Party loyalty oaths (1985) and Florida Statute 103.161 (2007) –

Every candidate in Florida must execute at qualifying Form DS-DE-24 which requires the candidate to swear that he or she will uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Florida Constitution, then file it with the Secretary of State or Supervisor of Elections. This oath is a public record. Yet during this same qualifying period Democratic candidates behind party doors are violating their sworn oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and willingly repudiating their First Amendment rights by signing their party's party loyalty oath in fear of jeopardizing their party's support. These concealed party loyalty oaths must be abolished. Even our Attorney General in AGO 83-74 issued an opinion that these party loyalty oaths are unenforceable and possibly unconstitutional, yet for 25 years now the Attorney General’s office has failed to take the matter to court.

According to the Florida Democratic Party's constitution and by-laws, every Democrat running for office - Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S Congressman, State Senator, State Representative, Mayor, Supervisor of Elections, County Commissioner, Tax Collector, Property Appraiser, executive committee members, etc - must sign the following party loyalty oath during qualifying and have it notarized,

I, ___________, having been duly sworn, say, that I am a member of the Democratic Party; that I am a qualified elector of _____________ County, Florida; that during my term of office, I will not support the election of the opponent of any Democratic nominee, I will not oppose the election of any Democratic nominee, nor will I support any non Democrat against a Democrat in any election other than in judicial races; that I am qualified under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Florida and the Charter and Bylaws of the Florida Democratic Party to hold the office I am seeking, or to which I have been elected; that I have not violated any laws of the State of Florida relating to election or the Charter and Bylaws of the Florida Democratic Party.

According to the Republican Party of Florida's constitution and by-laws, every Republican who gets elected to either the Republican State Executive Committee or a Republican County Executive Committee must sign the following party loyalty oath,

I,______________, hereby swear and affirm that during my term of office I will not actively, publicly or financially support the election of any candidate other than the Republican candidate in a partisan unitary, general or special election or a registered Republican in non-partisan elections other than judicial races governed under Statute 105, if there is a registered Republican running for the same office, unless the county executive committee has taken an affirmative vote to endorse one Republican over another per Rule 8(B). I further swear and affirm that I will not engage in activities or conduct that may be deemed by the Grievance Committee and affirmed by the RPOF Chairman as likely to injure the name of the Republican Party or interfere with the activities of the Republican Party.

Here is the 1934 Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty to Adolf Hitler as Hitler was ascending to national power,

I swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of the German Reich, supreme commander of the armed forces, and I shall at all times be prepared, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath.

Then of course we, the public, have to contend with the propaganda spewed by the Orlando Sentinel who have reported on these party loyalty oaths but cannot seem to put 2+2 together. Here we have them writing this warm, "honesty in politics" fluff piece, from 2007 titled Ethical campaigns -- an oxymoron?, yet in the same year the Republican and Democratic party loyalty oath was still in force which the article did not mention nor did the article mention Florida Statute 103.161 which was also enacted in 2007. This statute allows the State Chairman of both the Republican and Democratic Parties to remove at their discretion any state or county executive committee member, despite the fact that these committee members were placed on the ballot and voted into offices by fellow Republicans and Democrats throughout Florida. If a Republican committee member, for example, disagrees with any of the GOP Principles - Education, Faith and values, Natural Resources, Second Amendment, etc ... - that member can be removed without debate or due process of any kind. Right now Ron Paul" Republicans are not in favor by the Republican party bosses so if a Ron Paul" Republican gets elected to any state or county committee the State Chairman can simply have him removed thus nullifying the will of the Republican voters who came to the polls and voted.