Good afternoon,

I hope this update finds you and your family in continued good health.

There are three matters about which I wanted to update you today:

* Today’s Emergency SREC Meeting
* Waiver Requests to the Republican National Committee
* New Working Group to Study Potential Alternatives, if Necessary, for Senate
and County Conventions
This morning the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) met
electronically to address two key issues that directly affect our grassroots -
the State Convention and National Convention delegate allocation:

* The SREC voted this morning to move the State Convention in Houston from
May 14-16 to July 16-18.
* The SREC voted to allocate our 44 at-large delegates using the statewide
allocation method under RPT Rules, so as not to jeopardize our delegation
strength to the National Convention. With this change, all Texas delegates were
secured for President Trump.
Both of these votes will need to be ratified at an in-person meeting of the
SREC as soon as it is feasible, but the SREC took the necessary steps to keep
the business of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) moving forward during this
pandemic.  

It is an incredible feat that we have been able to move the dates of our State
Convention - plans which began over three years ago - with no loss of space to
hold our Convention and with no additional cost to RPT or the delegates. This
is a major accomplishment and I applaud RPT Executive Director Kyle Whatley for
his deft handling of the move with the George R. Brown Convention Center and
our Convention hotels. They have proven to be good partners as RPT does our
part to #stopthespread and flatten the curve of this virus.

Both the vote of the move of our Convention date and the vote for delegate
allocation now puts the Republican Party of Texas in the position to request
the necessary waivers from the Republican National Committee (RNC), so that our
delegation to National Convention - the second largest delegation in the
country - is not penalized because of the impact of Coronavirus on our
Convention process.  

RPT General Counsel Wade Emmert has been working closely with the RNC legal
team and is preparing the necessary waiver requests for submission early next
week. We expect the waivers to be considered at the next RNC Executive
Committee meeting.

But our work is not complete. I have appointed a working group to evaluate
options and alternatives for our Senate District and County Conventions, with
focus on suggested systems to use in place of in-person meetings - if that
becomes necessary - and how those systems might scale to our State Convention
as well. This group will be led by SREC Member for Senate District 30 and Chair
of RPT Convention Arrangements Deon Starnes. Members include RPT Executive
Director Kyle Whatley, RPT Parliamentarian Chris Howe, SREC Member for Senate
District 7 Mark Ramsey and software developer Dave Gephart. We will keep you
apprised of the group’s progress.

I close this update reflecting on another very productive day at RPT. My
thanks to the SREC for a successful and historic electronic meeting today and
for their leadership in this moment. My thanks to the wonderful team at RPT who
never stop working for you, keeping our Party running smoothly as we navigate
this challenging time.

James Dickey

Chairman, Republican Party of Texas

 

 

 

 

 

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