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WITH RNC SHAKEUP, MAGA BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
GAVIN WAX, A NEW YORK-BASED CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTIVIST, COMMENTATOR, COLUMNIST, OPERATIVE, AND STRATEGIST.  March 23, 2024

An insidious institutional rot has long afflicted the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement. Historically, this has presented a vexing problem for grassroots activists desperate to change the status quo. Now, after Herculean efforts by players big and small, it appears that the rabble-rousing of the MAGA faithful is finally paying off.

New Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley and Vice Chairwoman Lara Trump have brought immediate change to the institution, working with senior Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita to streamline this leviathan. Whereas former RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney-McDaniel did not make the systemic changes needed to support a modern campaign infrastructure, the new team has wasted no time taking a hatchet to overpriced, underworked, and misaligned elements of the organization.

“Every tool that the other side has used, we need to wield for ourselves,” Whatley said in an internal staffing memo to the RNC. “We will strive relentlessly towards historic accomplishments and fully modernizing the organization between now and Election Day,” he noted, adding that the RNC’s goal is to “cater to individual states, realizing that each state is different and that we must evolve to more neighbor-to-neighbor, precinct-level organizing.”

Previously, grassroots groups like Turning Point Action worked in opposition to the RNC, which cared more about providing lavish incentives for veteran operatives than doing the tedious and unglamorous work of chasing ballots and hunting down votes. Now, Whatley and Trump have demonstrated their commitment to build a broad coalition of organizations working in concert to win elections.

The embrace of early voting and absentee ballots, where Democrats have routed Republicans for years, may not be widespread among factions within Trump’s hardcore America First base, but it is necessary. These unfortunate practices have become the facts of life in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Democrats are in control and the genie cannot be put back in the bottle. The realpolitik of the situation dictates that Republicans must fight and win on whatever battlefields that exist, rather than accepting losses while harkening to election-integrity ideals that remain untenable in purple and blue states.

The immediate axing of dozens of RNC staffers sets an example of the culture of complacency that Whatley and Trump will not tolerate. Failed efforts at catering to minority voters, which have not yielded any tangible results, will no longer be subsidized by the RNC. Whereas the previous RNC leadership would have hesitated to make this change for fear of being labeled by the biased media as racist, the current leadership does not shy away from the necessary change. The RNC will instead work alongside individuals who bring tangible value, such as gay conservative Scott Presler, who does far more than collect a salary to check a diversity box.

The America First movement has long demanded this transformation, and the waiting game has been excruciating. It will be far from pretty as the America First movement remakes the machinery of the Republican Party; it is a gargantuan task that seemed impossible before the rise of President Donald J. Trump. The sheer force of Trump’s personality showed the power of a truly exceptional individual to overcome insurmountable odds in a victory for common sense and the virtuous principles shared by the patriots whose spirits animate our nation. (RELATED: GAVIN WAX: Republican Voters Won’t Settle For A Pale Imitation Of Donald Trump)

As Trump rose to power, conservative institutions refused to change with the times. They dug in their heels, hoping that things would eventually return to how they were if they bided their time. They believed that Trump would fall flat on his face and that his legacy would be a failed presidency. This is why they looked the other way as the Deep State took unprecedented actions to undermine Trump before he even won his election, figuring that Trump would not be able to overcome their tricks and tactics.

However, the blatant hurdles Trump faced and surmounted only made him stronger and his supporters more fervent. Trump is in a prime position to sweep back into the presidency. For many decades, Conservative Inc. had a fleet of attorneys, bureaucrats, academics, and media apparatchiks strategically placed to make the Republican Party weak and unresponsive to the needs of its constituents.

Those days are rapidly coming to an end, and the baggage of the Republican Party will be cast aside. With President Trump’s victory in November, the obsolescence of the reviled Conservative Inc. apparatus will be apparent to all. Then, the struggle to save our nation will kick into high gear.

When Trump said he would be our retribution, this is partly what he was referencing. Trump’s right-wing realignment is the saving grace for activists who have fought and endured many brutal battles but maintained their spirit and refused to quit despite tremendous obstacles. As the hardships of the Founding Fathers led to the forging of liberty, our hardships will result in the renewal of national greatness. We are seeing the fruits begin to emerge right now.

Gavin Wax is a New York-based conservative political activist, commentator, columnist, operative, and strategist. He also serves as 76th president of the New York Young Republican Club and as an ambassador for both Turning Point USA & Live Action. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @GavinWax.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Reprinted with the permission of the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service. https://dailycaller.com/

THE NEW RACISM IS POISONING AMERICA
By Janet Levy, March 27, 2024

The idea that past racism can be undone with more racism is ludicrous. Affirmative action, established in the 1960s, emphasized equality of opportunity. But it has transmogrified — through the politics of DEI, sexual orientation, and gender identity — into a new form of racism emphasizing equality of outcome.

Unconstitutional quotas deny college admissions and government jobs to whites and non-black, non-Latino, non-Native groups. The worst is the recent invasion of healthcare by DEI-driven policies. Belonging to a DEI-privileged group outweighs need. White patients may have to wait longer than blacks or Hispanics for cardiac care or kidney transplants. All in the name of “health equity” and righting past wrongs done to those groups.

This column will look at four recent lawsuits — among the many — that have been brought against such policies. It will also show how, over the last few years, a retribution-focused movement to embed racial preferences in medical treatment has gained traction in the healthcare industry.

The first case is from Montana, where in 1991, the 52nd legislature enacted and codified House Bill 424 (originally House Joint Resolution 28) as Montana § 2-15-108, MCA. The law aimed to “take positive action to attain gender balance and proportional representation of minorities” in state boards, commissions, committees, and councils. The alleged cause of the imbalance was “bias.”

In September 2023, two vacancies opened for the 12-member Board of Medical Examiners, but the governor has been unable to make appointments since the appointments must adhere to DEI. Do No Harm, an organization representing physicians and healthcare workers countering DEI in medicine, has filed a suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Helena Division), saying Montana § 2-15-108 violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The DNH lawsuit says one of its members (identified as Member A) has 31 years’ practice as a dermatologist, is qualified for the post, and is willing to serve — but gender and race mandates stand in the way of her appointment. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is representing DNH pro bono.

The PLF has also filed a similar case on behalf of DNH in Louisiana. Here, the lawsuit challenges the state’s La. Statute § 37: 1263 (B) as violative of the equal protection clause. The statute governs appointments to the state’s 10-member medical board. Of its eight subsections, four say “every other member appointed” under those provisions shall belong to a minority and nothing therein precludes consecutive appointments of minority members.

DNH says it has members qualified and willing to serve as physician and consumer members of the board, but the statute prevents their appointment. Louisiana has similar quotas for other boards and commissions, such as those for barbers, optometry examiners, embalmers, and funeral directors.

The third case, filed on March 12 this year, is a federal lawsuit against the City of San Diego. The city’s housing commission has a loan program to assist first-time home buyers who are black, indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). It offers $40,000 for down payment and closing costs. The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, represented by PLF, has challenged the program as unconstitutional. For the Constitution bars discrimination based on race or color — no matter what race or color.

The fourth lawsuit, in which a battle was won, was from Arkansas. It related to appointment to the state’s Social Work Licensing Board. In June 2022, Stephen Haile, a devoted foster care parent with over 300 home placements and extensive experience in child custody issues, sought appointment to the board as a representative of the elderly. Haile was excluded from consideration as he is white and the board is required to have at least two black members.

Represented by PLF, he challenged Arkansas’s quota law in January 2023. But by March that year, the state legislature abolished the law, and Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation to favor board appointments based solely on individual qualifications. Haile then withdrew his lawsuit.

