WILL REPUBLICANS LET DEMOCRATS PICK OUR GOP CANDIDATES ON JULY 13th?
By Elois Zeanah
President, Alabama Federation of Republican Women
The AEA boss, who is also head of the Democratic Party, is working aggressively to hijack the GOP’s July 13th primary runoff by getting Democrats to cross over and vote in our Republican primary. The goal is to pick the weakest Republican candidates to run against Democratic candidates in November.
While AEA has singled out the governor’s race and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative mailings and TV ads to influence the outcome, all our Republican candidates are at risk – as is our goal to flip the Alabama Legislature in 2010! Primary runoffs have a tradition of the lowest turnout of all elections. This will make it easier for AEA to pick our GOP candidates – not only the governor but down the list. 
From reports from club presidents, Republican candidates, and other AFRW members, I’m learning that many of our county and state races were impacted by AEA, and longstanding leaders on many levels were defeated in the June 1st primary. If Republicans want to elect our strongest candidates to face Democrats in the November election, we must act NOW to increase the turnout vote of REPUBLICANS on July 13th.
What’s behind the AEA agenda to hijack our Republican Primary Runoff?
AEA is undoubtedly the root of much corruption in Alabama politics and education.
Alabama has one of the worst reputations for political corruption in the nation.
Alabama has one of the worst records for student achievement and dropout rates in the nation.
Political Corruption: GOP leader Mike Hubbard states in past “Rep. Hubbard Columns” that:
Alabama has state budgeting practices that would land accountants at large corporations in jail.
Alabama has a reputation for graft and corruption that rivals Louisiana.
AEA operates as a political labor union and works aggressively to elect Democrats.
Education Scandals: Rep. Hubbard states in his website “Rep. Hubbard Columns” that:
AEA routinely blocks efforts to reform public education.
AEA puts salaries for administrators first and the needs of students last.
AEA has killed bills to protect teachers by giving them free liability insurance to shield them from lawsuits, to reward good teachers with performance-pay bonuses, to weed out bad teachers through tenure reform, to provide competition in public schools by allowing charter schools, etc.
Why would AEA work against teachers and students? Power for political bosses! AEA and Democrats are poised to lose their power in 2010, and this is why AEA is meddling in our Republican primaries, manipulating public opinion, and motivating Democrats to flood our July 13th primary.
We can’t stop Democrats from flooding our primary with crossover votes.
WE CAN counter Democrats’ votes by turning out MORE GOP votes!
It’s up to us to protect our Republican Candidates on July 13th to achieve victory November 2nd!
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