United Liberty Groups of Texas
TEA Parties, 9/12s, Grassroots America
September 23, 2013
To the Texas Delegation in the United States Senate and House of Representatives:
The signatories to this letter represent everyday Texans. We are grassroots activists gravely concerned with the state of the country and the direction in which it is headed.
At this moment in American history, no issue is more important than stopping Obamacare. Obamacare is destroying America. People are losing jobs, losing wages, paying more for insurance premiums, or losing coverage altogether. Seniors live in fear they will simply no longer qualify for “quality of life” or life-extending health services. Doctors are seeing their profession destroyed. Owners of small businesses are grappling with decisions to reduce full-time jobs to part-time jobs, knowing this will hurt their businesses and employees. Quite simply, Americans are living in fear of this law.
Obamacare represents everything wrong with our bureaucratic, out-of-control government. Those who voted for Obamacare never had time to read, let alone understand, the bill. It was passed with partisan procedural tricks over the objections of the American people. Bureaucrats are now producing thousands of pages of regulations that only lawyers can understand. Big businesses, corporations, and politicians are getting special waivers and deals.
These special waivers and deals clearly violate the “Uniformity Clause” of the US Constitution. Since the US Supreme Court has held the ObamaCare mandate to be a tax, it invokes the Constitution’s “Uniformity Clause” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) which requires the tax to “be uniform throughout the United States.” The Framers were explicit that taxes had to be applied uniformly; this intent was later extended to equal protection of the laws by the 14th Amendment. Moreover, the President has repeatedly bypassed Congress to alter the law.
This is a direct assault on individual liberty and the Constitution. We want this unmitigated disaster stopped.
While we applaud the House of Representatives for listening to the American people and passing a bill to defund Obamacare while funding government, the real battle is ahead. When this bill makes it to the US Senate, we are counting on both of our Texas senators to hold the line and stop Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from playing any procedural tricks to reinstate funding for Obamacare.
Texas House Delegation, please continue to back up our Texas senators, in fact all Republican senators, as they stare down Harry Reid. We urge the Texas House Delegation to take the lead in a strategy to fight to win. If Harry Reid strips out the defunding of ObamaCare, sending the government-funding bill back to the House, Speaker John Boehner should begin passing individual bills funding one department at a time, starting with the military. This should be followed by a bill to fund Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The House should pass government funding one bill at a time, driving home the fact that if the government shuts down, it will be because the President and Senate Democrats are willing to sacrifice jobs and the economy for a health care law a majority of the American people don’t want.
We know it will be a fight, but that is what you were elected to do.
Fight for us. Don’t give in to the Washington elites! Don’t surrender! Real Texans don’t blink.
Preserving Liberty,
JoAnn Fleming,
Chair, TEA Party Caucus Advisory Committee to the TX Legislature’s TEA Party Caucus
Fellow colleagues, representing constitutional conservative grassroots organizations from across Texas:
TEA Party Caucus Advisory Committee – grassroots advisors to the TX Legislature’s TEA Party Caucus:
Roberto Gonzalez, Clear Lake TEA Party
Konni Burton, former Dallas TEA Party Steering Committee member
Robin Lennon, Kingwood TEA Party
Chuck Molyneaux, McKinney TEA Party and the North Texas Citizens Lobby
Katrina Pierson, Garland TEA Party
Dr. Julie Turner, Texas Patriots PAC – The Woodlands
