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We are streaming the event live.  Watch us ONLINE!  Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks will kick off the event today at 9:00 a.m., Joe Barton, US House Rep, will join us around 1:00 p.m. and Herman Cain will join us around 3:00 p.m.  We have a host of conservative speakers and candidates lined up as well.

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UPDATE: More tickets for the January 12th US Senate Debate are now available! But just a very limited number…

On Thursday, January 12, Empower Texans and the Texas Public Policy Foundation will co-host the first debate of the Republican US Senate candidates of 2012!

Participants are: Glenn Addison, Ted Cruz, David Dewhurst, Craig James and Tom Leppert!

Send In Your Debate Questions!
We neesd you to help define the issues in the debate! A segment of the debate will feature questions submitted on a special Facebook page we have established.

Visit  http://www.facebook.com/First.Tx.Senate.Debate today and let us know what question you want posed to the candidates! (Be sure to specify which candidate you are asking the question.)

Get Your Debate Tickets!
So, would you like to attend the debate? We have a very limited number of additional seats available right now. The first 75 people to register will receive a ticket for themselves and a guest.

Register here: http://www.empowertexans.com/more-us-senate-debate-tickets/

ACT FAST – we have only a limited number of tickets available right now. To claim one for you and a guest, visit the link above before 5pm Jan. 3!

The debate will be held at 7 p.m. on January 12, 2012, at the Downtown Austin Hilton. Everyone attending should be seated by 6:30pm; doors close for seating at 6:55pm.

If you are registered for the TPPF Policy Orientation, please do NOT claim tickets here. Your Policy Orientation registration includes a pass to the US Senate Debate.

A list of some of our speakers:
Herman Cain
Dick Armey, FreedomWorks
Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks
David Dewhurst, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Ted Cruz, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Lela Mae Pittenger, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Tom Leppert, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Glenn Addison, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Doc Joe Agris, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Kevin Brady, US House Rep
Ted Poe, US House Rep
Louie Gohmert, US House Rep
Dan Patrick, Texas State Senator
David Simpson, Texas State House
Tito Munoz, Founder of the Conservative Hispanic Coalition PAC and Columbian immigrant
Karen DeSimone, Founder of Truth for American Teens and guest on Glenn Beck
KrisAnne Hall, Disabled Veteran and Conservative Speaker

Several radio personalities will be emceeing segments of the presentations as well as airing live from Minute Maid Park:
Michael Berry, Chris Baker, Matt Patrick, Sam Malone, Jon-David Wells out of Dallas and Natalie Arceneaux.

Visit WWW.SADDLEUPTEXASSTRAWPOLL.COM to buy your tickets.

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:

We gathered for the purpose of setting the record straight and people came from all over Texas to hear a host of speakers all representing different sides of the issue. All were clearly saying that the thought that photo voter ID laws would in some way suppress the vote or would in some way disenfranchise voters is on its face a farce. This is only being done to advance a politically motivated agenda that has at its core the themes of victimization and race baiting.

In his comments AG Holder cited one Republican in Maryland that was convicted of trying to trick black voters into staying home on Election Day, but what this single case has to do with voter ID laws was unclear. Holder’s intent, it seems, was to dismiss vote fraud from Democrats while shifting the blame to this one Republican. Holder did not mention such Democrat fraud as that seen in the 2008 Indiana primary, the New York Democrat that recently pleaded guilty to vote fraud, or any of the other such cases that can be easily found in the news.

It should be noted that at least one major case of voter suppression occurred during Holder’s tenure at the Department of Justice but it went ignored by his office. In 2008 a pair of militant Black Panther Party members used bats and weapons to intimidate white voters from entering a Philadelphia voting place. Ultimately Holder’s office decided not to prosecute this clear case of voter suppression.

There were five other speakers that appeared after Engelbrecht. Those speakers were: Anita MonCrief, the founder of the Boots of Liberty Task Force (BOLT) and the Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Corruption. MonCrief is also known as the ACORN/ Project Vote Whistleblower. Adryana Boyne, the National Director of VOCES Action a non profit organization that educates and empowers Hispanics with conservative fiscal and moral values. Election lawyer J. Christian Adams who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and whose book Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department is a must read for anyone interested in the hard facts of the DOJ. C.L. Bryant, a native of Shreveport, LA and a former president of the NAACP’s Garland, Texas Chapter. And finally, George Rodriguez, President of San Antonio Tea Party. Rodriguez served as a presidential appointee under both Presidents Bush and Reagan and is also the nation’s first Hispanic Tea Party President.

The crux of the rally was to spur citizens to get involved:

Democrat or Republican voter fraud is unacceptable but it is up to us to stop it, said Engelbrecht. Here’s my message today – everyone listening needs to take stock of the situation facing our country, and then ask themselves what they are doing to make things better. What are you doing? There are all kinds of places and ways that citizens can directly engage and work for the good of this country and hold to what made us great. True the Vote is a great example—a great way to serve in a desperately needed and critically important area—protecting the sanctity of the vote. Our election process was always intended to be run by American citizens for the good of America and Americans. We need to take our process back and need to educate ourselves in the ways we can get engaged.

One last bit of irony—if not hypocrisy—was experienced as people lined up to enter the LBJ Library to hear AG Holder rail against voter ID laws. As each person entered the library they were required to present their photo IDs in order to be allowed in to hear the speech.

If our elections are not truly fair, we are not truly free.

Take a Stand – Do Not Remain Silent…

1. Contact the US House Committee on the Judiciary* to demand congressional hearings on the Department of Justice’s involvement with Project Vote
2. Demand the resignations or impeachments of : Attny Gen Eric Holder, for his leadership of the Fast and Furious Scandal Chief of Staff Gary Grindler, for his foreknowledge of details on Fast and Furious beginning in the Spring of 2010 Asst Attny Gen Ron Welch, for managing the preparation of the false letter to Congress Asst Attny Gen Lanny Breuer for overseeing the entire Fast and Furious operation
3. Contact the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations* to keep the United Nations out of US Elections
4. Spread the Word – It’s Time for a National Call for Election Integrity. It’s time to true the vote

© 2011 True The Vote • Contact: info@truethevote.org

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.

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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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.

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