Deja vu all over again with the Harris County Republican Party Vacancy Committee. In April, their Taliban philosophy caused them to reject a gay candidate for precinct chair. This month, it caused them to table the application of a supremely qualified Asian-American, which in turn caused the candidate to withdraw his application. He’s too invested in the Republican Party to leave it and he will still promote the Republican brand but it is a shame that HCRP Chair Jared Woodfill supports this committee.
Here’s the deal. Nghi Ho is a four-term Alief ISD Board member. He is a veteran, having served as a Lieutenant in Navy in the first Gulf War. A graduate of the University of Texas. A successful small business owner. A few of his community positions:
- Vice President: Alief I.S.D. Board of Trustees
- Vice President: Alief Noon Lions Club
- Director: West Houston Medical Center, a HCA Hospital
- Past Director: Houston West Chamber of Commerce
- Past Director: Asian Chamber of Commerce
- Past Director: Crestwater Subdivision H.O.A.
- Past Director: Alief Education Foundation
- Member: Alief Community Association
And it just so happens that tonight, he will be hosting the Texas Asian Republican Club US Flag Day Dinner. Which will feature Texas Republican Party Chair Steve Munisteri. He recently spoke to the State Republican Executive Committee about outreach to the Asian community. He’s been featured on television about outreach to the Asian community:
Nghi Ho, President of Texas Asian Republican Caucus, spoke on the KTRK Channel 13 show “Visions” about the Presidential election and how Republicans needed to come in to the Chinese community more to talk about issues of conservative family values, limited government, pro business and low taxes. Mr. Ho also stated Republicans should have advertised more in local Asian publications, TV and radio stations.
Add to all of that that he has been a precinct chair in the past. So when he applied for the vacant chair position in his current precinct, it should have been a no-brainer.
Except that five members of the vacancy committee are the ones without brains.
You see, when you apply for that position, you have to fill out a questionnaire, which is normal and expected. Nothing wrong with letting people know your political beliefs when applying for a political position. Click here for the questionnaire. Note question 9:
Abortion is primarily a question of a woman’s control of her own body, therefore she should have the right to choose an abortion under all circumstances.
Mr. Ho answered this with TA – Tend to agree. Uh, oh, no Ho!
Mr. Ho spoke candidly of his view that the party focuses too much on social issues, turning off Asian voters, and that he is pro-choice on abortion, but that the Asian community has few unwed mothers in contrast to other groups, and few abortions, and that these social issues are not high priority to them.
Turn out the lights, the party is over. Forget that Reagan philosophy of “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor.” Not with the HCRP Taliban. Two of the committee spoke from the heart that they just could not approve a person to represent the party who would not advocate pro-life in his precinct, one noting that he believed God would consider this and similar votes at the committee when his own eternal life is judged. Arguments included that this was a core principle of the party, and to stray from the core would be to lose enthusiasm and votes of religious conservatives.
You’re gonna go to hell because you allowed a person to champion Republican pro-family values, pro-opportunity policies in a precinct in Harris County, Texas? Seriously? Damn, hell’s going to have to expand if that is all it takes to get in.
Remember, we’re not talking about some guy walking up and down the streets of his precinct waving “we need more abortions!” signs. We’re talking about a proven Republican values champion organizing a precinct to get voters to the polls to vote for Republicans.
But wait! There’s more!
Turns out that they decided to “table” his application rather than reject it but not on the basis of his abortion answer. Wink, wink.
Nope, it turns out that they decided Asian-Americans just can’t handle time management. Yep. You see, since Mr. Ho is thinking about running for a fifth term on the Alief ISD school board, the Taliban faction decided that he would be too busy to handle precinct chair duties because, get this, a precinct chair position would require his full attention.
Dude, have you ever met a precinct chair? Most times it is hard to get a quorum a the executive committee meetings because they don’t bother to show up. Many of them don’t even bother to show up on election day. The idea that the Taliban would decide that this particular candidate, successful businessman, veteran, community organizer, etc., couldn’t handle four meetings a year and an election is a joke. This was about his answer on abortion, pure and simple.
Unfortunately, the joke is on the Republicans in Harris County. After the committee tabled his application on a 5-4 vote, Mr. Ho withdrew it and is no longer interested. I don’t blame him one bit.
