix-immigration/barry-smitherman-campaign-takes-its-message-television-006338#sthash.2IfdLnhn.dpuf

Dan Patrick to Debate Julian Castro - Super Conservative vs Super Liberal - EPIC Texas Style Showdown

I recently posted an article about Democrat San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro bashing Conservative Texas LT Governor Candidate Dan Patrick.

I called the attack against Patrick a badge of honor because anytime a conservative is attacked publicly by a liberal then it means the conservative is doing something good! It really means you are doing something for the conservative cause because Castro is a national Democrat star and a friend of Obama.

Well, after this little episode, Dan Patrick challenged Julian Castro to a debate. Patrick told Castro that talk is cheap and that he will go to San Antonio any day or time to debate the issue of illegal immigration.

This could be epic! Dan Patrick is a staunch conservative. Patrick is one of the most conservative State Senators and is known for being very outspoken. Castro is also the same way, except instead of being an outspoken conservative star, Castro is an outspoken Liberal star.

Well, the great news is that Julian Castro accepted! There is not date or time set yes, but I will post the date and time when it becomes available.

Below is the info that was posted on Dan Patrick's facebook page about the debate:

Dan Patrick

January 24

MAYOR ACCEPTS CHALLENGE TO DEBATE DAN PATRICK ON 
IMMIGRATION AND THE FUTURE OF TEXAS

Earlier this week Mayor Julia Castro personally tweeted me accusing me of being the most anti-immigrant candidate running for Lt Governor.

I responded that I would come to San Antonio anytime to debate this issue.

Last night he tweeted he would debate me and I responded that I was ready for fight for the future of Texas.

We are working now to set the time and date as soon as possible to have this important debate.

Read more here: http://bit.ly/1eZndrH

State Rep. Scott Turner is Challenging Joe Straus in the Texas Speaker of the House Race!

pro abortion, moderate voting Joe Straus has no business leading the Texas House. Joe Straus needs to go!

Texas State Rep Scott Turner has announced that he will be challenging Joe Straus.

Check out Scott Turner's facebook page for more info about him: https://www.facebook.com/ScottTurnerTX

Liberal Media Attacks Congressman Stockman for not Telling Terrorists he was in Middle East

The liberal media has been bashing Congressman Stockman because Stockman has missed a week or so of votes and didn't tell anyone that he was on a secret congressional visit to terrorist nations. I guess the liberal media thinks Congressman Stockman should have alerted the terrorists that him and other Congressmen were going to be there? Congressman Stockman is running for US Senate against a more moderate John Cornyn. It is no secret that the liberal media so not want Stockman to win.

from Congressman Steve Stockman:

The press makes no mention of the fact that I serve on the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.  The press wanted me violate the State Department policy that prohibits Members of Congress traveling abroad on official business from publicly disclosing their whereabouts.  I was not going to jeopardize the safety of the Congressmen and Congresswoman I was traveling with.  There were five bombings in Egypt only two days after we were there.  While we were in Israel, there were 17 missile strikes and three suspects were arrested for planning to blow up the U.S. Embassy.  

Attached is a letter from the Committee Chairman's letter

Houston Lesbian Mayor Directs City to Violate Texas Constitution on Marriage

from Texas Values:

Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is an open lesbian and has been celebrated by her supporters as the first openly lesbian mayor of a large city, has directed city staff to violate the Texas Constitution on the definition of marriage in Texas. In a memo dated November 19, 2013, Mayor Parker has directed Omar Reid, Director of the City of Houston Human Resources Department, to violate the Texas Constitution by giving legal status and recognition to same-sex marriage in Texas. Specifically, Mayor Parker made the following statement: “[I] am hereby directing that same-sex spouses of employees who have been legally married in another jurisdiction be afforded the same benefits as spouses of a heterosexual marriage.”

Houston Mayor Annise Parker

“It’s outrageous that Mayor Parker and the City of Houston think they have the authority to rewrite the Texas Constitution on marriage and blatantly ignore their citizen approved city charter. Mayor Parker’s self-serving efforts to force city staff to willfully violate the Texas Constitution is one of the most dangerous and egregious forms of a Washington-style power grab I have ever seen. She’s practically telling Governor Perry, Attorney General Abbott and the people of Texas to ‘Come and Take It’,” said Jonathan Saenz, president and attorney of Texas Values.

The memo by Mayor Parker also references a legal memo and conclusion by City Attorney David Feldman as the support for the illegal change in the city policy. The memo by Feldman concedes that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage does not deprive Texas from its right to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Mr. Feldman goes further to point out that Texas law clearly “prohibits political subdivisions of the state from giving effect to:… a [r]ight or claim to any legal protection, benefit, or responsibility asserted as a result of a marriage between persons of the same sex or a civil union in this state or any jurisdiction.” Mr. Feldman bases his recommendation for this single-handed change on his belief that Texas law is unconstitutional.

In addition to clear Texas law, Houston’s own city charter passed by the citizens in 2001 prohibits the city from offering benefits to same-sex couples. Although the Texas Supreme Court is currently reviewing the issue of recognition of same-sex divorce, it is widely believed that the all Republican nine member Court will certainly do nothing to disturb the clear language of our constitution and protect our state sovereignty.

