James White for East Texas

Your Property Rights are at Stake

2010

Jim McReynolds, the liberal incumbent of District 12, claims that he has “defended our property against the Trans Texas Corridor.”

This statement could not be further from the truth.

In fact, the liberal incumbent has voted twice in support of the Trans Texas Corridor: once to create it [HB 3588] and once to expand it [HB 2702]. His disdain for the property rights of Texans doesn’t stop there: He has voted for multiple bills that would have chipped away at our cherished values. Indeed, he voted against compensating property owners whose land access has been diminished through eminent domain [HB 2702 - 79 R].

The egregious misstatement that he “defended” our property does not come as a surprise from this entrenched politician who, for 13 years, has grown increasingly out of touch with his constituents. Sadly, it appears that Jim McReynolds thinks the citizens of District 12 are stupid.

It is more important than ever for this liberal incumbent to square with the citizens of District 12 by reporting honestly for his votes in the Texas Legislature. Rather, in a politics-as-usual manner, he chooses to engage in the politics of sound bites over the politics of substance. The good people of the District expect our politicians to tell us what we need to know, not what they think we want to hear.

As your next Representative for Texas’ District 12, I, James White, understand the God-given right to own property, first practiced by the settlers of this region. As a history and government teacher, I teach this regularly. I believe that the ownership of private property is a trademark of Texas and most certainly of District 12, where the homeownership rate exceeds even that of the state.

You can be sure that I will fight against huge land grabs of our precious farmland, and that I will support eminent domain only in the event that it improves the entire public welfare – and only if the landowner gets a fair market price for the land.

In order to reverse the devious politics of the liberal incumbent, I need your help.

I ask for your vote, and I ask for your time and resources in order to spread the word about the state of emergency in which our property rights stand.

Please use the links to the left to donate money and volunteer your time now in support of this issue and in order to advance a conservative agenda in the 82nd Texas Legislature.

Thank you for your work in defense of the values we hold dear.

God bless our precious land: God bless Texas.

Sincerely,
James White

Upcoming Events
Host a coffee meet and greet. Call us at 936-637-2400 or email info@jameswhiteforeasttexas.com to set one up today.

August 19 – 7 PM Warren High School dedication

August 19 – 5 PM- 7:30 PM Fundraiser in Polk County

August 21- 9:30 AM – Block Walking Party. Call 936-637-2400 or email info@jameswhiteforeasttexas.com for details

August 28 – Sabine County Area Wide Rally – Hemphill

September 11 – Special Event with Author and Comal County Commissioner Greg Parker.
OPPORTUNITIES
Our telephone contact system is up and running. If you would like to make campaign calls from your home, office or at the Headquarters, call Lee Miller at 936-637-2400 or email info@jameswhiteforeasttexas.com

BLOCK WALKING – this Saturday is a block walking opportunity to get out and talk up the vote with Lufkin! Begins at 9:30 am. Call the office for details.

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Congressman Gohmert Endorses James White

2010

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Do You Know Your Incumbent?

2010

The Democratic incumbent for District 12 likes to talk about how well the Texas economy is faring compared to other states. Yet, there are few indicators that he understands the struggles of his own East Texas constituents. Here are some of the facts:

The average unemployment rate for all four counties in District 12 is currently 9.7% – higher than the state average of 8.2% and higher than the national average of 9.5%.
Median household income is $13,000 lower in District 12 than in the rest of the state.
Over 20 percent of the population lives in poverty in District 12, much higher than the 15.8 percent statewide.
Worse yet, almost 30 percent of children are living in poverty in District 12.

Outside the District, Texans are weathering the economic storm quite well. This is thanks to the good public policies of Texas’ conservative Republican leadership – the same policies that this Democratic incumbent has fought vigorously to oppose and reverse – and the same policies that, if undermined, would have caused further unemployment, an even greater tax burden, and even more pervasive poverty and crime in the state and District.

