Howdy Texas Republicans,

Buckle up, Texas Republicans. The election is behind us, and
it's time to prepare for the 88th Legislative Session. After an
election where Texas Republicans won every statewide office by
double digits and grew our State Senate and House majorities,
conservatives should expect a bold session focused on delivering
the priorities Texas Republicans campaigned upon. In order to
accomplish this, we will need your help, a lot of effort, and
prayer.

The RPT convention delegates chose 8 Legislative Priorities this
session:

Protect our Elections
Secure the Border and Protect Texans
Ban Gender Modification of Children
Stop Sexualizing Texas Kids
Ban Democrat Chairs
Abolish Abortion in Texas
Defend our Gun Rights
Parental Rights and Educational Freedom

For the details of each of these priorities, please go here. The
sub-committee chair is listed under each priority. Please contact
them if you have questions or would like to get involved.

Of course, there are other important issues RPT will be
advocating for as well, like property taxes, fighting ESG,
medical freedom, and protecting the grid. Chairman Rinaldi has
created a Platform Advocacy Committee to address these important
issues and others that are in our platform but are not
priorities.

Our first priority of focus is Banning Democrat Chairs, which
will likely receive a vote in the first few days of the session
via an amendment to the proposed House rules. Currently, the
Speaker awards chairmanships to Democrats as well as Republicans.
Last session, despite a Republican majority, approximately 40% of
House committees were chaired by Democrats. This must change!
Our voters clearly gave Republicans a majority in the Legislature
and expect Republicans to lead.

For a good summary of the issue, please see Rep. Brian Harrison's
recent appearance on Newsmax.

Why is this such an important issue?
1. Democrats in leadership have a pulpit and significant power
over legislation. They control what bills are heard and what
bills are voted upon.
2. The Democrat chairs fundraise off their chairmanships and use
that money to defeat Republicans during elections.
3. There are 8 current Democrat members of the LGBT caucus who
are committee chairs. If any of our bills to protect children
from sexual orientation and gender ideology indoctrination end up
in their committees, they will not advance.
4. When the Democrats broke quorum last session and fled to
Washington D.C., Speaker Phelan indicated their chairmanships
could not be revoked. So, if he is re-elected Speaker, he will
not remove them, no matter what they do in their positions.

What can you do to encourage our representatives to vote for a
rule change?

If you have not already done so, send a handwritten postcard to
Speaker Phelan, asking that he not appoint Democrat committee
chairs. The address is PO Box 2910, Austin, 78768. Also, send a
postcard to your own Representative - it's the same address.

After you've sent a postcard, make phone calls to your own State
Representative and Speaker Phelan's office, asking that they
support the rule change to ban Democrat chairs. If they have
already come out in favor of the rule change, thank them.

Ask your representative to make a public statement that he/she
supports the Ban Democrat Chairs Legislative Priority. He/she
can put it out in a formal statement, a Tweet, a Facebook post,
say it in a public forum, or however, he or she chooses, as long
as it's public.

Speaker Phelan's Austin number is 512-463-1000. His District
office is 409-745-2777. Call either or both. For your own
Representative's number, if they are an incumbent, you can find
their phone number by clicking here, then click on the photo or
name. For the new Freshman members, it will take a week or two
for the lists to be updated online, but you can always contact
them through their campaign websites until the State lists are
updated.

The RPT has partnered with a Texas small business to sell shirts
that say, "Ban Democrat Chairs".

You can order the shirt by clicking here. They are $15 plus $10
shipping. If you want to get together with others and order
large quantities, you can have as many as you want shipped to the
same address for the flat shipping rate of $10.

This is what the shirts look like - not fancy, but direct and to
the point.

Please post pictures of yourself wearing your shirt with the
hashtag, #NoDemChairs to social media. We will be in Austin the
week of opening session January 10-12 wearing our shirts and
meeting with our Representatives. Please come join us if you
can.

For God and Texas,


Jill Glover
SREC, SD 12
Chair, SREC Legislative Priorities Committee

CONTRIBUTE

Paid for and Authorized by the Republican Party of Texas

P.O. Box 2206, Austin, TX 78768

This message was intended for: [email protected]
You were added to the system February 10, 2021.
For more information please follow the URL below:
[link removed]

Follow the URL below to update your preferences or opt-out:
[link removed]

To unsubscribe from future mailings, send an email to mailto:unsub-71134967788-echo3-AE0547510BD429EA7A05D429A7CD504B@emailsendr.net?Subject=Unsubscribe&body=Please%20remove%20me%20from%20further%20mailings
with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line.