Category: Commentary

    July 16th 2024 Prayer Rally

    July 19, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in / /

    Bastrop County area and community members gathered together Tuesday evening, July 16th, at the Bastrop County Courthouse Gazebo for a prayer rally to honor the victims of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, PA. Organizers said, “A failed assassination attempt on the President’s life claimed the life of an innocent husband and father and critically injured two others, having the potential to drastically alter our history more than it already has. Many local area residents gathered to pray for healing and strength for our nation, for the families and innocent victims of the shooting, and for President Trump to heal physically, mentally and for continued spiritual strength throughout this trying period. The non-partisan, non- denominational event was open to all in Bastrop County.

    Additional prayer rallies are being planned throughout the year, to encourage community, state and national healing and involvement to heal the Nation. Organized by pastors and members of local churches and organizations, the “An Appeal to Heaven” movement, and the Bastrop County Republican Party.

    Informational Meeting – July 22nd 2024

    July 15, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in / / /

    BCRP Office Meeting Room
    Doors open at 6:00pm for networking
    Program start at 6:30pm

    ~ MONDAY ~
    July 22nd, 2024
    443 Highway 71 West,
    Bastrop Texas

    This months speakers will be Sergeant James Miller with the Bastrop County Sheriffs Office. Sergeant Miller will be discussing the Fentanyl problem in Bastrop County and the State of Texas. After his presentation, he will answer questions from the audience. 

    Sergeant James Miller started his law enforcement career at the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and has been with the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office for 15 years. He is currently assigned to the Criminal Investigation’s Department working cases from Mail Box destruction to murder investigations. In his career he has been a patrol officer, patrol supervisor, mental health deputy and now a criminal investigator.

    Please attend the important meeting to find out more on this serious issue.

    The Bastrop County Republican Party has monthly Informational Meetings, which are held the 4th Monday of each month. We invite speakers on a variety of issues and topics of interest or impact on Bastrop County.

     

    Former President Trump Injured

    July 13, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in / / / /

    There is no doubt everyone has heard of the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania this afternoon. The former President was injured, dropped out of the line of fire, but then stood defiantly with blood streaming across his face as he was escorted safely from the stage.  Sadly this action did take the life of one woman and others present were injured.  We send our heart felt prayers to the Former President and to the families of those lost and injured. May God Bless Donald Trump and the American People. 

    Informational Meeting – June 24th 2024

    May 30, 2024 by James Page in / / / /

    BCRP Office Meeting Room
    Doors open at 6:00pm for networking
    Program start at 6:30pm

    ~ MONDAY ~
    June 24th, 2024
    443 Highway 71 West,
    Bastrop Texas

    This month’s speaker will be Tom Glass, founder of Texas Constitutional Enforcement.

    Tom Glass will be speaking on digital currency and The Texas Gold Reserve. He will pick up the conversation where Senator Schwertner left off at the May Informational Meeting.

     

    Tom Glass is the founder and leader of Texas Constitutional Enforcement, which focuses on how Texas elected officials can stop the feds and globalists from violating the U.S. Constitution in Texas. Tom also runs several other groups, including Texas Legislative Priorities, focused on seeing that the legislative priorities and other platform planks of the Republican Party of Texas are enacted, and protect the Texas Grid, focused on hardening the grid against all hazards.

    Tom has sought the GOP nomination for Texas House in HD 17 in Central Texas in 2022 and 2024 and served as the 2022 RPT Platform Committee representative from SD 18. He was honored with one of two 2023 Fearless Conservative Awards from Grassroots America We the People and a 2021 Texas Conservative Leader Award from Texas Scorecard.

    Tom Glass is a husband, father, and grandfather. He is retired from ExxonMobil and has earned a Chemical Engineering degree from Texas A&M, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.

     

    Informational Meeting – May 27th 2024

    May 2, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in / / / /

    ~ Film Alley ~
    Doors open at 6:00pm
    Program starts at 6:30pm

    ~ MONDAY ~
    May 27th, 2024
    ~ Film Alley ~
    1600 Chestnut Street
    Bastrop Texas

    This months speaker will be Texas Senator Charles Schwertner, MD

    Senator Schwertner will be speaking on AI, Crypto Currency and the Texas Gold Depository. This critically important Informational Meeting will be co-hosted by the Bastrop County Republican Party, Lost Pines Republican Women and Bastrop County Conservatives and will be held at Film Alley, located at 1600 Chestnut Street, at the North West corner of Chestnut Street and TX 95 in Bastrop Texas. (Map)

    Senator Charles Schwertner, MD is a sixth-generation Texan and lifelong conservative Republican. Since 2013, Dr. Schwertner has represented Senate District 5, an eleven-county region of central and east Texas that includes Bastrop, Brazos, Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, San Jacinto, Walker, and Williamson counties.

