tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49064290518210958282024-03-20T04:52:25.457-07:00Government Is Not GodGovernment Is Not God - PAC supports candidates who are pro-life and pro-family. GING-PAC is the oldest social conservative political action committeeWilliam J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-4587484827206904812012-04-26T12:29:00.001-07:002012-04-26T13:38:03.978-07:00Campaign Update - April, 2012<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>THE HOUSE </b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><b></b><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/iowa-rep-steve-king-wins-gingpac-endorsement">IOWA: STEVE KING</a> <span style="color: black;">–</span></b></span>
This month Planned Parenthood issued a target list of pro-life leaders
they labeled as “The Toxic Ten.” Congressman Steve King of Iowa
highlighted in the latest Planned Parenthood attack for this comment he
made on the floor of the House: </div>
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Congressman Steve King</div>
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<b><i>“I’m going to add to this that neither shall we vote to fund Planned Parenthood and I shall be looking for ways to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">unfund</span> every other entity like them that promotes abortion or provides abortion as a matter of practice in their facilities.”</i></b><br />
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<i> </i>Congressman King is an outspoken defender of life, and
Planned Parenthood wants him out. Together with the ultra-pro-abortion
group, EMILY’s List, they have recruited and funded Democrat Christie
Vilsack to run against him. Vilsack was the former executive director
(and currently Chairman of the Board) of the Iowa Initiative, an
umbrella organization for pro-abortion groups which advocates expanding
public taxpayer funding for abortion. She is also an advocate of
allowing abortions even if a woman has entered labor.<br />
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Iowa lost one congressman because of the last census, and the state
was redistricted. As a result Steve King’s district has moved form a
registered voter advantage of plus 5 points Republican to a negative for
him of plus four points Democrat. This is going to be a hard fought
battle to keep one of the top pro-life leaders in the House. GING-PAC
has endorsed and will support Congressman King for reelection.<br />
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Planned Parenthoods “Toxic Ten list” includes Congressmen: Todd Akin
(MO), Ann Marie Buerkle (NY), Joe Donnelly (IN), Sean Duffy (WI), Mike
Fitzpatrick (PA), Steve King (IA), Mike Pence (IN), Denny Rehberg (MT),
Allen West (FL) and Senator Marco Rubio (FL). Mike Pence is leaving
Congress to run for governor of Indiana.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/gingpac-endorses-fla-gop-rep-sandy-adams">FLORIDA: SANDY ADAMS</a><span style="color: black;"> –</span></b></span>
Sandy Adams is one of the Freshmen who came to Congress riding the wave
of sentiment against the iron fist of government Barack Obama imposed
upon our nation after his election. She has proven to be one of the best
assets that pro-family, pro-life groups have on Capitol Hill. She has
an amazing story. At age 17 she dropped out of high school and married
only to have to run from an abusive husband. Eventually gaining a high
school diploma, she attended law enforcement classes and became a deputy
sheriff. She remarried, to a sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the
line of duty just seventeen months later. She obtained a college degree
attending night school and in 2002 was elected to the Florida House in a
tough election. She was reelected three times before winning a seat in
the U.S. House in 2010. Now comes the hard part for her.
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Florida has been redistricted since the 2010 election and many
congressmen are running in districts that did not even exist the last
time they ran. Adams’ district is still about two-thirds intact and she
was headed for reelection until an establishment five-term Republican
congressman, John Mica, decided to run against her in the GOP primary.
This is an outright betrayal by the establishment GOP, and GING-PAC is
backing Sandy Adams.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/allen-west">FLORIDA: ALLEN WEST</a> <span style="color: black;">-</span></b></span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">All I can say is wow!</span>
The first time Col. Allen West ran for Congress, GING-PAC was about the
only PAC to back him. He had virtually no money and almost won in 2008.
He ran again in 2010 and knocked out one of the biggest mouths of the
Democrat party, radical Ron Klein. Now he is the number one target of
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The national
Democrats have an outright racial hatred of Allen West simply because he
is a conservative African-American. In the minds of the white men who
run the Democrat Party, they own blacks and Allen West is off the
plantation.<br />
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In the first quarter of this year Allen West raised more money than
any other congressman including Speaker Boehner. West is going to give
the Democrats the same kind of fight he gave the Islamists in Iraq as a
colonel in the U.S. Army. We are sticking by West!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/ken-timmerman-for-congress">MARYLAND: KEN TIMMERMAN</a> <span style="color: black;">–</span></b></span> Simon Wiesenthal said this about Ken Timmerman: “<i>I</i> <i>have
spent my life tracking down the murderers of yesterday. Mr. Timmerman
is tracking down the murderers of tomorrow.” — Simon Wiesenthal</i><br />
My good friend Ken Timmerman is a nationally recognized investigative
reporter and an international religious-freedom guardian who plans to
defeat Nancy Pelosi’s right-hand man, Representative Chris Van Hollen,
in the 8th District of Maryland. Ken and I have traveled to the Middle
East on fact finding missions and he has written extensively on the
plight of Iraqi Christian refugees.<br />
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Timmerman is a recognized authority on defense and intelligence
issues who has testified as an expert witness in terrorism trials in
U.S. federal courts and before Congress. For the past seven years, Ken
has been the lead investigator for families of 9/11 victims in a civil
lawsuit against Iran. Based on Ken’s evidence, a federal district judge
ruled just before Christmas that Iran “shared responsibility” for the
9/11 terrorist attacks with al Qaeda, and had provided “direct, material
support” for the attacks. He has written several books including an
expose of Jesse Jackson and a fictional thriller on today’s persecuted
Christians of Iraq. (He based one of the characters in the book after
me.)<br />
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If anyone can beat radical Chris Van Hollen, it is Ken Timmerman. GING-PAC will stand behind Ken in his bid for the House.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>THE PRESIDENCY</b></span></h3>
GING-PAC backs social conservative candidates and that is why I
worked hard to help Senator Rick Santorum in his drive for the GOP
nomination. Getting Rick the nomination was an uphill battle, with the
entire GOP establishment behind Romney, and hundreds of millions of
dollars coming from the Mormon Church available to Mitt Romney for
negative advertising. Even Fox News was in the bag for Romney.<br />
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The Rick Santorum campaign accomplished much. For months social
conservatism was at the forefront of the GOP campaign and the news media
could not ignore us; we had a champion. Rick Santorum stated bluntly
that the way out of poverty was marriage, not welfare, and that the
nuclear family was the core strength of America. He stated boldly again
and again that life begins at conception, despite the ridicule of the
mainstream media. Keeping Rick Santorum on the campaign trail as long as
was done, was a great victory in itself.<br />
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<b>Now we must move forward, and </b>GING-PAC needs more
than $10 and $20 contributions. To fight the more than one billion
dollars the Democrats will spend this cycle, I need your help. Please
consider a larger contribution this month. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Donate today!</a> Thank you and God bless you. <br />
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<div align="center" style="text-align: left;">
William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is Not God – PAC <br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013 </div>
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<a href="http://www.gingpac.org/"> WWW.GINGPAC.ORG</a></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-68464824174412636742012-03-22T19:16:00.003-07:002012-03-22T19:22:01.292-07:00March, 2012 Campaign Update<b>THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE </b><br />
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<b>KEEPING RICK SANTORUM OUT IN FRONT –</b> Imagine the Fox Business Channel running the presidential debate, and allowing nothing except the economy to be discussed on TV, radio or in newspapers.<br />
<a href="https://www.ricksantorum.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22&utm_source=majorfundraiser&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_campaign=wjm" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rick Santorum faith family freedom" class="alignleft wp-image-3070" height="133" src="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Santorum-Faith.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Santorum Faith" width="200" /></a>Imagine the GOP presidential primary with no mention of the murder of thirty-five million babies under Roe v. Wade. Imagine the entire presidential primary going by with same-sex marriage as a given, and not a single word said against it by any candidate. Imagine forcing Christian pharmacists to hand out pills to induce abortion and not a single word said against it by a presidential candidate.<br />
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Imagine Christian schools being forced by the government to hire atheist teachers and Jewish schools being forced to hire Muslims to teach religion, and there being no one running for president that said ‘no.” Imagine a presidential race where nothing but money mattered and no one even stepped forward to be critical of legalizing prostitution or drugs. Imagine a presidential race where not a critical word was said of Islamic Sharia law.<br />
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Imagine all of the above and you would have a good vision of a presidential race without Rick Santorum.<br />
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Economic conservatives, just like libertarians and far left Marxists, do not believe that the family or religion is important to society. It is just all about money. The economic conservatives believe that this would be a great society with virtually no government and everyone taking their money and doing whatever they want to do with it, including buying the sexual services of poorer women and young boys. To them drugs are just another form of commerce that hurts no one. <br />
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Just ask Dr. Ron Paul … drugs are harmless. Ron Paul, as a doctor, knows that the majority of liver failures in the United States have something to do with drug use, but his ideology blinds him to the harm and death done to individuals and the destruction of families by drugs and prostitution. Libertarians and economic conservatives just don’t care about families, they don’t care if they fail or not, and they sure don’t mind gays adopting kids for cash.<br />
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<div class="alignleft"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile socialists like Barack Obama want to actively work to destroy families. Strong families stand in the way of the socialist goal of having government to be father and mother to the people. Liberals believe in the central government utopian model. Remember Hillary Clinton’s book, <i>It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. </i>The theme of the book was simple … families don’t raise good kids, governments do.</span><br />
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That is a summary of the two major positions in America. Economic conservatives who think money is the solution to all problems and that families don’t matter; and socialists who want to do away with families because they are in the way of establishing utopia on Earth.</div><br />
Then there is <a href="https://www.ricksantorum.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22&utm_source=majorfundraiser&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_campaign=wjm" target="_blank">Rick Santorum</a> and we social conservatives.<br />
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Here is some sales talk: You can’t make a sale without telling people about the product. We social conservatives can never stop abortion in America unless we have high profile spokesmen telling Americans that babies in the womb are human beings.<br />
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Right now Rick Santorum is our main salesman. He is the guy out front saying that human life, the family and religious liberty are important. That message is coming across loud and clear and he is changing the minds and the lives of Americans with his message. The message Rick Santorum is delivering is more important than winning or losing. Telling the truth about the wrong direction of America can help to change our nation.<br />
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Can Rick Santorum beat Barack Obama? Yes. Voters will turn to Rick Santorum in November because he is different from Barack Obama. Independents will not vote for a Republican who is not much different from the Democrat.<br />
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Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting Barack Obama, raised $2 million in February including $1 million from television host Bill Maher. The same month GING-PAC raised $10,000. Sadly that is the case for most social conservative PAC’s. Businesses fund economic conservative organizations that support Mitt Romney, not social conservative or pro-life groups. As the oldest social conservative political action committee, GING-PAC is in a position to really help social conservatives running for the House, the Senate and the White House – if we have the funds.<br />
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In March, Scott Cooper, a social conservative and Tea Party leader in Virginia, came forward to serve with me in the leadership of GING-PAC. Scott will serve as the executive director of our political action committee. Because of his grass roots Tea Party experience, he will bring new volunteers and a fresh look to Government Is Not God- PAC which has been the premier social conservative political action committee since 1994.<br />
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In the last three years Barack Obama and his administration have been at war with Christianity. His attorney general, Eric Holder, tried to control the employment practices of Christian schools. Obama has tried to use his medical insurance mandate to force Catholic groups to pay for contraceptives. Food pantries have been denied food from federal sources because people were seen praying before meals. Military chaplains have been told how to pray and at one point Bibles were banned from veterans’ hospitals. But, Obama stands with Muslims to build a super mosque at Ground Zero.<br />
We can only stop Barack Obama’s war on Judeo-Christian values by replacing him with someone who shares our values.<br />
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It is my promise to you that Government Is Not God – PAC will work full time to defeat Barack Obama and his cronies in the Senate who want to “fundamentally change” the United States into their vision of a utopia – which may be a dream life for them, but will be a nightmare for the people of this nation.<br />
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<b>This is the hard truth:</b> GING-PAC needs help to fight the one billion dollars Barack Obama intends to spend, we need some real money as well. If everyone visiting this site each week would donate just $5.00 we would have tens of thousands of dollars to spend to defeat Barack Obama. Please consider a <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">contribution</a> of of just five bucks! <br />
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<div align="center">William J. Murray, Chairman <br />
Government Is Not God – PAC <br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-78362125279192787902012-02-17T04:44:00.004-08:002012-03-17T04:52:37.765-07:00February, 2012 Campaign Update<small></small><br />
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b>THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE </b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b>RIC</b><b>K SANTORUM NOW THE LEADER–</b> In January, before the Iowa GOP caucus, GING-PAC endorsed Senator Rick Santorum for the presidency. At the time I made several points about his opponents. I stated that Mitt Romney would not be able to defend the mandated health care system he instituted in Massachusetts when he was governor there, and that he was just not a lifetime conservative who had lived and breathed the cause as did Rick Santorum. I also wrote that former Speaker Newt Gingrich actually had been on more sides of more issues than Mitt Romney, and that when his record was exposed his support would collapse. Newt Gingrich supported centrally planned mandates to force people to buy insurance for twenty years, far longer than Romney. Both Gingrich and Romney have supported the radical environmentalist “cap and trade” taxes.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text"></div></div><a href="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SantorumWJM.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Rick Santorum and William J. Murray" class="size-full wp-image-2866 " height="150" src="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SantorumWJM.jpg" title="SantorumWJM" width="200" /></a>In the January, 2012 Campaign Update I wrote about how I had worked directly with Rick Santorum while he was in the Senate, when he had set up the International Religious Freedom Caucus to aid persecuted religious minorities, particularly Christians in majority Muslim nations.<br />
