Missouri GOP: Modern-Day Witch Hunt Against Governor Greitens

Friend,   We wanted to make sure you saw this important piece from Armstrong Williams, Dr. Ben Carson's top advisor and close friend. -Team MOGOP Here's What a Modern Political Witch Hunt Looks Like https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2018/03/14/heres-what-a-modern-political-witch-hunt-looks-like-n2460805 Want to see a witch hunt? You don’t have to go back to the 1600s and Salem, Massachusetts. Just look at what’s happening to Republican Governor Eric Greitens in the state of Missouri in 2018. A Democrat prosecutor in St. Louis, Kim Gardner, has indicted the sitting Republican Governor. It’s an astonishing case—and an abuse of the legal system unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory. Here’s what we know: The prosecutor admitted in court that she brought the indictment without the evidence to win the case. In fact, in open court, she had to beg and plead with the judge for more time to gather the facts. Conveniently for Democrats in Missouri, her idea of more time was a trial date just before the mid-term elections in November. That, of course, helps her and her fellow Democrats continue to take shots at the Governor, the most popular conservative figure in Missouri in a generation. I’ve known this Governor for over a dozen years. When I was a Commissioner for the White House Fellowship program, his application came across our desks. And he was a slam-dunk candidate. He was a Navy SEAL, with a Rhodes Scholar’s mind and a boxer’s toughness—and a compassionate heart. He had worked with refugee and orphan children around the world as a humanitarian. We awarded him the White House Fellowship, and he was then, and remains now, one of the most impressive alumni of that program I’d ever come across. When he ran for Governor on a strong, conservative platform—emphasizing his commitment to veterans, his belief in small businesses, and, in a state that was still reeling from the riots in Ferguson, his steadfast support of law enforcement—those who knew him were sure he’d win. And he did. The people of Missouri wanted a strong outsider, and that’s what they got. And in the last year, he’s governed as you’d expect a Navy SEAL to govern: he’s gotten things done, made a few enemies along the way, but managed to pursue a conservative agenda of bringing back American jobs, lowering taxes, and keeping the people of Missouri safe. The problem for Democrats, of course, is that he’s been successful. A Republican Governor in America’s heartland is proving that conservative values and beliefs actually work. And in the same way that Democrats at the national level use any tool at their disposal to attack President Trump, so the Democrats in Missouri are using the legal system to come after Governor Greitens. Here’s the fundamental issue: this case isn’t just an attack on a single conservative Governor. This is an attack on the very foundations of the American justice system. If we allow prosecutors to go after their political opponents using the legal system, then the law ceases to have any meaning, and politics ceases to have any fairness. One of the reasons that our Founders wrote the Constitution the way they did is because they wanted to eliminate the use of the law as a weapon to settle political scores or pursue personal animus. If you want to see what happens when politics burrows its way into the legal system, take a look at authoritarian regimes and Communist dictatorships. There, your fate in the legal system is determined by how the leader feels about you that day; there may be a judge, maybe even a jury, but it’s all a show, a fiction, a set-up. That is what Kim Gardner has brought to the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri: a legal process that would make Kim Jong Un and Saddam Hussein proud. In a testament to just how much she’s borrowing from the authoritarian playbook, she’s even circumvented the police. Rather than use officers of law enforcement—men and women who swear oaths to uphold our Constitution—Kim Gardner paid a $10,000 retainer and $250 per hour to out-of-state private investigators to look into the Governor. Here’s the part that would make her the envy of dictators around the world: in her contract with these private investigators, they are forbidden from writing any of their findings down. That’s right: All “evidence” they collect must be submitted to her orally, in person, hidden entirely from public view. That is not how the justice system of the United States of America works. But Kim Gardner doesn’t care about justice. What she cares about is politics. How do we know? Because throughout this case, she has plastered herself all over the liberal media in Missouri, giving interview after interview and quote after quote about this case. It’s her fifteen minutes of fame—a chance to go from unknown prosecutor to state-wide celebrity. And like other liberal politicians who use politics to become celebrities, Kim Gardner is paving her political future at the expense of the people of Missouri, their tax dollars, and the integrity of their justice system. We have a justice system in this country for a reason. And when the duly elected officials of that justice system use it to pursue political and personal ends, it insults our founding creeds and tarnishes the legal and ethical foundations of this country. Kim Gardner is nothing short of a threat to the United States of America as we know it. It is my hope that the good people of Missouri and the stewards of its judicial system stop her before it’s too late.    Click Here to Share on Facebook Click Here to Tweet Paid for by the Missouri Republican State Committee - Patricia Thomas, Treasurer.

