Vidal Martinez is Endorsed Over Alexandra Del Moral Mealer in the May 24, 2022, Republican Runoffs

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Crime is the top issue in the Houston area and Vidal has the best experience and qualifications to tackle this problem. That’s why Harris County needs Vidal Martinez as our next County Judge.” - COUNCILMAN KUBOSH

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DR. STEVEN HOTZE AND GARY POLLAND ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO CAST YOUR VOTE FOR VIDAL MARTINEZ IN THE RUNOFF RACE FOR HARRIS COUNTY JUDGE. EARLY VOTING: MAY 16-20TH I ELECTION DAY: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022 Houston Business Connections Newspaper© is published by Aubrey R. Taylor Communications. All Rights Reserved.

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In my opinion, Martina Dixon and Vidal Martinez are Two Conservatives Everyone Should Know...

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I really liked Martina Dixon and Vidal Martinez back on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, when they headlined a “STAR STUDDED” field of conservatives who were vying for a chance to unseat lying Lina Hidalgo, the current Harris County Judge who tried to steer that $11 million dollar COVID-19 Outreach Contract to that Felicity Pereyra woman. Now, all of that said, Martina Dixon didn’t make the runoff. So, we’re sticking with Vidal. And I’m encouraging all of my readers to cast your vote for Vidal Martinez on Tues., May 24, 2022.

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Vidal G. Martinez is Managing Partner of Martinez Partners LLP, and is a highly respected international lawyer, speaker, and author who began his career in 1978 as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Houston with the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 1981, Vidal, who is of Mexican descent and fluent in Spanish, has been engaged in private practice handling primarily litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters.

In 2001-2002, Vidal was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, the governing body of all Texas lawyers. In 2008, he received the prestigious Reynaldo G. Garza Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Bar, which is given annually to just one individual “who has demonstrated a long commitment and made great achievement in addressing concerns and issues affecting the Spanish speaking community.”

Vidal has also received the Five Outstanding Young Houstonians and the Five Outstanding Young Texans awards from the Houston and Texas Jaycees.

He was appointed by former Texas Governor Bill Clements to the University of Houston Board of Regents and also served as Vice-Chairman.

Vidal has served on the Board of Directors at Houston Methodist Hospital System since 1992, which is ranked the #1 hospital in Texas.

He previously served as a Commissioner of the Port of Houston Authority and on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership.

He and his wife Debbie live in the Central Northwest Houston area. Vidal is the father of two, Grant (a lawyer who resides in Houston with his wife and two children) and Kate (an epidemiologist who resides in Boston with her husband and daughter).

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Founded in 2009, HRT made an immediate impact helping elect FIVE Hispanic Republican state representatives in 2010, up from ZERO in the previous session. In total, HRT has helped elect 11 conservative Hispanic Republicans to the Texas House.

Since its founding, the Hispanic Republicans of Texas PAC has raised over $1,750,000 toward campaign contributions and support for candidates running for state and local offices. HRT has assisted candidates from statewide office all the way down the ballot to school board.

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can population. The group is partially an outgrowth of the Spanish Speaking Advisory Committee of the Republican National Committee, which itself was created as a response to successful efforts to attract HispanicAmerican voters to the presidential candidacy of Richard Nixon.

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Vidal currently serves, or has recently served as noted, on the following boards:

State Bar of Texas, Board of Directors; 47-member governing board of all Texas attorneys Chairman of the Board of Directors (2001-02) Board of Directors (1999-2003) Port of Houston Authority, Commissioner (1996-2002); 7-member governing board Houston Methodist Hospital System, Board of Directors (1992-present) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Trustee (1990-1994, 1996-2003) Greater Houston Partnership, (Houston Chamber of Commerce), Board of Directors (1990-1997; 1999-2002) Executive Committee (1994-1997; 1999; 2012) Chairman, World Trade Division Supervisory Board (1994, 1995) Chairman, Transportation Committee (1997, 1998) University of Houston Board of Regents, Member (1989-1995); Vice-Chairman (1993-1994); Chairman, Asset Management Committee (1989-1993/19941996); University of Houston Law Foundation, Trustee (1996-2000) Greater Houston Community Foundation, Board (1993-2010) American Leadership Forum, Class IX (1990); Senior Fellow (1991-present) Additionally, he was a founding director of several prominent Houston Hispanic organizations, including the Houston Hispanic Forum, the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Hispanic Political Action Committee (HISPAC). Vidal served as Chairman of the 1993 Houston International Festival commemorating Mexico, an event that drew over 1.5 million participants and was recognized by then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as the largest foreign event honoring his country in Mexican history.

