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GCRC RESOLUTION #1-2008... "A RETURN TO CORE CONSERVATIVE VALUES"
Preamble
Our Founders believed in limiting central government as much
as they did in the necessity of central government. They believed in core values based on Judeo-Christian-based ethics, such
as, the defense of our liberty, our lives, families and property; the pursuit of happiness; the right of law abiding citizens
to own and use firearms; the rule and enforcement of law; and the protection of our territory and borders.
Our
Founders knew that a national government would have to be constrained by strict limitations and oversight of all elected officials.
They believed that a representative form of government would guard our citizens from political excess, greed, abuse of office
and dishonorable conduct by elected officials. They knew a national government had to be crafted carefully, prudently and
with great trepidation, thus, they employed checks and balances and explicitly defined them in three separate but equal branches
of government.
Our Founder’s envisioned a United States of America which would need to be a reflection of
the basic morals and mores built upon a faith in God, embodying the personal habits of tolerance, honesty, integrity, humility,
responsibility, accountability and compassion.
They knew that the greatest risk to citizens’ freedom, liberty
and productiveness would come from elected leaders engorged with power and motivations to satiate their own personal agendas
and egos instead of acting on behalf of the citizens who elected them to office.
Whereas
The Greene County Republican Committee (GCRC) believes that many of our national and state-level leaders and some members
of the GOP leadership in particular, have abandoned traditional core GOP values to appease voters with entitlements and mandates,
which are insidious elements of a liberal socialism.
GCRC believes core conservative values are still intact in Greene
County and are the foundations upon which we wish to build our future.
GCRC supports a strong national defense as essential
for homeland security and national sovereignty.
GCRC believes balanced budgets are critical to America and Virginia’s
financial wellbeing.
GCRC supports the enforcement of the rule of law, individual property rights and a fair legal system
as being vital to the sovereignty of America and the Commonwealth.
GCRC believes the second amendment is essential to
ensure individual citizens the right to own and use firearms for the protection of self, family and property.
GCRC supports
sealing our borders from unauthorized immigration, terrorist intrusion and contraband smuggling.
GCRC believes that Federal
and State Constitutions are not subject to interpretation by international law.
GCRC believes that no taxpayer-funded
assistance or services should be provided to illegal aliens except for life saving emergencies.
GCRC believes non-core
functions of federal government (including pork-barrel spending) should be eliminated; only the enumerated powers and responsibilities
explicit in the Constitution require federal spending to operate the core institutions of government.
GCRC believes that
only strict constructionist judges should be nominated for all judicial positions.
GCRC supports the need to transfer
the political power and money which have accumulated in Washington DC and Richmond, back into local grass roots hands.
GCRC believes public policy making often becomes ego gratification for imposing one’s vision on citizens without their
advice or consent, thereby jeopardizing core principles for special interest ideological objectives that are not a proper
function of government.
GCRC believes that education K-12 is a parental, local and state responsibility entirely, except
for the establishment of recommended knowledge standards nationally.
GCRC believes in a complete revision and simplification
of the federal tax code.
GCRC believes we have a great nation. However, we believe the two biggest threats to America
are: (1) the absence of a robust, accountable, high-quality educational system and; (2) an enlarged central government which
collects and re-distributes our taxes in the form of mandates and entitlements to achieve outcomes engineered and imposed
by liberal elites and special interests, who suborn the very precepts given us by our Founders.
Therefore
Be It Resolved
GCRC will only support national, state and local candidates for office who adhere consistently
to the Virginia Republican Creed of 2007.
GCRC will encourage other GOP committees within and outside the Commonwealth
of Virginia to pass supporting resolutions that reflect their own grassroots thinking and concerns by circulating a copy of
this resolution to other GOP organizations.
GCRC will not compromise on its core beliefs and principles for the sake
of political expediency, or to promote political careerism, or to endorse RINO (Republicans in Name Only) candidates.
GCRC
supports the GOP principles embodied in the "1994 Contract with America", these traditional values include: FAITH
IN GOD, FAMILY, AND FREEDOM; FISCAL FRUGALITY WITH PUBLIC FUNDS; HONESTY AND HONOR IN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS; REDUCTION
OF THE GOVERNMENT’S SIZE AND TAXES AT ALL LEVELS; THE ELIMINATION OF ALL UNFUNDED MANDATES; AND THE PROTECTION OF THE
SECOND AMENDMENT TO GUARANTEE INDIVIDUAL FIREARMS OWNERSHIP FOR FAMILY AND SELF PROTECTION.
God Bless America.
Approved this 21st day of May, 2008
Signed
Unit Chair,
Gary Lowe
Unit Vice-Chair, Barbara Ballard
Unit Secretary, Eugene Sullivan
Unit Treasurer, Frank
Demko
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