Wyoming MassResistance Publicly Rebukes RINO State House Establishment

 

Wyoming MassResistance publicly rebukes RINO State House establishment’s leftist talking points against pro-family legislation.

Former Wyoming GOP House Speaker pushes the compromised mentality in newspaper column.

But Wyoming MassResistance parents respond with common sense!

February 26, 2024

 He's still using his influence to push the RINO leftist agenda in conservative Wyoming. But MassResistance lashed back!

Conservatives in nearly a dozen Western “red” states are fuming about this: Even when there’s a super-majority of Republicans in their state legislature, it’s difficult to pass common-sense pro-family bills that the Left opposes. It seems a lot of Republican legislators, especially in leadership, are covert liberals – and the voters have not paid sufficient attention. This phenomenon has even gotten national press.

It’s a particular problem in Wyoming, where the Legislature has only 8 Democrats out of 93 members. Wyoming voters recently booted RINO Liz Cheney from Congress, but the State House is still full of traitors to the GOP.

 This is how bad it is in Wyoming. They might as well just elect a Democrat legislature! [Sounce: Wyoming Freedom Caucus]

What’s going on in the minds of these phony Republicans? Too many of them started out ideologically muddle-headed, and then bought into the leftist talking points. Unfortunately, not enough citizens confront that rubbish. But Wyoming MassResistance decided to step up!

Former GOP House Speaker attacks pro-family bills

Tom Lubnau is the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives in Wyoming. He was also the State Rep from Gillette, which is a solidly conservative area. Lubnau now occasionally writes columns for Cowboy State Daily, a popular right-leaning statewide news and commentary site.

Lubnau was (and still is, given his continued influence) part of the problem.  Earlier this month, he wrote an absurd column attacking the efforts by actual conservatives in the legislature to protect children from the lunatic LGBT agenda that is engulfing society.

Titled, “Legislating Private Parts Is Popular This Legislative Session,” it reflects the odious mentality of the RINO establishment. Lubnau bashed three much-needed pro-family bills that were before the legislature at that time (but unfortunately did not pass):

• Bill HB 50 defined a man and a woman by their actual biology, not their so-called “gender identity.” It also defined “father” and “mother” and would have restricted use of women’s public restrooms and locker rooms to actual women. These clear definitions are necessary because the Left has forced its radical “gender” ideology into public spaces (and even public documents).
• Bill HB 68 would have repealed the obscenity exemption for schools, libraries, etc. As everyone knows, depraved school and library officials are using this exemption to freely distribute horrible pornography to vulnerable children without the legal penalty that the rest of the general public faces.
• And Bill 88 would have made it illegal to publicly display, exhibit, or post, etc. obscene material where others can easily see it. The text of the bill referred to physical spaces, not electronic communication.

Ridiculous leftist arguments

Lubnau made the preposterous claim that these bills are about “regulating private parts” and “people’s bedrooms.” He equated these bills to the anti-sodomy laws (which outlawed certain perverted private sexual acts) – even though all three bills were about obvious public issues.

Lubnau claimed that legally defining “mother” to be a “parent of the female sex” and “father” to be a parent of the male sex “seems strangely reminiscent of an Orwell novel.” He stupidly had it exactly backwards. Orwell wrote about government changing the language to support lies, not reinforcing our language to tell the truth!

To attempt to bolster his “private parts” argument, Lubnau brought up a “right to abortion” bill, HB76, which was sponsored by Democrats but had little chance of passage and had nothing to do with the others.

Wyoming MassResistance strikes back with a rebuttal

When this column came out, it certainly became a topic of conversation in Gillette!

Lubnau is a well-known GOP leadership figure writing in a major statewide conservative publication. The column was an embarrassment to the people in his district.

So our two Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders in Gillette, Ed and Susan Sisti, wrote a rebuttal. Titled, “Legislating Public Consequences is Essential to Civil Society,” it was published in Cowboy State Daily last week. (For some reason it’s labeled a “Letter to the Editor” even though it’s the length of a normal op-ed article.)

Our Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders didn’t pull any punches. They excoriated Lubnau for trafficking in “the weak arguments of corporate lobbyists and libertarian accommodationists.” In particular, they directly took on his absurd “private parts” reasoning:

People’s private lives used to be private, but now LGBT activists insist on making their private lives—and private parts—very public.

