88R20654 CJM-D
 
  By: Swanson H.R. No. 869
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         WHEREAS, Members of Texas Tea Party Republican Women are
  celebrating the organization's 30th anniversary on March 30, 2023;
  and
         WHEREAS, Established in 1993 by Peggy Cox, Susan Darbyshire,
  and Elvie Kingston, TTPRW is an active, conservative women's
  organization working to preserve and promote the traditional
  principles of the Republican Party; the three founders named the
  group in tribute to the women patriots of the American Revolution
  who boycotted English tea and worked alongside their husbands to
  help form a new nation; and
         WHEREAS, Participants in Texas Tea Party Republican Women
  give generously of their time, talents, and financial resources to
  promote an informed electorate and to foster civic engagement and
  political participation; in addition, TTPRW helps fund Republican
  campaigns at the state and local levels; over the years, the group's
  members have participated in many phone banks, surveys, and voter
  registration efforts, and they have supported a number of worthy
  nonprofit organizations; and
         WHEREAS, Within a year of its affiliation with the Texas
  Federation of Republican Women in 1996, TTPRW received the
  federation's First Place Certificate of Recognition for nearly
  18,000 campaign hours worked, and the group has received numerous
  other honors from the TFRW, including the Elephant Stampede Award
  for growth in 2006; and
         WHEREAS, Through their grassroots activism, members of Texas
  Tea Party Republican Women have made a lasting difference in their
  community, state, and nation, and they may take justifiable pride
  in their rich history of civic engagement; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
  Legislature hereby congratulate Texas Tea Party Republican Women on
  the occasion of its 30th anniversary and extend to the group sincere
  best wishes for the future; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
  prepared for the organization as an expression of high regard by the
  Texas House of Representatives.