State Senate forum

Someone will get a new rifle for Christmas as the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce doing a rifle raffle to benefit their Secret Santa program to help a local family.

The rifle is a Ruger Precision M18028, 308 caliber and was purchased from Guns N More on Celtic Road in Howe. Guns N More installed a VIPER scope to make the total value of the rife at $1,600.

Each raffle ticket is $20 and can be purchased online at howechamber.com or by visiting the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce at 101 E. Haning Street, Howe, Texas.

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce is a 501c6 non-profit organization supporting local businesses.

Election

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palities of Democrat cities to sway the election in Biden’s favor.

"They paid the election judges, they paid the people who boarded up the windows, they bought the machines and America was kicked out of the counting room, and a billionaire invited in, in all of the swing state urban core cities, and that is a violation the law," said Kline to Newsmax.

Amistad's data show that all these changes benefited Democratic strongholds as they were suppressing the vote in Republican strongholds, Kline said, "and then we had them sidestepping the law and accepting ballots they should not have accepted."

In order to prove their case that the election was fraudulent, time seems to be of the essence for the Trump team with the “safe harbor” day is looming tomorrow, December 8. However, Trump attorney Sidney Powell says there is still plenty of time to overturn the election results.

”With the fraud case, the December 8 deadline doesn’t apply,” Powell told Newsmax on Friday.

”We have at least until Dec. 14,” Powell said, referring to the Electoral College vote date.

In a white paper released Friday, The Amistad Project of the nonpartisan Thomas More Society is arguing that the current Electoral College deadlines are both arbitrary and a direct impediment to states' obligations to investigate disputed elections.

The authoritative research paper breaks down the history of Electoral College deadlines and makes clear that this election's December 8 and December 14 deadlines for the selection of Electors, the assembly of the Electoral College, and the tallying of its votes, respectively, are not only elements of a 72-year old federal statute with zero Constitutional basis, but are also actively preventing the states from fulfilling their constitutional — and ethical — obligation to hold free and fair elections. Experts believe that the primary basis for these dates was to provide enough time to affect the presidential transition of power, a concern which is fully obsolete in the age of internet and air travel.

The white paper also shows that the December 8 "safe harbor" deadline for appointing presidential Electors does not apply to states where flagrant violations of state election laws affected the outcome of the popular vote. In fact, the only Constitutionally-set date in the election process is the assumption of office by the President on January 20.

The Amistad Project has filed litigation in several key swing states arguing that illegal conduct by state and local officials led to more than 1.2 million potentially fraudulent ballots, including illegal votes that were counted and legal votes that were not counted. In each state, the number of potentially fraudulent ballots far exceeds the margin separating the leading presidential candidate.

"Through rigorous investigations supporting our litigation, we demonstrate that state and local officials brazenly violated election laws in several swing states in order to advance a partisan political agenda," said Phill Kline, Director of The Amistad Project. "As a result, it is impossible for those states to determine their presidential Electors in line with the arbitrary deadline set forth via federal statute in 1948, and thus, the only deadline that matters is January 20, 2021."

Although federal law sets December 8, 2020 as the date on which determinations of Electors made pursuant to state election law automatically become official, the law does not require Electors to be designated by that date in order to be counted. Because the U.S. Constitution places ultimate authority for designating presidential Electors in the hands of state legislatures, it is the responsibility of the people's elected representatives to judge the relevant facts and appoint an appropriate slate of Electors, subject only to the sole deadline set forth in the U.S. Constitution — 12:00 noon on January 20, 2021. The Texoma Patriots will be hosting a candidate forum for the District 30 Texas Senate run-off between Shelley Luther and Drew Springer. The meeting will be held tonight (Monday) at Buck Snort BBQ, 224 E. Jefferson St. in Downtown Van Alstyne at 7 pm.

Shelley Luther - small business owner, entrepreneur, former public school teacher.

Drew Springer - TX State Representative, District 68, small business owner, financial planner.

The Texoma Patriots ask you to come meet the candidates as they discuss their positions on legislative issues in the upcoming 87th Legislative Session.

“Find out what is fact or fiction,” stated the press release from the Texoma Patriots. “And, now that we know how important the state legislature is in our nation’s elections, find out where these candidates stand on election integrity and the GOP platform.”

Shelley Luther - small business owner,

entrepreneur, former public school teacher.

Drew Springer - TX State Representa-

tive, District 68, small business owner, financial planner.