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06-18-2005, 09:43 AM #1
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Arizona Republican Assembly Votes Unanimously to Censure Sen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421461/posts
Well this is encouraging!
Arizona Republican Assembly Votes Unanimously to Censure Senator McCain
By Dennis Durband, Editor
June 11, 2005
SCOTTSDALE -- No, Donald Trump, U.S. Senator John McCain has not been fired. On Saturday, the Arizona Republican Assembly (ARA) voted unanimously during its annual state convention to censure Arizona’s senior senator.
McCain has seriously alienated his conservative base in the 21st century. However, he has greatly enamored himself with liberals and he easily won re-election in November with his new liberal support base. The conservatives who make up the ARA membership have had enough of what they consider a betrayal by McCain and they took advantage of their annual resolution ritual to take action against the liberal metamorphosis of the presidential hopeful.
The censure measure will be sent to Matt Salmon, chairman of the Arizona GOP -- with hopes of a state party censure as well -- to all Republican county and legislative district chairmen and will be issued as a press release to the media. No one spoke in support of McCain during discussion of the resolution.
ARA member Bruce Barton, of Safford, authored the resolution. The reasons behind the censure focus specifically on McCain’s amnesty bill for illegal aliens, for deserting the ranks of the Republican Party by undermining Senate President Bill Frist’s recent attempt to change a filibuster cloture rule and for ignoring constitutional concerns with his campaign finance reform law.
Public opinion on the ARA censure ran favorably all week long. A non-scientific GOPUSA/Arizona poll drawing 213 responses resulted in 93.4 percent approval of the censure.
Though a motion for censure Saturday drew unanimous approval, the ARA’s senior member, Louis Stradling, of Mesa, offered up an amendment that would have added stronger language to the document. Stradling suggested an amendment to the resolution that would have charged McCain with “malfeasance.� That move failed when Barton said he agrees with the spirit of Stradling’s suggestion, but he felt the word “malfeasance� might have added a legal sticking point that ARA would be better off avoiding. After the proposed amendment failed, ARA delegates enthusiastically and without dissent approved the resolution to censure McCain.
The resolution reads as follows:
WHEREAS, Senator John McCain is presently co-sponsoring, together with his Democrat soul-mate, Senator Teddy Kennedy, a Bill to Reform the Immigration Policy of the United States promoting amnesty for illegal aliens and for their U.S. employers, thus ignoring the opinions of his constituents expressed in numerous polls and personal pleas; and
WHEREAS, Senator McCain deserted the ranks of the Republican Party and the Leadership of the U.S. Senate on the issue of limiting the filibuster of judicial nominations, some of which have been on-hold for several years, thus stalling the President’s agenda for judicial reform; and
WHEREAS, Senator McCain led the Democrat Party in “reforming� campaign finance, providing for a clear usurpation of 1st Amendment free speech rights during the last 60 days of an election campaign, and leading to an orgy of spending in the 2004 elections;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Arizona Republican Assembly (ARA) officially and publicly censures Senator John McCain for dereliction of his duties and responsibilities as a representative of the citizens of Arizona; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ARA strongly urges State Republican Party Chairman, Matt Salmon, the Arizona State Republican Party and its County and Legislative District affiliates to officially and publicly express their displeasure with Senator McCain by means of a public censure; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be sent to the Chairman of the State Republican Party, to all Republican County and Legislative District Chairman and be issued as a Press Release to the media.
The likelihood of persuading Arizona GOP to get on board with the censure is practically nil. The state party typically takes a neutral approach to wayward Republican office holders.
Saturday's censure was just the latest incident of protest against McCain in the past four years. Last year, several people demonstrated peacefully outside McCain's Tempe office over his refusal to support the proposed federal marriage amendment. In 2001, two McCain recall movements arose against the senator. The leaders of those two organizations combined their efforts into one joint recall and then permanently suspended operations upon the events of Sept, 11, 2001. Also that year, opponents of McCain gathered for public opposition rallies in Scottsdale and Tempe.
McCain is expected to seek the GOP presidential nomination again in 2008Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God
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06-18-2005, 12:52 PM #2
This encouraging news has been added to the ALIPAC homepage
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06-18-2005, 01:14 PM #3
We are activating our ALIPAC Action Network (AAN) on this news! Since AZ Republicans, GOPUSA, and Free Republic are all slamming McCain on this amnesty bill we should inform the nation.
Please do what you can to link traffic into the article on the homepage.
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06-18-2005, 05:35 PM #4
I think McCain has a perfect right to run for President.
(as a Democrat, however)
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06-18-2005, 05:49 PM #5
John McCain
Don't forget the Keating 5 & McCain and that multi-hundred million dollar fraud he assisted-the "helpful to criminals Senator".
My bet is the same finance crowd is supporting McCain (again), I think he a gets big check from the criminals who run Fannie Mae giving out loans to illegal aliens.
I think McCain got his brain "fixed" by the commies when he was in prison, he supports their commie ideology every time he goes to work, it must have been hard to withstand their continuous leftist propaganda for years without some seeping in.
Ironic one of their captives is now their biggest advocate, we know the commies love illegal immigration-to America, why else would they being buying billions in bonds which we have no prayer of every paying back.
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06-19-2005, 11:58 AM #6
"On Saturday, the Arizona Republican Assembly (ARA) voted unanimously during its annual state convention to censure Arizona’s senior senator. "
Fantastic! Maybe there is hope for the Republican party. At least in Arizona!Want to make people angry? Lie to them.
Want to make them absolutely livid? Tell 'em the truth."
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/
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07-05-2005, 04:49 AM #7
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Originally Posted by ohflyingone
Bob Doles wife is selling out also..No wonder he couldn`t get it up;The War Veteran is sleeping with a tratior.
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07-05-2005, 04:55 AM #8
Re: Arizona Republican Assembly Votes Unanimously to Censure
Originally Posted by ohflyingone
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