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Ladies and Gentlemen of Southwest Virginia,
I am delighted to be able to report on what I think show really important results from all of the work that we all did in regards to our mail ins at Congressman Boucher’s office and the demonstration last Wednesday, and all the letters and telephone calls that you all made over the last several weeks. Many people will say so-and-so is going to vote a certain way regardless. What can we do to change anything (except to try to vote him out of office next year?)
Well, would it surprise you to know that Congressman Rick Boucher, who was so much into the national health care proposals of President Obama and the Democrat Congress that he took a bus load of people to Washington to testify in favor of the (unconstitutional) National Health Care proposal, actually voted against it in the all important Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday? WELL, HE DID! He was one of the 28 committee members (including all the Republicans and several of the “Blue Dogs” who we wrote and called (Congressmen Barrow, Melancon,and Stupak) who voted NO on the committee passage of the bill.
It is true that Congressman Boucher was called on to vote last and so he knew that it had already passed without his vote. (At that point the vote was 30 YEAS and 27 NOS, so he could vote NO without defeating the passage of the bill in committee. However, at the very least that shows that we got Congressman Boucher’s attention and that he realizes the intense feeling of the concurrent majority of the people of the 9th Congressional District against any National Health Care proposal that violates the Constitution. (The bill as passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee does have some significant “improvements” over what passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee, but it is still a take over of power that the Congress simply does not have.)
Now, while thanking him for recognizing our concerns at the committee level, we need to keep the pressure on him over the “August recess” to do everything that we can do to see that he does not vote in favor of the bill when it comes to the floor of the House (even if, and especially if, his vote is the determining vote.) Congressman Boucher will be having a “town meeting at Virginia Highlands Community College starting at 9:00 (we need to be there at 8:15) on August 20th in Abingdon. We need as many people as we can possibly get there. This is really, really important. Just as 1400 of you showing up on Wednesday with Obama’s visit led to Congressman Boucher’s voting against the bill in Committee, we need to make sure that he sees more people at his town hall meeting who are totally against any health care bill BECAUSE IT VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION, than people who may be for it. We want to thank him for voting against it in committee (even though it had some improvements.) and then we want to give him strength to vote against it on the floor.
The issue now is to do every thing we can legally do to make sure that Congressman Boucher (and all the “Blue Dogs” in the House) and Senators Webb, Warner, and Alexander understand that the concurrent majorities of both Virginia and Tennessee are strongly against unconstitutional power takeovers by Congress and/or the national administration, and will not forget any representative or Senator who violates their oath of office by voting for any such unconstitutional program after they get back to Washington after the August recess. (That is the time for all of us to reinvigorate our efforts to show our Congressmen and Senators that such unconstitutional measures are NOT acceptable.)
At this point once more, I want to thank all of you and congratulate you on your successes to date. But winning the battle is not winning the war. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, but we can win if we all do everything we can to make this a truly democratic republic.
Congratulations and thank you all.
Strother+
They go into the office one by one and not only deliver their letter but spend a fair amount of time talking to each of the congressional members' staff.
The 9th VA 10th amendment foundation has done this quite successfully on a consecutive Friday (last day of the week) and Monday (first day of the week) before Congressman Boucher’s office and Senator Warner’s office in Abingdon. We are encouraging members who could not attend the mail-in to go ahead and write their own letter and send it to the local district (not the Washington DC) office. All letters should demand specific answers--not form letters.
The National Health Care legislation and the Cap and Trade bill in the Senate must be defeated if we are not going to see major, major changes in what we have always known to be our country as the "land of the Free and the home of the Brave."
Friday and today we had the mail in event. (About 50 letters were to Warner and to Boucher on Friday. We had another Mail in today--again about 50 letters to each.)
Anyone can go into both Boucher's office across from the county courthouse in Abingdon and Warner's office in the Federal Courthouse any regular work day from 9:00-4:30.
I know that those of you who did not come Friday or Today couldn't come, because if you could have you would have been here. The votes are not quite ready to be taken. You all still have time (in the next week or so) to write a letter to each of our Senators and to Congressman Boucher and hand deliver it at your convenience to their District office (or mail it to Senator Webb at his office at 507 E. Franklin Street, Richmond, Va. 23219).
Going in to take the letter to their district office has a double effect: 1) You are sure that they get the letter (since it goes to them in special courier pouch the day you take it in) and 2) when you take it in to their office you get to talk to their staff person one on one. He or She is required to take notes of your conversation and to brief the Congressman or Senator on all conversations he or she has with any constituents. When you go into the office be sure to ask that they answer your letter specifically--not a form e mail or a form letter. This will give a third impact: either they will have to reread your letter to dictate a non-form letter to you or--if they do not answer your letter with a direct answer, we can later come back and let the rest of the voters know that the Congressman or Senator doesn't value their constituents enough to answer their correspondence directly.
I think we may have some hope that Warner will vote against both cap and trade and the national health care bill. I realize that Congressman Boucher voted for the Cap and Trade. (If you want to say that he already has 1 strike against him with that vote that's fine. Reminding him that a vote for National Health Care without a Constitutional amendment to allow the Feds to so that will be an even clearer violation of his oath of office to uphold and defend the constitution. That would be strikes two and three. If you have ever voted for any of them before, tell them that -- but tell them you will not ever vote for them again if they vote for National Health Care (make this for both Cap and Trade and the National Health Care if you're writing to a Senator. Be nice but strong.
I know you are concerned enough about the way our country is going to do this because you were concerned enough to come to a tea party. Please do not let this go by. Get everyone you know to do the same. Do not let it go by without taking action. That is how the Germans found themselves under Hitler!
Strother+
P.S. Thanks to all those who did come.
PPS. To tea party organizers and other local leaders: To get (and give) information for the letters that you can suggest to your contacts see 10thamendmentfoundation.org
