Ohio Tea Party Groups Pressure Boehner, House Freshmen on Debt Deal
July 21, 2011 at 3:29 pm in News by 12 Comments
50 Ohio Organizations Send Letter Opposing Any Raise in Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, more than 50 Ohio tea party groups sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and the recently elected Ohio freshman opposing any increase in the debt ceiling as part of the solution to the current debt crisis. The groups which sent the letter, available here, are affiliated with the nation’s largest tea party organization, Tea Party Patriots.
“Speaker Boehner must listen to his all Americans, and certainly to those in his home state of Ohio,” said Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “The Ohio freshmen who were elected by the tea party—giving Speaker Boehner his leadership position—must know that their constituents clearly reject any increase in the debt ceiling.”
Excerpts of the letter include the following:
“We are fully aware of the consequences of the debt ceiling not being raised, as we are also fully aware of measures that can be taken which will keep us from defaulting, will maintain vital services and will maintain payment to our military.
“We, the undersigned groups from Ohio, respectfully request that under your leadership, the debt ceiling NOT be raised, that legislation assuring we will not default, that vital services continue uninterrupted (Full Faith & Credit Act / HR 421), and that the military will be paid (Ensuring Pay of our Military Act of 2011 / HR 1297), immediately be passed by the United States House of Representatives.
“As the American public will be forced to pay the price of any debt ceiling increase, so too will the elected officials from Ohio ignoring the wishes of the Tea Party, 9.12 and liberty-minded groups from here, as will the elected officials from other states ignoring the wishes of well over half of this country.”
The Tea Party Patriots are the only major tea party organization to stand firm for spending cuts and against raising the debt ceiling and are collecting signatures for their petition to not raise the debt ceiling at www.NoDebtIncrease.com.
Tea Party Patriots is a national grassroots coalition with more than 3,300 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide. Tea Party Patriots is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Visit Tea Party Patriots online at www.TeaPartyPatriots.org.
For further information, please contact Jameson Cunningham with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.
To Whom It May Concern:
Please drop the “Right to Work” push until after the November 2012 election. You saw what labor can do by the results of Issue 2. You start this campaign up now Obama would win the WH in November and we all do not want that. Trust me when I say this would be death to any Conservative in the WH if you push this to be on the ballot in Nov. 2012.
Think about it!
Sincerely,
Betsy Noonan
I THINK IT IS PAST DUE OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACH OR BOOTED OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS MAN IS OUT OF CONTROL LOOK WHAT HE HAS STARTED WITH UNIONS AND
THE NLRB, AND OCCUPY AND TAXES HE IS STILL GIVING ACORN MONEY THROUGH
HUD BUT JUDICIAL WATCH BUSTED HIM . YOU COULD BOOT HIM OUT FOR SIDING
WITH A FOREIGN COUNTRY OVER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF ARIZONA .
BOOT HIM OUT OF OFFICE FOR TRYING TO BREAK THE UNITED STATES.
IMPEACH HIM FOR BOMBING LIBYA WITH OUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS.
IMPEACH HIM FOR FAST& FURIEST HE WAS PART OF IT HE THOUGHT HE COULD BLAME GUN SALESMEN BUT IT BLUE UP IN HIS FACE.HE WAS HOPPING TO GET RID
OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT. IF HE COULD DO THAT HE WOOD WIN SECOND TERM. BUT THAT WON’T HAPPEN THANK GOD.
I
It is time to get a conservative voice to replace Boehner. Period
It doesn’t matter what happens to Obama as long as the Republican party insists on being Democrat Lite. Change must start in Ohio… unless Boehner is replaced, nothing will change. Is there an effort in Ohio to challenge him in a primary? Time for the Tea Party to stop being cheerleaders and start leading.
please check in to the Ohio Liberty Council and ask about rVotes; Our patriot group is on board and it looks like a great way to get the results we are after.
replacing the speaker and Obama is a very good start. Then we keep working.!!!
Roger M (member)
Hocking Hills Tea Party Patriots
The Republican party is being played like a fiddle. When Gingrich was surging in the polls they trot out Nancy Pelosi to threaten to reveal his secrets. She knows the right thinks of her as the wicked witch of the west, so what was her goal? If you want to ambush an opponent you don’t tell him where you’ll be hiding. Clearly she was trying to get the Repubs to circle the wagons around Gingrich so he would get the nomination.
Now with Santorum surging they contrive a war on religion knowing it will help the socially conservative candidate who has made such issues the center of his campaign.
The only candidate they have attacked personally has been Mitt Romney. Do you really believe the OWS movement started because of people’s outrage over the Wall Street bailouts? If so, why did it take three years to get organized? The left’s goal is to make this a class warfare campaign and their hope is to make Romney’s wealth an issue. If Republicans give in on this the left has won a huge victory – including a second term for Obama.
Santorum is a career politician. He is a government insider. He is socially conservative, but not financially conservative. What are the biggest problems our country is facing? Huge deficit spending and high unemployment. How do you elect a candidate who has no experience in job creation, who has been part of the spending problem, and think you’re going to solve any problems?
WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!
Santorum is no fan of the Tea Party!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQnoVpkyqc
★Drudge: Time to Take Down Santorum’s Disguise
Submitted by Barracuda_Trader on Mon, 02/13/2012 – 17:31
in Daily Paul Liberty Forum
115 votes
SOURCE– Red State: “What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like”
**Links with actual bills and dates**
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-governme...
