Johnson County Republican Party Committee Caucus

November 1, 1995

Resolutions

(X means defeated)

(The original list of resolutions has been rewritten slightly for ease of understanding. The three marked red X were actually approved, but worded in double negatives, so that as rewritten, they were necessarily marked defeated.)

(Set printer for 8 1/2 x 14 landscape and print pages 1-6. Set printer for 8 1/2 x 11 portrait and print pages 8-10.)

DESCRIPTION	CATEGORY	NO.	CITY CAUCUS SPONSOR
			Leawood	Lenexa	Merriam	Olathe	OP123	OP4/5	PV	Shawnee
Reduce farm subsidies	Subsidies	1				Olathe
Reaffirm the right to keep and bear arms	Arms	2			Merrriam
Restore to states/people all powers not delegated to the Federal government	Fed vs. state rights	3						OP4/5
Amend the constitution to require a balanced budget, and requiring 3/5 majority to override in case of war/natural disaster.  No off-budget expenditures allowed.	Budget	4						OP4/5
Six terms for US Reps & two terms for US Senators	Term limits	5				Olathe
Strengthen the military and reform foreign policy agencies	Foreign	6						OP4/5
Oppose infringements on US sovereignty by foreign treaties/UN	UN	7						OP4/5		Shawn
Use Economic Development Initiative Fund only for projects related to economic development--not for reductions in general fund	EDIF	8		Lenexa
Allow parents the right to choose education (public/private/home)	Parents/Ed	9				Olathe
Increase parent control in education, maintain government accountability for use of tax revenues, and provide parent-controlled school vouchers K-12	Parents/Ed	10			Merriam	Olathe				Shawn
Enact state law protecting right to life from conception/fertilization until natural death	Right to life	12					OP123			Shawn
Declined to encouraged candidates to express or work for their own personal views on the issue of abortion.  Declined to encourage the development of sound public policy as relates to abortion.	Right to life	13							X
Re-adopt the pro-life plank of previous national platforms stating that the right to life of the unborn child cannot be infringed	Right to life	14	Leawd		Merriam	Olathe		OP4/5
States would set speed limits on highways consistent with safety.	Speed limits	15						OP4/5
English would be the official language	English	16	Leawd	Lenexa			OP123		PV
Restrict further expansion of gambling	Gambling	17				Olathe		OP4/5
Tax dollars would not be spent to fund abortion	Right to life	18	Leawd
No tax monies would be used to fund or promote any agency which performs or promotes elective abortions	Right to life	19	Leawd
Encourage Medicare patients to choose alternative insurance programs	Medicare	20							PV
Abolish statewide mandated property tax of 35 mills without raising income or sales taxes	Tax	21				Olathe
Abolish the Cabinet position of US Dept. of Education	Parents/Ed	22					OP123
Turn over to the states more of the social welfare programs ASAP to more efficiently control tax dollars	Fed vs. state	23							PV
Privatize all govt. departments which could be operated more efficiently and economically by private enterprise	Fed vs. private	24			Merriam
Reverse Roe v. Wade through Supreme Court or Amendment	Right to life	25					OP123
Declined to leave UN, discontinue support, or rescind GATT and NAFTA	UN	26			X
Allow local school boards to make all decisions impacting local public education	Parents/Ed	28		Lenexa
Repeal Goals 2000 and Title X; return maximum ontrol of educational funding and content to local community	Parents/Ed	29								Shawn
Sexual preference/orientation would not be considered a protected classification	Sex Pref	30					OP123			Shawn
Endorsed right to freedom of religion/speech, pluralism in society, individual rights, importance of the family, public education available for all children, compassion for all	Parents/Ed	31							PV
Oppose ratification of UN Treaty on Women & the Convention on Rights of Child, because fed govt. would be obligated to assume responsibility for family law (marriage, divorce, child custody, and property)	UN	32				Olathe
Repeal the general mining law of 1872 which mandates that federal land can be purchased for foreign and domestic interests at prices set in 1872	Mining	34					OP123
Eliminate all forms of state-supported gambling and the lottery	Gambing	35						OP4/5
Tax dollars would not be used at any level of government for lobbying or campaign purposes	Lobbying	36				Olathe
Support a competitive tax system	Tax	37		Lenexa
Significantly reduce the rate of state inheritance tax	Tax	38					OP123
Further reduce personal property tax for automobiles	Tax	39	Leawd
Enact legislation for term limits & campaign reform	Term/Campaign	40						OP4/5
Place a firm lid all government & schools w/o exception for all accounts & revenues	Budget	42								Shawn
Allow maximum flexibility for local elected officials in setting priorities	Local rights	43		Lenexa
By the year 2000 return Congressional officials, their staffs, and their residences to their respective states, where they would spend most of their time, Congress convening for limited duration 90-day Washington DC. sessions each in Spring and in the Fall	Fed vs. state	44		Lenexa
Amend constitution to assure that parents' God-given rights to govern their children's welfare, including education, discipline, and training, are not undermined by the state	Parents/Ed	45				Olathe
Refuse to support UN documents unless approved by Congress.  Allow only organizations with congressional approval to use tax money while repesenting the US	UN	46								Shawn
Remove excessive environmental regulations on business	Environment	47			Merriam
Continue existing federal regulation of employee pensions, preventing businesses from tapping such funds to remain solvent	Pensions	49		Lenexa
Restore workers comp to the original format which limits the involvement of attorneys from the process of providing medical care to injured workers in a non-litigious setting	Workers Comp	50		Lenexa
Re-adopt the 1990 Repub. position on education EXCEPT not requiring Kansas history being taught to K-12.	Parents/Ed	51		Lenexa
Offer sex education as an elective in the public middle and high schools, promoting abstinence, with parents being involved in the selection process for the curriculum	Parents/Ed Sex Ed	53	Leawd
Writings/documents/records of Nation's founding would not be excluded in American history	Parents/Ed	54						OP4/5
Make adoption easier.  Considering that most available children are African-American and most prospective parents are White, adoption regulations would be eased for adoption of children of a different race	Adoption	55							PV
Enact reasonable laws to allow concealed weapons, except for mentally competent, persons conviced of crimes against persons--IF pass weapons training course	Arms	56								Shawn
Champion the right to effective self-defense	Arms	57								Shawn
Would not enact a statute placing a cap on malpractice medical lawsuit awards	Malpractice	58					X
Organize the state's services of probation, parole, post-release supervision, community corrections, and any other post-trial supervision as programs of the Kansas Department of Corrections	Law Enforcement	59								Shawn
Impose stricter legislation on prisoner's filing of frivolous lawsuits, making such acts subject to appropriate and severe sanctions	Law Enforcement	60							PV
Prohibit random traffic checkpoints, targeting instead suspected violators rather than the general public	Law Enforcement	61						OP4/5
Tax dollars would not go to support lobbying efforts for any public institution or any 501 (c) organizations that support public institutions	Lobbying	62				Olathe
Because government agencies now use taxpayers' monies to lobby state government for more taxpayers' money, they would support efforts to eliminate the availability of taxpayers' money for lobbying activities and in the minimum require such activities to be fully reported for public review.	Lobbying	63	Leawd
Repeal funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, returning the right and responsibility for approval of artistic expression to the citizens	Arts	64						OP4/5		Shawn
Since state tax receipts are expected to increase an average of 4.75% over the next 5 years and since the state currently receives over $3.5 billion in annual tax revenues, and since tax freedom day in Kansas is May 4, they would reduce taxes	Tax	65	Leawd
Jurisdictions could not abate taxes for other jurisdictions, prohibiting Chambers of Commerce from using educational tax dollars for their own activities or for community events outside the limits of educating children.	Parents/Ed	66				Olathe
Call a halt to all new taxes and tax legislation for one year, during which time all past regulations and programs would be reviewed and those which are obsolete would be repealed.  Any new programs thereafter would have a two-year sunset amendment.  Repeal inheritance taxes because taxes have already been paid; repeal capital gains taxes	Tax Inheritance Capital gains	67			Merriam
Declined to give Medicare persons annual vouchers for specified procedures	Medicare	68					X
Declined to produce silver $10 and $5 coins to replace the silver dollar and 50 cent piece, declined to eliminate the $1 and $5, maybe even the $10 bills	Coinage	69					X
Limit assessments made on private residences not to exceed the lower of 1 1/2 times the current rate of inflation or 15%--except in exceptional situations	Tax-RE	70					OP123
Eliminate retail state sales tax on food such as sold by produce markets, grocery stores, but not restaurants or fast food places.  Alcoholic beverages and sodas and non-food items sold in supermarkets would not be tax exempt	Tax on food	71					OP123
Support a federal flat income tax with few or no deductions for individuals and corporations; or, better, a national sales tax, excluding food and housing, to eliminate the IRS and fraud	Tax-flat	72							PV

