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GREG HEARTSILL RECEIVES CAN-DO CONSERVATIVES OF AMERICA ENDORSEMENT

Greg Heartsill, Republican candidate for the new Iowa House District 28, has received the endorsement of the Can-Do Conservatives of America. 

The Can-Do Conservatives of America is the nation’s first Conservative political organization representing Americans with disabilities.  They are dedicated to giving Americans with disabilities a voice in the Conservative movement, advocating for policies that will put an end to the cycle of government dependence, and supporting Conservative candidates that promote these policies and will fight to carry them out.

Chairman Brian Donegan stated, “On behalf of our organization, I am pleased to publicly endorse Greg Heartsill.  After visiting with Greg, I know he is the candidate that will advance Conservative policy in the Iowa Legislature. I am convinced that if elected,, Greg will do fight for what is right right for Iowans and not just go along to get along in Des Moines.”

Heartsill will be a candidate on the Republican ballot for the June 5th Primary. The newly-formed Iowa House District 28 will be comprised of four townships in southern Jasper County, all of Marion County, except Pella and Lake Prairie Township, and the eastern half of Lucas County. For more information about Greg or his campaign, please visit www.heartsillforiowa.com.

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Every ten years, depending on the results of the census States lose or gain Congressional seats.  One of the states that gained a Congressional district is The Palmetto State of South Carolina.  Recently I learned that former Lt. Governor André Bauer was considering a run for Congress.  A few weeks back he made it official.  We are very proud to endorse his campaign!

Last year during his run for Governor André stuck out his neck on principle and demanded an end to the cycle of Government dependence.  Democrats and even his Republican opponents threw the kitchen sink at him but André didn’t back down.  He paid a political price for standing for us and for what is right.  He was willing to stand up against an inconvenient truth and that is why we named him a “Can-Do Conservative Hero” last year.

Throughout his years representing the Palmetto State in its State Legislature andthen  as Lt. Governor, André Bauer took it upon himself to make sure that people with disabilities, Veterans, the elderly, and the poor were represented by offering a hand up to them instead of hand outs so that they were empowered. He was volunteering his time for those citizens even before his life of public service as a politician

André Bauer is the kind of Republican we need running and we need winning  The people of Coastal South Carolina should send him to Washington because he will go and fight for what is right, no matter what the consequences.  That is why we are proud to endorse his campaign for Congress!

Please visit André’s web site, “like” him on Facebook, follow the campaign on Twitter, and please make a contribution to André’s campaign to bring Common-sense Conservative leadership to Washington.

NOTE – There will be no endorsement given to any candidate in the 2012 GOP Presidential primary.  After the nominee is chosen we will then determine if the nominee is worthy of endorsement.

This Saturday in Iowa a very important forum will be held for the Republican Candidates for President, organized by The Family Leader, a Conservative organization led by former Gubernatorial candidate and “Can-Do conservative Hero” Bob Vander Plaats (he also serves as our honorary State Chairman).  the Forum will be moderated by Frank Luntz.  Back when the forum was announced a request went out for question to be asked at the forum and we submitted a question.  We are not aware if the following question will be asked so we are publishing that question public for everyone to see.

Due to the policies of the current administration, there is an accelerated vicious cycle of Government dependence that is robbing countless Americans (many who are poor and/or have disabilities) the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.   If elected, what is your plan to reverse this cycle?  

We hope that the Republican candidates for President will have the opportunity to be asked this question because it is definitely not being asked by the media in their so called “Debates” in which the American People end up learning nothing substantive about the candidates except whether they can answer questions (asked by moderators with biased agendas).

If any of the candidates answer this question, we will post their answers below.  .

Tuesday night’s election results were a mixed bag of success and defeat that left both sides of the political spectrum claiming victory with 2012 looming on the horizon.  One 2 of our candidates were successfully elected to office on Tuesday, Phil Bryant as Mississippi’s new Governor and Lynn Fitch as Mississippi’s new State Treasurer.  Another success was that Ohioans voted against the Obamacare mandate and we definitely applaud that (while sadly overturning the passed law that limited collective bargaining for public-sector unions that has been and now will continue to suck the coffers dry at state and local level).

The biggest disappointment of the evening was definitely the Personhood Amendment that failed in Mississippi.  However, over a quarter Million citizens declared with their vote that life begins at conception, despite a heavy smear campaign by Planned Parenthood.  The effort to get Personhood on the ballot is a very new one and we are glad that to hear that those in charge of the effort in Mississippi are not deterred and will try again.  We will fight with them from day one next time.

There were excellent candidates who did not win and policy ideas that failed at the ballot box on Tuesday but as 2012 draws near, regardless of outcome our fight continues and our resolve is steadfast. The endorsing and support of solid Conservative candidates will continue as we must increase the Conservative ranks in The House and a hopefully Republican Controlled Senate  to work with a Conservative President (or to keep an Establishment Republican accountable), as we definitely need to defeat the destructive polices of our current President.