Vidal was selected by former President George H.W. Bush as one of eight Vice Chairmen of the 1990 Economic Summit Host Committee and chaired one of the four principal committees. He was also named by President Bush as one of the 12 Vice Chairmen of the 1992 Republican National Convention Host Committee. In 2003, Vidal was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the National Conference of Christians & Jews and by the University of Houston as UH Distinguished Alumni. From 1996-2013, Vidal was a member of the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, a group of approximately two-dozen lawyers and judges throughout Texas formed to review candidates and advise both U.S. Senators from Texas of qualifications for persons nominated for federal judicial appointments and U.S. Attorney positions.

Task Force (1986-1990) Governor William Clements’ Hispanic Advisory Committee (1987-1990) Greater Houston Community Foundation, Board (1993-2010) Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau, Board of Directors (1991-1999) Harris County Health Facilities Development Corp, Board (1992-2002) Hispanic Bar Association, Director (1989-1992) Hispanic Political Action Committee (HISPAC), Founding Director (1987-present), President (1988, 1989) Houston Bar Foundation, Trustee (1987-1988) Houston Hispanic Forum, Director (1984-1989); Secretary (1987) Houston Housing Authority, Board of Commissioners (1985-1991) Houston International Festival, Board (1989-1995); Chairman (1993) Houston Proud, Director (1988-1992) Houston Zoological Society, Director (1988-1992) M.D. Anderson Hospital, Board of Visitors (1992-1995) NationsBank (now Bank of America), Advisory Director (1990-1999) Open Door Mission, Chairman (2013), Director (1996-1999; 2006-16), Chairman Emeritus Philosophical Society of Texas, Member (2004- present) Salvation Army, Houston Advisory Board (1993-1999) Sam Houston Area Boy Scouts of America, Board (1990-1999) Texas Children’s Hospital, Development Council (1990-1993) Texas Department of Commerce, Board (1995-1997); Vice Chairman (1996-1997) Texas Education Reform Foundation, Chairman (2005-08); Board of Directors (2001-2011) Texas Mexico Authority, Director (1987-1991) University of Houston Board of Regents, Member (1989-1995); Vice-Chairman (1993-1994); Chairman, Asset Management Committee (1989-1993/1994-1996); University of Houston Law Foundation, Trustee (1996-2000) United States/Mexico Chamber of Commerce/Southwest, Region (8 states), Director (1988-1994); President (1992), Chairman (1993), Emeritus Director (1994 present)

MEMBER:

American Bar Association Houston Bar Association International Bar Association State Bar of Texas Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

ADMITTED:

U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court of Texas U.S. District Court: Southern, Western & Northern Districts of Texas U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Fifth, Eleventh, Second and D.C. Circuits U.S. Court of Claims

AFFILIATIONS:

Coronado Club Philosophical Society of Texas International Order of St. Hubertus

ADDITIONAL CIVIC ACTIVITY:

American Leadership Forum, Class IX (1990); Senior Fellow (1991-present) Amigos de Las Americas, Director (1986-1990) Avalon Homeowner’s Association, Director (1982-1987); President (19841-986) British American Project, Fellow (1993-present) “C” Club of Houston (2017-present; Executive Committee 2019, 2020, 2021) Export Funding Corporation (subsidiary of NationsBank), Director (1993-1995) Governor William Clements’ Business Development and Jobs Creation

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REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS Without a doubt, Texas is the strongest Republican state in the nation. The people of Texas have entrusted Republicans with the stewardship of every statewide elected office and majorities in the state senate, state house and on the state board of education. Republicans now have majorities in 107 Texas counties that contain nearly two-thirds of the state’s population. And Texas’ own George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States.

