All Republican candidates must swear they support the GOP state party platform. A partial excerpt:
If you believe President Bush and his administration have done a great job in Iraq and are to be “commended” for their execution of the war (presumably including Abu Garib and Haditha), you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party.
If you think $5.15 per hour is too much to pay workers as a minimum wage and minium wage laws should be repealed altogether, you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party.
If you oppose affirmative action and believe that racial profiling is okay, you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party.
If you believe that all taxes should be abolished except for the sales tax and that all government should be financed solely by sales taxes, you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party.
If you believe the state needs to take “tough” measures to reduce the number of welfare recipients and cut spending on welfare programs, you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party.
If you favor “phasing out” the Social Security program (not just privatizing it – eliminating it altogether) and relying instead solely on private pensions and retirement accounts (such as the ones which evaporated overnight in the Enron debacle), without any social safety net if those accounts go broke, you agree with the 2006 Platform of the Texas Republican Party..... - Gerry Birnberg, Chair Harris County Democratic Party
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