If you want to know why so many Republican candidates in Harris County lost last November, look no further than Chairman Jared Woodfill and his Taliban philosophy. Yes, HIS Taliban philosophy. He owns it. No need to blame anyone but him.
I hope that Steve Munisteri enjoys his dinner tonight, knowing that the HCRP Taliban rejected the man he’s sitting next to. The rest of us are wondering which group is next on the Taliban hit list.
UPDATED 6-14-13 @ 12:30pm – inserted Reagan graphic courtesy of RhymesWithRight.com.
Seems we must get rid of Woodfill to clear up these blockages. Felicia Cravens will be our "Plumber's Helper".
We can't wait that long.
This absolutely has to stop. I swear, it's almost as if the vacancy committee is working in consort with Battleground Texas. All of Obama's out-of-state organizers must be thrilled with all of these antics. If we don't change this behavior ASAP, the nail in our local party's coffin will be pushed through so tight that revival will be nearly impossible.
It's like they want to lose.
If Hollywood liberals were to write a script about conservative Republicans intended to show us as intolerant bumpkins, the antics of this committee would likely be deemed as unbelievable.
Corie, those on there that is doing or working in favor of the Battleground Texas is doing it in the Name of the Lord and Democrats and then blame us because we did not pay them monies or hire their companies for a profits…its all about monies Corie…
Since when did the Republican Party abandon its "Pro-Life" position? When did its core values become flexible? If you cannot stand for something as important as the lives of pre-born Americans, what can you stand for? I am sorry but I do not support pro-amnesty, pro-gay marriage, or pro-choice "republicans". If we clearly do not define what we stand for as a party, we will never present a difference that voters can choose from. When we start acting and believing like Democrats then why should anyone vote for a pale imitation when they can vote for the real thing.
Dale, I think the issue is not that issues are flexible but that a good portion of the party is inflexible.Ho is NOT an advocate for abortion, he just told the truth about his personal position. If we can't let people that are 90{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} with us help us, we are doomed.
Speaking as a guy who was co-founder of a pro-life organization back during my college years and who has remained involved in pro-life activities since then, I can tell you that I find his position to be within the bounds of GOP orthodoxy — especially since his answer accurately reflects the laws of the United States as they currently exist.
But hey, if we need to have 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} agreement on the platform, I want to put that same standard to each and every one of the five freaks and toss them off the committee and out of the party if they deviate one iota from even one plank.
So, Dale, you want 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} no deviation litmus tests? Then I presume you are prepared to denounce Ron Paul and declare him not a good Republican because of some of his positions which were outside the GOP mainstream. But I bet you won't do that, given your long history of support for him.
I have not and never have voted for Ron Paul. While I have great respect for the libertarian movement, we do not agree on many issues (like abortion). I guess I do have a litmus test. Tolerance for abortion under the guise of a woman's right to choose (kill their babies) just happens to be mine. If you think this makes me the "Taliban" then so be it. As a principled tea party person I have been called much worse. I hope you will pardon me if I think constitutional protections extend to pre-born Americans.
I agree with you on the pro-life issue — but recognize that the GOP has long recognized that a pro-choice position on abortion is not something which automatically excludes someone from the GOP.
I don't speak for the GOP, I speak for my own beliefs. Surprise, I do not agree with many Republican stances also but hope to persuade and change minds. The current GOP rush to amnesty is one such issue I have a problem with.
Mr. Ho's position and beliefs on abortion wouldn't have much beariing on how he would perform the job.
Mr. Ho should run on the ballot and bypass the committee. We have plenty of Precinct Chairs who are new and some are moderate Republicans by their own admission. In Harris County we have a life-long Democrat elected to Precinct 0140 Chair and now that she changed her name is running for Judge in the 247th. Mr. Ho may not have answered the way the committee wanted, but at least he is honest and not a fraud.
I wish he would run — but I'm sure the committee has caused him to back away from the GOP and set us back years in the Asian community here in Harris County.
“Nope, it turns out that they decided Asian-Americans just can’t handle time management.”
