The Chairman’s Corner
(The Chairman’s Corner is a timeline of content from the Chairman)
Team Miyares Update – 8/18/2024
Friends,
Virginia’s election security model is strong and designed to allow only eligible citizens to vote because your vote is your voice — the American people deserve to be heard.
It’s not a radical idea, it’s just common sense.
Watch Jason’s Video
Walz’s statement that socialism is mere ‘neighborliness’ is a lie that disregards the harsh realities countless families have faced under socialist regimes.
My own family members were arrested and jailed in Cuba, victims of a system that masquerades oppression as community care.
Socialism crushes any form of dissent, stripping away freedoms, ultimately failing to deliver on its ‘promises’.
This is a direct threat to our American ideals.
Would Walz and Castro get along?
At the Olympics, a biological male was allowed to compete against a female athlete. See the Attorney General’s statement about this heartbreaking incident.The Fairfax court correctly declined to dismiss a challenge to FCPS’ policies on preferred pronouns. The Office of the Attorney General wrote an amicus brief supporting the student challenging the policies.
AG Miyares filed an amicus brief supporting the Hanover County School Board’s common-sense policy to separate sports teams on the basis of sex, rather than gender identity.
On August 1st, the Biden-Harris dangerous Title IX policies went into effect across the United States. Thanks to Attorney General Miyares, these will NOT GO INTO EFFECT IN VIRGINIA.
Click here to read the letter – “The integrity of our election is at stake.”
Why We Need to VOTE Early
Early Voting for our Senatorial Candidate begins 3 May.
HERE is a presentation which offers some basics as to why we need to vote early.
I realize many of us like to vote on election day, it is tradition. But we have to beat the Democrats at their own game, e.g., voting early, using ballot boxes, ballot harvesting and absentee ballots, all which are now legal in Virginia. It is hard to make up the votes needed after the Democrats have had over 45 days of voting if we keep repeating the same losing strategy of waiting until Election Day to vote.
Trump lost Virginia during both of the last two presidential elections. Biden won Virginia with 54.15% of the vote in 2020. Hillary Clinton carried Virginia with 49.73% in 2016. The Democrats got out and voted early as well as taking advantage of the other rules such as ballot harvesting, something I am not recommending for Page County.
We need to be aggressive and search out unregistered conservatives and get them registered and “follow up” and close the loop and get them to vote.
“Chase that ballot” can be summed up simply by saying – close the loop – follow up and make sure that person votes.
We are not in the majority, and we keep losing the elections. You have to win the election first and then change the voter laws to go back to one day voting and hand counting paper ballots.
From a practical perspective, you save campaigns money by voting early, you get taken off “the lists,” meaning you (theoretically) do not get contacted after you vote through election day with mailers and calls, plus you become available to volunteer on Election Day – and we need poll watchers!
Once we get back into the driver’s seat, we can work to change the system – hand-counted paper ballots, voter ID, and voting on Election Day, vice election season. Until we are back in the White House and have the House and Senate, we have to use the current rules. We cannot wait until election day and be 45 days behind in voting.
Remember, Early Voting for our Republican Senatorial primary starts 3 May – only days away. Let us start now with a great turnout for our Senatorial Primary in preparation for your Early Voting for our Republican Candidate which begins September 20th.
Thank you,
Michael Overfelt
Chairman, Page County Republican Committee
Click HERE to read about each GOP senatorial candidate
Below is a summary article of aproject that is ongoing to stop SCOTUS ‘packing’ by progressives through US Constitution amendment. Although difficult to obtain, if the American people could ban alcohol via the US constitution in the past, the passing of this important amendment safeguard is infinitely ‘doable’.
The “Keep 9” Amendment to Ban Court Packing
We may be about to lose our Constitutional Republic. The pro-Court packing left’s goal is absolute power. And they are very close to achieving their goal.
• The Supreme Court packing threat is critical. The left’s next working majority, which they win periodically, could curb the Senate filibuster, add new states, and pass a law packing the Supreme Court.
• With Court control the left could rig election rules, empower big tech to limit free speech, rule and intimidate by regulatory edict, and impose a wealth confiscation tax that most would now consider unconstitutional.
• Only a Constitutional Amendment can permanently ban Court packing. Amendments for a Woman’s Right to Vote and Presidential Term Limits show success is possible with overwhelming public support.
• Polling shows voters would, by a 60-25% margin, support the “Keep 9” Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which says: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.”
• The Keep 9 Amendment was first introduced by a House Democrat (Collin Peterson, MN) and a Senate Republican (Ted Cruz, TX). More than 200 Members of Congress now back the Amendment.
