Austin: Successful Rally to Oppose AG Holder’s Attack on Election Reforms. PLUS Citizen Action Items!

On Tuesday, December 13 a rally was held near the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, Austin to highlight the attack on election reforms launched inside by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder went to Texas to denounce the Lone Star State’s voter ID laws and claimed that simple voter ID laws were somehow discriminatory. Holder ominously claimed that he would use the power of his office to “enforce civil rights protections” during the upcoming 2012 elections.

Outside the LBJ Library nearly 200 citizens gathered to hear a multi-racial panel of six speakers denounce Holder’s partisan attempts to push the administration’s agenda to turn a blind eye to continuing voter fraud that consistently favors candidates from the Democrat Party.

The rally was sponsored by the Houston-based True The Vote, a grass roots voter integrity project staffed by volunteers. True The Vote is a nation-wide organization that has affiliates across the country, every day citizens interested in the integrity of the elections in their home district.

True The Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said she was thrilled by the turnout that was arranged on only a few day’s notice:

Tea Party Patriots Presidential Straw Poll Results

Tea Party Straw Poll Results

Newt Gingrich 31%
Michele Bachmann 28%
Mitt Romney 20%
Rick Santorum 16%
Ron Paul 3%
Rick Perry 2%
Jon Huntsman 0% (.34%)
(Results are rounded to nearest percentage point. Margin of error +/-1.59%)

Thank you to the more the 23,000 people who participated on our Presidential Tele-Forum and Tea Party Straw Poll last night. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum were on the call last night to answer questions that were submitted by local Tea Party leaders. Check back to the website later this week for audio clips of all of the candidates and speakers. Above you will see the results of the straw poll, below you will see the “Enthusiasm Level” that each of the candidates have.

Thank you to all of the candidates who were able to participate!

Special Thanks to:
Emery McClendon, Tea Party Patriots Local Coordinator, Fort Wayne, IN
Julianne Thompson, Tea Party Patriots Local Coordinator, Atlanta, GA
Herman Cain, Businessman and Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Steve King, Congressman from Iowa

Speaker: Ted Cruz, Candidate for U.S. Senate

TPTP MEETING REMINDER:

Tues, Dec 20th, 2011 7pm

Speaker: Ted Cruz, Candidate for U.S. Senate

Wilshire Room

First National Bank of Burleson

740 SW Wilshire

Burleson, TX 76028

• Ted Cruz filed to run for U.S. Senate in January 2011.
• Cruz has a proven record of fighting for conservative principles and winning on a national level.
• He is running for the Senate to stand up and fight to defend liberty, preserve the Constitution, and stop federal overreach.
• Cruz served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2003-2008, the chief lawyer for the State before the U.S. Supreme Court and all the state and federal appellate courts.
• Cruz was the youngest Solicitor General in the nation
• Cruz was the longest serving Solicitor General in Texas
• Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas.
• Cruz has authored over 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and personally argued 40 oral arguments, including 9 before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Under the leadership of Attorney General Greg Abbott, Ted defended Texas values, winning repeatedly on a national level. During Ted’s service as Solicitor General, Texas achieved an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, including successfully defending:

1. U.S. sovereignty against the World Court in Medellin v. Texas.
2. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
3. The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;
4. The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
5. The constitutionality of Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and
6. The Texas congressional redistricting plan.

• Cruz was described by National Review as “a Republican star rising in Texas,” and as “a great Reaganite hope.”
• Cruz is a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Houston, where he leads the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national Appellate Litigation practice.
• Cruz taught U.S. Supreme Court Litigation from 2004-2009 as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
• Cruz served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and Domestic Policy Advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Cruz clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Presidential Tele-Forum Straw Poll

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National Call Day for Texas Senate Candidate Ted Cruz

RSVP For Our National Call Day! On December 15th, we are hosting a National Call Day for Texas Senate Candidate Ted Cruz. Thousands of Tea Party activists from across the country will utilize our easy-to-use online phone-banking system to call Texas voters and urge that they support true conservative, Ted Cruz. Please RSVP to help us get this Tea Party candidate elected! RSVP Now>> Ted Cruz is endorsed by Tea Party Senators Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee and has been dubbed “the next great conservative hope” by National Review magazine. But he also faces a crowded Republican primary field filled with deep-pocketed, establishment RINOs like David Dewhurst and Tom Leppert. Help a Tea Party Candidate and RSVP Now>> Paid for by FreedomWorks, http://www.FreedomWorks.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. Contributions to FreedomWorks for America are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes. Contributions by foreign nationals, national banks, and federal government contractors are prohibited. Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer of individuals whose contributions aggregate in excess of $200 in a calendar year. Read More >>

Stinchfield for Congress Town Hall

Grapevine Term Limits

12 December 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact Kathleen Thompson
info@bettergrapevine.org

Term Limits Petition Circulating in Grapevine

Young parents, professionals, and grandparents from across the partisan political spectrum are signing and circulating petitions for term limits in Grapevine. Citing a lack of accountability and transparency, this coalition of Grapevine voters is working to remove entrenched council members who are no longer accountable to residents.

“Incumbents have won every city council election in Grapevine for the past 30 years. With that kind of record, city council members have no pressure to vote on principle. They know they’ll be re-elected regardless of their actions. There is no accountability, and nobody is listening to the citizens,” said Julie McCarty of the NE Tarrant Tea Party.

Nearly two-dozen of Grapevine’s neighboring cities govern with term limits including Southlake, Lewisville, Bedford, Carrollton, Trophy Club, and Irving.

