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I beg to differ. He is a RINO and we don’t want him!

All the RINO Elitists are sure making it EASY for us to know who needs to be REPLACED.

FYI:
McAllen Tea Party Association
Dec. 22, 2010
Dear CHARLES,

Come to the party!
Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word ourselves.

La Mexicana on 2nd Street (just north of Nolana)
Thursday night, Dec. 23rd
6:30 PM
Come and help welcome Rep. Pena to our side.

Welcoming Party!
We were just notified that a welcoming party is being given for Aaron Pena. It seems that state representative Aaron Pena has finally seen the light and come out of the democratic party. His values are more conservative therefore feels he can better represent his constituents if he is aligned with the republican platform.
See you there.

MY REPLY follows:
Sorry we already have enough RINO’S in the Republican Party.
CW

Ms. Wooley, I’ve read your credentials and like what I see. http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=136

Have you given Ken Paxton a chance? Have you interviewed him and had a “frank & open meeting” with him? Since you are a conservative, I think you’ll find that Ken Paxton is a true conservative who doesn’t compromise with liberals nor back them in their campaigns when they are seeking re-election.

Ms. Wooley I just looked at your voting record. http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=8034 You are very strong on all the issues near and dear to my heart. I just don’t understand how you would favor Mr. Straus over Mr. Paxton. I would vote for you any day but I disagree with your support of Mr. Straus. :-(

Wishful thinking or famous last words?

“…we will pass conservative legislation,” said Wooley.

A less than 80% record is NOT CONSERVATIVE that’s RINO.
What about Conservative don’t Y’all UNDERSTAND?
WE are looking at some SERIOUS HOUSE CLEANING in 2012 from border to border.
This year we targeted DEMON RATS NOW we target RINO RATS.

Her district is in the western part of Houston. Shouldn’t be too hard to get enough Tea Party folks from there to select someone more conservative next primary. These RINO fence riders need to get on board or miss the train!!

My goodness, the session hasn’t even started and the sniping has already started.
How will they get anything done?

Just let every thing — budget, roads, schools — go to rack and ruin.
Who will notice?

Ms. Woolley:

How much and “what” did Straus promise you in exchange for your support?

Please come clean with the public.

I pledge allegiance to Joe Straus,and to the Racetrack for which he stands;one state slot machine with video poker terminals;under the god of greed and avarice with licentious addictions and free drinks for all.

John McIntyre, quite clever! LOL!

Come on Mary
Worry worry worry the sky will fall and the world will end with BIG GOVERNMENT. NOT

OR Better yet without BIG GOVERNMENT things will finally get BETTER. YES
When in trouble fear or doubt run in circle scream and shout ” MORE SPENDING will save us for sure and if someone else pays for it, we can all become POOR.”
Finally the best way to redistribute wealth is for those that are lacking it go to work and earn it the OLD FASHION WAY:)

Dear Representative ____(Wooley)_____________

Please be advised that should you enter into the Jan 5, 2011 Republican caucus with a pledge of support for Joe Straus, you WILL face a primary grassroots opponent in the next election cycle. This is your time to withdraw your pledge from Joe Straus and go into this caucus undecided or for Ken Paxton.
No threat—just fact! Only a true, tried and tested conservative will be accepted by the conservative voters of Texas. The eyes of Texas are upon you! We the citizens of Texas are asleep no longer!

Signed,

Conservative Texans

When will they ever learn *sigh*. Previously, all they had to worry about was the voters in their districts. There is a new paradigm, and sadly they still haven’t accepted the fact that the voters have erased district lines and are working to save our state.

Money and action will cross district lines, and they will all fall who ignore the wishes of Texans and play only to their local special interests. They ignore the grass roots at their own peril, we will only grow stronger and more powerful and more dedicated.

You have the right to support Mr. Straus if you wish, although I find it to be a very poor decision based on the triumph of hope (or worse yet, avarice) over any sort of experience. Should you remain committed to this misguided position, then at the very least you should resign your post as Co-Chair of the so-called Tea Party Caucus as there is not a single Tea Party of which I am aware that supports Straus as Speaker. I say this because I am a very active leader in a Tea Party and interface with Tea Party leaders all over the State. Your continuing presence as a Co-Chair will demonstrate utter and complete hypocrisy on your part and make a mockery of the so-called “Tea Party Caucus”. It will have no legitimacy whatsoever if it’s Co-chair supports everything we worked so hard to eliminate. The good news is, we already know we’ve only started and 2012 will come soon.

