This is in response to the letter to the editor titled “Commissioner Pollock tied innocent Republicans to white supremacists,” by Erin Volz.
The Republican Party of today is not an inclusive party nor a party of many hats. I have a couple of friends who are Republicans and wish the party would come back to center. The split of a more traditional version of the Lewis County Republican Party as reported in The Chronicle and the recent meet and greet at the Alexander Park is evidence of that split.
This split has to do with the chairman of the Lewis County Republican Party and his lack of leadership. The Chronicle reported on a meeting led by Commissioner Sean Swope concerning the failed Centralia School District levy in order to figure out the messaging or how to pass a levy in the district he represents.
The chairman of the Lewis County Republican Party blamed the failure on “wokeness” and homosexuality being taught in the schools. I have not met anyone who can truly define being woke. It means being situationally aware. Thank goodness a commissioner shot him down in order to find real solutions.
Erin, your party is the party of white supremacists. Remember the Unite the Right Rally in West Virginia? I think the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group and are supported and recognized by the national leader of your party. Ron DeSantis and his group in Florida rewrote a few textbooks to state “enslaved peoples learned life skills while enslaved.” A whitewash of how slavery affected the enslaved. Correct, the historical Democratic Party supported slavery and voted against civil rights. That subgroup, known as the Dixiecrats, left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party in the 60s. Read some history and you might learn. Sen. Tommy Tuberville on numerous issues would not declare that white nationalists are not racist. The basic definition of the white nationalism is racism.
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls herself proud to be a white Christian nationalist. Read some history. Jesus was Jewish and Mediterranean.
Erin, your party is a party of hate. Hating of something different than yourselves, be it by skin color, ethnicity or sexual preference. The Republican Party sponsored the 14th Amendment, the right that a person born in America is a citizen of America.
Sen. Hawley of Missouri introduced an amendment to end the so-called Anchor Baby law. To let you know, I am a first-generation American on my mother’s side and my biological father’s side. He was an American soldier who left my mother soon after my birth. I served 20 years
in the U.S. Military and retired in 2013. The repeal of that law would revoke my citizenship.
I have learned a lot about the Republican Party lately.
The Lewis County Republican Party needs more Cecil Meyer and less of what it currently has.
Timothy Schmidt
Napavine
