the GOP takes a stand on Reagan’s 10 policy positions

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
– GOPUSA ILLINOIS urges

a) each and every Republican candidate, Republican elected official, and Republican party leader in Illinois to immediately and publicly disclose any of the 10 key policy positions listed below that they do not support;

b) Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Chairman and IRP National Committeeman Pat Brady and IRP National Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte to urge each and every Republican candidate, Republican elected official, and Republican party leader in Illinois to immediately and publicly disclose any of the policy positions that they do not support; and

c) Pat Brady to immediately resign as IRP National Committeeman and immediately call for using an open process to fill the vacancy promptly so that the new IRP National Committeeman can vote on the policy position resolution at RNC’s Winter meeting in January — the process used to fill the vacancy should be at least as open as the one used to fill the Topinka vacancy in 2005.

- Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

POLITICAL TICKER
– OUTSTANDING: Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/23/rnc-socialist-resolution-returns/

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan’s belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates; and

WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee; and be further

RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.

Chief Sponsor: James Bopp, Jr. NCM IN Sponsors: Avie Axdahl NCW MN, Donna Cain NCW OR, Cindy Costa NCW SC, Demetra DeMonte NCW IL, Peggy Lambert NCW TN, Carolyn McLarty NCW OK, Pete Rickets NCM NE, Steve Scheffler NCM IA, Helen Van Etten NCW KA, Solomon Yue NCM OR