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Republican Women of Greater North Texas
www.rwgnt.org
Inside this issue:
May Meeting: Protecting your
family through an “Active
Shooter Event”
RWGNT City Council Candi-
dates
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President’s Pen
Will You Vote for Trump if He
is Our Nominee?
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Campaign Hours Update
Scholarship Dinner Update
3
Membership Report
Cookbook
Patron Member Information
State Convention
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Scholarship Dinner Pictures
Candidate Forum Picture
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Member Information
May Birthdays
Coming Events
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Informing, Educating, Empowering Women to become a Positive Part of the Political Process
May 2016
Volume 041 Issue 45
Please join the Republican Women of Greater North Texas as we welcome
Jim Skinner, Collin County Sheriff elect. A 24 year law enforcement veteran,
Jim will be addressing the concern of increasing active shooter events. He will
offer practical advice on what to do in such an event and how citizens may
defend themselves and their families if confronted by a gunman. This is
another meeting you will not want to miss, so bring a friend and join us!
SHOUT OUT!! SHOUT OUT!! SHOUT OUT!!
RWGNT wants to send a special Shout Out to our very own members
Cindy Asche, Terri Green, Shona Huffman, and Pam Little who are running
for council positions in their respective cities, We are SO very proud of you
ladies and all of the hard work you have put into your campaigns. Way to step
up and respond to the call of service and leadership. You have many young
women looking up to you. Thank you for setting the example.
*RWGNT cannot endorse candidates, but we do encourage you to do your
research and VOTE! Click on the candidates names above to take you to
their websites where you can read more about them. Election Day is May 7th!
Volunteer opportunities await you! (Who couldn’t use some extra volunteer
hours?!?!) Contact candidates directly to see how you can support them!
May Meeting: Protecting your family May Meeting: Protecting your family May Meeting: Protecting your family
through an “Active Shooter Event”through an “Active Shooter Event”through an “Active Shooter Event”
Date: Tuesday, May 10
Time:
11:00 am- Sign in/Registration
11:30 am- Buffet lunch is served
12:00 pm- Business meeting
Place: Stonebriar Country
Club 5050 Country Club Dr.
Frisco, Texas 75034
Cost: $25/person
RSVP: Reserve your spot here:
RSVP
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President’s Pen
It’s spring! And you know what that means… April reflections bring May elections! Okay, I’m
corny but how often can you say you voted twice and it was completely legal to do so?!
Municipal elections are so important. Taxation, regulation, and most of the laws that affect us
day to day, are made at the local level by our City Council and School Boards. You wouldn’t buy
a car without looking under the hood, why would you vote without knowing who or what you’re
voting for? Early voting for the municipal election runs through May 3rd; Election Day is
Saturday, May 7th. If you have questions about a candidate, contact one of our Board members. We would be
delighted to help you.
The February statewide election triggered a few run-off races which will also be held in May. Run-offs are
incredibly important because the number of voters drastically decreases and only a very few people actually
determine who will hold those statewide offices. YOU should be one of those people! Early voting for the Run-Off
is May 16-20; Election Day is Tuesday, May 24th.
If you really want to have some fun, the Texas GOP Convention will be held in Dallas, May 12-14. Anyone can
register as a visitor and I would encourage you to do so! This is a great opportunity to experience the convention
right in your own backyard. www.texasgop.org
Thank you for the honor of serving you,
Glynis Chester
Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
Will You Vote for Trump if He is Our Nominee?
A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won't vote for Trump if he is the eventual nominee. I just want to put something in perspective. Justice Scalia's seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75. These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology. Think about that... 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate. Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period. Everyone saying that they won't vote for one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this. If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever. If you are a Conservative, a vote for anyone but the GOP nominee, whomever that will be, is a vote for Hillary Clinton. That is how Obama got into office - people staying home because they couldn't in good con-science' vote for Romney - If you did that, you helped Obama get elected. Submitted by Gail Abbott. Source unknown.
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Did You Hear about our scholarship
dinner???
Republican Women are always happy to celebrate
young conservative women with college scholarships
and lots of encouragement. RWGNT is no exception.
On April 20th, after gathering at Stonebriar Country
Club at 4:00, a team of RW worked feverishly to set up
the wine pull, table decorations, video system, and
check-in desk in preparation for a delightful evening.
Our event began at 6:00 with a half hour for socializing,
then an invocation by Collin County Commissioner
Susan Fletcher, the National Anthem sung by Tanya
Deiter, and a room of almost 200 people honoring our
flags with Dianne Edmondson. Our wine pull was a
success, as many vendors, members, and guests
donated 195 bottles of nice wines and lots of people in
attendance donated $20-100 to pull bottles to take home
with them. The auction seemed to start a little slow but
quickly took off, thanks to our very own auctioneer,
Dianna Sharp. Between sponsorships, pledges, ticket
sales, the wine pull and live auction, we raised
$35,000!! Wow!!
Our honored guests and scholarship winners enjoyed an
energetic talk by Texas Senator Jane Nelson about what
our conservative leaders are accomplishing on our
behalf. We have all admired and appreciated Senator
Nelson for many years and now have a scholarship
established in her honor.
Scholarship Recipients were:
Jane Gray Nelson Scholarship - Lauren Wasson, who
was home schooled and will go to Abilene Christian
University, majoring in political science.
Shirley Melton Johnson Scholarship - Laiken Ritchie,
from McKinney North High School, attending
Pepperdine University in the fall.
Florence Shapiro Scholarship - Nicole Sun, from
Centennial High School in Frisco, headed to UT Austin
Libby and Steve Maus. Scholarship - Anna Flusche, in
Collin College nursing program.
Ladies, be sure to record the hours spent on this event,
on our website! The hours put into this event since
December will look great on our club's volunteer hours
reports, especially for April!