• The Amendment has been unanimously endorsed by the RNC, and by ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), Freedom Works, Tea Party Patriots Action, Eagle Forum, Americans for Limited Government, the National Federation of Republican Women, and former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese. Resolutions urging Congress to act have passed in 19 state legislative chambers. More than 800 state legislators now support the Amendment.
• The Amendment effort forces those who claim to oppose Court packing to take a stand on an Amendment to ban it. The Amendment keeps voters’ attention focused on the Court packing threat.
• Our plan is simple. Unite Republicans. Recruit willing Democrats. Build grassroots support. Earn media visibility. Educate voters in races. And hold those who won’t back the Amendment accountable.
If those who won’t support “Keep 9” lose elections, bipartisan support for it will grow.
• The threat of Court packing may be the most critical issue of our time. If we lose, our Constitutional system of checks and balances may not recover. The left may achieve a near-permanent majority.
• We must block the left’s immediate Court packing plans, make the “Keep 9” Amendment a decisive issue in 2024, and eventually force Congress to propose and states to ratify it.
If you would like to learn more about the Keep 9” Amendment:
Visit www.KeepNine.org
Watch the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Video
Seven Facts: Why We Should Be Very Worried by the Supreme Court Packing Threat
1. More than 60 Democrats in Congress have backed legislation to expand the size of the Supreme Court.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries all say that all Supreme Court reform options are “on the table.”
3. The 2 largest pro-abortion rights groups in America, Planned Parenthood and NAARL/Pro-Choice America as well as the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, and the United Auto Workers Union have come out for Supreme Court expansion.
4. President Biden, who says he opposes Court packing, for years said he supported the Senate filibuster. But then in 2022 he called the filibuster a “relic of the Jim Crow era.”
5. President Biden’s handpicked 2021 Supreme Court Commission debated many Supreme Court reforms but would not discuss the “Keep Nine”Amendment that would permanently prohibit manipulation of the Court’s size by either party, even though “Keep Nine” had more support in Congress than any other specific reform, and the Commission, early in its history, received many more requests to consider “Keep Nine” than for any other reform.
6. Not a single Democrat in the current or past Congress has so far supported the “Keep 9”Amendment, even though it was first introduced in Congress by a Democrat, it has been backed by 200 Members of Congress and a bipartisan group of more than 800 state leaders, and polling shows that more Democratic voters would support than oppose the Amendment.
7. 49 Senate Democrats have already voted or pledged to create a “voting rights” exception to the Senate filibuster. Democrats need to win only one more vote in the Senate plus control of the House and White House to have the votes to create a voting rights exception to the Senate filibuster, then add DC as a new state, and then use their expanded Senate majority to expand the size of the Supreme Court.
Bonus Fact: The Biden campaign just hired the Brian Fallon, the leader of the pro-Court packing group, “Demand Justice”, as Vice President Harris’ campaign spokesperson.
The Court Packing Threat: How It Can Be Exposed To Help Republicans Win in 2024
- Democrats are almost certain to pack the Supreme Court the next time they win control of Congress and the White House.
- Right now Democrats are 1 vote away in the Senate and 4 votes in the House from being able to weaken the Senate filibuster, add DC as a new state, and then pack the Court.
- Whether or not Americans preserve our independent Supreme Court may be the most fundamental issue decided in the 2024 election.
- The “Keep 9” Constitutional Amendment already backed by the RNC, the NFRW, Tea Part Patriots and 200 Members of Congress, would end the Court packing threat. It simply states “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.”
- In 2024 we must do 3 things.
- Unite Republicans to Support Keep 9 Make Keep 9 widely known to voters. Expose Democrats who won’t back Keep 9.
Every Democrat who claims to oppose Court packing today but won’t back an Amendment to ban it tomorrow must be exposed as a closet enabler of Court packing. If someone lurking outside your home at 4 am says: “I am not a burglar but I don’t want to outlaw burglary” what are his true intentions?
There are at least 22 key toss up races for Congress and 8 swing states where we must make the Court packing threat and the “Keep 9” Amendment to end it better known to voters and a key issue in November!
Here are specific things you can do to help.
Call your elected officials and the offices of candidates you can vote for and ask where they stand on the Keep 9 Amendment.
Become a leaders for our Media Outreach Team to help spread the Keep 9 message by:
Posting on Social Media and online.
Writing Letters to the Editor.
Calling Radio Talk Shows
Help to organize campus and community debate in your area between advocates of Court expansion and advocates of the Keep Nine Amendment to ensure it never happens.
