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