Mohave County Republicans Air Public Grievance with McCain

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Mohave County Republicans Air Public Grievance with McCain

By Dennis Durband, Editor
July 22, 2005

Join the crowd, Mohave Republicans! You’re the latest GOP organization to officially express displeasure with Arizona’s senior U.S. Senator, John McCain. That makes four Republican organizations – all at the county, district or state level – to express strong disapproval of McCain’s left-leaning representation in Washington, D.C.

The Mohave County GOP has passed a “Resolution of Displeasure over the Grievous Actions of Senator John McCain.”

The other organizations taking public exception to McCain include the Arizona Republican Assembly (ARA), GOP Legislative District 11 and the Maricopa County GOP. Due the ARA’s unanimous June censure of McCain, presidential hopeful George Allen, a U.S. senator from Virginia, has reneged on his commitment to speak at the September national convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, in Scottsdale.

Mohave County Republicans, in their resolution, expressed disapproval of McCain over the senator’s roles in constitutionally-challenged campaign finance reform legislation, over his attempt to close down gun shows, opposing oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve, introducing amnesty legislation, opposing a constitutional marriage amendment, consorting with Democrats and undermining the Republican strategy to change cloture rules for filibusters.

Only under extreme circumstances will the Mohave County Republicans support a McCain presidential candidacy in 2008.

The resolution was signed by Gary Watson, Mohave County Republican Central Committee chairman. It will be forwarded to Congressman Trent Franks, Arizona Republican Party Chairman Matt Salmon and U.S. Senator Jon Kyl.

The resolution follows in its entirety:

RESOLUTION OF DISPLEASURE OVER THE GRIEVOUS ACTIONS OF
SENATOR JOHN MC CAIN

WHEREAS, Senator McCain has allied himself with the extreme left-wing Democratic billionaire George Soros to attack our First and Second Amendment rights through his Campaign Finance Reform and his attempt to close down gun shows;

WHEREAS, Senator McCain has done great harm to our national defense and economy by twice voting against drilling in the Alaskan Oil Reserves;

WHEREAS, Senator 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 Federal Marriage Amendment Act;

WHEREAS, Senator McCain has repeatedly sought to weaken Republican strength by siding with liberals to lead the attack on Republican initiatives by:

Leading the derailment of Republican strategy to end the filibuster of Presidential, Judicial and Ambassadorial appointments, thereby undermining his own Republican leadership; and,

Aligning himself with liberal Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy to introduce another immigration amnesty program for illegal aliens, thus ignoring the cries of the vast majority of residents 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 Mohave County, do hereby express our displeasure with Senator John McCain for undermining the conservative mandate of the 2004 election and his betrayal of the trust Republican voters placed in him.

We further state that only under extremely extraordinary circumstances will we support the candidacy of Senator McCain for President of the United States.

We urge other Republican organizations to likewise convey their displeasure to Senator McCain over his grievous actions.