Now you’re playing the race card? While it’s a stupid reason to say the position needs his full attention, what evidence do you have to support your statement that they decided Asian-Americans can’t handle time management? He’s Asian, they didn’t appoint him, so they must be racist. That’s patently absurd.
I’ll leave your flawed reasoning on abortion alone. We’ve been down that road too many times and know where that leads.
I once asked you if you remembered the very first thing you said to me when we first met at Stagshead many years ago. You never answered but I’ll tell you now. You reached over, shook my hand, and said “I really like your stance on abortion.” I have never waivered since I was forced to consider what abortion meant in 1979. Apparently yours has “evolved”.
Sigh. Mark, that was said tongue-in-cheek, not as a “race card”. Just like when I quoted the latent homosexual passage.
No, my position on abortion has not “evolved”. It’s been the same since I marched on the streets of Houston in 1980/81.
Well, there ya go. Republicans need to reach out to women by standing loud, strong, and rigidly firm on controlling reproduction. Support abstinence only sex ed in schools without exception, because it works! (“Every time it’s tried.”) Plan B? No way man, that’s ABORTION!!!1!!111!!! Make it illegal! Pregnancy as a result of rape or incest? Well, that’s just a flimsy excuse offered by lose and sinful women who tempt innocent men. Those types of women should be forced to carry that baby like God intended when He allowed them to be raped, and as long as the father pays a little child support, they should be forced to coordinate visitation with him. It’s the law! And it wouldn’t be the law if it wasn’t true, and good for society.
(Oh, and of course, the gays are going to destroy society.)
I think David’s use of the term “Taliban” here is appropriate.
This is some outrageous BS. Downward spiral of self-destruction.
I've been an active Republican since I knocked on doors for Reagan at age 17. I've been a precinct chair in three precincts in two different states. But if this stuff keeps up, I may walk away from the GOP — the five freaks on that committee are are a combination of Joe McCarthy and David Duke and need to be stopped.
Agreed, Dillon and Kneer are asshats,
Mr. Ho is not only qualified, he has the right temperment to be successful and winning friends and influence for the Republican Party. I am Pro Life but the way some Republicans handle the issue sometimes amazes. Todd Akin may have lost Romney the presidential election for his comment on rape and conception. But was the question a trick one? ” ….right to choose an abortion under all circumstances”……A Planned Parenthood employee should/could have answered….”tend not to agree”. Certain abortions are illegal as we know but Ho’s answering ….”tend to agree” does not translate into the Butcher of Alief. Perhaps to the contrary. I am not sure if the Vacancy Committee has the ability or have the intent to plant a trick question.
If you took a poll asking that same question among Jewish women, you would find that “strongly agree” would out number all other options. The Holocost has left an indelible mark on many and suggest that answer reflects that at one time Jewish woman had no or little controll of their entire being. Jewish mothers are the most Pro Life people I have met but do not tell them someone else in control of their bodies. An answer of “tend to not agree” would have covered the current legality and practice of abortion, and perhaps changed the opinion of the Vacancy Committee.
Being Asian, Mr. Ho may have an opinion that abortion is not in the realm of goverment but a private matter. In China, the government will force the abortion if the child would be over the government’s limit of children per couple. Watching him in action on the Alief ISD Board and having learned much from the little I have been able to talk to him one on one, he is as Pro Life as you can get, whatever his feelings or reasoning on this issue..
I was not aware this happened to Mr. Ho, and if the events are as decribed here, the HCRP Chairman should comment and rectify if appropriate. We have many in places of authority in our Party that do not understand the issues which have allowed the media to define and describe the views of the Republican Party. Republicans generally are a committed to Pro Life but the Party leads with its chin. We should ask all to celebrate that abortions are down in the US and world wide, while continuing the effort to bring the practice to a halt, by means outside the government’s sphere and with out judging anyone or waiting for Roe vs. Wade to be overturned. This does not mean abandoning improving the legal side.
Have we missed an opportunity to fill a precinct chair vacancy with a very individual?
Jack O’Connor
……a very good individual? How about an excellent person!
David, you don’t do tongue-in-cheek very well.
