email derek@votekansas.org for conference call phone number and meeting details.
]]>I learned a lot in my first run for office, and I'd like to share it with you. If you're going to run with the Reform Party, there are some things you need to know ahead-of-time:
1. It takes PEOPLE to win a campaign. The Reform Party is very small, and they can't provide people to help you run your campaign. You're going to have to be a good recruiter of people to help you. They say if you can't put 500 hours into your campaign, then don't bother. That rings true. I probably put 50 hours into my campaign, making plans, filling out surveys, filling out government paperwork, writing blogs, making a sign, talking with folks, sending email, making flyers, and sending a paper mailing. I was not successful at getting more people on board to campaign with me. This also translates into not getting more campaign funds. It's also helpful if you have a phalanx of people who can write letters to the editor, which is what the Democratic incumbent did. The key, I'm told, is to walk neighborhoods and ask people face-to-face to support you.
2. It takes MONEY to win a campaign. I don't know what the major parties do, but with the Reform Party, you have to pay your own filing fee with the Sec. of State to run for office. In my case, that was $50 (if I remember correctly). Initially, I wanted to run a campaign without spending any more money. I figured I'd blog here and email my friends, and that would be all the campaigning I'd do. Then I got a $100 check from a friend, and I started thinking about the possibilities. I decided to chip in $100 more of my own. $50 of that was spent on a web domain name (and related expenses), about $100 on mailing labels from the county and mailing materials (bad decision for a budget this small), and the other $50 or so I spent on a homemade 4x8 campaign sign made of plywood, spray-painted blue with white vinyl letters spelling out my new web domain name and my platform. By comparison, my two competitors spent tens of thousands of dollars on campaign signs and multiple slick postcard mailings. The state is pretty hyper about campaign fund tracking, so if you have a budget of $500 or more (and you really should), then pay close attention to your accounting.
3. You will be ignored and despised. It is, of course, in the interest of the major parties to ignore other challengers, because to say anything about their minor party competitors is to give them free publicity. So don't expect a level playing field; expect a news blackout on your candidacy. I was not invited to the candidate debate that was pulled off by the conservative women, and when the Tea Party tried to include me in another debate, the Democrat refused to come and cancelled the debate. The Republican candidate sent out a mailing saying that there were only two candidates - her and the Democrat; a bold-faced lie, but effective in convincing at least one of my supporters that I had withdrawn from the race. Friends told me I was not a "real candidate" - as though the ink the county used to print the Republican and Democratic candidates names on the ballot would be real and the ink they would use to print my name on the ballot would be fake. Other friends expressed anger at me for "splitting the conservative vote." Someone stole my one and only campaign sign. (Who benefitted from that? The Republican challenger!) The local newspaper gave vast amounts of free advertising to the Democratic incumbent through letters to the editor. The Kansans for Life organization, which should have endorsed me because I was the only candidate who went on record as being pro-life, decided instead to endorse the Republican, even though she refused to fill out their questionnaire, because someone told them that they thought she was pro-life. The people we asked about placing a campaign sign in their yard refused us. My kids were banned from waving a sign for me with their school friends because the teacher was for the Republican candidate. Anyone running on the Reform ticket in this district needs to go in expecting opposition.
4. Consider the qualifications. There are specific qualifications for the statewide offices, but for a state representative office (for which I was running), the only qualification is that you be at least 18 years old (assuming you are not some sort of criminal). Anybody can and SHOULD run for state representative if they can. Of course, a well-qualified rep. should have a good way of determining what a good law is and what a bad law is, because that's the role of a representative. However, in a political campaign, the ability to make people feel good about voting for you is everything. This is, of course a very different skill set from determining good from bad law. It doesn't seem to matter to most folks what your position is or what criteria you will use for determining good laws from bad ones; what matters is your ability to be winsome. Without ever taking a public stand on the pro-life issue, the Republican candidate got thousands of pro-lifers to vote for her because it felt good to vote for a hopeful conservative than a proven liberal. At the polls I heard one fellow say, "Whatever candidate will do the most for me, that's the one I'll vote for!" We need to un-brainwash people from this kind of senseless thinking and help them move away from feel-good-ism and bring-home-the-bacon-ism and toward representation and the real issues.
