Monday, March 29th, is the Natrona County Republican Party County Convention;

7:00 pm, Best Western Ramkota Hotel, Casper.  Please note the new location.

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CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE TO CHALLENGE THE
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ON HEALTH CARE

The forced-through health care package fails the American people on numerous levels and does not provide permanent protections for the life of the unborn.  It’s extremely disconcerting that the House approved a bill that depends on a promise from President Obama — an Executive Order — which does not provide the guarantees and pro-life protections secured by statutory language in a law approved by Congress.  In addition, the law has a mandate that actually penalizes Americans who choose not to participate, and I do not want to be forced to buy a health care plan that funds abortions.  It appears this is yet another Washington power-play that ignores the voice of the American people.  I stand with the American Center for Law and Justice as they pursue all necessary litigation routes in order to resolve, once and for all, the troubling issues involving health care reform legislation.

Sign the petition today!

We told you that there would be enormous pressure to pass the pro-abortion, government-run health care package.  And, with last-minute deal-making, President Obama and the Democrat leadership got what they wanted.  But that “deal,” in the form of an Executive Order, is not a legislative fix and does NOT carry the force of Congressionally-approved legislation.  Bottom line:  it does not supersede law.  In fact, it now puts you in a position where you could be forced to buy a health care plan that funds abortions.

So what about you — what about the millions of Americans just like you who oppose this dangerous legislation?  Now that it’s been approved, the focus turns to challenging this measure in the courts.  The ACLJ is embarking on a massive litigation strategy and will work aggressively to challenge the constitutionality of this pro-abortion package.  The battle is far from over when it comes to health care!  Make your voice heard in the courts — join our legal challenge today by reading the form below carefully and declaring your membership with the ACLJ by adding your name to our Constitutional Committee to Challenge the President and Congress on Health Care, which will be represented in amicus briefs filed in all the key challenges.

This last budget session there was legislation up for vote that would have given every Wyoming citizen the opportunity to choose for themselves whether to place on the Nov. 2010 ballot the option to amend our state constitution with provisions that would have protected us from “the federal government interfering with an individual’s health care decisions and prohibiting any penalty, fine or tax imposed because of a decision to participate in or decline health insurance, or to pay directly or receive payment directly for health care services”.

On Feb 9^th the Senate version, #SJ0001, was killed by;

Senator Bruce Burns, (R) #S21 Sheridan

Senator James Elliot, (D) #S11 Albany/Carbon

Senator Floyd Esquibel, (D) #S08 Laramie

Senator John Hastert, (D) #S13 Sweetwater

Senator Bill Landen, (R) #S27 Natrona

Senator Grant Larson, (R) #S17 Teton/Fremont

Senator Marty Martin, (D) #S12 Sweetwater/Fremont

Senator Mike Massie, (D) #S09 Albany

Senator Saundra Meyer, (D) #S15 Uinta

Senator John Schiffer, (R) #S22 Sheridan/Johnson

Senator Charles Scott, (R) #30 Natrona

Senator Kathryn Sessions, (D) #S07 Laramie

After #SJ0001 was killed in the Senate, this critical legislation was re-submitted as a House Resolution.

On Feb 11^th the House Version, #HJ0012, was killed by;

Representative George Bagby, (D) #H15 Carbon

Representative Joseph Barbuto, (D) #H48 Fremont/Sweetwater

Representative Stan Blake, (D) #H39 Sweetwater

Representative James Byrd, (D) #H44 Laramie

Representative Seth Carson, (D) #H45 Albany

Representative Cathy Connolly, (D) #H13 Albany

Representative Bernadine Craft, (D) #H17 Sweetwater

Representative Ross Diercks, (D) #H02 Niobrara/Weston/Converse/Goshen

Representative Ken Esquibel, (D) #H41 Laramie

Representative Mike Gilmore, (D) #H59 Natrona

Representative Pat Goggles, (D) #H33 Fremont

Representative Mary Hales, (D) #H36 Natrona

Representative Debbie Hammons, (D) #H27 Washakie

Representative Peter Jorgenson, (D) #H16 Teton

Representative Terry Kimble, (D) #H49 Unita

Representative Lori Millin, (D) #H08 Laramie

Representative Owen Petersen, (R) #H19 Uinta

Representative Jim Roscoe, (D) #H22 Lincoln/Sublette/Teton

Representative Bill Thompson, (D) #H60 Sweetwater

Not only is it UNCONSTITUTIONAL to dictate to any citizen how they should take care of themselves, much less force them to purchase any product or service whatsoever or be fined/penalized, but apparently these legislators also assume that you are not smart enough to simply vote on this issue yourself.

Friday, March 12, 2010

‘They Just Want This Over’   [Robert Costa]

Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”

According to Stupak, that group of twelve pro-life House Democrats — the “Stupak dozen” — has privately agreed for months to vote ‘no’ on the Senate’s health-care bill if federal funding for abortion is included in the final legislative language. Now, in the debate’s final hours, Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). “I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted, and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters, like unions.”

Stupak says he also doesn’t trust the “Slaughter solution,” a legislative maneuver being bandied about on Capitol Hill as a way to pass the Senate bill in the House without actually voting on it. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” he says. “I don’t have a warm-and-fuzzy feeling about what I’m hearing.”

Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing. “I really believe that the Democratic leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance,” he says. “Their position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered.” The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, he adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

If Obamacare passes, Stupak says, it could signal the end of any meaningful role for pro-life Democrats within their own party. “It would be very, very hard for someone who is a right-to-life Democrat to run for office,” he says. “I won’t leave the party. I’m more comfortable here and still believe in a role within it for the right-to-life cause, but this bill will make being a pro-life Democrat much more difficult. They don’t even want to debate this issue. We’ll probably have to wait until the Republicans take back the majority to fix this.”

“Throughout this debate, even when the House leaders have acknowledged us, it’s always been in a backhanded way,” he laments. “I’m telling the others to hold firm, and we’ll meet next week, but I’m disappointed in my colleagues who said they’d be with us and now they’re not. It’s almost like some right-to-life members don’t want to be bothered. They just want this over.”

And the politics of the issue are pretty rough. “This has really reached an unhealthy stage,” Stupak says. “People are threatening ethics complaints on me. On the left, they’re really stepping it up. Every day, from Rachel Maddow to the Daily Kos, it keeps coming. Does it bother me? Sure. Does it change my position? No.”

03/12 03:31 PM

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