Boy that didn’t take long did it?? What was it, only a couple of weeks ago that the press release came out introducing the legislators who are in this so-called Tea Party caucus? And since these legislators are IN this caucus, wouldn’t it make sense that they would pay close attention to what Tea Party groups are saying in regard to this Speaker race?? Well, obviously not to Ms. Woolley! And she’s a CO-CHAIR of the caucus, to boot! As Russ, above, stated – Tea Party groups across the state of Texas do NOT want Straus to be the Texas House Speaker. If Ms. Woolley paid one bit of attention to what we (the grassroot Tea Partiers) are doing and saying she would know this. It’s beginning to look a lot like the typical hogwash we are so sick and tired of from these elected officials. They’ll just give themselves a “label” that makes them LOOK conservative, but then when they VOTE, they go back to their old ways of “I’ll rub your back, if you rub mine” and totally ignore the will of the people, or in this case the Tea Party. But here’s the good news for those of us that are sick and tired of this – we’re watching very closely now and these public servants can no longer hide behind labels and think we don’t notice.

Ms. Wooley, look at what he’s (Straus) done, not what he’s telling you now. Talk is cheap, as we’ve seen many times. Time to listen to the people, I hope you change your mind on this.

WE THE PEOPLE are not in favor of JOE STRAUS for Speaker. What are you thinking? Are you a RINO? Sure looks like it to me. Just remember WE THE PEOPLE are watching and we have long memories. Look out come reelection time.

RINO JOE Straus
“Our Own Nancy Pelosi” in The Texas Legislature.

The Progressive movement, those who believe they are intellectually superior, is alive and active in all aspects of our government not only in Washington DC but also in our state Government. The 2010 election provided the Republicans a super majority in the Texas House of Representatives granting them the ability to withstand any attempts by the liberal progressive Democrats to stop or delay passage of the important business in the House. However, the progressives have one last backroom shot at controlling the upcoming legislative agenda.

During the previous session Joe Straus, registered as a Republican, was elected as Speaker of the House with the support of 100% of the Democratic representatives and eleven liberal Republicans. I would not be surprised if Beverly Woolley was one of the eleven. Once elected speaker, ignoring the wishes of his Republican colleagues, he appointed several liberal Democrats as chairmen of the most important legislative committees. One such appointment allowed Burt Solomons and Brian McCall to effectively kill all immigration enforcement legislation in the 2009 session. This is only one of the many examples of Joe Straus supporting an agenda that is completely out of sync with the demands of the Texas voter. Joe Straus has become the poster-boy for the term RINO (Republican In Name Only) he is not a conservative and continuation of his tenure as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives will completely negate the gains the conservative voter has worked so hard to earn.

Your state Representative was elected to be your voice in the state legislature and it is essential for you to present your ideas and your wishes to them. My suggestion is for you to please call, write or email your state Representative to voice your concern and urge him or her to reflect on the enormity of their decision when voting for a speaker. Ask them;

• Do they realize that voting for Joe Straus will be enabling those who have opposition views to continue to dominate and control our state legislature?
• Ask if they have been subject to threat or intimidation for not supporting Joe Straus?
• Ask if they have been granted or promised campaign contributions from Joe Straus in order to receive their vote?
• Ask them to elect Ken Paxton as Speaker of the House knowing that he will unfailingly pursue the conservative agenda that the Texas voter has demanded.

Jerry King

You can rest assured that she has been promised something, and we need to watch and see what all she comes out with. We NEED to start to find a good Conservative candidate to primary against her in 2012. Just another typical RINO, voting conservative just enough to tell the Tea Party “hey i am a conservative most of the time, except when you really need me to be conservative” she has to go.

Beverly,

If you believe that Joe Straus is committed to governing as a “strong” conservative, you are either extremely naïve or you have an agenda. I believe it is the latter. Joe Straus partnered with 65 Democrats and ONLY 11 Republicans in a coup to win election as Speaker in the first place. Now he has the support of 49 of the 49 Democrats in the House. Conservative? Really?

