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==Conservative politics==

==Conservative politics==

Adams has long been active in her party’s [[conservative]] wing. She started as a [[Republican Party|GOP]] election judge and has been a member of district, state, and national resolutions or platform committees. Since 1988, Adams has been a delegate to each state senatorial convention and each state party convention held the first weekend of June in even years. She was a delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]]s held in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. At the 2008 state convention, she was named Republican national committeewoman from Texas. As state party chairman, she automatically remained a member of the RNC.<ref name=txgop/> Robin Armstrong, an [[African American]] physician from Galveston County continued as vice chairman of the RPT under Adams' leadership.  

Adams has long been active in her party's [[conservative]] wing. She started as a [[Republican Party|GOP]] election judge and has been a member of district, state, and national resolutions or platform committees. Since 1988, Adams has been a delegate to each state senatorial convention and each state party convention held the first weekend of June in even years. She was a delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]]s held in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. At the 2008 state convention, she was named Republican national committeewoman from Texas. As state party chairman, she automatically remained a member of the RNC.<ref name=txgop/> Robin Armstrong, an [[African American]] physician from Galveston County continued as vice chairman of the RPT under Adams' leadership.  

Strongly opposed to [[abortion]], Adams was the director of a crisis pregnancy center in Plano in Collin County, Texas,<ref name=eagle>{{Cite web|url=http://www.texaseagle.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=128|title="Texsas Eagle: Cathie Adams", September 24, 2008|publisher=texaseagle.org|accessdate=October 28, 2009}}</ref> before she joined the board of the Dallas [[Eagle Forum]] in the middle 1980s. Adams was the president of the DEF for five years until 1993, when she was named Texas state president by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the founder of the national organization based in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=eagle/> In 2005, as the Eagle Forum president, Adams questioned what she determined to be a lack of conservative state legislators even within the Republican Party. "Of the 181 elected Texas legislators [House and Senate] serving during the [79th] legislative session and special-called sessions in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], only eleven legislators were commended for their conservative voting record."<ref>Quoted in Paul Burka, "The Elephants in the Room", Lyle C. Brown, ''et al'', ''Practicing Texas Politics'', Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008, p. 175</ref> Such politicians are often called RINO's (Republican in Name Only) by their conservative intraparty opponents.

Strongly opposed to [[abortion]], Adams was the director of a crisis pregnancy center in Plano in Collin County, Texas,<ref name=eagle>{{Cite web|url=http://www.texaseagle.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=128|title="Texsas Eagle: Cathie Adams", September 24, 2008|publisher=texaseagle.org|accessdate=October 28, 2009}}</ref> before she joined the board of the Dallas [[Eagle Forum]] in the middle 1980s. Adams was the president of the DEF for five years until 1993, when she was named Texas state president by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the founder of the national organization based in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=eagle/> In 2005, as the Eagle Forum president, Adams questioned what she determined to be a lack of conservative state legislators even within the Republican Party. "Of the 181 elected Texas legislators [House and Senate] serving during the [79th] legislative session and special-called sessions in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], only eleven legislators were commended for their conservative voting record."<ref>Quoted in Paul Burka, "The Elephants in the Room", Lyle C. Brown, ''et al'', ''Practicing Texas Politics'', Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008, p. 175</ref> Such politicians are often called RINO's (Republican in Name Only) by their conservative intraparty opponents.