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I received a storm of letters and e-mails from people telling me that it did not matter that Rick Santorum was the true conservative in the race, that they were going to support a “winner.” I was lectured by an untold number of people as to why it was important to back Romney because he had plenty of money to run, and why I should support Gingrich because he did a better debate showing than any of the others. In some letters I was told that Romney “looked presidential” and that was the best reason to vote for him.<br />
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In the January Campaign Update I asked supporters to send me checks made out to Rick Santorum for President so I could “bundle” them and give them to the campaign. I received three checks totaling $100.<br />
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I stuck with Rick Santorum because he is the true conservative in the race.<br />
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As of today Rick Santorum is number one in the national polls. In Mitt Romney’s home state of Michigan, Rick Santorum has a double digit lead. Romney has been forced to buy $2 million in negative mud slinging advertising against Santorum in Michigan to try to save himself from the embarrassment of being defeated by as much as 15 points in his home state. I predict this will not help, and that Santorum will still beat Romney in Michigan.<br />
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About the only state in which Newt Gingrich still leads Santorum is Georgia, the state Newt Gingrich represented in Congress, and that race is getting tight. While Rick Santorum used what money he could raise to run his campaign, Newt Gingrich borrowed millions and has virtually no money in the bank to even buy ads in Georgia. He has to rely on the TV ads placed by a Las Vegas billionaire who made his money on gambling. Think about that for a few minutes.<br />
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The entire GOP establishment, plus Fox News, has been pushing Mitt Romney. This is their argument: “We need a moderate to win in November.” <b>REALLY?</b> Is this why we now have a President McCain, because moderate Republicans do better? Is this why moderate Senator Bob Dole beat Bill Clinton? Is this why Ronald Reagan lost? Is this why George W. Bush lost when he ran as a conservative? Oops! There was no President Dole and there was no President McCain.<br />
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When there is no clear distinction, the people vote for Democrats. If Obama is going to get knocked out in November it is going to take a conservative who has clearly different positions and a clearly different direction for the nation. Mitt Romney and his “Romney Care” and Newt Gingrich doing environmental protection TV ads with Nancy Pelosi just don’t make a clear distinction. Rick Santorum is the true conservative and he can beat Barack Obama.<br />
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Just as I did last month I am going to ask you to help GING-PAC elect Rick Santorum as president. There are several ways you can help.<br />
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First, social network fund raising is done at a site called Fundly.com. I have set up a personal page at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://fundly.com/ricksantorumforpresident79">Fundly.com/RickSantorumforPresident79</a></span> that includes a video message from me, endorsing Rick. One hundred percent of the funds raised there go to Rick Santorum’s campaign. The nice thing about Fundly.com is that you can then share your donation on Facebook and that encourages others to donate as well.<br />
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Second, donations can also be given at his home Internet site. I am a registered “bundler” with the Rick Santorum campaign and my initials are the code to let the campaign know I sent you there. To give directly at this site go to: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.ricksantorum.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22&utm_source=majorfundraiser&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_campaign=wjm">RickSantorum.com/WJM</a></span>.<br />
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Third, checks can be written directly to Rick Santorum for President and sent either to GING-PAC or directly to the campaign. If you send your checks to GING-PAC we will “bundle” them every week and send them for special handling at the campaign headquarters. This lets Rick know that we are working for him. (Election laws do not allow us to tell a candidate or his campaign what we are doing on his behalf in advance.)<br />
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Fourth, you can send funds to GING-PAC that we will use to promote independently the campaign of Rick Santorum. As an example, back in 2008 GING-PAC called every known pro-life voter in South Carolina and Georgia, asking them to vote for Mike Huckabee. We could do that again for a candidate such as Rick Santorum, but we have to have the funds on hand.<br />
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Every four years we hear the talking heads on television say that an election will “determine the future of America” or that it is the “most important election since Abraham Lincoln” or something to that effect. It is true that virtually every election changes the direction of the nation somewhat, but this election is truly different.<br />
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In the last three years Barack Obama has increased the debt of this nation by more than did all previous presidents combined. He has implemented new rules, using executive orders, to make sure that our nation will be dependent on oil from Islamic nations for decades to come. He has done true damage to the social fabric of the nation by promoting homosexuality while at the same time drastically increasing Islamic immigration. The nation can’t survive four more years of Obama.<br />
It is my promise to you that Government Is Not God – PAC will work full time to defeat Barack Obama and his cronies in the Senate who want to “fundamentally change” the United States into their vision of a utopia – which will be a dream life for them but a nightmare for the people.<br />
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<b>This is the hard truth:</b> GING-PAC needs more than $10 and $20 contributions in 2012. To fight the one billion dollars Barack Obama intends to spend, we need some real money as well. Please consider a contribution of $100 or more this month to GING-PAC. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Donate now online</a>. <br />
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With your contribution to GING-PAC you can also include a separate check made out to Rick Santorum for President, and I will deliver it to him with other checks from GING-PAC supporters. Thank you and God bless you<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is Not God – PAC<br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-50382016659388034772012-01-22T04:45:00.000-08:002012-01-22T04:45:50.785-08:00The Gingrich Disaster in South Carolina<div class="entry"><a href="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Newt.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Newt Gingrich" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2654" height="168" src="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Newt.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Newt" width="132" /></a><span><strong></strong>Newt Gingrich, riding high on his attacks on the media, received 41% of the vote. The problem with this is that Newt Gingrich’s views change literally by the minute and he has held far more positions on both sides of the issues than has Gov. Mitt Romney. Because I am a Washington insider and because I do know Newt Gingrich well, I can say with clarity that if he is the Republican nominee for president Barack Obama will win a second term and the Republicans will lose control of the House and drop seats in the Senate. During a second Obama term the pro-life movement will be crushed using Obama Care and the United States will become a welfare state. Religious freedom as we know it will end, with the government controlling who is hired and fired by the church and dictating what can be said from the pulpit.</span><br />
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<span><strong></strong>The day Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race, Fox News commentators said it was really bad news for Santorum because he would now finish last behind Ron Paul. The final polls showed Rick Santorum at 9%, but on election day he nearly doubled that, decidedly defeating Ron Paul. After the departure of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, the only consistent conservative left in the GOP primary race is Rick Santorum. Both Gov. Mitt Romney and former Speaker Newt Gingrich had supported the same medical insurance mandates as Barack Obama. Gingrich appeared in a TV ad with radical leftist Nancy Pelosi promoting “green energy.” As for Ron Paul, his foreign affairs views are to the far left of Barack Obama’s.</span></div><span class="tags"><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/tag/south-carolina" rel="tag"></a></span>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-24088954675445116372012-01-10T04:42:00.000-08:002012-01-22T04:48:36.600-08:00Campaign Update - January, 2012<div align="center"><b>THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE <br />
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</div></div><a href="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SantorumWJM.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rick Santorum and William J Murray" class="size-full wp-image-2635 " height="197" src="http://gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SantorumWJM.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="SantorumWJM" width="200" /></a><b>GING-PAC ENDORSES RICK SANTORUM –</b> As the chairman of Government Is Not God Political Action Committee (GING-PAC), I officially endorsed former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum for the office of the President of the United States just prior to the Iowa caucuses. To this official endorsement by GING-PAC I added my personal endorsement as well.<br />
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Often GING-PAC will assist more than one social conservative in the same race without an endorsement. Early in the primary process I authorized funds for both Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Senator Rick Santorum because GING-PAC’s purpose in existence is getting out the pro-life, pro-family message, and both of those candidates were doing just that. We did not send any funds to Governor Rick Perry who also had a pro-life message, because he was supported from the start by wealthy donors and super-PACs who gave his campaign a multimillion dollar advantage. Newt Gingrich also was supported with millions of dollars of super-PAC money.<br />
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Up to and during his time as Speaker of the House, I met with Newt Gingrich on numerous occasions. On one of those occasions he was promoting mandated health insurance that is no different than Obamacare, which he is now against. I really like Newt Gingrich personally and he is a brilliant man; however, the reality is that he has been on both sides of more issues than has Governor Mitt Romney. I cannot support either of these men because of their numerous flip-flops.<br />
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As the Iowa caucuses approached it became apparent that there was only one solid social conservative with a proven record of leadership both in the House and in the Senate, and that I believed could take on establishment candidate Mitt Romney. That individual is Rick Santorum.<br />
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Rick Santorum has an understanding that goes beyond being pro-life and pro-family. He thoroughly understands the current rise of radical Islam and how it poses a threat to Western civilization. Rick Santorum is committed to defending religious freedom not only here in America but around the world. During his time in the Senate Rick Santorum established the International Religious Freedom Caucus. This caucus of Senators in cooperation with outside groups worked tirelessly for the freedom of religious minorities, particularly in predominantly Islamic nations where they are persecuted.<br />
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In my capacity as the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition I worked closely with Rick Santorum during his years in the Senate to free men and women in prisons in Islamic nations facing false charges of blasphemy. In some cases they faced the death penalty because they were born into Muslim families but had accepted Christ as Lord. <br />
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Rick Santorum is my choice and the choice of GING-PAC to replace Barack Obama – the worst, most anti-capitalist, anti-Israel, pro-Islam, and anti-military leader — our nation has ever experienced. We will put our resources and time into helping elect Rick Santorum to become the next President of the United States.<br />
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You can help GING-PAC help Rick Santorum in several ways:<br />
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First, social network fund raising is done at a site called Fundly.com. I have set up a personal page at <a href="http://www.fundly.com/RickSantorumforPresident79"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.Fundly.com/RickSantorumforPresident79</span></a> that includes a video message from me, endorsing Rick. One hundred percent of the funds raised there go to Rick Santorum’s campaign. The nice thing about Fundly.com is that you can then share your donation on Facebook and that encourages others to donate as well.<br />
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Second, donations can also be given at his home Internet site. I am a registered “bundler” with the Rick Santorum campaign and my initials are the code to let the campaign know I sent you there. To give directly at this site go to: <a href="http://www.ricksantorumforpresident.com/WJM"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.RickSantorumforPresident.com/WJM</span></a>.<br />
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Third, checks can be written directly to Rick Santorum for President and sent either to GING-PAC or directly to the campaign. If you send your checks to GING-PAC we will “bundle” them every week and send them for special handling at the campaign headquarters. This lets Rick know that the PAC and I are working for him. (Election laws do not allow us to tell a candidate or his campaign what we are doing on his behalf in advance.)<br />
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Fourth, you can send funds to GING-PAC that we will use to promote independently the campaign of Rick Santorum. As an example, back in 2008 GING-PAC called every known pro-life voter in South Carolina and Georgia, asking them to vote for Mike Huckabee. We could do that again for a candidate such as Rick Santorum, but we have to have the funds on hand.<br />
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Every four years we hear the talking heads on television say that an election will ‘determine the future of America’ or that it is the ‘most important election since Abraham Lincoln’ or something to that effect. It is true that virtually every election changes the direction of the nation somewhat, but this election is truly different.<br />
In the last three years Barack Obama has increased the debt of this nation by more than did all previous presidents combined. He has implemented new rules, using executive orders, to make sure that our nation will be dependent on oil from Islamic nations for decades to come. He has also done true damage to the social fabric of the nation by promoting homosexuality while at the same time drastically increasing Islamic immigration.<br />
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Four more years of Barack Obama will separate yet another generation of Americans from dependence on the family and instead encourage them to be wards of the government. We will have a nation of puppets, with strings called “benefits” attached to puppet masters in Washington. Our freedom of speech is being eroded as has already occurred in Europe, as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton work to outlaw any criticism of Islam.<br />
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It is my promise to you that Government Is Not God – PAC will work full time to defeat Barack Obama and his cronies in the Senate who want to “fundamentally change” the United States into their vision of a utopia – which will be a dream life for them but a nightmare for the people.<br />
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<b>This is the hard truth:</b> GING-PAC needs more than $10 and $20 contributions in 2012. To fight the one billion dollars Barack Obama intends to spend, we need some real money as well. Please consider a contribution of $100 or more this month to GING-PAC. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Donate today</a>.<br />