From the obscene books in public libraries, to the explicit curricula in public schools, to the very public displays of obscenity, depravity, and debauchery in PRIDE parades and festivals, Wyomingites (especially their children) cannot escape other people’s pushing their privates in public spaces.

And they concluded with:

The whole LGBT agenda has gone from the bedroom to the boardroom and is now invading the classroom.

If homosexuals and transgenders would have kept their privates private, there would have never been a need for the legislature to engage public debates to seek public consequences to stem the health, moral, and cultural collapse which has ensued.

Needless to say, the reaction from local conservatives has been overwhelmingly positive. People are thanking the Sistis and Wyoming MassResistance for stepping up and confronting the RINO mentality that has taken over their Legislature – and telling the truth!

Final thoughts

Readers may recall our report several months ago on Idaho MassResistance parents confronting their RINO State Rep who voted against a bill to protect children in libraries. His “No” vote kept the bill from becoming law in Idaho! He tried to defend his vote using some leftist talking points he likely picked up in the State House, but the parents aren’t buying it at all. These legislators need to be directly challenged.

 Idaho MassResistance mother confronts her RINO State Rep with the porn being pushed in libraries.

This needs to happen across the Western states. Legislators must be directly held accountable for their actions and their statements. MassResistance is committed to helping local pro-family people turn this terrible problem around!

   

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Really, What is Wrong With American Voters?

The Iowa caucuses are over. Trump won over his closest rival by double-digits, two-to-one over Governor Ron DeSantis.

I wish the Governor of Florida the best, but let's face it: this primary is over. Granted, the Iowa caucuses have not been the strongest indicator of who the GOP nominee would be in many elections. In all those cases, however, you did not have a former incumbent running for re-election. This time, the indication is clear: Trump is going to be the GOP nominee.

Trump got 52% of the vote, and DeSantis straggled behind in a distant second with 21% of the vote. This election loss is a shellacking for DeSantis. I believe that he will "Never Back Down," and he will stay true to his core commitment to fight all the way. Good for him. He is a worthy presidential candidate.

The problem is that the voters are not worthy voters. American voters turned down the greatest governor in a generation. 

Let me explain.

In 2016, I had supported Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for Presidente because he accomplished unprecedented reforms and advanced a robust conservative agenda for his time. Walker took on Big Labor in the Progressive epicenter of the United States (for the record, it was not California where the Progressive political movement took off, but Wisconsin). Walker won three statewide victories in what was then recognized as a blue state, including a bitter recall battle, in a state that voted for the Democrat presidential nominee every election since 1988. Walker continued to get the job done expanding gun rights, cutting taxes, cutting spending, paying down massive debt, expanding worker rights, school choice, protecting life and families: everything a conservative could  want from a governor and a future president.

On the presidential trail, he fizzled out in September 2015, over-extending his resources without honing a strong, pugilist populist message against frontrunner Donald J. Trump.

In 2023 and into this year, DeSantis corrected all those campaign mistakes. He properly apportioned his campaign funding. He fought the media hard and won. He went after Trump and all his failures and false promises. He did the Full Grassley, he connected with everyday voters, he stepped up for every debate. He is a masterful communicator, refreshing if not riveting. Yet for all that, Iowa GOP caucus voters said "No thank you," and voted for the former incumbent.

DeSantis did everything right, and he still lost. The fault, dear reader, is not in the candidate, but in the voters. They see themselves as underlings who need Trump again. They long for the Trump administration, with its lower taxes, cheap gas, better economy, etc. Yet for some reason, they have no problem forgetting about COVID, all the broken promises, the bad management in the White House, his failure to secure the border, etc. For some reason, nothing is ever Trump's fault, and it doesn't matter that he didn't get the job done the first time.

