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Bowie County

BladeCutting through tothe truth.

Message from Ken Autrey, the Chairman

The Bowie County Republican Party met on Saturday, April 21, at 12 noon in the CentralJury Room at the Bowie County Courthouse to hold its 2012 County Convention. Themeeting was called to order and role was called with 107 delegates were present. Thepurpose of the Convention was to choose a slate of delegates/alternates to will representBowie County at the State Convention. The Texas State Convention dates are June 7 - 9 inFort Worth. The Temporary Nominations Committee is responsible for choosingdelegates/alternates and consists of five members tasked with the duty of selecting thedelegates/alternates. Using specific criteria, the Committee named current and pastCounty Chairs and spouses, along with current Precinct Chairs giving first preference tothese Republicans to fill delegate positions. Second preference was given to electedRepublican officials. Third preference consisted of volunteers who give their time andskills as a service to the Bowie County Republican Party. The Committee was able toconsider and place delegates/alternates from the approximate 135 Bowie County residentswho submitted, through www.bowiecountyrepublicanparty.com , a form detailing theircurrent/past volunteer positions.

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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS APPROVE VOTING PRECINCTS

1A/4E Academic Learning Center 9 Nash School1B Liberty-Eylau C.K. Bender 10 Pleasant Grove Intermediate

Elementary School School2A Liberty-Eylau pre-k center 11 Leary School

Grandview campus 12 Red Springs Baptist Church

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2B/4D/5A Westlawn Elementary 13 Hooks High School2C Theron Jones Early Learning 14 County Courthouse

Center 15 Malta School2D with 4C, 4A and 5B 16 Redwater City Hall3A Collins Memorial Building 17 Maud Community Center

3B Texarkana City Hall 18 First Baptist Church New4A with 2D, 4C and 5B Boston4B Spring Lake Park School 19 Old Salem Baptist Church4C/4A/2D/5B Texarkana College 20 Masonic Lodge, DeKalb4D with 2B and 5A 21 Springhill Baptist Church5A with 2B and 4D 22 Oakgrove Lighthouse Church5B with 4C, 4A and 2D 24 Hubbard Methodist Church5C Pleasant Grove High School 25 DeKalb High School gym6A First Baptist Church Moores Lane 27 Simms Baptist Church6B Pleasant Grove Middle School 28 Crossroads Community Center 7 Wake Village City Hall 29 Wards Creek Baptist Church

8A Macedonia School8B Eylau Methodist Church8C Buchanan Baptist Church

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The Bowie County Republican Party Convention was held Saturday, April 21. Delegatesand Alternates were selected by affirmative vote to attend the State Convention June 7-92012 in Fort Worth.

2012 DELEGATES1. Ken Autrey 16. Joe Crews 31. David Christian2. Joyce Giles 17. Emily Sabo 32. Paul Beard3. Don Preston 18. Claudia Bright 33. Burl Minter 4. Patty Ann Bishop 19. Lance Kyles 34. Thomas Gary

5. Betty Williams 20. David M. Carter 35. Josh Morriss Jr6. Hazel Cotton 21. Roy Ford 36 Mark Graves7. Evelyn Ann West 22. Helen Tuck 37. Marjorie Chandler

8. Phyllis Campbell 23. Jeff Lindsey 38. Brice Feasel

9. Jeral Joe Michael 24 Robert Lorance 39. Pat McCoy10. William Morriss 25. Olivia Gary 40. Sterling Lacey11. Becky Robertson 26. Ann Barfield 41. Ralph Burgess12. Brenda Sutton 27. Rick Huggins 42. Sherry Hawkins13. Gary Singleton 28. Wanda Minnick 43. Darrell Cox14. Desirie Wella 29. Rachel Tyson 44. John Addington15. Mary Fullenwider 30. David Watkins 45. Josh Morriss III

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2012 ALTERNATE DELEGATES1. Kelly Blackburn 16. Cory Floyd 31. Lisa Ledwell2. Leon Pesek Jr. 17. Lisa Singleton 32 Bob Norrid3. Toni Barron 18. Syndia Hammonds 33. Cecilia Schmitt

4. Buddy Chandler 19. Roger Spencer 34. John Crisp.5. Cliff Robertson 20. Marc Reiter 35. Al Smith6. Nancy Lund 21. Pat Minter 36. Cindy Buresh7. Andrea McCoy 22. Allie Buckner 37. Linda Pugh8. Jean Lacey 23. Celia Davis 38. Marshall Wood9. Mike Richardson 24. James F. Davis 39. Marilyn Lane10. Mary Ann Oden 25. Walt Davis 40. William Carl11. Wendell Puckett 26. Chester Pinkham 41. Charles Bruce12. Beverly McDowell 27. Jeremy Price 42. Gary Strickland13. Charles Vanderburg 28. John Cotton 43. April Graves14. Dustin Tyson 29. Charles Blankenship 44. Martha Morriss

15. Linda White 30. Jack Ballard 45. Bruce Nix

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For the Lone Star State. The following is a list of important datesconcerning elections in Texas.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONSMonday April 30 - First day of Early Voting for MUNICIPAL elections(including school board elections).Tuesday May 8 - Last day of Early Voting for MUNICIPAL elections(including school board elections).Saturday May 12 - ELECTION DAY for MUNICIPAL elections(including school board elections).

TEXAS PRIMARYMonday April 30 - Last to register to vote for the TEXAS PRIMARY(including county elections).

Monday May 14 - First day for Early Voting for the TEXAS PRIMARY(including county elections).Friday May 25 - Last day for Early Voting for the TEXAS PRIMARY(including county elections).Tuesday May 29 - ELECTION DAY TEXAS PRIMARY (includingcounty elections).

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Subject: Fwd: Fw: "tough decision",

When a company falls on difficult times, one of the thingsthat seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. Theremainingworkers must find ways to continue to do a good job or riskthat their job would be eliminated as well.

Wall street and the media normally congratulate the CEO for makingthis type of "tough decision", and the board of directors givesupper corporate management big bonuses ..

Our government should not be immune from similar risks. Therefore:Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to218 members.Reduce Senate members from 100 to 50 (one perState). Then, reduce

their remaining staff by 25%.Accomplish this over the next 8 years (two steps/twoelections) andof course this would require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X$165,200 pay/member/ yr.)

$437,100,000 for elimination of their staff. (Estimate $1.3 Millionin staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff pereach member of the Senate every year)$108,350,000 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel earmarks each year. (Thosemembers whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total governmentpork earmarks are at $15 Billion/yr ).

The remaining representatives would need to work smarter andimprove efficiencies.. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the

good of our country!We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more

efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep trackof what your representative is doing.

Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had backin 1911 when the current number of representatives was established.(Telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)Note:Congress does not hesitate to head home for extended weekends,

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holidays and recesses, when what the nation needs is a real fix foreconomic problems. Also, we had 3 senators who were not doingtheir jobs for the 18+ months (on the campaign trail) and still theyall accepted full pay. Minnesota survived very well with only onesenator for the first half of this year. These facts alone support a

reduction in senators and congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$44,108,400 reduction of congress members.$282,100,000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.$70,850,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction ofcongress members.

$8,084,558,400 per year, estimated total savings. (That's 8-BILLIONjust to start!)Corporate America does these types of cuts all the time.There's even a name for it. "Down sizing."------------------------------

Also, if Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years(like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits,taxpayers could save a bundle.>>Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.If you are happy with how Washington spends our taxes, delete thismessage. Otherwise, it's time to "down size" CongressInGodWe Trust! Have a Special Day

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