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With your <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">contribution</a> to GING-PAC you can also include a separate check made out to Rick Santorum for President, and I will deliver it to him with other checks from GING-PAC supporters. Thank you and God bless you<br />
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William J. Murray, Chairman <br />
Government Is Not God – PACWilliam J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-21562233363960441562011-12-30T11:57:00.000-08:002011-12-30T11:58:16.216-08:00Government Is Not God -PAC officially endorsed Senator Rick Santorum for the office of President of the United States on December 30th, 2011. In his statement of endorsement GING-PAC chairman William J. Murray stated that although there were other social conservatives in the race Senator Santorum's experience as a congressman and Senator and proven dedication to religious liberty indicated that he should receive the GOP nomination.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWdjZT6wVag?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-66059395518754802012011-12-09T14:48:00.000-08:002011-12-09T14:49:33.626-08:00Campaign Update - December, 2011<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b>THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE </b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><b></b><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">OBAMA CHAMPIONS ISLAM YET FAVORS GAYS –</b> Other than Muslims and Jews, no groups could be further at odds than Muslims and homosexuals. In both Saudi Arabia and Iran homosexuals have in recent times been publicly hung. In sections of London where Sharia law is enforced signs are posted warning homosexuals to stay out or face “justice.” The Obama Administration, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the fore, wants to wage a international diplomatic war for homosexual “rights.”<br />
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On December 6<sup>th</sup> at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland attended by diplomats from all over the world including Arab nations, Secretary Clinton compared the struggle for “gay equality” to difficult passages toward women’s rights and racial equality. She said that a nation’s cultural or religious “traditions” are not an excuse for discrimination against homosexuals. “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” she said.<br />
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“It should never be a crime to be gay,” Clinton declared and concluded that, “Gay people are born into and belong to every society in the world.”<br />
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At the same moment in Washington, DC President Barack Obama was directing U.S. agencies working abroad, including the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, to use foreign aid to assist gays and lesbians who are facing human rights violations. He ordered U.S. agencies to “protect” vulnerable gay and lesbian refugees and asylum seekers. In a statement issued with the memorandum Obama said, “The struggle to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons is a global challenge, and one that is central to the United States’ commitment to promoting human rights.”<br />
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In effect President Obama ordered U.S. agencies to import homosexuals from all over the world who are threatened. Thus anyone walking into an embassy anywhere in the world where homosexual activities including “gay marriage” are illegal claiming to be gay will be put at the front of the line to immigrate to the United States. How would they prove their “gayness?”<br />
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Oddly, President Obama had already put Muslim refugees at the front of the line. It is well known in the Christian communities in Muslim nations that they will not even be considered for immigrant status to the United States, even if they already have relatives here. The Obama Administration is importing hundreds of thousands of Muslim “refugees” and using Nashville and Atlanta to resettle them as a means of busting the Bible belt which is a traditional foe of the Democrat party. Muslim refugees and homosexuals now have special status to immigrate to the United States. This is an Obama legacy that must be ended. This nation needs immigrants that are well educated, hard working and of child bearing age.<br />
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<div align="center"><b>THE SENATE</b></div><b>WISCONSIN –</b> In 2008, when long time ultra-liberal Senator Russ Feingold was defeated, the headline at liberal Salon.com was <b>“<i><a href="http://www.salon.com/2010/11/03/russ_feingold_defeated/singleton" title="Progressive hero Feingold defeated by wide margin">Progressive hero Feingold defeated by wide margin</a>:</i> <i>Tea Party-backed businessman Ron Johnson will be the next senator from Wisconsin.” </i></b>Six years earlier, GING-PAC backed <a href="http://neumann2012.com/">Congressman Mark Neumann</a> had come within two points of defeating Feingold. Neumann was a strong social conservative, a businessman who had won two terms in the House, where he backed the partial-birth abortion ban and other pro-life legislation. Neumann was constantly ridiculed by the liberal press in Wisconsin while he was in office. <br />
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</tbody></table>Wisconsin now has one conservative Senator, Ron Johnson, whose vote in the Senate is countered on virtually every issue by Democrat Senator Herb Kohl. Senator Kohl, is a wealthy liberal who owns the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team. He is retiring on his vast wealth, which he pretends to hate in speeches on the floor of the Senate.<br />
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The retirement of Kohl is an opportunity for a second true conservative, a social conservative, to join Ron Johnson in representing the state of Wisconsin. This state has for decades been represented by people who do not share the values of their constituents.<br />
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South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, a Tea Party stalwart, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/28/demint-endorses-mark-neumann-in-wisconsin-senate-primary/">endorsed </a>Mark Neumann in the Wisconsin Senate Republican primary race. Mark Neumann will face former Governor Tommy Thompson and State Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald. In his endorsement DeMint said, “Mark Neumann is a proven, conservative leader and he’s running against Tommy Thompson, a Republican who helped President Obama pass his healthcare takeover.” Regardless of what the media may report, Thompson is no conservative.<br />
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There is no doubt in my mind that Mark Neumann will win the GOP primary, and also that Congresswoman<b> </b>Tammy Baldwin, the lesbian activist who pushes the gay agenda and big government policies in the House of Representatives, will win the Democrat primary.<br />
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Baldwin is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of socialists who relentlessly work to undermine the free enterprise system and to create a huge welfare state. Not able to damage the social fabric of the nation enough in the House, Baldwin wants to do more damage to our nation as a U.S. Senator, by among other things repealing of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Her main cause is homosexuality.<br />
The choice for the people of Wisconsin could not be more clear — Neumann, a pro-life family man, versus lesbian activist Baldwin. GING-PAC has joined Senator DeMint in endorsing Mark Neumann for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin.<br />
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A final note: Barack Obama has promised to spend one billion dollars in his efforts to win reelection. This billion dollars does not even include the use of Air Force One to travel the nation making class warfare speeches as he has been doing already in swing states for the past several months. He will spend millions of dollars in tax payers’ dolllars as well.<br />
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I really need your help to wage the war for freedom in 2012. The first presidential primary is just over one month away and we urgently need cash in the bank. We must all work together to save America. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Please help financially</a>.<br />
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<div align="center"> William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is Not God – PAC<br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</div><div align="center"> WWW.GINGPAC.ORG</div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-16003128744252598522011-11-09T14:43:00.000-08:002011-12-09T14:44:31.442-08:00Campaign Update - October-November, 2011<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGERS BELIEVE –</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Over the years I have had the privilege to work on various projects with some of the current Republican candidates for President and I have met and talked to most of them more than once. Just before she announced her run for the presidency I was one of just eight conservative leaders who had lunch with Michele Bachmann at the Capitol Hill club in Washington, DC.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">What kind of people are the Republican candidates and how do they differ from Obama? Back in the late 1990’s, then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaker Newt Gingrich</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>appeared at several press conferences held by the Religious Freedom Coalition in support of a Religious Freedom Amendment to the Constitution that would allow kids and teachers to pray in school. One rather famous photo shows me speaking at a podium with the entire House leadership of Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay standing behind me. Although he never commented on Islam during the George W. Bush presidency, since Obama was sworn in Gingrich has made numerous statements and produced documentaries on Islamic oppression.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Over a period of many years<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Senator Rick Santorum</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ran a separate International Religious Freedom Caucus in the Senate. He held monthly meetings with organizations such as the Religious Freedom Coalition, not only to discuss but to take action against the persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East, and in China and Vietnam as well. In July of 2006 I was with Senator Santorum at a press conference at the Washington, DC Press Club when he was the first seated politician to use the phrase “Islamic fascism,” much to the disdain of the White House. Far from backing down, at a later meeting at the White House with Senators he held a copy of the speech up in the air and asked President George W. Bush to please read it.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Rick Santorum is a conservative, believing Catholic. He and his wife Karen, who is a nurse, have seven living children. On November 12, 2004, Rick and Karen were invested as Knight and Dame of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. Only the most conservative of Catholics would receive such an honor. During conversations with the couple at a meeting here in Washington, DC, Karen told me that her only disagreement ever with her husband was when he backed liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter for reelection. She is definitely no Laura Bush.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I have known<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Herman Cain</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for many years and back in 2004, Government Is Not God political action committee supported his Senate campaign because of his outspoken support of social conservative causes. Recently he told the Values Voter Summit, “I am 100 % pro-life from the hour of conception.” Herman Cain is not just a businessman. He worked for six years in the Department of the Navy and has made it clear he is opposed to homosexuals serving openly in the military. Cain stands with social conservatives on virtually every issue. In my presence, in meetings he has called Islamists an existential threat to America.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Note: In November the left leaning online journal Politico lauched attacks against Cain accusing him of sexual harrassment. He was never accused of touching anyone or actually doing anything, but a couple of women that worked for him said they “felt uncomfortable.” The reality is different. Virtually every executive in America has had such accusations thrown at them when they have job disputes with women; it is part of the corporate culture. In 48 hours the TV networks ran more tha 50 segmetns on the unproven accusations. In 1997 when Kathleen Willey accused President Bill Clinton of “groping” her, the media ran one story in the first 48 hours. Why the different standard? Liberals have a radical, racist hatred of conservative black Americans.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The views of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Congresswoman Michele Bachmann</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>were well known before she declared for the presidency. During a recent conversation, Michele Bachmann told me, “I thought I was a Christian because I was born into a Lutheran family. As a teenager I heard the Gospel with two girlfriends at an evangelical church and I made the decision to abandon myself for Jesus.” Several times during the conversation Michele used the term “abandoned myself” to describe her conversion experience.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In small group discussions I have been in with Michele Bachmann, she has convinced me that she understands the threat of Islamic domination of the world. This month I met her husband Marcus for the first time. He is a Christian psychologist whose office is surrounded by homosexual demonstrators virtually every week because he accepts patients who don’t want to be “gay” any more.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I have met<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Congressman Ron Paul</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>numerous times and he is a true libertarian. Unfortunately libertarians like Ron Paul agree more often with Barack Obama on social issues than with me. He sees absolutely no need for the United States to assist persecuted Christians. He believes that sales of drugs, including heroin, and the sale of one’s body for use in prostitution should be up to each state. Because of his position on same-sex marriage he has been endorsed by the “conservative” gay political action committee Log Cabin Republicans.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">While I met briefly with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Rick Perry</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when he was Lieutenant Governor of Texas, I have never had an in depth conversation with him to try to discern his sincerity. I have never met with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Governor Romney</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as we do not travel, shall we say, in the same circles. My purpose here is to talk about those I know personally and to try to convey the difference between them and President Barack Obama.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The four Republicans I have met and interacted the most with — Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — have profound differences with President Barack Obama. In conclusion, none of these four, nor any of the rest of the GOP presidential field, approves of the radical class war demonstrations across the nation that are supported by Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and the major labor unions. Obama’s support of these violent demonstrations, which at one point shut down the port of Oakland, must be remembered in 2012.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A final note: There was no October issue of the GINGPAC Update because I have been working almost full time on the Constitution or Sharia Conference that will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on 11/11/11. The Hutton Hotel in that city was pressured by Muslims and cancelled the contract with us. Since then we have moved the conference to a church. For more information, please go to www.PreservingFreedomConference.org.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> And finally, GINGPAC does need financial support to be a part of the 2012 battle. While the presidential race is in the headlines we still need more conservatives in the House and the Senate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Help GING-PAC today</a>!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; orphans: 2; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
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P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-84993894071639008792011-09-04T06:42:00.000-07:002011-09-04T06:42:38.617-07:00Remembering the jihad attack of September 11th<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I was on I-395 approaching the 14th Street bridge at the moment Islamic terrorists flew hijacked American Airlines 77 into the Pentagon. At the time I was literally on the phone with an assistant to President Bush talking about the jihad attack in New York City. I had been headed to a press conference in support of the Sudan Peace Act that the White House opposed. The Sudan Peace Act would have punished the Islamic Sudanese government economically for murdering for the continued persecution and mass murder of Christians in the South Sudan. This video contains my remarks at a church service on the first anniversary of of the jihad attack of September 11th against the United States.</span><br />
