Blog

Since October 9, 2021, Jennifer, Susan and Bill have written regular blog postings on the dallasgop.org website. Since all of their postings are no longer being published on that site by the new DCRP team, we are republishing those posts written by those three authors (all are now members of the DCR United team) to provide continuity. Going forward, new blog postings published after June 15, 2024, will be shown here.

Dec 02 2024

Election of Texas Speaker of the House


On Saturday, December 7th, the Republican House Caucus is meeting at the Capitol in Austin to hold a secret vote and nominate their candidate for House Speaker for the upcoming legislative session. Susan Fountain and I, along with most of the other members of the SREC, will be there to encourage ALL of the Republican Representatives to vote for David Cook as the next Speaker, in part because Rep. Cook has pledged NOT to appoint Democrats to chair committees in the House.  

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Nov 12 2024

Texas Gets Redder, Again. Now, Let's Make Dallas County Redder!


Democrats have not won a state-wide election in many years, mainly due to statewide conservative rural areas, which offset the 5 largest blue counties.  Yet they are vowing to get up again and get to work TODAY to work on turning Texas blue! This is how the Democrats turned Dallas County blue...slowly and surely over the last 25+- years.  If nothing else they are very patient.  There were some conservative victories.  All eight of the Court of Appeals candidates recruited under Jennifer's leadership, including the new Chief Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals, Justice JJ Koch won, and Republicans now dominate the 13 Panel Court.  And Dallas County Republicans managed to keep its two incumbent Texas House Districts, District 108 and District 112, in spite of unprecedented opposition from members of the Dallas County Republican Party. God bless every one of you who put a sign in your yard, block walked for Republicans and helped in any way to get out the vote!  We worked hard and put Trump back in, but not in Dallas County.  In Dallas County, Democrats swept almost every race.

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Oct 23 2024

E-Pollbook Problems


On the first day of early voting, Monday, October 21, there were widespread problems with the ES&S E-Pollbooks used in Dallas County to check in voters. The turnout on the first day of early voting was heavy (long lines) and the e-pollbook problems contributed to even longer lines.

The problems resulted in the election workers being kicked off the system frequently requiring new logins every time it happened. The problems occurred every 2 to 10 voters. Worse, as a direct artifact of the core problem, the incorrect ballot style (wrong precinct and/or sub-precinct) and its races being printed for some (but not all) voters. When noticed by election workers or voters, this required spoiling the incorrect ballot and generating new ones. In some cases, this required multiple cycles to generate a correct ballot which consumed more time. One Voting Center reported a total of over 200 spoiled ballots on Monday. For these voters, they ultimately cast corrected ballots but this error caused more time and resulted in even longer lines.

Fortunately, these problems were quickly noticed by our Election Workers (Election Judges and Election Clerks) and reported to DCED. The problem was diagnosed and its causes and effects were found an fixed. A more complete background of the problem and its fix are included in the Dallas County Elections Department press release.

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Oct 14 2024

Do You Hear Yourself?!


To the Dallas County Republican Party’s Resolution Committee:  You voted to propose a resolution requiring candidates to believe exactly as YOU do or face Republican opposition and negative campaigning to defeat them. To you, I repeat what I heard JD Vance say to a reporter on a Sunday morning program:  “Do you hear yourself?” 

You would rather see a liberal Democrat who does not agree with you on anything elected over the only two Republican State House members we have in Dallas County who agree with you on 90% of the issues? Are you listening to what you are saying? 

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Sep 12 2024

Don’t Be Confused About Nov 5


There is confusion as to what is on the ballot on November 5. Note that I said, “what,” and not, “who.”

That’s because it’s really not about “who.”

Boiled all the way down, this is not a contest between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. It’s not even a contest between two political parties. And it goes well beyond such things as tax policy, fiscal policy and national defense.

The 2024 election is a contest between two governing visions for this 235-year-old republic – two governing visions that have seldom in our history been more divergent.

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Aug 15 2024

SREC 3rd Quarter Meeting, 2024


The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is guided by an Executive Committee.  There are 31 Senate Districts in Texas and two representatives from each Senate District (SD) are elected at the Biennial Republican Party of Texas Convention, recently held in San Antonio May 23-25, 2024.  An SREC Committeeman and an SREC Committeewoman were elected from each SD making 62 members.

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Aug 07 2024

Lightning Strikes Twice!


At this time in our nation many of us are laser focused on the upcoming November election, putting behind us a brutal impeachment trial and equally brutal primary election. We all know that Texas is that “last safe zone” to where normal people are heading. Texans are now planning to show up en masse to protect the last bastion of freedom in the US. God help us if we don’t.

While thousands of us are rightfully engaged, enlightened and energized for November, many of us are working overtime to look ahead to the upcoming local elections in May, 2025. Filing deadlines for Municipal and School Board races begin mid-January and end mid-February. 

Now is the time to change YOUR city for the better!

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Jul 29 2024

Lessons From a Failing State


In 2016, Venezuela had 30.7 million people but became engulfed in political and economic crises, which led to more than 7.7 million people leaving the country. How did this oil-rich country, which used to be the third-richest country in the hemisphere, get into so much trouble? In the recent Presidential election, Venezuela’s opposition party alleges massive government corruption. It has been widely reported that Maduro had used fraud and physical force to retain power when all polls showed the opposition party and candidate had won. There are reports of ballot boxes being seized and burned. 

Further, as Red State reported today, "Kamala Harris and Joe Biden had different ideas. While the press will no doubt bury the story, the current administration was at the center of this fraudulent election, having handed Maduro sanctions relief in exchange for "free and fair elections."  That sounds like a great deal in exchange for only a hollow promise. Just two weeks before the elections, Kamala and Joe throw Maduro a bone and a boatload of economic benefits. Figures, I guess; leftists supporting leftists.

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