PAChyderm Coalition
A Reagan Republican Organization
PAChyderm Coalition Mission Statement
The PAChyderm Coalition is committed to the conservative values and beliefs exemplified by the late President Ronald Reagan as articulated in the Republican Party Platform that he promulgated over thirty years ago. These beliefs are in the mainstream of Arizona and American society and are politically victorious when adhered to with passion and consistent actions.
The PAChyderm Coalition provides primary and general election political support for fiscally and socially conservative candidates for local, state legislative and statewide offices. Our political action committee provides financial and other assistance on behalf of our endorsed candidates. The Coalition also educates and informs Republican primary voters and the electorate at-large through public forums as well as the creation and distribution of print, audio, video, internet and other media.
We only promote Republican candidates who support the principles enshrined in the Constitution, as framed by our Founding Fathers, and our Reagan Republican Platform. PAChyderm Coalition endorsed candidates must support pro-life and pro-school choice legislation, embrace traditional family values, support all legal measures to combat illegal immigration and support limited government including lower taxation and unnecessary government regulation.
If these issues are important to you and you would like to meet with others to make a difference, we invite you to come to our next meeting and apply for membership. Have a great day, and God Bless
A Mesage from the PAChyderm
Independence Day 2008
Our Founders believed that independence was more than a choice; they viewed our break from royal rule as necessary – the first statement declares: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary.” The signatories were emphatic that separation from the crown was not only an objective, but an obligation.
The founders knew, however, that power could not be its own justification. They recognized that only an appeal to overarching laws, binding the king as much as his subjects, was legitimate. And abuse of authority demonstrated disqualification of any governor, whether a monarch or a purported representative.
We would do well to apply this insight to the political debates of today. Indeed, two competing philosophies of government at odds during the American Revolution have reappeared, with the anti-republican form seen in those who would seek to gain favor by manipulating language and misrepresenting their positions manifested currently in government officials—especially our elected officers—who believe they may command the citizenry to whatever they please, to whichever they purport to be for the good of the people.
Yet the prevailing philosophy of government proposes a centralized control of all things. The truth is that directions from Washington as to how we must conduct ourselves, in matters large and small, will lead inexorably to scarcity and will inevitably erode our freedom. Our system of government today is not so different from the monarchy we escaped, except that a swarm of bureaucrats have taken up the throne.
A necessity thus presents itself to us: We must reconnect with the timeless principles that inspired our Founding Fathers; those same principles that long ago gave birth to a good, great and God-blessed nation.
“[W]hat do we mean by the American Revolution?” reflected John Adams. “Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”
Let’s celebrate Independence Day 2008 in a way that Adams himself might recognize—with “solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty,” and a rededication to the principles of our necessary American Revolution. And as always, in the words of George Washington, “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