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</span>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-29631362061001900392011-08-16T09:24:00.000-07:002011-08-16T16:49:14.129-07:00Campaign Update - August, 2011<div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SPECIAL ELECTIONS</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CALIFORNIA 36<sup>th</sup> – </b>The GING-PAC endorsed candidate lost in the special election held on July 12<sup>th</sup> for the 36<sup>th</sup> congressional district in California. Craig Huey had won an amazing victory in the primary race by finishing second with half a dozen candidates seeking the post. In the runoff election Huey faced Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who was bankrolled by unions, pro-abortionists, Hollywood limousine liberals and many leftist groups. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The far left Hahn got 55% of the vote to Huey’s 45%. Even this was surprising considering that the 36<sup>th</sup> is a heavily Democratic area running from Venice to San Pedro and includes Torrance. Hahn will still have to run for re-election in 2012. By then she will have established a radical voting record in the House which Huey can expose if he chooses to run again.<br />
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Going into the race Craig Huey was a long shot. GING-PAC supported him because he was delivering a pro-life, pro-family message in an area where schools don’t teach and newspapers don’t print anything that would be considered pro-Christian. Every dollar was worth the investment in educating people in that district that there is a different point of view. The seat had been held by the far left for decades.<br />
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<b>NEW YORK 9<sup>th</sup> – </b>A Republican who is also on the Conservative party line, a radical left Democrat and a socialist are running to fill the seat held by disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner whose career ended with his naked posts on Twitter. Andy Sullivan, a construction worker who has led the effort to stop the Ground Zero mosque from being built in New York City tried and failed to get on the GOP ticket. <a href="http://bobturnerforcongress.com/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Bob Turner</a> was picked by the New York Republican Party and the Conservative Party to challenge Democrat NY Assemblyman David Weprin, an Obama-style radical. Weprin has been described in the New York media as a machine politician. He’s been endorsed by the smarmy Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Christopher Hoeppner of the Socialist Workers Party turned in 7,080 signatures to put his name and party on the ballot in the September 13 special election.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Former New York Mayor and lifelong Democrat Ed Koch has vowed that he will vote for the Republican Bob Turner in order to punish President Obama for his anti-Israel policies. According to Koch: “If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported.” Turner is now running a <a href="http://vimeo.com/27597135" target="_blank">TV ad attacking Weprin </a>for his support of the Ground Zero mosque.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC has not yet endorsed either Republican for Weiner’s seat. Although Bob Turner is a pro-life conservative Catholic who stands against same-sex marriage, he was also the producer of TV programs that are rather hard to justify, such as the Jerry Springer Show.</span><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Help elect social conservatives to office</a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WuTiger.jpeg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Congressman David Wu tiger suit" class="size-full wp-image-1435 " height="137" src="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WuTiger.jpeg" title="WuTiger" width="137" /></a><b> OREGON 1<sup>st</sup> – </b>While many of the Democrats in the House such as Nancy Pelosi are sort of nuts, Congressman David Wu was truly nuts. Unlike Democrat Anthony Weiner who sent out photos with no clothes on, Wu sent out photos of himself in a tiger suit. He is also accused of making unwanted sexual advances to an 18-year-old girl. After his reelection most of his staff quit in disgust with his actions. Democrat leaders in Oregon said they were “relieved” by his departure as he continued to embarrass their party and the entire state on Capitol Hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">A primary will be held on November 8<sup>th</sup> and the special election on January 31<sup>st, </sup>2011. The winner will have to immediately begin to campaign for reelection in November of 2011. Unlike in California’s 36<sup>th</sup> which is overwhelming Democrat, there is an opportunity for a Republican to win in Oregon despite its liberal tendencies. Wu won in November of last year with 54% of the vote. Republican businessman Rob Cornilles has announced he will seek the seat. Cornilles, ran unsuccessfully against Wu in the 2010 general election. John Kuzmanich, an entrepreneur who owns U.S. Nationwide Mortgage in Beaverton, is also a possible Republican candidate as is Doug Keller, a Naval Academy graduate who served for 20 years in the Navy. As soon as we have more information on these candidates, hopefully an endorsement can be made.<b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE PRESIDENCY</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">I get all kind of letters, e-mail and calls asking me who social conservatives should back in the presidential race. The race is confusing at present and a lot is going on behind the scenes. Here is some inside information you will not read anywhere else:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">There are evangelicals and then there are “insider” evangelicals. The insiders are the evangelicals with connections inside the Republican Party establishment and include many household names. I do not not considered myself an “insider,” because I toss in the trash the talking points I get form the Republican Party headquarters. This is also why I am often not “on the same page” as other social conservative leaders, most of whom want Rick Perry at the top of the GOP ticket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Right now virtually all of the evangelical “insiders” are either already working with or somehow associated with Governor Rick Perry in Texas. Some of my best friends have literally been working several days a week in Texas to help him get ready to run for president.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Here is their logic: Evangelical Michele Bachmann is “only” a congresswoman and probably too conservative to win. Evangelical Herman Cain has no political experience. Conservative Catholic Rick Santorum lost his last Senate bid in his home state. Converted Catholic Newt Gingrich has had a few too many wives. Ron Paul is a libertarian who would legalize drugs and prostitution, and the rest of the candidates are too liberal. The “insiders” believe they need an evangelical with a political background and a history of winning big, at least state wide. This is exactly how the evangelical “insiders” picked George W. Bush in 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Will Rick Perry run? Yes. By the time you receive this update he may have already announced. As he travels from state to state you will see notable evangelical leaders standing with him. Governor Rick Perry is probably a good guy, but I have reservations that he may be just another career politician looking for his next promotion. I could be wrong; he may be a better version of President George W. Bush, but I want to hold off for a few months on making that call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">I know Michele Bachmann and in fact I have had lunch with her. She is real. I have met Herman Cain numerous times and held in depth conversations with him. He is real, but his lack of experience has caused him to shift positions and make enemies in the evangelical community. I have worked closely with Rick Santorum on projects when he was a Senator. He is solidly pro-life and will stand against radical Islam, but he is also horribly underfunded. As for Gingrich and Romney, I would not even consider backing either one. Gingrich has lost his touch and his campaign is sort of a joke. Romney is just an opportunist. Mitch Daniels and Jon Huntsman should probably not even be running as Republicans. As the race unfolds I will report honestly on the candidates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> GING-PAC will be involved deeply in the 2012 election. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac">Your help is appreciated</a>.</span><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"> William J. Murray, Chairman <br />
Government Is Not God – PAC <br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</span></div><div align="center">202.554.2358</div><br />
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<a href="http://www.gingpac.org/tag/william-murray" rel="tag"></a></span>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-12391536681424820192011-08-02T19:08:00.000-07:002011-08-02T19:09:52.446-07:00House and Senate Pass Budget Control Act<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/02/senate-expected-to-pass-debt-plan-just-hours-before-deadline">In a 76-26 vote,</a> the U.S. Senate passed the Budget Control Act and sent it to President Obama for his signature on August 2, 1011:<br />
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GINGPAC founder William J. Murray issued the following statement following the vote:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Voltaire: Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. We are seeking a perfect solution to a situation that is beyond repair. At this point, if the government drastically reduces spending, the nation will spiral into depression. If the government continues to borrow at the current rate, the nation will go bankrupt. The “perfect” Tea Party solution crashes the economy. The “perfect” liberal solution crushes America under debt and drives away investment. Unfortunately, nothing in the middle works either as long as it is a collective government action of some sort. The only solution is the natural one, which involves decline and reconstruction. Regrettably, the rebirth of a nation economically can take decades.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the conservative <a href="http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/">Republican Study Committee</a>, issued a similar statement. Jordan noted:<br />
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<div style="padding-left: 30px;">After months of debate, the House and Senate have reached a deal to raise the debt limit (read about the plan <a href="http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/UploadedFiles/LB_BudgetControl_80111.pdf">here</a>). In the end, I could not support the legislation. While it contains cuts and caps, they should be much more robust. Additionally, the framework of “triggers” and a new 12-member House-Senate committee opens the door to dangerous national security cuts and raises the possibility that six Democrats and one misguided Republican could rush tax increases to the House and Senate floors.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">Most importantly, this deal is not a solution. The <a href="http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/Solutions/debtceiling.htm">Cut, Cap, and Balance Act</a> remains the only plan that protects our AAA credit rating from the risk of a downgrade.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">Our debt is a permanent, long-term problem, and it requires a permanent solution in the form of a Balanced Budget Amendment. While the House and Senate will be required to vote on one this fall, there is no requirement that it pass and be sent to the states for ratification. Unless we send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the states, however, promises to cut spending today can always disappear tomorrow. (Watch our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xc47_rZlqk">quick video</a> on <i>Washington Spending 101</i>). </div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">Just a few weeks ago, the Balanced Budget Amendment wasn’t even a part of the conversation, despite the overwhelming support it has among the American public. The growing momentum toward requiring Washington to actually balance its budget is encouraging, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.</div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-17023969949525612512011-07-30T19:13:00.000-07:002011-08-05T19:21:46.531-07:00China's Deadly Utopia<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WJM-head-03.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="William J Murray is the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition" class="size-full wp-image-1190 " height="200" src="http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WJM-head-03.jpg" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;" title="William J Murray" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">William J. Murray, the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition along with several congressmen and Senators spoke at an event on Capitol Hill highlighting the persecution of the Falun Gong and other religious minorities in China. Many speakers dealt with the repressive nature of the Chinese Communist Party, but Murray dealt with the core problem of central planning that has been the sources of repression and misery for humanity since the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century. His remarks, “China: The Great Utopia” have since been requested by numerous news outlets and have already been televised worldwide. His remarks follow below:<br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">As an introduction to his second chapter in <em>The Road to Serfdom</em>, Friedrich Hayek used a quote by Friedrich Holderlin to sum up collectivism: “What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are those who see our greatest challenge as the conflict between communist ideology and the free market place or between fascism and democracy, but these are but aspects of the one conflict that humanity faces: reality versus utopianism. During the 20<sup>th</sup> Century, utopian dreams, unfortunately, became reality in the persons of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Adoph Hitler, and Moa Tse Tung. The result was the “state of hell” referred to by Holderlin. Governments seeking utopia on earth killed tens of millions of human beings in seventy some years of wars, gulags, starvation and mass killings.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the utopia of Adolf Hitler’s “Thousand- Year Reich” ended in military defeat, and the Soviet “Workers’ Paradise” ended in humiliation for Russia, the dream of a centrally planned utopia lives on in China under the Chinese Communist Party. As in other centrally planned dictatorships, freedom is a casualty in China. Central planning of any kind requires silencing of critics and a control of the press and of speech to insure the continuation of “the plan.” For the level of control needed in China even the worship of God must be tightly directed. If not, “the plan” could perhaps be undermined, even destroyed by critical voices.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">In China today there is only one political party, the party that is implementing “the plan” for the lives of the Chinese people. Unable to survive using the pure collectivist model of Karl Marx, the Communist Party has “evolved” to a National Socialism model similar to that of Adolph Hitler, using highly controlled free enterprise sectors to produce the tax base to continue its control.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no greater threat to that control than unregulated human faith, the faith represented by the Christian underground churches and the practitioners of Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist Party has used every kind of pressure against the Falun Gong including arrests, rapes, and murders and even forced abortions on Falun Gong women held in captivity. Utopianism requires a grand plan: A Germany without Jews, a Russia without the rich, a Cambodia without the educated, a Caliphate without Christians — or a China without Falun Gong or House Church critics of the Communist Party’s “plan” for the Chinese people.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;">20<sup>th</sup> Century utopianism gave the world enough death and destruction to last humanity for 10,000 years. “The Plan” the Chinese Communist Party has for China will fail; it is inevitable. The day of that collapse will mark a new freedom for the repressed. It is the world’s responsibility to give the message to the Chinese communists that “the plan’ is an illusion and that freedom is inevitable regardless of their repression of their own people.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Statement of William J. Murray<br />
Chairman, Religious Freedom Coalition<br />
July 14, 2011 – Capitol Hill<br />
