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Ward: Local Repubs Need To Build Up

In Kootenai County too we see threats to unity. KCRR has always stood for an inclusive and conservative Republican Party.  Our namesake Ronald Reagan said it best "I want the record to show that I do not view the new revitalized Republican Party as one based on a principle of exclusion. After all, you do not get to be a majority party by searching for groups you won't associate or work with."  Reagan opposed purging those from the party that he or some self-appointed arbiter of Conservatism deemed ideologically impure. Reagan confidently believed enough in the rightness of Conservatism to try to persuade instead of purge. Yet there are those who do not share Reagan's views and believe the party must be "purged" of all those who do not support their favored candidates or bend to the arbitrary will of their self-appointed leaders or oppose their monolithic control of party committees/Jeff Ward, Reagan Republicans president. More here.

Question: What is the biggest threat to local Republican unity?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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