At the County Caucus Meeting, they ran out of time to address all the resolutions. Paper ballots were passed out for delegates to cast their votes on those remaining. I called later to get the results listed below.

Addendum to 1995 Johnson County Republican Party Caucus Resolutions
(Keep in mind that these are RESOLUTIONS which would have been submitted to the State Committee as resolutions for the State Caucus to address; i.e. 'Kansas Republican party [should do....])

Number: 11
The Republican Party believes that religion is a fundamental right and that no government should dictate any religious belief. (By amendment the following statement was deleted: "therefore, the Republican Party supports the separation of Church and State.)
Category: Church & State
Sponsor: Leawood, PV

Number: 27
The Kansas Republican Party declined to "support reducing government subsidies to business (including farmers) because government interference in the market hurts consumers more than it helps them."
Category: Subsidies
Sponsor: Leawood

Number: 33
The Kansas Republican Party declined to "support sentencing guidelines being established for all crimes against the state of Kansas--and those guidelines including presumptive terms of confinement, fines, and supervision."
Category: Law Enforcement
Sponsor: OP123

Number: 41
The Kansas Republican Party declined to "insist that the Federal Government act in accordance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution and exercise only those powers allowed by the Constitution--nor does the Party support the Federal Government disbanding all agencies not authorized by the Constitution--nor that Kansas shall resist all federal laws, mandates, ad regulations that are not specifically authorized by the Constitution."
Category: Fed. vs. State
Sponsor: Merriam

Number: 43
The Republican Party declined to "encourage maximum flexibility for local elected officials in setting local priorities by supporting home rule, believing the best decisions are made as close as possible to the people they affect."
Category: Local rights - Home School
Sponsor: Lenexa

Number: 48
Kansas Republicans believe it is a conflict of interest for elected or other public officials to receive income from governmental contracts where the award or bidding process is closed or non-competitive.
Category: Conflict of interest
Sponsor: Olathe

Number 52
All instructors at public schools and universities should be required to demonstrate a strong speaking proficiency in English.
Category: English
Sponsor: OP4/5