Unlike Scott Walker, Ron DeSantis accomplished even more conservative reforms with a broader constitutional vision. For the record, Scott Walker went all in for corporate handouts. He provided taxpayer subsidies to sports arenas, and he was supporting The Trans Pacific Partnership economic program, which would have pushed more American jobs overseas. He was for more immigration, but following a massive backlash among primary voters, he switched gears and spoke out forcefully against amnesty. I was willing to trust him then because he repealed the DREAM Act in Wisconsin. In sharp contrast, DeSantis accomplished more robust reforms on immigration, life, the Second Amendment, the rule of state government in the livees of everyday Floridians, plus the fact that he stood up to Big Business and Big Labor and won! DeSantis is Walker on steroids, and Trump with results.

Where Walker reformed universities by cutting their funding and forcing them to streamline their spending, DeSantis focused on ideological changes so that they stopped churning out Marxist activists. DeSantis enacted constitutional carry and repealed gun control measures. DeSantis boldly and triumphantly declared: "Florida is where woke goes to die," and it is dying. The biggest promoted of woke cultural marxism is in fully collapse, as the Florida Democratic Party faces the same fate as the California Republican Party: becoming a controlled, dessicated, destroyed opposition movement that cannot muster a statewide election win in the near future.

And yet, Iowa voters went with Trump in 2024.

What is going on here?

A stunning and sobering reality, when it comes to politics, campaigns, and elections, Republicans are the liberals, while Democrats are the business-minded conservatives. Democrats assess the costs, the strategies, the efforts needed to get the job done. They invest campaign funding where they are most likely to flip a seat and win an election. They will search for every resource, legal and extra-legal, to win the election. 

Democrats have to win to fulfill their promises. Republicans don't really have to win to get their supporters what they want. Darren Beattie and Congressman Andy Biggs furnished a great analysis of grift and graft in politics. For Democrats, the grift is taxpayer dollars, so they have to win elections to hand out the spoils. For Republicans, for the Right in general, the campaign itself is the grift. Consultants get 15% of the campaign funds, whether their candidate wins or loses. The incentive to win is not nearly as strong, and it doesn't matter in the long run. Also, many grassroots Republicans are more interested in conferences and gatherings, taking photos with media influencers are getting a chance to meet a Congressman. They just want to party.

Republicans often donate money to candidates because they are taking on big, bad Democratic monsters like Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi. It feels good. However, those Republican candidates don't have a chance against entrenched incumbents in uber-liberal Congressional districts. Voters would be better served donating their funds to candidates in swing districts, but most Republican voters go with "Look at the black conservative running against Maxine Waters!" or "I want to support that young lady running against Nancy Pelosi!" It's identity politics and emotion all the way. That kind of thinking does not win the war. You have to maintain a cold, rugged, naked desire to win power, and to use the best strategies to get that power. Governor DeSantis understand this desire for power, but the GOP voting electorate does not. 

Let's look back to what a real winner DeSantis is.

DeSantis destroyed the Democratic Party in Florida. He didn't just score big wins for the Florida GOP and enact a robust agenda. You have hundreds of thousands of voters switching their registration or joining the Florida Republican Party. They are winning over county after county, and they are achieving unprecedented gains throughout the state. Democrats want to turn their states into one-party fiefdoms. Only Governor DeSantis has shown a robust attention to this kind of total victory against Woke, Cultural Marxism, and Racialized Communism.

He doesn't just fight, he doesn't just win, he wins bigly and demoralizes the Left.

And Iowa GOP voters went forT rump. Sad.

This outcome reminds me of a reality TV show in which a lucky lady gets to choose between two eligible bachelors. One is a wealthy investor, owns a home, multiple properties, has a strong, steady career, but he's a nerd. The other guy is a buff weightlifter, good looking and charismatic, but still loves at home with his parents.

DeSantis would be the best of both of those eligible bachelors. He is good on TV, he makes strong points, he has a vision for the future. He wins big culturally, economically, and even spiritually. Politically speaking, he is wise and good-lucking. And yet, the voters are turning down the rich stud and going with a flabby sellout who talks big and accomplishes little.

Why?

It all comes down to identity politics and feelings. Worse, it's like the domestic violence victims who have become so attached to their trauma, who identity all too closely with their abuser, that they cannot see themselves living with anyone else, or getting someone better. There are serious problems in the American voting electorate at this point. They are so desperate for former times, that they will take the wife-beater who at least paid the bills and provided a roof over their head versus Prince Charming who won't treat them like trash.

