REPUBLICANS ... fight for the rights of all people, regardless of race, religion, or gender. We believe in true equality of opportunity, with no government guarantees of success or failure.

REPUBLICANS... recognize that small businesses are the cornerstone of American innovation. Tired, big government programs will not lead us to sustainable prosperity; instead we must lower taxes and reduce government interference in the marketplace.

REPUBLICANS... know that the free market must be at the heart of any real health care reform, and that true educational excellence can only be achieved when parents have the freedom to make real choices for their children.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ...believes in Ronald Reagan's vision of America as a shining city on the hill, "a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with a free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here."

Adopted by the County Executive Committee June 15, 2009