5. County records are unreliable, at least for the Reform party. The mailing list I bought gave me 6 addresses for people who had voted with the Reform party in the past. Five of the six no longer lived there. (What does that say about how much accountability the county is really able to exercise over voters, if 83% of its records in this case are faulty? I hope Kris Kobach is able to sort that one out.) I did manage to reach two by phone; one sounded rather taken aback that a Reform party candidate was actually asking for their vote, and the other was living in Texas and didn't think she was registered to vote here. It's also the painful truth that people willing to vote for a Reform Party candidate are less likely to be pillars of the community because the party is agitating for Reform and not preserving the status quo. I was banking on getting financial support and sign placement space from Reform Party voters, but I got none. I figured it would cost me about $1,000 to send a postcard out to the 3,500 voters in my district who were not affiliated with either Rep. or Dem. Parties, hoping to swing some away from voting for the Dem. I could have sent a phone call out to them all for about $250, but I had no money, so that was that.
6. It is possible to campaign on a shoestring. Homemade signs can be made for far less than the professional signmakers advertise. Email is really cheap - if you can develop "viral" emails that your friends will forward along. Filling out surveys for all the PAC's has the potential of getting you some free support. Candidate Information websites like Vote Smart and Capwiz are particularly useful to get your positions out there side-by-side with the major party candidates. I was able to get more information out on the internet using a free blog, then buying a web domain name and forwarding the address to this blog! The public library will give you a room for free to deliver a lecture, as long as it's open to the public and no admission is charged. If the lecture is informative (not just politicking) you can probably get free Public Service Announcements on radio stations and public bulletin boards! And of course, waving signs on the side of a busy road and going door-to-door is free too - if you can make the time... and you should make the time.
7. There is a role for minor parties beyond winning the current election. I believe it was worthwhile for me to run even though I lost. In my case, I wanted to make a statement to the Republican Party that their candidate who was unwilling to state positions on abortion and family issues was not acceptable. I think I could have easily caused her to lose if I had been able to put more time into my campaign (The spread between her and the Democratic incumbent was only about twice the number of people who voted for me). If I scare the Republicans enough to run a more consdervative candidate on marriage and family issues next time, then my candidacy was a success. There are other valid reasons for running than just to win this particular election. Another reason to run and to vote for minor parties is to preserve freedom to have alternatives. If the Reform Party failed to get 1% of the vote in any state-wide race in this election, the Reform Party would be disqualified from running candidates in the next election without a huge signature campaign. The Republican Party was a minority party once upon a time, and over time, it gained ascendancy. I'm seeing the same kind of momentum building with my Constitution Party friends in Colorado - over a decade ago, when Swanson ran for governor under the Constitution Party he got 2% of the vote. Now, after over a decade of informing the public, the Constitution Party governor candidate got 37% of the vote! If we continue to hold fast on what we believe, we can gain influence. Finally, it was worthwhile for me to run because it was a great learning experience. I especially did this so that my children could see that anybody can run for state rep. and that I wanted them to try in the future. I'm writing these lessons learned down so that my kids and others can be more successful than I was in the future!
So, if you are considering running for office, I encourage you to go for it, but count the cost first. Are you willing to take a principled stand despite opposition, and can you sacrifice 500 hours to do it?
May God bless you,
~Nate Wilson
]]>When I moved to Kansas, a Baptist pastor took me out for lunch and told me that the Constitution Party is defunct in Kansas, but he is an officer in the Reform Party and recommended it. I monitored the party for a couple of years. This year, I was experiencing more free time and struggling less to stay on top of things, and also thought, due to symptoms in my wife, that we wouldn’t be having any more children, so I thought I would have time to invest in a public office. My two oldest boys had expressed an interest in running for office when they turned 18, and one was already over 18, so I figured it would be good experience for them.
Then the president of the Kansas Reform Party called and urged me to consider running for office. At the time, I was preaching through a series contrasting Biblical Christianity and Secular Humanism, and I had done two sermons on the difference between the way Biblical Christians and Secular Humanists look at Law and was very concerned at the almost total lack of Biblical Christian perspective on Law that exists in American churches and lawmaking bodies today. I wanted to do something about it. I researched the different offices opening up this November and decided that the only one I was qualified for was the KS House, so I let the Reform party know that I was willing to be a candidate for KS House. They interviewed me and voted unanimously that they wanted me to be their candidate for the KS House in my district. I asked the men in my church congregation if it was feasible for me to take time away from the church to fill a public office and whether they had any objections to it. They felt they could manage, and they didn’t have any objections.
I didn’t know whether I’d get that far, and once my name showed up on the KS Sec. of State website, I started having second thoughts. That’s when God provided, over the course of one week, three different messages on sacrifice. One came from a worship service I attended at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, one came from an independent church we visited during vacation time, and the other came from a chaplain friend who reminded me of the way soldiers think about sacrificing family time for the sake of their country and how much they resent people who avoid making sacrifices.
