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Related: About this forumAmarillo businessman elected Texas GOP chairman, pledges minority outreach
AUSTIN After nearly five years of waiting in the wings, Amarillo businessman Tom Mechler is the new chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. The partys executive committee on Saturday chose him to fill the remaining 14 months of former chairman Steve Munisteris two-year term.
Munisteri, a Houston attorney who was first elected in 2010, stepped down to join the likely presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a longtime friend.
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Texas is a majority minority state, Mechler told the partys executive committee and party loyalists.
Minority engagement is absolutely essential, he said. If we dont unify our party we lose.
In the interview he said, I firmly believe that the Republican Party is the party of Hispanics, of the African-American community, of the Asian-American community because we are not different.
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(20,885 posts)that they know it's bullshit.
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(3,233 posts)"out of reach"