Our CCRCC Platform & Values
There are many issues that we as Republicans hold dear to our hearts. However, our Core Values must represent the foundation of our principles, reflect who we are, what we stand for, and focus on the issues we can win.
2024 Cowlitz County Republican Party Platform
Preamble
We, the delegates to the Cowlitz County Republican Party Convention, do herewith affirm that, “…governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.” (Art. I Sect. 1, Washington State Constitution). We declare the highest purpose of government is to protect its citizens in the enjoyment of their individual liberties. We proclaim our three great loyalties to be God, family, and country.
God
We acknowledge God as the grantor of our liberties, that in Him our rights find their origin, and that through Him our rights find protection in our state and federal constitutions, which we as citizens have a duty to protect and uphold. To that end we support efforts to:
- Elect citizens to office who expressly support our state and federal constitutions and will assess government policies and programs on their adherence to the constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national security, and national sovereignty;
- Advance legislation that nullifies unconstitutional federal laws and affirms state and local control over powers not granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution;
- Oppose calls for a constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution, which has served as the cornerstone of American liberty since it was established in 1787;
4. Preserve the right to vote in free and fair elections, a most basic civil right upon which many other rights depend, with measures such as cleaning up voter registration lists, signature verification, in-person voting on Election Day using paper ballots, and photo identification;
5, Protect free speech and other First Amendment rights as the keystone of a free society and an indispensable condition of nearly every other freedom;
6. Repeal laws and regulations that infringe on the individual’s right to keep and bear arms in defense of self, family, and community, recognizing this right as foundational to our freedom; and
7. Restore the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, by ending abusive law enforcement practices such as warrantless searches and surveillance of private electronic communications and financial transactions of Americans.
Family
We believe that God created male and female; and that family, the sanctity of marriage, and the commitment to the well-being of our children are foundational values of our Republic. To that end we support efforts to:
- Advance legislation that affirms the right to life and ends public funding of abortion;
- Protect and affirm the primacy of the parents’ role in the care and welfare of their children;
3. Promote measures that strengthen local control of public education, ensure curriculum transparency and unimpeded parental involvement, protect women’s sports, and support opportunities for school choice and home schooling;
4. Refocus education on the core areas of academic excellence (reading, writing, math, science, civics, and critical thinking);
5. Dismantle federal and state-mandated agendas that infringe upon parental rights and responsibilities, such as forced vaccination, mask mandates, and comprehensive sex education;
6. Recognize the fact of binary, biological, immutable sex; that women cannot transition to men and men cannot transition to women; and that children must be protected from any attempt to alter their sex; and
7. Recognize, value, and accommodate the attributes, traits, and essential characteristics that men and women bring to our societal institutions.
Country
We believe a strong and independent America promotes peace and stability throughout the world, and that the true national interest is in self-governance with the government most accountable to its citizens being the best equipped to protect their life, liberty, and property. To that end we support efforts to:
- Secure America’s borders, stop illegal immigration, and enforce existing immigration laws;
- Promote the foreign policy first advocated by George Washington: free trade with all nations and entangling alliances with none;
- Oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to international organizations in which the American people have no elected representatives;
- Promote energy independence and national self-reliance;
- Strengthen the security of our nation’s key infrastructure such as power, water, food, transportation, financial, and healthcare networks;
6. Pass legislation to balance budgets, eliminate deficit spending, and pay down the national debt – which is an immoral tax on our posterity;
7. Repeal laws and regulations that allow seizure of an individual’s property without due process, such as civil asset forfeiture laws and extreme risk protection orders;
8. Implement a policy of one subject per bill in legislation, unbundling disparate items, and allowing each item to pass or fail on its own merit; and
9. Keep our local sheriff and police accountable to local citizens by rejecting federal control and funding over law enforcement.
Adopted February 24, 2024, at the Cowlitz County Republican Party Convention held in Kelso, Washington.
May God bless America and her noble defenders!
