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Austin, TX, Release: August 23, 2021 — For Immediate Release After Texas House Democrats caused a 37-day legislative delay and wasted over $1.6 million in taxpayer money, a quorum is now established in the Texas House. The Republican Party of Texas is excited the legislature will move forward with addressing election integrity and other GOP priorities. … Read more
Legislative Priorities Report for August 23, 2021 Last Thursday, a quorum was finally achieved in the House when just enough Texas Democrats decided that it might be a good idea to return to work. Soon after announcing the quorum, Speaker Phelan assigned bills to House committees and recessed until Monday at 4:00pm. The Republican Party … Read more
If you’re like me, you learned your civics and your legislative processes through School House Rock. But maybe sometimes in the real world, it doesn’t quite work out that way. So today, I am pleased to have as my guest representative Bryan Slaton, and he’s going to join us today to tell us how the … Read more
Austin, TX, Release: August 16, 2021 — For Immediate Release As the Republican Party of Texas continues to make candidate recruitment a priority ahead of the 2022 election, they are pleased to announce a new chair and vice-chair of the Candidate Recruitment Task Force. Cat Parks, Vice-Chair of the Republican Party of Texas said “With two … Read more
Legislative Priorities Report for August 16, 2021 On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security declared that opposition to COVID restrictions, those that question the results of the 2020 election, along with the 9/11 anniversary and upcoming religious holidays could provoke terrorist attacks. The negative narrative being driven against conservative thought is stunning and swift. The … Read more
Welcome to Season Two of The Elephant Heard! It’s a new season with the Republican party of Texas and the podcast. Today my guest is the new chairman of the Republican party, Matt Rinaldi. Podcast Subscribers Email* Support The Elephant Heard Jonathan Schober:Welcome back to another episode of the Elephant Herd. This is season two, … Read more
Austin, TX, Release: August 9, 2021 — For Immediate Release Last week Governor Abbott released the call for a second special session with numerous new items not included in the first session call. Notably absent was an item banning the barbaric practice of gender modification for minors, a Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priority. Matt Rinaldi, Chairman of … Read more
Legislative Priorities Report for August 9, 2021 The first Special Session of the 87th Legislature has ended, and the second one began Saturday at noon. Exactly nothing was accomplished in the first special session as the Democrats went on holiday, and the only penalty incurred was Democrat Speaker Pro Temp Joe Moody was relieved of his duties. The Senate, having a quorum, did gavel in and the Election Integrity bill SB 1 is scheduled for … Read more
Austin, TX, Release: August 5, 2021 — For Immediate Release Gov. Greg Abbott recently released the call for a second special session of the Texas Legislature to begin Saturday August 7, just hours after the first special session expired. This second special session comes after Texas House Democrats fled the state leaving the first session in a stalemate. Texas Republican Party Chairman … Read more
Austin, TX, Release: August 4, 2021 — For Immediate Release The Texas Republican Party is incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) Member Scott Apley from Senate District 11. Scott was a first term member of the SREC who had a long history of conservative political activism. He leaves behind a wife and infant child. The entire staff of the Republican … Read more