Instead of reason and research, voters are going with nostalgia and coping. They want to feel good, and they want to believe that they are saving the country because they show up to vote once every four years and watch Fox News faithfully. Not going to happen, and many of these voters are going to learn the hard way that feelings, thoughts, prayers, and lots of hope do not win elections and do not shape the culture.

Governor DeSantis was the president we needed, but not the President that the United States deserves. Iowa voters missed their opportunity to elect the most consistently conservative candidate in a generation, if not an entire century, because they wanted to chase the headlines and feel good about themselves. The problem was not the candidate, but the voters, and changing the voters is going to take much longer than one election cycle.

Roe v. Wade Will Not Harm GOP Chances in 2022 (and Beyond)

 

Well, this is good news:

Roe v. Wade is fading from the news cycle with no political effect, the 1/6 hearings have been disgracefully discredited, Joe Biden’s approval rating is approaching the 20s, and WE ARE WINNING. pic.twitter.com/4ZPs0JgnBc

— Realignment Politics (@politicsrea) July 3, 2022

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is not going to wipe out the GOP ticket this year.

People are so angry about the blunt, in-your-face bread-and-butter issues crushing their wallets right now. People are fed up with the rising crime, the open borders, the government overreach tied to COVID-19.

AND, there is a growing consensus in this country that accepts limits on abortion. Dobbs v. Jackson does not criminalize abortion across the fifty states. The ruling does restore the power of the several states to restrict abortion as they see fit.

And many states (and more importantly, their voters) have seen fit to abolish the horrific practice.

Good for them, I say!

For decades, conservative pundits and prognosticators worried that if the Supreme Court finally removed Roe, the outcome would galvanize Democrats like never before to push all kinds of radical laws throughout the country. Worse yet, in whatever year that Roe went down, Democrats would swarm local and state elections, giving consummate power to Democratic party bosses.

The horror! The horror!

And yet, it looks as though that is not going to happen. In fact, the general ballot shows the GOP turnout increasing! Recall that in 2010, Democrats enjoyed a +3 generic ballot advantage, and they lost a net 60 house seats.

If the general ballot now has Republicans polling ahead, and at +5 (or even +10), that means we are looking at a massive GOP global flood!

And the repeal of Roe v. Wade is assisting this effort.

Lesson to the GOP Establishment: fulfill your promises, do your job, and you can win.

Trump capitalized on this basic idea, and he won a lot of victories while seated in the White House, and he is still winning today.

"Republican" New Majority Betrays Conservatives AGAIN, Endorsed Democrat Against Torrance City Councilman Mattucci

More like "New Permanent Minority"

The so-called "New Majority" is a group of centrist to liberal Republicans trying to improve matters for the center-right in the state of California. The truth is that they are an organization which focused on fiscal issues, and one of their spokesmen claimed that they have no interest in social or cultural issues.

Here's their stance on their website:

New Majority promotes a fiscally responsible philosophy in government and an inclusive mainstream approach towards politics.

Through education and contributions, it seeks to inform its membership and contribute resources to Republican and other philosophically aligned candidates and issues that share its mission.

"Inclusive mainstream" is double-speak for culturally liberal, progressive, or neo-Marxist.

The truth is that they are actually quite liberal on those issues, and they only support Republicans for office in the state of California if they are pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control, etc. One candidate in Torrance was running for a seat on the local college board. He was passed over by the New Majority, and they endorsed the Democrat.

The thing is, though, that on their own website they advertise their push for a "fiscally responsible philosophy in government." How can they support any Democratic candidate in California, then, since the state party platform endorses every big government, quasi-socialist push imaginable?

The Republican Party, in California and across the country, currently exists to serve as the outlet for voters who want a restraint on the state and a restoration of traditional norms and values. The election of Donald Trump via a massive wave of support from Republican voters across the country, including California, confirms this fact.

But the New Majority is not

Sometimes, they do good things. They endorsed David Hadley in his bid for state assembly in 2014 and 2016. He would not have won the 2014 election without their help. It was good to have Hadley in office instead of left-wing, pro-sex offender Al Muratsuchi.

However, the "New Majority" has evinced a growing weakness for embracing the left entirely, even supporting left-wing candidates and other Democratic contenders when there is a Republican running for the same office.

