The Nevada Republican Party had a convention last week to
approve their party platform and endorse a candidate for governor. After much
debate, the party conventioneers decided to strip opposition to gay marriage
and abortion from the party platform, while they also endorsed Gov. Brian
Sandoval for re-election. Sue Lowden was also backed for the seat of lieutenant
governor over Mark Hutchison, who was endorsed by Sandoval.
The new party platform was proposed by a separate committee
and was then approved by a show of hands by convention-goers. There were 520
delegates in attendance, but less than half of them were present at the time of
the vote on the platform.
The party chairman stated it was a successful convention. He
said, “I think it was about inclusion, not exclusion…This is where the party is
going.” Those members of the committee who proposed this new platform said they
decided not to deal with social issues this year because the U.S. Supreme Court
and lower courts had already weighed in and it didn’t make sense to have the
party of “personal freedom” to have the government get involved in peoples’
personal lives.
The state party platform had previously defined marriage as
“between a man and a woman” and described the party as “pro-life,” but that’s
no longer in there.
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