Trick-or-Treat Politics: Who’s REALLY Rapping at Your Chamber Door?
October 19, 2024 | Montgomery County, TX
by Jon Bouché, Vice Chairman, Montgomery County Republican Party
Halloween is upon us and very soon the neighborhoods will be filled with masked trick-or-treaters knocking on doors and asking for candy. But this is also election season, when someone else may come rapping on your door, and they too will be in disguise. Instead of asking for a treat, that masked visitor will be asking for your vote. Indeed, this is the time of year when Democrats and Progressives masquerade as Republicans and Conservatives to try to con their way into office. It is imperative that voters be aware of who is hiding behind the mask!
In recognition of the fact that there is no such thing as a “nonpartisan” race, a fact that Democrats also agree with, the Montgomery County Republican Party has taken a major step in unmasking Democrats this election season and has endorsed in the so-called nonpartisan races this cycle.
In previous elections, any candidate could just claim to be a Republican and run in one of the nonpartisan races despite their past voting or donation history. For many years, the Republican Party made no effort to identify who was really the Republican in those races. Thankfully, that has all changed. Now the Republican Party has released an official list of endorsed candidates in our local, nonpartisan races.
The release of these endorsements will now make it more difficult for groups like the Republican Voters of Texas PAC, or any other group for that matter, to falsely represent their voter guides to voters as “the Republican voter guide” as they have done so many times in the past. Instead, the local party now is able to include its endorsements on the Official Republican Party Voter Guide and make it available for voters.
The Montgomery County Republican Party Bylaws (Article XI) allow endorsements in nonpartisan races for identifiable and uncensured candidates. Additionally, The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) Bylaws allow for local endorsements (2024-2026 Bylaws, Standing Rule III.B). The RPT has also established criteria for nonpartisan candidates to seek an endorsement at the state party level.
The Montgomery County Republican Party strives to have the most informed voters in the great state of Texas so that when some shady group claiming to be Republican comes rapping at your chamber door, our voters will know to say, NEVERMORE!
