By Mark Waite
Bill Carns, who was elected chairman of the newly-reformed Nye County Republican Party Central Committee recently, pledged a new era of party unity.
Edmund Goubran is the new vice-chairman, Jeff Bobeck is the secretary and Carol Lindberg the treasurer.
Former NCRCC Chairman Fely Quitevis handed in her resignation along with Treasurer Tanya Metaksa. Secretary Loida Schulz, Second Vice-Chairman Sal Ledesma and First Vice-Chairman Robert Cameron, who recently moved out of the area, rounded out the previous board.
The NCRCC platform approved Saturday opposes incorporation, demands an end to illegal immigrants getting government benefits and an end to electronic voting machines.
“Members of the Nye County Republican Party seem to over the last decade or more have felt as though they have been excluded from the main goals and priorities of the Nye County Republican Party, the NCRCC. Dozens of people have come together in the last couple of months to rectify that,” Carns said.
Quitevis left the Nye County Republican Party convention in Tonopah early on March 31 amid a controversy over seating delegates. Carns seeks to heal any divisions in the party.
“The primary goal I see as chairman is to reunite all Republicans from all over the county, all inclusions, not the exclusion of anyone and work together to get conservative Republicans in office,” Carns said. “As a matter of fact we are going to be planning a Republican candidate training seminar at the NCRCC offices May 12 and representatives of the state GOP are coming out.”
Quitevis issued a statement after stepping down.
“I have no regrets of the Ron Paulers taking over the Nye County Republican Central Committee and congratulations to them. As NCRCC chairman for over five years I did what is best for the Nye County Republican Central Committee. First, under my professional and experience in leadership I increased membership from 70 members in 2007 to over 200 members with a decent office headquarters which was used by the McCain presidential campaign in 2008 in a visible highway location. Second, I increased Republican voters registration from 7,000 plus when I took office in ’07 to 11,400 as of March 31, 2012 or a 63 percent increase in a period of five years.”
Republicans were elected to local offices during her five term except during the district attorneys’ race of 2010, she said.
Carns dismissed talk of any faction being in control of the committee. He said the presidential election will be in the hands of the national convention in Tampa in August. Half of the 28 delegates from Nevada are committed to Mitt Romney who won half the votes in the state caucus in January though Ron Paul won Nye County.
The focus is on getting conservative Republicans past the primary and elected to office, Carns said.
“Whatever happened at the county convention on the 31st has happened for years with people dissatisfied with the direction of the NCRCC,” Carns said. Whether people support liberty-minded people like Ron Paul or other candidates, he said, “that’s been much ado about nothing and it’s people on the outside talking about it trying to make a controversy.”
In a message from the county chairman on the nyegop.org website, Carns said “we’ve begun a new era for the NCRCC. We are dedicated to truly conservative principles. We promote the principles of the founders. We promote individual liberties and freedom. We are the party of what Americans stand for. The Republican Party believes in and honors the national values expressed by our flag, anthem, Constitution and the principles of the founding fathers.”
The platform hammered out at the central committee meeting recognizes the Bill of Rights and strict adherence to the Second Amendment. Carns was formerly the host of a nationally syndicated radio show on the Second Amendment.
A second plank states: “We strongly resist the nationalization and/or militarization of our law enforcement agencies. We further recognize that it is the responsibility of the citizenry to control law enforcement. We refuse to allow Homeland Security and all non-government organizations to influence our law enforcement agencies.”
The party supports less government, lower taxes, less regulation, more individual liberties and personal responsibility.
“We are adamantly opposed to the incorporation of our towns/communities which increases the size, scope and cost of government,” the fourth plank states.
The new secretary of the NCRCC, Bobeck, was on the town Incorporation Advisory Committee. He ran unsuccessfully for district one county commissioner in 2008.
The fifth plank reads: “We demand an end to illegal immigrants receiving benefits from any local government programs.”
A sixth plank asks for juries to be informed of their duties to decide on the law and the facts in a case, a process known as jury nullification.
“We support a return to a more independent, self-sufficient society. We support self-reliance in our local communities by supporting local agriculture, utility independence and more localized and individual solutions,” reads plank seven.
An eighth plank states: “we oppose development in Nye County surpassing the availability of water resources located within their borders.”
Finally, the NCRCC asks for an end to electronic voting machines and voter registration on election day.
“We must demand proof of residency to register and photo identification at the time of voting.”
Quitevis said she plans to form a Nye County Republican Women’s group.
The owner of Precious Properties and Precious Care Home Health Services, Quitevis was appointed to a vacancy on the Nye County Commission by former Gov. Jim Gibbons in 2008 to replace Peter Liakopoulos, but lost in the 2010 district five primary to Dan Schinhofen. She also served on the judicial screening committee to select ee candidates to replace the late District Judge John Davis.
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- Pahrump Valley Times file photo – Fely Quitevis, outgoing chairman of the NCRCC
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- Special to the Pahrump Valley Times – Bill Carns, chairman of the Nye County Republican Party Central Committee.
