This past weekend, over one hundred members of Republican Assemblies from around the nation gathered at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick for the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) Northeast Conservative Conference and National Board of Directors Meeting. The hosting organization was the Rhode Island Republican Assembly.
Here’s a general description of the event and of the Republican Assemblies – both locally and nationally -- from Raymond McKay, President of the Rhode Island Republican Assembly…
The event this weekend was to promote the Conservative movement in the northeast and also to promote the Rhode Island Republican Assembly here in Rhode Island.In addition to conducting their organizational business, the Republican Assemblies presented a series of speakers and discussions…The long term goals are to grow the Assembly and to help the GOP become more true to itself and to its roots and to the Ronald Reagan Republicans that made the party great in the eighties. We’ve lost sight of our core principles and the party can’t challenge Democrats if it isn’t true to its own core principles, because if everyone is seeing the same message, and the only difference is that candidates are wearing different suits, then why should the general public care?
[The King] has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.
The best answer that I’ve heard to that is from our District of Columbia Republican Assembly President Grover Norquist. Grover describes our coalition as the leave-us-alone coalition. There are a group of entities out there who are trying “get from”. What the conservative coalition is and what the Republican Assembly is is the leave-us-alone coalition. Leave our families alone, the traditional family is fine. Leave our money alone, I can spend it better than the government can.Over the course of the week, I’ll post some more material from the conference, including some more discussion of issues by Senator Coburn and the story of Kelo v. New London, as told by Suzette Kelo.Government is here for a certain set of very specific and limited purposes. Protect my life, protect my liberty, protect my property. And protect everybody else’s life, liberty and property. When government is not doing that, then it is acting tyrannical, according to our Declaration of Independence. Government can do those three things. It’s not government’s place to do anything else beyond that, even good things. Not every good thing should be done by government.
That resonates. Just like it resonated with the colonists when they signed off on that Declaration of Independence, it resonates now.
"The long term goals are to grow the Assembly and to help the GOP become more true to itself and to its roots and to the Ronald Reagan Republicans that made the party great in the eighties."
Step 1. Get a REAL leader instead of that blithering moron we have in charge of the party apparatus now who just LAST week decided to demand Leffey apologize for this old people comments (which he did the day after he made them...). What an embarrassment she is.
Posted by: Greg at July 24, 2006 3:48 PMAllan Fung gave a great speech about how he helped turned Cranston around. What a natural leader he is!
Posted by: Brandon at July 27, 2006 1:32 PM