Fortunately, conservative Republicans have defeated many attempts by this Democratic incumbent to implement an extreme left-wing liberal agenda. Let’s look at what the state would look like if the incumbent had his way. For just a moment, imagine that all Texas legislators had voted in sync with this Democrat:

Texas would have killed off jobs at an unimaginable rate: The incumbent would have implemented higher payroll taxes for employers [HB 1], higher property taxes for citizens [HJR 1], gas taxes [HB 3540], and “granny” taxes on nursing homes [HB 3778], not to mention tax credits for employers that outsource jobs overseas [CSSB 1]. These taxes are not only job killers in that they institute disincentives for employers to hire; they place a crippling tax burden on ordinary citizens who are already strapped in this difficult economic climate.
Texas would have given to foreign citizens the right to vote in American elections: The incumbent would have given numerous rights to illegal immigrants, including providing them health insurance [HB 1], allowing them a Texas driver’s license [HB 25], and letting them pay in-state tuition [HB 1403]. Moreover, he voted numerous times to circumvent the photo ID laws [HB 218], which would have facilitated access to the voting booth for illegal immigrants who, evidenced by their illegal entry, have demonstrated a blatant disregard for our legal processes.
Texas would have trampled on the property rights of private citizens: The incumbent would have allowed the state to seize a citizen’s personal property to pay for a business’ property taxes [HB 1910], and he voted against compensating property owners whose land access has been diminished through eminent domain [HB 792]. This incumbent voted to create the Trans Texas Corridor [HB 3588] and later voted to expand it [HB 2702]. He voted to grant eminent domain power to regional mobility authorities, and he voted to deny additional protection against eminent domain powers by opposing a feasibility study before Government could condemn private property [HB 1387].
Texas would have waived the white flag in the War on Drugs: The incumbent voted against requiring drug dealers and users to be arrested when caught with marijuana [HB 2391]. He voted to require probation instead of jail time for murderers, rapists, and other felons when caught with illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, and other illegal narcotics [HB 1610]. He voted to authorize a pilot needle exchange program [SB 10], which would have brought Texas just steps away from the full legalization of drugs.

This Democratic incumbent is not only out of touch with the honest, hard-working citizens of District 12. His actions in the Texas Legislature have run in full opposition to the ideals that every Texan and every American holds – the right to own property, to vote, to enjoy the fruits of his labor, and to live in a safe community without fear of crime and drugs.

This November, you have the opportunity to ensure that the policies of this Democratic incumbent are shelved once and for all. Today, you can make a difference by donating on our website and forwarding this email to your families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers to remind them of the importance of the vote this November. A vote for James White is a vote for the conservative policies and ideals that make Texas the best state in the nation and will allow District 12 to become a thriving region once again.

God bless the good citizens of this District and God bless Texas!

Sincerely,

James White

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An Urgent Message To All Texas. Watch James White!

2010

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2010

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James White Responds to Today’s Arizona Ruling

2010

An Arizona US District Court has issued today a partial injunction Arizona’s law SB 1070 in regards to illegal immigration into their state.

Judge Susan Bolton has made it clear that she is deeply skeptical of the Department of Justice’s argument that the Arizona law is an illegal preemption of federal law. She blocked some of the toughest provisions in the Arizona illegal immigration law from going into effect tomorrow, putting on hold the state’s attempt to have local police enforce federal immigration policy, but let stand laws to discourage the hiring of illegal immigrants.

All governments have the inherent power to maintain public safety and the security of its citizens. Therefore the state of Arizona was justified in its actions of defending its citizens and enforcing existing federal regulations and border security.

James White, candidate for Texas State Representative District 12,believes that states have the right to defend their borders using the appropriate amount of force deemed necessary by the situation.

“It’s unfortunate that our federal government has used a substantial amount of wealth and time fighting the states in the courts instead of working cooperatively with all state leaders throughout the country in securing our borders,” says James White.