The Tea Parties across Texas will note and long remember your vote for speaker. As an elected House Representative, you most certainly have the right to vote as you see fit. As concerned and active Texas citizens, we also have the right to identify, support, fund, walk door to door, and make phone calls for your March, 2012 primary opponent.

Your vote is important and shows the people of Texas where you stand on issues important to us. We would hope that you have a change of view point and publically support Paxton for speaker. If not, we’ll see you in March, 2012.

Mike Schwartz
Longview We The Peope

How much longer do we have to stomach the RINO’s cheapening of the word “conservative”? Pretty soon, it won’t mean a thing.

I hope Beverly enjoys her last term in office, at least as a Republican.

Ms. Wooley,

I realize your constituents are probably not quite as conservative as those of us in east Texas, but your Republican platform remains the same. It includes conservative family values such as marriage between one man and one woman, Christ-centered principals, rights of property and gun ownership, and general good behavior. (That would include not taking bribes from the Speaker of the House, which we are all reasonably certain you did in your little meeting.)

You have decided to ‘pick and choose’ the parts you like, but that isn’t how it works. You have already served to long and forgotten who you work for.

It’s going to be a very ugly defeat for you in the next election. Hopefully the REAL conservatives can keep you on a tight leash between now and then.

Hey Stephanie! “Christ-centered principals”? Are you anti-Semitic?

And how much money have you received from RINO Joe? You take us for fools.

I am a tea partyer and, Ms. Wooley, you are not. I do not trust the supposed tea party caucus that you co-chair. And by the way, I went to hear Mr. Straus in Arlington TX two weeks ago, and he lied to us when he said he was not aware that Planned Parenthood provides abortions – yet two years ago in an interview he clearly did know this fact. I don’t trust his words Ms. Wooley; nor should you.

Ms. Wooley……………I’m in your district, and you just lost my vote………forever.

Ms. Woolley: You can spin a good tale, but you can’t pull the “WOOL” over the eyes of the TRUE conservatives in Texas! Joe Strauss is Republican in name only…a RINO! He is NOT the Speaker that true Texas conservative Republicans and members of the Tea Party want in that position! He’s a liberal, not a conservative as you stated in your article, and he has proven that over and over again. I agree with the others who have commented here when they beg the question, what did Strauss offer or bribe you with to get your support? Because, he will stoop to any low necessary to get what he wants. How could you be possibly be a legitimate co-chair of the Tea Party caucus?? If you knew ANYTHING about the Tea Party movement, you would actually know and realize that Joe Strauss is the complete opposite of someone the Tea Party would support for Speaker. Ken Paxton, however, is a true conservative and a Speaker that the Tea Party movement can and will support. You and other so-called Republicans WILL be held accountable, in the next election, for supporting Joe Strauss as Speaker! We have a Republican majority in the Texas House and we desperately need a real CONSERVATIVE as our Speaker, or the wins we made will be undermined by this liberal RINO, Joe Strauss! We are wide awake and watching every move and vote that you and others elected to serve US will make during this legislative session, and we WILL see that the arrogant, good old boy, corrupt, government as usual BS is STOPPED! That’s not a threat Ms Woolley, that’s the absolute TRUTH! You can and will be FIRED by “We the People” who are fed up!! Do yourself and conservative Texans a big favor and withdraw your misguided support for Strauss and throw it behind Ken Paxton.

Far from Rep. Beverly Woolley’s position that “Speaker Straus is committed to governing as a strong conservative during the 82nd session”, we need only look at his track record and remind ourselves how he managed to cleverly take control of the last legislature to know beyond all possible doubt that Joe Straus is a liberal, a liberal with a personal agenda to open Texas to statewide casinon gambling.

Lavish contributions have undermined many Republican members of the house. By funding RINO’s like Lance Gooden in Kaufman County, where Lance’s well-funded campaign unseated a conservative representative, Joe Straus has hedged his bets on returning to the job of Speaker.

Ready cash has apparently compromised Larry Phillips up in Grayson and Fannin counties, as well as Kyleen Wright, president of Texans for Life. Even at this moment in time, Kyleen continues to maintain that Straus is a pro-life conservative. How could she so easily overlook his associations with Planned Parenthood?

As TEA Party leader in Rockwall County, I know how TEA Party leaders across the state are awakening voters to the realities of Austin politics by educating them and keeping them informed.

