Candidates for GOP Party Chair Spar Over Debt
Don’t look now, but the Texas GOP, the party of budgetary teetotalers, has been piling up debt like a college kid with his first credit card.
According to Federal Election Commission reports, this isn’t exactly a new development. The Republican Party of Texas has ended every year in the red since 2001. But lately that amount has ballooned from a low of about $70,000 in 2003 to last year’s high of $624,000. Now — a month out from the state party convention where 14,000 delegates will elect the chairman who will guide the faithful for ...
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Luis Vela Guevara via Texas Tribune on Facebook
HA!
nffcnnr
OMG, Republicans being fiscally irresponsible?!?
I'm shocked, shocked i tell you.
Recent news kinda makes one wonder where all that money has gone. More specifically, where's the lesbian bondage club the TX GOPers have been patronizing?
Michelle Bafik-Vehslage via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yes,as I said before I know where the money doesn't go in this state.
David Harr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Interesting..they do to themselves like they did to this Nation
Henry Weber via Texas Tribune on Facebook
David, the Dems have had total control for 5 years now with Bush never vetoing anything, however I'm in favor of a complete turnover of whoever is in there regardless of party.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Henry, it has been just over 3 years and and two of those years the Senate was 49-49 with two independents.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"total control" isn't all that useful when you're limited by the tyranny of the minority.
anyway, wow! "[T]he latest FEC report, for the month of April, shows $556,000 in financial obligations. In contrast, the Texas Democratic Party currently carries about $49,000 in debt." that's a hefty difference.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We Texans need to be able to be registered Independent voters,and put an end to this petty Donkey/Elephant shredding of each other! Fact:spending too much& not telling the truth 2)too many real estate attys,too little maturity in the "Legislature" 3)suggest we begin anew with 'em all 4)BTW, where is the accountability for ANY Lottery $$ 5)do I hear any "amen"s out there?
Lois Murdock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Amen !!
Charles Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There is NO way in hell that the Legislature, regardless of who is in control, will ever change the law to permit registration as an "independent." The key word is DEPENDENT which describes how both parties really act when it comes to money and campaigns. It would take a statewide referendum to force a constitutional amendment (perhaps THAT is something the Tea Party ought to try instead of "selective monkeywrenching."
PeteWrench
First of all, Mrs. Adams was never a member of the State Republican Executive Committee before being appointed State Chairman, as alleged in this article. She WAS a member of the Republican NATIONAL Committee, which consists of one man and one woman from each of the fifty states and various territories, plus a chairman and co-chairman.
More importantly, Mrs. Adams had been elected less than seven months before this article was written. The first half of her short tenure was consumed preparing for the 2010 Republican Primary, and the second half has been consumed preparing for the upcoming 2010 RPT State Convention.
At the next state convention, in two years' time, if the Party is in as bad or worse shape then as it is now, then by all means let's get rid of Mrs. Adams. In the mean time, let's give her a CHANCE to succeed, folks ! !