GOP VIP sounds off on partisan local elections

Many of you may know Miriam Chu from her many years of service to the state and local Republican Party organizations.  She has served statewide as vice-chairman of the NC Republican Party and currently serves as the VC of the Moore County GOP.

State Rep. Neal Jackson recently made news by introducing legislation allowing for partisan elections in Moore County for city council and school board seats. That did not sit well with the soy-boys in the newsroom at Pravda-on-Pennsylvania.

Allowing people to file without affiliating with a party has made it so much easier for their comrades-in-the-struggle to stealthily infiltrate local government in this bright-red county.  We’ve got a Joe Biden super-fan on the Pinehurst village council and a majority on the Southern Pines council found it too divisive to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. 

Jackson’s legislation is currently tied up in some in-house red tape in Raleigh.  Meanwhile, the #2 official – Chu – in Moore County’s GOP has a few supportive words for Jackson and his efforts:

“There has been much criticism of the move to make school board and municipal office races partisan. It has been decried that this is making them political. Seriously, it has only been a very thinly veiled secret that political ideology was innate in these races.

Forcing candidates to declare their party affiliation and run in primaries is only introducing transparency to what have been murky and confusing elections.

In this nice Republican-leaning county, as a political officer, I would be delighted to see to it that members of the opposing party have no one on the ballot in November, but this bill guarantees that in November there will be clearly labeled Democrat candidates on the ballot, so why would I support this?

Transparency, truth in advertising, and competition will force each candidate to openly declare which platform they personally best align and then defend those declared values and beliefs. The primary voters will then have the opportunity to assess whether or not the candidate actually aligns with their declared party.

I believe that when applied, Republican values, principles, and beliefs are superior to those of the Democrat party. Let the dialogue and debate be made public and may candidates declare where they stand.”