ROLF
M. BAGHDADY
Started as a conservative & Republican advocate &
activist
before he was old enough to vote, but now sees the
Progressives and Green Party ( except on abortion) as
taking the positions most aligned with what is best for
the people.
First volunteered for the Ford/Dole campaign in 1976 in
Cleveland, Ohio
Elected Most Conservative for the high school class of
1977 - Orange High School, Pepper Pike, Ohio
Elected chairman of the Conservative Party of the
Pennsylvania Political Union, a debating society of the
University of Pennsylvania
Attended the Reagan victory celebration in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1980
Attended the Tenth Annual Conservative Political Action
Conference to honor President Reagan in Washington, D.C.
in 1983
Disenchanted with the refusal of Congress to carry out
the mandate of Reagan’s election in 1981 and suspended
political efforts until the victory of Newt Gingrich and
a Republican House and Senate in 1994 and the Republican
Sweep of South Carolina in 1994
Elected President of the St. Michael’s precinct of the
Republican Party in 1995 and 1997
Elected as alternate delegate at the 1995 Lexington
County Republican Party Convention
Attended and seated as a delegate at the 1996 Republican
Party State Convention
Elected by the Executive Committee as Northern District
Vice Chairman to complete the term of Sarah Caldwell
from 1995-1997 and elected for the term 1997-1999 and
reelected for the term 1999 - 2001
Drafted and saw passed resolutions at the Precinct,
County and State Conventions 1998 and submitted to the
State Resolutions Committee 2000
Elected and attended as a delegate at the 1998 and 2000
Republican Party State Conventions
Elected Vice-President of Dutchman Shores precinct in
1999
Served on the Lexington County Republican Party
Resolutions Committee
Served as Parliamentarian of the 2nd Congressional
District Republican Convention 2000
Served on the South Carolina State Republican Party
Rules Committee 2000.
Served as the Chairman of the Poll Managers of the
Dutchman Shores Precinct for the Lexington County
Registration and Election Commission. Mr. Baghdady has
also been active in the Lexington County Republican
Party since 1995, and served as Northern District Chair
of the Lexington County Republican Party from 1995 -
2007( automatically carried over from 2005-2007 without
elections), and was designated as a delegate by the County to
the State Conventions, 1995 - 2005. He also served on
the South Carolina State
Republican Party Rules Committee.
Volunteered to work and voted in the 2004 Democratic
Presidential preference primary.
Founding sustainer
Progressive Democrats of America.
Democracy Bond Holder.
2008-Current Lexington County,
South Carolina, Green
Party Chairman and Elected as a National Delegate
from South Carolina to the Green Party Convention in
Chicago but was unable to attend.
Believes that the Holy Bible should be used as the
reference guide to government as did many of America’s
great leaders of the past. And that the Bible can
inform us to take positions on political issues today.
I believe that the state of man in relation to
government
can be divided into three classifications:
1. Liberty When men practice self-government by allowing
God’s laws, commands and principles found in His word to
control their lives
2. Tyranny When men’s self-interest and selfish motives
use government power to achieve their own ends at the
expense of the governed
3. Anarchy When men’s self-interest and selfish motives
are unrestrained by any government, and there is no
authority administering justice
On the record against taxes and spending
Letter to the Editor of The State newspaper published
September 4, 1990:
The power to tax involves the power to destroy
(McCulloch vs. Maryland, 1819).
Compare the economic performance of no-tax Hong Kong to
China, West Germany to East Germany, or the total
percent the United States of America had of worldwide
GNP before Roosevelt raised taxes into the 90th
percentile and the USA’s portion of worldwide GNP today
after 50 years of massive government intervention in the
U.S. economy.
The low-tax economies have much greater amounts of
income left in the private sector to spend, save and
invest, which has a compound effect over time. This
increases the total wealth of the population. Compare,
for example, the growth of savings in a tax-free IRA to
regular after-tax savings, and multiply that across the
American economy. Budget deficits in good times are bad;
they increase trade deficits and real interest rates.
Taxes are far worse; they immediately decrease savings
and GNP and favor the unproductive over the productive.
The negative draf taxes have on wealth creation is
clear.
What a shame that those collecting government checks,
whether they be in defense, agriculture, foreign
lobbying groups and/or bankers in trouble, et al., have
more political clout than those of us shouldering the
tax burden and mailing our hard-earned money to our
voracious, insatiable public officials.
The time has come to dramatically cut government
spending.
Mailed a
Christmas letter to all 1998 Northern District
Republican Primary voters.
Mailed a
letter to all State Convention Delegates and
Alternates in May of 2000.
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