The Ted Cruz for Senate campaign announced today that over 200 leading Texas Republican women have personally endorsed the campaign, including over half of the current statewide leadership of TFRW that is permitted to and intends to endorse in Republican primaries.  Cruz has been endorsed by more Republican women than any other candidate in the US Senate race.  Why is this important?

The Republican women that make up the membership of the Texas Federation of Republican Women is over 11,000 ladies strong with 163 local clubs across the state.  TFRW is the second largest Republican women’s federation in the nation and in the last election cycle TFRW members logged over 850,000 hours working on campaigns.  You can be assured that thousands of these campaign hours will be spent advancing the Ted Cruz campaign.  TFRW is undeniably the most powerful political organization in Texas today.

Karen Townsend, the immediate past President of the Memorial West Republican Women’s Club, blogged her reasons for supporting Ted Cruz as a Republican Women leader, in short, because he is a “Happy Warrior.”

Ted Cruz, though, grabbed me. He captured my attention with the first speech I heard him deliver.  He is a compelling candidate – he inspires the audience.  In times like this, we need some real inspiration.  We are a nation mired in despair and anger.  We need someone fresh who will inspire us all.  Most importantly, we need someone who will inspire us as Republicans to be happy warriors.  Ted Cruz is a happy warrior.

Will you join Karen and 200 plus other Republican Women in supporting Ted Cruz?

Note:  These are individual endorsements.  The Texas Federation of Republican Women does not and cannot endorse in a Republican primary, and current TFRW club Presidents and Campaign Activities Chairs are not permitted to endorse.

* I work for the Ted Cruz campaign and am very biased, but can 200 plus Republican Women be wrong?

Deep in the heart of the Texas Hill Country in Mason, Texas concealed handgun license instructor Crockett Keller’s radio ad promoting his CHL course has gone viral and received national attention.  Drudge Report recently picked up the story and Glenn Beck interviewed Crockett Keller.

Crockett Keller defended his CHL radio ad to Glenn Beck,

“That was somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek jab at some of my liberal neighbors,“ he explained regarding his stance against ”socialist liberals” and those who voted for Obama. “You understand, I put this ad on a small, local country music station that has less about a less than a 50 mile radius. You know, I was pretty much speaking to my neighbors. That’s somewhat expanded, I think.”

“I have approximately 10 hours to try to instill some form of knowledge into a person where they can make a life and death decision in split second. When you carry a weapon to defend yourself … you have a scant few seconds to decide whether not this warrants using deadly force or otherwise. … Now, they [liberal voters] had over a year and a half to vet who they voted for president. Now how can I take 10 hours and try to teach them a life and death decision in just a few seconds in just a few seconds when they screwed it up after a year and a half?”

You can listen to the whole radio interview with Glenn Beck and Crockett Keller here.  Listen to Crockett Keller’s radio ad here.

Crockett Keller is now being investigated by the Texas Department of Public Safety.  To become a CHL instructor in Texas, you must be licensed by the DPS and be up to their standards to teach the class.  Previously the DPS stated that,

“The Department became aware of the statements in question yesterday and has begun an investigation into the matter. The Department will take appropriate administrative action based on the findings from the investigation.”

Stay tuned for more information on the DPS’s investigation of Crockett Keller.

Ted Cruz for Senate announced today that 115 leaders of the Texas Federation of Republican Women have united to support the campaign.  And though TFRW by-laws prohibit many statewide officers from endorsing in primaries, of the officers who are allowed to endorse and intend on endorsing, half are formally supporting Cruz. These Republican Women are part of the growing conservative movement uniting behind the Cruz campaign.

Ted is the obvious choice to take on the Obama agenda because he’s spent a lifetime standing up and fighting for conservative values. He is the only proven conservative in the Senate race. We can always count on him to stand up for U.S. sovereignty, the Constitution, and traditional values. Join Republican Women across the state and urge conservatives to support Ted!

Though TFRW by-laws prohibit many statewide officers from endorsing in primaries, of the officers who are allowed to endorse and intend on endorsing, half are formally supporting Ted Cruz. These Republican Women are part of the growing conservative movement uniting behind our campaign.  Ted was recently profiled on the cover of National Review, and the story mentioned the Kerr County Republican Women Candidates Forum that Ted participated in and won.

Here are a few more testimonials from TFRW leaders:

“Rarely does a candidate come along I get so excited about supporting. He is exactly the kind of conservative we should be uniting behind. He can articulate conservative principles, has a compelling personal story, and is the best candidate to stop the Obama agenda.”

-Sherry Peterson, TFRW Deputy President for Region V

“Ted’s record has shown that he actually is a conservative. He won’t compromise with liberals, and will not only vote the right way in the Senate, but will really help advance the conservative cause. We need him in the Senate to truly cut spending, limit the size of government, and get our nation back on the road to fiscal sanity.”

-Barbara Larson, TFRW Vice President for Legislation

Ted’s campaign has tremendous momentum and support, with endorsements from nearly all the conservative leaders in Texas and nationally, and he needs your help to keep it going. Will you please join the Republican Women who are endorsing Ted Cruz today?

Texas State Representative Wayne Christian released the following statement explaining how the school finance bill, SB 1581, was killed tonight and what the next steps are to make sure our public schools are adequately and equally funded.

Now that a budget agreement has been reached between the House and the Senate this is the last piece of the puzzle, to decided how the money that has been appropriated gets distributed to the schools.  This is not a Republican vs Democrat issue, more so a rural vs suburban vs urban, or rich vs poor issue that cuts across party lines.

Today the Texas Senate debated and passed the “noodling” bill, HB 2189, that legalizes and regulates hand fishing for catfish in Texas. The bill has all ready passed the Texas House, next step is for Governor Perry to sign it into law.

Representative Wayne Christian and former Rep. Joe Nixon extend one last call for action regarding the conservative “Nixon Texas House Map” that is fair, legal and elects more Republicans to the Texas House for the next decade.

To watch Rep. Christian’s video alert click here.

The final Nixon Map that needs your support is “Plan H212 REP. CAIN STATEWIDE SUBSTITUTE CSHB 150.”  Rep. Erwin Cain has filed this map as an amendment to the House Redistricting Committee’s map CSHB 150 that will be voted on this Wedensday April 27th.

Please call your State Representative and ask them to support the “Nixon Map” as filed by Rep. Cain and to follow Rep. Cain’s lead on the House floor.

Time is of the essence here, we have less than 48 hours to influence the direction Texas will take for the next decade!

To view the map go to http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us.

Click on “select plans,” and select “base plan.”

Select “Plan H212 REP. CAIN STATEWIDE SUBSTITUTE CSHB 150.”

Texas needs an official state gun, Arizona and Utah have one, why don’t we? What a better why to express the rugged individualism and self reliance that has defined the great people of Texas since the days of the Republic than by honoring the Walker Colt Revolver as the official state gun of Texas. Without the Walker Colt Revolver in the hands of the Texas Rangers the Republic of Texas might not of survived the trials and tribulations that it did on its path to statehood.