Keith Grant
Santa Barbara's Leading Black Conservative Republican
"One Nation under God" a Free and Sovereign America
Our nation is under attack by One World Order government socialists who wish to re-define the very institutions that made our nation great. Traditional families, the roll of parents in rearing their children, individual responsibility and morality to name just a few, have been targeted. These individuals realize that the only way to institute their agenda is through the use of the media and our schools in an attempt to unravel and reweave the fabric of America. The results can already be seen on our streets and in the schools across the land.
We are a strong nation and will never embrace the leadership of the immoral and perverse, nor surrender our freedoms to a " Cradle to the Coffin" government. Get involved in your communities, educate yourself and others on the Issues, Bills and Laws that are proposed, let your elected officials know that you are watching. And remember the power of our Vote.
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Brief History of The GOP
The Republican Party was founded in the mid nineteenth century by politicians in the West of the time (states in the current Midwest) in an attempt to forge an opposition to the Democratic Party after the dissolution of the Whig Party as well as to lobby the federal government in devoting funds to the infrastructure of the West.
The party was organized in 1854 in Jackson, MI and fielded a slew of candidates for office. In 1856, the Republican Party held its first national convention to nominate a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate. John C. Fremont was selected and lost to James Buchanan. In 1858, a little known politician from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln burst on the national scene in a series of Senatorial debates that wrecked the career of Stephen A. Douglas. In 1860, the Republican Party met again in Chicago and nominated Abraham Lincoln for President after a heated debate on the convention floor.
Lincoln's victory forced the secession of the Southern states and launched the American Civil War. True to his beliefs, Lincoln seized the national crisis to push through land reform in the Homestead Act of 1862 and gave public education a boost through the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 which founded institutions such as Michigan State and Penn State Universities. Lincoln also pushed forward the emancipation of the African slaves and bestowed full citizenship rights upon black Americans through the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The glory years of the Republican Party ensued in the last half of the nineteenth century where only Grover Cleveland in his two unconsecutive terms of office was the only Democratic President. During this time the first black Americans served in the United States Congress as Republicans from the Reconstructed South.
Following the assasination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt assumed the mantle of leadership. Teddy Roosevelt was probably one of the greatest Presidents in American history. Were it not for his loyalty to the two term tradition, he would have been easily elected to a third term in office.
Woodrow Wilson served eight years and guided America into its bloodiest conflict ever. With lofty aims of world peace and a community of nations, Wilson allowed the Allied leaders to carve up the world between the French and English empires. The Versailles Treaty was not ratified by the United States Senate and America never joined the League of Nations. In fact, a technical state of war existed between the United States and Germany into the 1920's when a separate peace was settled.
The administrations of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover brought a boom of business that resulted in a record setting gain for the New York Stock Exchange. The reparations demanded by the Treaty of Versailles brought a worldwide economic collapse tha ushered in the Roosevelt Dynasty over the American Presidency. His foreign relations skills were badly needed at a time when America was surrounded by enemies but his social policies set the country on a course of rampant spending that previewed the coming National Debt of over 5 trillion dollars.
After the conclusion of World War II, Dwight Eisenhower presided over a new surge in American business throughout the 1950's as well as the dawning of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Richard Nixon ran a close race against John Kennedy in 1960 that was decided by less than one percent of the vote. Kennedy largely won by inciting fear in the American public about a missile gap that never actually existed compared to the Soviet Union. In fact, the American nuclear arsenal was larger than the Soviet's and Kennedy's rapid escalation of the arms race has been attributed to the heated periods of the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Following the resignation of Richard Nixon and the undesirable conclusion of the Vietnam War, America was restored to its place in world affairs by the election of Ronald Reagan. The Great Communicator, as he has been called, garnished lost respect for the United States and inspired millions of Americans to renew their pride and love in their country. Another economic boom accompanied this Republican presidency and the collapse of the Soviet Union once and for all removed America's greatest threat to its existence, as well as the safety of the entire world.
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Why Pro-Life Bordonaro Lost California's 22nd District
Bordonaro Will Challenge Capps Again in November
What Happened in California 22 - Former California Assemblyman Tom Bordonaro, a pro-life conservative who won an upset victory over pro-abortion Brooks Firestone in the primary, was defeated in the special election by a vote of 53% to 45%. The seat was vacated due to the sudden death of Rep. Walter Capps, whose widow Lois Capps, will represent the district until next November, when she will face Bordonaro again in the general election.
Tom Bordonaro's primary victory was largely due to his pro-life record. Gary Bauer's Campaign for Working Families (CWF), independent of the Bordonaro campaign, ran $100,000 worth of TV ads focusing on the effort in the California Legislature to ban partial-birth abortions, pointing out that Brooks Firestone, the hand-picked candidate of the Republican establishment, had opposed the ban, and Tom Bordonaro had sponsored it. RNC/Life PAC, Eagle Forum PAC, Christian Coalition, The Catholic Alliance and the California Republican Assembly joined forces to promote Bordonaro's candidacy, resulting in Bordonaro's surprise win. CWF came through again in the special election, as did RNC/Life and the rest, but it wasn't enough to offset the incredible financial resources showered on Lois Capps. U.S. Term Limits alone reportedly spent $300,000 against Bordonaro because he wouldn't sign their pledge to limit his term in Congress to six years. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) did TV ads attacking Gary Bauer, in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy Bauer's credibility. The Democratic Party, Democrat Members of Congress, the labor unions, pro-abortion and anti-family groups poured over $1 million into the Capps campaign since November 1997. Here is what the California Republican Assembly had to say in a release dated March 12, 1998:
"1) Why was Tom Bordonaro allowed to be outspent by better than 2 to 1 in the critical first 5 weeks of the general election cycle as reported in the press? This allowed several periods in which the Republican was off the air while being blasted by the Democrats and special interests;
2) Why, just 2 weeks prior to the election, had roughly 150 Republican Congressmen still not contributed to the Bordonaro campaign? Why was this allowed to occur? Everyone publicly claimed that this was a bellwether race, yet significant evidence exists that it was treated much differently than that;
3) Why was no absentee ballot program ready and in place to run by January 14, no matter who the Republican nominee was? This is clearly a State Party responsibility. An analysis of this most critical part of the campaign shows that, had the absentee vote been just 5% better than the election day results, Tom would have won by 408 votes;
4) Why did respected Republican leaders like former President Gerald Ford call Tom Bordonaro an "extremist" following his primary victory? These statements were used very effectively by the Democrats with devastating effects in the closing days of the campaign; and
5) Why was there once again an organized group of Republicans, "Republicans for Capps" supporting the Democrat? What is the California Republican Party going to do about it?"
Gary Bauer released a statement on March 12 in which he said, "While we at Campaign for Working Families regret Tuesday's results, we are not disheartened. We intend to seek out and support candidates across the country who are willing to stand up for conservative Reagan principles. We are encouraged that Tom Bordonaro will have an opportunity between now and his rematch with Lois Capps in November to take his case to the people of the 22nd Congressional District."
The question is, will the Republican Party of California, and individual Republicans in Congress be there for him next time?
Last Revised: 6/1/98