The Brown County Republican Party held a gala event at the Brownwood County Club on Friday, January 20th from 7 to 11 p.m. to celebrate the Inauguration of President Donald Trump. The event was a “Boots, Blue Jeans, and Black Tie” affair with a requirement of “jackets for the guys and glitz for the gals.”
Attendees enjoyed appetizers, drinks, and boot-scooting on the dance floor while monitors displayed news footage from events in Washington DC as Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence were sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States.
Brown County Republican Party Chairman, Robert Porter, spoke a few words as the event kicked off.
“Thank you to each and every one of you,” Mr. Porter began in his remarks to the party-goers. “We would not be here tonight celebrating if every one of you had not gone to the polls, hadn’t worked to get our candidates elected.”
His remarks were met with cheers from around the room and raised glasses.
“We have a lot to celebrate, not only a new President, but we have the majority of the states with our Republican governors, and we took over a thousand seats in the various state houses around our country,” Mr. Porter continued.
“That is a dramatic win,” he said. “God bless America, and God bless our President.”
“The next four years, if you think the Democrats are going to go run and hide you’re wrong,” cautioned Mr. Porter. “We just have to get used to all of the things they’re going to say bad about us and then do the right thing.”
At the close of his remarks, the audience raised their glasses in a toast to President Trump.
In Brown County, Trump received 12,010 votes, locking 85.68 percent of the vote compared to 11.56 percent for Clinton with 1,621 votes cast locally. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 253 votes in Brown County finishing with 1.8 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gained 0.46 percent with 65 votes cast.
Voter turnout in Brown County was high with 59% of the registered voters casting their ballots in the election.
Donald John Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, January 20th.
In his Inaugural Address from the West Front of the Capitol, President Trump promised hundreds of thousands of rain-soaked admirers “I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.”
