Candidate for
Member, Republican Party County Central Committee; County of Orange; State Assembly District 69

We must begin with ethics and integrity. We can accomplish any worthwhile and honorable task as long as we NEVER compromise our ethics and integrity; first as individuals and then united as a Party. As evidenced by the fervor in which ordinary Republicans and other disenfranchised Americans have been leaving their Parties in disgust and registering `Decline to State,' we only need to look at our failed leadership across the nation to see why. To use an old cliché: "They didn't abandon the Republican Party; the Republican Party abandoned them!"

Our problem isn't the Democrats; our problem is entrenched leadership that has lost its compass heading and has become tone deaf to The People who they were elected to represent. Across the nation we have become complacent and have allowed a select few with money to dictate to us the direction the Party will go in under the guise of, "We have to become a bigger tent and the way to do that is to concentrate on the fiscal part of our Party Platform only." The biggest problem with that failed experiment, my friends, is when we abandon our Social Platform that strengthens individuals and families; we take God completely out of the picture except for "honorary mention" at the beginning of a meeting.

I believe it has been proven that when we only elect "fiscally conservative" men and women, we get anything but that and now we are paying the price; it is often hard to tell the difference between an elected Democrat and Republican. However, when we elect men and women committed to the Principles of our Social Platform FIRST, we are truly most effective for individuals and families of all walks of life, and we are blessed with the wisdom and discernment in fiscal matters that helps keep government small and individuals and families strong. I believe we must commit to supporting and electing only ethical Republicans who display a strong sense of integrity in their personal lives and a commitment to our Constitution, our Party Platform and our Bylaws. This will ensure they will govern us the same way.