MCRC
Chairman responds to comments
AZGOP
Echoes County Committees In Censuring
Sen John
McCain For Not Sticking To Party Platform
Echoing six Republican County Committees,
the AZGOP State Committeemen strongly censured Sen John McCain during their
Saturday meeting in Tempe when they loudly (voice vote) approved a Resolution
of Censure similar to the ones passed this month by the Maricopa, Apache,
Cochise, Gila, Mohave and Santa Cruz County Republican Committees.
The Maricopa County Republican
Committee (MCRC) passed a censure resolution by a 1151 to 351 vote during its
annual precinct committeemen meeting held Jan 11 in Tempe. Within two weeks,
the other five county committees passed similar resolutions censuring McCain
for not sticking to the party platform.
Maricopa County is the largest
county in the state with 3.942 million of Arizona's 6.553 million residents. Maricopa County has 63% of Arizona's
registered Republican voters, according to MCRC Chairman A. J. LaFaro.
Responding to comments made this
week by McCain backers, LaFaro stated today, “Based on the responses from the
diminishing number of John McCain supporters - they are either in denial, senile
or lying to public again. It’s unfortunate liberal individuals like John
McCain, Jon Kyl, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Fred Duval, and Duval’s
campaign manager Grant Woods - who is a Republican – would use Saul
Alinsky tactics to try silencing the millions of people in Arizona
and America who disagree with them on the critical issues and their progressive
socialist bullying tactics. The censure and the people who support
it have never used demeaning or derogatory terms or phrases like John
McCain and his few public supporters.”
Last Saturday morning (Jan 25)
volunteers quickly gathered more than double the required 200 signatures to
bring the resolution to the floor - as state committee arrived prior to the
state GOP meeting, according to Timothy
Schwartz, who authored the Maricopa County Resolution and headed up the
movement for state passage as well. Some 55% of the 704 early morning arrivals
signed the petitions as they streamed into the parking lot.
During a press conference
following the AZGOP meeting, Schwartz said… “Senator McCain always drafts
legislation with liberal Democrats, but never drafts legislation with members
of his own Party. He never criticizes liberal Democrats, yet he publicly
reprimands Conservatives in his own Party. He makes welcomed promises to get
re-elected. Once elected, his promises
get quickly broken.
“For many years our citizens have
attempted in vain to get the Senator’s attention. We’ve made countless phone calls, written
letters, and attended town halls. But
Senator McCain has ignored the people he represents. Washington’s power lure has thoroughly
corrupted. But Arizona cannot be ignored
any longer.”
Schwartz further stated, “Those
in our Party who refuse to listen are becoming fewer every day, but those who
care about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of
Rights and the Second Amendment –well, our numbers are swelling, and, we’re
become tired of “business as usual” in Washington D.C.”
He continued, “This message is
vitally important. We are losing our
Country. Everyday a little more of what
made this Country the greatest Nation on Earth is being taken from us -- and Washington is to blame. Ironically, it
seems necessary that we must remind ourselves that those who go to Washington
go for us, not themselves. They go to
make the voice of their constituents back home heard. Yet Senator McCain does not listen to his
constituents back home, and will not even listen to his own Party. He goes to Washington with an agenda of his
own. That must change.
“As each election cycle rolls
around, we are constantly reminded of Senator McCain’s war record. And yes, we are mindful of that….but that was
some 60 years ago!! It’s time to ask the
same question the popular song does:
“What have you done for me lately?”
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