Washoe County Republican Party http://www.washoecountygop.org Thu, 01 May 2008 04:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Obama Campaign Gives Up On Finding ‘Mr. Wright’ http://www.washoecountygop.org/2008/04/30/obama-campaign-gives-up-on-finding-mr-wright/ http://www.washoecountygop.org/2008/04/30/obama-campaign-gives-up-on-finding-mr-wright/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 04:09:10 +0000 Admin http://www.washoecountygop.org/2008/04/30/obama-campaign-gives-up-on-finding-mr-wright/ Obama Campaign Gives Up On Finding ‘Mr. Wright’
by Ann Coulter
Posted 04/30/2008 ET

Whew! I’m certainly glad to hear the “snippets” from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons “in context.”

In the famous B. Hussein Obama speech that sent a tingle down Chris Matthews’ leg, Obama dismissed the clips of Rev. Wright being played on TV as mere “snippets.” He claimed the media were highlighting Wright’s “most offensive words,” complaining that they had been played endlessly, as if repetition were the problem with the statement: “GOD DAMN AMERICA!”

It’s absolutely unheard of to repeat passages from famous speeches. In fact, I have a dream that we will not do that. Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask that the media stop replaying “snippets.” All we have to fear is repetition itself, because we are the people we’ve been waiting for to tear down that wall of endless repetition.

So, like I said: Whew. At last Rev. Wright’s “snippets” have been put in a healing context. In two speeches and one uxorious interview with PBS’ Bill Moyers over the past few days, Rev. Wright had plenty of time to lay out the lush analytical context of his remarks.

In his speech to the National Press Club on Monday, for example, Wright described America as a country of “segregation, Jim Crow, lynching and the separate-but-equal fantasy.” Then he ran outside to feed more quarters into the meter where his time machine was parked.

Wright described this as a country that supported the “racist regime of South Africa” and “the Contras, who were killing the peasants and the Miskito Indians in those two countries” — as opposed to the Sandinistas, who were equal-opportunity murderers with a more diverse group of victims.

He said this is a country that “cuts food stamps and spends billions fighting in an unjust war in Iraq,” neglecting to add that before you can cut the food stamp program, you must have a country that has a food stamp program.

He said we are a country that sent “over 4,000 American boys and girls of every race to die over a lie.” And Wright said it is a country “where I can worship God on Sunday morning wearing a black clergy robe and kill others on Sunday evening wearing a white Klan robe.” (Unless, like me, you do all your Klan-related murdering on “casual Fridays.”)

And, to listen to Wright, those were the “U.S. of KKK A.’s” good points! (Is it just me, or does Rev. Wright sound kind of bitter these days? I sure hope he doesn’t have a gun.)

He clarified his Sept. 16, 2001, sermon, in which he said that on 9/11 “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” by saying: “You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.” I’m glad to get the full context on that because I had thought he was talking about chicken farming.

Actually, that’s pretty much the way I took it even when presented as a “snippet.”

Rev. Wright also put into context his church giving an award to fellow Obama supporter Louis Farrakhan by saying: “He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century. That’s what I think about him. … I am not going to put down Louis Farrakhan.”

Why did Rev. Wright’s supporters think it would be helpful to hear longer versions of the “snippets”?

Curiously, Rev. Wright complained that “everybody wants to paint me as if I’m anti-Semitic because of what Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago” — especially those damn East Coast, money-grubbing Jews, he carelessly added. This from a man whose entire oeuvre is based on reveling in what happened in this country 250 years ago.

Rev. Wright clarified his statement, “GOD DAMN AMERICA!” by explaining: “God doesn’t bless everything. God condemns something — and d-e-m-n, ‘demn,’ is where we get the word ‘damn.’ God damns some practices.”

Well, that changes the meaning entirely.

One begins to suspect that the Clintons, flush with those megamillions they got from selling their previous tenancy at the White House, have put the reverend on staff. I believe this used to be called “walking around money.”

Obama said the Rev. Wright he heard defending himself on Monday was not the Rev. Wright he met 20 years ago. This is the political equivalent of the “It’s not you, it’s me” speech. He might just as well have said, “I love Rev. Wright. I’m just not in love with him anymore. Hey, can I have my CDs back?”

If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist nut-job, it will probably take him his full term of office to realize that the U.S. has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaida. Let’s just hope President Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did during 20 years of the Rev. Wright’s church services.

The only good news for the Obama campaign this week is that Obama admitted that his relationship with Rev. Wright is “a legitimate political issue,” which at least makes him smarter than John McCain, who just last week denounced the North Carolina Republicans for an ad mentioning Obama’s raving lunatic pastor.

Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” “Slander,” “”How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” “Godless,” and most recently, “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.”

