House District 7

Citizen Endorsements

David Watts for Texas House

 

 

Alta Ayers, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Amanda Woods, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Andrew Krug, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Andy Farrell, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Arron Watson, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Austen Sinclair, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Barbara Rothra, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Becki Armstrong, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Becky Garrett, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Bernard Ayers, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Beth Reid, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Betty Hansen, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Betty Wilson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Bill Ferguson, Diana, Concerned Citizen

Bill Hallonquist, Gilmer, Conservative Activist

Bo Harrel, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Brenda Allegrezza, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Brenda Mears, Gilmer, Conservative Activist

Brenda Watts, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Cheryl Little, Big Sandy, Concerned Citizen

Cheryl Maxwell, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Christa Watson, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Christina Bylsma, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Chuck Mears, Gilmer, Conservative Activist

Clarence Norton, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Colleen Nelson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Dan Rose, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Dan Wilson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Danielle Hogue, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Danny Williams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Darlene Cordova Rouse, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Darlene Grotheim, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Darlene Rappazzo, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Darran Laminack, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Darrel Smith, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

David Roseborough, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Dawn Powell, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Dean Grotheim, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Debbie Hansen, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Debbie Hill, Diana, Concerned Citizen

Debby Williams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Deborah Brockway, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Dennis Abernathy, White Oak, Concerned Citizen

Desiree Watts, Gilmer, Conservative Activist

Don Radcliffe, Longview, Gregg County GOP Precinct Chair, Precinct 3

Don Raiford, Longview, Conservative Activist

Donna Hallonquist, Gilmer, Conservative Activist

Dorothy Reynolds, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Dr. Adams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Dr. Jim Taylor, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Dr. Ray Thompson, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Eddie Spencer, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Elsie Tate, White Oak, Concerned Citizen

Eric Watson, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Fred Klerekoper, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Gary Powell, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Gina Neuse, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Ginger Farrell, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Haley Watson, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Harold Powell, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Hilma Ferguson, Diana, Concerned Citizen

James Parrish, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Janet Crabtree, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Janna Sinclair, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Jason McGregor, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Jason McGregor, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Jean Norton, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Jennifer Poorman, Diana, Concerned Citizen

Jeremiah Hunter, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Joan Klerekoper, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Jodi Grogins Laminack, Longview, Concerned Citizen

John Rappazzo, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Jon Wilson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Jordan Daniel, Ore City, Concerned Citizen

Judy Raiford, Longview, Conservative Activist

Julia Howard, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Julie Armstrong, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Justin Neuse, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Karen Harvey, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Karen Tate, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Katrina Wood, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Kay Abernathy, White Oak, Concerned Citizen

Kay Wright, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Kay Wright, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Kayla Hunter, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Keith Barber, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Keith Rothra, Longview, Former Gregg County GOP Chairman

Ken Lattin, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Ken Rouse, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Kerri Rogas, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Kim McGregor, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Kyron Weed, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Larry Sowell, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Laura Rose, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Lauren McCallum, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Lawrence Tate, White Oak, Concerned Citizen

Leatrice Brown, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Leroy Armstrong, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Leroy Richardson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Leslie Gilmore, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Lind Bradley, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Linda Burklin, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Linda Lattin, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Madeline Barber, Gilmer, Upshur County GOP Precinct Chair, Precinct 20

Maeva Thompson, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Mark Armstrong, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Mary Compton, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Mary Harrel, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Mary Sowell, Gladewater, Concerned Citizen

Melanie Wilson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Michael Cherry, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Michael Cherry, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Michele Fritz, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Michelle Hickey-Glaze, Gilimer, Concerned Citizen

Mikael Rappazzo, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Mike Neibert, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Mike Spencer, Gilmer, Upshur County Precinct 4 Commissioner

Naomi Krug, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Natasha Watts, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Nelda Ferguson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Paul Allegrezza, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Paula Ham, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Rachel Easley, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Randy Compton, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Randy Nelson, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Ray Greenman, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Richard Fritz, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Richard Poorman, Diana, Concerned Citizen

Rob Gannon, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Robert Ham, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Roland Hansen, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Ronnie Hill, Diana, Concerned Citizen

Rusty Jacoba, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Ryan Rockett, Big Sandy, Concerned Citizen

Sandra Odom, Liberty City, Gregg County GOP Precinct Chair, Precinct 14

Seth Rappazzo, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Shane Tate, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Shannon Cherry, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Shannon Cherry, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Shelby Rockett, Big Sandy, Concerned Citizen

Stacie Smith, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Stanley Crabtree, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Suann Harvey, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Teri Lynne Lopez, White Oak, Concerned Citizen

Terry Berry, Gilmer, Concerned Citizen

Terry Slater, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Thomas Wood, Kilgore, Concerned Citizen

Tiffany Williams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Trish Adams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Tyler McFarland, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Tyler Sams, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Vicky Neibert, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Walter Burklin, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Wes Brumit, Longview, Harrison County Republican Party Chairman

Windy Wilson, Longview, Concerned Citizen

Friends, please take a moment and endorse my campaign for Texas House. We're building a broad, district-wide grass roots organization of like-minded citizens dedicated to this simple goal: Less Government. More Liberty.

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David Watts for Texas House
Posted by David Watts · July 02, 2015 12:30 PM · 1 reaction

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: David Watts

903-215-0248

david@WattsforTexas.org

 

DAVID WATTS ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR TEXAS HOUSE DISTRICT 7

 

GILMER, TX - David Watts, conservative Republican, business consultant, and 2012 candidate for Texas Land Commissioner, has announced his candidacy for Texas House of Representatives District 7. House District 7 encompasses both Gregg and Upshur counties and includes the communities of Longview, Lakeport, Kilgore, Gladewater, White Oak, Liberty City, Big Sandy, Gilmer, Ore City, and Diana.