- See more at: http://txvalues.org/2013/11/21/houston-lesbian-mayor-directs-city-to-violate-texas-constitution-on-marriage-2/#sthash.sEjHUTmm.dpuf

read more here: http://txvalues.org/2013/11/21/houston-lesbian-mayor-directs-city-to-violate-texas-constitution-on-marriage-2/

Wendy Davis Lied! Did not "Struggle" to the Top on her own. Ex Husband Paid her Nicely, then She Divorced Him

from the Washington Examiner:

"I came from a place of struggle," insisted Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis after the Dallas Morning News revealed that key details of the life story she had successfully shopped to the mainstream media were false. She wasn't a 19-year-old mom when she was first divorced, but 21. She lived with her second husband in the very comfortable Mistletoe Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, not in a trailer park made famous by a thousand admiring profiles. She lived in the trailer park for just a few months. One of Davis' struggles, apparently, is with the truth.

Davis isn't the first politician to campaign falsely as an up-from-poverty candidate. William Henry Harrison, scion of a wealthy family, campaigned in 1840 as the "log cabin and hard cider" candidate against Martin Van Buren. It worked, though Harrison didn't live to relish his success. The story about his two-hour inaugural address, which caused him to catch pneumonia, is probably untrue -- he didn't fall ill until three weeks later. It may have been the snakeweed or leeches that gave him the septicemia that killed him, or it may have been the office-seekers, who reportedly crowded the White House to the point he couldn't find a place to rest when he felt sick.

You might suppose that reflections on the Internet age -- and the impossibility of hiding the truth -- will now follow the tale of Harrison's successful deception. Not really. What's surprising about the Davis tale is that someone actually took the trouble to question her account, because her "narrative" appeals so strongly to the liberal imagination. We just love the "little woman who conquers the world" stories, especially if (well, OK, only if) she favors abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy, a higher minimum wage and universal pre-K.

Davis did grow up in difficult circumstances — her parents divorced, and Davis went to work early. She also made poor decisions, moving in with a boyfriend at the age of 17. Her story of working hard to better herself, first at community college and then at Texas Christian University and Harvard Law School, is a tribute to her tenacity and intelligence.

But it requires a pretty calculating coldness to omit from her story husband No. 2, Jeff Davis, the lawyer she married when she was 24 and lived with for 18 years. It was he who paid her tuition at TCU and Harvard Law, cashing out his 401(k) and borrowing money to do it. It was he who cared for her two daughters when she went to Boston to study law for three years. And it was he who got custody (with no contest) after the divorce. He notes ruefully that she left the marriage at a key juncture: "It was ironic," he told the Dallas Morning News. "I made the last [Harvard] payment, and it was the next day she left."

No outsider can ever know what goes on in a marriage, and it isn't our place to speculate, but Davis herself made her single-mother-beats-the-odds personal story a key part of her campaign. Just before the Dallas Morning News story broke, Davis was the subject of a fawning profile on "Today." Maria Shriver introduced the story of the plucky gubernatorial aspirant over chyrons touting "doing it all" and "on her own two feet." Her personal story, we were told, "resonated across this country." Davis visited the trailer park with Shriver and spoke of having to scrape together enough money to keep the lights on, sometimes working two jobs. Her 18-year marriage to a man who committed himself to her welfare and went into debt to help her achieve her career goals was practically airbrushed out, mentioning in passing -- "she married again for a time" -- to explain the appearance of her second daughter. The rest is Harvard triumphalism and her star turnfilibustering an abortion law in the Texas Senate.

Davis achieved success the way most successful people do -- through hard work and the support of a loving family. She, and the press who lionize her, seem all too eager to suggest that she somehow did everything all by herself. This false heroic tale is a common trope on the Left these days -- women doing it all by themselves. It's more than partisan hackery. It reinforces the very damaging notion that women don't need husbands. Many, many women are swallowing this propaganda and acting on it. They, their children and our society are suffering mightily as a result.

MONA CHAREN, a Washington Examiner columnist, is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

read more here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/wendy-davis-didnt-struggle-to-the-top-on-her-own/article/2542795

Board declares NSA data sweep illegal, says program should be ended

from Fox News:

An independent board tasked with reviewing National Security Agency surveillance called Thursday for the government to end its mass data collection program and "purge" its files, declaring the program illegal in a major challenge to President Obama. 

The president did not go nearly as far when he called last week for ending government control of phone data collected from hundreds of millions of Americans. In its report, obtained by Fox News and scheduled for release Thursday afternoon, The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) said the program ran afoul of the law on several fronts. 

"The ... bulk telephone records program lacks a viable legal foundation," the board's report said, adding that it raises "serious threats to privacy and civil liberties" and has "only limited value." 

"As a result, the Board recommends that the government end the program," the panel wrote. 

It remains to be seen whether Obama will accept all or part of the recommendations, but the findings could nevertheless be used as leverage in federal lawsuits against NSA spying. 

The report concluded that the NSA collection raises "constitutional concerns" with regard to U.S. citizens' rights of speech, association and privacy. 

"The connections revealed by the extensive database of telephone records gathered under the program will necessarily include relationships established among individuals and groups for political, religious, and other expressive purposes," it said. "Compelled disclosure to the government of information revealing these associations can have a chilling effect on the exercise of First Amendment rights." 

The panel added that the program "implicates constitutional concerns under the First and Fourth Amendments." 

read more here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/23/independent-federal-review-board-says-nsa-phone-data-collection-program-should/