Thread: McCain Censored!!

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 2008.

Thanks for posting this information.

You know this does not surprise me. Kerry asked McCain first to be his running mate during the election but McCAin turned him down. NOw, he is teaming up with TEddy Kennedy for an immigration bill. What next? I hear Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich are considering being running mates for the 2008 election.

I admire these Republican Assemblymen and salute them!!

The censure of McCain is an excellent idea as he is a rogue, run amuck, with no philosophy, loyalty, character or understanding of the word "representation" in the United States.

I hope more states will follow the fine example of the Arizona Republican Assemblymen.

CAFTA will flood the United States with poor and often violent and criminal aliens from Central America due to the clause "free-flow of people, labor and goods into the United States".

McCain Kennedy will flood the United States with poor and often violent anit-American immigrants because it legalizes those who are here now and provides for NO MEASURE whatsoever to close the border, reduce the flow, or deport new flows. McCain Kennedy is in effect OPEN BORDERS TO THE WORLD. We will not have any means to keep criminals, drug traffickers, cheap workers, rapists, murderers, diseased people...out of the United States. The provisions for medical exam....are a joke. We have medical exams now but they do not include AIDS, TB or many other diseases. They are a 5 minute check by a nurse as the others will be.

CAFTA and McCain Kennedy must be defeated at ALL COSTS...WHATEVER IT TAKES.