UPDATE: Nathan Boyer who the LTP was supporting won the Chairmanship of the Bedford Republican Party.
From: VirginiaFifthWatchdog.com
Last Thursday night in Campbell County conservatism and the resistance to the establishment struck a major blow against the machine that has been politics in our area for far too long. Tonight you have a chance to do the same thing in Bedford. The establishment with the likes of Tucker Watkins and other RINO’s would like you to keep things business as usual. DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN! Send a message to the RPV and the GOP “you work for us” Show up and vote to support <strong>Nate Boyer</strong>. While last weeks vote was a huge success for us it was VERY close. We anticipate the same thing happening here.
EVERY VOTE here really does matter!
<strong>!!!TONIGHT!!!</strong>
Mass Meeting
of Bedford City/ Bedford County
of the Republican Party of Virginia
As Chairman of the Bedford City/ Bedford County Committee of the Republican Party,
and pursuant to the Plan of Organization and as recommended and directed by the
Committee, I, Kevin Corwin, do hereby issue this call for a Mass Meeting to be held at
<strong><a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=Bedford+Science+%26+Technology+Center,+600+Edmund+Street,+Bedford,+Virginia+24523-+2856&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Bedford+Science+%26+Technology+Center,&hnear=600+Edmund+Street,+Bedford,+Virginia+24523-+2856&cid=0,0,506278965004821562&ei=Hl7DS-H_OcP68AaTg-T3CA&ved=0CAoQnwIwAA&ll=37.328792,-79.524643&spn=0.007217,0.020621&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A”>Bedford Science & Technology Center, 600 Edmund Street, Bedford, Virginia 24523-
2856</a></strong> or alternate site. <strong>Registration will begin at 6:00 PM with doors closing and the
meeting starting 7:00 PM</strong> local time on <strong>April 12th, 2010</strong>
A Message From Nathan Boyer:
<blockquote>The events of the last few weeks have made startlingly clear how deep is the threat to our nation’s future as the freest and most powerful land on the face of the earth. Our President and Congress have with unprecedented arrogance and disregard for the will of the governed placed us on a course that will undoubtedly take us forever down the road to decline as a world power and ultimately to oblivion if we do not strike back in a way that will cause a dramatic shift in our mindset as a people as well as in the balance of power in our government.</span>
<span style=”font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;”> I am seeking to become the next chairman of the Republican party of Bedford and am asking for your support and help. As I considered whether to run for this post, even before it became clear that this health care takeover would be rammed through, I considered the question all of us must now answer: What does this government takeover mean and what am I going to do about it? It is clear to any sane person with any understanding of our American traditions that what we have now is a disaster: A President and Congress who are nationalizing industries as fast as they can get their hands on them, crippling those they can’t grab outright and now grabbing control of something that affects each of us as intimately as our healthcare. We are on a path to the government controlling every aspect of our health care. We know that means government beauracrats will ultimately tell us what treatment we can have, when we can have it and how much of it we can have. A faceless, unaccountable government will decide under what circumstances life saving treatment can and can not be given. Just suppose: you and your spouse have a child born very prematurely and the doctors are unsure whether his life can be saved. The procedures used to try to keep the child alive are very expensive. What if the situation does not meet the criteria established by whatever government panel is charged with developing guidelines to determine when such costs are acceptable?What about when our parents and grandparents are in their declining years and government guidelines forbid them life saving care because the situation does not meet government cost/benefit criteria?</span>
<span style=”font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;”> We have a government that has decreed that we must surrender to them every aspect of our health. The Speaker of the House of Representatives defines freedom almost exactly the same way as did Karl Marx! We see that there is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat in Washington. Or moderate Democrats either. Our country is bankrupt, we are alienating long time allies around the world and our leaders are forcing dependency and coercive government on the American people.</span>
<span style=”font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;”> Are we going to stand for it? Do we shrug our shoulders and make the best of the of the death of America or do we stand and be men? Will we fight to take back control of the country from the radical left? I believe that we can save the country yet if we will, but it will cost us something! The first step is to nominate the best Republican candidates we can and to beat Democrats this fall. The statist Democrat party has declared war on us as a free people and we must take them at their word and <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>defeat</span> them! They declared unmistakably by throwing their votes on health care in the faces of their constituents that they are our enemies! They believe that we are either unworthy to govern ourselves or too stupid. We must hound them out of office and keep them out. </span>
<span style=”font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;”>Secondly, we must honestly face the question; what has the Republican party done since Ronald Reagan that gives us any confidence that the current GOP leadership will do any more than slightly check the pace of our headlong rush to socialism and decline? I maintain that the party leadership must change. The freedom movement which has found expression in the Tea Parties, the Fairtax movement, Second Amendment groups, the Parental rights movement and others must provide a principled new crop of leaders for the Republican party. We must open up the nomination process so we can effectively challenge from the right those Republicans who forget who put them there. As long as it is so unheard of for an incumbent Senator or Congressman to lose a nomination battle as to make national news when they do, Republicans will continue to disappoint us. As long as we are faced, year after year at the polls with the God-forsaken choice of holding our noses and voting for a Republican in whom we have no confidence and who has angered us many times, or voting for a third party candidate who has no chance of winning, thus allowing a freedom hating Democrat to win, we cannot hope to see this nation reverse course. We must take control of the party and keep it. We must establish and maintain a truly open nomination system. We, as the party’s base, must keep relentless pressure on elected Republicans to repeal the health care power grab at the federal level and to resist and undermine it at the state level. We must be unrelenting and not stop or get bored or frustrated and lose our focus. </span>
<span style=”font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;”> Will you help me in this effort? Will you cast a vote to elect me as Bedford County Republican chairman? The vote takes place at the Bedford Science and Technology Center on April 12. The meeting will begin at 7:00. Any registered voter in Bedford county/city who subscribes to the principles of the Republican party my participate. You must sign in, so be early. Will you join the Bedford GOP committee? A chairman can accomplish no more than his committee will allow. We must fill local Republican committees with freedom loving people who want to see dramatic change. </blockquote>
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