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Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
Inside this issue:
Hats Off to Education Scholarship Dinner
Wine Donation
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President’s Pen
Membership Directory
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Cookbook Information
Patron Membership
Texadelphia Breakfast
Campaign Reporting
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Membership Report
State Convention
Heritage Ranch Forum
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March Meeting Pictures
Candidate Forum Pictures
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Member Information
Coming Events
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Informing, Educating, Empowering Women to become a Positive Part of the Political Process
April 2016
Volume 041 Issue 44
Republican Women of Greater North Texas Cordially Invite You to Our Hats Off to Education Scholarship Dinner!
Thank you to our current Sponsors:
Platinum - Pam Little for Fairview Town Council; Dru Wade Newman
Gold - Cindy Asche for Frisco City Council; Suzanne Wade; Texas Senator Florence Shapiro; Congressman Sam Johnson, Veronica and Brian Birkenstock; Judge Sherry Shipman; Judge Tiffany Haertling; Judge Margaret Barnes
Silver - Frisco City Councilman Bob Allen; Terri Green for Frisco City Council
Bronze - Phil Ramirez for FISD Board of Trustees; Fairview Town Councilman Henry Lessner This dinner and fundraiser, which will replace our 2nd Tuesday meeting for the month of April, benefits four outstanding high school seniors with a college scholarship. The Scholarships to be awarded are the Shirley Melton Johnson Memoriam Scholarship ($2,000), Texas Senator Jane Nelson Scholarship ($2,000), Texas Senator Florence Shapiro Scholarship ($2,000) and the Libby & Steve Maus Scholarship ($750). Our Greater North Texas community, with both the residents and small businesses, have a long history of giving back and investing in the future with RWGNT playing a key role in this effort through our scholarships. In order to fund these scholarships, we are hosting a Wine Pull and Live Auction! You won’t want to miss this fabulous event. Tickets are available NOW!
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Stonebriar Country Club
Cost: to get the best deal, grab 7 of your friends and make a table! You get to pick your own seats! Table for 8 ($50 per ticket) Half Table ($55 per ticket) Single Ticket ($60 per ticket)
RSVP HERE: www.RWGNT.org
Sponsorships: to see the availabilities and benefits click here. (Meal ticket included)
We Need Wine Bottle Donations! We need your support in donating bottles of wine for the “Wine Pull” (valued at $15 or more). Please contact Jean McIver by email at [email protected] or by phone at 972-998-2887 and we will arrange a pick-up. THANK YOU!
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President’s Pen
Texans across the state spoke up loudly at our Primary. We enjoyed a historic turnout this year and that is fantastic but our work is not over. With municipal elections coming up it’s important to remember that our City Council and School Board members today are likely to be our State Senators and Representatives tomorrow. Our actions (or inaction) at the polls on Election Day will determine the men and women who make decisions on our behalf for many years to come. It’s a big responsibility and one we should not take lightly. So please, do your homework, ask questions, and attend forums where you can meet the candidates and get educated on the issues. Then take your friends and family and VOTE on May7th!
Our Primary also resulted in a couple of very important run-off races. The elections for RR Commissioner, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge (places 2 & 5), State Rep. HD33, and 416th District Court Judge will be on a run-off ballot on May 24th. And by then we’ll know if we have any run-offs triggered by the municipal elections. Yes my friends, its election season, and we are so blessed to live in country where we have the freedom to not only choose our own government, but to openly disagree with it with no fear of reprisal. The day we cease to involve ourselves in the electoral process is the day we tell the world that freedom is no longer important to us. Please God, Not in my lifetime and NEVER in Texas! #RWGNT #TFRWLeads
Thank you for the honor of serving you,
Glynis Chester
Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
WE NEED YOUR PICTURE!
We are currently putting together the 2016 RWGNT membership directory. If you are a new member or a renewing member whose picture was not in the 2015 directory, please send a picture of yourself to Elaine Stedman. Any size will work. Please do not crop or re-size before sending. Send your JPEG pictures by April 15 to [email protected], or mail a physical copy to 4970 Buena Vista Dr., Frisco, TX 75034. If you want to photo back, please enclose a note.
RWGNT Reported is published and distributed monthly.
Submit articles, photos, and ideas to Shannon Kilburn
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Are you on social media?
Follow RWGNT on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and our website rwgnt.org! (Click on icons or links to redirect you to our pages!)
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
Have you signed up to become 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!
FREE Food, Whaaaaaaat?!?
Hey! We know you're busy and making a difference in our community. To show our appreciation, we want to treat you to mouth-watering breakfast burritos before heading off to your busy Saturday morning of running errands, kids' sports games, house work, and everything else in between. Planned by the millennials of RWGNT, this casual breakfast will feature our very own conservative, local business owner, and associate member Brian Livingston as our breakfast sponsor!