Falun Gong Rally for Freedom</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Press call 202.543.0300</span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-83720647706956130252011-07-16T08:49:00.000-07:002011-07-16T08:51:13.430-07:00Campaign Update - July, 2011<span style="font-size: small;"><b>LIBERAL MEDIA LIKES RINO JON HUNTSMAN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b>Big Journalism commentator <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/kmartin/2011/06/28/jon-huntsman-the-mainstream-medias-unpalatable-gop-candidate">Kevin Martin</a> believes that the liberal media has a definite strategy figured out in pushing for Jon Huntsman to stay in the race to win the GOP nomination for President of the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The mainstream media, says Martin, “will try to portray him as a Reaganesque figure. Unlike Reagan, Huntsman has evolving views on important social issues such as civil unions, man-made global warming, cap and trade and abortion rights that can appeal to voters across the board in the 21 Century. We will be inundated with puff pieces and push polls on his business experience and ability to work with our largest foreign debt holder China on issues of jobs and trade since he was Obama’s pick as Ambassador to China up until recently, which alone earns he has the experience to bring us out of the Great Recession.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Martin concludes: “Conservatives must remain fully aware that the mainstream media and its pundits will encourage Democrats to crossover and try to ensure that Huntsman wins several open primary states in the early going to make him the perceived GOP front runner. Now with that said, conservatives must remain focused on the fact that our very nation is at stake and we must not allow the hi-jinks of the Main Stream Media and the Democrats to suppress or split our vote in 2012 with the unpalatable Jon Huntsman.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">RINO Huntsman is not only benefitting from the liberal media’s support of him, but he also has the support of his billionaire father who is working behind the scenes for him. Jon Huntsman, Sr. is a self-made billionaire, whose company invented the clamshell containers used by McDonald’s Big Macs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GAYS LIKE HUNTSMAN AS WELL -</b> I was just a little stunned when someone sent me a link to a story in Q Salt Lake. The Q stands for queer and it is a gay newspaper in Salt Lake City which has semi-endorsed Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. Rather than editorialize I will quote directly from the gay site, “While there are no official endorsements from any caucuses or groups within the Republican Party yet, the Utah Log Cabin Republicans (ULCR) worked with Huntsman when he was governor, and are ready and willing to work continue that relationship,”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Melvin Nimer, the president of ULCR, said. “Huntsman was the first governor of Utah to open up the governor’s mansion to the LGBT community,” Nimer said. “They [the Huntsman campaign team] have reached out to get some help from us and some people within the group are working with him.” Having read this glowing endorsement of Huntsman in the official “queer” site, needless to say GING-PAC will not be supporting Jon Huntsman for president. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE FLIP SIDE OF HUNTSMAN IS BACHMANN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is in second place as choice for President of the United States in 2012 in virtually every poll, just weeks after she announced her bid for the presidency. In a recent nationwide Rasmussen poll Bachmann was at 19% of likely GOP voters, while Romney was at 33%. However, Romney has been running for the office for years and has many millions of dollars for advertising, whereas Bachmann had officially been in the race just days when those numbers came out. In addition Bachmann is in a dead-heat with Romney in Iowa at 22% to his 23%. Bachmann has twice the percentage as the number three candidate, Herman Cain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">To firm up her social conservative base, Bachmann recently signed a marriage pledge that includes a statement that she will not allow sharia law to advance in the United States. A native of Iowa, she will be hard to beat there, and Romney may skip that state and concentrate on New Hampshire. GING-PAC has made no formal endorsements in the presidential race. However, GINGPAC has always endorsed and supported Michele Bachmann in her races for the House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TODD AKIN FOR SENATE</b></span><br />
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_1244" style="width: 160px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Akin200.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Todd Akin for Senate" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1244" height="150" src="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Akin200-150x150.jpg" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;" title="Todd Akin for Senate" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC has supported Todd Akin since he first ran for Congress in Missouri. He is a godly man who has served as a Sunday school teacher for decades. His family has followed him in service to this nation. Akin was a commissioned officer in the Army. Two of his sons are in the military and a third is at the Naval Academy. On several occasions during radio and TV interviews he has used the motto of this organization, saying that “government is not God.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">In discussing NBC “editing” the words “under God” out of a story on the Pledge of Allegiance, Akin noted: “Well, I think NBC has a long record of being very liberal and at the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and a belief that government should replace God</span>. And so they’ve had a long history of not being at all favorable toward many of things that have been such a blessing to our country. These powerful words have liberals enraged.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">According to Akin, “This is a systematic effort to try to separate our faith and God, which is a source in our belief in individual liberties, from our country. And when you do that you tear the heart out of our country.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Rep. Akin’s Communications Director Steve Taylor told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Akin was discussing the basic differences between conservatives and liberals on where rights come from. Liberals think rights come from government; conservatives believe rights come from God. The differences in beliefs, says Taylor, are the “defining principles of two political ideologies.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Congressman Akin wrote the forward for my book, </b><i><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Pledge: One Nation Under God</span></b></i><b> which details the history of the Pledge of Allegiance. That book is still available at a reduced price at: </b><a href="http://www.pledgeundergodbook.com/"><b>www.PledgeUnderGodBook.com</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC has endorsed Todd Akin for the Senate seat now held by radical liberal and pro-abortion Claire McCaskill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>When you help GING-PAC elect men and women to Congress such as Todd Akin or Michele Bachmann, you are helping to steer America in the right direction. </b>With your help<b>, </b>GING-PAC can<b> </b>make a difference in special elections as they occur. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/support-ging-pac" target="_blank">PLEASE DONATE NOW!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">William J. Murray, Chairman <br />
Government Is Not God – PAC<br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</span>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-45022639784912425672011-06-10T12:48:00.000-07:002011-06-10T12:49:53.493-07:00June, 2011 Campaign Update<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SPECIAL ELECTIONS TAKE UNEXPECTED TURNS</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Craighuey.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Craig Huey for Congress" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-621" height="150" src="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Craighuey-108x150.jpg" title="Craighuey" width="108" /></a><b>CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST SURPRISE WINNER IN CALIFORNIA</b> – In the 36th District, GING PAC supported candidate Craig Huey has surprised the political establishment with his second place finish in the primary election, where he faced a field of more than a dozen contenders. He will now face Democrat Janice Hahn, a powerful Los Angeles City Councilwoman, in the July runoff election. Almost everyone expected the runoff to be between Janice Hahn and another Democrat, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen.Huey faces an uphill battle in a district that is 45% Democrat and only 27% Republican. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet even the fact that a Christian conservative activist came in second in the 36<sup>th</sup> District Primary was called “shocking” by Reuters, and a “major upset” by the Los Angeles Times, and has definitely sent shock waves through the ranks of the Democrat establishment. Craig is a successful small businessman who employs around 100 people in his advertising, publishing and consulting business. He publishes a voter guide for values voters as well as running several websites to help conservative Christian voters stay informed. Craig is also a frequent talk show guest, and very active in his local church and charity work.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Janice Hahn, the candidate he faces in the July runoff, promotes the usual anti-biblical, anti family liberal agenda. She hopes to win by promising people something for nothing, which is usually a successful ploy in working class areas. Hahn is promising a plan to create 25,000 new “green” jobs in the district, by getting the federal government to “invest” billions in green technology. Trouble is, the government has no money to “invest” and the Chinese don’t want to lend us any more than they already have. Worse, the green technology pushed by the Obama administration has so far proved to be nothing but a big boondoggle.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Craig Huey is for real job creation, fiscal sanity and a return to biblical values. He has the endorsement of several prominent conservative Congressmen, including Mike Pence and Dana Rohrabacher, and is also strongly endorsed by many area pastors and local politicians.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have met Craig Huey, and GING PAC is supporting his runoff campaign. Please help this true conservative win the July runoff and make it all the way to Congress! Funds can be donated to Craig Huey at his Internet site: <a href="http://www.craighuey.com/">www.craighuey.com</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>FAKE TEA PARTY CANDIDATE IN NY SPECIAL</b> – <b> </b>A lot of people in the 26<sup>th</sup> District of New York, one of the state’s most conservative areas, are probably kicking themselves and wondering how they wound up with a flaming liberal Democrat like Kathy Hochul in the special election held on May 24. This was supposed to be a given for Republican candidate Jane Corwin, who had the endorsement of the Conservative Party, the Tea Party Express, and National Right to Life, among others. Liberals nationwide, after the trouncing they took last fall, were ecstatic about the outcome. The Huffington Post called Hochul’s win “extraordinary and unexpected.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The news media portrayed Hochul’s win as a rejection by voters of Republican efforts to reform Medicare as outlined in Congressman Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future. What really sank Corwin on election day was the 9% of the vote that went to a self-proclaimed “Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis.” The Tea Party Express and National Right to Life made great efforts to inform voters that Jack Davis was not endorsed by them and was only trying to divide the conservative vote. Davis had run three times before as a Democrat candidate and lost but still got on the ballott as a Tea Party candidate! How he did this lies in the lax New York election rules which allow anyone who can collect just a few thousand names on a petition to create a new political party in a district.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Multi-millionaire Davis spent more than $2 million of his own money, and with the aid of a shrewd lawyer collected 12,000 signatures and formed the Tea Party Coalition. The real Tea Party in that area, the Tea Party Express, cried foul and tried to warn voters, but it was too late. Many very conservative but uninformed voters unknowingly voted for a man who had been a big contributor to Democrat candidates and had even bragged about helping to give Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats a majority in the 2006 election. As a result of his efforts the pro-life candidate lost to Kathy Hochul, a big spending, pro-gay agenda, pro-abortion Democrat.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>PREPARING FOR THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To help insure that the will of the people is accurately reflected by future election results, thirteen states with Republican controlled statehouses have in the last two months enacted laws to tighten up voter requirements. Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, and South Carolina have joined eight other states which now require photo identification to vote. Democrats are steamed about the new measures which they say will pose too much of a hardship (especially to illegal aliens). However, any citizen who does not have a driver’s license can request a free photo ID card from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. Some other states which are tightening up their regulations include Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. If your state does not require photo ID to vote, demand it!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ON THE SENATE SIDE</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TED CRUZ: A TEXAS SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE -</b> Out of a large field of contenders who want the Senate seat of retiring Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, we are especially watching Ted Cruz, who is emerging as the favorite of social conservatives. The son of Cuban immigrants who escaped Castro’s communist dictatorship, Ted took full advantage of the opportunities this country offers. He earned a degree from Harvard Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist, and then after serving two years in the George W. Bush administration, he returned to Texas where he became Texas Solicitor General.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ted has always been a social conservative. As Solicitor he argued a case called Van Orden v. Perry before the Supreme Court, in which he defended the right of the state of Texas to display the Ten Commandments. Until now the front runner in the primary field has been fellow Republican Tom Leppert, the Mayor of Dallas, who has raised more money than Cruz, and has also chipped in 1.6 million of his own money. Social conservatives oppose Leppert, who as Mayor of Dallas used to march in Gay Pride parades. GING PAC has not yet committed to back Cruz, but he seems a very promising candidate.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SENATOR INHOFE FIGHTING BLASPHEMY LAWS –</b> GING PAC has supported Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma through several elections. This month he authored the hard hitting S. Res. 150 “Calling for the protection of religious minority rights and freedoms in the Arab world.” The Senator detailed several prominent murders of Christians and church burnings that have happened in the last few months, and he calls upon the United States to protect the freedoms and rights of religious minorities. Since blasphemy laws often lead to this violence, the Resolution “urges in the strongest terms that the United States Government lead the international effort to repeal existing blasphemy laws.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>When you help GING-PAC elect men and women to Congress such as Senator Jim Inhofe or a congresswoman such as Michele Bachman, you are helping to steer America in the right direction. </b>With your help<b>, </b>GING-PAC can<b> </b>make a difference in special elections as they occur. Please donate this month, and visit our site for almost daily updates at <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/">www.gingpac.org</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">William J. Murray, Chairman</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GOVERNMENT IS <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> GOD</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Political Action Committee For Social Conservatives</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-90354116264884621442011-05-07T15:04:00.000-07:002011-05-07T15:10:17.199-07:00May, 2011 Campaign Update<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>AMERICANS ARE FED UP WITH BARACK OBAMA!</b> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two liberal news organizations, the New York Times and CBS News conducted a joint poll in April that had startling results despite the fact that the questions themselves were intended to generate comments favorable to Barack Obama. In addition, Democrats were deliberately oversampled in the poll. Despite this the results for the White House were brutal: </span></div></div><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">70% of Americans feel things in this country are seriously off on the wrong track. That is the highest number since the 79% registered in 1/11/09 when President Bush was still in office.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">80% rate the national economy as bad (44% fairly/36% very). Only 19% rate it as good (2% very/17% fairly).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">57% disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy. That is the highest disapproval measured by the CBS/NYT poll. His 38% approval is matched only once by an October pre-election poll, just before the Democratic defeats of 2010.</span></li>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is clear that the vast majority of the American people do not approve of the radical agenda of President Barack Obama and neither do the corporate bosses that once supported him. In 2009, hedge fund managers such as Daniel Loeb, founder of Third Point LLC, raised tens of millions of dollars for Barack Obama. Their reward was changes at the IRS that raised their tax obligation on profits from 15% to 35%. There is the possibility of changing the minds of rich liberals who did not realize Obama would go after them with such zeal. Loeb has since given $486,000 to Republicans.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We now have an opportunity to reach out, particularly to independent voters, and beat not only Barack Obama in 2012, but even more of his radical supporters in Congress. GING-PAC will continue to be on the forefront of supporting candidates who are opposed to the radical agenda of Barack Obama. Already we are active in a special election in California.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE CONGRESS</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SPECIAL ELECTION ON MAY 17<sup>th</sup> – </b>Radical Democrat congresswoman Jane Harman, who votes 100% with her fellow Californian wacko Nancy Pelosi, has resigned her seat to join the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It was President Wilson who helped found the League of Nations and who sank many of our battleships to prove America was a peaceful nation.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC is supporting Craig Huey, a small business owner who publishes conservative election guides, in the special election to be held May 17<sup>th</sup> for the open seat.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Huey</b> has a long history of involvement in conservative Christian political activism, and if elected to fill Harman’s seat he can be counted on to fight for limited government, biblical morality, fiscal sanity, and a strong national defense.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Southern California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has endorsed Huey’s candidacy: “I fully endorse Craig Huey for Congress in the 36<sup>th</sup> Congressional Special Election. Craig is not a politician. He’s a successful small business owner who knows how to create jobs. He will bring to the district and to Congress fresh ideas on stopping the irresponsible national deficit, bloated and wasteful government programs and pensions…”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have met with Craig Huey, and he is our kind of candidate. Since time is short, I urge you to send contributions directly his office:</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Craig Huey for Congress</b><br />
