State Convention Is Coming!!

This is the week/weekend of the State GOP Convention. As we speak, delegates are already meeting in Fort Worth on various committees to determine the direction and representation of the Republican Party of Texas for the next two years. In 2010, Milam County’s own District Court Judge John Youngblood represented Senate District 5 and sat on the Rules Committee. Those folks have the lion’s share of the work this week while the rest of us will show up Wednesday or Thursday.

I plan to arrive on Wednesday night and look forward to sharing the evening with my wife and friends as we prepare for a busy three days of meetings, caucusing and voting on the future of our party, out state, and our country as we select delegates to send to the national convention in Tampa, Florida in August.

Delegates and alternates from Milam County were selected at the County Convention in April. They are as follows:

Delegates
David Barkemeyer - Cameron
Les Davenport - Rockdale
Kyle Deal - Cameron
John Ferguson - Cameron
Rick Gommert - Rogers
Brian Harper - Rockdale
Roderick Holcombe - Cameron
Stephen Husher - Cameron
Marilyn Johnson - Thorndale
William Whitmire - Milano
John Youngblood - Cameron

Alternates
Doyce Neal Larson - Milano
Jamie Larson - Gause
Herbert Vaughn - Rockdale
Sandra Turner - Milano
Donna Orsag - Cameron
Margia Barkemeyer - Cameron
Anne Harper - Rockdale
Margaret Holcombe - Cameron
Alan Gardenhire - Rockdale

I will be sending updates, pictures and other helpful tidbits from the convention via my new Blog App on my phone and on the Milam GOP Twitter account at @milamgop. Check it out!! If you can’t find it just search for my name, Bill Whitmire, and you should be able to find it.

If there is anything you would like to know or anything you would like represented during the SD-5 or CD-17 Caucuses then let me, or any of the delegates know and we will be happy to address them.

Thanks to you all for your support and look for the updates as we go.

Thanks Again,
Bill