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The Nevada State Republican Convention was put into recess on Saturday evening at 6:00 P.M. for a variety of reasons that are confusing to most. I told Washoe County delegates to go home and wait for explanations from the State Party. As soon as Washoe County gets OFFICIAL information from the State Party as to what happens next, I will send out the information and put it on the website. DO NOT LISTEN TO RUMORS, THERE ARE ENOUGH OUT THERE TO LAST A LIFETIME. IF YOU LISTEN TO RUMORS YOU WILL BE TOO CONFUSED TO THINK STRAIGHT and Washoe needs to be on it’s toes. I will tell you what is officially told to me, but remember, anything else will be just rumor. Thank you for being the strong people I know you are. Conservative values are still the basis of our beliefs and they will stay that way.

Sincerely,
Heidi Smith, Chairman
Washoe County Republican Party

 

My Fellow Clark County Republicans;


Thank you for indulging me in this special message.  I have just returned from the Nevada Republican Convention in Reno, and as a result of the events that unfolded there on Saturday, I was urged by many of you to write this message.  The purpose is to inform you of what happened, but more importantly, communicate how we go forward as a unified Republican Party.


First, a little background.  As you may know by now, the State Convention was recessed at approximately 6 p.m., after much work had been done but before we were able to finish all of GOP convention business.   The reason for the temporary recess, which I have now confirmed with the State Republican Party Leadership, was due to the expiration of the contract with the hosting casino for the convention room space.  The contract indicated that the room had been reserved until 5 p.m., and as there was still many hours of work that needed to be done, the decision was made by the State Party Leadership to recess the meeting to another time.  As a result we failed to elect delegates to the national convention.

This action has left many delegates disappointed and angry.  Some have suggested nefarious ulterior motives for the sudden halt to the convention.  For example, some have claimed that it was an attempt by the Party Leadership to circumvent the will of the “Ron Paul” Republicans at the convention.  Yet it was precisely our Party’s leader, Sue Lowden, who brought Dr. Paul to speak at the convention.  I, too, am disappointed today, as I am now seeing and hearing the emotional finger-pointing that is causing division and ill-will amongst our ranks, and that appears to be choking the life out of the party.  Because of this, I write to you today and ask earnestly that you remain calm and unified while we await the decision by the State Party Leadership on how we will go forward and complete the work of the State Convention.

I realize the difficulty in requesting that you stand-by for further instructions, but that is precisely what I am asking you to do, because it is what we need to do for now.  We need to stand-by, yet desperately need to stand unified and strong.  I ask that you squelch any desire you may have to blame, impugn, or attack other, fellow Republicans.  We cannot defeat the Democrats in November unless we are all working together with one, unified message.

Whatever problems we have right now, we will get through them, but we must endeavor to persevere.  Keep focused on the fact that, we, as a united Republican Party are able to agree on many, if not most things, and those agreements are far more important than all of our differences.  No small proof of this fact is more evident than our ability to agree on twenty (20) hugely important planks of our State Party’s platform this weekend.

I promise you that, as quickly as information about how and where we will resume the state convention is passed on to me, I will communicate it to you.  Please, stand strong, and stand unified as Republicans.

In Republican unity,


Bernie Zadrowski
Chairman, Clark County Republican Party

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NEVADA POLITICS: GOP convention cut short

Some supporters of Ron Paul riled after time runs out at state party event

By MOLLY BALL
REVIEW-JOURNAL

RENO — The state Republican convention was called off Saturday evening without electing national delegates, prompting protests from a record crowd that included many supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

State Sen. Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, the convention chairman, announced that the convention would recess indefinitely about 6 p.m., saying the party’s contract with the Peppermill Hotel Casino had expired and the gathering would reconvene at a later date.

“We simply had hours and hours of work left to do,” he said in an interview afterward.

It was the sudden and frustrating culmination of a long day that had pitted the party establishment that supports presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., against the insurgent Paul supporters.

Up to that point, the convention had appeared to be proceeding slowly but smoothly after a rules change powered by Paul supporters required a lengthier process than was originally planned for voting on delegates to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September.

“They hijacked the party away from the people,” Paul supporter Chloie Leavitt, a 44-year-old Overton resident, said as she left. “We were winning and they shut it down.”

Paul supporters appeared to be a large share of the 1,347 state convention delegates. After Beers left the building, some attendees initially refused to leave and tried to restart the convention, but they failed to reach a quorum.

“Unfortunately, with the rule changes implemented this morning, we did not have time to complete the process,” Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden said in a statement. “Our contract for the meeting space had expired, as had our budget, and ballots were unable to be physically produced by the nominations committee. We had to temporarily recess the convention.”

She said the party would ask to use the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, which was provided free to the Clark County Democratic Party by UNLV for use in their do-over convention earlier this month after they botched their convention on Feb. 23.

Paul’s supporters succeeded in overturning party rules that would have allowed only pre-approved delegate slates to be elected to the national convention.

They argued anyone present ought to be able to run for national delegate. Their move to change the rules succeeded by a wide margin.

Once that change was made, Paul campaigners were prepared for an intensive conventioneering effort, passing out their own suggested delegate slates for their people to vote on in hastily assembled delegate elections.

The McCain campaign hadn’t prepared for this contingency, having assumed the pre-approved delegate slates would be pushed through, a source with the campaign said.

The improvised delegate election process was begun, with votes cast for the nine of 31 delegates who are elected by congressional district.

