North Texas Tea Party

TeaApprovals for 2012

Race	2012 Candidate
5th Court of Appeals, Place 12	BOB FILLMORE General
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 67	JEFF LEACH WIN!
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 88	JIM LANDTROOP LOSS
State Boars of Education, District 12	GAIL SPURLOCK LOSS
380th District Court, Collin County	BEN SMITH WIN!
Collin County Court of Law #2 (Dual Approval)	BARNETT WALKER WIN!
Texas State Senate, District 8	KEN PAXTON UNOPPOSED
Texas State Senate, District 30	JIM HERBLIN LOSS
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 12	JAMES WHITE WIN!
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 33	SCOTT TURNER WIN!
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 65 (Dual Approval)	MIKE HENNEFER LOSS (to another TeaApproval)
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 65 (Dual Approval)	RON SIMMONS WIN! (3 Way)
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 66	VAN TAYLOR UNOPPOSED
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 70	BRACY WILSON LOSS
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 89	JODIE LAUBENBERG UNOPPOSED
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 93	MATT KRAUSE WIN! (3 Way)
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 106	PAT FALLON WIN!
Texas House of Rep., Dist. 115	MATT RINALDI LOSS
Texas House of Rep., District 121	MATT BEEBE LOSS
Collin County Commissioner, District 3	CHRIS HILL WIN!
199th District Court, Collin County	ANGELA TUCKER WIN!
Collin County Court of Law #2 (Dual Approval)	GENE SERA LOSS (to another TeaApproval)

What TeaApproved Means

The North Texas Tea Party- to support the 5 principles- has decided the only way to do so effectively is to work directly for the election of candidates for public office. To do this, we have come up with the term ‘TeaApproved’. We at NTTP seek to help candidates who not only verbally commit to the 5 principles but- more importantly- give indication through background, experience, actions, and voluntary associations, that they will apply them in office.
We also wish to determine the viability of the candidate for office. Does the individual have a plan and access to reasonable resources and in a race that- given that plan and resources- is possibly successful? There is no point of expending scarce resources on something with a very low chance of success.
This does not imply we are going to endorse candidates. The TeaApproval stamp is something different, more of a due-diligence process. Our objective is to publish for the public what we have learned about candidates, how we learned it and if those results indicate a strong likelihood that the candidate can win, and if elected, will be a staunch advocate of the Five Principles. The public is trusted to look critically at the results of our research, its objectivity and draw its own conclusions. It is quite possible multiple candidates can receive the rating; but that will like be an unusual event, most likely to occur in races with more than two candidates. It will also be unlikely that every race will be reviewed; the active members of NTTP are all volunteers and the process takes time. Emphasis will be placed on key down-ballot races at the state and county levels, the area where such information might assist the conservative voters within the area.