GALVESTON
COUNTY RESIDENT DR ROBIN ARMSTRONG NEW VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS
Photo by of Robin Armstrong by Claire Durkee Worthington Jarbo Bayou Times
Dr. Robin Armstrong, an internal medicine doctor
from Dickinson, TX in Galveston County addresses conventioneers.
Photo by of Robin Armstrong by Claire Durkee Worthington Jarbo Bayou Times
SAN ANTONIO - The Republican
Party of Texas elected a new vice chairman
Saturday, choosing Dr. Robin Armstrong, the first black to hold the
position since Reconstruction.
Photo of Robin Armstrong, Claire Worthington , Kevin Corcoran by Bill Bandiga
Robin Armstrong, new vice chairman Republican Party of Texas, Claire Worthington, Galveston County Precinct Chair and photographer/JBT Editor, Galveston County Republican Party Chairman Kevin Corcoran.
Photo of Robin Armstrong, Claire Worthington , Kevin Corcoran by Bill Bandiga
Robin Armstrong, new vice chairman Republican Party of Texas, Claire Worthington, Galveston County Precinct Chair and photographer/JBT Editor, Galveston County Republican Party Chairman Kevin Corcoran.
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX -
... Robin Armstrong, a Galveston-area physician, said that although he was raised in a Democratic household, he has aligned himself with the GOP since 1989 because ...
Texas Republican convention
AP
SAN ANTONIO - The Republican Party of Texas elected a new vice chairman Saturday, choosing Robin Lynn Armstrong, MD, the first black to hold the position since Reconstruction.
Armstrong, an internal medicine doctor from Dickinson, said he grew up in a household of Democrats but became a Republican in 1989 at age 19. His decision was associated with his religious faith, he said, because he became a "born-again believer."
"My philosophy is more conservative," Armstrong said, explaining that his opposition to abortion was a key issue in his party choice.
He said he has been an active Republican at the local level in Galveston County for the past eight years. Armstrong said he hopes to help the Republican Party continue its outreach to minority Texans.
"I believe that minorities are conservative," he said.
Bobby Eberle of Pearland also sought the vice chairmanship. Armstrong succeeds David Barton, who has been vice chairman for nine years.
Party chairman Tina Benkiser faced no major opposition and was easily re-elected chairman.
PLATFORM APPROVED
The party approved a platform Saturday that urges no amnesty for illegal immigrants, stiffer penalties for employers who hire illegal workers and suspension of automatic U.S. citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
The platform, a document drafted and voted on at the state GOP convention every two years, addresses a variety of subjects.
It states that the Texas Republican Party supports "traditional" marriage, which it defines as "a God-ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman."
The platform also opposes abortion, the sale and use of "the morning after pill" known as emergency contraception and the legalization of sodomy.
Although the platform is a broad statement of what the party supports, not all Republican candidates agree with everything in it.
HAVING A LITTLE FUN
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison began her speech to the state GOP convention Saturday with a joke. She noted that if gunshots are heard in Washington, D.C., it can set off panic.
"In Texas, they would be asking which hunting season had started, or if Vice President Cheney was visiting," she said, referring to Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner in South Texas in February.
The shooting victim, Austin attorney Harry Whittington, was hospitalized but recovered from his birdshot wounds.
Robin L. Armstrong, M.D., is also 2006 President of the
Galveston County Medical Society.
Martha Armstrong MD, is Robin Armstrong MD's,wife
her picture is in the slide show below. The Armstrongs
live in Dickinson, Texas, with their sons, Daniel,
and Gabriel,who were born on the same day
(March 31) two years apart.