<b>23211 Hawthorne Blvd Suite 200 A<br />
Torrance, CA 90505</b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Learn more about Craig at his Internet site at </b><a href="http://www.craighuey.com/" target="_blank"><b>www.craighuey.com</b></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Time is short in this election and I urge you to take urgent action. GING-PAC has already sent funds to Craig Huey and to be honest, we could send more if the funds were made available.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ON THE SENATE SIDE</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A GING-PAC supported Republican Senator, Roger Wicker, has called upon his colleagues to defund Planned Parenthood. In a floor statement Senator Wicker noted that Planned Parenthood performed 332,277 abortions in 2010, which was more than one quarter of all abortions performed that year in the United States. At the same time Planned Parenthood received more than $350 million in taxpayer funds in 2010.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wicker said before a vote on his amendment to the budget, “We have an opportunity today to stop taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, and I hope my colleagues will join me to defund this organization.” Despite his efforts the Democrat Majority headed by Senator Harry Reid has kept money flowing to Planned Parenthood abortion mills</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier this year, Sen. Wicker introduced the <a href="http://wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=IssueStatements.View&Issue_id=E430B041-9791-F821-8915-505D336EE3A3" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Life at Conception Act</span></a> which is designed to ensure that the Constitution’s fundamental right to life is applied to all Americans, especially to those who cannot speak for themselves. A 2008 Zogby International poll found that 59% of those polled believe that human life begins at conception. No vote was allowed on Wicker’s bill by Democrat majority leader Harry Reid.<b> </b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>WELCOME NEW MEMBERS</b> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the first four months of 2011, GING-PAC has added 304 new members! If each of those new members donate just $100 each during 2011, GING-PAC will have $30,400 more to help conservative candidates during special elections and in the coming fight to win back the Senate and the White House.</span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">William J. Murray<br />
Chairman</span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0United States Capitol, Washington D.C., DC 20002, USA38.8898341 -77.008865099999985.5741646000000031 -136.77449009999998 72.2055036 -17.24324009999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-34674871668474098582011-04-04T11:53:00.000-07:002011-04-04T11:53:21.524-07:00March - April Update<table class="contentpaneopen"><tbody>
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</div><strong><img alt="Randy Forbes" height="138" src="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/Forbes.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); float: left; margin: 2px;" width="113" />CONGRESSMAN RANDY FORBES -</strong> On March 17th the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the “In God We Trust Resolution, (H.Con.Res. 13) originated by Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA). The Forbes resolution, supported by 64 bipartisan congressmen, reaffirms “In God We Trust” as the national motto and encourages its public display. On the passage Congressman Forbes said, “Today, the House Judiciary Committee asked two simple questions: Does the United States still have the right to trust in God, and if so, should it? If the answer is “yes” to both questions, then the truths we declare to be “self evident” and the rights we hold as “endowed by our Creator” are indeed transcendent and cannot be taken away by any government.<br />
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Since Randy Forbes came to the House in 2002 as a supported GING-PAC candidate, he has established himself as a leader. Randy formed the Congressional Prayer Caucus which has become a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Currently there are 55 members of the Prayer Caucus including Michele Bachmann, Jim Jordan, Mike Pence and other prominent Representatives.<br />
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Because of Randy Forbes, a church service was held in the rotunda of the Capitol Building in 2010. This was thc first time thc Capitol had bccn used as a church since 1868. For more than 100 years after the Capitol was built, church services were held there every Sunday. Did you know that? Thanks to Randy Forbes, “How Great Thou Art” was once again sung in the Rotunda.<br />
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<strong>CONGRESSMAN TRENT FRANKS -</strong> Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) founded and now chairs the Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus. With co-chair Heath Shuler (D-NC), he introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to take action to protect religious freedom. The resolution condemns the intolerance that sanctioned recent high profile assassinations in Pakistan including that of the Minister of Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, who was the only Christian in the government. Congressman Franks has assisted organizations such as the Religious Freedom Coalition in calling attention to the repression of Christians and other religious minorities in Islamic areas of the world.<br />
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<strong>CONGRESSMAN TODD AKIN - </strong>Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO), along with at least seven other GING-PAC supported candidates, co-sponsored H.R.973 to prevent the misuse of foreign law in United States federal courts. The bill states: “In any court created by or under Article III of the Constitution of the United States, no justice, judge, or other judicial official shall decide any issue in a case before that court in whole or in part on the authority of foreign law, except to the extent the Constitution or an Act of Congress requires the consideration of that foreign law.”<br />
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The use of foreign law including Islamic sharia law has become a matter of concern to me and other Christian leaders. Even Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor confirmed she had used foreign laws including UN resolutions to render her decisions. Recently judges in New Jersey and Florida have allowed the use of sharia law to determine the outcome of cases. (See next page)<br />
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<strong>CONGRESSMAN DOUG LAMBORN -</strong> The House of Representatives voted 228-192 on March l7th to prohibit direct federal funding to National Public Radio. The bill (HR 1076) sponsored by GING-PAC-endorsed Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, will also restrict local stations from paying NPR dues or purchasing programming with federal dollars. After the vote, Rep. Lamborn issued the following statement: “This vote sends a strong message that Congress is serious about cutting spending.<br />
With trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can sce, under Barack Obama, we must begin to cut all unnecessary spending. When the federal government gets its spending under control, the small businesses and entrepreneurs of our country will begin investing again with confidence. That, ultimately, will lead to the creation of private sector jobs Americans are looking for.”<br />
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NPR was formed in 1970 by then President Lyndon Baines Johnson as a means of combating what he saw as a generally conservative media. Since that time NPR has received many tens of millions of dollars from the government to champion an increasingly leftist agenda that was exposed in the recent firing of commentator Juan Williams and undercover videos showing the left leaning bias and anti-Israel nature of the staff.<br />
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<strong>CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN -</strong> Just a few years ago GING-PAC endorsed and funded Jim Jordan (R-OH) for his first run at the House from Ohio. In just three terms he has become a part of the leadership and now chairs the powerful Republican Study Conmiittee which is an organization for the most conservative Republican congressmen. Virtually all of the truly conservative bills, both fiscal and social, come from congressmen who are associated with the Republican Study Committee. For example, other memebers include Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, whom GING-PAC has also supported. Jordan was also named Pro-Life legislator of the Year by the United Conservatives of Ohio and won the Defender of Life award from Ohio Right to Life for his unwavering commitment to protecting the sanctity of human life.<br />
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<strong>SENATOR ROY BLUNT -</strong> Newly elected Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced he would head the Senate Values Action Team (VAT). Last year, then-Congressman Blunt stepped down from his leadership postion in the House to run for Senate as a fiscal and social conservative. After the departure of social conservative champion Senator Sam Brownback, there was no one to lead the very valuable Senate VAT. The VAT is an interface for social conservative organizations such as the Religious Freedom Coalition to organize for or against legislation. The House VAT, headed by Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and the Senate VAT were key in passing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban and the Defense of Marriage Act, just to name two pieces of legislation.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>MORE OPPORTUNITIES AWAIT US!</strong><strong> </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></div><strong>ANOTHER SENATE SEAT IN MISSOURI? -</strong> Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill faces Senate ethics violation charges over the use of a private plane for political purposes and her relationship to a shell company that owns the plane. McCaskill is facing questions over Timesaver LLC, a Delaware-based corporation that was created in July 2006, during her Senate run against Republican incumbent Jim Talent. She narrowly defeated Talent, with only 50% of the vote, to his 47%. She and her husband are part owners of Timesaver, and had chartered 89 flights for her - and billed the flights to her Senate budget. <br />
As soon as her misuse of federal tax dollars was exposed, McCaskill agreed to pay more than $88,000 to the U.S. Treasury. She claims that only one of the 89 flights was political in nature, but she has declined to make any additional records public on her use of this plane. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>ABOUT BARACK OBAMA</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">During the 2008 election, candidate Obama’s committee officially raised $745 million dollars. After the election, at the end of 2008, his committee still had $15 million on hand. The Democrat Party and independent organizations such as MoveOn.org spent tens of millions more. More than $500 million was raised on the lnternet to elect Barack Obama, and much of the revenue originated from addresses in foreign nations. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>In contrast, Senator John McCain spent a total of only $380 million, or about half as much as Obama and that included $88 million he took from the Federal Matching Funds. Obama refused federal funds because it would have limited by law the amount he could spend.<br />
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Government Is Not God – PAC is launching an aggressive membership and fund raising drive in April. Starting in May these campaign updates will be published monthly. In addition our Internet site at <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/">www.gingpac.org</a> is now updated almost daily. Please help us elect candidates such as those above, and help us move Barack Obama out of the White House.William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-38534696559086303342011-02-04T11:49:00.000-08:002011-04-04T11:50:21.827-07:00January - February Update<table class="contentpaneopen"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2006, the year the Republicans lost control of the House, I spotted a candidate in Ohio whom I believed would be a real leader, a man I viewed as a social conservative we could count on. That year GING PAC supported Jim Jordan in his first run for Congress. He won and took office in 2007 just as Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker. Over the last four years Jordan has shown his leadership and when Republicans took back control of the House, he was elected as the new head of the powerful Republican Study Committee. </div><br />
A sizeable majority of House Republicans in the new 112<sup>th</sup> Congress, 175 out of 242, belong to the Republican Study Committee. The RSC is the conservative caucus, and any House member who is serious about conservative values belongs to it and participates in the formation of policy and legislative agendas. Its rivals in the House are the Congressional Progressive Caucus, composed of about 74 Democrats who have a socialist agenda, and the perhaps even more radical Congressional Black Caucus, many of whose members also belong to the Progressive Caucus.<br />
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Jordan is known as a real fiscal hawk, but he is also outspoken about social issues. He made a statement about the annual March for Life on the front page of his website, and also spoke at a Sanctity of Life event back in his home state of Ohio. Jim Jordan released a statement explaining why he will not be attending this year’s Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC), which he said was due to the inclusion of the pro gay group called GO PROUD. Said the Congressman, “Family is the cornerstone upon which a community, state, or nation is built, and conservatives must lead the way in promoting the strengths of the traditional family whenever we can.”<br />
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<b><img alt="Eric Cantor and William J Murray" height="176" src="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/CantorWJM2008crop.jpg" style="border-color: rgb(204, 0, 0); border-width: 2px; float: left; margin: 2px;" title="ERic Cantor and William J Murray" width="205" />ERIC CANTOR –</b> The new Majority Leader, Eric Cantor is another candidate GING PAC has supported since the first time he ran for Congress. He ranks second in command after Speaker Boehner. Having a true social conservative in this position of leadership will be invaluable in helping to schedule votes on the floor. I am confident that Congressman Cantor will work closely with Speaker Boehner to schedule votes on some social conservative issues that Nancy Pelosi never would have allowed to come to the floor.<br />
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On January 16, the anniversary of Roe v Wade, Cantor issued this statement: “For the past two years, the life community has suffered the consequences of being completely out of power. Against the will of our people, Democrats have jammed through an agenda that forces taxpayers to fund abortion and embryonic stem cell research, and even attempted to repeal conscience protections for health care providers.” The Majority Leader went on to say that, “We know that we have an uphill battle in the Senate and the White House. But I can promise you one thing: the People’s House will stand for life, and we will do everything in our power to make sure our values are reflected in the law of the land.” <br />
