A native-Texan, Robert Pratt is a former chairman of the
Lubbock County
Republican Party having administered two Primary Elections. He
served as the regional director for the Texas GOP county chairmen’s
association and was instrumental in passing election law reforms in the
2005 legislative session. He served for almost a decade as the party’s
finance chairman and as long as president of the county Young Republican
club, with the club being named as the outstanding club in Texas under
his leadership.
Reared on a cotton farm east of Floydada, Pratt’s career began at the age of
15 when he began selling business computer systems. He moved to Lubbock
at 16 becoming a partner in a computer business which he built into the
region's leading business computer maintenance provider. Pratt served as
an officer and president of the
Data Processing Management Association (now
AITP) in
Lubbock for several years in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. He has 15
years experience in marketing, sales management, and executive
management in the technology services industry.
While building his firm’s El Paso, Texas office and expanding the firm
into Chihuahua, Mexico, Pratt met the woman who would become his wife.
Also a political activist, his wife Isabel has experience in the
dangerous world of Mexican politics having openly supported that
nation’s first successful opposition party, the
National Action Party or PAN in its first major victory.
In 1996, Pratt left his former company and founded a consulting and
advertising firm. He has managed and consulted with numerous winning
political campaigns. Additionally he has been
instrumental in building companies for several clients and served as the
exclusive marketing and national advertising agency for a leading
catalog and Internet merchant.
Additionally, Pratt's consulting expertise extends well beyond marketing,
sales training, and advertising. He has served as an efficiency and expense
reduction consultant for numerous companies and negotiated contracts in
areas as diverse as janitorial services to communications systems and
from commercial insurance services to high technology services.
During his one-year, part-time attendance of
Lubbock High School,
Pratt brought a national title to the school in extemporaneous speaking.
He was a district and regional debate champion several times as a
student at
Floydada High School in the early 1980’s.
Pratt has hundreds of hours of experience in unscripted and scripted live
television and radio. He was the 1998 Pee Bee Award winner for his
on-air work for Public
Broadcasting on the South Plains and was an on-air fundraiser
for Lubbock's PBS affiliate for 20 years.
He and his wife Isabel are traditional Anglicans
disgusted with the Episcopal Church USA and it's abandonment of Biblical
authority. They currently attend
Grace
Anglican Church in Lubbock. (And they both invite you to join them.)
Since 1996, Pratt has been devoted full-time to Pratt on Texas, a two
hour radio talk show airing weekdays. Pratt
on Texas has been the highest rated local talk show, among all talk
formats, since its inception.
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