One of our most effective tools for winning over new members has always been our Statement of Principles. Once most liberty-inclined Republicans get a chance to read it they find that it resonates strongly with their beliefs and they realize that the Republican Liberty Caucus is a good place for them to invest their efforts.

To make the Statement of Principles more accessible we have now released it in the form of a tri-fold brochure.  The text just barely fit, so it’s a bit bare-bones on the inside, but it does have the entire content of the statement in an attractive portable format perfect for handing out at events to those who want to find out what the RLC is all about.

You can download the new brochure in PDF format and print it yourself, or order it at near cost in high-quality printed form from our store or right here:

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In today’s special election in South Carolina, Republican Liberty Caucus endorsee Mark Sanford won an impressive victory by 7 points over Democratic contender Elizabeth Colbert-Bush. The RLC offers its wholehearted congratulations to Representative Sanford and looks forward to the launch of a second career as distinguished as his first.

In this election the people of South Carolina faced a clear choice between a candidate of substance with a proven track record who ran on a pro-business, small government platform and a vanity candidate running on the same tired promises of big government largesse on the backs of the taxpayers. They made the right choice.

With Mark Sanford back in the House of Representatives we should be able to count on one more vote for responsible government and another voice willing to speak out against the ongoing pattern of government usurpation of the rights of individuals and the sovereignty of the states.

Mark Sanford once said, “Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.” Now he will once again be that voice for the people in Washington.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 4, 2013
MEDIA CONTACT:  RLC Chair Dave Nalle 512-656-8011, chairman@rlc.org

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS STANDS WITH GAY REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS

AUSTIN, TX – The Republican Liberty Caucus joins grassroots Republicans across the state in expressing concern and dismay over the negative example being set by the Harris County Republican Party in their recent rejection of Christopher Busby as an applicant for Precinct Chair. At a time when the party nationwide is working to clean a tarnished image and embrace inclusiveness, for the second largest county party in the nation to reject a qualified applicant solely because he is openly gay sends exactly the wrong message to the constituencies the party needs to reach.

As a young Republican with several years of campaign experience working for candidates like Sarah Davis, Fernando Herrera, John Faulk, Jack O’Connor, Jack Christie, and Mitt Romney, active involvement in several party organizations and service as a state party convention delegate, Chris Busby ought to be exactly the kind of person the party is looking for.  Precinct Chairs are the forward edge of the party, meeting and recruiting new voters and representing candidates in their neighborhoods.   Busby lives in an urban neighborhood with a youthful, politically independent population, exactly the kind of voters the GOP has lost touch with and whom he can relate to.

With his skills and experience and with more than half of their Precinct Chairmanships vacant, the Harris County Republican Party ought to have been out actively recruiting people like Chris Busby.  Instead, when he sought them out to offer his help, he was put off and misdirected and his paperwork was lost.  Then when he was finally granted an interview with the Vacancy Committee he was faced with an interrogation worthy of the Spanish Inquisition, focused on his honest admission that he was gay.

In the course of questioning about a variety of issues relating to his sexuality the topics escalated from the inappropriate to the offensive when one of the committee members asked if he believed that pedophilia should be legalized, an outrageous and ignorant question validating all the worst stereotypes about bigotry which the party is trying to live down.  As Harris County Precinct 333 Chair Greg Aydt put it, “Daring to ask a candidate for precinct chair whether or not he supports pedophilia simply because he is gay and active in a gay Republican organization is not merely indecent, but is so far beyond the pale as to boggle the mind.”  Ultimately Busby was rejected as a Precinct Chair by a 5 to 4 vote of the committee

Local party leaders were shocked when they heard of the circumstances under which Busby’s application was rejected. Felicia Cravens, founder of the Houston Tea Party observed that “These are not the actions of a party that wants to win.  These are the actions of a party interested in protecting leadership positions, even if facing continuing losses.  These are the actions of a party that is wholly ill equipped to win elections.”  Harris County Judge Ed Emmett stated  “Some of the most conservative people I have ever known have been gay…No one has to sacrifice personal beliefs in order to support fellow conservatives, even those with whom another Republican disagrees on lifestyle.”

Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas Chairman Jeff Larson was actually a member of the committee and was one of the four who voted in support of Busby.  He observed:

“I found Chris Busby to be one of the most qualified individuals that we had the pleasure of interviewing during my time on the Harris County Vacancy Committee.  Many of the questions my fellow committee members put to him were bizarre and totally inappropriate to the task of determining whether he was a qualified applicant.  The decision to not recommend Chris for appointment was so disappointing that I question whether some of the committee members were more interested in building the Republican Party or in conducting witch hunts.”

This failure by the Houston Republican Party to support a young, gay Republican in his desire to do nothing more than to help the party expand its membership and reach new people, takes on particular significance in the context of a planned visit to Houston by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus later this month.  Priebus has issued an outreach plan calling for more inclusion, but so far his outreach has mostly been to consultants and the mugwumps of the party establishment.  This situation and others like it raise the question of whether there is any substance to Priebus’ promises or if he will continue to turn a blind eye to situations like this as the party lurches towards irrelevancy.

Texas is being targeted for political takeover by Democratic Party activists in a campaign called Battleground Texas, funded with millions of dollars from outside the state.  Incidents like this one play right into their hands and validate their narrative that the Republican Party is out of date and out of touch and dominated by religious extremists who do not represent the mainstream of the nation.

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Supporters will be raising this issue at the Harris County Republican Party’s quarterly meeting which is this Monday, May 6th at 7pm. They meet at the Morris Cultural Arts Center at Houston Baptist University.  For information on attending this meeting as press, contact Jeff Larson at eljefe3126@netscape.net.

Chis Busby will be speaking about this issue to Republican leaders from all over the country at the national convention of the Republican Liberty Caucus in Austin on Saturday May 11th at the Midtown Holiday Inn.  For press info on this event, please contact chairman@rlc.org or see the website at http://www.austinforliberty.org

The Republican Liberty Caucus is a grassroots membership organization with chapters in almost every state which promotes the traditional Republican Party valies of limited government and individual liberty.

For more information see our website at http://www.rlc.org

Justin Machacek is an RLC member and Director of the American Liberty Association

Grassroots conservatives from around the nation have traveled to Los Angeles for the Republican National Committee spring meeting.

A rules fight going back to the convention floor in Tampa, FL continues to rage on as many in a large minority are frustrated at the power grab and centralization effort going on within the GOP. Ben Ginsberg of the Mitt Romney campaign lead a rather successful effort in Tampa to instate rules that centralize the power of the party into the hands of an elect few and the presumed nominee. There was initial outcry as the Ginsberg team had got “too far” allowing nominees to veto and replace delegates for just about any reason they found. However, a compromise was found and the new committee rules modified just enough to pacify the opposition and still put the thumb heavily on the grassroots.

Staunch opponents say that these new rules castrate the grassroots and make the convention merely a stage show for the televised audience; a convention that would amount to nothing more than a tightly knit presentation of the GOP nominee’s platform and campaign launch. In many hypothetical scenarios these opponents may be right.

Reince Priebus gavels order at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus doesn’t want to stop there. He is now advocating moving the convention date forward and compressing the primary schedule of the states allowing GOP candidates more time to campaign & sell their ideas. It also helps cut the legs out from under grassroots candidates not funded by big money backers and Washington insiders like Karl Rove.

These efforts sound like a great plan if you trust the elite party bosses and the status quo of current modern politics. However, if you still have hope for a constitutional America… An America ruled by the people for the people… Where the Washington outsiders can still overcome the crony politicians trying to hold tight to the power currently in their clutches… Then you may be with the growing minority in the grassroots. You may appreciate that a man named Ronald Reagan utilized the party rules to eventually defeat the insiders.

You may also be aware that the claims of the establishment that “delegates at the convention didn’t know we were operating under House Rules, not Robert’s Rules of Order” are completely unfounded. That in fact, the House Rules allow for debate and a point of order noting such was attempting to be called. That instead of recognizing the point of order, the chair with the power of the gavel rushed the votes forward and moved on with little care or respect for the state delegates shouting “point of order” in unison from the floor.

All of this leads us to today, when Morton Blackwell proposed an amendment to the rules committee that reverted the rules back to what they were after 2008 restoring the grassroots, but losing measures to free states of primary limitations on delegates. As he mentions in the video below, his proposal would reject what he describes as a “power grab”. Today the RNC Rules Committee debated the amendment and the Blackwell effort failed to pass the committee with a narrow vote of 28-25.

All was not lost as an immediate amendment was proposed to strike down rule 16a(1) and renumber the rules passed the committee and will be presented to the entire body. According to the new Rule 12, a three fourths vote will be required from the entire committee for the amendment to be passed. This is not a complete answer to the grassroots, but is a positive step forward to eliminate the required binding of delegates in a proportional or winner-take-all manner. Link to GOP rules here: 2012 GOP Rules.

What is yet to be determined is if the outrage within the GOP will continue to grow? Will the grassroots gain the majority and be able to turn the tide of the party back to a party of the people?

For now, lets just see if the Republican National Committee has the votes to carry the change and adopt the committee report striking down 16a(1).

On the 45th anniversary of the dark day when Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis, I feel the need to write about some political history. I grew up in the Dayton area. Most of my friends back home are black. I have always found it hard to believe that most of them constantly vote Democrat, when the party itself has run many of Ohio’s major cities into the ground economically for many years. But I shouldn’t be surprised. The Ohio Republican Party, often showing little difference between themselves and the Democrats, deserves blame as well. They have allowed Ohio to remain a tax and spend state with failing schools, high crime, union and corporate corruption, and annoying, bigoted nativist sentiments.

Though my family mostly votes Democrat I have always been a Republican. You might call me a recovering neocon turned Rand Paul Republican through a drawn out awakening from the statism I grew up around. Though I wasn’t a huge fan of Bush I believe–and did from my teen years–that historically the Republican Party has had the better track record on economics and foreign policy; even though I’ve never quite been in agreement with them on social issues. In high school I read John Stuart Mill and got my first taste of the importance of individual liberty. The history books I read suggested that the Republican Party, at least prior to George W. Bush, had a better track record on this, through the civil rights support from Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Eisenhower, and the economic policies of Ronald Reagan. When the party was founded as the party of civil rights, its motto was: Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Men.

Though some northern Democrats such as my late grandfather (who would have turned 86 today) were friendly to the black community in the first half of the 20th century, most of the party — especially in the south — had always been an enemy of civil rights. It had been the party of Jim Crow. Even in the North,  working class Democrats before the 1960s had a tendency to bigotry. The earliest labor unions were founded to protect “white labor.”  After both WWI and WWII, many blacks fled the south to work in the industrial cities of the northeast and midwest, and the white unions would fight hard to keep them out. This would continue until the 50s, when the struggle for racial equality reached new heights.

Prior to the 70s, most blacks were Republicans. They began a mass exodus to the Democratic Party when Johnson signed the civil rights bill, even though it only passed because of the Republicans in congress. Ironically enough, Johnson as a Senator opposed civil rights legislation vehemently.

Unfortunately the Republican Party never did anything to maintain those voters or get them back. The last Republican president to campaign in black neighborhoods and truly speak to issues that affected black communities in televised debates was Ronald Reagan. Had he not been such a drug warrior he might have repaired the frayed relations. Now, historically misguided baby boomers and gen-xers in the African-American community have taught their children the myth that Republicans are racist; some of it as a result of the aggressive anti-drug policies that were kicked up during the Reagan years. Of course, our opposition to Barack Obama makes it easier to keep this myth going even if this opposition is legitimate because the president’s economic and foreign policies have been counterproductive and downright wrong. Perception is everything.

Fact: the only thing the Republican Party ever did to set back black people in its entire history was the War on Drugs. But that was a bipartisan mistake and has been supported over the years by just as many Democrats. Many rising Republican leaders such as Rand Paul and Justin Amash are finally willing to admit prohibition doesn’t work and does nothing but disproportionately incarcerate black and Hispanic men for crimes where no physical or financial harm was wrought by them on another; just as gun laws do (ever heard of the “white and polite” rule?). As they do this, rising Democratic leaders such as Elizabeth Warren mock them as potheads or flip flop on the issue and do nothing to alleviate the problem.

I’m sick and damn tired of ignoramuses accusing the Republican Party of being racist for reasons most of them can’t even explain when the Democrats clearly are part of the problem and won’t admit it. At least Rick Perry, in spite of all his faults, signed the Peaceable Journey act into law to strike down the “white and polite” rule that was locking up minorities in Texas for carrying lawfully owned guns in their car for their own protection. Historically, you could carry a gun in your car in Texas for protection; but if you were ever stopped, there was a de facto “white and polite” rule. If you were white, and nice to the officer, he’d let it slide. If you were black or Tejano, good luck. You were probably going to be arrested. This disgusting remnant of the Jim Crow south was finally repealed when the Texas Republican Party pushed for the peaceable journey act. Now all Texans’ second amendment rights are respected. They are allowed to carry guns in their car without a permit. It keeps me safe when driving at night in Houston, that’s for sure.

Do you ever wonder why minority poverty and minority incarceration are highest in blue states? There are a lot of reasons; and support for prohibition — which I will define as locking someone up for possession or use of an item where no physical or financial harm was done to anyone else — is one such reason. The welfare state and teacher’s unions are to blame too; as well as opposition to school choice programs that allow black students to get out of the ghetto by doing something as simple as: STOP FORCING THEM TO STAY THERE! (I’m very passionate about education reform. You’ll see me write more on it in coming months).

It’s going to take more than a generation to get blacks voting Republican again. It starts with ignoring or even laughing at the Rovian notion that religious-right wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion are the answer. If the black community was really that passionate about social conservatism, they would not be voting overwhelmingly Democrat. Truthfully, young blacks are just as secular as young whites. The generational shift away from social conservatism transcends race. I’ve actually met fewer young blacks who are aggressively anti-abortion or anti-gay than I have young whites, and when you put the two together, the number is inconsequential. It is likely to remain that way. The liberals control the pop culture, and it has secularized the generation. The culture war is effectively over. Fortunately, secularism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive; rather they are highly compatible.

First, the GOP needs a message of economic empowerment in black communities; one that can be brought by a revival of vocational training opportunities and academic improvement that the free market can best provide. We must be able to explain why lower taxes and fewer regulations create jobs, lower the price of everyday goods, and raise local wages. We must aggressively promote upward mobility through school choice and a return of apprenticeships in skilled crafts and STEM fields.

Next, we must become the civil rights party again, by doing as Senator Rand Paul recently said:

“It is important that we always stand up for the Bill of Rights, whether the First Amendment, Fourth or Second. The Constitution is non-negotiable”

The Bill of Rights is like dominoes, knock down one and they all fall. We must become the party of civil liberties again.

Finally, it would help if the first president to pardon a high number of non-violent gun or drug offenders was Republican. Rand Paul could very well be that president. He’s probably not going to campaign on it if he runs in 2016. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he did so after being elected.

In his address to CPAC, he said:

“Ask the Facebook generation whether we should put a kid in jail for the nonviolent crime of drug use, and you’ll hear a resounding no,”

That would be as symbolic a move for the GOP as civil rights legislation was for the Democratic Party under Johnson. Tens of thousands of mostly black and Hispanic men, who have committed no physical or financial harm to anyone other than themselves, suddenly released back into society with their records expunged, so that they can get the help they need, get back on their feet and get back into the workforce. It’s the right thing to do. And the Republican governors (hint hint, Mr. Perry), should start now as congress gears up for this gun control debate.

I urge Republican governors to scour the records of the incarcerated. Find people, of any race, who were incarcerated for possession of a firearm without a permit but committed no violent or financial crimes on top of this possession, and expunge their sentences and/or reimburse their fines. The overwhelming majority of them will be minorities. Show these people the Republican Party is not the party of prohibition, but the party of liberty, by freeing them from the police state.

I also urge you to pardon those who are incarcerated for committing non-violent, non-financial drug crimes, at least for weed–which science has irrefutably proven (to the point where anyone who still denies it is stupid) is safer than alcohol or tobacco. But you might as well start with the non-violent/non-financial gun “offenders.” Think of the taxpayer money you will save! Your voters will thank you!

It’s sad. Most of my generation thinks Dr. Martin Luther King was a pro-gun control liberal and many baby boomers think he’d be a drug warrior. I assure you if he was alive today and saw the prison statistics resulting from gun and drug prohibition, he’d be ashamed. Not that he was a fan of guns or drugs. He was a preacher of non-violent resistance and would not have appreciated self-destructive behavior. However, he would have been against government locking people up for possession of either; especially with those in prison for non-violent offenses being so disproportionately non-white. He would not want self-destructive behavior to be met with police brutality and incarceration. I’m confident he would have seen it as a mission of the church to solve these problems, not the nanny state.

The pro-civil liberties, pro-economic growth Republican Party being [re]invented by fresh young faces like Rand Paul, Justin Amash, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, as well as the many Gen Y Republicans supporting organizations like Young Americans for Liberty, is the one that will repair the GOP’s frayed relations with the black community, as well as other minority groups; Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, even gays. The Rove/Kristol/Graham/Santorum wings of Dominionism, prohibition, crony capitalism, disrespect for the Bill of Rights, and perpetual warfare is what destroyed the relationship in the first place. The sooner we realize this, and begin taking action, the sooner black Americans will begin coming back to the party they once loved.

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Aaron Alghawi obtained a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University in 2012, and is an At-Large Board Member of the Republican Liberty Caucus national committee.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2013
CONTACT: Daniel Encarnacion at 843-410-8868 or daniel@rlcsc.org

Republican Liberty Caucus Endorses Mark Sanford in First Congressional District Runoff

CHARLESTON, SC — The Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina Board of Directors, in coordination with the Republican Liberty Caucus National Committee, has voted to endorse former South Carolina Governor and former US Congressman Mark Sanford in the April 2^nd South Carolina first district runoff between Sanford and former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic.

The RLC points to Sanford’s strong voting record while in Congress from 1995 to 2001 in its endorsement. “Mark Sanford has a clear and consistent record of fighting government spending and resisting reckless policies,” remarks Tom Utley, South Carolina State Vice-Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus. “In this short runoff election there is no doubt that he is the better choice for liberty.”

South Carolina Lowcountry RLC Chairman Daniel Encarnacion says the decision comes down to over-spending by Congress. “The bottom line is Mark Sanford is able to list specific programs that need to be cut or reformed to address out of control spending. He clearly has a grasp on the issue. Anyone can say he wants to stop spending but we need to send someone to Washington who will actually tell us how.”

The Republican Liberty Caucus has long supported Mark Sanford’s agenda of strongly advocating for fiscal prudence, protecting civil liberties, and promoting free trade. “We have supported Mark Sanford since he was first elected to Congress,” says RLC National Chairman Dave Nalle. “When he returns to Washington this year, he will find some old allies who the RLC has supported for years like Dana Rohrabacher and Steve Stockman and a new generation of RLC-backed legislators who share his beliefs like Thomas Massie and Justin Amash.”

The primary runoff is April 2^nd. The winner will advance to face Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch on May 7^th.

For more information about Mark Sanford, visit www.MarkSanford.com.

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The Republican Liberty Caucus is a nationwide grassroots organization founded in 1991 that promotes individual liberty, limited government, and free market economics within the Republican Party. You can find more information about the Republican Liberty Caucus at www.rlc.org  and the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina at www.rlcsc.org.

In my 20 years as an activist for liberty, one of the many things I have learned is that events attract attention and good events will bring growth.

January 26 of this year, our county RLC charter hosted a state RLC 2014 KICK OFF event (2014 signifying our goal date for becoming the voice of the Party). 165+ liberty activists from 28 counties attended this event with 32 people registering as members that day.

Last month we had a gun show booth, not only drawing hundreds of people to our booth, but receiving an offer for a 10×20 booth at the state’s largest flea market. This event takes place both Memorial and Labor Day weekends and attracts 20-30,000 people during each of those holidays.

Our vice chairman started a Liberty on the Rocks group. This Saturday, March 23, we will be meeting from 4-6 with a theme of ‘Why Don’t We Get Droned’. We typically have 40+ people turn out for these events. They are non-partisan and we allow folks a two minute soap box opportunity. We will have a RLC candidate speak as well.

April 26-28, we will be hosting our first RLC state convention. We open Friday night with Liberty on the Rocks, tend to business Saturday, finishing the night with Jordan Page. Sunday morning will finish up with a dynamite sermon, “RECOVERING THE PATRIOT CHURCH: REPENT AND RELOAD”, and a talk by our own Blue Republican, Robin Koerner.

May 15-16, we will have KrisAnne Hall teaching on the Constitution. We start off the evening of the 15th with a session for leaders only. The 16th will include a lunch training, a session for those who are elected, especially sheriffs, and an evening session for the general public.

In June we will kick off our first quarterly Saturday training. This particular one will be geared toward PCO’s and other neighborhood activists.

We meet every month and ALL of our meetings are open to the public. After a quick board meeting, we always have a training, a video, or a guest speaker.

Contact: Daniel Encarnacion
Tel.: 843-410-8868
Email: Secretary@RLCSC.org

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS PAC ANNOUNCES MONEYBOMB FOR RAY NASH

Intends to fundraise through the Send a Sheriff to Congress Moneybomb

The Republican Liberty Caucus National Board announced Friday that it unanimously voted to endorse former Dorchester County Sheriff Ray Nash in the First Congressional District Special Primary.  It joins previous unanimous decisions by the Lowcountry Chapter Board and the RLC of South Carolina Board of Directors.

In an effort to help endorsee Ray Nash in his campaign efforts, the RLCUSA-PAC has created a fundraising event starting on Friday, March 8th at 17:00 and running to Friday, March 15th at 23:59:59 entitled “#SendASheriff to Congress Moneybomb”. The group hopes to raise as much money as possible to be distributed from the RLCUSA-PAC to the Ray Nash for Congress campaign.

The website for this moneybomb is http://sendasheriff.com and the campaign will focus around the twitter hashtag #SendASheriff

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The Republican Liberty Caucus is a nationwide grassroots organization founded in 1991 that promotes individual liberty, limited government, and free market economics within the Republican Party. You can find more information about the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina at www.rlcsc.org

To find out more about Ray Nash, please visit his website at www.nashforcongress.com.  For more information on the national RLC, visit www.rlc.org.

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Contact: Daniel Encarnacion
Tel.: 843-410-8868
Email: Secretary@RLCSC.org

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS ENDORSES RAY NASH

Local, State, and National Boards Endorse Former Sheriff in US House District 1 Race

The Republican Liberty Caucus National Board announced Friday that it unanimously voted to endorse former Dorchester County Sheriff Ray Nash in the First Congressional District Special Primary.  They joined previous unanimous decisions by the Lowcountry Chapter Board and the RLC of South Carolina Board of Directors.  There will be a public announcement, of the endorsement, Saturday, March 9th at 11:30 AM in the Summerville Town Square at the corner of Richardson and Hwy 17-A.

According to Mr. Scott Pearson, State Chairman, “The 1st District Congressional Race this year offers the most liberty-minded field of candidates we’ve ever seen in a single race. In a field of 16 candidates, we’re blessed with at least a half dozen that would stand out as strong defenders of liberty, including John Kuhn, Mark Sanford, Elizabeth Moffly, Larry Grooms, Jeff King, and Keith Blandford. However, if we are to have an impact, we believe it is important for those who value limited government to come together behind one candidate. That’s why, today, we are endorsing a strong conservative who knows and values the Constitution, Sheriff Ray Nash.”

Ms. Laurie Turner, Interim Chair of the Lowcountry RLC, said, “We are proud to endorse a constitutional conservative like Ray Nash. His proven leadership as Sheriff in Dorchester County and his work in the community prove he knows his constituents and will represent us well in Washington.”

“In a field of excellent candidates, Ray Nash stands out with the integrity and the dedication to constitutional principles,” said Dave Nalle, RLC National Chairman, “which will make him as great an advocate for the people in Washington as he was a guardian of their rights and safety while in uniform.”

Mr. Nash has been a law enforcement professional for thirty-four years, most recently in Afghanistan as the Criminal Justice Adviser for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.  During his career, Mr. Nash studied to become a Constitutional scholar, gaining knowledge and an unfailing respect for our country’s faith, heritage and founding principles. According to Sheriff Nash, “our nation is facing a number of moral and Constitutional crises, such as rampant fiscal irresponsibility, unbridled government expansion and an ever growing assault on our Constitutional freedoms.” He believes solutions can be found in the principles of Constitutional conservatism and takes seriously his oath to “Preserve, Protect and Defend…”  Nash demonstrates a knowledge of the Constitution, respect for limited government, and appreciation for the work of the Republican Liberty Caucus.

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The Republican Liberty Caucus is a nationwide grassroots organization founded in 1991 that promotes individual liberty, limited government, and free market economics within the Republican Party. You can find more information about the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina at www.rlcsc.org

To find out more about Ray Nash, please visit his website at www.nashforcongress.com.  For more information on the national RLC, visit www.rlc.org.

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We know who those who attended the March 7th “Fight for the First” debate, sponsored by the Republican Liberty Caucus an Patch, are supporting for Congress, but who won the debate? You decide.

For those who haven’t seen the debate, Patch provided a live stream of the event which can be watched by clicking here.

*Curtis Bostic was the one candidate who did not participate and accordingly is not included in this poll.

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