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<b>MICHELE BACHMAN</b> - GING PAC supported Michele Bachman in her first bid for Congress, and in two election cycles since then. Michele is using the grassroots passion for changing our big, wasteful, overbearing government to push for real reforms. Liberal Democrats in Washington must think she’s everywhere they look at the beginning of this new year, not just on the floor of Congress but out in the street speaking to March for Life participants. And, right after Obama was supposed to have transformed himself into another Ronald Reagan with his State of the Union message, there she was on CNN with her rebuttal speech, hammering away at every misguided, big spending proposal that Obama and the Democrats have come up with.<br />
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<b>RANDY FORBES -</b> GING PAC supported Randy Forbes in his first Congressional race in 2000. Now, he is the founder and head of the Congressional Prayer Caucus and one of the staunchest defenders of religious liberty as our founders envisioned it. When President Barack Obama incorrectly stated several times that the national motto was E Pluribus Unum, it was Congressman Forbes who authored a letter to the President signed by members of the Prayer Caucus, asking him to correct his error. He also introduced a congressional resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto.<br />
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It is to be hoped that the new members of Congress whom we supported will prove to show similar courage and leadership. <br />
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<b>ANN MARIE BUERKLE -</b> New Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle is both a nurse and a lawyer, and has valuable experience in the medical insurance field also. She is a strong opponent of Obamacare, and has commonsense ideas to fix some problems with our nation’s health care system. She has already joined the Republican Study Committee, and Ann Marie has also just been appointed to Chair the Subcommittee on Health in the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Her subcommittee is charged with oversight of the Veterans’ Health Administration. In the last issue of the Update I wrote about other members we supported such as<br />
<b>CONGRESSMAN ALLEN WEST, </b> who is now taking on an activist roll in Congress. He was one of the first new members to welcome representitives of Iraqi Christian refugees into his office. <br />
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<b>MARCO RUBIO -</b> On the Senate side, Marco Rubio of Florida was in the Senate only a matter of days before turning his attention to foreign affairs, an area that has been neglected by the Obama Administration. Our influence in Central and South America and the Caribbean has diminished, with the result that Venezuela and China are taking advantage of our inattention. Rubio has already welcomed to his office and met with General Douglas Fraser, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command. They discussed the new governments in Brazil and Colombia, and Venezuelan influence in South America.<br />
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Senator Rubio, whose parents are from Cuba, very frankly stated his opposition to the recent Obama Administration announcement that our government will ease regulations regarding travel and remittances to Cuba.<br />
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<b>THE 2012 CYCLE</b><br />
The good news is that Speaker John Boehner was sitting behind the president for the State of the Union address on January 26<sup>th</sup>. That bad news is that Vice President Biden sat next to him, and that the address was being delivered by Barack Obama. The nation needs to unload itself of debt and restore its Judeo-Christian values -- and those two things will not happen so long as there is a big-spending, pro-abortion president in the White House.<br />
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The spending is so out of control that 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends is borrowed. The government owes so much that the Federal Reserve must keep interest rates at zero to allow the borrowing to continue. Our nation simply can’t afford the welfare state that has been built and it cannot continue to pay government employed janitors four times the rate paid in the private sector. We need rational leaders on both the fiscal and social fronts.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">America simply can’t afford Barack Obama</span>! In the 2012 election cycle GING-PAC can make a difference. GING-PAC can legally spend an unlimited amount of money to tell the truth about Barack Obama and his allies during the next election … BUT … We can’t spend money we don’t have. We need your help! If we are going to have a GOP nominee for the presidency who is a strong pro-life social conservative, we need to have cash on hand. In just three months the first pre-primary presidential debate is scheduled. We are already in the election cycle and we need funds to make a difference. Please help!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">William J. Murray,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chairman </div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-30905507535041036212010-12-03T08:44:00.000-08:002010-12-03T08:47:55.067-08:00November - December, 2010 Campaign Update<div align="center" class="DefaultText1" style="background-color: white; color: blue; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ELECTION SUMMARY</b></span></div><div class="DefaultText1" style="background-color: white;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">OVERVIEW -</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span> </b>This issue of the Campaign Update was delayed so we could publish complete results for the candidates we supported. A couple of our elections went to recounts and the last one was not decided until the last week of November when Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY), first elected from New York's 25th Congressional District in 2008, conceded to Ann Marie Buerkle (R). The final margin of victory for our candidate was just 567 votes out of more than 209,000 cast. Buerkle did not have the support of the GOP establishment; she was deemed to be too conservative to win. The GOP has picked up six seats in New York state so far. The 1<sup>st</sup> congressional district located on Long Island is still in dispute, and will probably be decided in court sometime next year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"> The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has set up an interactive map at its Internet site that reveals the 63 picked up in the House so far in the November election. This is a good tool that I recommend and it can be found at: <a href="http://www.nrcc.org/news/Election-Results-Map">http://www.nrcc.org/news/Election-Results-Map</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE SENATE</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"> Overall we did not do as well in the Senate as we had hoped. Our original candidate in Colorado, Jane Norton, is the former Lt. Governor and could have easily won in the General Election, but she was defeated by Ken Buck, a Tea Party favorite who was little known outside of just one Colorado county. Both were social conservatives and both pro-life. After Norton lost the GOP primary, we backed Ken Buck who just was never able to gain the statewide backing that Jane Nortan had. The result was a victory by the left. And in Nevada, Sharron Angle whom we had worked with for more than two years lost to Harry Reid. Sharron won virtually every county except for Las Vegas, where union bosses and the mafia controlled the ballot boxes. We also lost in California, Washington and West Virginia. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the upside Marco Rubio, whom we backed well before any other national PAC, won in Florida. Marco stunned the media during his victory speech by spending the first five minutes talking about the Lord and how important God was to him and his family. Marco Rubio loves our Lord and our nation, and I believe he will be one of the most powerful political forces in the nation in the decade to come.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two other powerful social conservatives who are pro-life won in the Mid-West. We backed Roy Blunt in Missouri and Dan Coats in Indiana. We can count on both of these men to be champions of pro-life and religious liberty issues. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">While Lisa Murkowski has declared victory in Alaska, the Miller campaign has filed lawsuits to try to change the outcome of the election. I like Joe Miller, but he lost because he took advantage for his own family of social services he publicly criticized. </span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE HOUSE</b></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-indent: 0.5in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE:</span> </b>In January either 63 or 64 Republicans will take over seats which had been held by Democrats in the House. Many of the Republicans who won ran against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her radical economic and social agenda.<b> </b>The defeat for the left was stunning in more than one way. During the “Republican Revolution” led by Newt Gingrich in 1994 the GOP had a net gain of 54 seats, or ten less than in the 2010 cycle. More important is the quality and conviction of those elected in the 2010 cycle and three GING-PAC victories in Florida exemplify that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Florida we backed David Rivera in the 25<sup>th</sup>, Daniel Webster in the 8<sup>th</sup> and Allen West in the 22<sup>nd</sup>. Rivera is a strong pro-life social conservative whose ancestry is Cuban. Webster is a former preacher in the same vein as Gov. Mike Huckabee. He defeated the radical far left loon Alan Grayson who constantly embarrassed Congress with his outrageous floor statements. Allen West is a true American hero. You may recall that he was punished by the Army for firing a gun over the head of an Iraqi to obtain information on enemy movements. He was a field commander, a Lt. Colonel respected by his men and who got the job done. The left hates men like Allen West who love their country, particually when they are African-Americans. In the mind of leftists, African-Americans should be plantation slaves of the Democrat Party. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tom Marino in Pennsylvania is yet another example of a strong social conservative backed by GING-PAC, who won his race. We also had some very painful losses in the house such as Glen Urquhart in Delaware. There is only one House seat in Delaware and it had been held by Mike Castle who stepped down to run for Senate. Although very popular in the state among both Democrats and Republcians, Castle lost in the primary to Christine O’Donnell who in turn ran one of the worst statewide races for Senate I have ever seen. When O’Donnell lost, she took Urquhart down with her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the incumbent side GING-PAC won in all races, including Eric Cantor in Virginia and Michele Bachmann in Minnesota. The far left went all out to knock off Bachmann because she had become a symbol of the Tea Party. It was Bachmann who called for Tea party demonstrations in Washingon, DC before the ObamaCare votes. Bachmann has become a lightning rod for attacks from the far left and a target of the “mainstream” media. At left is a photo of Michele Bachmann holding a copy of one of my books, <i>The Pledge: One Nation Under God</i>. Bachmann has been a champion of traditional values.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;">A complete list of GING-PAC candiates and their election outcomes is enclosed with this update. As mentioned about the only election we were involved in that has not been certified is the Senate race in Alaska. While Joe Miller is the more conservative of the two, Lisa Murkowski has told GOP leaders that she will caucus with Republicans next year.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoPlainText" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHAT NOW</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> For the rest of the year the radical left is still in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress. <span style="color: black;">Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid said his first priorities are to allow homosexuals to openly serve in the military and to pass the Dream Act to allow the children of illegal aliens to receive subsidized college educations. Because the GOP does not control the Senate it will be difficult to stop a lot of the spending that has caused </span>40% of the federal budget to be covered with borrowed money that our kids and grandkids must repay. </span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To really change America we must change the occupant of the White House. <u>America simply can’t afford Barack Obama</u>! In the 2012 election cycle GING-PAC can make a difference, but only with your help. If we are going to have a GOP nominee for the presidency who is a strong pro-life social conservative we need to have cash on hand. In January the race will begin and GING-PAC must be a part of deciding who wins the GOP nomination. Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift at </span><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.gingpac.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-40960730941471434362010-07-15T08:12:00.000-07:002010-07-27T08:23:24.301-07:00June-July Campaign Update<span style="color: blue;"><strong>WHO'S YOUR DADDY? -</strong></span> Rory Reid is running for Governor of the state of Nevada. But you wouldn’t know his last name was Reid from his bumper stickers, banners and other materials for his campaign which simply say “Rory 2010.” His biography on his campaign website makes no mention of his father, Senator Harry Reid. The two have rarely been seen together this election year and when President Obama showed up to campaign for Harry Reid, his son Rory was hundreds of miles away at a campaign event of his own. Harry Reid has less than a 50% favorability rating in Nevada and much of that is not strong. Son Rory will lose if he is associated with dad Harry.<br />
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What happened to Reid after five terms as a Senator? For much of those thirty years he was able to lie to the people of Nevada. He ran as a conservative Democrat and then was a radical on national issues. The liberal newspapers in Nevada did not report on who and what Harry Reid actually was. Then Reid was elected Majority Leader in the Senate and became a national figure; he was headlined for his support of a radical social agenda and his support of the socialist ideas of Barack Obama. The people of Nevada learned what Harry Reid was all about.<br />
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Our candidate in the race to oust Senator Harry Reid is former state legislator Sharron Angle. GING-PAC endorsed Angle and sent her funding long before she was “discovered” by the Tea Party. We backed Angle against several wealthy Republicans in the race including the favorite of the Republican establishment, whom they believed would win because he was “moderate.” But Republicans in Nevada were not looking for a lightweight semi-conservative who did not stand up for social conservative principles. Sharron Angle is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, stands against amnesty for illegals and wants to overturn ObamaCare and shut down the Obama spending spree before the nation is driven into bankruptcy.<br />
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Defeating Reid and replacing him with Sharron Angle, who is a true conservative, is at the top of our agenda. As a PAC we can only send Angle $5,000 for the general election. However, GING-PAC can spend as much as can be raised to support her election with advertising, direct mail and telephone campaigns as long as we do not “coordinate” with her campaign. For example, we can call all those known to support pro-life organizations asking them to register and vote for Sharron Angle. The Nevada Senate race will be the number one race for GING-PAC this fall.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>OTHER SENATE RACES –</strong></span> In June, Senate candidates supported by GING-PAC also won primaries in California and South Carolina. Senator Jim DeMint is the only Senate incumbent we are supporting, but he is very important to social conservatives particularly now that Senator Sam Brownback is leaving to run for Governor of Kansas. Senator DeMint is a powerful pro-life voice and an advocate in the Senate for the Christian heritage of our nation. He has even authored social conservative books such as Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to say it’s Wrong. Because of his strong stand on social issues he will be a Democrat target this November. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>CALIFORNIA -</strong></span> Our candidate, Carly Fiorina won the GOP primary in California and will face the far left environmentalist nutcase Barbara Boxer in the General election. In the Senate, Boxer chairs at her own request the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. She is an Al Gore worshipper who believes the entire planet is in meltdown and the only way to save the Earth is to destroy what little industrial base the United States still has. To this end Boxer is a champion of “cap and trade” which is the nutty idea that carbon dioxide can be reduced in the atmosphere if businesses pay a tax into a fund that supports forests in Russia or Brazil. In reality her plan is to make energy so expensive people will use less of it. Of course the poor are hurt by this plan. Boxer is also one of the pro-abortion powerhouses in the Senate.<br />
