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From Sarasota Florida- The GOP is freezing its membership
Posted April 7th, 2008 by JohnGalt300
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Ron Paul's people get bum's rush from GOP
Published Monday, April 7, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Sarasota County Republican Party leaders once greeted the local supporters of presidential long-shot Ron Paul with open arms.
But that was before party leaders became convinced Paul's backers were determined to take over.
Now party leaders are doing everything they can to block new members from joining the Republican Executive Committee. That has included freezing its membership and adjourning a monthly meeting early to prevent Paul supporters from speaking.
"They want to take over the REC," county GOP chairman Eric Robinson said. "They are not offering what we thought they were offering."
Robinson said the party was set to freeze its membership because another Republican has threatened to sue them over their membership practices. He said the timing was opportune, allowing the committee to review membership practices.
Robinson said that instead of applying their energy and enthusiasm to help other candidates, Paul supporters are out to bully and force their agenda on Republicans.
Robinson is partially right, said Curt Schultz, a Paul organizer from Bradenton. He said the Republican Party needs to return to supporting less government and more personal freedoms, principles it has left behind. So his group is out to exert influence on the local party.
Though Paul finished a distant fifth in Florida's Republican presidential primary, Schultz said that was far from the end of the ""Ron Paul Revolution." All around the state, Paul supporters are trying to join local Republican parties to begin reshaping their agendas, Schultz said.
Primary challenge
Jason Newcomb, a Sarasota Republican and Paul backer, has filed to run for the District 69 state House seat against fellow Republican Laura Benson. If both remain in the race, they would face off in an Aug. 26 primary.
The winner of the primary would challenge state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, in November.
Newcomb, 35, said he does not like the way government operates. But he did not feel the urge to run for office, he said, until he heard Paul preaching on the need to rein in wasteful government spending.
"Absolutely, he cured my apathy," said Newcomb, a Massachusetts native who moved to Sarasota three years ago.
Newcomb said he is a life coach, teaching clients "neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis." He said he helps people organize their goals into plans.
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Florida is where all the old people move to
So if there republican there going to be favoring McCain because "he won't hurt there social security" or there going to be Clinton supporters if they are democrats so anybody who say they want to abolish the IRS and Social Security there going to have a hard time in the sunshine state.
Russo dvd bomb
Looks like Florida could use a good dose of the Russo AFTF dvd - like maybe 100,000 copies distributed throughout the Republican voter lists.
Perhaps when people realize they are ALREADY slated for extermination by the status quo they might get busy and change it instead of defending it and "them".
Such much for them praising Reagan
You know this whole primary season every other republican has compared themselves to Ronald Reagan (except Paul, who actually helped get Reagan in office to begin with!). Was it not Reagan who said if the Republicans want to win they must have a "big tent" and invite in everyone?
Pretty much the only things we are not in agreement with the base is our foreign policy stance and our want to remove the judeo-christian theme and replace it with one that encourages freedoms and protections for all religions.
I mean, when I was at my conventions, I sat side by side with neo-conservatives and they agreed on everything I brought up to discuss. The only topic we did not get too deep into was foreign policy. They agreed on the gold standard, competing currencies, or commodity backed currency. They agreed we need to abolish the federal reserve. They agree we should get rid of the IRS and cut spending to not have to replace it with anything. They agreed we need to keep the tax cuts and expand them. Even the ones who supported a ban on gay marriage agreed that really the government should have no say in marriage at all because it is a religious rite and the government is not supposed to make any law effecting religion or the free practice thereof! We agreed unanimously that we want no form of amnesty whatsoever for illegals and no "path to citizenship" or guest worker program!! We agreed that we need to clarify the 14th amendment so that a baby born here is a citizen only if at least one of it's parents are legal citizens.
I mean what more really is there other than foreign policy that we disagree with?? Even the neo-cons at my convention were against the TTC, NAU, Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, Defense Authorization act, etc. They even agreed (though somewhat reluctantly) that we should replace the christian portions with words that encompass all religions.
These people are just afraid of losing their egotistically driven place in the party. They are afraid of new ideals, though they don't realize how failed their old ideals are at this point. They need us to help the party grow. If the Ron Paul supporters did not show up to these caucuses and conventions, can you imagine how EMPTY THEY WOULD BE!??
this is insane!!!!
What the hell is wrong with these people????????????
and more importantly can they even do that??
Anyone from Florida, or that part of Florida??
My guess
Fortune Favors the Bold
remember how Florida was stripped of half of its delegates for not complying with RNC deadlines? I have heard rumors that they want to reinstate Florida's full delegates numbers. If they freeze membership, they may be trying to covertly assure all the replacement delegates will be McCain supporters.
I think they may be starting to sweat a little.
THAT MAY BE SO... but this is getting to the point of criminal..
how can you say "you cant join our political party here locally" am I missing something???
I guess
Fortune Favors the Bold
technically, since it's a private club, they can make up any rules they want. They could say all republicans have to speak backwards in public. As I have said elsewhere, the only legal recourse is ballot access laws, which in some states require parties who have been granted ballot acess and use state election apparatus in their primaries to comply with their own established by-laws to ensure thei continued ballot access. i suspect however, this would be a difficult legal challenge to win, as the entire resources of the NWO would opposse any removal of ballot access for one of the two parties, which would fundamentally upset the established partisan/controlled political order.