But things haven’t always been so great for Texas Republicans. For over one hundred years, the Republican Party was not a viable force in Texas politics. We were the second party in a one-party state. During that time, the GOP failed to win a single statewide race and controlled only a handful of seats in the Legislature.

Foundations

To understand how the Republican Party of Texas got from point A to point B, one must understand the history of Texas and her citizens. Unlike the original 13 colonies, Texas was never a British colony. Although many nations would try at different times to subjugate Texas, none could maintain authority over the fiercely independent men and women of the state for very long. With foreign armies constantly invading, and the daily trials of life in the Wild West, Texas by necessity developed a free spirit, a pride in self-re-

liance and a work ethic that is still unmatched today. Without those characteristics, Texas could not have survived.

Early Texans lived, loved, and died entirely by their own efforts without relying on government to fulfill their needs. Just like modern Texans, early settlers believed in families, churches and neighbors, not in bureaucracy.

That sense of self-respect and self-reliance is still the envy of the world.

Today’s Republican Party was founded in 1854 by a group of MidWestern abolitionists opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which allowed a choice of slavery in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Texas, which had become a state in 1845, was right in the middle of the heated slavery controversy. Most state leaders were Democrats prior to the Civil War, and thus supported the pro-slavery Confederacy. But President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, gained the support of Texas Republicans and several prominent state leaders, like Sam Houston, Texas’ first Governor. However, most of those who decided to support Lincoln’s decision to defend the Union were forced from office, and Democrats succeeded in allying Texas with the Confederacy.

erations, Texas had known only honor, victory and valor. Though Texans never lost a battle at home during the Civil War, the Union army under orders from a Republican President marched in and occupied the Lone Star State after the Confederacy surrendered. For the first time, Texas would not be victorious. The next four generations of Texans would not forgive the Republican Party.

Early Support

African Americans were one group of Texans that would consistently support the Republican Party in Texas in those early years. In fact, throughout Reconstruction, African Americans comprised about 90% of GOP membership, and 44 African Americans served in the Texas legislature as Republicans.

It was through the hard work of a number of dedicated African American men and women that the earliest foundations of the Republican Party of Texas were laid. The first-ever state Republican convention that met in Houston on July 4, 1867 was predominantly African American in composition, with about 150 African American Texans attending, and 20 Anglos.

“the most important political position given to a black man of the South in the nineteenth century.”

The Brink of Collapse

Despite the strong support of groups like African Americans and Germans, the Reconstruction period was troublesome at best for the fledgling Republican Party. Edmund J. Davis, a Unionist and a Republican, became Governor in 1870, and his four-year administration was marked with bitter controversy. Though soundly defeated in1874, Davis refused to leave office.

He barricaded himself in the state capitol and had to be thrown out by force of arms. It would be 104 years before another Republican was elected Governor of Texas.

Despite embarrassing episodes like that of Davis, Republicans managed to make gradual gains in Texas as the 19th Century drew to a close. In 1876, nearly one-third of the statewide vote went to Republicans. A handful of Republican candidates, including several African Americans, won election to the State Legislature. But beginning in 1905 with the passage of the Terrell election law, which required Texans to pay a poll tax, the number of Republican voters in the state would be slashed as many poor Texans could not afford to pay.

“THE PARTY OF FREEDOM.” The effects of the Civil War and its aftermath would be felt for more than a century throughout the South, and especially in Texas. For its first two gen-

The second State GOP Chairman, Norris Wright Cuney, an African-American from Galveston who led the Republican Party from 1883 to 1897, is said by State historians to have held

Fifty years after Reconstruction and Edmund J. Davis, the first Republi-

HOUSTON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS NEWSPAPER© can statewide primary was held in 1926 with a meager 15,239 voters participating. Only two more primaries would be attempted in the next thirty-four years. In the same year, 821,234 voters participated in the Democrat primary, and Democrat Ma Ferguson was eventually elected to a second term as Governor of Texas.

The Long Road to Recovery

As new issues arose and memories of the Civil War subsided, the GOP gradually grew stronger in Texas.

