Tina Benkiser Elected Texas GOP Chairman

texasgop.org ^ | 11-01-03

[wyliecaver]

Now what's the problem..., San Antonio gets all the good stuff.

[barkeep]

Don't always agree with him, (Reister) but have worked with him in the past to preserve the standing (but threatened) delegate allocation rule. Knows rules backwards and forwards and certainly would not allow, as did Binkhiser, a full day of wasted time before ruling a proposal out of order. Oh, for the days of Talmadge Heflin. This is going to be a particularly difficult session at best, and we need a chair with an iron hand unless we all want to be in session until 4:00 AM every night.

[Zack Nguyen]

The question is whether she will steer the self-destructive conservatives in the Texas GOP, or cheer them on.

How are they self-destructive? Perry won with 59% of the vote last year, and Republican gains have been steady for the last 30 years.

[Zack Nguyen]

And cultish it was - Weddington has long been involved in some VERY bizarre "religious" organizations including one called "Justice at the Gate" that goes around the state apologizing to various minority groups for slavery, abusing the Indians, taking Texas from the Mexicans etc on behalf of white people and in the name of "faith."

I am quite familiar with Justice at the Gate, and they are anything but "bizarre". Their chief function is prayer for judges across the state. They match Christians with various judges of every political stripe and pray for them. They also do work in racial reconciliation, and I have never found there work offensive at all.

In addition, never have I heard anyone accuse Susan Weddington of being a "chain smoking political tramp". If you can post proof of her being deceptive, do so. Otherwise you ought not to throw terms like that around without proof.

[Zack Nguyen]

For starters, it would be unethical for judicial candidates to set in stone their positions on issues which may become cases.

I believe the Supreme Court ruled that judges can express their opinions on individual issues.

[Melas]

I'll tell you my beef. A representative represents a constituency, not a party. A candidate who wants to represent say a small district in the Piney woods, had best intend to represent the politics, idiosyncracies included of tht that constituency, not the party line.

[Dog Gone]

The Republicans have been extremely successful. The people I'm referring to are some conservative activists who have managed to pass some planks to the state platform that are pretty extreme.

That hasn't really been a problem for Republican candidates because nobody who runs for office in this state will dare to endorse the state platform. They'd never get elected if they did.

Well, that has many on the platform-writing committee angry, and they'd like to force candidates to endorse the entire platform or get no party funding for elections.

That's self-destructive.

[SwinneySwitch]

The state convention was held in Dallas last year.

[rob3006]

They will curve it around on you........

[Zack Nguyen]

The people I'm referring to are some conservative activists who have managed to pass some planks to the state platform that are pretty extreme.

Oh - you're referring to the platform.