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October 16, 2012

GOP opens campaign headquarters

By David A. Farrell, Item Staff Writer The Picayune Item

PICAYUNE — County GOP officials opened a campaign headquarters at 1125 Mississippi Highway 43 North, Suite E, on Saturday, and listened to a number of Republican speakers rally attendees, cut the ribbon and then broke for lunch.

The headquarters will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. during the week, open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and will be closed on Sundays.

Literature on all the GOP candidates running locally and nationally will be available at the center.

Donna Knezevich, Republican Executive Committee vice president, who stood in for chairman Jose Lopez, who was getting married, welcomed guests and urged members to stay “active and committed.”

“When we win, that’s just the beginning,” she told about 40 people who turned out for the ribbon cutting at 11 a.m. on Saturday. “We need to remain committed and keep this movement going. We have a lot to do ahead of us and need all the help we can get. I want to thank state senators Angela Burks Hill and Tony Smith for being with us today.” Hill had other commitments and had to leave early before the ribbon cutting.

In remarks, Smith said he believes that locally and on the state level voters will go for Romney, but he urged Republicans to remain active and call everyone they can and urge them to vote.

“I have two grandchildren now,” the first-term state senator from Picayune said. “My perspective on things, especially about our deficit, has changed. I am a lot more concerned now about our fiscal policy, how we need to get it under control. Our monetary policy is very important, “I no longer am looking at just the short-term future but at the long-run, too,” he said. “I am a small businessman and I have a budget, and each family has to have a budget, so government needs to have a budget and follow it,” he said, pointing out that the U.S. Senate has not produced a budget in three years under Reid. Smith owns Stonewalls.

He said that he has found that those who want to cut government spending, sometimes want to cut other programs, but when it comes to personal sacrifice and cutting what they deem important, you usually get the remark, “Well we want to cut, but don’t cut that budget. It’s real important.”

“Everything needs to be on the table,” said Smith, “from the White House to the courthouse. We need to make sure that government is as lean as possible and manage the taxpayers’ resources as if you were managing your own money,” said Smith.

Buddy McDonald, a member of the executive committee and a Picayune attorney and former district attorney, told members that the country faces an election that will draw a line about which path America will take. “We are at a crossroads with this election. It is probably the most important we have ever faced. We cannot keep on spending and borrowing and printing money like we have been doing. No matter where you stand ideologically, this election is about fiscal policy and economic policy.”

McDonald added, “There is a line we are now facing, and a big division point, about what path the country will take. The issue is not being discussed as much as it should in this election, but it will impact all of us: the middle class, the poor and those on fixed income.

“We face unbridled spending and with the printing of money by the Fed, we face the devaluation of our currency as inflation will take hold. It’s called ‘quantitative easing,’ and it will devalue our money,” said McDonald.

Anyone wanting to join the Republican Party and get active in politics, should call Lopez at 601-347-5251, said Republican officials.

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