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Peroutka: Ala. State Chairman Violates Party's Oath by Threatening to Expel Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Moore from GOP
July 08, 2004
To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: John Lofton, 301-873-4612, 410-766-8591 or 301-490-7266
LAUREL, Md., July 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Constitution Party Presidential candidate Michael Anthony Peroutka has issued the following statement:
"A recent Associated Press story by Jay Reeves has reported, accurately, that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore and I have appeared together at several meetings in different states. In reaction to this fact, in this AP story, Alabama Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors is paraphrased as saying that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore 'could jeopardize his right to run as a Republican in state elections' if he endorses candidates who are not Republicans (such as myself).
"I am disappointed by Mr. Connors' narrow-minded, anti-free speech, political intolerance. His threatening of Alabama's former Supreme Court Chief Justice is blatantly hypocritical since his state party's 'Republican Oath' says, among other things, that 'one of those principles worth retaining' is to have 'an outlook broad enough to accommodate...varying points of view.' Roy S. Moore is a man I am honored to call my friend. He is a great American, a Christian gentleman, and a true hero who has fearlessly and courageously defended a bedrock principle upon which our country was founded: the duty of all public officials to acknowledge and obey God and His Law. And he has done this without any public help from the Alabama Republican Party.
"Instead of threatening the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice with expulsion from the GOP, Marty Connors should be praising him for all his good work. A final thought. If former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Moore did endorse me --- which he has not --- he would simply be endorsing a candidate who stands for many of the principled positions long ago abandoned by the Republican Party nationally, including President George W. Bush: Godly, limited, fiscally-responsible, Constitutional government."
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