The elephant became the symbol for the Republican Party in 1874 in a cartoon by Thomas Nast of Harper’s Weekly. What are the characteristics of an elephant? The elephants (Elephantidae) are a family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia.
They have a strong herd instinct and have an established social order. They are very large. They are a symbol of wisdom in Asian culture and are famous for their exceptional memory and high intelligence.
Due to their large size and herding instincts they can become very dangerous when they are separated from their herd or social position in the herd. This is why one of the most feared animals in the world is a rogue elephant. That is one that has been separated from his herd. They become destructive to anything in their path.
What does this mean for us at Carolina Stompers? We do not like our party being weakened by actions that lower the moral and wise positions taken in our party platform. These actions drive away good Republicans. We must stick to our platform. It is a good platform and should be honored.
We are tired of people that play both sides against the middle for power, money and social position. We are strong and will stand for our heritage as elephants. We are wise and proud of our heritage. We honor truth and detest those little white lies that creep into politics and end up in brown bags of money exchanged in a bathroom.
We want no part of playing that game of politics that erodes our moral fiber. We are elephants, proud and determined to keep our herd strong. Yes, that is right, we want our party to be strong.
That strength comes from doing business in the open and not behind closed doors. That strength comes from long debates and not three minute sound bites. After all, we are so big you can’t hide in a small room. WE ARE ELEPHANTS!!
We are also looking for other elephants to join us. That does not mean you must mirror us but it does mean that you follow the principles of our party, help us eliminate crooked deals from either side of the aisle. In simple English if you are caught with your hand in the cookie jar we will slap (expose) you. There is more to being a Republican than just meetings and social gatherings. That is part of it but we will work for the advancement of the party and recruiting of like minded elephants for our herd.
Help us stomp out corruption, stop elected officials from making deals for personal advancement, insure open and transparent government. It is probably best said by saying we are for less taxes, less government and more freedom. Come join our herd.
This also answers why I am a contributor to this site and hope you will join us too.
Don Yelton, Founder Citizens Speak Secretary NC Federation Republican Men Committed to connecting the East with the West.
When I first arrived in America in 1998, I was not sure if I was going to like it here, but at the request of my future wife, we decided to give America a try before we made a firm decision on whether or not to stay in America or return to Ireland.
After getting over the initial culture shock (like driving on the wrong side of the road!), I grew to like it here more and more and to appreciate everything America had to offer. I then decided to begin the process of changing my status.
As I began this process, I was amazed at the costs involved. Each form had to be accompanied by a check. In addition, my wife and I were required to take many trips back and forth to the Charlotte INS office (now under the auspices of the Dept. of Homeland Security) because there is no office available to serve the Asheville area, despite there being many illegal Aliens in this area.
I went through so much paperwork; you cannot believe. It has taken me over 6 long years, and thousands of dollars, to get to where I am today. One form alone from the INS cost $470.00 to submit for consideration.
This was particularly hard on my wife and I as I was prohibited from working and earning a wage until all of these forms were approved and I was issued a permit to work, in spite of the fact that we were required to file our taxes jointly. I actually had to pay taxes before I was allowed to work and earn wages to pay taxes on!
When the time came for me to submit to my INS physical, the closest INS doctor was in Greenville, SC, which required two trips so that my TB test could be read a week later, in addition to the $300 costs of the physical and x-rays.
Also, were it not for the intervention of then-Senator Jesse Helms, I would have been required to repeat this process (and pay for it!) a second time, because your INS physical is only good for two years.
During this entire process, I had to prove to the authorities by signing a sworn statement that I would not be accepting any sort of local, state or federal government assistance in any way. This would include food stamps, unemployment, health care, etc. Essentially, my wife had to become my "sponsor," and had to submit her own affidavits showing her current wage, length of employment and anticipated length of future employment.
She basically had to prove that she could provide for the two of us so that at no point during the entire process would I ever become a burden to the United States government, regardless of whether I contributed to our household income or not. However, once I received my green card and my status was changed to a Resident Alien, I no longer needed her sponsorship, which was a relief to us both.
To dare think illegal Aliens should obey the law here!
During this entire process, I had to depend on my wife to be my official “sponsor” and had to prove to the authorities that I would not be a burden on the state, by accepting any form of welfare, food stamps, unemployment compensation or free health care.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I was required to have a work permit, which cost me $195 for every year prior to my being issued my green card.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to prove that I had a Social Security number before I would be issued a N.C. drivers license.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to pay $135 for a travel permit in order to leave and re-enter the country in case of a family emergency.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to demonstrate a basic knowledge of the English language before being granted citizenship.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to demonstrate a basic knowledge of U.S. history before being granted citizenship.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to wait until I became a U.S. citizen, before I was allowed to vote in an election.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to undergo a complete Federal Background Check, several times over.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to be fingerprinted on four separate occasions, despite the fact that fingerprints do not change over time.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I had to demonstrate my fitness to be a U.S. citizen by upholding every law.