But after hours of counting, and with voting not started for the other 22 at-large delegates, Beers announced the recess. Officials said the ballot boxes from the delegate elections had been secured.

Lowden said in an interview that the party didn’t anticipate the rules change. She said the slates of national delegates had been prepared through a fair and open process of the nominations committee and the party thought the convention would accept them.

She denied any anti-Paul bias, saying the re-convention would allow everyone to be heard fairly under the new rules.

“I’m the only chairman in the entire country that allowed him (Paul) to speak at the convention,” she said. “He campaigned here in Nevada very hard and he touched a lot of people here in Nevada. I want people to be included in the Republican Party, not just one kind of Republican but all kinds of Republicans.”

Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign, said Paul supporters had the ability to finish the voting before the convention was suddenly recessed without consulting them.

“This is highly irregular,” he said. “We could have finished business tonight. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Many Paul supporters believed the party establishment was exerting its power to shut them out.

“The idea that the party leaders would have a completely different agenda that goes against the people just blows me away,” said 33-year-old Marco Ritzo of Las Vegas.

McCain supporters and other party regulars, however, had similar words for the Paul people. “The Ron Paul contingent constantly nitpicks and delays things on purpose so that all the old people leave and they can take over,” said Eric Tolkien of Reno.

Paul had spoken to the convention to raucous cheers Saturday afternoon.

A former Libertarian Party nominee whose anti-war, pro-liberty message has sparked a youth movement, Paul has little hope of winning the nomination but continues to campaign, saying he wants to restore the party’s ideals.

“The campaign continues,” he told the crowd. “There was a time when there were 11 of us. Now there are two, so things are doing OK. … We are going to continue to spread this message around this country.”

The state convention, a biennial event that brings the party together before each national election, was intended to rally the party faithful around McCain.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and one-time presidential candidate who won the Nevada caucuses before dropping out of the race, spoke on McCain’s behalf.

Romney, in his speech, called McCain “a man who has been tested and proven, a man who knows how to strengthen our economy, a man who knows how to help us defeat radical jihadists and terrorists throughout the world.”

Romney’s name has been floated as a possible vice presidential choice. But in an interview Saturday morning, he said he was there to campaign for McCain, not to keep his own name in the mix. “I don’t think it’s very likely … that I would be asked to fill that responsibility,” he said of the vice presidential nomination.

Although McCain and Romney were bitter rivals before Romney left the race, Romney said the two now have a friendly relationship.

Asked about Paul’s potential to continue distracting from McCain, Romney said, “I don’t know that it has a significant impact on the success of Senator McCain’s campaign. Senator McCain has the delegates he needs wrapped up.”

Some of the Paul supporters at the convention accepted that, saying they just wanted to send a message by having a presence at the national convention. But others said they believed Paul could still win the nomination by gathering delegates in conventions like Nevada’s across the country.

The loudest applause for Paul came when he discussed his opposition to the Federal Reserve System.

“We as a country, as a people, have failed the test,” Paul said. “We have drifted a long way. … We have to put our eye on the target, and the target is the limitation of government power.”

Paul said he was “a very reluctant candidate” who had been buoyed by the great hunger of millions of Americans who wanted “to hear a message, a precise message of liberty.”

Also speaking at the convention were Gov. Jim Gibbons and Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who sought to rally the crowd with Republican talking points and emphasized the importance of November’s vote.

Party business also was conducted Saturday. Las Vegas lawyer Joe Brown was re-elected as the state’s Republican National Committeeman, while Beverly Willard announced her retirement as National Committeewoman. Washoe County Republican Chairwoman Heidi Smith was elected without opposition to replace Willard when her term ends after September’s convention.

The party passed a 20-plank platform that stresses “a literal interpretation of the U.S. Constitution” and calls for the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Patriot Act as well as withdrawal from the United Nations and North American Free Trade Agreement.

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The convention will be held at the Peppermill Hotel Casino convention center in Reno, Saturday, April 26, 2008. Registration begins at 7 AM and the convention begins at 9 AM.

2008 Nevada Republican Convention Links:

Online Registration

Proposed Convention Rules

By-laws of the Nevada Republican Central Committee

Nevada Republican Party 2006 Platform

Other items to be posted when they are available will include the convention agenda and the proposed 2008 platform.

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Monday, April 21, 2008 10:35 PM

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to pull away from rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois as the campaigning in Pennsylvania ended and voters prepared to cast ballots Tuesday, the latest Newsmax/Zogby daily telephone tracking poll shows.

Clinton now leads Obama, 51% to 41%, having gained three points over the past 24 hours as Obama lost one point, pushing her beyond the poll’s margin of error to create a statistically significant lead for the first time in the Pennsylvania daily tracking poll.

Meanwhile, 6% remained undecided and another 3% said they preferred someone else in the two-day tracking poll. It was conducted April 20-21, 2008, using live operators working out of Zogby’s on-site call center in Upstate New York, included 675 likely Democratic primary voters in Pennsylvania. It carries a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points.

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