Taxation Without Representation? We Report & You Decide...
The Grassfire organization took numerous petitions to the Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. recently and they were turned away by security (they had delivered petitions in this manner in the past). Here are two YouTube videos telling what happened firsthand:
Part 1:
Part 2:
In New York's 23rd Congressional District an Independent Conservative Party Candidate was in the race with a Democrat after the Republican candidate dropped out at the last minute and endorsed the Democrat.
The Democrat won the election, but look at the votes (data from Wikipedia):
Democrat Owens got 61,666 votes or 49.2% of the turnout
Conservative Hoffman got 57,073 or 45.2% of the turnout
Republican (?) Scozzafava got 6,976 or 5.5% of the turnout
The Conservative Party Independent was supported by the area Tea Parties and endorsed by Sarah Palin among other notable conservatives.
This man has said he never intended to be a policitican, and was running in a party few had heard of in a state where they elected a Liberal woman Senator that had never lived there. 45+ percent of the vote under these circumstances is an achievement.
Read what he said about why he ran here
Excerpt:
"I did not make the decision to run for Congress lightly. I have never aspired to be a politician, but seeing the direction our country was heading, I had to act. I believe in the bedrock principles that have made our nation great; limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility..."
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