NO ILLEGAL ALIENS CAN DO THAT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY VIOLATED THE LAW BY BEING HERE illegally IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Do you think it’s right to award illegal immigrants the same rights as American citizens when they have already broken the law, by stealing American’s identities and doing jobs that LEGAL Americans would do.
Do you think it’s right for illegal Aliens not to learn the English language, or not to assimilate, English is the language of America. English is the language of business, English is the common language that unites us all as a people.
Bi-lingualism or multi-linguilism is causing the destruction of the American way of life, because if people cannot communicate in a common language it leads to segregation.
Do you think that we as a people, have no problem with the fact that illegal Aliens should be deported, or that businesses that employ those illegal Aliens should be fined or put out of business. Impose similar penalties on those who provide them with housing.
Stop providing our schools with bi-lingual teachers whose only function is to assimilate the children of US citizens to the Spanish language.
Change the laws regarding "anchor babies," and return them and their parents to their country of origin, only allowing their return upon their eighteenth birthday.
In North Carolina alone, there are 500,000-700,000 plus illegal aliens that are putting an untold burden on our legal and social welfare system.
For instance, why is it that as a U.S. citizen I am not entitled to free health care or education, yet the illegal Aliens that live in my county and State are?
When are the representatives of the people going to uphold the law by detaining and deporting all illegal Aliens out of North Carolina?
North Carolina is already a very expensive state to live in, due mainly to the illegal immigration problem. When is enough enough?
I resent so many of my tax dollars being spent to support illegal aliens that have not gone to the same efforts as I have to earn their place in this great country.
America is not without it's faults, but without a doubt, it is still the greatest country in the world. It is the last bastion of freedom and liberty.
While citizens of other countries are quick to criticize us, I would bet that given the opportunity, they would all trade places with me in a heartbeat.
Yes, it was a long and difficult process to become a citizen, but I am grateful for the opportunities and the bounty that is America. I am grateful to all of my family and friends, for making me feel like a member of the American family. I will always be proud to be Irish, but I'm very, very proud to be an American.
Remember security on the border is not a Democrat or Republican issue. It's an American issue and we, as citizens, need to speak up!
Paul Purdue, Biography:
Paul Purdue is a 49 year old native of County Cavan, Ireland who emigrated to America in 1998. He lives in Fairview, North Carolina with his wife, Sue, and his two Scottish Terriers, Jack and Charlie.
He works at his own business, restoring antiques and building miniature grandfather clocks. He received his US citizenship on January 21, 2005 (one day after George Bush was sworn in for his second term) and since that time has become quite active in local and state politics.
This is a moving deep southern literary form of poetry that was written by 30-year-old Marine Staff Sgt. Lawrence E. Dean II, stationed at Cherry Point base in North Carolina. It was captured on film, is dynamic and is straight from this young man’s heart. The Conway, S.C., native writes and performs rap-style poetry using the stage name "Life."
As I was pondering his words it occurred to me that more often than not the more plainly a person speaks, the better he articulates his feelings and conveys his thoughts. It also occurred to me that it takes a very small and selfish person so wrapped up in the perefection of grammar, style, and or dialect aka the vanity of their mind, that they can not see the forest for the trees. It reminds me of a verse that says “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Please listen to this young man, he has alot to say and I think it is absolutely worth hearing.
Nancy Nesbitt
She called...
Blacks, Whites...wait African Americans and Caucasians, Asians, excuse me. Vietnamese, Philippines, Koreans and Jamaicans or Haitians, waitin' Hispanics y'all.
Please be patient Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelan, Cuban, Dominican, Panamanian Democrats I beg your pardon, you partied with the late, great Reagan? Republican, Independent, Christian, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist, 5 Percenters, Hindu, Sunii Muslim, Brothers and Sisters who never seen the New York city skyline when the twin towers still existed. But still She called.
From the bowels of Ground Zero she sent this 911 distress signal. Because She was in desperate need of a hero, and didn't have time to decipher what to call 'em, so she called 'em all Her children. The children of the stars and bars who needed to know nothing more than the fact that she called. The fact that someone attempted to harm us this daughter who covered us all with her loving arms. And now these arms are sprawled across New York City streets. A smoke filled lung, a silt covered faced, and a solitary tear poured out of her cheek. Her singed garments carpets Pennsylvania Avenue and the Pentagon was under her feet. As she began to talk, she began to cough up small particles of debris and said, "I am America, and I'm calling on the land of the free." So they answered.