The "New Majority" was supposed to be focused on winning elections for Republicans, right? Then why do they donate time and money to Democrats?

Why did they support a brazen, dishonest liberal like Jean Adelsman instead of Councilman Aurelio Mattucci?

Don't believe me?

Check out this donation to Dishonest Jean's campaign during her failed race for Torrance City Council:

Check the bottom entry, and you will find Gerald Marcil of Rancho Palos Verdes donated $500 to Dishonest Democrat Jean Adelsman.

Gerald, or rather Jerry Marcil, is a member of the New Majority. Click here for more info.

Why is a member of the New Majority committed to taking out a committed, effective conservative in the city of Torrance? How does this advance any good causes for the well-being of the city of Torrance, the state of California, or for the Republican Party?

Why did the New Majority stick their noses into a city council race and try to push out a well-known, effective, and established conservative who has helped other Republicans get elected?

Contact the New Majority, and start demanding answers! Click here.

Call their main office, too: (949) 339-2770

Rest After the Recall

Gavin Newsom won.

The recall lost.

I lost, too.

Or, did I lose, really? In the end, this is a loss for the other voters in the state of California. This is not a loss for me in the long run. There is so much injustice in the state of California, and yet for all of it, none of it has held me back.

In the long run, I feel that this is a win. I can finally let go, stop trying, stop striving to save this state that does not want to be saved.

I must say, I had a sinking feeling, based on all the continuing polls, that the recall would fail. 

There was a smaller sense of sorrow yesterday, when the recall failed. I was not devastated, and I was prepared for this worst outcome.

A day later, it is crystal clear to me who the problem really is: it's the voters themselves.

The vast majority of voters in the state of California, Democrat and Republican, are the problem.

Democrats are voting for their progressive delusional cult. Republicans did not turn out to vote for the recall. Yes, there was voter fraud, no doubt about it, and it would be good to see what those results would be in a comprehensive audit.

Still, for all the pretenses, the fact is that a new religion has clearly overtaken the state of California: The Cult of the Woke.

And they are as asleep as ever. It's pretty sad, very distressing to see how far the Golden State has fallen. But the worshipped the Gold, and not the God who made the temple.

For years, I have been fighting the cultural scourge that was so common, so prevalent in this state. For the last ten years, I have been working, volunteering, active in GOP circles to fight back against the moral rot that has overtaken this state.

And it has really come to naught. Yes, I have witnessed victories here and there at the local level, and for two years, a Republican did represent me in the state assembly. But that joy was short-lived, and even then, that Republican failed in all too many cases, even voting to allow illegal aliens to purchase health insurance in the Covered California Obamacare health exchanges. 

What a shameful crock.

The state GOP and the county GOP have been worse than complete failures. They have been complicit in the liberal corruption which has overrun the state. Many of them were Democrats at one time, and they ran for the GOP seats because the Democrats are too full.

The people of the state of California hate God, they hate the truth, and they are holding to their Jim Jones-like hold onto Democratic policies, and they must reject Republicans in particular and republicanism in general. There is no talking to people in bondage to a cult.

I don't feel bad about accepting the sad reality of all of this, and I do not feel bad about giving up at this point. California voters are rejecting what I believe. They are not rejecting me. They are rejecting God, they are rejecting Christ Jesus, and they are rejecting His grace.

I am giving up because they are not worth the effort. It's their fault, not mine. I have nothing to lose. I did my part. I have done my part. They didn't choose the candidates I support, and it's their fault. Not mine. There is nothing wrong with what I believe. It's their problem.

It's not me, it's you, California. It's not loss for me. I am not going to waste my time anymore. You are not worth the effort.

"7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." (1 Samuel 8:7)

It's your loss, California, not mine! I tried to warn you that going down the path of the same statist, status quo was going to hurt you, but you chose not to listen:

"19Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." (1 Samuel 8:18-19)

Of course, the first king that God selected for the Israelites was Saul, and he was a failure. David would follow, and he was one of the greatest kings, and yet even he failed.

The Israelites would continue their descent into idol worship and debauchery.

Then came the vision which the prophet Isaiah received, in which he asked how long he would have to prophesy to the people, and they would not listen.

