Grassroots organizations meeting the following criteria can apply for membership in The Common Sense Texans Network by contacting Greg Holloway at greg@teapartyconservative.com

In order to be eligible for membership in the Common Sense Texans Network, an organization must:

A. Be an expressly non-partisan, non-profit organization.

 

B. Establish and maintain an express statement of affiliation with the Common Sense Texans Network, including a reciprocal link to CommonSenseTexans.net on its website home page.

C. Establish and maintain a statement of endorsement of the Five Core Principles on its website.

1. Limited Government
2. Fiscal Responsibility
3. Personal Responsibility
4. The Rule of Law
5. National Sovereignty

A member organization of Common Sense Texans Network must not:

A. Be a party or single or multi-candidate political action committee, be officially associated with one, or share majority board membership with one.

B. Issue, as an organization, formal public endorsements of [[political]] candidates for elected public office or [[provide support to]] use any financial, logistical, communication or other resources of the member organization to support specific candidates for elected public office.

C. Host [[party or elected officials,]] political party officials,* holders of elected public office,* or filed or declared candidates for elected public office* as speakers at rally events**.

 

D. Include as an officer, director, chairperson, treasurer or other holder of a formal decisionmaking role within the member organization:

 

 1. any holder of, or filed or declared candidate for, elected public office*; or

 2. any officer, director, chairperson, treasurer, manager or staffer of:

 

a. any campaign, committee or other organization formed for or acting with the purpose of electing one or more candidates to elected public office* or

 

b. any state or county political party.

Grassroots organizations meeting the above criteria can apply for membership in The Common Sense Texans Network by contacting Greg Holloway at greg@teapartyconservative.com

* - Except Precinct Chairs and Precinct Chair candidates.

** - 'Rally Events' are defined as speaker-driven, non-interactive events.  Audience-driven interactive events open to the public (e.g., town halls, candidate forums) and certain other interactive events (e.g., debates) may feature party officials, elected officials and political candidates.

Thanks to emails from grassroots conservatives around the state encouraging the campaigns to meet with us, we have completed our video interviews of each of Kay Bailey Hutchison, Debra Medina and Rick Perry. Each candidate was asked ten questions prepared by statewide tea partiers and 9-12ers.

We hope that these videos will be valuable to you. Please encourage your friends to hit these sites. The more hits, the more likely we will be able to get candidates to speak directly with the people in the future.

Question 1:

"Do you plan to further reduce property taxes, so that we can own our land without the threat of losing it to the government because we can't afford the tax burden?  Would you eliminate property taxes entirely?  Why or why not?" - Kerry Watson, Austin Tea Party Patriots

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evL6aNjkNno

The Conservative Hispanic Society PAC has released its 2010 Primary Endorsements, which are included below.

PLEASE NOTE : The Common Sense Texans Network is a non-profit, non-partisan organization.  The  information below is presented solely for the benefit of our members and is not intended, nor should it be construed as, an endorsement or expression of support or opposition for or against any organization or candidate.  Each voter is encouraged to research the available candidates thoroughly and come to their own independent conclusions as to the best candidate in each race.

To be considered for an endorsement by the Conservative Hispanic Society PAC, candidates must adhere to the conservative beliefs that are the core of Conservative Hispanic Society as evidenced by the platforms presented at candidate forums, campaign materials, answers given in voter guides, coalition organization straw polls, and by personal interactions between candidates and the CHS. No preference is given to candidates that are members of CHS. CHS doesn’t endorse a candidate in every race and does not endorse in unopposed races.

Conservative Hispanic Society PAC is an independent and separate organization from the Conservative Hispanic Society 501(c)(4).

The Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) has released the endorsements below in the 2010 Primary Election.

PLEASE NOTE : The Common Sense Texans Network is a non-profit, non-partisan organization.  The  information below is presented solely for the benefit of our members and is not intended, nor should it be construed as, an endorsement or expression of support or opposition for or against any organization or candidate.  Each voter is encouraged to research the available candidates thoroughly and come to their own independent conclusions as to the best candidate in each race.

