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IN THIS ISSUE:
o EVENT - SUNDAY - 8/20 - RLC TEXAS CONVENTION
o REPORT - RLC SURVEY AT TEXAS GOP CONVENTION

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS (RLC)
OF TEXAS 2006 CONVENTION -
SUNDAY 8/20 - TEXAS CITY, TEXAS

(Near Houston and Galveston)

Please renew your RLC membership!  
So that you may attend the RLC Convention -
Vision for the Future and Officer Elections...
toward the end of the Ron Paul BBQ Bash.

RENEW OR BECOME member!

The Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) of Texas is
holding its scheduled convention on Sunday, August
20th in conjunction with Congressman Ron Paul's
annual BBQ Bash in Texas City, Texas.

This is our 2006 RLC Convention and elections will be
held toward the end of the Ron Paul BBQ Bash.  There
will be speakers and entertainment.  We hope that all
RLC members will attend.  We'll be celebrating 170
years of Texas Independence. The cost to attend will
be $10/individual or $30/family.

• WHAT: 2006 Republican Liberty Caucus
  of Texas Convention

• WHEN: Sunday, August 20th, 2006, 1-5 PM

• WHERE: Doyle Convention Center 2010 5th Ave. North,
  Texas City, Texas.  In the Texas Heroes Room.

• DIRECTIONS:

  Map to Convention.

• AGENDA:

  • 1 to 4 PM - Ron Paul BBQ Bash -
    Entertainment, Food, and Speakers. 
    (The Texas Barn Boys of El Campo
    will entertain.)

  • 4 to 5 PM - RLC Convention - Vision
    for the Future and Officer Elections. 
    (Only dues paying members may
    attend this part of the event.)

• COST: $10/individual or $30/family, at the door.

• REQUIREMENTS TO ATTEND RLC OF TEXAS CONVENTION (LAST PART OF EVENT):

  • Dues paid RLC Membership.  CLICK HERE TO RENEW OR BECOME MEMBER.

  • Payment of entrance fee, $10/individual or $30/family, at the door.

• LOCAL HOTELS: The Galveston Beach is 10 miles
  away, but if you'd like to stay in a local hotel, here
  are three places, but there are plenty more:

  • La Quinta Inn
    1121 Highway 146 N
    Texas City, TX 77590
    (409) 948-3101

  • Best Value Inn & Suites
    902 Hwy 146 North
    Texas City, TX
    (409) 945-9900

  • Crystal Suites
    201 Highway 146 N
    Texas City, TX 77590
    (409) 945-0999

• Optional RSVP: Not required, but if you'd like to RSVP or check your RLC membership status, contact us at HQ@rlctexas.net. or (512) 577-8842.

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS OF
TEXAS SUCCESSFULLY REPRESENTED
AT TEXAS GOP CONVENTION!:

June 2-3, 2006 - San Antonio, Texas

   
           Don Zimmerman, RLC of Texas Executive
           Director, beginning our famous survey

Over the weekend of June 2nd and 3rd, the Republican
Liberty Caucus of Texas was well represented at the Texas
GOP Convention in San Antonio.  This Texas Republican
Convention is the largest State GOP event in the country.     

In order to represent our ideals of limited government to the
Texas GOP delegates, the Republican Liberty Caucus of
Texas sponsored a booth at the convention.  From the start,
the booth proved to be a popular spot.  Delegates and other
Republicans visited the booth in search of clipboards with
our World's Smallest Political Quizzes*.

Here are the results from World's Smallest Political Quiz
Event* at the 2006 GOP Convention:

COMBINED TOTAL SCORES FOR
REPUBLICAN MEN AND WOMEN:

Note: 311 Republican Delegates and other visitors took
the Political quiz.

Overall the results were not at all surprising for a Republican
Convention.  About 38% of the dots ended up being in the
Conservative quadrant, 30% in the Libertarian sphere,
25% Centrist and 7% Liberal and Authoritarian.  The
Conservative trend remains the same from the older 2004
Convention, where the Conservative percentage was at 38%,
but it was down 5% compared to the 2002 Convention where
Conservatives made up 43% of the delegates.  The Libertarian
trend dropped to 30% down 2% from the last 2004 Convention,
where Libertarians made up 32% of the delegates, and it's
also lower from the older 2002 Convention where Libertarians
made up a larger 35% of the delegates, at that time.  The
Centrist trend is the only philosophy showing strong
growth, at 25%, up 4% from the last 2004 Convention that
had Centrists making up 21% of the delegates, and it's even
higher compared to the older 2002 Convention, where Centrists
made up 17% of the delegates.  One cause may be that
women have gone from 23% Centrist delegates, in 2004, to
28% Centrist delegates, in 2006.  The Authoritarian trend
is down to 5%, about 2% lower from previous Conventions.  
The Liberal trend is holding constant at 2% of delegates,
compared to older Conventions.

     
               Political survey results                                          Close up of map

Among large numbers of think tanks, conservative groups
and vendors, the RLC easily had one of the most popular
booths at the convention.  At any given moment there would
be on average 5 to 10 interested individuals around the booth,
inquiring about the RLC (or Ron Paul), and discussing the
benefits of creating a Grass-roots network of Republicans
looking for and helping out in campaigns to get more Ron
Paul type Republicans in office at all levels in Texas.

On our large quiz board, we wrote in the names of some
prominent politicians in the areas of the chart where they
would likely fall.  This included conservatives; George W.
Bush, Jack Kemp; social conservatives, Dan Quayle and
Pat Robertson, authoritarian conservatives; Pat Buchanan
and Bill Bennett, liberals; Kennedy, Clinton(s), Kerry, Gore
and Gephardt; liberal-authoritarian; Jessie Jackson, Centrists;
Colin Powell, John McCain and Ross Perot and "moderate"
libertarians; Milton Friedman, Jessie Ventura, Steve Forbes
and Barry Goldwater. 

This display proved to be a success.  Out of the delegates
that stopped by our booth to talk to us, we had 311 delegates
take our survey.  The vast majority of people were thrilled
with the location they ended up with and their company.

In addition, for most attendees, it was the first time they had
seen political ideology as a two-dimensional space instead
of the usual one-dimensional left/right line. One could see
many quiz-taker's eyes light up as they realized that there
was not only the left-right axis, but also the axis of how much
authority government should exercise. We're sure many
attendees will be thinking and talking about this for quite a while.

311 Republican Delegates and other visitors, to our booth,
were recorded on the Nolan Chart.  Not all visitors that took
the quiz were recorded.  We estimate that close to 500
people stopped by our booth.  

There were some very interesting outcomes with the quiz. 
We used some variations.  Don Zimmerman hit on the idea
of using orange dots to plot MEN and green for WOMEN.  
Once again, third Convention in a row, we noticed that
there was a slight tendency for women to score a little
more liberal and authoritarian than the men, and the men
tended to score much more libertarian and conservative
than the women. 

WOMEN:

MEN:

Another unexplainable dichotomy resulted in more men
scoring as Perfect Conservatives (0% Personal Freedom,
100% Economics Freedom) and very high in the Libertarian
area (~100% on Personal Freedom and ~100% on Economic
Freedom). 

These scores are similar to the last convention scores: 2004
RLC of Texas - World Smallest Political Scores.

We would like to briefly thank our RLC volunteers that helped
represent the Republican Liberty Liberty Caucus of Texas at
this year's Texas GOP Convention: Penny Langford (RLC of
Texas Vice Chairman), Don Zimmerman (RLC of Texas
Executive Director), John Reed (RLC of Texas Secretary),
Bob Vick (Burleson County RLC Director), John Pankratz
(Hidalgo County RLC Director), Bob Bagley (Montgomery
County RLC Director), Aaron Green of Montgomery County,
Warren Norred (Tarrant County RLC Assistant Director),
Susan Ashbrook (Ron Paul Aide), and Matt Santoro (RLC
Volunteer).

We're still excited about the potential for the pro-Liberty/Ron
Paul movement to help the GOP get back to it's Barry Goldwater
days.  We'd like to see this type of RLC representation in every
GOP Convention, in every state.  We will continue building our
grass-roots network of Republicans because our limited-government
constituency base is not well represented at the state level. 
We want to get better Republicans into office, starting at the
State House and County levels.  Our pro-Liberty members are
currently being conned to help get big-government Republicans
into office.  We exist to counter this state of affairs.  To describe
this movement, we've coined the phrase, "Ron Paul Republicans." 
We are the "Ron Paul Republicans!"  We're concerned about
the future of our country and we'd like to see freedom and liberty
grow strong.  Currently, the only hope for that is to grow a large
strong network of like-minded limited-government Republicans
that will work hard toward getting more Ron Paul style Republicans
into office, at the state and county levels.  To emphasize this point,
here is an excerpt from our "PURPOSE" Section:

"...while rolling back decades of government "nannyism"
will require a great deal of public education and grassroots
lobbying, the most important means of changing public
policy is to change public officials. Therefore, the
Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas works to elect
pro-liberty Republicans to offices at all levels, partisan
and non-partisan, in both primary and general elections."

If you like our plan, please consider contributing toward our/your
organization by joining with us.  Please renew your Membership
or join us for the first time.

RENEW OR BECOME A member!

*Note - The Advocates for Self-Government's "World's Smallest Political
Quiz" was very useful in our outreach at the Texas GOP Convention; they
deserve a large amount of credit for our success.  Take the "World's Smallest
Political Quiz" for yourself: http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html .

TO JOIN US!

If you like what we're doing and you'd
like to be a part of our organization,

Please join online via our Secure
Online Membership Page:
http://www.rlctexas.org/membership

OUR PURPOSE:

After decades of New Deal and Great Society social
activism ...  combined with the rapid decline in civics
and American history education in our government-run
public schools ... mixed with a growing population
of ill-informed and apathetic voters ... government at
every level in this country continues to be too big,
too intrusive and too expensive.

Founded in 1990, the Republican Liberty Caucus
of Texas works to advance the principles of limited
government, individual liberty and free markets
within the Republican Party and throughout Texas.
Our candidates focus is on a broad range of issues,
including education, taxation, property rights, gun
rights, free speech, federalism and the proper role of
government.

In addition to giving disenfranchised smaller-government
Republicans a home by creating incentive to stay in our
party, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas helps
avoid a potential exodus to Libertarian,
Constitutional, and other third parties, which would
open the door to big-government victories from leftist
candidates.  The Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas
is proud to promote the GOP's smaller-government
message.  Our limited government, individual liberty and
free market ideas will win by inclusion. 

While rolling back decades of government "nannyism"
will require a great deal of public education and
grassroots lobbying, the most important means of
changing public policy is to change public officials. 
Therefore, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas
works to elect pro-liberty Republicans to offices at
all levels, partisan and non-partisan, in both primary
and general elections.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas is
committed not to just electing more Republicans ...
but better ones, as well.

COMMITTEE:

Executive Director:
Mr. Don Zimmerman
Austin, TX
(512) 577-8842

Chairman:
Mr. Jerry Patterson
Austin, TX

Vice Chairman:
Penny Langford
Angleton, TX

Secretary:
Mr. John Reed
Buda, TX

Treasurer:
Mr. Richard Relph
Austin, TX

At-Large:
Mr. Trey Summitt
Dallas, TX

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Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas 
201 W. Stassney Lane 181-B
Austin, TX 78745