Charlevoix County Republican Party Platform
Whereas, The Republican Party is the party of We The People, Limited Government, Free Enterprise and Individual Freedoms of choice, as articulated by our Founding Fathers; therefore Candidates who file as a Republican shall represent and promote the following:
1. Constitutional Rights:
A. Freedom of Speech, not limited by political correctness, DEI or a political party.
B. Religious Liberty under our Judeo-Christian foundation.
C. Right to Bear Arms shall not be infringed. Only Constitutional laws shall be enforced.
D. Privacy – Government cannot impose lock downs of any sort, cannot mandate health choices, cannot mandate vehicle choices or emissions; cannot undertake any unlawful and/or unethical surveillance or monitoring of citizens, cannot restrict travel or limit the purchase of groceries, or necessary items for any reason.
2. Election Integrity: Proper Identification to vote, must be a legal citizen, paper ballots only, no tabulator or other machines, voter rolls updated annually.
3. Law and Order: strong enforcement of the criminal law, with an eye towards all of the
following: separation of dangerous individuals from society, deterrence of law breaking, punishment of wrongdoing, and rehabilitation, and a manner that respects public safety. Enforcement shall be without bias based on race, family connection, politics, or other such considerations.
4. Fiscal Responsibility: balance the budget, abolish the IRS, no income tax, implement a flat tax; reduce government employment at State level and the County level.
5. Traditional Family Values: Sanctity of Life. Parent(s) decide what is best for child, uphold traditional marriage, gender at conception: male and female only; no gender or sexual indoctrination; dignity/respect for seniors; no biological males in female sports, in female prisons, in female bathrooms and vice versa.
6. Preserving Our Rural Communities from Over-Development, Urbanization and high-density ordinances. Preserving historical landmarks and buildings in Charlevoix County.
7. Free Enterprise and Free Markets: No mandates or regulations of any kind, including electric vehicles, vehicle emissions, appliances, travel; support Energy Independence and the straits tunnel project.
8. Strong Military: free from: transgender ideology/treatment, DEI/woke policies and mandatory vaccinations; use of local militias (able-bodied citizens willing to follow orders) trained by the County Sheriff.
9. Conservation and Preservation of our Natural Resources: with a balance of all species; balanced wolf population with the regional deer and elk population. State cannot sell any forest/park land. Water quality cannot be compromised.
10. Freedom of health choice: no mandates for health care; no lockdowns; no government or administrative interference with medical opinions, medical or legal advice by licensed professionals. Repeal all laws which grant Big Pharma immunity for any created, manufactured, or distributed product.
11. Educational freedom, including school choice with per pupil tax vouchers, freedom for home schooling families, traditional curriculums, and parental rights on public school policies.
12. “America First” Policies: Neither foreign influence nor interference of any kind; no foreign adversaries buying land and corporations; no financial benefits to any illegal alien; employment penalties/criminal sanctions for hiring illegal aliens; support deportation.
Dated: May 11, 2024
Republican Party
Republicans believe in liberty, economic prosperity, preserving American values and traditions, and restoring the American dream for every citizen of this great nation. As a party, we support policies that seek to achieve those goals.
The Republican Party’s legacy — we were originally founded in 1854 for the purpose of ending slavery — compels us to patriotically defend America’s values. As the left attempts to destroy what makes America great, the Republican Party is standing in the breach to defend our nation and way of life
Dec. 12, 1870: Joseph H. Rainey First African American in U.S. House of Reps
If they [Democrats] will continue to proscribe us, if they will continue to cultivate prejudice against us; if they will continue to decry the Negro and crush him under foot, then you cannot expect the Negro to rise while the Democrats are trampling upon him and his rights. We ask you, sir, to do by the Negro as you ought to do by him in justice. He also has the distinction of being the first black person to preside over the House of Representatives in 1874.
Joseph H. Rainey, Republican Party U.S. House of Reps
Blanche K. Bruce was the second African American to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first to serve a full six-year term.
Bruce took his seat in the US Senate in 1875 and served until 1881, in this role he championed the rights of black war veterans and Native Americans. He was also the first black person to preside over a Senate session on February 14, 1879.
Blanche Kelso Bruce, Republican Party U.S. Senate
William W. Ferguson became the first African American to win election to the Michigan Legislature. He served two terms in the House of Representatives
Ferguson was sworn in as member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Wayne County 1st district on January 4, 1893. He served until December 31, 1896.
William W. Ferguson, Republican Party
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Our national principles which we are founded on
01
Natural /Inalienable Rights
Rights which belong to humans by nature and can only be justly abridged through due process. Examples are life, liberty, and property.
02
Liberty
The power to think and act as one sees fit without restraint except by the laws of nature and interfering with someone else’s rights.
03
Equality
Natural rights are the rights that humans have by nature, such as life, liberty, and property. They are universal, fundamental, and inalienable, and are derived from natural law.
04
Justice
The Constitution, which begins with the phrase “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, **establish Justice**