Mr. Ho is not only qualified, he has the right temperment to be successful and winning friends and influence for the Republican Party. I am Pro Life but the way some Republicans handle the issue sometimes amazes. Todd Akin may have lost Romney the presidential election for his comment on rape and conception. But was the question a trick one? ” ….right to choose an abortion under all circumstances”……A Planned Parenthood employee should/could have answered….”tend not to agree”. Certain abortions are illegal as we know but Ho’s answering ….”tend to agree” does not translate into the Butcher of Alief. Perhaps to the contrary. I am not sure if the Vacancy Committee has the ability or have the intent to plant a trick question. If you took a poll asking that same question among Jewish women, you would find that “strongly agree” would out number all other options. The Holocost has left an indelible mark on many and suggest that answer reflects that at one time Jewish woman had no or little controll of their entire being. Jewish mothers are the most Pro Life people I have met but do not tell them someone else in control of their bodies. An answer of “tend to not agree” would have covered the current legality and practice of abortion, and perhaps changed the opinion of the Vacancy Committee. Being Asian, Mr. Ho may have an opinion that abortion is not in the realm of goverment but a private matter. In China, the government will force the abortion if the child would be over the government’s limit of children per couple. Watching him in action on the Alief ISD Board and having learned much from the little I have been able to talk to him one on one, he is as Pro Life as you can get, whatever his feelings or reasoning on this issue.. I was not aware this happened to Mr. Ho, and if the events are as decribed here, the HCRP Chairman should comment and rectify if appropriate. We have many in places of authority in our Party that do not understand the issues which have allowed the media to define and describe the views of the Republican Party. Republicans generally are a committed to Pro Life but the Party leads with its chin. We should ask all to celebrate that abortions are down in the US and world wide, while continuing the effort to bring the practice to a halt, by means outside the government’s sphere and with out judging anyone or waiting for Roe vs. Wade to be overturned. This does not mean abandoning improving the legal side. Have we missed an opportunity to fill a precinct chair vacancy with a very individual? Jack O’Connor – See more at: http://www.bigjollypolitics.com/2013/06/14/harris-county-republican-party-rejects-supremely-qualified-asian-american/#comment-11798.
I’ve been very vocal on my disdain for the current chucklheads running the HCRP. That doesn’t mean I want to abandon my principles and create a Democrat-lite party. If someone “tends to agree” with the right to choose an abortion under all circumstances it seems to me perfectly valid to question their pro-life bona fides. And what’s this silliness about unwanted pregnancies not being an issue in the Asian community? Does that somehow excuse abortions in other communities? Hey, as long as we’re not killing Asian babies, who cares what those stupid white people do!
If people wonder why Hubert Vo has a safe Democrat seat, here is your answer. Anyone who thinks pro-life issues are not the #1 priority are dismissed as unworthy for consideration as Republicans by a majority of the Vacancy Committee. As a multiple-term Alief ISD Board Member along with his other credentials, Mr. Nghi Ho would be an excellent challenger to Mr. Vo. Here's hoping Mr. Ho will overlook the insult and continue to advocate Republican principles in his community and serve in elected office.
“… the GOP has long recognized that a pro-choice position on abortion is not something which automatically excludes someone from the GOP. -”
Indeed that is true. But that doesn’t mean that I, as an individual, must support them. If this is the direction the Republican Party thinks it needs to go to win elections then have at it. My position on this is immutable. Color me Taliban.
Mark and Dale I think you are missing the forest for the trees on this one. The question is not how important is the pro-life stance to the Republican party, but is Mr. Ho qualified to a Republican precinct chair for his particular precinct. Mr. Ho might have some views that we find objectionable but if those views are consistent with Republicans in his precinct and area we should give that some thought.
In addition, Mr. Ho has shown decades of voting for and supporting Republican candidates. He is a leader in his community. Remember, we are talking about a position who’s primary job involves increasing turnout for republican candidates. In that respect I believe he is extremely qualified.
Heck, screw precinct chair, if the local party had and smarts they would be actively pleaded with the man(on both knees) to please please run against Hubert Vo.
It is one thing to be pro-life and support pro-life principles in the party. It is another thing to demand that everyone else agree with you or else they’re not allowed in.
David G – I’ve been trudging through the forest for too many years to count. Just like with Mr. Busby, the voters of his precinct can elect Mr. Ho to represent them. I have no problem with that. That’s how it should be. If enough pro-life precinct chairs are elected they can even change the party platform to a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual one. They just won’t be doing it with my support.
Look, I’m a pragmatist. I have no illusions. Western societies are moving Left and more secular and it can’t be stopped. It will lead to our collapse in my opinion but that’s the way it is. But I don’t need a political home to validate my existence. I’m perfectly content to wander in the desert for the next 40 years and I will not compromise my core beliefs “for the good of the party”. And I won’t be told to sit in the corner and shut up.
” If enough pro-life precinct chairs”
That should read … If enough “pro-choice” chairs.
It is time for Jared to vacate this position (currently propped up by a few loyalists but with no broad support) and realize we have to grow the party, improve our outreach, utilize technology better and bring in folks like Nghi Ho who will work hard to improve our viability. I'm proud of the few on the Committee who see past the narrow-minded litmus test mentality.
Time management? More like multi-tasking. You’re campaigning for votes and organizing your precinct at the same time. Duh.
three tings need to be clarified:
1) Kneer & Dillon were voted on to the committee by the SD 15 caucus. They were not appointed by Jared.
2) Just because you didn’t vote for Jared doesn’t mean he doesn’t have wide-spreadsupport. Jared has been elected by wide margins every time he has run for party chair.
3) There are enough people on the vacancy committee that 5 or even 7 votes should not torpedo an application. Evidently, there are members of the committee who care as little about their membership on the committee as the majority of precinct chairs that we DO have who regularly blow off atttending Executive Committee meetings.
Tom Zakes, we currently have 10 members. Only one was absent that night. Under Robert’s Rules, tie motions fail. So, if the 10th member would have shown up, either the vote would have been 6-4 to table, and everything would have ended as it did, or 5-5 and the motion to table would have failed. We would have then proceeded to the orginal motion to recommend Mr. Ho to the Executive Committee, and in my opinion, that would have also failed, 5-5. Although we could speculate that those who votee against Mr. Ho in that case would do so because they disagreed with his stance on abortion, no reason is really necessary for a yea or nay vote…the only thing that matters is that the vote was taken and what the totals were.
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit with three young graduate students from China, who were finishing a year of graduate studies in public administration and government at Johns Hopkins University and Tufts University. They had invited me to meet with them as a final part of their year-long studies to provide them with a perspective on America, immigration policy, conservatism, and the GOP. We had a lively 1 ½ hour discussion. My take-away from this discussion that is relevant to this post and comments, is that these very cosmopolitan and bright young people are open to and agree with our conservative view of economics and government economic policy, as do many of the American students they studied with and met over the last year. However, they don’t see how our views about “social” issues are consistent with our view of limited government (which they hear from our rhetoric as meaning “no government”), and how either view is relevant to the lives young people are living in metropolitan areas. We spent a lot of time on these issues, and on our “radical” view of the relationship between liberty and the development of moral character, and our embrace of federalism, and how these are relevant to metropolitan politics.
Seen in the light of this experience, what the Vacancy Committee is doing—whether directed to Mr. Busby or Mr. Ho, or to who knows who else—is not attracting people to our principles, or protecting our principles. Instead, it is driving people away from us who otherwise would be open to our message and persuadable to using our principles to address real issues to improve society. Echoing what Reagan said over 35 years ago, American conservatism isn’t a closed and cloistered province open only to self-anointed mandarins who are empowered who is worthy to enter; it is an embrace of universal principles open to all through constant and open discussion and persuasion. Unfortunately, Lowry, Kneer, Dillon and their enablers, including Jared, are trying treating the GOP as a monastic order closed to all but the 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} worthy, and they are strangling the life from this party and the future of our principles, rather than protecting them.
