Good afternoon,
Tomorrow all across Texas, Republicans were scheduled to gather at County and
Senate District Conventions to propose resolutions and elect delegates to our
State Convention. Now, however, the global effects of the impact of Coronavirus
are being felt in nearly every precinct in the Lone Star State and the
Republican Party of Texas (RPT) has strongly recommended those local
Conventions be postponed until after May 14.
Despite this crisis, our Republican leaders throughout this great state have
worked diligently this week to prepare for these conventions and are handling
them appropriately at their local level amidst the national, state and local
disaster declarations. Given the unprecedented circumstances we are
encountering and continuing to manage, they have had no easy task and are to be
commended.
Many Counties and Senate Districts have already set new convention dates and
we have provided the information received thus far on the RPT websiteunder the
“Conventions” tab in the navigation bar
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While we are working to provide you the best and most up-to-date information,
we encourage you to be in close communication with yourcounty party
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I thank the Republican Leaders across Texas - our SREC Members, our County
Chairs and our Temporary Senate District Convention Chairs - for working so
hard to make arrangements for you to participate in the Convention process.
They have joined us on multiple calls over the past week to discuss how to
prepare and how to make adjustments for the March 21 Conventions.
We want you to be with us in July in Houston for our 2020 RPT State
Convention!These county and senate district conventions are the only chance for
you to be elected a delegate or alternate to our state convention, so we want
to be sure you have the information you need to attend. Though you don’t
necessarily need to be present to be elected, you do need to ensure your name
is submitted to the local nominations committee. Again, contact yourcounty party
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participate.
As we discussed on our statewide townhall conference
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call on Monday night, we are in the process of moving the State Convention
from May 11-16 to July 13-18 in Houston at the George R. Brown Convention
Center. We are pleased to report that in addition to the Convention Center,
our hotel accommodations remain largely intact. We are working on details with
the hotel regarding moving current bookings to July and other lodging news for
July. We will be updating you as the information is available.
I said the word “process” above because moving one of the largest political
gatherings in the free world is indeed a multi-step process! I want to thank
Governor Greg Abbott for providing waivers needed for the SREC to proceed with
the business necessary so that we won’t violate Texas Election Code. I want to
thank our RPT Officials Committee for their time this week to help clear the
way for decisions to be made. I thank our RPT Executive Director Kyle Whatley
who has been on this around-the-clock to work with our Convention location and
vendors to keep the process moving in order to make July happen. I want to
thank our RPT General Counsel Wade Emmert, RPT Parliamentarian Chris Howe and
our RPT staff who have been working incredibly hard this week to make sure we
are compliant in our actions and keep up our communications with you so you
have the most current available information.
Please see the RPT website for information about the conventions tomorrow
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you have questions, emailconvention@texasgop.org
<mailto:convention@texasgop.org> and we will respond as quickly as possible.
Thank you,
James Dickey
Chairman, Republican Party of Texas
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