November 13, 2015
| Editor’s Note: The following articles reveal the directional intent of the modern Republican far right. These articles also show some of the early planning involved. There are other revealing descriptions that are still available online. |
Christian right aims for control of county's GOP
By Jeanne Hubert, Mercury News Staff Writer
Sunday, May 31, 1992
| Editor’s Note: Notice the date on this article. The desire began even before that. |
A group dedicated to making the Bible the law of the land has quietly positioned itself to take over the Republican Party's power structure in Santa Clara County.
The 17 Christian right candidates for the Republican Central Committee appear on a mailer put out by a Tehama County group called Citizens for Liberty. The flier says the candidates advocate "traditional family values, more jobs, lower taxes, welfare reform and choice in education."
But at least some have a more sweeping agenda. Key among them is Jay Grimstead, an ordained minister who runs the Coalition on Revival out of a two-desk office in Sunnyvale. Grimstead's goal, as he wrote in the first issue of the think tank's Crosswinds magazine, is to bring "families, finances, education, legal matters, professional life, voting choices, involvement in the arts and science, recreation and physical health all under the King's dominion." And along the way, he wants to eliminate the IRS and the Federal Reserve Bank.
More liberal Republicans say the Central Committee campaign is part of a widespread "stealth" effort to take over America by starting with little-noticed local races. They cite elections in San Diego County two years ago, when 60 of 90 Christian right candidates for low-level offices won election, largely by campaigning through conservative churches.
"Clearly the strategy is to control the central committees and then use the central committees to give credibility to their candidates," said Luis Buhler, who is on an opposing Central Committee slate in Santa Clara County backed by Rep. Tom Campbell, R-Stanford; state Sen. Becky Morgan, R-Los Altos Hills; and Assemblyman Charles Quackenbush, R-Cupertino, among them.
Grimstead said his opponents are correct in saying that the National Coordinating Council, a political strategy group that he also heads, has targeted Santa Clara and Orange counties to be "taken for Christ." The council's 24-point plan for accomplishing this includes setting up a "Kingdom College" in San Jose to "produce world-changers trained in mobilizing the church" and establishing militias controlled by county supervisors.
Grimstead said, there is no "awesome underground organiza tion" behind the Christian right's new interest in local politics across the country. Instead, he said, the effort is being directed by God, who is sending signals to "all of his people" that this is the way to help America return to its Judeo-Christian roots. "God hasn't been as active for 200 years as he is now," Grimstead said."
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