The way I see it, the House of Representatives is not an office which should be filled by professional politicians; it should be filled by a representative sampling of citizens who serve for a short time. I believe that my citizenship in Kansas and ability to fill an office is enough of a reason to run. I recognize that not everybody thinks that way today, but I believe that was the original intent of our government. I don’t see it as an abandonment of my church but rather as a temporary service to my community. I have come to find out that politics is a huge part of Kansas culture – moreso than in any of the other 6 states I’ve lived in. This campaign has been a valuable window into understanding the people to which God has called me as a minister.
The introduction of a pregnancy onto the scene has shaken me a bit. I have been surprised that my wife has been so supportive. She would have to sacrifice more than anybody else. If I had known ahead of time, I would not have put my hat into the ring. I wonder if God timed this so that I would not find out until I was already on the ballot.
I have friends in Topeka I could probably stay with, and I figure I could take the salary that the State pays legislators and tell our church to redirect the same amount of money to a pulpit supply fund. It seems plausible with the huge glut of seminary graduates without church employment in the Presbyterian Church in America that we could find someone to step in for a few months – we even have a person in mind. There are many more details to work out, I know, but if God were to give me a win in this race, I’d have no trouble trusting Him to work out the details.
When I signed up for office, I had not realized how much time candidates normally invested in campaigns. It has been a somewhat embarrassing realization that I am not able to spend the kind of time on campaigning that others have (Pastoring a church, raising 10 kids, and getting adequate rest is a 24-7 job, so there's no time to campaign door to door.) I just have to live with doing what I can and leaving the results up to God.
As I have grown in my knowledge of how things are normally done in the political process, I’m realizing that I would have never learned what's involved in an election without going through it myself, and so one reason for staying on the ballot – even without a hefty campaign – is that I hope to learn, as I go through the process, what the process involves and how to successfully navigate it (or help one of my sons navigate it) with more successful results in the future.
I’ve run a lot of these same questions by the leaders of the Reform Party, and they are encouraging me to continue on, in large part to be a spur to the Republican party to run more conservative candidates and to expose the fact to the public that the candidates the Republican Party are running are more compromising than they’d like to think they are.
Well, there it is. What do you think?
]]>~Nate Wilson
]]>Second, I support free press. No single news media can possibly present a holistic picture of what happened in the world over the last week. Every news media chooses a certain set of biases by which to filter out the hundreds of billions of events that happened in the lives of 6 billion people over the last seven days. All of those billions of events were newsworthy to somebody, but you're only going to see a very limited and biased choice of ten or even a hundred of those in an RSS feed or a newspaper. Therefore, we each have the responsibility to wisely select the mix of news media that uses the set of filters we believe is the best for identifying what was important over the last week, rather than blindly digesting whatever the local newspaper throws on its front page. So I say, "Long live the alternative news sources!"
Finally, do I agree with the particular news articles listed here? Some yes, some no. I do not appreciate the ones that make accusations and promote rumors without facts and references, use name calling, twist facts, promote fear without any positive hope for change, and promote hatred for individuals. I do appreciate the ones that present interesting new facts, that reveal evil, and offer good ideas for improvement. So, as the saying goes, "Eat the corn; leave the cob."
]]>There is a PayPal donation box on the Reform party website, but it doesn't go to me, it goes to the party, and I can vouch for the fact that the Reform party is frugal in the use of its funds. When the Reform party had its annual meeting this year, we all paid for our own meals.
Money is a funny thing: The more you have of it, the more you want to spend. The Kansas Reform party (and I myself as a candidate of the Reform party) understands that your money is valuable and that there are things you want to do with your money, so we are frugal with money. We campaign without spending vast sums of money, and you can expect the same when we're in office; we're not going to spend your tax money freely; we believe you know better than the government what to do with your money.
Of course it takes some money to run a government, but a limited government doesn't take much money to run, and that means you shouldn't be paying that much in taxes. Did you know that in the War for American Independence, all the fuss from the American colonists over taxation without representation was raised over taxes that were only about 1% of income? Nowadays the government takes over half our income in actual and indirect taxes and still claims it needs more! Enough is enough. Vote Reform.
]]>CANDIDATE NAME: Nate Wilson
Office Sought: KS House
District: 67
Party: Reform
Incumbent to this office?: No
HEALTH CARE RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE
Many medical and bio-science workers now face immoral procedures in which they do not want to participate. Kansas law allows only physicians and hospitals to refuse to participate in abortion and sterilization and allows pharmacists to refuse any prescription based only on professional judgment, not conscience.
