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Our organization is called the Texas Federation of Republican Women, emphasis on Republican. We are team Republican, and after the primaries and all the runoffs, we are only team Republican. I am sure somewhere in the bylaws it even spells out that we support Republican candidates. We are Republicans; we are a Republican organization which makes our mission “to elect Republicans into office.” Since election season is also in the middle of football season, let’s use sports as an analogy. Alamo...

  Our youngest son is a senior at a small liberal arts college in Memphis. The Newton children attended very liberal leaning institutions and graduated with their conservative ideological beliefs still intact, a task not so small and one of which I am very proud. Recently, Joe and I were in Memphis for our very last parent’s weekend, a weekend filled with seeing our son, his friends, and the new friends we made over the past four years. We shared meals...

Mona is a graduate of Baylor University, with a degree in Education and Foreign Languages, and accompanied her husband, Colonel (ret.)  Bill Bailey, around the world for 30 years during his Air Force career.  Upon his retirement, she went to work for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and retired from there in 1999 as an Interdivisional Relationship Manager. She immediately became active in the Tarrant County Republican Party upon her retirement, calling TFRW to find out the nearest RW Club!  Since then...

Have you ever googled “why men do not run for office?” Nothing comes up except articles related to why women do not run for office. There were several articles about the increase in female candidates this year, but mostly Democrat female candidates. Where are all the Republican women? We know the talking points to answer the question ‘why women do not run;’ we talk about it all the time. The typical answers are: Women need to be asked to run, Women are...

I am officially declaring the week after convention “Texas Federation of Republican Women: Pamper Yourself Week”.  Seriously, I woke up Sunday morning and not only did I look like a train wreck but my house matched my disheveled appearance. Mascara about an inch thick under my eyes, hair going in all directions and my feet were not only swollen, but bruised and blistered. I misplaced my new Ray Bans, but I did find the missing lime juice cans; melted under...

Christi Craddick is in the forefront of the newest wave of pragmatic conservatives moving into leadership roles across Texas. Raised in a strong conservative household, retained as legal counsel by prominent Texas firms, and shaped by more than a decade as a trusted political adviser, Christi has set a clear standard of integrity, self-reliance and innovation in her role as Chairman at the Railroad Commission of Texas. Since her tenure on the Commission began in November 2012, Craddick has pushed to...