As one of our elected States Reps in Iowa, Tom Shaw, likes to say – “We must endeavor to persevere”.  We must and we will!

Jim Bridenstine with his wife Michelle and his family

In November of last year Americans sent Washington a very clear message.  STOP SPENDING US INTO OBLIVION. In the process we sent some excellent citizen legislators up there to hold the line for our Nation.  However it is clear that some  legislators haven’t gotten the message.

One of them is 10-year Republican incumbent John Sullivan (OK-1) who voted to raise the debt ceiling yet again earlier this year.  Even worse is the fact that when he did so he voted to create the very dangerous “Super committee”.  John Sullivan was primaried last year by several candidates in order to keep him accountable.  However it is clear that Sullivan is out of touch with his constituents.  Therefore, it’s time to send a true common-sense Constitutional Conservative to Washington in John Sullivan’s place.

The great news for the citizens of Oklahoma’s 1st District is that there is an excellent candidate challenging John Sullivan next year.  His name is  Jim Bridenstine.  Jim is a Lt. Commander in the US Navy and the former Executive Director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.   After researching and speaking with Jim it is clear that he is the right man for the job.

Jim Bridenstine regularly flies missions in America’s war on drugs and he understands first-hand the consequences of an open border policy. He will stand firm for border security. Jim is a Christian who understands that every person is created for a purpose and he is dedicated to protecting human life from conception to natural death and supports a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution. He is also a fiscal conservative who will fight for spending cuts, a Balanced Budget Amendment, and a complete overhaul to the tax code. Jim also understands that high energy prices hit people with disabilities especially hard and he supports free-market energy policies that increase domestic production and reduce prices. Jim believes we should drill here and drill now.

Jim is the right man, for the right job, at the right time.  He will fight hard  to end the accelerated and vicious cycle of Government dependence that exists due to the policies of the current administration.  That is why we are very proud to endorse Jim for Congress and urge all the citizens of the 1st District of Oklahoma to send him to Washington next year.  Oklahoma and America will be a better place with Jim in Congress.  We are proud to support him.

Please take some time to visit Jim’s Website, “Like” him on Facebook, follow his campaign on Twitter, and make a contribution to Jim’s campaign

This is our 2nd Congressional endorsement in Oklahoma for the 2012 election cycle.  Earlier this month we endorsed George Faught in OK-2.  I look forward to the opportunity to return to Oklahoma to campaign for these excellent Conservative candidates.  You might be interested in an article published in the Tulsa World during the last trip to Oklahoma last July.   

While the main event is still one year away, voters in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi and elsewhere will be going to the polls this year..  We are very proud to endorse the following solid Conservative candidates running for office this year.

Governor:

David Williams – Kentucky

Bobby Jindal – Louisiana*

Phil Bryant - Mississippi

Secretary of State:

Bill Johnson – Kentucky

Attorney General:

Todd P’Pool – Kentucky

James “Buddy” Caldwell – Louisiana*

Steve Simpson – Mississippi

State Treasurer:

Lynn Fitch – Mississippi

State Auditor:

John Kemper III – Kentucky

Mayor: 

Ryan Frazier – Aurora, Colorado

County Commissioner:

Mike Keown – Thomas County, Georgia

*-Incumbent

NOTE – Louisiana holds its elections on October 22nd.  All other states hold general elections on Tuesday, November 8th.

In addition we urge Ohioans to vote Yes on ballot initiatives 2 and 3.  Ballot initiative 2 will keep in place Governor Kasich’s efforts to limit the crippling effects of public sector unions.  Ballot initiative 3 would protect Ohioans from Obamacare’s individual mandate.

Furthermore we strongly urge the citizens of Mississippi to vote Yes on 26, which would add a State Constitutional Amendment  establishing Personhood in the state of Mississippi and set up a Constitutional challenge to Roe vs Wade (1973)

We urge voters in these states to get out and vote for these solid Conservative candidates and ballot initiatives!

As stated in a previous post Republicans have an opportunity to take back control of the US Senate next year. It is imperative that there is a solid roster of Constitutional Conservatives in the US Senate to make sure the new Republican majority doesn’t get off-track.  With the retirement of Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas we have a golden opportunity to elect a strong Conservative to represent Texas in the US Senate.

In such a Republican state it is not unexpected that there are a ton of candidates running for the seat.  Many of them would be excellent Senators but there is one candidate with a solid Conservative record and a bold plan to get our Nation back on track.  That man is former Solicitor General, Ted Cruz

In his career, Ted has been a champion for traditional Conservative values and the US Constitution.If elected, he will bring that leadership to Washington, along with a bold plan that is far better than anything President Obama and his liberal allies have come up with to solve our problems, get Americans back to work, and reverse the vicious cycle of Government dependence that is stealing the opportunity for more and more Americans to pursue the American Dream.