1.) Will you support a law that broadly applies to all hearth care entitles (Including, but not limited to: physicians, nurses, assistants, pharmacists, lab technicians, students, nursing home and medical facilities) to protect them from being forced to violate their moral conscience in the performance of their duties? YES
ABORTION-RELATED ISSUES
A Kansas City, KS abortion clinic scandalized the nation with its filth, open drug cache and high school drop-out staff. Complaints about appalling abortion clinic conditions are unlikely to be made by women eager to conceal their abortions. All other Kansas single-day surgery centers are licensed and inspected by the state, except abortion facilities.
2.) Will you support state licensing and inspection of abortion clinics?
Inspections YES; Licensing NO (because licensing implies approval, and the state has neither the jurisdictional right to license businesses nor the moral right to permit businesses to perform abortions.)
Fetal anesthesia is now a medical specialty, treating pain for preemies and babies undergoing surgery while still in the womb. Science shows the unborn child between 7 and 20 weeks develops all the structures needed to experience pain. In fact, unborn babies are believed to feel pain even more than newborns, because pain dampeners do not function until after delivery. Federal and state laws ban animal cruelty and experimentation, and we should prevent the excruciating pain of abortion.
3.) Will you support a law like Nebraska enacted, banning abortion after 20 weeks? YES
Kansas only requires abortions after 22 weeks to be performed by a physician. For over 90% of abortions performed in Kansas, there is no law requiring a physical examination and consultation with a licensed physician prior to abortion. There is also no law requiring the physician to have hospital privileges.
4.) Would you support a law requiring that all surgical abortions be performed by a Kansas-licensed physician with hospital privileges and that all chemical abortions be prefaced by a physical examination and consultation with a licensed physician?
YES, as long as the bill does not give tacit approval by the state for the performing of abortions.
Teens can get abortions in Kansas without parental consent and without any parent present at the clinic. Statutory rapists can bring their pregnant victims into a clinics (by masquerading as the teen's friend or relative) and "erase" evidence of their crime through abortion. DNA evidence is currently sent to authorities only for abortions of girls under 14.
5.) Would you support changing these protocols, including requiring identification from companions of minors, raising the age of DNA evidence collection, and initiating monthly clinic reports to the state about the number of pregnant minors seeking services? YES
The new federal health care insurance reforms include a mandatory abortion surcharge, various abortion-funding mechanisms and a requirement that every hospital permit abortions.
6.) Will you support state measures to establish abortion-free insurance as permitted in the state insurance exchange program and to counteract new federal abortion mandates? YES & NO: I am not in favor of socialized insurance, so I would not want to support the state or fed starting new insurance programs of any sort. Where mandated, I would support abortion-free alternatives. I turned down tax-free insurance through the Christian ministry I used to work with because they chose to go with an insurance provider that provided abortion coverage. I use a private alternative to insurance called Samaritan Ministries, which does not cover abortions.
THREATS TO HUMAN EMBRYONIC LIFE
Assisted reproduction is a for-profit industry that creates and destroys embryos without professional, state or federal regulation. Egg-donating women remain unadvised about the grave dangers of chemically-induced ovulation.
7.) Would you support state regulation and non-Identifying statistical reporting of artificial reproductive events? YES
Human beings must be respected at every stage of development, whether their lives were begun by in vitro fertilization, by somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), or by some other laboratory technique. Harvesting embryonic 'stem cells" kills the embryos, unlike stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood and from adult tissue.
8.) Will you oppose embryo experimentation and destruction, even under the guise of "providing cures"? YES
STATE SUPREME COURT
Currently, the Kansas governor appoints each State Supreme Court Justice by choosing one of three candidates selected by a committee dominated by Kansas attorneys.
9.) Do you support changing the process to Include Senate approval of the Governor's State Supreme Court nominee- the way the US Senate confirms the presidential nominee for the US Supreme Court? YES (I did not have an alternative like this before me when I filled out the survey for Americans for Prosperity, so I defaulted to the State constitution. However, I like this alternative because of the additional accountability and representation it would bring with it, so I would support a measure like this.)
ABSTINENCE EDUCATION
Planned Parenthood calls its sex ed 'abstinence plus,' but its philosophy is shown on its website, Teenwire, where registered users may be as young as six and can see animation that promotes masturbation, homosexuality and bestiality.