Become a Keep 9 “Ambassador” who will attend meetings and spread the word in conversations and questions, and/or a Keep 9 Speaker who will speak to groups in your area and encourage them to pass Resolutions endorsing Keep 9.
Finally, we need help connecting us to donorswho will help us deliver our message to swing voters in key states and districts that will decide the 2024 election.
The Bottom line:
Get ready to live in an America that no longer has an independent Supreme Court to protect our rights.
Or do something to expose and end the threat!
To Learn More:
Join every Wed. At 9 PM Eastern for our “Keep Nine” National Leaders Zoom Call
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84620271062
If you want to dial in by phone you can call
301 715 8592 and use Meeting ID 846 2027 1062.
If you have trouble getting on the call, phone 202-255-5000.
For more information Contact: Roman Buhler 202-255-5000 Roman@Rbuhler.com
Chairman, Freedom Caucus of Western Virginia
Note from the Chairman… (April 14, 2024)
Greetings to all our Page County Republicans and committee members. I wanted to take a this opportunity to inform everyone of the new members of the Page County Republican Party Executive committee.
Chairman: Michael Overfelt
1st Vice Chairperson: Shirron Ballard
2nd Vice Chairperson: RJ Judd
Treasurer: Keith Ryan
Secretary: VACANT – looking for a volunteer
Precinct 1 Chairperson: Karen Kebrle
Precinct 2 Chairperson: Jeremy Hillard
Precinct 3 Chairperson: Eric Smith
Precinct 4 Chairperson: Jane Judy
Precinct 5 Chairperson: Charles Queen
We hope to find someone to be our secretary during the next meeting.
Updated committee Bylaws are complete and will be forwarded to committee members for review this week. It is our intention to vote on them during the May committee meeting which will provide everyone plenty of time to review them.
We now have five (5) candidates for Virginia’s US Senate Seat:
Hung Cao
Edward C. “Eddie” Garcia, Jr.
Jonathan W. Emord
C.L. “Chuck” Smith, Jr.
Scott Thomas Parkinson
Click HERE to read about each candidate
Early voting begins 3 May and the primary is 18 Jun. Mark your calendars now, we must retire Senator (D) Tim Kaine.
Letter from the GOP Chair…
November 9, 2023
Good Day Page County Republicans,
On Tuesday, Page County turned out a potential record number of voters for an off-year election. We had greater than 53% of our 17,244 voter base cast their ballots, or approximately 9200 persons when one combines, early voting, absentee votes, provisional votes and those who chose to vote on election day.
Congratulations to the six candidates who won their races. As of 9 Nov, the unofficial results are as follows:
Chad Cubbage, reelected as Sheriff with 4,592 votes.
Bryan Cave, reelected as Commonwealth Attorney with an impressive 7,587 votes.
Rebecca Smith, reelected as Commissioner of Revenue with 5,526, over 2,500 more votes than her opponent.
Allen Louderback, reelected as Member Board of Supervisors (District 2) with 948 votes.
Issac B. Smelser, elected as Member of Board of Supervisors (District 4) with 1,349 votes.
Michael Overfelt, elected as Member School Board, (District 2) with 1,450 votes.
Our best to Shirron who, while she did not win, put up a valiant and commendable fight in the face of significant personal tragedy. We all wish her well and are saddened by the loss of her husband, who passed away just two days before election day. She remains a highly valued member of the team and 2nd Vice Chair of the Page GOP.
We also saw a significant vote of confidence for Mark D. Obenshain, Member, Senate of Virginia (2nd District) with 6,883 votes and C. Todd Gilbert, Member, House of Delegates (33rd District) with 7,061 votes. Congratulations to them both and well done to Page County republicans for their support.
Although we had a poor outcome across the state, losing the House of Delegates and failing to take back the Senate of Virginia, Page County had a commendable showing. We greatly appreciate all the hard work that was done to support this election and to achieve the above successes.
Now it is time to begin to think and plan for the upcoming Presidential, US congressional and senatorial races in 2024. It is less than a year away and we have much to do to prepare. We will need all hands on deck, working together as a team to ensure we take back our country.
As a side note – the election will be certified on Monday, 13 Nov. As of this writing, 9 Nov, there are numerous outstanding absentee ballots yet to be counted. There are also several provisional votes (approximately 45) which still need to be tallied. Bottom line, with only a 14-vote margin or .2% in the Page County Clerk of Court race between the current leader (receiving 27.9 %) and the second place (receiving 27.7 %), a decisive winner has yet to be determined.
To view the most current up to date election results, click HERE.
Thank you again for all your efforts. Now it is time to come together and look to the future of our nation.
Michael Overfelt, Page GOP Chairman