Lanier Republican Assembly Met in Helen Monday

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North Georgia Republicans attended a meeting of the new Lanier Republican Assembly at the Holiday Inn Express in Helen Monday.

HELEN, Ga. – The Lanier Republican Assembly, a start-up group of conservatives who feel betrayed by establishment Republicans’ failure to repeal and replace Obamacare and support President Donald Trump’s initiatives, got a luke warm  reception in this little Bavarian village Monday.

There was good food and a lot of speeches by political candidates but too many empty seats in the Holiday Inn Express Conference Center. Less than 30 people attended. LRA President Kimberly Pils had hoped to hold a vote on corrections to LRA by-laws approved at a charter meeting, but too few of the group’s officers attended to comprise a quorum.

LRA President Kimberly Pils

“I was a little disappointed but we are new and we had several members who traveled to Florida to help out with the hurricane recovery,” Pils said.

Speakers included Tim Tyler with Americans for Prosperity, former 9th District Congressman Paul Broun, Jim Beck, a candidate for state insurance commissioner, gubernatorial candidate Marc Alan Urbach and State Senate District 47 candidate Lucretia Hughes.

An affiliate of the Georgia Republican Assembly, the LRA represents Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and White counties.

State Senate Dist. 46 Candidate Lucretia Hughes fired up crowd.

While LRA members are Republicans and the group shares some of the same leadership as the Hall County Republican Party, Pils made it clear the new group is completely separate from the Georgia Republican Party.  In fact, she said, some Republican Party leaders were angered by her involvement in LRA since she if first vice chair of the Hall County Republican Party.

Hughes, a fiery, no-nonsense African-American wife, mother, grandmother and staunch conservative Republican who works in the insurance industry, got the crowd cranked up by saying she was fed up with the broken promises of some Republican leaders.

“We hear many promises made, but only about 10 percent kept,” she said. “When you have private votes, we have a problem. If we have to have an exit poll to show us how you are voting, we have a problem. If you do one thing we voted down but you choose to do any way, we have a problem.”

She called for an end to the divisive rhetoric that has been coming from both sides of the aisle.

“It’s time for people like us to take our country back,” she said. “If it takes a woman like me to step up to the plate then, guess what? I’m going to step up to it.”

 

 

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