All personal differences set to the side because right now there was no time to decide which state building the Confederate flag should fly over, and which trimester the embryo is considered alive, or on our monetary units, and which God we should confide. You see, someone attempted to choke the voice of the one who gave us the right for choice, and now she was callin. And somebody had to answer. Who was going to answer?
So they did. Stern faces and chisled chins. Devoted women and disciplined men, who rose from the ashes like a phoenix and said "don't worry, we'll stand in your defense." They tightened up their bootlaces and said goodbye to loved ones, family and friends. They tried to bombard them with the "hold on", "wait-a-minute's", and "what-if's". And "Daddy, where you goin?". And, "Mommy, why you leavin?". And they merely kissed them on their foreheads and said "Don't worry, I have my reasons. You see, to this country I pledged my allegiance to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic. So as long as I'm breathin, I'll run though hell-fire, meet the enemy on the front lines, look him directly in his face, stare directly in his eyes and scream, "I AM AMERICA! WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED! WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED! I REFUSE TO BE AFRAID! I'LL FIGHT YOU ANY COUNTRY, ANY CONTINENT, ANY TERRAIN. I'LL FIGHT TO MY LAST BREATH!"
And if by chance death is my fate, pin my medals upon my chest, and throw Old Glory on my grave. But, don't y'all cry for me. You see, my Father's prepared a place. I'll be a part of his Holy army standing a watch at the Pearly Gates. Because freedom was never free. POW's, and fallen soldiers all paid the ultimate sacrifice along side veterans who put themselves in harms way. Risking their lives and limbs just to hold up democracy's weight, but still standing on them broken appendages anytime the National Anthem was played. You see, these were the brave warriors that gave me the right to say that I'm Black. Or white.
Or
African American or Caucasian, I'm Asian, excuse me. I'm Vietnamese, Philippine, Korean, or Jamaican. I'm Haitian, Hispanic
Y'all, Please be patient. I'm Mexican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Cuban, Dominican, Panamanian, Democrat I beg your pardon, you see I partied with the late, great Reagan. I'm Republican, Independent, Christian, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist, 5 Percenters, Hindu, Sunii Muslim,
Brothers and Sisters We're just Americans. So with that I say "Thank You" to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, for preserving my rights to live and die for this life and paying the ultimate price for me to be...FREE!
Who owns North Carolina? Is it the citizenry? OR is it the Power Giants of the Democrat Party who rule the North Carolina General Assembly with hard, iron hands?
It was absolutely essential that the Wilmington, North Carolina Race Riots of 1898 be revisited. It sets the tone whereby the North Carolina Democrat Party would hold their political power for 74 years uninterrupted.
Although Governor Charles Brantly Aycock's rhetoric was blatantly "white supremist" in his highly charged political speeches of that period, the acts of destruction and murder would not have happened without the "terrorist arm" of the Democrat Party, the Ku Klux Klan"!
Human beings, often and sadly, at the top of the power structure {when they seek such positions for all the wrong reasons} often leave their dirty work to others.
Directly after the end of our Civil War between our {my} south and the northern States, Black Americans, for the first time, were able to take the initiative and begin to carve a new seat in our communities for their families. In Wilmington, Black citizens were elected to the Wilmington governing body. They were making sound progress toward equality.
The murderous acts during the Race Riots against the Black People in Wilmington by the Democrat Party set their progress toward equality back 50 plus years. Many are still enslaved by the Democrat Party; only the methods are different. The policies of the Republican Party are in place to bring more Blacks to a completely equal playing field than the policies of the Democrat Party ever will. WAKE UP! We welcome you to the Grand Ole Party.
Obviously before the Race Riots in Wilmington, the leaders of the Democrat Party, gathered as an enclave, to discuss how best to secure a victory in the upcoming election. They decided, in my opinion, to play on the basest of human instincts to secure that election. The results are a part of recorded North Carolina history.
They, the Democrats, have continually since that time, I repeat continually, used grossly unethical and corrupt methods to keep their majority and when defeated, use intimidating methods to again regain their majority.
I know whereof I speak. I have been an active Republican for many years. Here I give you three instances to illustrate that the Democrat Party, with the willing participation of overly aggressive {to put it mildly} politicos in many precincts, commit highly unethical and corrupt actions.
1.) In the early 1960s, Bob and I owned and operated a very popular family restaurant in the very old Log Cabin on the Weaverville Road, "The Hays House". One of our customers, one Ed O'Donald, a democrat politico, on one of his trips to our restaurant, asked about our political affiliation. He indicated it would be in our best interest to register as democrats. I told him that would not be possible. He said we should ready ourselves to close up the restaurant; that HE would see that it would not succeed. That did not happen!
Later, Ed O'Donald's daughter, as Staff Head of the Buncombe County Board of Elections, was found to be grossly misusing the Board's money and served a time in prison.
