Election 2024

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Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month, the RPA will be highlighting Arkansas’ Black Leaders, our final feature highlights former RPA Chairman, John E. Bush.

Born a slave in 1856, he and his family were freed at the end of the Civil War. He served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas in the late 19th Century.

To finance his education, Bush worked during the summers in a brickyard. Through tremendous determination, Bush graduated with honors from the Capital Hill City School of Little Rock in 1876 and served

as its principal for two years following graduation.

He rose to national prominence when he co-founded the Mosaic Templars of America (MTA), an African American fraternal organization of international scope. Headquartered in Little Rock, MTA became one of the largest and most successful black-owned business enterprises in the nation and the world.

The founding of the Mosaic Templars in 1883 launched Bush’s business career and won him favor with other esteemed black leaders of the day, including Booker T. Washington. The two became fast friends and supported each other’s business endeavors.

In 1882, Bush was nominated by the Greenback Party for the office of county clerk of Pulaski County but declined the nomination out of loyalty to the Republican Party. President William McKinley appointed Bush as the receiver of the U.S. Land Office at Little Rock in 1898. He was subsequently reappointed for four additional terms by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

John passed away at the age of 60 in December of 1916, but his legacy is alive and well.

Can You Define The Word ‘Woman’?

Republicans are the Party of women, families, and opportunity for all. This commitment is not new – the Republican Party has a long history of championing women’s rights, putting forward female candidates, and focusing on the issues that matter to American women.

What you need to know:

• The 2022 midterms were historic for Republican women.
• Katie Britt became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest woman in the Senate.
• On Thursday, Senator Britt will deliver the Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union.
• Lori Chavez-DeRemer became Oregon’s first Republican Latina elected to Congress.
• Anna Paulina Luna became Florida’s first Mexican American woman elected to Congress.
• Monica De La Cruz is the first Republican and first Latina  elected to represent Texas’ 15^th Congressional district in the district’s 120-year history.
• Not only did Republican women make history in Congress, but they made history in state and local races across the United States.
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected the first female Governor of Arkansas and Leslie Rutledge was elected the first female Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
• Iowa elected a Republican Attorney General, Brenna Bird, for the first time in over 40 years.
• Soo Hong is the first Asian American Republican woman elected to the Georgia State legislature.
• Biden’s radical policies have hurt women across the country, leading to women increasingly rejecting Biden – and the Democrat Party – for failing to represent them.
• Biden’s approval rating is underwater as 60% of women disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job as president.
• Meanwhile, the Biden administration can’t even define what a woman is.
• Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was unable to define what a woman is, claiming she was “not a biologist.”
• Biden’s FY 2022 budget replaced the word “mothers” with “birthing people ” – when questioned about using “birthing people” in the budget, Biden’s OMB Deputy Director Shalanda Young doubled down.
• On top of dehumanizing women through “woke” language, Biden has taken action to end girls’ and women’s sports.
• On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order calling on schools across the country to allow students to compete in the sport of their “ gender identity.”
• The Biden administration even changed federal prison policy to let prisoners be incarcerated with the gender they identify as, including letting biological males be housed with female inmates.

The bottom line:

While The Left is incapable of defining the word “woman”, Republicans have and will continue to champion women and polices that will support them. The RNC looks forward to electing even more Republican women up and down the ballot for cycles to come.