I am running for
AZGOP Chairman because I believe that our leadership is elected to serve......
“of the people, by the people and for the
people”. I believe in our Republican Party of Freedom,
Faith, Family and Belief in the Individual and the great potential we all
have. I believe in Ronald Reagan's words
- “I do not believe we are doomed to a fate that will fall on us no matter what
we do. I do believe we are doomed to a
fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
It is not enough to believe and agree with our Republican Principles -
we must share our message to grow.
As your AZGOP
Chairman, I will move immediately to close our primary. We can no longer send this to committee to study. 70% of the registered Independents that voted
in our last primary, voted a Republican ballot.
We need to register them as Republicans.
I will encourage
our Executive Committee to be move of a voice in our Republican Party. I am very honored to work with great people
like Maricopa County Chairman AJ LaFaro, Congressional Candidate Gabby Saucedo
Mercer, Arizona Freedom Alliance voice Lynne Breyer. We are all committed to a stronger message
for the AZGOP.
AJ LaFaro, as 1st
Vice Chairman, is a strong voice within the legislature and closing our
primaries.
Gabby Saucedo
Mercer, as 2nd Vice Chairman, is a beautiful, eloquent voice for our Republican
principles - Pro Jobs, Pro Family, Pro Security.
Lynne Breyer, as
secretary, will continue to share her conservative voice and is a great asset
our AZGOP .
Our current 3rd
Vice Chairman, Christopher Campbell, is very knowledge with legislative issues
and parliamentary procedure. I also have
a finance committee in the works, that will bring back many of the donors that
we have lost, from not standing firm with our Republican Message.
Our AZGOP must
have more of a voice in our communities, reaching out to more voters to
increase our voter registration, our Precinct Committeeman numbers and share
our message with people
whom need to hear
our Republican Message of Yes! Yes, we
support Freedom! Yes, we support
Family! Yes, we support Faith! Yes, we support our State's and Nation's
Security! Yes, we support a Smaller
Government!
Robert Graham has
bought into an idea that the Party must not be involved in defending the very
principles upon which it was founded, but must only be focused on voter
registration and voter turnout. I
disagree with that position. I am
convinced that the reason people vote Republican instead of Democratic is because
of our belief in Faith, Family and smaller government.
However, we can look
for just a minute at the success or failure of our party here in Arizona using
his guideline. According to the
Secretary of State, the number of registered voters has increased by 14,838,
Republican voter registration is DOWN 32,830 under his watch (Jan 2013 to Nov
2014). Arizona only reached 37th in
voter turnout.
We just
experienced a Republican tidal wave of success across the country - where all
but only 4 states (of the continuous 48) gained Republican members in their
legislatures. 2 of those states have
Republican super majorities, Oregon - well it's Oregon, and then there is
Arizona. We barely kept the majority
that we had. Thank goodness for
................ Our race for
Superintendent of Public Instruction was a nail biter and we note Diane Douglas
was left off many AZGOP campaign pieces.
We may pick up a
congressional seat, but that is mostly due to the efforts of Martha McSally and
the National Republican Congressional Committee. So, in Arizona we barely held onto the
offices we already held. In fact, every
state bordering Arizona enjoyed Republican increases. So, using Robert's own yardstick, he failed.
I have raised
money for the Arizona Republican Party, Maricopa County Republican Committee
and many candidates. I have served
Arizona as a precinct committeeman (the most important position in our party)
and state committeeman. I have brought
people together and encouraged them to be active in our Republican Party
through my service as Chairman of the Arizona Young Republicans and as
President of Paradise Republican Women and my work within the AZ Federation of
Republican Women. I have served as the
Arizona Republican National Committeewoman.
I have worked for over 30 years to share our conservative message of
Freedom, Faith and Family.
I ask for your
Vote and Support on January 24th at our state AZGOP meeting. I look forward to
working for you
and with you, to grow our Republican Party.
Thank you!
Lori Urban
gopgal14@gmail.com
480-221-9633
