Federal Attacks Upon our Liberties: The constitutional Republic given us by our Founding Fathers is in great peril today at the hands of an out-of-control federal government; and our states are now the final guardians of our liberty. It is the privilege and duty of the governor to interpose himself between his people and the enemies of their liberty, even when that threat comes from a federal leviathan. As governor, I will take that stand for the people of Georgia and will invoke the doctrine of interposition on their behalf. (more)

Education: Ray is the only former educator in the Republican race for Governor; he taught for more than ten years at both the high school and college level and in both public and private schools. (more)

Life: "I believe that all children, including the unborn, have a right to life and that the state of Georgia has the responsibility to protect that right. I support amending Georgia law so that it more clearly recognizes these basic rights of the unborn, beginning from the moment of conception." (more)

Taxes: I support the abolition of both income and property taxes and the replacement of them with a state sales tax. It is my belief that any graduated tax based upon income is Marxist and should be repudiated. For this reason, vigilance must be maintained in order to make sure that whatever sales tax is put into place should not be tied to income in any way, including the use of rebates; it should be a straightforward simple tax. (more)

Second Amendment: "I adamantly oppose any effort to infringe upon the right of law-abiding people of Georgia to keep and bear arms and encourage public awareness of the principle that the best guarantee of liberty is a well-armed populace of good citizens. " ( more)

Immigration: "Illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing Georgia in the early years of this century. The excessive influx of illegal immigrants is more than Georgia’s infrastructure can effectively accommodate, resulting in neglect to the needs of our citizens and an increased tax burden upon those of us who live here legally. Furthermore, the excessive number of immigrants is unassimilable into our society and culture, creating counterproductive divisions and dangers to our historic way of life. " (more)

Privacy and Liberty: "Privacy is one of the basic liberties that has always been a hallmark of the American way of life, even to the point that we have led the world in the introduction of the secret ballot in elections; but our privacy is under its greatest attack ever… and from within. Federal intrusions, both present and planned, are a greater threat to our liberty and privacy than any threat of foreign invasion or terrorist attack has ever been. As governor, I will work with our General Assembly, state court system, and fellow governors to reign in this invasion of privacy and liberty by the federal government and will seek to ensure that Georgia is a refuge for privacy and liberty to all of her citizens. " (more)

Eminent Domain: "I support a state constitutional amendment which contains very strict language limiting the scope of the use of eminent domain to only the most traditional uses, such as infrastructure construction but not practices of social activism nor land redistribution. The recent state constitutional amendment that was put to the voters of Georgia through referendum intentionally left a loophole which allows the General Assembly to re-define the term 'public use,' which is the same problem that created this issue in the first place. It is merely one more example of the neo-cons in power pretending to address very real problems, while actually doing nothing to eliminate it altogether." (more)

Secure Elections: Given the myriad of reports of inaccurate electronic voting machines, the lack of credibility among DieBold and other manufacturers of electronic voting machines, the apparent unexplained anomalies related to votes cast for recent presidential candidate Ron Paul of our own Party, and sheer common sense, there seems no good reason that the state of Georgia should have ever settled for electronic voting machines which do not provide a verifiable paper trail and cannot be audited after the fact. As governor, I will work with the Secretary of State to ensure that proper selection and funding are available to eliminate this egregious attack upon the integrity of our elections.

Citizen Initiatives: I support the right of the People of Georgia to protect their 'valuable way of life' through the process of voter initiatives which guarantees the People a remedy against the very real threat of betrayal of their values by elected and appointed officials serving special interests."