Letter: Hazelo, MacQuarrie lack integrity, competency
Published 1:30 am Saturday, July 23, 2022
Editor,
The Island County Republican Party (ICRP) has gone rogue under the Chairmanship of Timothy Hazelo (Candidate for District 3 commissioner ) and State Committeeman Richard MacQuarrie (Candidate for Treasurer). Under their leadership a resolution to not recognize the November 2020 presidential election results was adopted. However, many of the ICRP Precinct Committee Officers (PCOs) vehemently voted against the resolution.
The ICRP leadership believes in the Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates where if a lower authority doesn’t believe in legislation being adopted by a higher authority, they should ignore the higher authority. Thus, bypassing the Rule of Law. Their actions are in opposition to what the Republican Party stands for. Our present Republican representatives, other candidates and many elected PCOs don’t agree with this doctrine. They believe in the Rule of Law. Laws cannot be arbitrarily set aside.
Timothy Hazelo and Richard MacQuarrie have infiltrated the ICRP in order to advocate for themselves as candidates. They will not be receiving my vote because I don’t trust their integrity or competency. Candidate Hazelo has a financial history of home foreclosures and failed businesses. He also had a gross misdemeanor that went to a bench warrant and has just been fined by the Public Disclosure Committee (PDC) for noncompliance. Candidate MacQuarrie is a convicted stalker.
I hope as people vote they will consider the integrity and competency of the candidate and not just the “R” or “D” by their names. By doing this, I hope balance will be restored in our government so one party doesn’t control the legislature, executive and judicial branches.
A one-party system results in less to no consideration of alternative view points. Laws that precipitate from this process are not considerate of minority opinions. The best laws have been negotiated with all affected parties and just not dictated.
Maria Cablao
Langley