    As Chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Business and Commerce and the Sunset Advisory Commission, Schwertner oversees a number of critical policy areas for the state of Texas, including electric utilities, insurance, banking, technology, and telecommunications. Schwertner also serves as a member of the Senate Committees on Finance, State Affairs, and on the Legislative Budget Board.

    Throughout his time in the Texas Legislature, Schwertner has led the way on a number of important policy initiatives including authoring one of the strongest Constitutional Carry laws in the nation, reforming the state’s electrical grid, expanding access to mental health services, improving the state foster care system, strengthening landowner rights, cutting taxes for small businesses, protecting seniors from abuse, and fighting to lower tuition at public universities.

    Schwertner and his wife Belinda (an obstetrician/gynecologist and Juris Doctor) reside in Georgetown. They have three adult sons: Carson, Zachary, and Matthew.

    2nd Annual Golf Classic results ..

    April 22, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in / / /

    Friday, April 19th 2024. The Bastrop County Republican Party (BCRP) held it’s 2nd Annual
    Golf Classic at the beautiful ColoVista Golf Club, located above the banks of the Colorado
    River in Bastrop. Players enjoyed sausage wraps and beverages, warmups on the driving range,
    and honed their putting skills before the customary Shotgun Start at Noon. Fifteen teams
    descended onto the links with the goal to have fun, compete for trophies and Hole In One
    contests for prizes, including a brand new Chevrolet Silverado Pickup on the uniquely
    challenging 15th hole.

    At the conclusion of play, and following a Schlotzsky’s box meal, Curtis Courtney presented
    Trophies to: First Place Team: Charlie King, Michelle King, Jacob King and Colby King;
    Second Place Team: Virgil King, Adam Meuth, David King and Wesley King; with Third Place
    Team: Gary Klaus, Ethan Bryce, Curtis Perkins and Randy Mudschink. There was no Hole-In-
    One winner for the Silverado.

    BCRP gratefully acknowledges and thanks Fire King for returning as Ace Sponsor; CenTex Air
    & Heat and CasPro Builders as Birdie Sponsors; Covert Bastrop as Hole-In-One Sponsor; Meal
    Sponsors: Bastrop Mobile Home and RV Parts, Senator Charles Schwertner, Brown
    Distributing, Rangel & Brymer LLC, Re/Max Frank Rainosek Team, and Glen and Susan
    Carlisle; and Hole Sponsors: Best Friends Boarding, Pampered Paws by Best Friends, Best
    Friends Boarding Too, Duett’s Tire & Automotive Service, Chris Dillon Law, Lost Pines
    Republican Women, & Jen Bezner, Stephen & Sue Beck, Elgin General Store, Belinda
    Rodriquez, Loose Cannon Welding Company, Krista Bartsch Bastrop County Clerk, Linda
    Roberts, ZAPCO Die-Cut Paper Products, Law Office of Derek VanGilder, County
    Commissioner – Precinct 1, and John Winkleman for District 335 Judge. The planning
    committee wishes to thank all the volunteers for their tireless efforts for without this event
    would not have been as successful.

    First Place Team: Colby King, Michelle King, Charlie King, Jacob King
    Second Place Team: Wesley King, Adam Meuth, David King, Virgil King
    Third Place Team: Gary Klause, Chris Perkins, Ethan Bryce, Randy Mudschink (not pictured)

    Informational Meeting – April 22nd, 2024

    April 11, 2024 by Mark L. Torrey in /

    BCRP Office Meeting Room
    Doors open at 6:00pm for networking
    Program start at 6:30pm

    ~ MONDAY ~
    April 22nd, 2024
    443 Highway 71 West,
    Bastrop Texas

    This months speaker will be Christie Slape, Chapter Chair of Moms for Liberty Williamson County.

    Christie Slape is the Chapter Chair of Moms for Liberty Williamson County, a non-partisan, 501c4 organization that unifies, educates and empowers parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. She is a lover of God and country, a wife of 28 years, Mom to 4 amazing kids, and a proud, life-long Texan. She is the co-Chair of the Moms for Liberty Texas Legislative Committee, a Patriot Academy Constitution Coach, a Republican Party Precinct Chair, and has worked with other like-minded parents to ensure that our National Motto “In God We Trust” is displayed in Round Rock ISD schools. She is a Mama Bear who believes that life is too short to sit on the sidelines. She is inspired by the words of John Adams, “Duty is ours, results are God’s.“

    The Bastrop County Republican Party has monthly Informational Meetings, which are held the 4th Monday of each month. We invite speakers on a variety of issues and topics. Visit BastropCtyGOP.com for more information.

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