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Chippewa County
Republican Party
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Sault Ste. Marie,
MI 48783
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Our
Local Leadership
Our
National Committeeman Keith Butler speaking with Vice-Chair Gaylor & Treasurer Smith
Anthony Stackpoole, Chairman
Kathy Gaylor, Vice-Chair
Judy Smith,
Treasurer
Alex Strobehn, Secretary
email us at ajstack@cupoftheday.com
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The Origin Of "GOP"
A
favorite of headline writers, GOP dates back to the 1870s and '80s. The
abbreviation was cited in a New York Herald story on October 15, 1884;
"' The G.O.P. Doomed,' shouted the Boston Post.... The Grand Old Party
is in condition to inquire...."
But
what GOP stands for has changed with the times. In 1875 there was a
citation in the Congressional Record referring to "this gallant old
party," and , according to Harper's Weekly,
in the Cincinnati Commercial in 1876 to "Grand Old
Party."
Perhaps
the use of "the G.O.M." for Britain's Prime Minister William E.
Gladstone in 1882 as " the Grand Old Man" stimulated the use of
GOP in the United States soon after.
In
early motorcar days, GOP took on the term "get out and push."
During the 1964 presidential campaign, "Go-Party" was used
briefly, and during the Nixon Administration, frequent references to the
"generation of peace" had happy overtones. In line with moves in
the '70s to modernize the party, Republican leaders took to referring to
the "grand old party," harkening back to a 1971 speech by
President Nixon at the dedication of the Eisenhower Republican Center in
Washington, D.C.
Indeed,
the "grand old party" is an ironic term, since the Democrat Party
was organized some 22 years earlier in 1832.
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The G.O.P. is the Party or Lincoln,
Jefferson and Reagan.
The
Right to Bear Arms…- The Right to
Life
The
U.P. thinks Republican,
make sure to VOTE Republican !
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"The Republican Party is the
Party of Lincoln." Though Republican candidates may say this
occasionally during campaign season, we forget just as soon as they do.
What does "Party of Lincoln" actually mean? And more
importantly, what should it mean, for us Republicans and the country we
love?
How many Americans know why the Republican Party began or what its original
purpose was? Not many! How many Americans know, for example, that the
1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act were reforms that the
Republican Party struggled for in vain during the Reconstruction era a
hundred years earlier? Fewer still. The 13th amendment banning slavery, the
14th amendment extending the Bill of Rights to the states, and the 15th
amendment according voting rights to blacks - all three were enacted by the
much-maligned Radical Republicans in the face of fierce Democrat
opposition. How many Americans know that? Again, very few.
excerpt from Back to Basics for the Republican
Party by Michael Zak
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