JoAnn Fleming (Executive Director) & Ernie Clark (President) Grassroots America – We the People PAC
Ken Emanuelson, The Grassroots Texans Network & Dallas TEA Party Steering Committee Member
Cathie Adams, President, Texas Eagle Forum
Michael Quinn Sullivan, President, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Joseph Wade Miller – Regional Coordinator (TX) for Heritage Action
Debra Medina, Executive Director, We Texans
Russell Ramsland, Leader of the DFW area Park Cities/Preston Hollow Leadership Forum and Tea Party
Dr. Mike Olcott, Argyle Victory, Leader
Catherine Engelbrecht, King Street Patriots
Matt Rinaldi for the Northwest Dallas County Tea Party Coalition
United Liberty Groups of Texas – TEA Parties, 9/12s, Grassroots America, continued:
Jim Speiran, Emerald Bay Grassroots America
Ray Myers and Jo Ellen Allan, Kaufman County TEA Party
George Rodriguez, President, South Texas Alliance & South Texas Coordinator for TEA Party Patriots
Jim Lennon, co-founder, Kingwood TEA Party
Craig Cosgray, Highland Lakes TEA Party and Board Chairman, TEA Parties of Texas PAC (TPOT)
Toby Marie Walker, Waco TEA Party
Kathryn Monette, Grand Prairie TEA Party
Scott and Patti Jones, Sachse TEA Party
Babs Millward, Coordinator of the Rowlett TEA Party
Pamela Engstrom, Wylie TEA Party
Scott and Rachell McKim, Coordinators for Mesquite/Sunnyvale TEA Party
Joline Tate, Leader for the Garland TEA Party
Dawn King, Parker County TEA Party
Nicholas and Thelma Taorima, Advisory Board Members for the National 9/12 Project, Texas 9/12
Suezette Griffin, Pearland TEA Party
Rick Spletter, Grassroots Rockwall
Leaders of the Fort Worth 9/12 Project:
Adrian Murray
Deborah Grimes
Wayne Arendsee
David Lambertsen
Kent Kallmeyer
Georgia Stapleton
Joyce Petrich, Leader of the Midland/Odessa 9/12 Project
Tim Lyng, The Remembrance Project (Houston)
Jim Barnes, McAllen Tea Party
United Liberty Groups of Texas – TEA Parties, 9/12s, Grassroots America, continued:
Leaders of New Revolution Now:
Dean Wright, Austin
Sharon Hall, San Antonio
Leaders of the Alvin TEA Party Patriots:
Suzanne Dillmann, Project Manager
Pedro Rivera
Toni Fabry, Frisco TEA Party
Phillip Dennis, Dallas Tea Party Steering Committee
Steve Duke, Allen Area Patriots
Maria Espinoza-Lyng, Houston Eagle Forum
Bob Hall, Canton TEA Party
Toby & Sue Stringer, Alvin TEA Party Patriots
Debbie Gregory, Hill County TEA Party
Karen Albright, Freestone County TEA Party
James Ives (President) and Melissa Ives (Leadership), Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party
Aubrey Vaughan, Tri-County TX TEA Party LLC
John Alaniz, President, Central Texas TEA Party
Michael Kinzie, founder, TEAParty911.com
Leadership for Hideaway Grassroots America:
John Tweedell
Dardine Roedel
Leaders of the Ellis County Tea Party:
Harlon Bounds
Linda Bounds
Bill Carson
Liz Theiss, North Houston TEA Party Patriots
United Liberty Groups of Texas – TEA Parties, 9/12s, Grassroots America, continued:
Mike Openshaw, Collin County TEA Party
Julie McCarty, NE Tarrant Tea Party
Larry Korkmas, Houston TFIRE – Texans for Immigration Reduction & Enforcement
Darcy Kahrhoff, Katy TEA Party
Rebecca Forest, Women on the Wall
Eva Brown, Battleground TEA Party
Bob Bagley, Montgomery County TEA Party
Chuck Mears, Upshur County TEA Party
Lorie Medina, Real Conservatives National Committee, Chairman
Mike and Cindy Schwartz, We The People-Longview Tea Party
Alice Linahan, Founder Voices Empower
Dr. Dwayne Collins, Edom TEA Party
Sherri Young, We the People of Harrison County
David Leopard, Richardson TEA Party
Kelly Cooper, Chairwoman, Prosper Tea Party
Thomas D. Selgas, US Bill of Rights Foundation
9/24/13 Support-gathering still in progress
Organization leaders, contact jack.short001@gmail.com to be added to represent your group. Please send your name, title, and organization name.
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” (Samuel Adams)
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Where applicable, political advertisement paid for by Grassroots America – We the People, PO Box 130012, Tyler, TX 75713