Although HD 12 Incumbent Jim McReynolds (D) speaks publicly about East Texas values, he continues to vote Washington values by supporting illegal immigrants and their voting rights. He arrogantly voted in favor of SB 89, Amendment 4, 79R that would have allowed illegal immigrants to use foreign issued ID as proof of identification to vote. He also callously voted against legislation, HB 218, 80R, which would have required voters to produce a photo ID, prevented voter fraud, and protects ballot integrity. The incumbent even voted to let illegal immigrants get an official Texas driver’s license, HB 25, Amendment 2, 78R; HB 396,77R.

“This is an issue of public safety. It is important that Texas does not issue drivers licenses to illegal immigrants to keep our state safe.” James White said.

James White is strongly in favor of state governments using all the appropriate and necessary measures to protect the borders, uphold the Constitution, enforce immigration law and establish domestic order and tranquility.

James White will co-sponsor any Arizona-like immigration law that empowers Texas and Texans to secure our own border.

“We need to protect the integrity of our American system. I, James White, vow to protect the great state of Texas and the great country of America, by securing our borders, and protecting our citizens to the fullest extent of the law and to the best of my abilities. “

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East Texas Economy

2010

For obvious reasons, State Representative Jim McReynolds, the 13-year Democrat incumbent, often tells East Texans how well the state economy is doing.

But unfortunately, the incumbent’s voting record indicates that he has fought against the pro-growth economic policies promoted by the Republican Governor Rick Perry and the Republican-led Texas Legislature and instead supports the tax and spend philosophy of Obama-Reid-Pelosi.

The Democrat incumbent has voted against a vibrant Texas economy. He voted to raise taxes on nursing homes and home owners. This Democrat incumbent has voted for job killing bills that would have created additional gasoline taxes and even a payroll tax on Texas businesses.

While many East Texans do not see automatic increases in their take home pay, the Democrat incumbent voted to make sale tax increases permanent. Not only has this Democrat fought Republican policies of low taxes and fiscal responsibility, his votes to raise taxes and increase spending would have hurt the Texas economy, which would have endangered the funding for our schools and public safety.

Even though too many Texans are still out of work, Texas has continued to lead the states in job creation and attracting new industry. The reason is simple. Governor Rick Perry and the Republican leadership in the Texas Legislature have not raised taxes. Republican leadership has ensured that the state government spends within its means and maintains a regulatory environment that protects the public without discouraging business growth. Our Republican-led state government does not spend all of the tax revenue that hard working East Texans send to Austin. That is why Texas has a Rainy Day fund of $9 billion dollars. As your Republican state representative, I will go to Austin and work with the Republican leadership to lower taxes and control spending. With a vibrant economy in East Texas, we will have the money for the finest schools, great public safety, and superb roads.

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GO-PAC Grassroots Training Event 7/9/2010

2010

This past weekend GOPAC Texas, a Republican organization dedicated to recruiting, training and electing more Republicans to the Texas Legislature, visited Lufkin to hold a campaign training school for those that registered for it.

We had about 120 people attend the event held at the Courtyard Marriott located on 1st street in Lufkin, Texas.

People came from all over East Texas to attend the Go Pac Grass Roots Campaign Training School.

Speakers at the event included Trey Trainor – Go Pac Texas, Bob Flournoy – District Attorney Lufkin, Wayne Christian – State Representative District 9, Dan Flynn- State Representative District 2, Aaron Whitehead – Rick Perry Campaign East Texas Coordinator, and myself, James White – Candidate for State Representative District 12.

East Texans didn’t show up for this grassroots training just to support my campaign or the Republican Party, they showed up because they have a desire to leave Texas better than the way they found it.

We would like to thank everyone who came out to our event for showing up and participating in our grassroots movement.

Our objective in holding this training session was to empower you, the conservative grass roots activist, by giving you the tools and the confidence to go out and incite your own revolution to restore the conservative values in government that made the state of Texas and America great.

Now we need you, the newly informed Republican Grassroots Activist, to go out into your neighborhoods, churches, businesses, and groups and inform them about the James White Campaign using the tools you have gleaned from this session.