Definitely a Ron Paul backlash. The Libertarian party gained membership in Nye County over the issues that the new Nye County Republican party platform addresses. Good for them.
Good luck Bill. Good to see you get this.
Apparently the NC Republican party didn’t get the memo. Missing from their platform is a constant attack on women, gays, the middle class, and the poor. Also missing is their full support and total obedience to the top 1% over everyone else.
The party supports less government, lower taxes, less regulation, more individual liberties and personal responsibility.
What does that even mean? Taxes right now are as low as they have ever been in the past 50 years. And if they are all about less government, then why is the GOP constantly attacking women’s reproductive rights?
As far as less regulation goes, we see where that has gotten us. Personally I like clean water and clean air. Do you remember before strict EPA regulations when lake Erie caught on fire? I am no scientist, but I believe water isn’t supposed to be flammable.
And deregulation of wall street is what got us into this mess. Before the Glass-Stegal Act was passed in 1935, we never went more then 15 years without some sort of bank crisis. After it was passed we went five decades without a banking crisis. Then the deregulation hawks started their nonsense. Reagan deregulated the Savings and Loan industry and within a couple of years we had the S & L crisis and scandal. But the biggie happened in 1999 when Clinton, under enormous pressure from the likes of Phil Graham, repealed the Glass-Stegal Act and bingo. we got the financial meltdown and Wall Street was allowed to steal 7 trillion dollars from the taxpayers. We could also talk about the Enron scandal after we deregulated the energy market. I could go on and on about why we need much more, very strict regulations. Because of this one simple reason. Without regulations we must rely on corporations doing what is right. That my friends, will NEVER happen.
When I first moved to Nye County, tax rate was 6.5% Now 7.1%. Property taxes have gone down because property values have come down. Democrats in Congress want to raise taxes, can’t pass a federal budget and has increased national debt over 5 trillion with the 3 years of Obama. Just last week read where they want to vote on raising the gas tax in nye county. Over and on top of almost doubling the price of gas since Obama took office. His energy policies suck. Your quote, taxes are as low as they have ever been in the last 50 years…. BS flag!
Where did you cut and paste this information from anyway? I’d like to go read it myself.
Well, you got me to read up on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, ( you misspelled Steagell btw) and your version says a reluctant democrat Clinton repealed it. Versions I am reading says Clinton, Greenspan, and his treasury secretary Rubin pushed and willingly went forward with the repeal:
http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/bill-clinton-glass-steagall-and-the-current-financial-and-mortgage-crisis-part-two-of-an-indepth-investigative-report.html
the feeling grew among some economists and the financial community that Glass-Steagall hampered America’s financial competitiveness. Among the many voices favoring this was Alan Greenspan along with former Goldman Sachs partner Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary. In a 1995 speech and testimony to Congress Rubin signaled the Clinton Administration was ready to repeal Glass-Steagall:
“The banking industry is fundamentally different from what it was two decades ago, let alone in 1933.” He said the industry has been transformed into a global business of facilitating capital formation through diverse new products, services and markets. “U.S. banks generally engage in a broader range of securities activities abroad than is permitted domestically,” said the Treasury secretary. “Even domestically, the separation of investment banking and commercial banking envisioned by Glass-Steagall has eroded significantly.”
Anyone who thinks the repeal of Glass-Steagall was forced on an unwilling Bill Clinton need only read Rubin’s testimony.
WOW! Did your Tin-Foil helmet come with that Blame-O-tron 6000? Or did you have it installed after-market?
By the way…..I’d love to see a link to the story about the “Attack” that some Republican performed on a woman.
Last I checked….The abuse of women was 3000% higher in the African-American communities and we ALL know who 99% of them voted for already…..and WHY of course.
Edit – stick to the facts Robert.
Go to Google. Type in taxes are lowest in 60 years.
I tried to post links for you but the PVT thinks it’s spam.
I did and a quote from CBS . com
The poor economy is largely to blame, with corporate profits down and unemployment up. But so is a tax code that grows each year with new deductions, credits and exemptions. The result is that families making as much as $50,000 can avoid paying federal income taxes, if they have at least two dependent children. Low-income families can actually make a profit from the income tax, and the wealthy can significantly cut their payments.
another site tells me this mybudget360. com
The median household income in the United States is $46,326. Here in California people have a hard time understanding that yes, 50 percent of our population live on $46,000 or less a year. Even today, all the elixirs and remedies being thrown around fail to focus on income and the big brother of income, solid employment. Dual earner households have a higher median income at $67,348.
So it tells me two things…the tax code needs to be rewritten and a good percent of the population pays no taxes while some make a profit. Doesn’t seem quite fair now does it?
LOL! You didnt know that Liberals get their “Facts” from comedians, Comedy channels and comic strips? That or from the same media sources that sell them Ginsu knives, $100 shampoos and convince them that sky-high gas prices are A-OK five years later, because he is “Black”.
Lady GaGa tells them who to vote for and Whoopi Goldberg and Janeane Garafalo are quotable sources.