In 1947, the Republican Party of Texas entered the modern era. With the founding of the Republican Club of Texas that year by Captain J.F. Lucey of Dallas, a drive was initiated to build a potent Republican Party in the Lone Star State. The current governing body of the RPT, the State Republican Executive Committee, was organized in 1952.

In 1960 Texas Republicans still didn’t even have a regular primary. However, in the Presidential Election that year, Republican Richard M. Nixon ran a close second to Democrat John F. Kennedy, winning 49% of the state vote. In the same election, Republican John G. Tower of Wichita Falls got 926,653 votes as a candidate for the United State Senate against Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat who was running concurrently for Vice-President. When Johnson resigned his seat in the Senate to become Vice President of the United States, Tower was elected to replace him in the special election that followed, defeating interim Senator William A. Blakely of Dallas. Tower thus became the first Republican to hold statewide elective office since Edmund J. Davis was elected Governor during Reconstruction.

The Republican Party held a non-binding presidential preferential primary for the first time in 1964. In 1966, U.S. Senator Tower was re-elected to his first full term. Two Republicans (including future President George H. W. Bush of Houston) were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since Reconstruction, three to the State House, and the first Republican in 39 years was elected to the Texas Senate.

Further gains by Republicans were made in the

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The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for United States Representative, District 7 in the Republican Party features Johnny Teague as the "FRONT-RUNNER" and Tim Stroud as the "RUNNER-UP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That being said, Johnny Teague was endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one. And we’re pleased to inform you that we are standing by our endorsement of Johnny in the May 24, 2022, Republican Party Primary runoffs.

The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for United States Representative, District 29 in the Republican Party features Robert Schafranek as the "FRONT-RUNNER" and Julio Garza as the "RUNNER-UP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That said, Julio Garza was endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one. And we’re pleased to inform you that we are standing by our endorsement of Julio in the May 24, 2022, Republican Primary runoffs.

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The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for Attorney General in the Republican Party features Ken Paxton as the "FRONTRUNNER" and George P. Bush as the "RUNNER-UP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That being said, Ken Paxton and Eva Guzman were endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one. And we’re pleased to inform you that we are standing by our endorsement of Ken Paxton in the May 24, 2022, Republican Primary runoffs.

The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for Commissioner of the General Land Office in the Republican Party features Dawn Buckingham as the "FRONT-RUNNER" and Tim Westley as the "RUNNER-UP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That being said, Tim Westley was endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one.

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OVERVIEW AND HISTORY

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REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS Texas Legislature in 1972 when 17 were elected to the House and three to the Senate. These gains were consolidated in 1974 when 16 Republicans were elected to the House and the same three Republican Senators were returned to the Texas Senate.

The Beginning of Realignment

In 1978 Texas elected William P. Clements, Jr., the first Republican Governor in over 100 years. In the next four years, Clements and Tower utilized their statewide organization in Texas to continue to build the Party.

While Clements’ 1982 defeat was a temporary setback, the Party’s enthusiasm built to an unprecedented high as Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Phil Gramm campaigned in Texas in 1984. With the help of an active State GOP that supplied a centralized network of communications, the Republican victory was overwhelming in what had historically been a Democrat state. As liberal Democrat candidates moved from primary victories to the general election, the moderate and conservative Texas Democrats abandoned their party loyalty to support conservative Republican candidates.

In 1984, Phil Gramm held on to John Tower’s U.S. Senate seat when the latter retired. Gramm an incumbent congressmen and former Democrat who had resigned his office, joined the Republican Party, and recaptured it in a special election the year before won unprecedented support across the state in his successful bid to become the second GOP U.S. Senator in modern times. The Republican Party also gained five seats in Congress that year, 15 seats in the State Legislature and 107 local offices.

Any doubts about Republican realignment in Texas were removed in the 1986 election cycle. The majority of the members of the old school of conservative Democrats had either fled their Party’s ranks or retired from office, leaving the liberal core that is the heart of today’s Democrat Party.

