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Ray McBerry is an American political figure. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican Party nomination for governor of Georgia in both 2006 and 2010, [1]
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
McBerry has called for "states' rights" and was a sponsor of the 2010 "Tenth Amendment Summit" in Atlanta, Georgia, which featured Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and Andrew Napolitano of Fox News as keynote speakers. [2]
In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment. The enumerated powers that are listed in the Constitution include exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are contrasted with the reserved powers—also called states' rights—that only the states possess.
Roy Stewart Moore is an American politician and jurist who served as the 27th and 31st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He was the Republican nominee in the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. Moore lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones.
Andrew Peter Napolitano is an American syndicated columnist whose work appears in numerous publications including The Washington Times and Reason. He is an analyst for Fox News, commenting on legal news and trials.
McBerry is a member of, [3] and spokesman for, the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, appearing on the group's behalf to promote Confederate speciality license plates in Georgia. [4] [5] [6]
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American non-profit and charitable organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans headquartered at the Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee. It is known for erecting and maintaining American Civil War memorials and graves, observing Confederate Memorial Day, and encouraging Southern historical study. Activists have placed new emphasis on the controversial right to display Confederate symbols in public. The organization was founded on July 1, 1896, at the City Auditorium in Richmond, Virginia, by R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans.
The U.S. state of Georgia first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1910. Since then, the state has issued a variety of license plate designs, including different designs for passenger, non-passenger, and, more recently, specialty or optional plates.
McBerry unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor of Georgia in 2006, losing to incumbent Sonny Perdue. McBerry received 48,498 votes (11.6%) to Purdue's 370,756 votes (88.4%). [7]
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In 2010, McBerry again sought the Republican nomination for governor, as one of seven candidates. [8] During one Republican primary debate in Centerville, the Macon Telegraph reported that McBerry "received the most resounding applause with his fiery anti-Washington rhetoric and his call to 'get rid of every vestige of socialism.'" [8] McBerry lost the nomination, comes in sixth place out of seven candidates, with just 17,171 votes (2.5%). [9]
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