Libby Maus Scholarship Chairman
Congratulations and thank you to all members who
submitted their campaign hours for the first quarter of
2016.We posted a whopping 6,140 hours for the
quarter. We have spent over 6,000 hours so far this
year furthering the work of the RWGNT through
campaign work, fund raising projects, leadership and
management seminars, supporting Republican
candidates and fulfilling the responsibilities of the
various offices, just to name a few important areas.
FYI, our average number of hours per quarter in 2015
was 900. That’s an unbelievable difference.
Now is the time to start recording your time for the
second quarter. Because it is a campaign year, there
are lots of opportunities to help your favorite
candidates and there are many candidates who need
your help. It’s a breeze to submit your hours on the
RWGNT web site. You will see the area used for
submitting hours on the left side of the home page.
You can submit many times throughout the quarter and
system will record each entry and put them into a report
at the end of the quarter.
A way to help increase the number of voters is to
become a Deputy Registrar.
We want as many Republican voters as possible. We
can help with this by becoming volunteer deputy
registrars in Collin or Denton County...This is a very easy
thing to do and takes very little time. For information,
you can contact me at [email protected] or
contact the elections office in your county. For Collin
County, call 972-547-1900, and for Denton County call
940-349-3200.
In June we will begin selling our new cookbook
“Cooking Right in Red Hot Texas.”
If you are aware of an event where we might be able to
set up a display to sell our book, please let me know.
Be prepared to start purchasing the books at our
regular meeting in June and think about all the gifts you
will need through the end of the year. The cookbook
will be the perfect item for some of those.
Marilynn Meeks VP Campaign Activities
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Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
COMING SOON!! RWGNT Cookbooks!
Wouldn’t you like to have Laura Bush’s recipe for Texas
sheet cake, or Dan Patrick’s favorite shrimp dip? You can
have those and many more recipes by purchasing one of our
new cookbooks. As many of you know, we are in the
process of publishing a cookbook, COOKING RIGHT IN RED
HOT TEXAS. The over 400 recipes in the book have been
submitted by state and local elected officials and by
members of our club. The books will be available around
June 1. The cost of each book will be $20.00.
—Marilynn Meeks, Cookbook Committee
Membership Committee - Gail Entrekin
Ladies, we did it! We blew the lid off our 2016 Membership Goal -- as of March 31st, we
have 130 full members! Hold on to your hats…we also achieved a 91% retention rate of
our combined-clubs 2015 membership (144). Who ROCKS? … RWGNT members!!
A big warm welcome to our newest members: Sonya Aldy, Veronica Birkenstock,
Suzanne Bowers, Dody Brigadier, Brandi Carter, Julie Dykema, Jennifer Entrekin,
Susanna Lorenz, Jennifer Tooker, and Susan Webster. Our Associate Members count
has increased to 85, bringing our aggregate club membership to 215.
It is good to be a Republican woman!!
Are You A Patron Member?
You can further support RWGNT by adding a
Patron Membership to your current membership
plan for just $100!
We thank our Patron Members for their
additional support with exclusive benefits and
event opportunities throughout the year. Both
Full and Associate Members can be a RWGNT
Patron!
— Shannon Kilburn, Patron Chairman
Delegates, Alternates, Guests, Parents of Pages (or Pages themselves) - For everything you need
to know about our TX GOP State Convention, visit our website at RWGNT.org under the "TXGOP
Convention Q&A” tab.
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More Pictures
from the
Scholarship
Dinner can be
found HERE!
“Hats Off to Education” Scholarship Dinner
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Caring for America Sandy Simpson
Chaplain Janet Hannam
Cookbook Gail Entrekin
Directory & Historian Elaine Stedman
Hospitality Gail Abbott
Newsletter Shannon Kilburn
Patron Chairman Shannon Kilburn
Phone Tree Lucia Nazarian
Scholarship Libby Maus
Social Media Emily Foshee
Sunshine Terri Ricketts
Website Whitney Brubaker
Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
Republican Women of Greater North Texas
Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday
of each month at Stonebriar Country Club*
Annual Dues
Member $30.00
Member plus Spouse $40.00
Associate Member $20.00
* Add a Patron Membership $100.00
2016 Board of Directors
President ~ Glynis Chester [email protected] 214 923 5923
VP Programs ~ Karen Murphy [email protected]
VP Membership ~ Gail Entrekin [email protected]
VP Campaign activities ~ Marilyn Meeks
VP Ways and Means ~ Donna Schmittler
VP Legislation ~ Louise Master [email protected]
VP Leadership Development ~ Cindy Asche [email protected]
Treasurer ~ Pam Little [email protected]
PAC Treasurer ~ Jean McIver [email protected]
Secretary ~ Sue Carter [email protected]
Parliamentarian ~ Victoria Bacon [email protected]
Past President ~ Terri Green [email protected]
www.rwgnt.org
*Meeting Location and Time are subject to change.
Coming Events Municipal Elections—Early Voting
Happening NOW!
Election Day—May 7
May Meeting—Tuesday, May 12
11:00 Registration;
11:30 Lunch
12:00 Meeting
2016 Texas State Republican Convention
May 12-May 14
Tribute to Women Luncheon
May 13
Early Voting—March 1 Primary Run-Off
May 16-20
Election Day—March 1 Primary Run-off
May 24
2016 Standing Committees
April Birthdays
Full Members:
5/2 Elizabeth Brown
5/6 Jenni Russell
5/8 Barbara Clarke
5/15 Jenny Madden
5/21 Janet Kirby
5/23 Julie Dykema
5/25 Shirley Hastings
5/28 Lauren Burge
5/28 Lisa DeLaGarza
5/31 Marilynn Meeks
Associate Members:
5/6 Michael Chester