We the People won in November. We the People of Texas have clearly and unmistakeably indicated we want nothing less than a true conservative Republican Speaker and “Slot Machine” Joe has to go.

How much money did it cost Straus this time. I know he contributed or his surrogates did to my Representaive’s race, HD102. She raised 1.2 million $, and she has no visible means of having the capacity to raise this amount of money. Straus is smart and he started at the end of the last session spending all these dollars to shore up support for the Speakership. Wake up concervatives!

Seems she’s cut from the same kind of cloth as Lisa Murkowski!!! Let’s work to retire her.

Ms Wooley
You have exposed yourself as the perfect proto-typical corrupt politician without either ethics or good sense that the Tea Parties throughg America are dedicated to removing from office. Your values are exactly what is currently ddestroying our country. You best hope that Joe and his corrupt backers give lots and lots of money because there will be lots and lots of energized people helping your primary opponent. You will be soon joining X-reps like Tommy Merit.
Bob Hall

Ms. Wooley, You just painted a target on your back, enjoy your last term in office! The Tea Party recognizes no lines. It wont only be your constituents that vote you out, we will be lot’s of help.
You have made my list of traitors.

Henderson County Tea Party
Athens, Texas

Ms. Woolley,
What a change for you since I called 2 weeks ago and was assured that you did not support Straus. I am very disappointed in your decision, you must have been promised a special appointment because he is diffently not a conservative or anyone your district would want you to support. Rest assured, if you continue this position and support Straus, I will actively work to see that you will not be re-elected to represent us in the future. We want a strong conservative, not someone who is against voter ID, does not support informing women of their right to know all the consequences of abortion, and supports gambling in Texas. He has a record of voting against about 80% of all the issues Conservatives support.
Please return to your earlier position of not supporting the liberal voting Straus, and stand up for the values Texans and your district believed they were getting in the Nov. elections. Ken Paxton would be a good strong Conservative that would serve us well.

Straus is Not Wanted, we must email or call our reps and stop Straus from being elected. He is Not for the people of Texas

Wow, I’m overwhelmed by all you Tea Partiers against Ms. Woolley. Awesome!!!

We’ve been posting Mr. Straus’ voting record and all his connections with the DEMONcratic party for the past few months. It’s undeniable where he stands policically and that stance is a liberal bent. If Ms. Woolley remains steadfast in her endorsement of Mr. Straus, then the only way she’ll get re-elected is to join the DEMONcratic party and hope they spend several million dollars on her re-election.

THE CHRISTIAN, CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE GIANT IS AWAKE AND READY TO TAKE THIS NATION BACK TO IT’S ROOTS BY BALLOT OR BULLET (hopefully the first).

Ms Wololey, you better get the cash while you can. My money and my support go to your 2012 primary challenger. Tea Party activists all over the state will remember your treachery and will be working hard to retire you.

Ms. Wooley, sounds like you have already been co-opted this upcoming session. What has Straus promised you? WE the PEOPLE made it clear November 2nd that we want true conservatives in the House. Straus is a RHINO, your support for him will cast you under that same umbrella.

Mrs. Woolley,
Our town of 300 people has a TEA Party of 176 members. We passed a Resolution calling for a Conservative Speaker and the last paragraph reads:
Be It Further Resolved: That regardless who is elected as Speaker, that person had best direct legislation that conforms to our conservative values, or not only will that Speaker be targeted for defeat in the next election but also will all those Representatives that voted for him.
We feel Joe Straus is not that conservative leader. During the last election our group traveled by the car loads as far as 100 miles to walk the neighborhoods to ensure Erwin Cain and David Simpson defeated their liberal opponents. The next election is less than 2 years away and our engines are running.
Dwayne “Doc” Collins
Edom TEA Party Chairman

RINO! Just say no! Out with the old elitists!

Thirty pieces of silver, Ms Wooley ?

Ms. Woolley, as a leader in the Tea Party movement in the Central Texas area, your statement trying to convince us that Mr. Strauss is a conservative just will not fly or pass the smell test. We look at past actions, not present words. Words do mean something, but only when they come from a truthful heart. I have not yet looked at your voting record, but I respect Mr. Archer’s opinion, and he states that your record is conservative, so I would encourage you to look past words and your own personal ambitions, and dance with the ones who brought you to the party–True Conservatives.

Lance Gooden has slithered into the state legislature without being fully vetted. I hope he enjoys his time in office and that he does not waste time unpacking all his boxes because come time for the next election, he will be put out to pasture and replaced by a true christian conservative. No chance for Lance!!!

I live in Ms. Woolley’s district and I am thinking VERY seriously of running against her in 2012. She is a RINO to the core—–do not let her words fool you. She has a fiscal index rating of 78% in the last legislative session and a 71% in the one before that. She needs to go.

Way to think positively Kimery ………………………….Now is the time to start lining up and supporting CONSERVATIVE to run these RINO’S out on a rail.
The Insider is and excellent place to advertise your CONSERVATIVE credentials:)

BTW
Ms Wool over the eyes:
We Conservatives DO NOT think of ourselves as Life Long REPUBLICANS.
I cannot speak for others BUT I can only remember thinking of myself as a Republican during the the Eisenhower,Nixon and Regan years.
Nixon may have very well be RIGHT……………………..like it or NOT.
Regan certainly brought our country back from the BRINK.
The Bushes were BUSH League Elitists with the exception of GW’s few moments after 9/11 and that may have come from Cheney.
Now the other day I see the RINO’S in Florida want Jeb Bush to run for senate.
Thank YOU NO……………………………………I have had enough of the Elitist crowd and think we have ENOUGH capable CONSERVATIVE fire brands like Bachmann, Palen,and Gohmert with many that look to be great future leaders elected this past election.

It’s TIME ………….Hell it’s past time to send these arrogant legends in their own minds HOME for GOOD.
Oh and AVOID any IVY League graduate that NEVER held a real job.

Hopefully Mrs. Woolley is monitoring this page and NOT taking the responses as an abberration. Should she not be monitoring the page then we can send her the link to this page right here, ( http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=136 ), with a notice and admonition to read and heed the prevalent sentiment and opinion of her desire to support Herr Straus. I just used her web form and sent her this link. I listed my subject as “HERR STRAUS NICHT HIER BITTE” and told her she needs to hearken to the predominant message here. Now I will e-mail this to all my fellow Texans that they may multiply the message’s volume.

Mrs. Wooley,
We do not want Straus. We want to see a TRUE CONSERVATIVE put in place as the Speaker of the House. Take heed…your vote in the House will be public record. We will be watching! We will see if anyone from the Republican side of the aisle nominates anyone in contravention to the will of the Caucus.

“The Eyes of Texas are Upon You!”

Wooley, The people have spoken and we know you have heard and yet you choose to ignore us. SHAME ON YOU! I don’t live anywhere near you but my money is just as good in the Houston area as it is here in East Texas. Will Straus be paying for your next election? You better hope he will! You are going to need his cash to go up against your opponent – a real conservative! Then again Joe will be raking in the casth from his betting facilities and won’t care about you all at. You are just a pawn in his game – silly woman! You aren’t wise enough to serve the good people of Texas. Once again – shame on you!

As a member of LCTP, I think the Tea Parties are pretty united in not wanting Joe Straus since he blocked measure such as voter id that we do want.

Richard: Great idea! Thank you for sending RINO Woolley the link to this page, so she can read what true conservative Republicans and Tea Party members really think about her and her support of Joe, “if you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” Strauss! I’m a Hill Country Tea Party member who will work hard to help unseat ANYONE, including our Republican representative Harvey Hilderbrand, who also supports RINO Joe. I intend to send this link to Harvey, so he can read the comments here and hopefully change his misguided support as well. We ALL need to contact our state representatives and tell them to vote “NO” for Joe, because JOE MUST GO! Send your representatives this link with a strong message just as Richard did!

I DO NOT know Ms Woodly, but if she in the past has found Joe Straus to be exceptable, then SHE IS NO TEA PARTY REPERSENTATIVE.
JOE IS LOVED by the Democrats, and “that’s reason enough” to be against her and him.
I have contacted my NEW Repersentative John Garza #117 and requested that he NOT JOIN ANY EFFORT in supporting Joe Straus, as Speaker of the 82st.

Joe got to be Speaker of the 81st, because the Democrats wanted him in that Position.
THAT’S REASON ENOUGH to remove him from the 82st Speakers Position.