God gave a stern, dour answer:

"11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

"12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

 "13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." (Isaiah 6:11-13)

That's where California is. I have warned Californians, and many others have done the same. But the vast majority of the voters in the state of California today do not want to listen. They have not suffered enough. They are fat, proud, thick in their minds and their hearts.

Sadly, they will suffer greatly for these failures. But it's on them. It's not my fault. It's not my problem, and I am not going to worry about it anymore.

California, I am going to rest. I worked as much as I could, and you choose to lose. It's on you at this point.

09/16/21 UPDATE:

Because I now choose to rest, God can now work. Our frustrating efforts to make things right only frustrate God's working in us, for He is willing in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13). God has not given up on the world yet. His Son has not returned yet with a rod of iron to rule the nations.

It's time for me to trust Him to make things work for good. There is indeed a real rest for me. Lord, You've got this! I am going to let you take over. Jesus, You are at work and you are making all things work together for good. (Romans 8:28).

I am giving up, so that God can take over fully.

(Partial) Victory! AB 455 Dead (For Now)

I must start this post with an essential quote from Thomas Jefferson:

This statement will come into play more forcefully shortly.

For now, let's start with the good news:

I received great news from multiple sources today.

The Vaccine Passport/Vaccine Mandate bill in Sacramento is dead.

AB 455 is going nowhere. The truth is that there was no way that the corruptocracy in Sacramento could have every pushed through that terrible bill. There was no time. The deadline for all legislation is Friday, September 10, 2021, and normally the state legislature does not conduct any real business on Friday.

So, the bill is dead. The vaccine passport scheme is dead

Well, it's dead dor now.

And this is a victory! Yes, people should rejoice.

Well, a partial victory.

Here's the full report from an activist organization in the state of California:

YOU DID IT CALIFORNIA! ASSEMBLY BILL 455 According to numerous capital sources AB 455 is dead for this legislative season.

PERK — August 30, 2021

 

Dear Perk Members, I am sure you are overwhelmed with emotions right now! I am too. This bill was one of the worst I have ever seen. I am so relieved to hear that AB455, which would have imposed a statewide "Covid Vaccine Passport,” is now dead. I am so proud of the army of Californians who answered the call. THANK YOU!!! If it had passed, this bill would have removed people from society, unless fully vaccinated with the covid shot. If it had passed, this bill would have created a vaccine mandate on private industry by requiring ALL employers in California to require all their employees to be fully vaccinated, including all Independent Contractors to be fully vaccinated. Secondly, it would have required everyone 12 years and older to be fully vaccinated to enter any indoor spaces. Our fight is still on with the other bill. Now, all eyes need to be on AB1102. This one must not pass either. We still have to oppose AB1102. The digital vaccine passport comes in tandem with this second bill, currently drafted, called AB1102, On Page 7, Item (E), is the digital vaccine passport in the form of the SMART HEALTH APP. More on this soon. GRATITUDE calls are just as important as opposition calls. Please ·  Take action now and email your state legislators immediately and tell them thank you for opposing AB455. ·  Click here: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=13924 ·  There are also several rallies organizing at the Capitol in Sacramento.  One is on September 8 at 10 AM. See more details about the bills and vaccine passports on our website.  www.perk-group.com Thank you! This is a reflection on you, the people of California, that you do make a difference! We may all sleep just a little better tonight. We will be prepared with our army if this bill comes back in a special session this year or next year’s bills. Sending you all love and a BIG HUG! Amy Bohn Executive Director PERK Donate to PERK so we can advocate for you! https://donorbox.org/no-vaccine-passport Donate so we can raise funds now.  Share this link with 10 friends.  Share this with other states and freedom fighters.  Help us in CA!  We must get the message on the airwaves.  If we can stop the Vaccine Passports in California, we can help stop it across the entire nation.  I know there are big donors out there, please, share this with them.  Share in group texts, with friends, family, donors, share everywhere. https://donorbox.org/no-vaccine-passport Other ways to donate: Mail a check to: PERK, 3401 Grande Vista Dr. #723, Newbury Park, CA, 91319 Zelle: protectionofeducation@gmail.com Venmo:  @PERK-123 Direct Deposit (Contact Us.) We have launched a donation campaign dedicated to stopping the vaccine passport issue.  Please share it far and wide. https://donorbox.org/no-vaccine-passport No Vaccine Passport Event Summary Here: https://www.perk-group.com/news/summary-of-the-sos-california-vaccine-passport-rally More Pictures Here

Now, here's the deal, folks:

Notice that there is another bill that we still need to fight: AB 1102.

