Good morning!

In July the grassroots activists who make up the Republican Party of Texas selected eight legislative priorities for the 2021 legislative session. Do you hear GOP candidates for the Texas House and Senate actively talking about these?

Today's Texas Minute looks at them.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Monday, September 28, 2020
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• But first... many folks have asked how they can make a memorial donation honoring the life of Ross Kecseg and benefiting his wife, Aimee, and their young son, Liam. We have set up a GoFundMe account to benefit them.
   
• Note: due to tax laws, our non-profit organization cannot accept or make “pass-through” gifts.
   
• Aimee, Liam, and their family appreciate the love and outpouring of support. They are having a private service in the coming days, and then a public memorial and celebration of Ross’ life is being planned for the very near future - we’ll have more details soon.

Here are the eight legislative priorities adopted by the Texas GOP convention delegates with their official descriptions:

• Election Integrity
  Require citizenship verification of each voter, and felony penalties for Election Code violations that threaten election integrity.
   

• Religious Freedom
  Restore the rights of individuals, organizations and businesses, to exercise their sincerely held religious beliefs by prohibiting local ordinances, state laws, or executive orders that violate those rights.
     

• Children and Gender Modification
  Abolish the following practices for minors: intervention to prevent natural progression of puberty; administration of opposite sex hormones; and performance of any type of gender reassignment surgery.
     

• Abolition of Abortion
  Abolish abortion by ensuring the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization.
     

• Constitutional Carry
  Restore legal Texas firearms owners’ rights to carry them openly or concealed without a permit, while maintaining the option of a permit for reciprocity purposes.
     

• Monument Protection
  All monuments or markers in our state shall be protected by law from being removed, defaced, destroyed, or otherwise dishonored. In particular, specific protection shall be given to the Alamo Cenotaph which shall not be removed from its current location off the Alamo Battlefield footprint.
     

• School Choice for All
  Empower parents and guardians to choose from public, private, charter, or homeschool options for their children’s education using tax credits or exemptions without government restraint or intrusion.
     

• Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
  Abolish all forms of taxpayer-funded lobbying.

• We are excited to welcome to the Texas Scorecard team today Andrew Koch, who will be stepping in as the producer of the 1836 Studios!
   
• And please join me in wishing a very happy birthday to my niece Nora, who turns 16 today... and is soon on her way to getting both her driver’s license AND her pilot’s license!

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