We need to watch this woman and get her out of the Texas legislature. Her finances should be scrutinized, her social relationships and her voting record. My guess is that he promised her something and she also probably feels she has an entitlement since she has been there 8 years. Time for her to go; let’s target her for the next election and start building an arsenal touse against her.

This is in response to Beverly Woolley’s “sudden” change of heart in regard to Joe Straus and the Texas Speaker of the House. I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU AS CO-CHAIR of the TEA PARTY CAUCUS and neither do any of the Tea Party groups in the state of Texas, as far as I know.
You are an embarrassing RINO supporter and we want nothing to connect your way of thinking with the hard working, sincere, self-sacrificing, patriotic members of the Tea Party groups in Texas.
You do not have a clue but you have certainly spoken openly and clearly about where you will be working in the future and that will NOT be in conjunction with any conservative groups or organizations
that took your words at face value when you assured us that you were not dedicated to Straus just two weeks ago. Busy weeks eh?
Hmm, West Houston, Well, I guess the King Street Patriots could find a replacement in short order.
I am a native Houstonian and have been for over 50 years and I will gladly help find a replacement for you should you continue to pledge your vote for Joe Straus and believe me-it won’t take long to find one.

*****Note to Bourgeois-with explanation of why we will not have Joe as our Speaker.

First of all, Bourgeois, “Christ-centered principles” does not indicate a personal dislike, distrust, or angst in reference to a person of the Jewish faith. Anti-Semitic? That would be presumptuous as well as incorrect. Christ was a Jew and the Jews are God’s chosen people. Now, we have that weak and over used( ad nauseum) comment debunked. The tendency nowadays to whine about prejudice of any sort is growing old. It also indicates that when there is a general lack of strength in a candidate’s abilities, the race or religion or gender card gets tossed out. The old red herring technique…
Let’s stick to issues of a provable nature. Joe’s track record of being a conservative or voting as one are very weak. This is in conflict with Tea Party values and principles. I believe that Joe, by his own admission, and his pride in his wife’s contribution to the Planned Parenthood Program for years was a poor choice in defending his “pro-life” self description. It would however, support the “why” concerning the omission of the bill requiring sonograms be shown to each female before final consideration of an abortion. By the way, Joe, Planned Parenthood performs abortions-that’s where the Constitutional right to life is snuffed out and an innocent child is killed.
Moving on to issues that conservative Texans feel very strongly about is the voter ID bill that lost it’s way to the floor. The majority of Texans are not supportive of unchecked amnesty of illegal (criminal) immigrants and I might add that I refer to citizens of many countries, and it has been proven that these include nations with citizens who have committed horrible criminal acts after having crossed any of our borders illegally. There is no reference or inference of any specific nationality, lest that become an issue. Crimes are crimes and those who commit them are criminals.
May the God of all humans help us in this situation. Good is still good and evil is still evil…

Sheryl Kelly Howieson
Plano Tea Party
This is in response to Beverly Woolley’s “sudden” change of heart in regard to Joe Straus and the Texas Speaker of the House. I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU AS CO-CHAIR of the TEA PARTY CAUCUS and neither do any of the Tea Party groups in the state of Texas, as far as I know.
You are an embarrassing RINO supporter and we want nothing to connect your way of thinking with the hard working, sincere, self-sacrificing, patriotic members of the Tea Party groups in Texas.
You do not have a clue but you have certainly spoken openly and clearly about where you will be working in the future and that will NOT be in conjunction with any conservative groups or organizations
that took your words at face value when you assured us that you were not dedicated to Straus just two weeks ago. Busy weeks eh?
Hmm, West Houston, Well, I guess the King Street Patriots could find a replacement in short order.
I am a native Houstonian and have been for over 50 years and I will gladly help find a replacement for you should you continue to pledge your vote for Joe Straus and believe me-it won’t take long to find one.

