RINOs Gone Wild In Pinellas County

By James Lampe

Pinellas County is dominated by republican politicians so you would think the county would be a fairly conservative locale; but you would be wrong.  In fact, the area is dominated by RINOs (Republican In Name Only) who have gone wild spending tax money like drunken socialists.

Worse yet, the RINOs are implementing a wish list of UN Agenda 21 projects.

Currently, the alpha RINO is Mr. J. J. Beyrouti, Chairman of the Pinellas County Republican Committee (PCREC).  Mr. Beyrouti does his best to impersonate a conservative but he is a better politician than he is an actor.  His actions tell us what he really believes in; what the philosophy is that is at the core of the man.  Unfortunately, his actions show his philosophy is steeped in socialist ideals rather than Jeffersonian wisdom.

The most egregious action of the RINOs has been paying for membership in ICLEI, a UN organization founded in 1990 and dedicated to usurping USA sovereignty in favor of a Global Government.  The Tea Parties led by Patriots’ Ink, invested significant time and effort into convincing the county to drop their ICLEI membership, and although Mr. Beyrouti’s resume states he possesses “a deep understanding of the issues facing Pinellas County,” there is no evidence the Chairman of the PCREC ever uttered a word of protest over the county’s membership in ICLEI!  Based up Mr. Beyrouti’s silence and the fact that six of the seven County Commissioners are Republicans it’s logical to assume Mr. Beyrouti agrees with these policies.  (Pinellas County is still listed as an ICLEI member.)

Other projects from Pinellas’ RINO Commissioners include funding to put more bicycles on the roads;  Emergency Medical Services that provides a double response to each call that is draining our coffers quicker than an Obama solar energy manufacturer, and despite losing a referendum on raising taxes for light rail, RINOs in Hillsborough and Pinellas continue plotting to raise taxes to imbed railroad tracks all over Tampa Bay.

Mr. Beyrouti is a successful businessman who bought a trailer park for $2.2 million in 2005, has an investing firm (Monicarla, Ltd), sells real estate, and works as a consultant.  He was also the Chairman of the Barrier Island Governmental Council, is a board member of Enterprise Florida, and was a mayor for 10 years.  It seems he is living the American dream.

Mayor Beyrouti

From 1996 to 2006, Mr. Beyrouti was the mayor of Redington Shores, a town of 2,400 citizens.  During this time, Mr. Beyrouti was not only a member of the World Council of United Cities and Local Governments (World Council), he was proactive and became the Chairman of their International Committee. He was an advocate on behalf of the World Council.  The World Council is partnered with the UN to achieve UN goals like the 2005 Millennium Goals, and seeks to create a global governance by the UN, thus destroying America.

Millennium Goal 7:  Ensure environmental sustainability, promotes global warming, reducing the loss of biodiversity and protection of animals (done via the  Convention of Biological Diversity Treaty, AKA Wildlands Project).  These programs are part of the UN’s Agenda 21 program.

Chairman Beyrouti

In December 2008, Mr. Beyrouti was elected Chairman of the PCREC.  Mr. Beyrouti was a huge fan of Charlie Crist, and as one local GOP member put it, “He (Beyrouti) is still drinking from Charlie Crist’s watering trough.”  Like Crist, Mr. Beyrouti is repelled by conservatism, and has a strong disdain for the Tea Party ideology.

In June 2011, a Tea Party held a candidate forum in which all four Republican contenders running for the Senate appeared.  Mr. Beyrouti refused to attend or even advertise the event to the Pinellas County Republicans!

Beyrouti’s barriers of entry

In Pinellas there are 376 precincts, and each precinct generally has 2 committee people, for a total of 752 positions.  However, there are approximately 240 committee positions filled, leaving ~512 open positions. Although the PCREC has 512 empty positions, they are in no hurry to fill them.

Comparison of GOP admission policies

County           Step 1        Step 2                          Step 3

Hillsborough  apply    data verified      “voted on” at next meeting

Manatee          apply    data verified       “voted on” at next meeting

Pinellas          apply    data verified  attend 3 consecutive meetings

pass an interview, then get inducted at next meeting

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Comparison of Chairman Donations to Republican Party

Contributions to GOP from 2008 to 2011.

Chairman, County       GOP Contributions       GOP Expenses paid

Beyrouti, J.J.  (Pinellas)                    0                          $9,600/year*

Cox-Roush, D. (Hills)              $2,140                                   0

King, Kathleen (Manatee)          $782                                   0

* – This is an $800 a month line item expense listed as CHAIRMAN’S ALLOWANCE

Beyrouti the consultant

Lastly, Mr. Beyrouti works as a consultant for Governance Inc., a firm that specializes in UN programs such as: Green Governance, Global Governance, and Green Power.  The president is Scott Maddox.  That is the same Scott Maddox who is the former chairman of the Florida Democrat Party, is pro Agenda 21, against drilling in the gulf, and was the 2010 Democrat candidate for Agriculture Commissioner of Florida.  Mr. Beyrouti’s resume also states he is an active member of the Florida League of Cities (FLoC) Federal Action Strike Team.

The FLoC has endorsed The Earth Charter Initiative, another eco-socialist group whose mission is to: “promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice.”

Summary

It gives me no pleasure to write this article and I have tried to work from the inside, but how can you change the system from the inside when they won’t let you in the door?  The policies of Mr. Beyrouti’s PCREC are policies of exclusion, control, and elitism.  Now the RINOs he, and therefore the GOP support, are having a negative effect on the quality of my Liberty and I will remain silent no more.

Mr. Beyrouti has said Ronald Reagan was his favorite president, and recently sent out a flyer with his picture beneath Reagan’s.  However, this prosaic marketing fools no one who knows Mr. Beyrouti or his record.  Most PCREC members know that conservatives and particularly Tea Party members (like me) repel him like kryptonite, just as the forces of the UN and Liberty are opposed to each other.

Despite Mr. Beyrouti’s gregarious personality, the totality of the data define him as a liberal progressive who continues to favor the implementation of UN policies that usurp the sovereignty of USA.  Ironically, he has given a lifetime of support to a cause which usurps the American way of life that he immigrated here to obtain!  As a leader of the PCREC can his continued leadership be anything other than disastrous?

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