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Election 2016: Right To Work on the RISE!

Election 2016 has further sealed the fate of Big Labor and forced unionism in the United States. How much longer did the phalanx of govenment bullying, collective bargaining entitlements, and taxpayer theft think that they would get away with their pilfering?

The legalized theft and money-laundering perpetrated against taxpayers must cease.

Labor unions, especially the public sector unions, do not have to budge. City councils, school boards, and state governments have to comply, or strikes ensue. Have they forgotten the bold warning of President Ronald Reagan? Government is not an assemblyman, and their operations cannot stop. President Calvin Coolidge was more pertinent. "There is NO right to strike against the public interest anywhere at any time,"

Let's not forget the plight of the individual worker.

They are forced to join a union, extorted for part of their paycheck in order to have a job in the first place.

They are forced to pay those dues.

They are forced to sit and watch their union spend their hard-earned money on candidates and causes which actually hurt working people. All of this is wrong.

Labor unions are trampling First Amendment rights, They are driving businesses out of states. They hurt commerce. They drive up prices, and their collusion with the government, whether state, local, or federal, is doing more harm than good.

Every man deserves the right to work, and indeed he will work for more when he gets to choose where he goes.

Election 2016 has further ensured that Big Labor Bullying will get bullied back.

Consider the following outcomes:

1. Missouri is now a safe and sound GOP trifecta. Republicans gaine two seats in the state house, and only lost one seat in the state senate.

Now the Show Me State has a Republican Governor: Eric Greitens

Here are his plans on RTW:

RIGHT TO WORK HELPS MISSOURIANS.

I believe we must have “Right-to-work” legislation to improve Missouri’s job climate.

Because pro-freedom Republicans have a clear majority in the state legislature, and this time they will not have to muster a supermajority to ovecome veto, Big Labor will lose another battleground for funneling money into their pockets to disrupt other races.

2. Kentucky

Governor Matt Bevin won election in 2015, defeating an otherwise well-connected Attorney General as well as running against a decades-long tradition of light-blue Democratic leadership in the Bluegrass state.

He won the state senate, but could not break the Democratic stronghold on the statehouse.

Election 2016 changed all of that for good.

Right-to-work has inched its way through country governments, but now Bevin can work with like-minded liberty conservatives and ensure that no worker will ever be forced into a union in order to have a job.

Make that 28 states ending forced unionism very soon,

3. This state is the biggest surprised of the Election 2016 cycle: New Hampshire,

This pink state is taking on a lighter shade of blew.

The federal offices all went Democrat. Incumbent US Senator Kelly Ayotte lost to Maggie Hassan, the termed-out governor of the Granite State. Frank Guinta of Congressional District 1 also lost his re-election bid.

But for state offices, Republicans took the whole state down!

Chris Sununu won the governor's seat!

Republicans expanded their majority in the state senate.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is still pending, but there is very little chance of Democrats taking back the state house.

And guess what? Sununu has signed onto Right to Work, too!

During the primary election, Sununu announced:

"We haven't brought a major business into the state in eight years. Right-to-work is part (of the solution)."

Indeed!

Imagine one of the bluest sections of the country, New England, a home for a right-to-work state? This trend could ensure more Republicans a chance at state and federal office throughout the region, since the Democratic Party's sole funding source has been the coerced dues of labor unions throughout the region.

By the end of legislative year 2017, the tally will rest at 29 right-to-work states.

Entering into Election Year 2018, expect to see Big Labor bullies screaming and yelling for their easy money at taxpayer expense. Businesses will return to these states in growing numbers.

As for the remaining forced unionism states, a couple of well-placed lawsuits, and a new conservative Supreme Court, will strike down the remaining statutes imposing on individual liberties and taxpayer dollars.