United Conservative Coalition of Texas Sponsors a Get Out The Vote RallyFORT WORTH, Texas, February 8, 2010 -- The United Conservative Coalition of Texas – an organization representing over a dozen Tea Party, 912 and other conservative groups in North Texas – will be conducting the largest pre-primary Get Out The Vote rally in Texas history on February 20, 2010 at the historic Cowtown Coliseum in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Every candidate on the Republican Party ballot has been invited to attend. The highlight of the event is the highly contested Texas Governor’s race. Of the three candidates, Debra Medina, the insurgent candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, has confirmed her attendance. Over two dozen other candidates for national, state and local offices have also confirmed.
Adrian Murray, local businessman and president of the Fort Worth 912 Project and a member of the UCCOT, said, “2010 will be the most critical election in this nation’s history. While there is a tendency for hyperbole each election cycle, there can be no doubting that who controls the US House and Senate, as well as the legislature in Austin, will set the agenda starting in January 2011. That agenda will either be more big government takeover of our lives, more wasteful spending, more shredding of the Constitution or it will not. The only way to ensure a return to fiscal and governmental sanity is by nominating and electing principled conservatives to office.”
The aim of the rally, according to Murray, is give voters an opportunity to meet and listen to all the candidates to make an informed decision. “The event will be right in the middle of early voting and we will encourage voters to go straight from the rally to the polls. The key to victory is motivating and mobilizing voters, especially those who normally sit out primaries. Don’t complain in November if you’re not satisfied with your choices.”
The Cowtown Coliseum has seating for 2,300 plus room for another 700 on the arena floor. Murray expects every seat to be filled. “Since the presidential election in 2008 and the relentless assaults on freedom and liberty that have ensued, particularly with health care and cap and trade, people who have never paid attention to a primary in their lives are now alert and highly motivated. Those attending this event will be part of history. Never before has a group of private citizens attempted an undertaking of this size and complexity. But if we are going to save this nation and return to constitutional principles we have to be willing to try things that have never been tried before.”
HIGH NOON IN COWTOWN begins at 12:00 pm on Saturday, February 20, 2010.
Is that the same Debra Medina who wants the EPA abolished so drillers can keep fracking up Texas? That won't clean up the air in FW, Texas or anyplace else.
ReplyDeleteWe just had a much needed change last year in politics and it needs time to bear fruit, especially considering the drought years of the Bush Administration.
The planet and its inhabitants need time to heal. That won't happen with a Republican in charge. While I admire the tea party spirit I fear their core values will bring about more of the same old GOP business friendly armageddon. That's not the kind of change my wagon will hook up to.
Your comments are well-meaning but I think you need to hear what Medina says. She is not calling for the abolition of the EPA. She is saying that Texas does not need the federal government coming in with mandates from on high, that Texas can regulate its own industries. It's a freedom issue.
ReplyDeleteIf the state cannot or will not take care of its own house and protect its own citizens, then darn right that the feds should step in to help. It's both a freedom and a rights issues: freedom from dirty industry practices and rights to be safe, along the line of civil rights and the rights to the cleanest environment possible for our families. We can disagree about the means, but we all pretty much should agree on the "ends"=the slowing down of our eventual physical ends. Know what I mean. The end.
ReplyDeleteShe said that the Texas oil and gas industry needs to be free from federal shackles. That is a statement from a very naive person or one who is in bed with oil and gas. That's not a freedom issue it's a health and safety issue. That's why we have the EPA, to protect us from states like Texas and radicals like Medina.
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