Chad’s Morning Brief: Lubbock City Council Push to Restrict Guns and Ted Cruz Gets Another Endorsement

Will the Lubbock City Council ban citizens carrying guns during council meetings? The Chad Hasty Show airs 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.

War on Guns in Lubbock?

First the City Manager in Lubbock decided it would be up to him whether employees who have a Concealed Handgun License would be allowed to carry on City property.

Now I am hearing that a proposal to ban citizens from carrying at city council meetings will appear on the agenda at next week's council meeting. The council seems to be split right now on the issue.

This is a dangerous vote for the Lubbock City Council. Disarming citizens would not make council meetings safer. As we have unfortunately seen in numerous cases, gun-free zones make people less safe.

I urge all citizens in Lubbock to contact members of the Lubbock City Council and respectfully tell them to stand for the Second Amendment and to vote against banning citizens from carrying guns at council meetings.

Another Endorsement for Cruz

According to the Texas Tribune, Senator Ted Cruz received another endorsement in Iowa yesterday.

Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats on Thursday endorsed Ted Cruz for president, giving the Texas senator's campaign one of its biggest boosts yet in the first-in-the-country caucus state.

"At the end of the day, we truly believe that Ted Cruz is the most consistent and principled conservative who has the ability to not only win Iowa but I believe to win the [Republican] nomination," Vander Plaatstold the Des Moines Register in an interview published Thursday, the same day he was scheduled to announce the endorsement at the Iowa Capitol.

As the head of the social conservative group The Family Leader, Vander Plaats holds sway among evangelicals in the Hawkeye State, where Cruz's poll numbers are on the rise. Vander Plaats' backing comes three weeks after Cruz won the support of another influential figure in conservative circles, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa.

Vander Plaats' endorsement had been viewed as Cruz's to lose, though Vander Plaats had strongly denied in recent weeks that any candidate had the inside track. Cruz was among seven GOP hopefuls who participated in a Family Leader forum last month in Des Moines that was billed as a final audition for Vander Plaats' stamp of approval.

Vander Plaats has thrown his support behind the last two Republican candidates who went on to win the Iowa caucuses. He picked former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania ahead of the 2012 caucuses and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in advance of the 2008 nominating contest.

The endorsement will help Cruz in Iowa and give him some momentum with conservatives in other states.