Yes, Virginia, there is a third party in the great state of Texas.
It’s called the Texas Forward Part y and the Milam County branch has a new communications director who just happens to be the son of Rockdale’s favorite long-time produce guy from both Brookshire’s and Walmart, Randy Brown and his wife Gilda.
Raymond Brown is a 2020 graduate of Rockdale High School and has joined the team at “Forward” as communications director for all Texas. He is the local Milam County chair and is a part of the executive committee for the party. Brown is also redesigning the Forward website.
The centrist Forward party was started by Andrew Yang who ran for president in 2020 as a Democrat. It is the third largest political party in the United States.
“The Texas Forward Party is about destroying our undemocratic and unrepresentative system. We believe in a future where average people can run for elections and win. Remove corruption in government and stop the stranglehold and corruption of the Democrats and Republicans. Only 10 percent of our electorate is represented, and we want to change that. We want to ensure that every American regardless of race, gender, location, religion or any other factor has a voice in this nation,” Brown said.
They also want to make politicians accountable and make them solve problems instead of simply fighting and playing the blame game.
“Gerrymandering is a big issue and most electoral constituencies are rigged for one party or the other to win,” Brown continued. “Forward Party wants to implement ranked-choice voting which would blunt the worst of the impacts of gerrymandering and partisan primaries and is also the easiest although by no means easy — to accomplish in Texas.
“We would follow that with citizen redistricting commissions and eventually elimination of partisan primaries. If we change the underlying incentives, we’ll get different behavior from our elected officials,” added State Forward Party Chair Rick Kennedy.
Kennedy added, “Accomplishing our goals through a bottom-up approach, focusing initially on municipal and county level elections, then on the state legislature, with the eventual goal being to have enough seats in the legislature to deny both of the major parties the majority and force them to come to the table and negotiate these policy changes. We know that we have to build a base of support as well as a bullpen of candidates to be successful — hence the bottom-up approach.”
Brown said a bout his start, “Before graduation, I was on my way to making my first $100 from a You-Tube channel. For a while, I had to decide what I wanted to do after graduating but soon decided to go after media and programming. Since then, I have become a social media marketing strategist, content producer, video editor, teacher, 3D artist, web designer, game developer, graphic designer, web developer, and mobile developer with some experience in augmented reality and virtual reality. I have a record of growing You-Tube channels from zero subscribers and views to over 1,000 subscribers and several hundred thousand views within two months. I have not done this once, but eight times.”
Readers interested in volunteering or joining the Forward Party should visit these websites or email Brown or Kennedy: www. texasforwardparty.org/.
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