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NEWS & ANALYSIS GOP’s Legislative District 11 Latest Organization to Censure McCain By Dennis
Durband, Editor Opponents of U.S. Senator John McCain have moved on from Phase I – a recall effort begun and discontinued in 2001 – to Phase II: censure. Following the lead of the Arizona Republican Assembly, the GOP’s Legislative District 11 on Tuesday night followed with a censure motion of its own which denies support to McCain’s presidential aspirations. District 11 covers portions of Paradise Valley and Phoenix. District 11 chairman Rob Haney introduced the censure motion, which passed 32-18. The censure language cites numerous grievances with Arizona’s Republican senior senator and states that the presidential hopeful has “repeatedly sought to weaken Republican strength by siding with liberals to lead the attack on Republican initiatives.” The censure mentions the controversial and constitutionally-challenged McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, McCain’s alliance with liberal billionaire George Soros, opposition to drilling for oil in Alaska, an unpopular alliance with moderates and liberals to undermine efforts to change the Senate filibuster cloture rule and working with Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy to promote amnesty for border invaders. Haney’s strongly-worded censure goes so far as to mention that District 11 is “ashamed” of McCain for undermining the conservative mandate of 2004 and betraying the trust of Republican voters. The resolution says District 11 will support McCain’s future presidential candidacy “only under extremely extraordinary circumstances” and encourages other Republican legislative districts to act similarly. A motion to table the censure failed by a vote of 41-20. As the meeting came to an end, Haney was on the receiving end of venting by angry liberals and McCain supporters. The complete resolution follows below: Resolution of Censure and Shame Over the Representation of Senator John McCain WHEREAS, John McCain has allied himself with the extreme left-wing Democrat billionaire George Soros to attack our First and Second Amendment rights through McCain’s Campaign Finance Reform and McCain’s attempt to close down gun shows. WHEREAS, John McCain has done great harm to our national defense and economy by twice voting against drilling in the Alaskan Oil Reserves. WHEREAS, John McCain is opposed to amending the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman as stated in the proposed federal marriage amendment act. WHEREAS, John McCain has repeatedly sought to weaken Republican strength by siding with liberals to lead the attack on Republican initiatives: He was the saboteur who led the derailment of Republican strategy to end the filibuster of Presidential judicial and ambassadorial appointments thereby undermining his own Republican leadership.
He allied with liberal Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy to introduce another immigration amnesty program for illegal aliens thus ignoring the cries of the vast majority of resident from his own State of Arizona to take strong action to stop the invasion of the United States.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Republican Precinct Committeemen of Senator John McCain’s own Legislative District 11, do hereby censure fellow Precinct Committeeman John McCain for undermining the conservative mandate of the 2004 election, and state that we are ashamed of John McCain’s betrayal of the trust Republican voters placed in him. We further state that only under extremely extraordinary circumstances will we support the candidacy of John McCain for President of the United States. We urge other Republican organizations to likewise convey to Senator McCain that they will not support his candidacy.
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