Needless to say, former Governor Bill Clements was re-elected by a wide margin. Republicans enjoyed a net gain of 127 local seats, the most in the nation, and four more state representative seats.

the number of Republican House Members never exceeded 36 out of 150, the 56 Republicans who served in the House at the start of his second term rendered him veto-proof as they controlled more than one-third of the House votes.

In 1987, Kent Hance was appointed Railroad Commissioner and Judge Thomas Phillips was appointed Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

Both men were elected to those positions in 1988, the first Republicans since Reconstruction.

An Era for Breaking Records

The GOP continued to make gains in the early 1990’s. Texas House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rick Perry scored a surprise victory in the race for Agriculture Commissioner in 1990.

That same year, John Cornyn was elected to the Texas Supreme Court, and former state legislator Kay Bailey Hutchison secured the post of State Treasurer. In 1993, Hutchison would become the first woman elected to the US Senate from Texas.

In 1994, George W. Bush would become only the second Republican Governor since Reconstruction in his landslide victory against popular Democrat incumbent Ann Richards. Rick Perry and Kay Hutchison would hold onto their statewide posts, while Austin’s first female mayor, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, would become the first woman elected to the Texas Railroad Commission. Republicans that year also saw a three-seat increase in the Texas House, and gained another seat in the Texas Senate.

Two years later, Republicans would gain an additional three seats in the Texas Senate, giving the GOP a majority in the body for the first time since Reconstruction. Seven new Republican legislators would also be sent to Austin in 1996, and voters would return Phil Gramm to the US Senate and John Cornyn to the Texas Supreme Court.

In 1997, Susan Weddington became the first woman to chair a major state party in Texas. She and Vice Chairman David Barton were reelected in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and together they united the grassroots and kept all members of our party marching in the same direction.

lot by forging inroads into traditional Democrat constituencies. Governor George W. Bush became the first Republican governor to win back-to-back four-year terms, winning 240 out of 254 counties and becoming the first GOP gubernatorial candidate ever to win the heavily Hispanic El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo counties. Texans elected Rick Perry as the first ever Republican Lieutenant Governor, John Cornyn as the first ever Republican Attorney General, Carole Keeton Strayhorn as the first ever Republican Comptroller, David Dewhurst as the first ever Republican Land Commissioner, Susan Combs as the first female Agriculture Commissioner and Railroad Commissioner Tony Garza as the first Hispanic Republican to win statewide office.

That same year, Republicans would defend the GOP majority in the State Senate and gain four seats in the Texas House a record number for an off-year election at the time. Republicans would also enjoy much success in the battle to gain seats at the county level, as the number of GOPcontrolled county courthouses increased by one-third.

A Model for the Nation

Two years later, our nation would embark on perhaps the most surreal electoral journey in US history. On November 7, 2000, Texans went to bed believing that we had sent our own Governor George W. Bush to the White House, only to awake the next morning to learn that perhaps we had not. One month, and countless recounts later, Texans finally breathed a collective sigh of relief and celebrated as one the finest Texas Governors of all times was declared the 43rd President of the United States!

Back in Texas, however, it wouldn’t require any recounts to declare that Republicans had once again swept all the statewide offices on the 2000 ballot. Notably, Michael Williams, a Bush appointee to the Texas Railroad Commission, won his first full term and became the first African American to be elected to a non-judicial statewide office in Texas history.

Once again, the GOP maintained a majority in the Texas Senate in 2000, giving Republicans three consecutive majorities in the body for the first time since Reconstruction. Perhaps most memorable was State Rep. Todd Staples’s landslide victory in the race for State Senate District 3 a contest that

some observers called the most important legislative race in the nation in a decade.

After November 2000, the battle lines in the State House would remain essentially unchanged as Republicans and Democrats stalemated across Texas. As the votes around the state were canvassed, many Republicans were shocked that Republicans had earned 60% of the vote in all state house races, but only received 48% of the seats. Accordingly, attention shifted to the importance of drawing fair and compact district lines during the redistricting process in 2001.

November 2002 proved to be a historic election for Republicans on all levels in the state of Texas. Republicans swept all statewide offices for the fourth consecutive election, with Governor Rick Perry leading the ticket in a landslide victory over a wealthy opponent. Texans also sent Attorney General John Cornyn to the U.S. Senate to replace the retiring Phil Gramm, and Land Commissioner David Dewhurst became only the second Republican to serve as Lt. Governor.

