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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:37:29 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

>Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:38:38 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There are no sane Republicans, nor uncorrupt.=3D20
>>>
>>> That's unduly pessimistic.
>>>
>>> They are just local and so unknown to outsiders.
>>>
>>> I will, however, concede that they are getting harder to find.
>>=20
>> Again true a decade ago, but at least in our local party the sane =
people
>> are being driven out.  We have folks running for city council who are
>> obsessed with stopping abortion and promoting what they claim to be
>> Christian values.  One of the big deals is promotion of school =
vouchers,
>> which are likely of real benefit in some urban areas but which here =
are
>> primarily used to fund de-facto school segregation.  So many of the
>> small-government pro-business Republicans are no longer active in the
>> local party.
>> --scott
>>=20
>A friend of mine was the treasurer of the Republican party for a county=20
>in Virginia.  He left that post when the local party voted to nominate=20
>Oliver North for the Senate, and became much less active as a republican=
=20
>in the following years.

Running in an area filled with retired high-ranking military officers,
none of whom would /ever/ have lied to Congress and took his doing so
as a betrayal of their service. Didn't work.

The last I heard of him, he was being used by a local State legislator
(with what passed then for a very conservative attitude, although she
would probably be considered nearly sane today) as an endorser. She
lost her bid for higher office (House of  Representative, I think, or
possibly Senator). She probably would have anyway, but I doubt being
endorsed by a high-ranking military officer famous for lying to
Congress helped as much as she hoped.

Still, IIRC, he /did/ have enough sense to call out the NRA
leadership, possibly resulting in their legal problems. Although why
the NRA didn't just leave New York and re-incorporate in Texas, where
I am sure they would be very welcome, I have no idea.

>He may yet be a registered republican, though.  Not being familiar with=20
>this part of  the American system I don't know whether such things lapse=
=20
>with time.

My mother received fund-raising letters from the RNC for at least
three years after she died.=20

So the registration may have lapsed, but I suspect the fund-raising
letters continued.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"