Main Street News
PRESS RELEASE
November 28, 2006
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/press112806.htm
Main Street Speaks Out on Off-Shore Drilling Legislation
(Washington, D.C.) – "On Election Night, the voters made it clear that they want results - not ideological battles - from their leaders in Washington," said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, Executive Director of the Republican Main Street Partnership.
Eighteen House centrists penned a letter on Nov. 17 to the Republican leadership on off-shore drilling legislation. The letter states, "The American people made clear on Election Day that it wants Congress to take pragmatic, targeted approaches to solving problems rather than engaging in ideological sparring. Continuing efforts to promote the House bill, which could open the entire U.S. coastline to oil drilling, and which would sweep away environmental protections, undermine local control and increase the deficit, would signal that we have not gotten the message on Election Day."
The letter did not endorse the Senate version of the bill, and made clear that some of the signers of the letter would vote against the Senate bill. The letter did say, however, that if an off-shore drilling bill were to come before the House, the only legitimate vehicle to bring up for a vote would be the unamended Senate bill. The letter also said that all efforts to come up with a new compromise or to take any other action based on the House bill should cease.
"Our party needs to prove to the American people that we are committed to a pragmatic leadership that puts the needs of the electorate above partisan bickering," concluded Resnick.
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The Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP) is dedicated to promoting and building the Republican Party as a thoughtful, fiscally conservative, inclusive “Governing Majority,” where political debate is encouraged to promote common sense solutions to improve the lives of all Americans. Embracing the full spectrum of Republican ideologies and values in order to build coalitions, RMSP is the largest organization of elected Traditional Ronald Reagan Republicans in the nation, with over 60 members serving in the U.S. House and Senate. For more information on RMSP, visit our website at www.republicanmainstreet.org.
""The American people made clear on Election Day that it wants Congress to take pragmatic, targeted approaches to solving problems rather than engaging in ideological sparring."
Remind Webb, who wanted to punch out President Bush.
Lincoln Chafee was a Traditional Reagan Republican? Who knew?
Here she says "unite around shared values" and elsewhere is whining about "partisan bickering."
That bickering isn't partisan, IMO, but because her group has moved away from those values.
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/press111506.htm
PRESS RELEASE
November 15, 2006
America Needs a Strong, United GOP
The Republican Party Should United Around Shared Values
(Washington, D.C.) – "The election of 2006 is over," said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, Executive Director of the Republican Main Street Partnership. "Now is the time for our party to put aside our differences and unite around shared values. With Democrats in charge in the House and the Senate, now, more than ever, America needs a strong, united Republican Party."
"Our party has a historic opportunity to recapture the middle of the American electorate and build a lasting legislative majority," continued Resnick. "We need to celebrate our ideological diversity and recognize that people of good faith can disagree on complex social issues. The way forward for our party is not to battle over our differences, but to highlight areas where our party is unified."
"Ronald Reagan built a big tent party that attracted conservatives and moderates, Republicans and independents, and people from all across the country. The foundation of this big tent party was a belief in limited government, a commitment to free market economics, and a confident foreign policy," said Resnick. "Now is the time for the GOP to return to those core principles. The American voter is hungry for solutions and we should be the party that provides them."
"The Republican Main Street Partnership is committed to bringing back Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party. Main Street recognizes that the GOP is not monolithic, and for our party to succeed we will need the support of Republicans of all ideological stripes. Our party’s way forward is clear," concluded Resnick.
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The Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP) is dedicated to promoting and building the Republican Party as a thoughtful, fiscally conservative, inclusive “Governing Majority,” where political debate is encouraged to promote common sense solutions to improve the lives of all Americans. Embracing the full spectrum of Republican ideologies and values in order to build coalitions, RMSP is the largest organization of elected Traditional Ronald Reagan Republicans in the nation, with over 60 members serving in the U.S. House and Senate.
For more information on RMSP, visit our website at www.republicanmainstreet.org.
To the 'Main Streeters': what would be wrong with developing America's domestic oil supplies? Unless "centrists" believe the environmental hysteria that humans can possibly bring about global doom, why oppose off shore drilling?
is dedicated to being invited to the right cocktail parties where they can hobnob with prominent socialists and MSM editors.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus