President's Message

A Few Action Items - Summer 2008

Greetings All,

I hope everyone is having a great Summer. Just a few action items for you to think about and act on in the next few weeks:

First: Look for the email notifying you about the official opening of the Clear Lake Campaign Office. Think about what you can do to help out once it’s open.

Second: Go to www.americansolutions.com and sign the DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS Petition. It’s time to stop depending on the rest of the world to meet our energy needs. Whether it take 6 months or 6 years to come on line, every day we don’t act pushes that date further out.

Third: Watch what Congress does when it reconvenes after the 4th of July break. Call your representatives and urge them to lift the restrictions preventing us from producing our own energy. Let’s stop shipping billions of dollars overseas. Watch for any other legislation that flies in the face of Republican Principles.

John Cornyn: DC: 202-24-2934 Local: 713-572-3337

Kay Bailey Hutchison: DC: 202-224-5922 Local: 713-653-3456

Nick Lampson: DC: 202-225-5951 Local: 281-240-3700

If you are outside CD22 and want to find out your rep and their phone numbers, go here.

Fourth: Lastly, have a wonderful, safe and happy 4th of July. Take some time to say a prayer for our men and women in the military and for our veterans, and to reflect on what a blessing it is to be an American.

See you in August,

Debbie Guitian Roan

It's time to make lemonade out of lemons... - May 2008

Fellow Members,

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country”, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yes, I know he was a democrat, but even they can get it right sometimes.

I think this year we really need to keep this quote in mind. The overall dissatisfaction with our candidates can only be laid at the feet of the electorate (OK, the media helped), but we, the voters, chose them.

Now it is time to make “lemonade out of lemons”. We work to elect the best candidate out there, ours, and then we stay on them. Recent history shows us you can never relax, even when your candidates win and you think you know how they‘ll act in office. Our work as Republicans continues even between election cycles. As we approach this Memorial Day, the holiday where we honor those who have sacrificed so much to give us the opportunities and freedoms we enjoy, I do not think hard work, diligence and persistence are too much to ask of us in order to pass those same freedoms and opportunities to future generations.

Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and rest up, there is much work to be done.

See you on the 28th,

Debbie Guitian Roan

Primary Process is Over, But... - April 2008

Fellow BARW Members,

The primary process here in Texas is over. Many of our members have been working hard on the various campaigns and are now taking a well deserved breather. However, while your feet are up and you’re sipping your iced tea, it’s time to start thinking ahead to the general election. Now is the time, that we as the grassroots, have to make some thoughtful decisions on how best to use our resources and our time to get Republicans elected in November. And win in November we must.

In the past, we have staffed, run and financially supported a phone bank and/or a Republican Campaign office.

These are huge commitments, which will require help from every member.

Just a few things for you to ponder before our next meeting. Remember, many hands make light work.

As always I look forward to seeing everyone at Bailey’s on the 23rd.

Debbie Guitian Roan

November is Coming - March 2008

Fellow BARW Members,

As our Republican party’s November slate begins to take shape, I must again remind everyone that this election is bigger than any one candidate.

The primary process is the time for spirited debate within our own party. That’s how we sort through the range of Republican ideas and positions -- we are the party of ideas. However, when that process concludes on April 8th, regardless of whether your candidate wins or not, we must all get behind our chosen candidates. This is sometimes easier said than done, but as our TFRW President Toni Anne Dashiell has said “give yourself three days to be sad, and then get over it.”

Remember, whatever differences you have with our chosen Republican candidates, they pale in comparison to the differences we have with those on the other side. “None of the above” has yet to win a single election.

The contrasts between the two parties could not be more stark than they are this year. The Democrat alternatives have never been more out of the mainstream. Our job as the Republican Grassroots is to point out these differences, educate the ‘undecided,‘ get motivated and motivate those around us.

This is going to be a tough election and it is going to take effort and hard work on the part of each and every one of us to win -- and win we must!

The future of our country and party depends on it.

I’ll leave you with the words of Ronald Reagan who said it best, “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”

See you the 26th,

Debbie Guitian Roan