This is a come-and-go event. Family, friends, and children are ALL welcome! There is no fee for this event, but your RSVP is needed as we will need to know how many burritos to have ready. We look forward to seeing you there!
Saturday, April 16
9:30am-11am
Texadelphia
@ Warren & the Toll-way
RSVP HERE
Campaign Hours It is now time to submit your volunteer campaign hours for the first quarter of 2016. This can be done very easily by going to the Republican Women of Greater North Texas website. On the home page, on the left hand side under our logo there are three bars showing status of member-ship goals, campaign hours, and events. Beneath that, it says "Submit your volunteer hours." Just type in your name and email address, select the correct reporting pe-riod, and then enter number of hours and hit "submit" button. If you have questions about how to calculate your volunteer hours, you can find that information on the website as well. On the home page, go to the heading "about." Expand that heading and go to "forms and links." This will bring up another list and you will find a form called, "counting campaign hours." The information there will help you to determine what activities can be reported, and remember, just about anything you do in connection with RWGNT counts as time that can be reported. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. My email address is [email protected]. Campaign hours for the first quarter are due no later than April 1st.
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Membership Committee - Gail Entrekin Lots to celebrate at our March RWGNT meeting! Our first official meeting following the merger, International Women’s Day, and 5 years of Federation. We celebrated with a fabulous red velvet cake—check out page 5 of this month’s news-letter or our Facebook page to see a picture (and “like” it!). In February our 2016 Membership Goal of 125 full mem-bers was announced. As of our March meeting, we have 115 full members —only 10 away from attaining our goal!! Newest members to RWGNT include: Faunelle Deaton, Ann Harris, Ashley Cockerill, Mary Dowling, Toni Walsh, Diana Gaskill, Suzanne Bowers, Amy Amick, Katie Greenwood, and Christina Brubaker. Our Associate Member count has in-creased to 82, bringing our aggregate club membership to 197. If you have not renewed your membership...DON’T DE-LAY—RENEW TODAY. Membership applications are on our website rwgnt.org It’s good to be a Republican woman!
RWGNT also offers Patron Memberships for $ 100 annually. Patrons not only support the club but can participate in special events! Events last year included a tour of the Dallas Holocaust Museum with former Senator Florence Shapiro and a Tea Party with Comptroller Glenn Hegar! Take a few minutes today to mail your completed form along with your membership dues payment to RWGNT, PO BOX 2353, FRISCO 75034. We look forward to hearing from you soon!!
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.
RPT Chairman/ Vice Chairman Forum
When: Mon, April 18, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Where: Heritage Ranch & Golf Country Club, 465 Scenic Ranch Cir, McKinney, TX 75069,
Please join RWGNT for our second cooperative forum of this election season. This forum will focus on the offices of RPT Chairman and Vice Chairman and will include introductions by local run-off
candidates.
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Thanks to our Sponsors which are listed throughout the newsletter
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(At the NE corner of N. Central Expressway and Southwestern Blvd.)
WWW.BTHBANK.COM
Camille Ussery
Senior Vice President
Republican Women of Greater North Texas www.rwgnt.org
Candidate Ads and Listings are not an endorsement of
the Republican Women of Greater North Texas
March Meeting with Jeanne Nigro Happy 5th Anniversary to us!
It was a packed house at our Regional City Council Forum!!
City Council Candidates discussing their vision for their city
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TFRW D Texas Federation of Republican Women 515 Capitol of Texas Highway, Suite 133 Austin, TX 78746
WWW.TFRW.ORG
Political Ad Paid for by Republican Women of Greater North Texas PAC
NFRW D National Federation of Republican Women 124 N. Alfred Street Alexandria, VA 22314
WWW.NFRW.ORG
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
Patron Member $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 Breakfast C.H.A.T.
Saturday, April 16
8:30
RPT Chairman/Vice Chairman Forum
Monday, April 18
6:00
Hats Off to Education
Wednesday, April 20
6:00
Early Voting Begins
Monday, April 25
TFRW Board Meetings
Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30
Municipal Election
Saturday, May 7
Members:
Jamie Carter—2
Michelle West—9
Margie Greathouse—11
Glynis Chester—16
June Starr White—18
Sydney Roberts—23
Sharon Rettmeier—24
Christy Rosenberg—25
Debbie Gillespie—27
Donna Schmittler—28
Associate Members
Lynn Dodson—2
Mary Liechty—12
Will Sowell—15
Terry Bacon—17
Terry Born—28
David Hannam—29
2016 Standing Committees
April Birthdays
