Membership Application Cover Sheet

 

 All applicants who would like to join PAChyderm must complete our application and be approved by the Executive Committee. Be advised that all PAChyderm members are expected to take an active role in the organization. Please read each information point below. Thank you.

 1.    PAChyderm Philosophy. PAChyderm is organized as a Membership Organization that has also established an Arizona Political Action Committee (PAC). We are guided by the political principles of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and the current Party Platform. We are Conservative Republicans, but not everyone who calls himself a Republican is accepted as a member.

 “A political party cannot be all things to all people.  It must represent certain fundamental beliefs, which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers....  And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these conservative principals, then let them go their own way.”—Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975 

2.    How We Operate. We operate apart from but parallel to the regular Republican organization. Our objective is to place our members in positions of leadership within the GOP at all levels, thereby reshaping it into the victorious party that elected Ronald Reagan to two terms. We strongly urge our members to become GOP precinct committeemen—first by appointment and then by election. This is encouraged and expected because only elected PCs can vote in district-wide and statewide elections for GOP officers. 

3.    PAChyderms In Action. In the Arizona primaries over the last six years, more than four out of five legislative candidates endorsed by PAChyderm were victorious. Numerous "moderate, liberal and RINO" Republicans were defeated by Ronald Reagan conservatives in those campaigns. We are proud to have contributed to those elected conservatives who now are a majority in the caucus.

In addition, PAChyderms played a key role in electing conservative Republican Party leadership at the county and state levels since 2000.  This was possible only because conservatives were elected as precinct and state committeemen from across the state.

 

4.    The Next Step. If you are a registered Republican, and, after reading the above information, you believe that your political philosophy is the same as ours, continue to the back of this application. Read each issue statement carefully. Then, to indicate your commitment to these issues, initial in the space provided at the end of each issue statement. Complete the information at the bottom of the page and submit it to our Membership Chairman.
 

5.      Independents. Those registered as independents are not eligible to join PAChyderm. However, we understand that many independents are Ronald Reagan conservatives who have left the GOP in disgust because of its “big-tent” philosophy of recruiting anyone and everyone willing to put an “R” next to his name.  The Republican Party, trying to be all things to all people, has only succeeded in being lukewarm and created a disastrous series of political defeats for the GOP.  

We welcome you to join us, but you must first re-register as a Republican. Go to the PAChyderm website for more info at http://pachydermcoalition.com or contact your local county government. 

For more info, contact:  Don Goldwater, Chairman, PAChyderm Coalition, at:
don@dongoldwater.com

                              Thayer Verschoor, Executive Director, PAChyderm Coalition, at:
thayerlv@juno.com

                              Or  Diane Douglas, State Membership Chairman PAChyderm, at:
azpatsfan@cox.net

PAChyderm Coalition – Issue Affirmation

 

Please read each issue statement below. Subscribing to these issues is a part of your commitment to PAChyderm. If you agree with the statement, print this page, initial at the end of each issue to indicate your commitment to that issue. Then print this application and fill out the information at the bottom of this page and send it as an attachment to Diane Douglas at azpatsfan@cox.net. Thank you.

1.    As the U.S. Constitution states and the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed, I regard the right to bear arms as an individual right, not a collective right. I also subscribe to Article 2, Section 26 of the Arizona Constitution, which states that 'The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself or the state shall not be impaired.' _____ 

2.    I will NOT support any restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, and I will always support the right of Arizonans to defend themselves and their families, by force of arms if necessary.____
 

3.    I am in favor of eliminating Arizona’s personal and corporate income taxes in favor of a low, broad-based retail consumption tax.  _____
 

4.    I am in favor of an amendment to the Arizona Constitution limiting the growth of state revenues to the rate of population growth plus inflation: a limit that can only be lifted through voter initiative or a vote of three quarters of both houses of the legislature. ____
 

5.    I support all laws to combat both voter and program fraud in whatever form.____
 

6.    I am in favor of laws to eliminate tax-supported welfare services, medical care or any other taxpayer-supported programs to illegal aliens. ____
 

7.    I support the building of an effective fence along the entire US-Mexican border, for stationing the AZ National Guard and/or Federal troops along that border, and for the enforcement of ALL immigration laws by every law-enforcement agency, whether local, state, or Federal. ____
 

8.    I am favor of any law defining marriage in Arizona as a union between one man and one woman, and I will oppose “civil unions” or other options legitimizing homosexual unions. ___
 

9.    I support and will vote in favor of universal statewide school choice that includes parent-directed options for vouchers for alternative in-district schools, charter schools, and private schools. ____
 

10. I am in favor of the statewide ban on partial birth abortions.____
 

11. I am in favor of a law that requires every abortionist to show a pregnant woman or girl seeking an abortion her unborn child via ultrasound prior to any procedure, operation or abortion. ____
 

12. I support the popular election of judges in Maricopa and Pima counties, to bring those counties in conformity with the other thirteen AZ counties. ____
 

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