Think about this aspect, as well: why did we have to get to this point where we are fighting vaccine passports in the first place?

People across the state should be beating up their state legislators EVERY DAY -- ALL THE TIME.

This kind of organizing and activism needed to be happening FIVE YEARS AGO.

TEN YEARS AGO!

Where have you all been?

MassResistance has been fighting the LGBT agenda, one if not the keymost element against this culture war for years.

Have you all forgotten what Thomas Jefferson warned all of us?

Hard Truth: Texas House Democrats Fled to Kill Conservative Priorities ... AND Texas Republicans Let Them!

 In California, true-red conservatives would be happy to have a governor like Greg Abbott. What we have here, what we have now with Gavin Newsom is the absolute pits. He is one of the worst governors, if not the worst governor, in the United States of America.

However, the people in Texas do not like Governor Greg Abbott.

For all the fawning and frolic of the Texas Legislators, with a GOP trifecta at their disposal, Texas Republicans elected to the Austin state legislature have NOT taken the necessary steps to enact the 8 key legislative priorities of the Texas GOP.

In fact, only two passed this past legislative session: constitutional carry and religious liberty protections. The Texas GOP has been fighting to abolish, not just limit, abortion for years. They wanted legislation to enact school choice. They also wanted to ban sex mutilation of minors.

Instead of pressing forward on enacting these priorities, Texas Republicans waste time, enacted long adjournment periods. The Speaker pandered to Democrats so that he could be elected Speaker of the House. Since then, he has let Democrats get away with slow-walking every conservative priority in Austin.

Here's the full report from Texas Scorecard:

While it’s unknown how this saga will end, the record shows House Republicans enabled the Democrat walkout that has paralyzed the Legislature.

By Brandon Waltens|July 14, 2021

After House Democrats left Austin for Washington, D.C., this week in order to break quorum and halt consideration of conservative priorities, Republicans in the chamber continue to beat their chests, calling for Democrats to return and do the work they are paid to do.

And while that argument is certainly true (after all, House Democrats who have left will continue to be entitled to receive their pay and per diem), there is one key fact that has largely been ignored: House Republicans allowed this to happen.

And though it was only this past Monday that Democrats packed up their bags (and beer) to jet off to the nation’s Capitol, Republicans prepared the path for them before the session began.

It started in November when now-Speaker Dade Phelan courted Democrat lawmakers in his quest to wield the gavel. Having served since 2015, Phelan’s record was no secret. In fact, he was one of only three Texas House Republicans to receive a positive grade from Equality Texas, a pro-LGBT advocacy organization that has heavily opposed legislation to protect children from gender modification procedures.

But despite knowing these facts, the House Republican Caucus voted to give him their seal of approval.

On January 11, the day before the regular 87th Legislative Session was slated to begin, Phelan went on record saying he would appoint Democrats to chair committees, a practice not even done in Washington, D.C. Instead, Phelan called the House’s “bipartisan” model one that “worked pretty darn well,” adding that it was not always about “Republican versus Democrat” or “left versus right.”

Despite this assertion, Phelan was overwhelmingly elected speaker of the House on January 12, with only two freshman voting against him: State Reps. Jeff Cason (R–Bedford) and Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City).

The next day, when the House had the opportunity to pass the rules that governed how they would operate for the session, Slaton offered an amendment to bar Democrats from chairing committees in the Texas House. 

The opposition brought up State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R–Deer Park), who read a prepared statement opposing Slaton’s amendment, and the effort was soundly defeated.

Several weeks later, true to his word, Phelan announced his committee appointments with Democrats chairing several key committees, including Education and Business & Industry. Appointed as his speaker pro tempore was Democrat State Rep. Joe Moody (El Paso), who hangs a banner in his office accusing Republicans of racist intent for passing Senate Bill 4—the ban on sanctuary cities that passed during the 2017 regular session. Moody said he was grateful to be appointed to the “No. 2 spot in the chamber.”