2) When serving as Republican Poll Judge of the French Broad Precinct, the voting day came to an end and we proceeded to perform everything needed to bring the reports together. In the final moments, two Democrats who had been there all day slipped under the curtain and voted for a SECOND TIME. I saw one of them exit and we had two votes too many. The kingpin democrat of the French Broad Precinct, who sat in his chair all day and viewed the whole scene said nothing.
3) In the early 1950s, while I was still employed at the National Security Agency in Washington, Dwight D. Isenhower became our President. My father, Jeter Gaither Reece, worked for the North Carolina State Highway Commission. He voted for President Isenhower. He was fired for that vote. No one could be a better employee than my father. There was no doubt about it; they told him why they fired him. They still keep a pretty tight rein on who they hire. The Buncombe County Register of Deeds has stated publicly and recorded in the A C-T that he hires only democrats. This further indicates their extreme arrogance.
It as been a long standing policy of the Democrat Party Politicos to A) vote dead people; and B) use financial incentives!
The Ku Klux Klan was indeed made up of democrats, primarily. One of them asked Bob and me to join. I asked him if he was kidding. He handed me an application. I laughed and told him my ancestors in Madison County made their way North and fought in the Union Army; except for the two very young brothers {early teens} who, along with other youth from Madison County, were picked up by "VANCE MARAUDERS" and were never seen again. The father, a Baptist Preacher, did not believe in or participate in slavery.
Look toward Raleigh now and consider the corruption of the "Black Regime". Democrat Speaker Black is now in prison.
If you think the people you elect to go to Raleigh and represent you are free to provide the best service possible for you without hindrances from the Democratic Power Giants, think again. It could not be further from the truth. Try getting a piece of legislation through they do not like. The reins are held tightly by six or eight power giants. They call all the shots. They simply bottle up any bill they do not like. THAT IS HOW THE "CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN" DID NOT COME TO THE FULL HOUSE FOR A VOTE. The bi-partisan votes to pass it were there; they were committed votes. They got aborted by the Democrat Power Giants. This happens often. Abort, aborted, abortion are all words quite popular with democrats across our country.
In a later blog, I will relate details about the liberal, left-wing, hate America, radical groups that have molded the Democrat Party into its present image.
Think before you register to vote! Think before you vote. What do you want from our representatives at all levels of government? Bring your vote and your deeply held beliefs together. It is urgent! A grass roots effort is called for. It is little by little bringing strength back to conservatism. It can happen. It is happening. We invite you to join Carolina Stompers for our children's future. May God bless and guide every good citizen of this great nation, our leaders and our military.
As some of you know, I grew up in Democrat politics. My step father is NC Senator Martin Nesbitt. He married my mom when I was 10 years old. Southern Democrats in those days were conservative by nature. We all grew up in church, believed in fiscal responsibility, and believed in the United States. Then the hippies from the 60's grew up and slowly started taking over the Democrat party. Conservative Democrats saw this as a threat and banded together. They kept their mouths shut to keep the hippie crowd from screaming and threw them a bone every once in a while. (When I say "bone" I mean - A job in government - Money for their Non-profits etc..!)
Banding tighter together, the conservative Democrats had to become a "power structure" spanning across our great state of North Carolina. Teachers couldn't get a job unless they were a Democrat. Contractors couldn't win a bid on a state contract unless they gave money to Democrat campaigns. Minorities were being fed lies about their past and their future. It goes on and on and The Democrat Party Became VERY Corrupt.........
To keep the Republicans from winning, they let the hippies do their dirty work for them. Old hippies scream loud and want attention. They are masters at art and music. Things that move the human spirit. They used these tools in media, TV shows, and advertising to fool the average citizen into not believing in America, that our soldiers kill children and that God is not real. They went after the core of the Republican Party.
I met my wife Nancy in the early 1990's. And on a cold day in February, God gave us a miracle. Our daughter Savannah was born. Witnessing the birth of my child, I knew then and there that everything I was taught by the Democrats was a lie. How could someone abort a child? How could they say there is no God?
As time went on, I watched as the old, tired, conservative Democrats "literally" died. The old hippies took over completely and then something terrible happened. 9/11. After the terrorist attack, I watched how the Democrats reacted. They criticized the President and our soldiers while jockeying for power position with in their own party. They loved it when soldiers got killed because it drove the "young" hippies (aka progressives) wild and brought attention to them. The terrorist tried to kill more soldiers because they new the Democrats in power loved it and the Democrats would try to bring President Bush to his knees by ridiculing our military's winning efforts.
This is the day I became a Republican. Fighting for the safety of my family, I new the Republicans needed some help. I have been to the dark side and I know how the Democrats think. Now I'm going to show my fellow Republicans how to fight! Watch and learn!
