The Rowlett TEA Party Candidates Forum
On Saturday, Sept. 25th, 2010, the Rowlett Texas TEA Party held the biggest, and most successful event in it's history.
The candidates forum was a tremendous success.
When you consider that we were up against the 1st weekend of the Texas State Fair, University of Texas football, the Grambling vs Prairie View game at the fair, and just being Saturday, we were very pleased to have had over 50 candidates and their support staff, Channel 5 News, Kenny Green of the Rowlett Lakeshore Times, most of the TEA Party board and several TEA Party members as well as over 200 citizens in attendance.
We had a number of unscheduled candidates show up and set out signs and literature even though they knew they weren't going to get on stage.
We were afraid that we had the schedule booked too tight, but as it turned out, all candidates spoke for their allotted time and took questions, and we were able to get ALL the judicial candidates on stage and they too had an opportunity to speak briefly as well.
I want to extend many thanks to ALL the candidates, The First United Methodist Church of Rowlett, the Cub Scouts that stood as *Color Guard* and presented the flags, Mayor Pro-Tem Todd Gottel and especially to the TEA Party members that came, helped, stayed all the way until the end and helped us with the hard work of setting up and tearing down.
I have to extend a very special THANK YOU to TEA Party member Mr. Frank McKimmims for his GREAT work in doing the video for this event. Frank, you were a God send!
I know I'm missing someone in this, that's always the case, and if I missed you, I DO apologize.
All I have to say now is this, lets get together and decide WHO it is we want in office, offer our endorsements and then work as hard to get the vote out as we did to make this forum the HUGE success it was!
