Changing
Our Political Situation
APAC District Watch
As
documented in
The Charge and Political Action the federal (and State)
governments have created a fairly complicated series of political
restrictions and prohibitions on 501(c)(3) organizations such as the
SCV. Over the past few decades this aspect of The Charge has suffered
greatly. However the same laws and regulations provide the guidelines
for like minded to participate on issues and elections of concern.
Following these
guidelines and in full compliance with the law the Americans for the
Preservation of American Culture (APAC) was created. The APAC is
registered 527 PAC.
In our first few months
of operations since March we have had some limited success in the
Virginia Assembly Primary and the 10th Congressional District Special
Election in Georgia. Both the Georgia election and the ensuing runoff
were decided by very small margins and both the runoff candidates
contacted the APAC for an endorsement. Our preferred candidate won the
runoff. The federal issues he agreed to support are:
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Flying Confederate
Flags at all cemeteries containing Confederate Veterans and maintained
by the Veterans Administration, National Park Service or other federal
agency
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Eliminating the
politically correct version of history presented at Battlefields by
the National Park Service.
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Purchasing Battlefield
property for preservation
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Restoring the UDC
Patent that was discontinued by then Senator Carol Mosley Braun from
Illinois.
One down, 217 to go!
On the other hand,
there have been special elections in South Carolina and Florida in
which we had no presence. In the case of the Florida special election
a strong Heritage supporter and member of the SCV lost by 300 votes.
We could have made the difference, but were not aware of the election
until afterwards.
We hope you agree, we
need to have more elections like the Georgia special election if we are going to reverse the
recent negative trends. If you agree consider helping implement the
APAC District Watch, whether it be by contributions or actively
participating in your selected election district(s).
APAC District Watch:
We need one or more
member in every election district in the South to monitor events and
provide timely information on:
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Elections, special or
regular
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Candidates, contact
information
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Issues, issues relating
to meeting The Charge
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Media, contact
information for print, radio and TV media
You can signup for any
election district, Congressional, State Legislature, County (Parrish
in Louisiana) or Municipal. Compiling this information for all the
Southern States is an enormous job. But compiling this information for
your own election district only takes a couple hours at most.
We must work together
to have success.
With this information,
we will be able to develop candidate questions for all elections and
then produce voter guides. For critical elections we can raise funds
and distribute voter guides to the public or take other action to
improve the results of the elections.
If you can not
actively participate, consider sending a contribution to support the
effort. Send a couple of those bills with Lincoln on them and put
Lincoln to work on our side.
If we want to change
our political situation, nothing will change for the better - until we
make the change. But with your support we can have more elections like
the Georgia special election every year. So consider
joining now, the amount is not
important, send what you can. As soon as we get back from Mobile we
will start the District Watch signup.
To get future updates
on the APAC District watch enter eMail address and click Submit
button. Then select the APAC District Watch on the list signup page.
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