- Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:02 am
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Meet a Texas gubernatorial candidate, Lisa Fritsch. Here is part of an internet profile:
WASHINGTON – Lisa Fritsch became a conservative in the second grade and a Republican in college.Don't hold back Demonrats, tell us how you really feel about her.
The tea-party mother of two and GOP gubernatorial candidate in Texas vividly remembers the day she asked her divorced mother to stop working a third job. Her mother had taken that job so her daughter could have tap shoes and piano lessons.
But the girl was embarrassed by her mother working at the Piggly Wiggly, and a friend told her they qualified for public assistance, which, she learned, would also mean better snacks and more toys.
When she asked her mother to quit and go on the dole, her mother abruptly stopped the car and defiantly declared,”I’d rather starve than go down the path of victimization where you might never have dignity in your life again.”
“That moment really transformed me,” Fritsch told WND.
So did that moment at the University of Texas when she realized she wasn’t just a woman of traditional values, she was a Republican.
Fritsch wanted to fit in when she arrived on the liberal campus, but she happened to have a Republican roommate who kept getting the best of her in their late-night political debates, so she decided to go to a Young Republicans meeting.
But, Fritsch recalled, as they kept talking, “A light bulb went off, and I said, ‘Oh my goodness, these people sound like my mother.”
And, to her astonishment, she discovered, “I am a Republican!”
Fritsch said that’s when it all clicked and she began reading Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams and Larry Elder.