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Matt Collins
07-11-2009, 05:48 PM
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [RLCNF] Brevard REC Chairman: Party Leaders Targeted by RPOF Bosses, Who is Next?Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:52:43 -0400From: Will Pitts <wpitts@wgpitts.com>To: RLCNF-announce@meetup.com

From the Desk of Jason Steele
Chairman, Brevard Republican Executive Committee
Brevard County, Florida

Brevard Republican Party
2525 Aurora Rd. Suite 105
Melbourne, Florida 32935
(321) 254-0073


URGENT!!!
Republicand Are being Targeted: You Could Be Next!
ACTION NEEDED NOW

It's been more than a month of debate since Brevard County Republican Chair, Jason Steele, led his local party in voicing decent over the early endorsements of primary candidates by state party bosses, and statewide Republicans remain engaged in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party.

Following Steele's announcement that his local party would not support primary endorsements by the state political machine, and the subsequent resignation of the Brevard Republican Executive Committee Secretary, Travis Clinger, who was asked to resign amidst allegations that he acted against his organizations vote to rebuke state bosses, RPOF has begun a purge of independent minded Republican leaders throughout the state.

Deon Long, one of the state's most influential African American leaders, was recently removed and banned for life from participating in Republican Party activities, after he spoke out criticizing party big wigs for their attacks on Republican Liberty Caucus leader Will Pitts.

"This is the kind of witch hunt that will only serve to purge loyal conservative Republicans, and make room for cronies who will tow the line behind part fat cats and their pet candidates," said Brevard Chairman Jason Steele. "In a time when we are working so hard at the local level to expand the outreach of the conservative message, we need leaders like Deon, and Will Pitts, and a hundred others. This is not the time to stifle debate by silencing the real leaders of our party."

Steele himself has been notified that he is the target of a grievance alleging he violated the RPOF loyalty oath by his actions at the local level. "I have been and remain a loyal Republican, but I have not been, andwill not be a mindless follower of the state 'party line,'" said Steele. "We are engaged in nothing less than a battle for the soul of our party, and our nation, and I will not sit by and watch as voices are shunned for speaking out!"

Steele called RPOF actions a "purge" and said he and other leaders around the state would fight to see that every Republican voice counted, and that the party returned to the corps values that he said his organization was built upon.

"We live in a nation facing tough economic times, threats to our way of life are at home and abroad, and the world marches forward looking to us for leadership, and it troubles me that the party of Lincoln and Reagan is being decimated by a hand full of good ole' boys looking to preserve their own power," said Steele. "We have been the party of ideas, of true inclusion, and now we must remind every Republican of that, and we must call on each other's strength and commitment to restore and rejuvenate our 'Grand Old Party'"

If you feel as strongly as I do, Please contact us and help us take our party back. (321) 258-8993, or e-mail rfbjasonsteele@juno.com . Your help is vital if we are going to restore individual accountability to our party and our nation!

Sincerely,

Jason Steele
Chairman
Brevard Republican Executive Committee

http://brevardrepublicans.org/2008/12/15/hello-world/ (http://brevardrepublicans.org/2008/12/15/hello-world/)




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Matt Collins
07-11-2009, 05:49 PM
It's my understanding that Mr. Deon Long was actually a Romney supporter but stood up to the RPOF leadership when they began their "purging" of limited-government Republicans, Ron Paul Republicans, and other conservative Republicans who began to question chairman Greer, George Bush,and Governor Charlie Crist.

Matt Collins
07-11-2009, 05:50 PM
The full story is here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199405 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199405)
and
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199346 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199346)

torchbearer
07-11-2009, 05:53 PM
good angle.

ItsTime
07-11-2009, 06:44 PM
http://thesaloon.net/racecard.jpg

Matt Collins
07-15-2009, 07:07 PM
No action on it at the moment that I'm aware of

apropos
07-15-2009, 07:30 PM
And the fact he is black matters...why?

Flash
07-15-2009, 07:32 PM
And the fact he is black matters...why?