Then, the long adjournments began.

During January, February, and into March, the House would often adjourn for many days at a time. Eventually, some conservative lawmakers—like Slaton and State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R–Arlington)—began to question leadership about why they were being asked to leave town while conservative priorities were not being addressed. They were told there was plenty of time by Republican lawmakers close to Phelan, such as State Reps. Will Metcalf (Conroe) and Cole Hefner (Mt. Pleasant).

But while there was indeed plenty of time, the Republican-led House continued to slow-walk the rest of the session to the detriment of many conservative priorities. 

In the final weeks of the session, numerous Republican priorities—such as banning child gender modification, protecting monuments, and abolishing abortion—were killed.

And on the penultimate night of the session, when an omnibus election integrity bill was up for final consideration on the floor of the House, Democrats were told by Speaker Phelan that if they left the chamber, he would not lock the doors or send for them.

So, that’s exactly what they did. And the bill died.

Almost immediately, however, it became clear that Gov. Greg Abbott would call a special 30-day session so lawmakers could have a mulligan on some of the legislation, like election integrity, that didn’t make it past the finish line during the regular session. 

At the same time, Democrats went on national media, forecasting their plans to leave the Capitol and break the quorum. Democrat State Rep. Rafael Anchia (Dallas) recently called the tactic “effective,” during an interview, adding that he “would be willing to” leave the state to break quorum.

While Republicans could argue they were caught off guard when Democrats broke quorum in May to kill the election integrity bill, with Democrats laying the groundwork early for their departure again during the special session, one would hope leadership would be prepared to address the issue this time around. 

Instead, when the special session kicked off on July 8, it was business as usual. No one motioned to lock the doors or otherwise keep the Democrats from fleeing.

State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R–Arlington) filed a resolution that would punish lawmakers who shirked their responsibilities by stripping them of committee chairmanships, committee memberships, and seniority privileges. 

But Speaker Phelan ignored the resolution and then recessed the House for a long weekend, until Tuesday, July 13.

In other words, Democrats were given a window of opportunity. And, unsurprisingly, they took it.

On Monday, July 12, reports began to swirl that Democrats were indeed imminently planning on leaving the state. But in the several hours after those reports were first made public and when the Democrats’ two private planes took off from Austin-Bergstrom Airport, there was silence from Abbott, Phelan, and Republican leadership at large. Bragging on social media, Democrats were allowed to load up on a bus and fly to D.C. in broad daylight as Texans watched it all unfold.

In fact, it was only after they were officially “wheels up” that Abbott and Phelan issued statements on the matter.

But while Abbott has been publicly calling for punitive measures to punish Democrats—such as stripping their committee chairmanships and even suggesting he could declare their seats vacant and hold special elections to replace them—Phelan’s response has been tame in comparison.

After it was made official on Tuesday morning that the House lacked a quorum, Phelan finally entertained a motion for a “call of the House,” locking the doors and directing the sergeant-at-arms to send for absent members “under warrant for arrest if necessary.”

So far, however, that appears to be all Phelan is willing to do. He has so far claimed that he does not have the power to remove members from their committee positions. And he has stated that the only business the House can do while they wait is the daily pledges and prayer. 

Some, however, have disagreed with Phelan’s assertion. Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi, who himself is a former state lawmaker, took to Twitter to say the speaker explicitly does have the power to remove any committee chair he has appointed and that the House can compel attendance “under such penalties as each House may provide.”

Yet day two of the standoff came to a close with no such motions even attempted. (Phelan has, however, requested that Democrats return their $221 daily per diem.)

Meanwhile, Democrats have held multiple press conferences and media appearances in the past couple of days, railing against Republican efforts to safeguard the integrity of the ballot box. 

And what about State Rep. Joe Moody, Phelan’s “No. 2” guy? He is among those leading the movement. 

There are currently 25 days left in the 30-day special session. And when this one ends, Gov. Abbott can call repeated sessions until the Democrats eventually decide to return home. But while it may not be clear how this saga will conclude, the record shows it began with enablement from Republicans and the leadership they have—so far—been slow to criticize.