One last example to underscore my point … For the last two decades, I and a friend, who has been an active and consistent financial backer of Republican candidates, started a personal debate over abortion—I, from the pro-life perspective, he, from the pro-choice perspective—that continued until recently. While we were at lunch last year, he told me that having had grandchildren, and having seen all the changes to our country over the last few decades, he was now pro-life. Some of the specific reasons he gave for his conversion on the issue I could relate to, and some were peculiarly personal to him, but his change of heart was sincere. Now do you think he would have walked this Damascus Road if I and other Republicans had shunned him and locked him out of the party for the last 20 years? The answer is “no”: we kept the candle lit through persuasion, while continuing to work arm and arm for the principles we shared, and eventually the time came when a heart and mind was changed. Terry, Bill, Richard and Jared: that’s the way you build this party and preserve our principles.
Wow! It’s been a long time since David’s posting has caused such a response. So much for my thoughts that the Big Golly site’s readership was dropping.
I have know Nigh Ho for twenty years. There is no doubt that he is a long devoted Republican, bright and well qualified to be a Precinct Chair. However, I can see how his “tend to agree” answer to the questionnaire’s abortion question could be seen as flippant by the Committee. He had to have known the issue was important to the Committee and should have answered accordingly. His reply that the issue is not important to the Asian community, is unconvincing as an excuse. On the other hand the Committee’s wording of the abortion question seems to be designed to create controversy, not consensus, and as such is an inappropriate “got you” question. I can see how the Nigh Ho would have been put-off by the wording of the question.
Common sense would dictate that the parties get together and get Nigh Ho appointed as a precinct chair.
As to you respondents that favor the Harris County Republican Party leadership emphasis economic issues at the expense of social issues, you are in the minority of the Harris County Republican activists. As in your case and that of Ed Hubbard’s friend, politically, I myself used to downplay social issues in favor of economic self-interest. However, as he did, I came to the realization that morals are of great importance and that “moral decisions cannot be made on the basis of economic self-interest.” To worship at the alter of financial self-interest to the exclusion of societal morals is to put yourself in the place of the “rich man for who it is harder to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, ” not a good place to be.
The Republican Party must be capable of emphasizing both solid economic policies and a moral
code. Proponents of either emphasis cannot win without the other.
This is why I say the GOP requires both inside and outside pressure to change and lose it’s so-con ways. There are plenty of socially conservative people who refuse to vote Republican because they don’t want culture issues legislated and controlled by the state. I invite you, who understand that the sooner the GOP gets this the sooner we can at least try to save the Republic, to continue to try to apply that pressure from within the GOP, but to also apply that pressure from the outside, via the Libertarian Party. No party changes without pressure upon them to do so. (Please see Ross Perot.) Liberty is on the rise, but we just don’t have time to let the few who would impose their values on the rest of us (thereby turning people off from said values) undue all the progress being made by dedicated activists. Until this nonsense costs the GOP some votes, $ and energy, they won’t change.
This is sad! While chairman Munisteri and Prebus are adding staff to woo the Asian community, we have actions that make Asians Americans want to go to the democratic party, where they are constantly wooing the Asian vote!
Lizbuddie: I am struggling to think of a social issue that is not already regulated by the state, or for which the Democrats aren’t trying to legislate. In the case of abortion, Republican social conservatives believe that the state has legalized murder. Do you disagree that abortion is murder? Please give examples of social issues that Republicans are attempting to legislate that aren’t already regulated by the state. I think you are referring to economic conservatives that don’t want to have to think or be reminded about societal morality. A society where anything goes cannot survive. See my previous comments above.
I am disappointed to hear that Nghi Ho was denied from a precinct chair position. I think he is more than qualified for the position.
When I hear the saying “people have a short memory in politics,” I thought that it only applied to the Democrats. I did not realize that it also applies to Republicans.
During the presidential election, on every news channel that you turn to, the word that came up the most is “Independents.” Independents became the most important voting block to both the Democrats and Republicans. Both sides were fighting for the same group. It was imperative to win the Independents’ vote. In order to win the presidential election, you must win the Independents’ vote.
Do you think that Republicans agree with Independents on 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of the issues? If Republicans’ don’t agree with Independents on everything, then why did they try so hard to win their vote?
If Republicans understood during the election that we all don’t have to agree on everything, then why are the Republicans in Harris County so selective now?
As long as you have the mentality that you will only support people that agree with you on 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of the issues, it will be hard for you to win elections. If Republicans only support people that agree with them 100{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986}, then they should never seek the votes of Independents and Libertarians.
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