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An Open Letter To Washington State Republican Party Chairman Kirby Wilbur

By: R. Clayton Strang (Diary)  |  June 30th, 2012 at 11:02 AM  | 

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Dear Mr. Chairman:

On Thursday June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the monstrous legislation known as “Obamacare.”  As I am sure you are aware, the Washington State Attorney General and a Republican candidate for Washington State Governor, Rob McKenna, has said that he opposes a repeal of any portion of the Affordable Care Act and is ready to implement it if elected Governor of Washington.  This statement by a Republican candidate is both shocking and offensive.

I had the honor and privilege of representing my congressional district as delegate to the 2012 WSRP Convention.  As such, I helped to pass the 2012 WSRP Platform which clearly states in Section 9 “Physicians, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations must retain the right to practice in a manner they believe is ethical and to exercise freedom of conscience. We call for the repeal of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.”  Mr. McKenna has blatantly decided to ignore our platform by calling for the full implementation of this act.   This is not the first plank in our platform that Mr. McKenna has trod on, and if past behavior is an indicator of his future actions, it will not be the last.  Our Grand Old Party is not well served by candidates who flagrantly violate our platform.  When such violations are tolerated by the party or party leadership, the great integrity and strong conservative principles of our party are rightly brought into question.

As a dedicated conservative Republican and Precinct Committee Officer Elect for Legislative District 32 – Lynnwood 2, I respectfully request and urge you, in your capacity as the Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, to publically denounce Mr. McKenna’s comments regarding this matter.  Due to the egregious nature of his statements, I further request that both you and the WSRP cut off any and all support that may exist for Mr. McKenna’s gubernatorial campaign.

 

Respectfully,

 

R. Clayton Strang, PCO Elect Lynnwood 2

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  • http://Conservativecompass.com Bob Sordahl

    I too am troubled by Mckenna’s position. What does Jay Inslee have to say about ObamaCare?

    • R. Clayton Strang

      The thouroughly despicable Jay Inslee helped pass Obamacare, so he’s all for it, as well.

      There is, However strong, principled conservative Republican running for Governor in Washington, Shahram Hadian. If you haven’t heard about him, I highly recomend that you visit his web site: http://www.hadian2012.com/.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Let us know if your request for the WSRP to cut off funding for this RINO is honored.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Republican Governors or Governors-elect cave in to the temptation to implement the ACA in their states. They need to be exposed, too.

  • Dave_A

    And he’s solid on other rather significant issues (guns, for example)…

    The fact is, WA is just as blue as Cali on most issues (thanks Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia), and McKenna has to pivot or he won’t win…

    He joined the suit to avoid having to deal with the issue (hoping that they’d win & get it off the table) but you cannot be vehemently anti-Ocare and win the governorship here.

    Dino Rossi (our should-have-been governor) was similarly extremely moderate…

    McKenna is doing what he has to do to win, our only other alternative is a rubber-stamp for the radical-left legislature….

    It’s kind of like: Would you rather have Arnie the RINO, or Gray Davis…

  • R. Clayton Strang

    It’s a fair question, isn’t it? As a Republican, McKenna has stood for many things that our Party stands against. He is pro-abortion, for example. He argued in favor of releasing the names and addresses of Washington Citizens who signed a petition for Ref. 71, knowing full well that radical homosexual activists intended to bully and harass those signers. Rob McKenna has attempted to force a private business to sell abortion causing drugs against their religious beliefs and against their own conscience. Even when a court ruled that his stance was unconstitutional, he continues to persecute these private citizens, taking his case to the 9th Circut Court. He has refused to speak out regardung boarder enforcement same sex marriage. He has advocated spending 75% of the state budget on public schools, hugely benefiting unions. He refused to stand with Gov. Scott Walker, even going so far as to say that Gov. Walker was “terrorizing” unions. It appears that Rob McKenna does not stand with the vast majortiy of conservatives or Republicans on these important issues. How far left will you allow him to go before you say “Enough!”

    I reject the premise that winning elections is the be all and end all of political existence. Our party has historically had stood, and largely continues to stand, for conservative principles. What you seem to be suggesting is that political power is it’s own reward and that principles should not matter. If that is the case, then we have already lost. If Republicans win elections based on pandering to leftists, we have won nothing.

    I further reject the idea that we either have to pick McKenna or Inslee. That is simply not true. There are other candidates running for this office. One of them happens to be truely and boldly conservative.

  • westcoastpatriette

    and I don’t see how pandering is the answer ever. I think there are many ways to communicate why the ACA is bad for all Americans and stay focused on better, more sensible free-market solutions. That, to me, is the greatest weakness of even true conservatives. They stay on the defensive and allow the left to “guilt-trip” them into defending “some of the provisions being good” until they cave and compromise.

    IOW, I think the right leaders are able to convince most Americans that accepting any aspect of the ACA is bad for America. Blue state or not.

    Bottom line — McKenna is exactly the kind of political animal that needs to be defeated and gives the Republican Party a bad name.