Supporting Candidates

Supporting Candidates

At the RLC one of our goals is to assist in training and equipping good candidates to run for office on the local, state and federal level.  We are always looking for candidates who support Free Enterprise, Individual Rights and Limited Government.  If you are a Republican candidate seeking a RLC and/or the RLC-PAC endorsement and support we would like to hear from you.

In order to be recognized as an RLC endorsed candidate, we require the following:

Be a registered Republican seeking office as a Republican.
Be legally qualified for the office you are seeking.
Complete the “20 Question” Candidate Endorsement Questionnaire.
Sign the Liberty Compact.
The Candicate Endorsement Questionnaire and the Liberty Compact can be downloaded at www.rlc.org.
Liberty Compact: A Candidate’s Pledge
(The Liberty Compact is a written pledge inspired by the words of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) in his book, Conscience of a Conservative, which promotes the belief that government isn’t the solution, but all too often the problem.  It is a preliminary requirement to obtain an official RLC endorsement.  The objective is to assist and identify candidates, both local and national, who deserve consideration by liberty advocates.  It may be used by candidates to promote their campaigns to liberty-minded voters.  The pledge reads as follows:

“I, (insert name), pledge to the citizens of the State of (insert state) and to the American people, that as their elected representative I will work to: Restore liberty, not restrict it; shrink government, not expand it; reduce taxes, not raise them; abolish programs, not create them; promot the freedom and independence of citizens, not the interference of government in their lives; and observe the limited, enumerated powers of our Constitution, not ignore them.”

The RLC announced the Pledge project on Independence Day of 2001, to mark the true significance of the 4th of July and the Declaration of Independence.  Since then, dozens of incumbents and candidates have signed the RLC pledge.