Issues

TCR would like to congratulate all its endorsed contested candidates who either won outright or who placed in the top two and have advanced to the May 24th Runoff Election.

Read our feature article in the TCR 2016 Primary Voters Guide (starting on page 3) and make a choice.

Let’s start off by saying some positive things about Donald Trump.

It is a monumental loss. Antonin Scala was a brilliant conservative jurist. President Obama has the right to nominate someone, and the Senate has a right to reject that nomination if it alters the courts balance.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis shows that genuine “swing states” are down. Forty-five of the fifty states have voted for one party or the other at least four times during the last five elections.

The Iowa caucus results are interesting as usual. For the Republicans, Ted Cruz outworked and outhustled all comers as TCR predicted months ago, winning most of the vote and he certainly punches a ticket deep into the GOP primary season.

At TCR, we have been interviewing and evaluating candidates for fourteen years. Over that time, there are a handful of candidates that basically blew us away. James Lloyd is the latest.

In a city that is almost 2-1 Democratic, Bill King, in the non-partisan Mayoral election came oh so close.

Just say “no” to career politicians like Sylvester Turner, and robotic supporters on Houston’s City Council or Mayor Annise Parker’s misguided “it’s about me” liberalism.

As we all celebrate and give thanks for living in a nation founded on individual freedom, we need to remember eternal vigilance is the price of that freedom.