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September 30, 2009

Huelskamp Applauds Senator Roberts’ Health Care Vote

FOWLER – State Senator — and candidate for U.S. Congress — Tim Huelskamp today applauded U.S. Senator Pat Roberts for his committee vote against the public option proposal of the Obama Administration.

“The so-called public option is just a fancy way of saying big government wants more control over your health care,” said Huelskamp. “I applaud Senator Roberts for his vote against this big government grab in the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee.”

Huelskamp, who authored the nation’s first transparency act, also applauded Roberts for requesting that the massive health care bill be posted on the Internet prior to any voting. “We’ve seen time and again that sunshine is the best disinfectant to poor policymaking. The American people deserve to have a chance to actually read a bill of this magnitude, which could nationalize one sixth of the U.S. economy, before Members of Congress vote on it,” said Huelskamp.

Huelskamp is a candidate in the 1st Congressional District of Kansas, and he is the only candidate who has signed the national letter opposing the “public option” proposal. He has been endorsed by a long list of state and national leaders, including the Club for Growth PAC, former Governor Mike Huckabee, Ken Blackwell, Kansans for Life, Concerned Women for America, Gun Owners of America, and dozens of his legislative colleagues.

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Top Conservative Leaders Speak on Reviving GOP

Speakers Include Pat Buchanan, Tom Tancredo, Phyllis Schlafly, Ken Blackwell and Phill Kline

MCLEAN, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following advisory was issued today by The American Cause:

Who: The American Cause

When: June 20. 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Where: The Ritz Carlton – 1700 Tysons Blvd. McLean, Virginia (more…)

Source:

Speakers Include Pat Buchanan, Tom Tancredo, Phyllis Schlafly, Ken Blackwell

MCLEAN, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following advisory was issued today by The American Cause:

Who: The American Cause

When: June 20. 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Where: The Ritz Carlton – 1700 Tysons Blvd. McLean, Virginia

Full Agenda and Details at: http://www.theamericancause.org/index.php?page=events (more…)

Ken Blackwell:

The politics of division is at play within the conservative movement. Some predominately economic conservatives are at odds with some predominately social conservatives. This internecine spat is the result of conservatives forgetting they share a common opponent.

What these conservatives should firmly fix on is that they share a basic philosophy regarding the relationship of the individual to the state. Many believe the individual possesses various rights that define what it means to be an individual at a fundamental level. More than that, all conservatives believe the source of these rights is not government.

Most conservatives believe that these inalienable rights-such as life, liberty and property, “are endowed by our Creator.” To some, this is a personal and eternal God expressed in a formal faith tradition. To others, this is a less-defined but faithfully acknowledged God. Some acknowledge no “god” but still believe that there is something greater than the individual or the state. While those in the second or third categories might not attend the houses of worship of those in the first category, all accept the idea that our human worth is not derived from government.

The place of the individual vis-à-vis the state is the root of commonality for all conservatives, and the basic disconnect between conservatives and collectivists. Government exists not to confer rights, but instead to secure rights.