10.) Will you support true abstinence programs Instead of Planned Parenthood's sex education curricula? YES
PROTECTING THE DISABLED & ELDERLY
A significant number of hospitals have formal policies authorizing denial of lifesaving medical treatment against the will of a patient or the patient's family if an ethics committee thinks the patient's quality of life is unacceptable.
11.) Do you support providing life-saving care, including food and water, for those medically fragile and aging patients who desire continued care, but are judged as being "not worthy" of it? YES
Kansans for Life Political Action Committee, P.O. Box 783285, Wichita, KS 67214
Phone:1-800-928-5433 • FAX: 1-316-687-0303 - Email: Wlpac@yahoo.com Kansans for Life PAC: www.voteprolife.net - Kansans for Life, Inc.: www.kfl.org
But I think that's the point. In our state legislature, we need normal people from all walks of life: pastors, farmers, businessmen, educators, whatever, to represent the people of our state. Experience at being a legislator is not a qualification for this office, although it might be a good thing for a governor or judge.
It will be a challenge for me to leave my church for a few months to fulfill this office, but I believe it to be a worthwhile act of service to my community. I expect one term will be enough. I'll be glad to pass the baton in a future election to another servant-hearted leader.
]]>District: 67
Campaign Address: 2488 Woodside Ln, Manhattan 66503
Email: nathan.wilson@att.net
1) Why are you running for the Legislature?
To provide an option for my community to vote for a man who is pro-life, free-market, and a Bible-believing Christian.
2) If you had the opportunity, what is the first bill you would like to submit in the 2011 session and why?
I am not in favor of creating more laws unless they would simplify or repeal current laws. I believe that the state should not micromanage its citizens by multiplying laws.
3) Do you support or oppose legislation that would allow for tax increases to be enacted only by a legislative supermajority or referendum? (i.e. either 3/5 or 2/3 vote of legislature for approval of a tax increase)
Oppose. Our state is already spending too much money on socialistic programs. These things need to be cut so that taxes don’t need to be raised.
4) When state revenues are less than state expenditures, which statement most accurately reflects your first priority.
Do not raise taxes, and cut spending.
If you would cut spending, are there any specific areas youwould cut? Why?
* Wealth redistribution programs - Private charity is more effective.
* Invasive control measures over agriculture and business and industry – Businesses will do better without state micromanagement.
If you were to raise taxes, what specific taxes you would raise and why?
I am in favor of a flat tax rather than a graduated income tax. The state does not own its citizens and has no right to claim a percentage of their labor. Furthermore, the rich should be given the freedom to invest as they see fit rather than be forced to pay higher taxes.
5) What do you believe to be the most important issues facing the Kansas Legislature in the upcoming session?
1. Budget
2. Abortion
3. Social Aid Programs
4. Education
5. Immigration
6. Marriage
7. Parental Rights
6) Many Cities, Counties, and State agencies use tax dollars to hire lobbyists to lobby the Kansas Legislature. Do you believe this is a proper use of tax dollars and should such expenditures be disclosed to Kansas taxpayers? Why or why not?
While it is certainly reasonable to budget modestly for informative research and for legislators to seek information about their constituencies, legislators need unbiased research and information, so agency lobbyists are only of partial value. Such expenditures should certainly be public information, because it is an expenditure of public funds.
7) How do you believe Kansas Supreme Court Justices should be selected?
By the governor, as provided in the constitution.
UPDATE: While I still support fidelity to constitutions, I have come to believe that our constitution should be changed to allow for more accountability to the citizenry for the judicial branch of government, such as having Senate confirmation of judicial appointments.
8) If the rate of inflation (consumer price index), plus population growth in Kansas grew at 4%, what do you believe would be the appropriate percentage increase in state budget expenditures? Why?
At this point, I would not want to see the state budget increase, but rather trim fat. At some point, of course, once the budget is more conservatively set, it should grow with population. I would support measures to stop inflation.
9) Kansas economic growth has been lagging behind our neighboring states and annual population growth is stagnant at an average increase of less than one-half of one percent per year. As a legislator, how would you address these problems?
Lower taxes and get government out of business so there is more freedom to start new businesses and carry on established ones without mountains of paperwork, inspections, and taxes. There should, of course, be some level of regulation, but I believe what we currently have is too much.
10) The 2010 Legislature increased the state sales tax from 5.3% to 6.3% in part, to help fund a FY 2011 state general fund budget that increases spending by $204 million over FY 2010. Once implemented, Kansas will have the largest sales tax amongst neighboring states. (Nebraska is nest closest at 5.5%). Considering 33% of our population resides in a county bordering Missouri alone, do you support the decision of the Legislature?