The RLC's 2010 Primary endorsements:

Governor - Debra Medina - http://www.medinafortexas.com/

U.S. House, District 14 - Stephen Schoppe - http://www.schoppe.us/

State Board of Education, Place 10 - Brian Russell - http://brianrussell.net/

State Board of Education, Place 5 - Ken Mercer - http://votekenmercer.com/

Travis County Justice of the Peace District 3 - Mike Barré

The Young Conservatives of Texas have released their first round of endorsements in the 2010 Statewide Primary Election:

Posted at http://yct.org/files/YCT%20Endorsements%201-16-10.pdf

PLEASE NOTE : The Common Sense Texans Network is a non-profit, non-partisan organization.  The above information is presented solely for the benefit of our members and is not intended, nor should it be construed as, an endorsement or expression of support or opposition for or against any organization or candidate.  Each voter is encouraged to research the available candidates thoroughly and come to their own independent conclusions as to the best candidate in each race.

Provided for the benefit of our members is the list of candidates who have received the endorsement of Empower Texans.

NOTE: The Common Sense Texans Network is a non-partisan, non-profit organization and does not endorse candidates. The information below is provided solely for the reference and benefit of our members, and is not intended as an endorsement of any candidate listed below. Our members are encouraged to research each candidate independently before making any decision as to which candidate deserves support.

Darren Yancy, SD 22

Erwin Cain, HD 3 

David Simpson, HD 7
Michael Banks, HD 11

James White, HD 12
Michael Murphy, HD 65

Van Taylor, HD 66
Dee Margo, HD 78
John Frullo, HD 84
Jeff Cason, HD 92

Bill Zedler, HD 96
Cindy Burkett, HD 101

Stefani Carter, HD 102
Jack O'Connor, HD 149

In response to our recent message on the lack of support for Scott Brown on the part of Michael Steele's Republican National Committee and John Cornyn's National Republican Senatorial Committee, some of our members claimed that we'd gotten it wrong, and that Steele and Cornyn are 100% behind Scott Brown's campaign.

We called the NRSC to ask whether they were providing resources to support Scott Brown's campaign.  They refused to answer.

We called the RNC and ended up in voicemail.

Here's the latest information we could find online:

National Journal:

"The NRSC has not spent any money on independent expenditures in MA, leaving some in the conservative blogosphere incensed that the party isn't doing more to help Brown."

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/aff_hits_coakle.php

David Weigel, The Washington Independent:

"While a spokesman for the NRSC pointed out that Brown’s race is one of the featured campaigns on the organization’s homepage, and that the organization has aided Brown’s campaign to the tune of $50,000, that’s less than one-tenth the commitment that the NRCC made to Jim Tedisco, the unsuccessful GOP candidate for a Democratic-held House seat in a New York special election last year."

http://washingtonindependent.com/73104/gop-activists-dream-of-a-massachusetts-upset

Michelle Malkin:

"Brown received a measly $50,000 from the national GOP and NRSC compared to the nearly $1 million that radical leftist Dede Scozzafava raked in."

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/03/fight-the-seiu-demcare-corruption-support-scott-brown-for-senate/

From the above, it would appear that Scott Brown is not getting much support from the national Republican Party establishment.  On the other hand, Brown claims he's gotten everything he's wanted from the RNC and NRSC:

"Perhaps most surprising to me was when I asked about the RNC and NRSC, [Scott] Brown said that everything he's wanted, he's gotten, mostly phones and technological assistance. He's still looking for donations and volunteers..."

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2MzNzVhNTA5ZWE0OTg1YWNlNTIxZjc0ZGFjNGE4MWM=

Based on the above, it appears that the RNC and NRSC are providing Brown with some phones, some technological assistance and a handful of cash.  Determining whether that's truly everything Brown wanted from the national Republicans is left as an exercise for the reader.

Thoughts?  Please weigh in below.

Available in GOP and Democrat flavors!

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The report below does not include every contested race in the the Texas State House, but it does include the contested races in the districts most likely to elect a conservative:

The columns in the report are as follows:

Seat - The House District within which the candidates are running.

 

District History - The margin (in %) by which the Republican or Democrat presidential candidate carried the district in 2008.

 

First Last - The candidate's name (incumbent listed first, followed by challengers)

 

CSTN Rating - The fiscal responsibility rating assigned to the incumbent by the Common Sense Texans Network.

 

Campaign Website - The candidate's campaign website or, if not available, an alternate website with information relating to the candidate.

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