We are very proud to stand beside Ted Cruz and offer our endorsement because he’s the right man, for the right job, at the right time.  America needs Ted Cruz to join the fight along side Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Jim DeMint, and Rand Paul for our future. We urge Texas Republicans to get behind Ted and lets send another solid Constitutional Conservative to the US Senate!

Please visit Ted Cruz’s website, like his page on Facebook, Follow Ted’s campaign on Twitter, and please go by and make a contribution to Ted’s campaign.

In 2010 our efforts to take back the US Senate with Conservative Constitutional candidates got off to a very good start, with the election of leaders like Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio.  With the groundwork laid, a net gain of six seats next year will put Republicans back in the majority,  However re-gaining the majority isn’t enough.  We must make sure that there is a significant wing of Constitutional Conservative leaders to make sure that we don’t make the same big-government mistakes that lost us the trust of the American People in 2006.

One of the states holding an election for the US Senate next year is Michigan and  her citizens have a clear Conservative choice for the Republican nomination.  His name is Gary Glenn.,  He’s not only the candidate more ideologically Conservative in rhetoric, Gary’s career of standing up for what is right has no match.  In other words his actions back up his rhetoric

Gary Glenn has been a fiscally responsible County Commissioner.  He also led a successful charge to make Idaho a Right-To-Work state (against very tall odds, a great financial disadvantage by special interests, and a Democrat Governor   He’s also a champion of private sector health-care reform, and school-choice. He has also been a very successful President of the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association since 1999.

Gary Glenn is the clear Conservative choice for Senate in Michigan.  He’s the most socially and fiscally conservative of all the candidates.  We think he is the right man for the job not  because of what he is saying, but for what Gary has done and what he will do as a US Senator.

Gary will fight hard to make sure Obamacare is repealed and replaced, that the Department of Education is abolished, that every human life is protected from conception until natural death, that American citizens are given the right to work without being forced to join a union, and that the IRS is shuttered and replaced by the FairTax,  Gary will make sure the US Constitution is adhered to and that the vicious cycle of Government dependence is reversed so that more Americans actually are blessed with the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

We are proud to stand with Gary and offer our endorsement for his campaign for US Senate.  We urge Republicans in Michigan to not be blinded by Conservative rhetoric.  Do your homework and go through the record of each candidate.  Chances are you will come to the same conclusion we did.  Gary Glenn is the right man for the job.

Please visit Gary’s Website, like Gary on Facebook, follow his campaign on Twitter, and if you are able, please make a donation to his campaign.

When Oklahoma’s only remaining Democrat Congressman, Dan Boren announced that he will not seek re-election a few months ago, a golden opportunity was created not only to put Oklahoma’s 2nd District in Republican hands, but to put it in Conservative hands

We are in desperate need of sold Conservative citizen legislators in Congress.  Citizens in Muskogee, OKlahoma have had just that representing them in the Oklahoma State House since 2007 in George Faught (who when he is not standing for what is right at the Statehouse, runs a carpet cleaning business).

If elected to Congress, George will stand for what is right as someone who is not beholden to any party or special interest.  In fact George has never been afraid to stand against the establishment of his own party.  When the GOP establishment in The Sooner State tried to put the infrastructure in place to implement Obamacare if it was not overturned or repealed, George led the charge to kill every legislative attempt to do so.

George is 100% Pro-Life.  He has stood against special interests in the state legislature in his firm stance.  This past session, George introduced a bill banning embryonic stem-cell research in The Sooner State.  This effort was derailed by the big money lobbyists of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, but George stood up to them anyway.

I first met George last summer while on the trail for now Attorney General Scott Pruitt.  I met his wife and family and we sat at a table talking about many issues facing Oklahoma and the nation.  George is a solid Christian Constitutional Conservative – just the type that we need to send more of to Washington.  He is also a man that the citizens pf Eastern Oklahoma can trust and will be proud of as their Representative.

George also has a heart of gold and he knows that our Nation will be a better place if Americans can spread more of our wealth around, instead of the Government doing it for us.  George is very active in his community and one of his favorite charities is the Children’s Miracle Network.  Every year he participates in a fundraising morning at his local Golden Corral.  That just the tip of the iceberg.

We are proud to endorse George and his campaign to bring common-sense Constitutional Conservative leadership to Washington.  Please visit his website, like him on Facebook, follow George on Twitter, and if you can please contribute to his campaign.

We are proud to stand with George because he will stand with us.  We urge everyone in Eastern Oklahoma to do the same!