*****Note to Bourgeois-with explanation of why we will not have Joe as our Speaker.

First of all, Bourgeois, “Christ-centered principles” does not indicate a personal dislike, distrust, or angst in reference to a person of the Jewish faith. Anti-Semitic? That would be presumptuous as well as incorrect. Christ was a Jew and the Jews are God’s chosen people. Now, we have that weak and over used( ad nauseum) comment debunked. The tendency nowadays to whine about prejudice of any sort is growing old. It also indicates that when there is a general lack of strength in a candidate’s abilities, the race or religion or gender card gets tossed out. The old red herring technique…
Let’s stick to issues of a provable nature. Joe’s track record of being a conservative or voting as one are very weak. This is in conflict with Tea Party values and principles. I believe that Joe, by his own admission, and his pride in his wife’s contribution to the Planned Parenthood Program for years was a poor choice in defending his “pro-life” self description. It would however, support the “why” concerning the omission of the bill requiring sonograms be shown to each female before final consideration of an abortion. By the way, Joe, Planned Parenthood performs abortions-that’s where the Constitutional right to life is snuffed out and an innocent child is killed.
Moving on to issues that conservative Texans feel very strongly about is the voter ID bill that lost it’s way to the floor. The majority of Texans are not supportive of unchecked amnesty of illegal (criminal) immigrants and I might add that I refer to citizens of many countries, and it has been proven that these include nations with citizens who have committed horrible criminal acts after having crossed any of our borders illegally. There is no reference or inference of any specific nationality, lest that become an issue. Crimes are crimes and those who commit them are criminals.
May the God of all humans help us in this situation. Good is still good and evil is still evil…

Sheryl Kelly Howieson
Plano Tea Party
This is in response to Beverly Woolley’s “sudden” change of heart in regard to Joe Straus and the Texas Speaker of the House. I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU AS CO-CHAIR of the TEA PARTY CAUCUS and neither do any of the Tea Party groups in the state of Texas, as far as I know.
You are an embarrassing RINO supporter and we want nothing to connect your way of thinking with the hard working, sincere, self-sacrificing, patriotic members of the Tea Party groups in Texas.
You do not have a clue but you have certainly spoken openly and clearly about where you will be working in the future and that will NOT be in conjunction with any conservative groups or organizations
that took your words at face value when you assured us that you were not dedicated to Straus just two weeks ago. Busy weeks eh?
Hmm, West Houston, Well, I guess the King Street Patriots could find a replacement in short order.
I am a native Houstonian and have been for over 50 years and I will gladly help find a replacement for you should you continue to pledge your vote for Joe Straus and believe me-it won’t take long to find one.

*****Note to Bourgeois-with explanation of why we will not have Joe as our Speaker.

First of all, Bourgeois, “Christ-centered principles” does not indicate a personal dislike, distrust, or angst in reference to a person of the Jewish faith. Anti-Semitic? That would be presumptuous as well as incorrect. Christ was a Jew and the Jews are God’s chosen people. Now, we have that weak and over used( ad nauseum) comment debunked. The tendency nowadays to whine about prejudice of any sort is growing old. It also indicates that when there is a general lack of strength in a candidate’s abilities, the race or religion or gender card gets tossed out. The old red herring technique…
Let’s stick to issues of a provable nature. Joe’s track record of being a conservative or voting as one are very weak. This is in conflict with Tea Party values and principles. I believe that Joe, by his own admission, and his pride in his wife’s contribution to the Planned Parenthood Program for years was a poor choice in defending his “pro-life” self description. It would however, support the “why” concerning the omission of the bill requiring sonograms be shown to each female before final consideration of an abortion. By the way, Joe, Planned Parenthood performs abortions-that’s where the Constitutional right to life is snuffed out and an innocent child is killed.
Moving on to issues that conservative Texans feel very strongly about is the voter ID bill that lost it’s way to the floor. The majority of Texans are not supportive of unchecked amnesty of illegal (criminal) immigrants and I might add that I refer to citizens of many countries, and it has been proven that these include nations with citizens who have committed horrible criminal acts after having crossed any of our borders illegally. There is no reference or inference of any specific nationality, lest that become an issue. Crimes are crimes and those who commit them are criminals.
May the God of all humans help us in this situation. Good is still good and evil is still evil…

Sheryl Kelly Howieson
Plano Tea Party

This is in response to Beverly Woolley’s “sudden” change of heart in regard to Joe Straus and the Texas Speaker of the House. I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU AS CO-CHAIR of the TEA PARTY CAUCUS and neither do any of the Tea Party groups in the state of Texas, as far as I know.
You are an embarrassing RINO supporter and we want nothing to connect your way of thinking with the hard working, sincere, self-sacrificing, patriotic members of the Tea Party groups in Texas.
You do not have a clue but you have certainly spoken openly and clearly about where you will be working in the future and that will NOT be in conjunction with any conservative groups or organizations
that took your words at face value when you assured us that you were not dedicated to Straus just two weeks ago. Busy weeks eh?
Hmm, West Houston, Well, I guess the King Street Patriots could find a replacement in short order.
I am a native Houstonian and have been for over 50 years and I will gladly help find a replacement for you should you continue to pledge your vote for Joe Straus and believe me-it won’t take long to find one.