The petition language asks registered Grapevine voters:

Should the Grapevine City Charter be Amended to State:
Each person duly elected to the position of Mayor or Council Member shall be
allowed to hold any one position for a limit of three (3) consecutive, full three-year
terms per position. This provision shall apply to all elections held subsequent to
the adoption of this Charter Amendment.

“In neighboring cities, transparency and accountability in government are top priorities. They open their books so taxpayers can see exactly where their money is going. Why not in Grapevine?” asked recent City Council candidate Kathleen Thompson. Grapevine residents deserve citizen legislators, not career politicians, who will put the community and city employees before themselves.

Voters wanting to sign the petition should visit www.bettergrapevine.org.
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True The Vote Rally In Austin on December 13th

For Immediate Release:

December 12, 2012

Contact: Vickie Pullen

713.401.3550

vickie@truethevote.org

True The Vote Rally In Austin on December 13th

To Set The Record Straight About Eric Holder, The DOJ, and the UN

HOUSTON, TX – At 4PM, on Tuesday, December 13, at the LBJ Library in

Austin, Texas, TRUE THE VOTE will rally with fellow patriots to set the

record straight about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, his Department

of Justice, and the interference of the United Nations in elections in the

United States. The planned rally is to focus on Holder’s intention to use

the DOJ to push a progressive and racial agenda on our elections and on

efforts by other progressive organizations to include foreign forces in our

electoral process.

Attorney General Eric Holder will be at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas on

December 13 to make speak on the importance of ensuring equal voting

rights. Yet, Holder is loathe to preclear voter integrity projects as well as

voter identification requirements in Texas, South Carolina and other

states.

Further, the UK Guardian reported on December 5 that the National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has

petitioned the United Nations to involve itself in elections in the United

States with the false claim that election reform advocates are attempting

to suppress the voting rights of minorities.

Eric Holder and the NAACP stand against Texas plans for redistricting and

its Voter Photo ID laws. Free and fair elections are at risk.

See Rally Announcement Here

TRUE THE VOTE is a national election integrity project based in Houston,

TX, led by Catherine Engelbrecht. Its purpose is to equip citizens for

involvement at every stage of our electoral process and to actively

protect the rights of legitimate voters regardless of party affiliation.

It’s our Nativity Scene—Come and Take It Rally

The Henderson County Tea Party invites you to attend a rally to commemorate the birth of Christ and our right to display a replica of the scene of the birth.

We are asking all Patriots who can possibly attend the “It’s our Nativity Scene—Come and Take It Rally” on Dec. 17 at High Noon. The rally will be held on the Courthouse square in Athens, Texas. A Wisconsin organization, The Freedom FROM Religion Foundation has filed a complaint asking the Henderson County Commissioners to remove the Nativity Scene.

We say “No Way!”–Come and Take It!–Let’s show our support for our religious rights, freedom to assemble and our resolve in,” Don’t Mess With Texas!” What a great issue to rally behind– especially as we kick off this vital election season. We must show our resolve and draw the line in the sand. Time to stop this assault from the liberal left and stand our ground.

Juff Tulley -Coordinator of the Henderson County Tea Party has secured a staging location on the Square in Athens. The staging area will be for Tea Party attendees and media.

The location is:Tea Party Headquarters, 112 N. Palestine–on the East side of the courthouse. Direct questions concering the rally to: Jeff Tulley at jeff@jefftuleyfarms.com.

Speaker of Texas House, Joe Straus Has a Primary Challenger!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

MATT BEEBE TO DECLARE HIS CANDIDACY FOR TEXAS HOUSE DISTRICT 121

Contact: Adam McManus, Communications Director, 210.373.7499, adam@VoteBeebe.com

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, December 9, 2011 – Matt Beebe (pronounced BEE-bee) will officially announce his candidacy for Texas State House Representative in District 121 in the GOP primary at a press conference on Monday, December 12, 2011. The event will be held at 12 noon at The Quarry Golf Club, 444 East Basse Road, San Antonio, Texas 78209. (Heavy appetizers will be served.)
Beebe will face-off against Texas House Speaker Joe Straus on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
“It’s time that the constituents of House District 121 had a true conservative represent them in Austin,” said Beebe, 38, who founded Digitactics, Inc., a small business that was recently named by the San Antonio Business Journal as one of the top ten “Largest San Antonio Computer Service & Repair Firms.” In additional to providing jobs for 13 employees, Digitactics is a leader in developing and implementing cyber defense, cyber security, digital forensics and IT networking solutions for small and mid-sized businesses and various government customers.
A graduate of Michigan Technical University with a B.S. in Business Administration, Beebe served his country in the Air Force as a Communications Officer and helped to develop innovative solutions and lay a foundation for enhanced cyber defense while a Countermeasures Engineer at the Air Force Information Warfare Center at Kelly AFB.
He has been married to his wife Nicole for 16 years with whom he’s adopted their two children – Hannah, 5, and Joshua, 3. In addition to home educating their children with his bride, Beebe is a member and regularly attends the Alamo Heights United Methodist Church where he has served on the Administrative Board, Board of Stewards and as a Sunday School teacher for the Foundations young couples class. They generously support other area non-profits directly and through their business.
“As a small business owner, I understand well the challenges of this tough economy. We are not only taxed too much, but the reality is that the Texas Legislature spends too much,” said Beebe. “I’m committed to reducing the burden of government on the families of House District 121, and, like I’ve done in the private sector, finding innovative solutions to enable Texas to meet the challenges of the future.”
Over the next several weeks, Matt Beebe will outline his vision at his campaign website: www.VoteBeebe.com