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Tag: paying_dues

Carrying the Water and the Big Tent

By pauldpeterson, Section News
Posted on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 04:35:52 PM EST
Tags: GOP, Republican, primary, election, membership, paying_dues, Big_Tent (all tags)

"We've carried the water." A troublesome expression often used by GOP leadership. While some people make this boast, it was you and me "digging the well". It's only now that we're discovering the water we sent with them has been spilled. Our labor has been wasted, our trust compromised and our authority ignored. When we pulled our heads out of the sand last year to see the fertile land our leadership was to have cultivated, we found instead a desert of dwindling capitalism, absent our conservative agenda.

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GOP: "You Just Got Here"

By pauldpeterson, Section News
Posted on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 03:34:11 PM EST
Tags: GOP, Republican, primary, election, membership, paying_dues (all tags)

In a predominantly Republican community (79th District) in a primary season, it's fitting to examine our Party in the name of unity, and in the wise spirit of humility, morality, and correction. We must being willing to check and adjust GOP behavior against Constitutional principles and ethics. We are, after all, a nation of laws (principles), not of men (personalities).

When I decided to run for State Representative of Michigan's 79th district as a Republican, it was fitting that I join the party as a dues-paying member, and become more involved in local party politics.

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