Many county GOPs are wanting to censure their State Reps who have not been pushing for GOP priorities, and worse, who have worked against GOP priorities. Censuring has multiple impacts, including:
- alerting uninformed voters about how they are being represented
- no funding from the GOP for their re-election
- allowance for GOP to spend money against them or for an opponent
- and potentially even not being allowed to run as a Republican on the ballot (they’d have to run as an Independent or as the Democrats they truly are).
Here’s the process to get your State Rep censured:
- You must submit a resolution at your county Resolutions Committee meeting. Plan for this well in advance and alert the committee, as well as others who support the effort so they can attend as well.
- At the Resolutions Committee meeting, people will be allowed to speak for and against the measure. The State Rep will be given a chance to speak as well (or can send a representative).
- The committee will then vote.
- If it passes, the County GOP Executive Committee (basically the Precinct Chairs) will then vote on it. To pass, 2/3 of the precinct chairs in that Rep’s district must support the measure, as well as 1/2 of the precinct chairs in the county.
- If it passes the county, it will be voted on by the SREC (the state level of the Republican party).
It’s a lengthy process with serious results, but these serious times call for serious measures.
State Reps in the censure process so far include:
- State Rep Cecil Bell, Montgomery County – sent to SREC
- State Rep Will Metcalf, Montgomery County – sent to SREC
- State Rep Angie Chen Button, Dallas County – sent to SREC
- State Rep Morgan Meyer, Dallas County – sent to SREC
- State Rep Giovanni Capriglione, Tarrant County – sent to county exec committee
- State Rep Charlie Geren, Tarrant County – sent to county exec committee
- State Rep John McQueeney, Tarrant County – sent to SREC
The resolution used in Tarrant County was drafted by an attorney, and it can be used in other counties by simply changing the name (and verifying the accusations, of course). Click here for a pdf of the sample resolution.
True Texans are tired of being misrepresented in Austin. The consequences are becoming more dire. It’s time to put a stop to this. Work like your kids’ futures depend on it… because they do.
