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118 Cobblestone Court
Chapin, SC 29036

(803) 345-7653

rolf@rolfbaghdady.com
                      
 
 
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ROLF M. BAGHDADY

Started as a conservative & Republican advocate & activist, before he was old enough to vote, but now sees the Progressives and Green Party ( except on abortion) as taking the positions most aligned with what is best for the people.
  • First volunteered for the Ford/Dole campaign in 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Elected Most Conservative for the high school class of 1977 - Orange High School, Pepper Pike, Ohio
  • Elected chairman of the Conservative Party of the Pennsylvania Political Union, a debating society of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Attended the Reagan victory celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980
  • Attended the Tenth Annual Conservative Political Action Conference to honor President Reagan in Washington, D.C. in 1983
     
  • Disenchanted with the refusal of Congress to carry out the mandate of Reagan’s election in 1981 and suspended political efforts until the victory of Newt Gingrich and a Republican House and Senate in 1994 and the Republican Sweep of South Carolina in 1994
  • Elected President of the St. Michael’s precinct of the Republican Party in 1995 and 1997
  • Elected as alternate delegate at the 1995 Lexington County Republican Party Convention
  • Attended and seated as a delegate at the 1996 Republican Party State Convention
  • Elected by the Executive Committee as Northern District Vice Chairman to complete the term of Sarah Caldwell from 1995-1997 and elected for the term 1997-1999 and reelected for the term 1999 - 2001
     
  • Drafted and saw passed resolutions at the Precinct, County and State Conventions 1998 and submitted to the State Resolutions Committee 2000
  • Elected and attended as a delegate at the 1998 and 2000 Republican Party State Conventions
  • Elected Vice-President of Dutchman Shores precinct in 1999
  • Served on the Lexington County Republican Party Resolutions Committee
  • Served as Parliamentarian of the 2nd Congressional District Republican Convention 2000
     
  • Served on the South Carolina State Republican Party Rules Committee 2000.
  • Served as the Chairman of the Poll Managers of the Dutchman Shores Precinct for the Lexington County Registration and Election Commission. Mr. Baghdady has also been active in the Lexington County Republican Party since 1995, and served as Northern District Chair of the Lexington County Republican Party from 1995 - 2007( automatically carried over from 2005-2007 without elections), and was designated as a delegate by the County to the State Conventions, 1995 - 2005. He also served on the South Carolina State Republican Party Rules Committee.
  • Volunteered to work and voted in the 2004 Democratic Presidential preference primary.
  • Founding sustainer Progressive Democrats of America.
  • Democracy Bond Holder.
     
  • 2008-Current Lexington County, South Carolina,  Green Party Chairman and Elected as a National Delegate from South Carolina to the Green Party Convention in Chicago but was unable to attend.
  • Believes that the Holy Bible should be used as the reference guide to government as did many of America’s great leaders of the past. And that the Bible can inform us to take positions on political issues today.
  • Mr. Baghdady believes that the state of man in relation to government can be divided into three classifications:

    1.     Liberty: When men practice self-government by allowing God’s laws, commands and principles found in His word to control
            their lives

    2.     Tyranny: When men’s self-interest and selfish motives use government power to achieve their own ends at the expense of the     
            governed

    3.     Anarchy: When men’s self-interest and selfish motives are unrestrained by any government, and there is no authority administering
            justice
  • On the record against taxes and spending
     
  • Letter to the Editor of The State newspaper published September 4, 1990:
            ◦          The power to tax involves the power to destroy (McCulloch vs. Maryland, 1819).
                ◦      Compare the economic performance of no-tax Hong Kong to China, West Germany to East Germany, or the total percent
                    the United States of America had of worldwide GNP before Roosevelt raised taxes into the 90th percentile and the USA’s
                    portion of worldwide GNP today after 50 years of massive government intervention in the U.S. economy.
            ◦      The low-tax economies have much greater amounts of income left in the private sector to spend, save and invest, which has a
                    compound effect over time. This increases the total wealth of the population. Compare, for example, the growth of savings in
                    a tax-free IRA to regular after-tax savings, and multiply that across the American economy. Budget deficits in good times are
                    bad; they increase trade deficits and real interest rates. Taxes are far worse; they immediately decrease savings and GNP
                    and favor the unproductive over the productive. The negative draf taxes have on wealth creation is clear.
                ◦      What a shame that those collecting government checks, whether they be in defense, agriculture, foreign lobbying groups
                    and/or bankers in trouble, et al., have more political clout than those of us shouldering the tax burden and mailing our hard-
                    earned money to our voracious, insatiable public officials.
                ◦       The time has come to dramatically cut government spending.
 
 
Rolf M. Baghdady, P.A.
118 Cobblestone Court
Chapin, South Carolina 29036-9705
803-345-ROLF(7653)
rolf@rolfbaghdady.com

 

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