With fair new districts in place for the first time in decades, Republicans gained the first majority in the Texas House of Representatives for the first time in 130 years with a pick up of sixteen seats. Rep. Tom Craddick of Midland, who in the 1960’s was one of only four Republicans in the chamber, was subsequently elected the first GOP Speaker since Reconstruction.

Republicans also made record gains in the State Senate, gaining 3 seats for a total of 19, and in the U.S. Congressional delegation, gaining 2 seats for a total of 15. Texas Republicans also shattered records at the county level, gaining 210 seats across the state, including 20 county judge seats and 42 county commissioner seats the largest gain in modern history. This gave Republicans a controlling majority in 73 county courthouses, containing two-thirds of the state’s population.

A Bright Future Ahead

In June 2010, delegates to the Republican Party of Texas state convention in Dallas elected Steve Munisteri of Houston as Chairman. Chairman Munisteri ran on a platform of retiring the party’s debt, streamlining its fundraising operations, grassroots participation in the party, and standing on our core principles of limited government,

“THE PARTY OF FREEDOM.” The 70th Session of the Legislature saw an agenda that was largely determined by the Republican Party. Unlike Governor Clements’ first term, when

In November of 1998, Republicans were able to sweep the statewide bal-

HOUSTON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS NEWSPAPER© unleashed free enterprise, personal liberty and strong national security. Chairman Munisteri is leading a freshly energized and freshly united Texas GOP in promoting Texas values and the Texas record at the helm of the Republican Party.

Today Republicans hold all statewide offices and enjoy majorities in both houses of the Legislature. The November 2010 elections brought staggering victories to Republicans across Texas.

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HOUSE DISTRICT 133 - TEXAS

23 of 32 U.S. Congressional seats 19 of 31 State Senate seats

101 of 150 State House seats

234 New Republican Elected Officials at the County level

Over two dozen Democrat elected officials have switched to the Republican Party since November 2010

Across Texas, more and more citizens of the Lone Star State from all walks of life and background are identifying themselves with the Republican Party’s values and ideals. Texas today is the largest solidly Republican state in America, and boasts an unrivalled economic record that is the result of hard working Texans’ efforts combined with our conservative approach to governance.

Simply put, the exponential growth that the Republican Party has experienced in recent years has ushered in a new era of Texas politics and made Texas an economical powerhouse, as well as a model of responsible, productive and reasonable government.

The authoritative 1998 Almanac of American Politics stated:

“Texas is now an indisputably Republican state… On the major issues, and on the overriding question of whether to continue Texas’s traditions of cultural conservatism and minimalist government … the Republicans seem very much on the majority side. The future of Texas appears to be theirs and, if this state is as attractive a model as it thinks, perhaps the nation as well.”

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The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for Railroad Commissioner in the Republican Party features Wayne Christian as the "FRONT-RUNNER" and Sarah Stogner as the "RUNNERUP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That being said, Wayne Christian was endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one. And we’re pleased to inform you that we are standing by our endorsement of Wayne in the May 24, 2022, Republican Primary runoffs.

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The (REPUBLICAN) runoff race for Harris County Commissioner for Precinct #2 in the Republican Party features Jack Morman as the "FRONT-RUNNER" and Jerry Mouton as the "RUNNER-UP" heading into Tuesday, May 24, 2022. That being said, Jerry Mouton was endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© in round one.

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Biblical Christianity exalts God as the Sovereign Ruler of the universe. His laws and standards have the ultimate authority on how an individual should conduct himself.

Freedom and liberty for an individual, and for society at large, can only exist as we submit under the Sovereignty of Almighty God. “His Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and His dominion rules throughout all generations.” (Psalm 145:13) Where God’s law is forsaken, there is tyranny.

“Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive with them.” (Proverbs 28:4) Opposition to tyranny is obedience to God. Christians must demonstrate the liberty that they have in Christ by opposing the forces of evil and wickedness that are seeking to destroy both Christianity and our American Constitutional Republic.

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