It is only through the help and support of each and every one of you that our campaign will be a success.

Some of the ways you can help us out would include holding a tea or coffee at your house and inviting friends and neighbors to join.

You can contact our campaign at 936-673-2400 to schedule a coffee or tea at your house.

My campaign will not be won through bureaucrats in Austin. This campaign will be won by empowering folks like you through grass roots efforts, reaching people on a one-on- one basis.

I want to tell each one of you who participated on Saturday and throughout my whole campaign for your involvement.

We need your continued involvement in our efforts.

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Tea Party Speech July 3, 2010 Jasper

2010

The same spirit in 1776 that brought about this momentous date 234 years ago is the same spirit that brings us here today in Jasper in 2010.

Times have changed, but the grievances are the same. Then as now, Americans had a government that engaged profligate spending that threatened to subjugate future generations to a financial bondage.

Then, Americans had a series of taxes, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Revenue Act, the Tea Act et.al. that attempted to punish the most productive. Today, Americans have a government that imposes a string of taxes, income tax, gross margins tax, sin tax, sales, tax, excise, tax, health care tax only to satisfy the insatiable thirst for the people’s wealth in order to buy votes.

As then with the Quartering Act, Americans are confronted with a government that has contempt for property rights with such schemes as the Texas Trans Corridor, the perversion of the power of eminent domain, and excessive valuations by appraisal districts.

Leading up to 1776, the American people owned allegiance to a government that failed to protect its citizens among the frontier regions.

Today, Americans have a national government that not only neglects its sovereign duty to secure its international borders, but joins with foreign governments to sue its citizens for doing what it arrogantly refuses to do. As the Coercive Acts did in 1774, our government has devised a regulatory regime that tramples over constitutional rights and strangles the American entrepreneurial spirit.

Above all, as during our colonial era, Americans faced a threat to their ultimate means to confront tyranny when British soldiers marched to Concord and Lexington.

Today, year after year, Americans are forced into costly legal battles to affirm their rights to bear arms, only to breathe a sigh after having those rights upheld by one vote on the Supreme Court.

So therefore, what is this spirit, the Spirit of 1776, which we celebrate today? It is simple. This spirit is the spirit of had enough. As then, today we meet here with one resounding response, “We have had enough!”

Had enough! Americans will not allow this government to consign our children’s children, some of which yet event to be born, to be slaves of financiers and the central banks of Asia.

Had enough! The American people are a people of faith, innovation, rugged individualism, and hard work. Yet, we have a vice president that tells the American people after spending $800 billion in so-called stimulus, “there is no possibility to restore the 8 million jobs lost over the last two years.”

And then you have the treasury secretary, who could not even calculate his taxes correctly with the aid of a software program, that “the world economically cannot depend much on the U.S. as it has in the past.” Mr. Vice President and Mr. Secretary that is not your job.

Had enough! It is not their job to determine the height or the breadth of the American spirit. To the both of them, shut up, stop spending, stop taxing, stop the borrowing, get out of the way and the American people will create the jobs.

Mr. Secretary, maybe you have, but the American people have not resigned themselves to second-class status. This is the shining city on the hill, and the American people intend to lead economically, culturally, and militarily.

Had enough! The American people are sick in tired of being sick and tired of a government that refuses to do its job. It spends all of what the American people send it on April 15^th, then it borrows vastly more, and still needing more, it continues to print more dollars. It can find the EPA and OSHA regulators, to come to our state and harass our industry and it can find teams of census workers to count the number of toilets in your house, but it cannot find the boots on the ground to secure our borders.

We have had enough! Americans along our borders are going about their lives in fear of stray bullets from drug cartels, money hungry coyotes engage in exploitation of poor men and women desiring a chance to provide for their children, and communist spies live in our mist.

Amongst abject failure, the federal government sues, lectures, and along with foreign leaders criticizes sovereign and popularly elected governments along our southern border in the enforcement of the national government’s immigration laws and our Constitution. We have had enough!

