Republican Party Holds County Convention

On Saturday, March 23, Fayette County Republican Party held their precinct and county conventions at the Texas A&M Agrilfe Extension building on Svoboda Lane in La Grange, starting at 9:30 am.

The conventions were very successful. We had a good turnout and great participation. Fayette county has 12 voting precincts with precinct chairs elected to 11 of those. Those 11 chairs held their precinct conventions immediately prior to the County convention. Ammannsville/Dubina/ Swiss Alp does not currently have a precinct chair and had no attendee willing to conduct their precinct convention.

County convention officers were as follows: Permanent Convention Chair, Deborah Frank; Permanent Secretary, Linda Stall, Permanent Parliamentarian, David Stall; Seargent at Arms, Zack Ezer, Credentials Chair, Kimberley Rutledge; Organizational Chair, Dennis Geesaman; Rules Chair, Cindy Wingo, Nominations chair, David Barr; Resolutions Chair, William Bernsen. Carmela Atwood gave the invocation. Arnold Romberg led the pledges to the American and Texas flags.

I am especially excited about the number of county delegates who signed up to attend the Republican Party of Texas’ state convention in San Antonio on May 23 – 25 as a delegate or alternate. Based on Republican voter turnout in the last gubernatorial election, Fayette county is allowed 17 delegates and 17 alternates to attend and represent our county at the RPT state convention. During our county convention, our Nominations committee, chaired by David Barr, assigned all 17 delegates and 8 of the 17 alternates. The convention delegates unanimously voted to approve them. This is excellent!

Another busy committee was the Resolutions committee, chaired by William Bernsen. Thirty-three resolutions were submitted by the 11 precincts. Some with duplicate or very similar subject matter were combined. Others were rejected due to unclear or unrealistic content. Of the 33, the committee passed 23 to be considered by the county convention delegates. All but one of those 23 passed. The resolutions delt with election integrity, education, taxes, gun rights, and border security – public safety concerns and financial burdens created by illegal immigrants. The 22 resolutions which passed were submitted to the RPT to be considered for action at the State convention.