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PRESIDENT’S Newsletter
September 2018 | www.tfrw.org Inspire. Unite. Achieve.
September 14-15
NFRW Fall (Annual) Board Meeting President’s Message
October 12
TFRW Patron Event Get Voters to the Polls!
October 12-13
Driving around the Houston area last week, I was
TFRW Fourth Quarter Board Meeting
listening to a talk radio host describe the excitement
in the air when summer is over and the weather
becomes cool and crisp and the aroma of pumpkin spiced everything is
Table of Contents in the air. This made me a little envious, until I found out her show was
broadcast nationally from Austin. I had to laugh to myself and thought,
Get Voters to the Polls! 1 “do we live in the same state?” because it stays hot until about November
in Texas. There is no crisp, fall weather coming anytime soon and the only
Work Hard, Play Hard! 2 weather that gets me excited this time of year is ‘whether’ or not Texas will
sweep the Democrats on November 6, 2018.
Campaigns are in Full Swing 3
We are going to win in November, but the members of the TFRW must
Salado Area Republican Women 5
be the leaders in getting voters to the polls to vote for our Republican
Congratulations to our 100% Clubs! 6 candidates. We like to brag that everything is bigger in Texas, but not
voter turnout unfortunately. With data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas
Review Your Club Bylaws 7 residents are ranked 47th in voter turnout; there are only fifty states. Texas
is at the bottom of the barrel. Texas residents are ranked 44th in voter
32nd Biennial Convention 8
registration and only 32% of Texans aged eighteen to twenty-four, voted in
2018 Patron Clubs 8 the 2016 Presidential Election, the national average was 43%.
2018 Patrons & Associate Patrons 9 Democrat primary turnout more than doubled since 2014, but not to fret,
as Republicans cast over 1.5 million votes in the primary compared to
Help Victims of Human Trafficking 10 1 million votes cast by Democrats this primary season. We cannot become
complacent; we need to increase our momentum and double our voter
End of Year Fundraising
turnout. We can start with Senate District 19 and make sure that Peter
is Fundamental 11
Flores wins this seat, then turn our attention to November.
President Trump’s Proclamation
Marks Women’s Equality Day 12 We are the motivators for our state, we are workers, and the
Accepting Applications 13 members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women are
September 14 the reason Texas stays RED!
NFRW Region 5 Meeting 16
Patron Event 17
Karen Cuneo Newton
President, T.F.R.W.
Send Us Your Photos!
Please email photos of your club’s events
and activities to [email protected].
Look for them in the next edition of the
President’s Newsletter.
PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER TEXAS FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN