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King County Republican Party
2002 Platform
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King County Republican Party
2002 Platform
Prepared by the
King County Republican Party Platform Committee
April 2002
James Rigby, Chairman
Jeff Bartow (5th District)
Charles Brezina and Karla Dyer (30th District)
Doug Parris (32ndDistrict)
Jim Johnson (33rd District)
Craig Keller (34th District)
John Horohan (36th District)
Steve Cuevas (41st District)
Tim Borders and Bob Grimm (43rd District)
Scott Jewett (45th District)
Warren Peterson (46th District)
Marda Kirkwood (47th District)
PREAMBLE
We, the Republicans of King County, “hold these Truths to be
self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness --That to secure these
Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the Consent of the Governed...”
We believe that the U.S. Constitution provides the best model for a
more perfect union of our fifty sovereign states. We acknowledge the
necessary role of a properly limited government to “establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity...”
We are dedicated to the preservation of the American Dream. We
believe that all Americans benefit from the creative energies of
individuals who are free to enjoy the fruits of their own intellectual
and physical labor. We believe that all citizens must be accorded
equal opportunity in education, employment and other endeavors. We
reject government policies that attempt to impose equal results
through the suppression of personal initiative and personal
accountability.
We believe that citizens of a free society have the right and the duty
to provide for the needs and desires of themselves and their
families. Like Ronald Reagan, we recognize that "a government big
enough to give people everything they want is also big enough to take
away everything they have." Like George Washington, we believe
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like
fire, it makes a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Like
Abraham Lincoln, we seek a new birth of freedom, so that “government
of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from
the earth.”
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