Hi, neighbor! 

GENERAL ELECTION VOTING is underway NOW

Your vote is critical
If the sane folks don’t vote, the crazies write & judge the laws that our children will live under.
Please … Be intentional. Pick a time. Schedule a reminder. Follow through.

Here’s our sample ballot https://www.collincountytx.gov/Elections/sample-ballots?electionID=75 > Select your precinct

Check your voter registration or see map near the end of this document for precinct #.

Vote at any Collin County polling location.  Check locations and wait times at https://www.collincountytx.gov/elections/polling-locations and click on “November 3, 2026 Uniform Election – Early Voting” or “November 3, 2026 Uniform Election – Election Day”

 

CANDIDATES

*You can’t use your phone in the polling station,* but you can use the tear-off card provided OR print your own sample ballot using link above, mark your choices, & take it into the voting booth with you. 

Vote for every candidate name with “Rep” to the right of it – all the way down the ballot. Candidate information is available at https://www.collincountygop.org/2026candidates/. Also vote for Collin County Appraisal District candidates who have no party identifier:  https://www.collincountytx.gov/elections/cad-board-election

 

BOND PROPOSALS

Both Collin County government and Collin County Community College District are seeking voter authorization to issue bonds to borrow money that our taxes will have to repay. See overview at

https://collincountyvotes.com/collin-county-bond-election-guide-101/

 

I will be voting “For” the Collin County Community College District bond https://collin.edu/bond/ , which the Board expects to be able to repay without raising the existing tax rate.

After several straight years of tax rate increases for Collin County, I will be voting “Against” the four Collin County government bond propositions https://www.collincountytx.gov/public-information/bond-election

See Collin County Judge Chris Hill’s X post from August 16th at https://x.com/JudgeChrisHill/status/2088982729278808279 where he documents how significantly the rate of county budget growth has outpaced “Population+Inflaction” growth, as shown in the chart below from that post.  Also see the subsequent news story related to 2026 county budgeting decisions at https://communityimpact.com/mckinney/government/collin-county-officials-raise-property-tax-rate-for-fy-2026-27/

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Political ad paid for by Keith Patton, Republican precinct 241 chair.  Party affiliation and precinct # for identification purposes only.  Any opinions are mine only, not necessarily those of Collin County GOP.  Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

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Check back with us at https://murphymatters.org/ often for updates on this and future elections and for government engagement info.  Please share this information with a neighbor.  Encourage likeminded friends and family – here and across the nation -- to get out and vote.   Consider Pastor Josh Howerton’s perspective: “A vote is not a valentine, a ballot box is not a mailbox, and a selection is not a sacrament.”  In other words, don’t vote based on superficial commonalities – skin color, gender, etc.  Don’t sit out an election or write in a candidate or vote for a candidate whose policies would do harm in your attempt to send a message, because the only message that will be received is the winning vote total. And don’t withhold your vote because there’s no perfect candidate.  There never will be, and a vote is not an endorsement of every aspect of the candidate’s life; instead it is to be a vote for the candidate whose policies will best fulfill the principal role of government – restraining evil and promoting good.  Good resources include VoteYourFaith.net and iVoterGuide.com

 

If we can be of any help, please reach out.  . .

Send your email address and/or phone # so we can more readily notify you of updates.  Thanks!

Collin County GOP precinct chairs for Murphy follow. If you’re in Precinct 210, feel free to contact any one of us.

              Precinct 241                                      Precinct 25                                                      Precinct 144                              Precinct 166      

               Keith Patton                                     Dedra Taie                                                       Maggie Whitt                    Michael Padilla

Speaker phone with solid fill        (469)825-4994                                 

Email with solid fill       P241@murphymatters.org         Collincountyprecinct25@gmail.com

                                                                   Precinct 25 Republicans Murphy