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Political Action

by VP Campaign Activities Michele Samuelson
[email protected]

Collect Campaign Hours

The next reporting deadline for Campaign Activities Hours is July 15, covering April-June.
Collecting hours in the summer can be difficult. Please make sure you are regularly communicating with your
club members, even if your club is not meeting during the summer! And, please work with your club president
and relevant leadership to let club members know about activities that may count for hours, such as Juneteenth
celebrations, Independence Day events, local government meetings, and campaign events.

Don’t forget to ask for and collect the hours your club members spent at the RPT Convention!

WHAT COUNTS? SD-19 Special Election
• Preparation (delegate training or planning
Governor Abbott has called for a Special Election on
meetings)
July 31, 2018 to replace convicted Texas State
Senator Carlos Uresti from District 19 which stretches
• Travel time (to and from)
from San Antonio to outside El Paso encompassing
• Meetings (committee, caucus, planning, etc.) seventeen counties including:

• Sessions (the general sessions on the floor) Atascosa Medina
Bexar Pecos
• Events (TFRW, for your county, for candidates, etc.) Brewster Real
Some confusion about this has occurred; please Crockett Reeves
count time at the “fun” events, too. I apologize for Dimmit Terrell
the miscommunication. Edwards Uvalde
Frio Val Verde
Kinney Zavala.
Maverick
REPORTING HOURS
A total of eight candidates have filed for this snap
election: three Republicans: Pete Flores;
Quarter Months Deadline
Jesse Jay Alaniz; and Carlos Antonio Raymond; one
1st Quarter January-March April 15 Libertarian candidate Tony Valdivia, as well as a highly
contested Democratic field of four candidates which
2nd Quarter April-June July 15
include: Pete Gallego; Roland Gutierrez;
3rd Quarter July-September October 15 Charlie Urbina Jones; and Carlos Uresti’s brother,
Tomas Uresti. Recall that Republican Pete Flores
4th Quarter October-December January 15 garnered a highly respectable 97,682 votes against
Carlos Uresti’s 134,997 votes in November 2016, but
unfortunately lost. With only a 10% voter turnout
expected for this Special Election and a crowded
REPORTING FORM REMINDER
Democrat field, this Senate seat is definitely within
We’ve put a link to the reporting form under Republican reach with our help. This would be the first
“Programs” on the front page of the website. You DO time Senate District 19 could be won by a Republican.
NOT have to log in to access the form! Please use the It would blunt the talk of a “Texas Blue Wave” and give
form for your quarterly reports! Questions, please us great momentum moving in the November 2018
email me at [email protected]. General Elections. I call on all TFRW members to help
in this race.

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