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Our system of government relies on faithful representation of the people in our legislative bodies. As your representative in the Texas House of Representatives, it is vital that you know my priorities and values.

I'm dedicated to this achieving this simple goal: Less Government. More Liberty.

Dark storm clouds of judicial activism and executive branch overreach threaten the very fabric of our representative republic. This not the time to elect placeholder politicians who bow to every breeze of popular opinion. Rather, we need bold champions for conservative solutions who will fight to aggressively restrain government and champion greater Liberty.

 

Join us in the fight for Liberty.

Very few elected officials actively work to aggressively restrain government and to preserve and enhance Liberty of the people. Most politicians champion their ability to effectively administer a bloated government. But in truth, there's nothing more wasteful than to do a job that should have never been done in the first place. It's time to aggressively restrain government and return Liberty to the people.

Liberty begins with life. Without life, there can be no liberty. And thus I'll work to end America's holocaust: the murder of innocent unborn children. Until such time that we can end this blood shed, I'll do everything in my power to ensure that every unborn child realizes their full rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Liberty continues with restraints on the government's ability to abuse Eminent Domain and Civil Asset Forfeiture practices. Simply put: your property rights must be respected by all aspects of government, and your assets must never be forfeited in connection with a criminal investigation until such time that a criminal conviction has been secured.

 

Join us in the fight for Prosperity.

What you earn is yours. And yes, you earned it. And you should keep as much of it as possible.

As Texans, we have lived far too long under an oppressive and onerous property tax system. The appraisal district structure represents a vast layer of government bureaucracy without accountability to voters. Taxpayers around the state fight a losing battle each year against unfair appraisal practices and a system that is rigged against the taxpayer.

It's time to end property taxes in Texas once and for all. They represent a perpetual rent that you pay to the government for your property, for the rest of your life.

Until such time that we can achieve that goal, we must make the appraisal districts directly accountable to voters. Today, each appraisal district has a board of directors that is chosen by the taxing entities themselves (e.g. School district, County, City, etc.). That board of directors hires the Chief Appraiser and approves of their practices. Literally, the very entities that want your tax dollars are the same people that control the gathering of your tax dollars. Something is seriously wrong with that sort of structure.

Until such time that property taxes can be permanently ended in Texas, I'll fight to make the board of directors face regular elections so that the voters control the appraisal districts, and not the taxing entities.

 

Join us in the fight for Security. 

There is a nearly endless invasion taking place on the southern border we share with Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the border and reside in Texas. The Federal government actively resists their lawful duty to enforce the border. What the Feds won't do, Texas must do. It is vital that Texas deploys every means possible to control access into the Lone Star State.

But our duty goes further. We must end the lure of government services that helps to draw illegal immigrants into Texas. 

We must end in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. This taxpayer-subsidized benefit is for lawful Texas citizens, not for those who are here illegally.

But we must also work to directly challenge the 1982 5-4 Supreme Court decision (Plyler v. Doe) which mandated that taxpayers nationwide must fund the K-12 education of non-citizen children of illegal immigrants. That case was based upon events right here in East Texas (Tyler Independent School District) and the process of correcting this terrible Supreme Court decision must also begin right here.

And I'll continue the fight for our fundamental rights to keep and bear arms. That right, recognized as pre-existing by the 2nd Amendment, is essential for the preservation of a free and just society. I believe in the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to openly carry arms, often referred to as Constitutional Carry. It is worth noting that for more than 100 years, Vermont has followed this standard of Constitutional Open Carry. Frankly, if it works in Vermont, it works in Texas.

David Watts represents the next generation of Conservative Republican leadership. David is an accomplished business professional with more than 23 years of experience solving business problems, helping organizations become more efficient, and empowering them to reinvent themselves to better serve their clients. David is an accomplished project manager with a proven track record of real world results. David and his family have lived in East Texas for the past 16 years.

David's story began in Mobile, Alabama. Born to a young preacher and his wife, David and his brother moved around the country during their formative years. From Alabama, to California, to Colorado, and then to Texas, David began to develop an appreciation for the vastness of this nation at a young age.

The family settled in Deer Park, Texas for five years where David attended elementary school and junior high school. The family relocated just north to Humble, Texas where David finished junior high school and attended his freshman year of high school. The family next moved to Louisville, Kentucky where David finished high school and attended the University of Louisville.

After earning a Bachelors of Science in Political Science from the University of Louisville, David soon applied his interest in the political process to the real world. In 1992 he ran for State Representative as a conservative Republican in Kentucky’s 31st Legislative District. He urged a repeal of the newly increased state sales tax and an end to special exemptions for wealthy racehorse owners. As a delegate to the subsequent Jefferson County Republican Convention, he continued to champion conservative solutions.

David is also an FAA licensed Commercial Pilot and has previously served in the Civil Air Patrol, a United States Air Force Auxiliary. As a semi-professional photographer, one of his photographs was exhibited for most of 2008 in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.

In 2012, he published his first novel, a historical fiction novel of the Korean War. Supported by more than five years of research and interviews with those who were there, Hope in Hungnam has received wide recognition for preserving an important part of the history of the Korean War. Hope in Hungnam has been translated into Korean and is now available in South Korea.

David has also worked actively as a preacher and teacher, working as a full-time minister for more than six years. David has visited India on four occasions, traveling extensively within the southern areas of India to preach and teach in remote villages.

David has been married to his wife, Desiree Watts, for 24 years, and they have three children. They live in the East Texas Piney Woods on 19 acres between Gilmer and Longview.