SREC meeting Report

To all SD11 Republican activists,

 

4th Quarter SREC Report please send on to your contacts;

 

We had our quarterly SREC meeting over the first week of December.  The meeting went well.  We had a lot of items to deal with at the meeting. 

 

The first item was to finalize changes to the RPT rules required due to passage of HB 3102.  This law deregulated the Texas Legislatures oversight of party rules which has always been in place.  Under the new law the parties themselves can amend and change their rules with a lot more flexibility.  The catch was that the legislature made it so the Executive Committees of each party could change some rules but that those rule changes could not be changed by there respective state conventions, these would be permanent SREC rules in the RPT rules.  They listed many items that the SREC could change or modify if they so wished.  After going over all of these items the Rules Committee which I chair decided to not change any rules and made only the rules required by law to be permanent SREC rules.  We also decided that we wanted to make a SREC rule that would allow the SREC to grant the rule changing authority to the convention so in essence we implemented the law but made it operate the same as we have been doing.  The rules that are permanent SREC rules are only the ability to set the date, time, and place of the conventions, which now we can do without the legislature doing it.  The SREC as a whole passed what we had recommended so the rules work is completed.  The rules can be seen at the RPT website.

 

The other main item of business was determining what ballot propositions if any we wanted to put on the primary ballot.  We stared with 35 items and worked them down to 6, which I think will be good items to have on the ballot.

 

1.  Texans should be free to express their religious beliefs, including prayer, in public places.

YES or NO

2.    Texas should support Second Amendment liberties by expanding locations where concealed handgun license-holders may legally carry. 

YES or NO

3.    Texas should abolish the state franchise tax, also known as the margins tax, to encourage business growth.  

YES or NO

4.  Texas recipients of taxpayer-funded public assistance should be subject to random drug testing as a condition of receiving benefits.

YES or NO

5. All elected officials and their staff should be subject to the same laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances as their constituents.

YES or NO

6.   The Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," should be repealed.

YES or NO

 

If anyone has any questions please let me know, I hope all have a safe and wonderful Christmas and New Years and may God Bless you all. 

 

Thanks,

Dennis Paul

SREC SD11