Farouk For Governor

During the Gubernatorial race friends of Farouk Shami including, Muzaffar Siddiqui and Ahmad AL-Yasin, organized a dinner party at the ACC (Arab Cultural Center). This dinner meeting dubbed “The Unity Dinner” was held for the sole purpose of having the candidate vying for the nomination for Texas Governor on a Democratic ticket, to tell the community more about his campaign issues including his candidature.

The Unity Dinner was aptly termed, as it had a broad ethnic representation such as Caucasian, African-Americans, Europeans, South Americans, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Africans and some South East Asians.

Accompanying Farouk Shami to the dinner was Jerome Ringo, one of his many campaign consultants and is well known for being a strong advocate of clean energy, environmental justice and well-paying jobs. Among some of the eminent guests that were present was, Paul Lynch who is England’s Consul General in Houston.

Later on, Mr. Shami, held a special meeting with Dr. Aziz Siddiqi, President of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. This was after Farouk Shami gave a very charismatic speech articulating his political goals if he got elected into office. In the meeting that was held between the two, the President assured the nomination candidate, that he was always welcome to visit the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.

However, the President was clear on the rules of the association , which state that it does not endorse any political candidates.

In his speech, Farouk Shami was quick to point out, that on previous occasions, some of his rivals, had credited themselves with increasing job opportunities in the State. However, Mr. Farouk credits a significant part of the decline in unemployment in past years to CHI Farouk Systems.

He used this fact as a platform to show his strength as an effective leader who is capable of putting billions of dollars to good use. He pointed out, that part of his company’s success, was due to the fact that he ran in debt free. He reiterated once more, that was how the State of Texas should be run.

Mr. Shami promised that were he to be voted into office, he would bring a wave of  change to the State of Texas through a combination of wide covering policies and initiatives. Some of these initiatives include; initiatives for food sufficiency, improved transport infrastructure, clean energy resources, job growth and more.

He also emphasized on the point that he was well connected with government officials all over the world, and influential business persons.