No.
11) Do you have any other positions or information that would be of interest to the members of SFP-Kansas?
I believe there is a spiritual component to all this. There is a God who governs the affairs of man and who blesses those who love Him with all their heart. I believe I can lead in this as well as in the secular aspects of being a legislator.
]]>As a father of 10 children (the oldest of whom is enrolled at K-State!), and as the Vice President of the Manhattan CHIEF homeschool organization, Nate has a love and concern for the future generation of Kansans. He is also committed to supporting the right of life to all Kansans, including those yet unborn and those who are very old.
Nate believes in encouraging individual responsibility and allowing as much freedom as possible for people to work, pursue their dreams, live out their faith, and help each other. This means keeping laws few and simple. Nate is not inclined to pass new laws and restrict your freedoms further, especially not laws imposed by federal government agencies to micromanage farming, industry, health care, parenting, education, property ownership, gun ownership, etc. Nate does not believe that the government can give quality of life or jobs or even a good education. These are things that only the ingenuity of individual Americans can accomplish with God’s blessing. He would be pleased if Calvin Coolidge’s assessment of his Presidency could be said of Nate himself in the Kansas House: “Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
However, Nate believes that law has an important place in society, and he will support just laws which protect life and property, and which punish real crimes with just penalties. When government is limited like this, taxes will be low, and Nate likes low taxes! The Reform Party of Kansas is pleased to recommend Nate Wilson as Representative of the Kansas House for District 67.
Attached is a pdf version of this message. Please feel free to copy and pass on to friends. If you want a half-page flyer or a trifold brochure, these are also available on this website!
]]>I faxed the following message to several US Representatives and Senators, in my name, and in the name of others that agree.
We need everyone to join in sending messages to Congress, not just to vote against the unconstitutional act, but to uphold their oath of office.
Therefore, please contact me to give me your name and district info (US Rep district #, zip-code, county, address, whatever), so that I can add you to the list of senders instructing and advising our elected officials to ignore the bankers, corporations, and their lobbyists and minions in the White House; to vote against and stop any unconstitutional acts; and to investigate those officials that are violating their oaths and betraying their constituents, our country, and all of us.
Now is the time to renew our efforts to contact our Representatives and Senators on your behalf and tell them to reject the Illegal, Un-Constitutional, Socialized, Abortion-Funding, Taxing-and-Arresting, End-of-Life-Counseling, Insurance- and Pharmaceutical-Company-Pleasing, Criminally Fraudulent "Health" Care Bill.
Body of Faxed Message
RE: I Instruct You to Stop National HealthCare and Obey Your Oath!
I Instruct you to Stop both the current healthcare plan on the table and plans of using the reconciliation process to make it even easier to sell out America to special interests, including Big Pharma and the Major Insurance companies.
DON'T VIOLATE YOUR OATH OF OFFICE WHEREIN YOU SWORE TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
SCRAP THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE PLAN!
ANY SUCH FEDERALLY IMPOSED HEALTH CARE PLAN IS OUTSIDE THE LIMITED POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
FORCING AMERICAN PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES TO PARTAKE IN A SERVICE AGAINST THEIR WILL IS NOT COMMERCE BUT TYRANNY!
INVESTIGATE THE COLLUSION AMONG CORPORATE INTERESTS AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION OPENLY AND WITH CONTEMPT FOR OUR RIGHTS!
Americans rightly reject any socialized or mandated plan that takes away each one's right to choose (by including a public option; or individual mandates; or imposition of fines, taxes, and/or prison time).
Americans rightly reject any unconstitutional seizure of power that dramatically increases the reach and size of the federal government. We want less government - not more!
The American voters want actions in Congress that are constitutional and that do not sell our country out to banks and corporations!
We are watching your actions in Congress:
Either you will fulfill your oath of office and defend us against these assaults by special-interests, banks, corporations, their lobbyists, and the sell-out traitors among you that are violating their oaths and assisting in the assaults upon their constituents' rights and property,
Or you will join in the ranks of the piratical plunderers that are robbing and enslaving your constituents and all Americans in the service of the anti-American banking, pharmaceutical, chemical, insurance, and penal industries.
Americans are not obliged to obey illegal, unconstitutional acts. We will be working to impeach and/or indict the officials that have conspired to deprive us of our God-given, constitutionally protected rights and freedoms, including life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness.
Respectfully,
Joseph Martin
jlmartin@votekansas.org
785-xxx-xxxx