Republican Party has been trying to portray themselves as multicultural with Michael Steele (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele) and everything. The fact they're trying to kick someone out who is African-American simply for not being a Neo-Con is pretty crazy.

apropos
07-15-2009, 07:37 PM
Republican Party has been trying to portray themselves as multicultural with Michael Steele (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele) and everything. The fact they're trying to kick someone out who is African-American simply for not being a Neo-Con is pretty crazy.

So kicking out someone who happens to be black over variances of political beliefs is against multiculturism and/or racist? Help me understand the logic.

Flash
07-15-2009, 08:04 PM
So kicking out someone who happens to be black over variances of political beliefs is against multiculturism and/or racist? Help me understand the logic.

Obviously saying the GOP is kicking out someone who is african-american would hurt the Republican Party's reputation, considering the Republican Party lately has been trying to out towards minority ethnic groups. It's retarded for them to further isolate themselves from the Black community, and spreading the news about the Florida GOP kicking this man out would hurt their image.

Help me understand the logic.

Warrior_of_Freedom
07-15-2009, 11:00 PM
African American leader? Is being black a club ? Who is the Caucasian/European American leader?

Volitzer
07-15-2009, 11:04 PM
Thanks Bilderbergs, for the Republican death spiral.

apropos
07-16-2009, 07:53 AM
saying the GOP is kicking out someone who is african-american would hurt the Republican Party's reputation...and spreading the news about the Florida GOP kicking this man out would hurt their image.

So the intent is to hit the GOP with attacks of racism in the hopes of hurting their reputation, even though the charges are very debatable. That's the same impression I got.

I must admit surprise to see RP supporters exercising Al Sharpton-like attacks, particularly when we see these methods used everyday to silence political opposition, silence dissent, generate separate-but-equal hate crime legislation, and extract millions of dollars from businesses (such as Kodak, more recently).

Seems to go against just about everything this movement stands for.

acptulsa
07-16-2009, 08:00 AM
Seems to go against just about everything this movement stands for.

Yes, it does. But that doesn't give me any sympathy for the state party bosses, because silencing dissent also goes against just about everything this movement stands for.

apropos
07-16-2009, 08:05 AM
Yes, it does. But that doesn't give me any sympathy for the state party bosses, because silencing dissent also goes against just about everything this movement stands for.

Sympathy isn't the issue. Principle is. If we betray that, what remains of this movement?

acptulsa
07-16-2009, 08:13 AM
Sympathy isn't the issue. Principle is. If we betray that, what remains of this movement?

A lingering fetid odor that smells like--well, it would smell like Washington, D.C. Yes, we will have to use some proven techniques of politics. Yes, we had better be damned careful which ones, or we'll be written off as yet another source for hope for change that never actually seems to come.

apropos
07-16-2009, 08:32 AM
A lingering fetid odor that smells like--well, it would smell like Washington, D.C. Yes, we will have to use some proven techniques of politics. Yes, we had better be damned careful which ones, or we'll be written off as yet another source for hope for change that never actually seems to come.

McCain's statement during the primaries, "We didn't change Washington...Washington changed us", comes to mind. If you recall, Paul then immediately replied that Washington had never changed him. What caused this difference in end results? Both were Republicans. Both were there in the 1990s.

The power of this movement isn't its numbers, its fundraising, or its political connections. What this movement has is a genuine alternative to the ideas Americans have grown so weary of and the principle to see these ideas to completion...if it has the strength.

These ideas cannot coexist with modern day "proven techniques of politics". We stand either for truth or political convenience. We cannot believe in freedom of speech and then attempt to shame or bully our opponents into silence, because our very actions show that we do not believe in freedom of speech. If this sounds idealistic it should, because principles and ideals are the only thing this movement's got.

Take away principle and we're just a bunch of Machiavellian wannabes.

Freedom 4 all
07-16-2009, 09:52 AM
And the fact he is black matters...why?

The GOP is apparantly doing their best to alienate the 2% of black people who still support them.