Such quota systems are rampant now. Researchers for the PLF found that at least 25 states have gender or race quotas for public board membership. Fifteen states have race- or sex-conscious eligibility mandates for nearly every public board. Public Service Denied, a PLF report, details how widespread these discriminatory practices are. It lists sixty-three race- and sex-conscious mandates.

Meanwhile, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), buttressed by the federal Executive Order 13985 of 2021, is working to infect healthcare with DEI ideologies. Training “leaders of color,” increasing BIPOC participation in the healthcare workforce, mandating diversity training in medical settings — these are the priorities on which it focuses.

In parallel, the Association of American Medical Colleges has required member colleges to implement DEI standards. A move is also afoot to inject race politics into the Hippocratic Oath by rewording or replacing it. The American Medical Association, too, has adopted an “anti-racism” orientation.

The ostensible aim of such initiatives is to eliminate disparities in quality of, and access to, healthcare. The trouble, though, is that requiring doctors and other medical professionals to take time off from clinical responsibilities to prioritize racial impact makes no sense. Also, alleged systemic racism has nothing to do with illness, for which metabolic and behavioral risk factors carry more weight.

This movement, away from unbiased, need-based care to downright favoring of certain races, is unethical. Sometimes, it is taken to foolish extremes: WhiteCoats4BlackLives (WC4BL), for example, said that “policing is incompatible with health” and persuaded hundreds of state and local governments to declare racism a public health issue. But sadly, the effects of DEI ideology are in evidence in many areas of public health and healthcare.

It was seen, most egregiously perhaps, during the COVID pandemic, when 1,200 medical professionals signed an open letter saying they “do not condemn” riots organized by Black Lives Matter as risky, prioritizing “opposition to racism as vital to public health.” When vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said black senior citizens were the highest risk group and concluded that race should be prioritized over age!

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, has a program that gives preference to black and Latino patients with heart failure, ostensibly to make up for past less attentive care. However, the program is based on a flawed 2019 study (itself based on others) that claimed to demonstrate “the presence of structural racism in admission service for heart failure patients.”

A similar policy prioritizing DEI-privileged groups has delayed the treatment of more than 10 million non-black nephrology patients, some of whom require kidney transplants. A new qualifications system adopted by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a non-profit managing organ transplants in the U.S., prioritizes black patients for treatment.

Whether it is appointments to boards, medical care, college admissions, jobs or other benefits, unfair considerations of race now predominate. Policies discriminating against whites and other groups — Asians, for example — are falsely hailed as reparative for targeted minorities.

The process began in the 1960s, with the slow abandonment of the constitutional ideal forbidding any form of racial distinction. Then, DEI and social justice, and later, sexual orientation (in 1998) and gender identity (in 2014), became pervasive. This new racism violates the basic tenets of our constitutional republic. It should not be allowed to stand.

Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com

SUNRISE SIDE REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB.

The Sunrise Side Republican Club holds monthly meetings on the 4th Tuesday of the month.  The location and speaker will be announced for each meeting.  Unless otherwise stated, the lunch will be at 11:30 a.m.

The officers are:  Jane Hayward, President, 989-739-3126, Roxanne Rosenfeld, Vice President, 989-362-1259, Amy Merrick, Secretary, 989-747-0479 and Mary Riley, Treasurer, 989-305-6302.

The SSRWC next meeting will be May 28, 2024 at G's in Oscoda.

 You can send correspondence to SSRWC P.O. Box 234 Tawas City, MI 48764.  

MEETING -- Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Maureen Rudel's House, 910 E. Bay St., East Tawas

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Saturday, June 8, 2024

 

Cash Bar - Reception 6 p.m.

Dinner - $35 per person 7 p.m.

 

VFW Post 3735

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You may also wish to join our County Republican Party.  Membership dues are $20 single, $35 for Family, and $10 Student. For Iosco the following include 1 Lincoln/Reagan dinner:  Century Club - $100, Silver - $125.  These include 2 Lincoln/ Reagan dinners: Gold - $150 and Platinum - $200 or more.

 

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