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Early Voting Info for Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Upshur, Camp & Cass Counties

CLICK HERE FOR EARLY VOTING INFORMATION FROM THE LONGVIEW NEWS JOURNAL.

EARLY VOTING CONTINUES THROUGH MAY 25, 2012

VOTER’S GUIDE FROM HERITAGE ALLIANCE

Free Voters Guide VOTERS GUIDE FROM HERITAGE ALLIANCE

To help you elect legislators who are not “ignorant, reckless or corrupt,” Heritage Alliance researches candidates extensively by compiling voting records, donation records, endorsements and issue surveys. All of this research is free. If you have the same values and register as a member with us or one of our partners, you can then legally access an evaluation score for each candidate.

Elections Researched

  • Republican Party Primary Elections
  • General Elections

Party Primaries are more important by far than the General Election in November, because the outcome of about 95% of races are determined in the primary. Due to gerrymandering, most November races are a foregone conclusion.

Moreover, only about 10% of citizens know enough to vote in primaries, so every primary vote counts more.

For more information see Political Secrets.

Races Researched and Evaluated in 2011-2012

  • All U.S. House and Senate
  • State legislatures in AZ, CO, MI, MO, NC, NE, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI
  • More state legislatures will be added in the future

CLICK HERE FOR VOTERS GUIDE

(This Voters Guide is a combined effort of Heritage Alliance, Liberty Institute and Texas Eagle Forum)

 

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June Monthly Meeting

We The People Longview Monthly Meeting

Monday, June 4, 2012 – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

New Heights Church – 1500 W. Hawkins Pkwy., Longview

Fair Tax1 June Monthly Meeting

The FairTax is a national sales tax that treats every person equally and allows American businesses to thrive, while generating the same tax revenue as the current three-million-word-plus word tax code. Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a 23% national sales tax on purchases of new goods and services. This rate is equal to the lowest current income tax bracket (15%) combined with employee payroll taxes (7.65%), both of which will be eliminated.

Important to note … the FairTax is the only tax plan currently being proposed that includes the removal of the payroll tax.

CURIOUS? JOIN US FOR A FAIR TAX PRESENTATION

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE HERE.

WHY VOTE IN NOVEMBER?

THIS VIDEO IS NOT JUST FOR CATHOLICS…IT APPLIES TO ALL CHRISTIANS…

IT IS TIME FOR CHRISTIANS TO TAKE A STAND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT OUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS FOUGHT FOR BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS.

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!!

WE THE PEOPLE-LONGVIEW TEA PARTY’S STATEMENT ON TOMMY MERRITT SIGNS

Many of you in the Longview area may have noticed that Tommy Merritt, Candidate for State Rep. District 7, has placed his campaign signs next to our WTPLongview signs (see picture below at one of the locations).

THE WE THE PEOPLE-LONGVIEW TEA PARTY GROUP DOES NOT SUPPORT/ENDORSE TOMMY MERRITT. This is very misleading. We are addressing this situation and hope to have this matter resolved shortly. Thank you!

Merritt Signs1 225x300 WE THE PEOPLE LONGVIEW TEA PARTYS STATEMENT ON TOMMY MERRITT SIGNS

IMPORTANT 2012 PRIMARY ELECTION DATES

May 29, 2012 – Primary Election Date

Federal Court Order of December 16, 2011 (PDF)
Federal Court Orders of March 1, 2012 (PDF)
A more detailed calendar is at our Candidates Guide

Authority conducting elections Political Party County Chairs
First Day to File for Place on Ballot First Day of “second time period”: March 2, 2012 (Mar. 1, 2012 court order) 1
Last Day to File for Place on Ballot Last Day of “second time period”: March 9, 2012, 6:00 p.m. (Mar. 1, 2012 court order, offices other than precinct chair) 1
First Day to Apply for Ballot by Mail
(does not apply to FPCA)
March 30, 2012
(Mar. 1, 2012 court order preserves certain previous filings)
Last Day to Register to Vote April 30, 2012 (Monday, which is next business day after statutory deadline)
First Day of Early Voting May 14, 2012
Last Day to Apply for Ballot by Mail
(Received, not Postmarked)
May 22, 2012
Last Day of Early Voting

 

PRIMARY ELECTION DAY

May 25, 2012

 

May 29, 2012

Department of Justice Rejects Texas’s Voter ID Law

The U.S. Department of Justice today declined to give its blessing to the Legislature’s voter ID law.

The law, which would require a voter to present a valid government-issued identification card, needed the federal government’s approval through a process called “preclearance.”

Texas and several other states and municipalities, mostly in the South, must go through preclearance because histories of discrimination in voting.

The Justice Department wrote: “Because we conclude that the state has failed to meet its burden of demonstrating that the proposed law will not have a retrogressive effect, we do not make any determination as to whether the state has established that the proposed changes were adopted with no discriminatory purpose.” Continue reading from The Statesman…

Texas GOP Analysis by RPT Staff of 2012 Court Ordered Interim Maps

On Tuesday afternoon, the San Antonio three-judge federal panel overseeing Texas redistricting posted new maps for the State House, State Senate and U.S. Congress. We are awaiting a formal order enacting these maps, however, we expect that these will be the final maps issued by the panel. The Republican Party of Texas has carefully analyzed these maps since their release and is providing our staff’s findings via this email.

You can click on the above link to see the full analysis of the new State House districts in PDF format. This analysis shows side-by-side comparisons of the number of Republican districts under the maps used in the 2010 elections, the districts that were originally drawn by the Texas Legislature, the districts that were drawn by the three-judge panel in 2011 (and which were subsequently challenged), and the districts that the three-judge panel has issued today. The percentages are based on the average of the top 9 statewide Republican candidates in the 2010 General Election. Continue reading…

Is The IRS Attempting to Intimidate Local Tea Party Groups?

In  January and February of this year, the Internal Revenue Service began  sending out letters to various local Tea Parties across the country.  Mailed from the same Cincinnati, Ohio IRS office, these letters have  reached Tea Parties in Virginia, Hawaii, Ohio, and Texas (we are hearing  of more daily). There are several common threads to these letters: all  are requesting more information from these independent Tea Parties in  regard to their nonprofit 501(c)(4) applications (for this type of  nonprofit, donations are not deductible). While some of the requests are  reasonable, much of them are strikingly onerous and, dare I say,  Orwellian in nature. Continue reading from Biggovernment.com