Had enough, of sending our best, bravest, and brightest to foreign lands to secure our freedom without the support of their civilian military leadership, without the necessary equipment, and with rules of engagement that would even be a mockery in a spitball fight.

The American people do not deploy their military for the conquest of land or the subjugation of nation. The American flag is a symbol of liberation. Allow our men and women to win and bring them home.

Had enough, of this progressive liberal contempt for our institutions, principles, and values. We do not need change, we only need a restoration of those principles and values that have made us a great nation.

Had enough of the do-gooder elites talking down to Americans about their lifestyles and deeply held beliefs.

We are a free people that loan power to the government. We are a free people that have the virtue to possess means of violence such as firearms as the ultimate check on despotic government.

Had enough! How dare the President of the United States take it upon himself, go overseas, lecture to the American people, and tell a foreign nation we are not a Christian nation. He needs to stop reading Saul Alinsky and read a speech by Reverend Martin Luther King.

Had enough of the government takeover over of our prized industrial sectors.

Had enough of the international groveling, the United States is a blessed nation that liberates and defends the world, feeds the world, medically cares for the world, clothes the world, ministers to the world, finances the world, educates the world, and has liberally open its arms to all desire liberty and opportunity.

As one writer once stated, “America is great because she is good, and as long as she is good, she will be great.” No, our foreign policy does not need a reset; the American people need to reset its elected government.

Had enough is the spirit that animated an entire people over two centuries ago to say no, we can do better, not for ourselves, but for our posterity.

Today, we say had enough, not because of our 401k statements, our disposable income, the price of gas at the pump, but because of the blood, sweat, and tears of generation before us have bequeath us a land of abundance and freedom and our birthright is blood debt that we must pay for children’s opportunity.

Today, July 3, 2010, let our newly found spirit of had enough mark Jasper as our Lexington, Woodville, as our Concord, Lufkin, as our Trenton, Coldsprings, as our Princeton, Groveton, as our Saratoga.

And, on Election Day, let every ballot box in East Texas, be our Yorktown.

Pray that God continue to Bless America and Texas.

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Fundamental Truths

2010

Once in a graduate school seminar, one of my professors asked the class, “Does man really create new ideas, or are the same ideas presented over time?” Well, as we discussed this concept, we came to the general conclusion, that there are no real new ideas, just new ways of presenting these ideas. In particular, there are fundamental truths.

United States, One Nation Under God

America is a blessed nation. We recognize that fundamental rights are so precious because they are God-given and government, at best, can only protect them.

“America is great because she is good and as long as she is good, she will be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville.

American Exceptionalism

America is a special place. That is why we are a nation of immigrants bonded by the ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness instead of a common ethnicity or race.

America is that shining city on hill and man’s last and best hope that freedom and equality are achievable earthly ends.

Constitutionalism

The “G” in government does not stand for god. Government is not an all-encompassing entity. We have a supreme law or a constitution on the national and state level that recognizes that the people are sovereign and through periodic elections, the people loan power to the government temporarily.

Our constitutions restrict government to a few clearly defined powers and the people expect their government to do those few tasks very well.

Socialism Does not Work

Despite well intentions or other names assigned, socialism does not work. Large state run programs that promise free health care and generous welfare benefits eventually bankrupt the government.

Increasing Taxes. Government Spending and Debt Do not Create Wealth

If high taxes, increased government spending, and amassing deficits were the key to economic growth, then California, not Texas would be the state expected to lead the nation out the recent economic slump and the global economy would be looking to Greece, not the United States for economic leadership.

When taxes are decreased, government revenues for education, roads, and public safety increase.

Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Bear Arms

The most profound point about Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the punitive gun control ordinances in Chicago, is that such a question concerning the people’s right to own a firearm for their public safety was even before the Court.

Moreover, the Court affirmed this constitutional right by a 5-4 margin. The 2^nd Amendment is the ultimate check on government tyranny and an acknowledgement that a free people have the virtue to win and use means of physical power.