A Message from our Chairman
The Republican philosophy, as set forth in our United States constitution and founding documents, has been advocating the policies that promote strong families, personal responsibilty, strong national defense, lower taxes, limited government but unlimited opportunity for all.
This conservative philosophy gives a large umbrella that can shelter the big-tent conservatives as well as the Republican Party's social conservative wing. Many Americans know these fundamental values are the standard for our country to remain strong and a resonsible leader in the world. We are not a follower of others who support political movement or platforms that are foreign to our form of government.
Your comments and suggestions are always welcomed at 3419 South Coulter, Suite 6A, your phone call at 806-359-1606, or e-mail at randallrepublicans_sbcglobal.net.
Sincerely,
John Tyson
Randall County Chairman
On February 23rd, Republicans across the country celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Republican National Committee, which was established on that day back in 1856.
Two years before, anti-slavery activists had established the Grand Old Party to stop the proslavery agenda of the Democratic Party. On March 20, 1854, several dozen men and women in Ripon, Wisconsin called for a new political party, to be called the Republican Party. A few months later, on July 6, a convention of 10,000 anti-slavery activists at Jackson, Michigan organized the first state Republican Party. Among the leaders of that meeting was a former mayor of Detroit, Zachariah Chandler, who had protected slaves escaping north in the Underground Railroad. Chandler would later serve in the Senate and as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
After being founded at the state level, Republicans came together for the first time as a national party at an organizational meeting in Pittsburgh on February 22, 1856. The next day, the delegates established the Republican National Committee and elected New Yorks national committeeman, Edwin Morgan, to be the first chairman of the RNC. Morgan, who had been Governor, would later serve in the Senate, where he helped pass several major civil rights laws.
The Republican Party should take great pride in its heritage of civil rights achievement. Fredrick Douglass had a favorite saying: The Republican Party is the ship; all else is the sea. The 13th Amendment banning slavery, the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal protection of the laws, and the 15th Amendment according black Americans the right to vote- all three were accomplished by the Republican Party despite fierce opposition from the Democrats. And in the words of Mary Terrell, a back Republican who co-founded the NAACP: Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party.
The RNCs first mission was to organize the first Republican National Convention, held in Philadelphia on June 17, 1856. The first presidential nominee, a Georgia-born military hero and former Senator from California, John C. Fremont, lost the election to the pro-slavery Democrat, James Buchanan. In 1860, Republicans would win their second presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln.
The Great Emancipator had summed up our Partys differences with the Democrats: The Republican Party, on the contrary [to the Democrats], holds that this government was instituted to secure the blessings of freedom, and that slavery is an unqualified evil [Republicans] will oppose in all its length and breadth the modern Democratic idea that slavery is as good as freedom.
The author of the 1954 Brow v. Board of Education decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren, had been a Republican Governor of California and the party's 1948 vice presidential nominee. Three years later, Republican Party Dwight Eisenhower, who had appointed Warren to the Supreme Court, sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to overcome opposition by the Democratic Governor to a court order desegregating the public schools. It was a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who, as Eisenhowers attorney general, wrote the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Republican lawmakers supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act much more than did the Democrats.The First Republican State Convention held in Jackson, Michigan on July 6, 1854
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In our history, Texas has been governed by no less than six sovereign powers.
As a result, Texans have learned the importance of speaking up - and one of the best ways to speak up is to vote.
To be eligible to register in Texas, you must:
* Military/Overseas Voters
* be a U.S. citizen;
* be a resident of the county;
* be 18 years old (you may register at 17 years and 10 months);
* not a convicted felon (unless a person's sentence is completed)
* not declared mentally incapacitated by a court of law
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www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.s
www.votexas.org/
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3419 South Coulter
Ste. 6A
Amarillo, Texas 79109
806.359.1606
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