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JUST IN CASE
This is a reminder for those of you in Colorado, just in case you didn't get a reminder from your County GOP officials. Tomorrow at 7pm, Republicans across the State will meet in caucus at their precincts. Please take the time to go. Vote your conscience, not the Party line. I will be raising my hand for Ron Paul.
The Republican Party has been largely pushed aside as irrelevant in Colorado. Democrats hold the governorship and a majority in the State Senate. Our entire Supreme Court and most of our other State judges were appointed by Democrats. Republicans are in danger of losing their one vote majority in the State House over a DUI ticket. We can and must do better. The caucuses offer an opportunity to start the process of reforming the Colorado GOP and making it more accountable to the People. Consider offering one or more of these Resolutions for consideration at your caucus, then your County Assembly, then the State Assembly and then, where relevant at the Republican National Convention.
OPEN VOTING
Whereas, the State Constitution delegates the authority to fill vacancies in elected offices to the political party with which the prior holder of that office was affiliated; and
Whereas, this is a duty which should be performed in a manner open to the constituents the new incumbent will represent; now
Be it Resolved that all vacancy committees appointed by the Republican Party in Colorado shall perform their duty by open and public voting.
OPEN CAUCUSES
Whereas, the caucuses process is designed to let neighbors be heard in their individual precincts; and
Whereas, present rules limit those who may be heard and vote at their precinct caucus to those who have been registered as a Republican for no less than sixty days prior to the caucus; and
Whereas, this places an unnecessary burden on citizens who may wish to be heard and vote as a Republican in their caucus; now
Be it Resolved that any registered voter, regardless of their previous affiliation, or lack thereof, be allowed to register as a Republican at their precinct caucus, and participate fully in that caucus.
TERM LIMITS
Whereas, the US Constitution fails to limit the terms in office of Senators, Representatives or Federal magistrates, judges and justices; and
Whereas, this has limited the accessibility to these positions of citizens, and led to other abuses; now
Be it resolved that the Republican Party Platform should call for both the US Senate, and the House of Representatives to pass amendments to the US Constitution limiting Senators to two terms in office of six years each; limiting Representatives to three terms in office of two years each; and limiting Federal magistrates, judges and justices to one term of ten years in any such office.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (thanks to Jim Huffman in Archuleta)
Whereas, the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v F.E.C. has opened the final floodgates for special interest corporate, union, and Super PAC funding of campaign ads that are distorting our political process; and
Whereas, 527/PAC, corporate, and union money in local, state, and national elections has produced mostly ads that are, in general, misleading or untrue and for which no one can reasonably identify the source or agenda of the money; and
Whereas, this has allowed candidates to avoid responsibility for the content of and accountability for false information in the ads being run either in their favor or attacking their opponents; and
Whereas, "Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people-human beings-to share fundamental, natural rights with soulless creatures of government". (Justice James C Nelson, Montana Supreme Court, dissent in Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Attorney General of Montana, December 2011); and
Whereas, it is virtually impossible for the average voter to distinguish between the truth or falseness of these ads; now
Therefore, Be It Resolved that the Republican Party supports a US Constitutional Amendment that clearly and unequivocally states the following:
1. No corporation, union, or any other organization is a 'person';
2. The first ten amendments to the Constitution were included solely and exclusively to enumerate certain natural rights of the people (humans) of the United States and protect them from government intrusion (?);
3. A person may only contribute to the campaign of a candidate in whose district they reside, but the contribution may be any amount;
4. Only a candidate's election committee may collect and bundle money for campaign ads and only a candidate's election committee may run ads, or send out material, supporting that candidate or opposing the candidate's opponent;
5. Contributions made in violation of this Amendment shall be turned in to the Internal Revenue Service and used exclusively to pay down the National Debt
Tomorrow is the time to stand up and be heard, the time to make the Republican Party in Colorado more accountable to the citizens it hopes to represent, the time to let the National GOP know how dissatisfied we are with career judges and politicians. Tomorrow is the time to raise a ruckus!
Keep the faith,
Bob McConnell
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