*****Note to Bourgeois-with explanation of why we will not have Joe as our Speaker.

First of all, Bourgeois, “Christ-centered principles” does not indicate a personal dislike, distrust, or angst in reference to a person of the Jewish faith. Anti-Semitic? That would be presumptuous as well as incorrect. Christ was a Jew and the Jews are God’s chosen people. Now, we have that weak and over used( ad nauseum) comment debunked. The tendency nowadays to whine about prejudice of any sort is growing old. It also indicates that when there is a general lack of strength in a candidate’s abilities, the race or religion or gender card gets tossed out. The old red herring technique…
Let’s stick to issues of a provable nature. Joe’s track record of being a conservative or voting as one are very weak. This is in conflict with Tea Party values and principles. I believe that Joe, by his own admission, and his pride in his wife’s contribution to the Planned Parenthood Program for years was a poor choice in defending his “pro-life” self description. It would however, support the “why” concerning the omission of the bill requiring sonograms be shown to each female before final consideration of an abortion. By the way, Joe, Planned Parenthood performs abortions-that’s where the Constitutional right to life is snuffed out and an innocent child is killed.
Moving on to issues that conservative Texans feel very strongly about is the voter ID bill that lost it’s way to the floor. The majority of Texans are not supportive of unchecked amnesty of illegal (criminal) immigrants and I might add that I refer to citizens of many countries, and it has been proven that these include nations with citizens who have committed horrible criminal acts after having crossed any of our borders illegally. There is no reference or inference of any specific nationality, lest that become an issue. Crimes are crimes and those who commit them are criminals.
May the God of all humans help us in this situation. Good is still good and evil is still evil…

Sheryl Kelly Howieson
Plano Tea Party

Well, which was it, Rep. Woolley — a threat to make your ninth (last?) legislative session essentially irrelevant via denial of a Committee Chair/vice-Chair position(s), or was it the current Speaker’s private promise of Committee power and $$$ support for re-election? I don’t normally gamble, but I’d bet a large sum that it was the latter! Just what leads you to believe that Joe Strauss will not repeat the same type of back-door, self-preserving and underhanded activity in 2011 that was ever-so-apparent in the 2009 Texas Legislature; and, doesn’t the unanamous support of all House Democrats tell you something about where his loyalties will again reside if he again sits in the Speaker’s Chair? Face facts: Straus does not “walk the talk!”

Rep. Woolley, I hope that you are paying VERY close attention to the comments to this article from others… because they represent the overwhelming majority of those who made the Republican House supermajority a reality. Obviously, your actions will be watched closely…not only by your constuents, but also by all conservatives statewide who are sick and tired of “business as usual.”

“Although the mid-term conservative gain is greatly encouraging, it bears with it an element of responsibility, about which conservatives must remain diligently aware. The fervor of the people that resonated so profoundly across the nation on Election Day must not be allowed to dissipate, lest the political class sense an opportunity to descend once again to the relative unaccountability of its past practices. America must remain resolute in its opposition to any regression back to “business as usual.” – Christopher G. Adamo, GOPUSA, Nov. 18, 2010.

RADMAN says it well. I am concerned with the very name of this website “TexasInsider” as it smacks of elitism. Joe Strauss is the TARGET of most tea party members and is not a conservative by any definition I would apply. He has gained a power that rest on the shoulders of the Democrats who support him 100%! If Strauss was conservative, there would be no way on Earth that 100% 0f Dems would find him acceptable.

Be certain of this. Every force of the Tea party will be directed to remove Speaker Strauss and place a true conservative. Hopefully, one that can recognize that the election was WON by conservatives through the Tea Party activist. I am deeply concerned that you are a part of the so-called Tea Party Assembly and have already announced your support for a RINO. Most of the attendant will be on guard to keep the “assembly” a true tea party CONSERVATIVE effort.

John Marler – Wilco Teaparty