NOTE: I’m not going to personally attack Rick Santorum or his wife who opted to sue her chiropractor for $500,000. Complaint http://tinyurl.com/74qvxss
At the time Senator Santorum was stumping against his opponent for a $250,000 cap on medical malpractice suits.
Whatever.
It’s no secret Santorum is a serial hypocrite.
“Do as I say, not as I did”
But Santorum’s voting record is overwhelmingly inconsistent with the campaign propaganda that comes out of his mouth.
Santorum is not remotely a conservative or a defender of freedom.
He is a big government, “Show-me-the-money” LOBBYIST. Period. End of story.
Santorum is also the “Lobbyists’ Best Friend”.
He was rated #1 in Lobbyist Cash for 2006
Open Secrets: http://tinyurl.com/73e6r3s
★BREAKING: Rick Santorum Tax Returns Reveal K Street Pimp – Insider trading
Biggest compensation came health care industry and pushing for legislation that favored companies he held stock in.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years of federal income tax returns on Wednesday night…”
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/politics/local_politics...
SOURCE– Red State: “What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like”
**Links with actual bills and dates**
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-governme...
★Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
★Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
★Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
★Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
★Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
★Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
★Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
★Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
★Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
★Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
★Health Care
**Santorum’s top two campaign contributors: Blue Cross Blue Shield & High Mark. I couldn’t make this up.
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
★Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
★Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
★NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
★Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
★This partial list does not even include his support for No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, (Bigger than Obama care) http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902 FIVE debt ceiling increases, funding the bridge to nowhere, refusing to redirect earmark allocations to disaster relief along the Gulf Coast post Katrina, etc
★Club for Growth today rendered an opinion on U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s charge that Rick Santorum is a “big government, big spending individual.”
Verdict: Mostly true.
From Club for Growth analysis:
During a particularly touchy exchange at the ABC News debate, Paul attacked Santorum for being a “big-government, big spending individual.” To back up this claim, Paul offered four substantive examples: that Santorum voted to raise the nation’s debt limit five times, that Santorum voted against “right to work” laws, that he voted for No Child Left Behind, and that he voted for the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit.
Research shows that all four substantive allegations against Santorum are true.
http://www.revolutionpac.com/2012/01/club-for-growth-confirm...
★Rick Santorum: Top-tier on Most Corrupt Member of Congress list 2 years running
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-washington-dc/rick-s...
★Patriot Act
Privacy is in 4th amendment, but Patriot Act is ok
Q: [to Paul] Sen. Santorum believes that the Supreme Court was wrong when it decided that a right to privacy was embedded in the Constitution.
SANTORUM: No, let’s be clear. We’re talking about the 10th Amendment and the right of states to act.
PAUL: I think the Fourth Amendment is very clear. It is explicit in our privacy. You can’t go into anybody’s house and look at what they have or their papers or any private things without a search warrant. This is why the Patriot Act is wrong, because you have a right of privacy by the Fourth Amendment.
SANTORUM: Congressman Paul is talking about privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, in which I agree with him, I don’t necessarily agree that the Patriot Act violates that. But I do agree that obviously we have a right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment.
Source: WMUR 2012 GOP New Hampshire debate , Jan 7, 2012
http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Rick_Santorum_Homeland_Securi...
★NDAA
“In January 2011, Senator Santorum was asked if he would have signed the 2012 NDAA if he were President. Acknowledging that the legislation granted the President the right to arrest and detain US citizens, Senator Santorum then stated that indeed would have signed the legislation..”
http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Pennsylvani...
★Santorum: I was AGAINST bombing Iran, before I was for It! By the Way, I LOVE the Shah!
http://www.dailypaul.com/213882/santorum-i-was-against-bombi...
OHIO SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER CANDIDATE RUNNIN G AGAINST JOHN BOEHNER. HE IS AS MUCH OF THE PROBLEM IN WASHINGTON AS THE DEMOCRATS WITH IS WISHY WASHY ATTITUDE. WE NEED POLITICANS WHO WILL STAND FOR “WE THE PEOPLE” BOEHNER IS NOT IT OHIO WAKW UP GET SOMEONE WHO WILL
I am probably considered the enemy, but more and more as a liberal i would like to get rid of most of the federal government. We send out money there and the politicians do what ever they want with it and send the states back scraps with strings attached.
Parts of this country are still fundamentally different, and all we do with this crazy federal government is switch back and forth between liberal and conservative policies, so half the country is unhappy and the debt goes up every year, and we all get less.
We need some federal government, so defense, but not defending everybody all over the world, we need to secure our own defenses first and our borders. We don’t need non-citizens coming into our country and stealing our jobs and taking services, probably i feel that way for different reasons, but i still do.
I say if Alabama doesn’t want abortion then fine, if New York does then fine. Same with Health care, each state can do what it wants. Massachusetts did, but didn’t make texas do it.
If I had the choice, even being liberal, i would vote for Ron Paul because he says what he actually believes and wants to abolish the income tax, the source of the spending, even if I disagree with some of what he says. These two parties are both evil. The problem is that the middle class is split into two camps, liberal and conservative and both are getting screwed, and somehow the crooked politicians will triumph over both of us if we don’t find a third way and agree to disagree.
What do you think?
Mike B.
I live in New York state, but wish to help with the election of Romney in a nearby swing state such as PA or Ohio, Please advise the persons to contact in Ohio so I can travel soon to volunteer. Thank you, Amy Herbert
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Obama cannot be re-elected as he has broken the law and has instigated illegalities in the UK. All for the sake of pre-election unity and donations.
We have been both threatened and bribed to keep things quiet, but this is not going to work.
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