President’s Message: Freedom… It Isn’t Free!
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram –they have all said that November 2010 is THE MOST CRITICAL ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME! I heard that sentiment again at the TFRW board meeting in Austin when State Representatives Wayne Christian and Phil King spoke to the board about the critical need to “grow” our Republican majority in the Texas House. Representative King is a member of the Texas Conservative Coalition. Phil King is the chairman of GoPac Texas. You can learn more about both organizations at www.txcc.org and www.gopac-tx.org and I highly recommend that you visit both these websites and learn more about what they are doing. Would it surprise you to know that the Democrat National Committee has 20 paid operatives in the state of Texas working toward making Texas a “blue state” by 2012, if not sooner? What might surprise you even more is that the Republican National Committee has NONE! It is downright stupid to assume that Texas is solidly red and will remain so. The Democrats are fielding candidates in just about every statewide race, including several Supreme Court Judges. And in Collin County, the Democrats have 5 candidates: District Attorney, County Judge, County Court at Law Judge, County Commissioner and Justice of the Peace. It is critical that we get out the vote in Collin County and push the “straight ticket” vote. From the top of the ticket to the bottom, Republican candidates are depending on us to get folks to the polls.
I can’t speak for everyone in our club, but I didn’t get involved with PRW or TFRW to have social time. I wanted to be able to make a difference in the politics in our county, our state, and our country. And now, more than ever, we cannot sit on the sidelines, wringing our hands and bemoaning the state of the nation. We have a job to do and this is our call to action. In addition to working to get out the vote in Collin County, we need to see what we can do to help in other critical races across the state of Texas. If your budget doesn’t have room for donations to candidates, there are numerous other ways to help and we will be exploring those in future club meetings and via information emails. I know that we are all inundated with emails and that we each have our own personal lives and problems to deal with. But if we don’t take our heads out of the sand and make the time to do all that we can to win in 2010, we will not recognize this nation in just a few short years. Healthcare, banking reforms, cap and trade, second amendment challenges, liberal judges, trillion dollar deficits and amnesty will change the face of our nation forever. I leave you with this quote from Ronald Reagan, January 5, 1967: “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have know freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” DO YOU WANT THE LEGACY OF OUR GENERATION TO BE THAT WE LOST OUR FREEDOM?
Catherine Gibb