By Brian Russell SBOE District 10 Candidate
Where are we as a nation? (Are you ready for a little tough love"?) We have a Congress that thinks its OK to trample our Constitution underfoot and deem" a bill passed rather than voting on it because they are ashamed to have a roll call vote that puts their name on the bill.
We have an imperial President that thinks its OK for him to dictate to you what healthcare you are able receive.
We have a Supreme Court on which sit at least four justices cant seem to read the text of the 2nd Amendment and figure out that WE THE PEOPLE have an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Thats bad news. But its not the worst news.
The worst news is that this is not an aberration its a reflection. Its a reflection of the American people a majority of which voted into the Office of President of the United States of America an open socialist and fellow traveler with Communists and racists.
A man whose foreign policy experience prior to election consisted of traveling to European capitals that we freed with our blood and treasure to apologize for the United States. A man who passionately spoke on the floor of the Illinois Senate AGAINST a bill that would protect babies born alive from being killed by their doctors.
And this leads us to question: why?
How could that happen here? How did we get into this mess and how do we get out?
There are many answers to these questions if we are honest. Certainly we have to acknowledge a spiritual decline in our nation or as Solzhenitsyn put it We have forgotten God."
We must also look at the breakdown of the family unit and the consequent dependence on government as provider rather than family or church.
But we must not forget our neglect as a nation of education. Education begets knowledge knowledge is power and power diffused among the American citizenry is FREEDOM.
However WE THE PEOPLE are losing our power to the encroachment of
government.
Reagan rightly observed As government expands liberty contracts." In part this is because liberty loving patriots have abandoned education to the left-leaning Edutocracy.
Consequently students have been taught that we live in a Democracy (which the Founding Fathers feared) rather than in a Constitutional Republic.
Students have been taught that life arose on earth as a purposeless accident and is moving to a meaningless conclusion.
They have been taught that a grasp of math and science and basic literacy is beyond their reach and unnecessary in the confines of the future job into which their dreams are being fitted.
In short our educational system has laid all the groundwork necessary for the current state of affairs to come to pass. But it need not be so.
Now is the time and today is the hour in which we are making our voices heard that WE THE PEOPLE will move in a different direction.
Here in Texas we have the Magnificent Seven." Seven conservative members of our elected
State Board of Education (SBOE) who care nothing for the sniveling criticism of the Austin-American Statesman and the New
York Times and who are willing on our behalf and on behalf of the children of Texas to endure the slings and arrows of the outraged Left as these seven stand for educational excellence.
In my race I ask you to consider which candidate is equipped by strength of conviction and by battle-tested experience to take his place on the State Board of Education among their number.
By Gods grace I believe I am that man.
Now is the time; today is the hour. I respectfully ask for your vote … for the future of our state … for the future of our nation … for the future of our children. May God bless you all.
Brian Russell is a Republican candidate for State Board of Education District 10 which includes all of Austin Bastrop Burleson Colorado DeWitt Fayette Gonzales Lavaca Lee Milam Waller Washington & Williamson counties as well as portions of Brazoria Fort Bend & Travis counties. The primary runoff election for SBOE District 10 takes place on April 13th. (Early voting takes place April 5th 9th).
York Times and who are willing on our behalf and on behalf of the children of Texas to endure the slings and arrows of the outraged Left as these seven stand for educational excellence.
In my race I ask you to consider which candidate is equipped by strength of conviction and by battle-tested experience to take his place on the State Board of Education among their number.
By Gods grace I believe I am that man.
Now is the time; today is the hour. I respectfully ask for your vote … for the future of our state … for the future of our nation … for the future of our children. May God bless you all.
Brian Russell is a Republican candidate for State Board of Education District 10 which includes all of Austin Bastrop Burleson Colorado DeWitt Fayette Gonzales Lavaca Lee Milam Waller Washington & Williamson counties as well as portions of Brazoria Fort Bend & Travis counties. The primary runoff election for SBOE District 10 takes place on April 13th. (Early voting takes place April 5th 9th).
