Republican Party -- Bottom Up or . . . DIE from the Top Down!

[John Mosier]

The Yavapai County (Arizona) Republican Committee had an election of our delegates to the Arizona State Republican Convention.

Yavapai County, Arizona is a Republican Stronghold, although we are seeing a lot of Republicans re-register as Independents. We have our share of RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). Many "would be Democrats" have thought it necessary to register as Republicans in order to get elected to local offices.

 

We have had an active TEA Party Movement here and our voter turnout at 68 percent was about 22 percent above what it was in the rest of Arizona. Here is a report on our last TEA Party event.

 

Prior to the election by our Precinct Committeemen, we were given a slate of officers for the executive committee. It turns out that there was an appointed "nominating committee" which I believe did not meet as specified in our by-laws, even possibly in violation of Arizona Open Meeting laws. My issue was not so much about who was elected as it is about the process of making the nominations with a committee that did not meet.

 

When we heard how the appointed "nominating committee" worked, several of us true Reagan conservatives got together and made our own list of write-in candidates. At the election, each candidate was nominated from the floor. We also nominated around 27 additional candidates to serve as delegates to the Arizona State Republican Convention.

We have not been doing TEA Party events for the last year and a half to allow this to happen when we can still work to make our influence felt to those who still adhere to the status quo.

 

We did not win any of the seats on the Executive Committee, but we came close. We are, however, sending 34 Reagan self-identified conservatives as 60 % of the 57-member Yavapai County's delegation to the Arizona State Republican Convention.

 

We took our stand in the Precinct Committee election and will continue to do so. We base our position on the following quote by Ronald Reagan:

 

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs, which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.... And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these conservative principles, then let them go their own way.

I have heard that the "TOP down" process is happening all over the country.

Please comment here to let us know if it is happening in your area.

If the Republican Party continues to be run from the TOP down, I predict that we conservatives and TEA Party activists will form a real third party for the next election.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Texas has a good conservative base but like everywhere else can still better. MY area of Texas, north central, is strongly conservative with few if any pretenders.

Yavapai County Arizona . . . . keep being strong make your voices heard!

[Sandra]

Florida has elected a couple good ones, and now in 2012 we need to start weeding! Sen Nelson will be one I hope that gets tossed into the trash!  Time to have a third party since the other two parties are almost the same with very few worth keeping! Take back your state, the power is there to stop the DC garbage. We in Florida are sure going to try!