REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, December 4, 1993

CONTACT: Fred Meyer, 214/754-1800
         Karen Hughes, 512/477-9821

REPUBLICAN LEADERS COMMEND WILLIANSON COUNTY COMISSIONERS
FOR COURAGEOUS STAND FOR VALUES

        Austin -- Members of the State Republican Executive Committee today
voted to commend Williamson County commissioners for their courageous
stand for the values important to residents of their community.
        Republican National Committeeman Ernest Angelo of Midland read a
statement commending the WIlliamson County commissioners, and committeemen
Tim Lambert of Lubbock and Al Clements of Houston made a motion that the
entire committee commend the Williamson county commisioners and publicly
release Angelo's statement. The motion passed with a unanimous voice vote.
        "I commend the commisioners who had the courage to say their
taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize behavior that many of them
believe to be both immoral and illegal," said Angelo.
        "The fact that major companies and the City of Austin, among
others, encourage such behavior with stockholder and taxpayer funds only
emphasizes how far as a nation we have strayed from the values of our
forefathers," Angelo said.
        "The people of Williamson County may feel like a last line of
defense, but who knows, maybe instead they are the first part of an
offensive [his words, not mine] effort to restore basic values to Texas and
America," said Angelo.

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