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Carly Firoina has been endorsed not only by GING-PAC, but by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, “in recognition of her firmly pro-life values.” Gov. Sarah Palin is also campaigning for Carly. As I have mentioned before Carly Fiorina is the only Senate candidate in California to make it clear at her Internet site that she is pro-life, believes life begins at conception and says marriage is only for one man and one woman. If someone with the support of Sarah Palin, who is as socially conservative as Carly Firoina wins in California it will mark a huge shift in American politics and send a wave of fear over the far left. We must win this seat!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>COLORADO –</strong></span> Our candidate, Jane Norton, has fallen behind in the polls in Colorado and the reason has stunned me. Although she is the most conservative candidate and a real pro-life social conservative the Tea party movement is endorsing her opponent. The Tea party moved away from Norton because her sister is married to an establishment insider Republican fund raiser in Washington, DC. Although I have great respect for those in the Tea party movement, I really question the logic of turning against a conservative because of who her sister is married to. Norton has held state wide office in Colorado before and can win in November. Her opponent, Ken Buck, is the Weld County District Attorney who has never run for a federal office or operated a statewide campaign. On the abortion issue Buck is on the moderate side but still pro-life.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>ARIZONA –</strong></span> In Arizona we continue to support J.D. Hayworth for the Senate because we believe that Senator John McCain has served long enough and has switched positions just once too often. In the past McCain was not only a supporter of “comprehensive” immigration reform he helped to write the bill that would have allowed millions of illegals to jump to the front of the line and become citizens while those who acted legally had to wait. Now that parts of his home state have been taken over by gangs of illegals running drugs and other contraband, McCain suddenly sees reality in this election year. I know McCain well and to be honest I don’t trust him on this and other issues. If reelected he will work a deal with Obama on amnesty which will bring millions more to the USA illegally at a time that nearly ten percent of Americans are unemployed.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue;">MISSOURI AND THE REST –</span></strong> I am very encouraged by the progress congressman Roy Blunt has made in Missouri. Currently Blunt is about five points ahead of liberal incumbent Senator Jean Carnahan despite campaign assistance to her from Barack Obama and ACORN. This month I will be meeting with Congressman Blunt again and hope to hand him a check for several thousand dollars for his campaign. GING-PAC plans some independent work in Missouri as well. Roy Blunt is a strong social conservative and will consistently vote on behalf of social conservatives. His primary is August 3rd and he will win by a wide margin. The Kansas primary is also on August 3rd where we are supporting Congressman Todd Tiarht. This race is tight as the GOP establishment wants “moderate” Congressman Jim Moran to replace the very conservative Senator Sam Brownback who is leaving to run for governor.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue;">THE HOUSE –</span></strong> In the July-August update I will cover the House races we plan to work in for the General election. We have numerous questionnaires that are still being reviewed, but I can say that the number of House candidates GING-PAC will support will more than double from those on the enclosed list of supported candidates.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>YOUR HELP IS NEEDED</strong></span></div><br />
To have impact in these races, it is crucial that we have additional funds. Please send a check to help today, or give an <a href="http://gingpac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=39">online gift</a> or send to GING-PAC, PO Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-5627327520222118142010-06-03T14:54:00.000-07:002010-06-03T14:59:39.657-07:00May-June 2010 Campaign Update<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">WE LOST IN PENNSYLVANIA – THIS TIME</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> PENNSYLVANIA</span>:</b> Both “inside the Beltway” and Tea Party activists supported Tim Burns in the special election to take the seat of Congressman John Murtha who died following complications of a rather simple operation in February. The Republicans were so sure that Burns could win the seat that the GOP spent over $900,000 in the election. Several buses with volunteers, mostly staffers of Republican congressmen, went to the 12<sup>th</sup> district the weekend before the vote to knock on doors for Burns. GING-PAC had endorsed Tim Burns in the May 18<sup>th</sup> special election.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> No one anticipated the Democrat, Mark Critz, who had worked as an aid to John Murtha, would run a campaign just as conservative as the Republican. Critz campaigned as pro-life and pro-gun, said he would have voted against Obamacare and even went as far as to say he may not vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Will he actually vote that way? Critz won with 53% of the vote. The GING-PAC candidate, Tim Burns had 45% in a district where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of two to one. The same day the GOP primary was held and Burns won, meaning there will be a rematch between Critz and Burns in November.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> ARKANSAS:</span></b> The GING-PAC candidate in Arkansas 1<sup>st</sup> District, Princella Smith, lost in the primary election on May 18<sup>th</sup> to restaurant owner Rick Crawford with 72% of the vote. Princella Smith was one of a large number of African-American Republican candidates running this year. GING-PAC has supported three African-American Republicans so far including her. This was not a loss for social conservatives as both Smith and Crawford are strong pro-life, pro-family candidates. GING-PAC will move the endorsement to Crawford for the general election.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> IDAHO:</span> </b>Our candidate for one of two House seats in Idaho<b>, </b>Vaughn Ward, lost the primary on May 25<sup>th</sup>. Vaughn, a war hero who had also worked for the CIA fighting terrorism, had been recruited to run for the House by the Republican Party and was backed by many major social conservative organizations including ours. However, the winner, State Representative Raul Labrador has a perfect pro-life voting record in the Idaho Legislature. Raul supported Idaho’s constitutional amendment protecting marriage. He can beat the incumbent Democrat who won by less than 5,000 votes in 2008. Born in Puerto Rico, Labrador is married and has five children.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN GENERAL:</span></b> The results above make it clear why Government Is Not God – PAC does not get involved in too many primary elections. While sometimes there is a clear difference, too often more than one candidate in a primary is a strong social conservative. As a result we tend not to get involved unless there are other factors such as Vaughn Ward’s powerful military record or Princella Smith’s devoted volunteer work to the Mike Huckabee campaign. GING-PAC is involved in just a couple of the next round of elections on June 1<sup>st</sup> and June 8<sup>th.</sup></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> HAWAII:</span></b> As I predicted in the last campaign update, two heavily funded Democrats knocked each other out, and allowed the election of Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou in the congressional district Barack Obama grew up in. For the last twenty years the entire Hawaiian congressional delegation was Democrat. GING-PAC did not endorse Djou because he believes homosexuals should serve openly in the military and he had the support of several homosexual political action committees including the Log Cabin Republicans.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">THE SENATE</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> A GOP SENATE?:</span></b> Just about every week I sit at a luncheon literally across the table from Senator Jim Inhofe, R-OK, who in my opinion is one of the great conservative heroes of our day. He believes not only that the Republicans can pick up several seats in November, but that they could actually win control. The GOP would have to pick up nine seats to tie, and ten to win control of the Senate. That is a mighty big change for the Senate. But there is new hope.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The front runner in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, the state's Democrat Attorney General, received five draft deferments, before joining the Marine Corps reserves in 1971. (Keep in mind how George W. Bush was ridiculed by the media for being a reserve officer during the Vietnam War.) Blumenthal was on active duty for just six months, all in the USA, but video clips have him stating: "We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam.” This was not the first time be claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. Since the revelation, he has dropped from a 24 point lead to a 3 point lead. While we will watch the race closely, GING-PAC will not support Republican Linda McMahon, a political unknown and an ex-wrestling executive, because of her social views. At her Internet site she says: “I am pro-choice; however, I oppose partial-birth abortion and federal funding of abortions unless the life of the mother is at stake.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> CALIFORNIA:</span></b> I have mentioned that I attended an event with former HP executive Carly Fiorina in her bid to win a Senate seat from left-wing nut Barbara Boxer in California. I was specifically at that event to talk to her about social issues and to see where she really stood on abortion and “gay” issues. She answered all my questions satisfactorily, but we did not endorse her because of some issues while she was heading HP.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Since then Carly has been endorsed by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, “in recognition of her firmly pro-life values.” Carly has also received a high profile endorsement by Gov. Sarah Palin. Carly Fiorina is the only Senate candidate in California to make it clear at her Internet site that she is pro-life, believes life begins at conception and says marriage is only for one man and one woman. In light of these developments and the fact that she is now number one in the polls for the GOP nomination, GING-PAC is now endorsing Carly Fiorina for Senate in California.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><img alt="Former congressman JD Hayworth and GING-PAC chairman william J.
Murray" height="158" src="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/HayworthWJM2010MaySM.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 4px;" width="157" /> <span style="color: blue;">ARIZONA:</span></b> I have great admiration for the service Senator John McCain has given this nation as does former congressman J.D Hayworth, who is running against him in the Arizona primary. GING-PAC is supporting J.D. Hayworth, and the current immigration mess in Arizona makes it clear why Senator McCain needs to retire. It was Senator McCain who just a few years ago introduced legislation to give amnesty to millions of illegals who have invaded our nation. Now McCain is on TV virtually every day telling Arizona voters that Obama needs to secure the border and get tough with the illegals. This is the same Senator McCain who wrote the “campaign finance” reform law that tied the hands of conservative organizations and allowed all the leftwing nuts to give as much money as they wanted to Barack Obama to become our first socialist president. (At left Photo of JD Hayworth and GING-PAC's William J. Murray in May, 2010)</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">YOUR HELP IS NEEDED</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> To have impact in these races, particularly the general election this fall, GING-PAC must have funds. It is crucial that we have at least an additional $50,000 as primaries continue. Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift at <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/">www.gingpac.org</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is Not God - PAC<br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-88651685899856217432010-05-23T10:29:00.001-07:002010-05-23T10:29:50.706-07:00Djou win in Hawaii is no real victory<span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Congressman Pete Seesions, the head of the NRCC, said, "This is not only a victory for Djou, it's a victory for you and the American people," in a news release and an e-mail to coalition partners. Djou winning an open seat in Hawaii in a special election on Saturday, May 22, 2010 was not great victory for either the Republican Party or for "the people." First, it was a fluke caused when two strong Democrats stayed in the special election splitting the liberal vote. Djou probably cannot hold on to the seat in the November election running against one Democrat. But it gets worse. Djou was endorsed by anti-family homosexual groups such as the Log Cabin Republicans. In a Democrat state which elected a Republican governor to stop same sex marriage Djou is out of step with reality. "Great victory?" I don't think so.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">William J Murray, Chairman, GING-PAC</span></span>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-52470326555685277872010-05-15T13:38:00.000-07:002010-05-15T13:43:03.179-07:00WATCH PENNSYLVANIA ON MAY 18TH<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This coming Tuesday, May 18th, there are primary elections in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. So far in May a Republican Senator and a Democrat congressman have been booted out by their own party's voters. This could happen again in Pennsylvania if the Democrats reject turn-coat former Republican Senator Arlene Specter who is now trailing a liberal congressman. The same day there is a special election for the seat of deceased congressman John Murtha. Despite the fact that the district is 2 to 1 Democrat the polls show that Republican businessman <a href="http://www.blogger.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=42">Tim Burns</a> could win the seat. <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_democratic_primary-1050.html">See latest polls</a></span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-39465182208751051552010-04-28T18:23:00.000-07:002010-05-15T13:42:36.166-07:00Aptil 2010 Campaign Update<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">SPECIAL HOUSE ELECTIONS</span></b></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>NEW YORK: </b>Democrat congressman Eric Massa resigned his seat in New York’s 29th congressional district in disgrace after charges of sexual harassment were filed against him by male employees. It seems Massa hired mostly young men he thought to be gay, and then hounded them for certain “favors.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a result of Massa’s resignation, a special election will be held on .... NOT AT ALL.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fearful that a Republican could win the seat, Democrat Governor David Paterson has refused to call a special election to fill the seat. As a result the people of the 29th district are disenfranchised. The Constitution is clear: Article I, section 2, clause 4 imposes a mandatory duty upon a governor to hold a special election to fill a vacancy in a congressional district caused by a death, expulsion or resignation.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A lawsuit is being filed by several Republican plaintiffs including GOP county chairmen in the 29th District, Bill Hatch and Jay Dutcher. The group of 29th District constituents claim they’ve been disenfranchised, since they will be without representation until 2011 if no special election is held. When a Republican governor in Illinois tried this trick a decade ago the ACLU filed a lawsuit to force a special election. Don’t expect the ACLU to help the GOP with this lawsuit.. The likely Republican candidate for the seat is Tom Reed, the mayor of Corning, NY.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>PENNSYLVANIA: </b>Congressman John Murtha died following complications of a rather simple operation in February and a special election date for his 12th District seat has been set for May 18th. Government Is Not God - PAC has endorsed Republican businessman Tim Burns. He received our endorsement because of this statement: “I am pro-life and believe there is no question that life begins at conception. But, I don’t think saying you are pro-life is good enough. I think we need to provide and encourage viable alternatives to abortion and work to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place. I believe that Marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman.” We need more men like Burns in Congress!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC has sent $1,000 to assist the campaign and we have planned an independent mailing to the district that is not coordinated with the Burns campaign. We at GING-PAC hope to send additional funds before the election is held. To assist the Burns campaign directly, please do so at his Internet site to allow funds to reach him before election day. Tim Burns’ site is located at: <a href="http://www.timburnsforcongress.com/">http://www.timburnsforcongress.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>HAWAII: </b>This one is complicated. Hawaii has a Republican governor although the state voted about 70% for Barack Obama. Governor Linda Lingle won in 1998 on the single issue to stop homosexual marriage. She has term limited and radical leftist former Democratic congressman Neil Abercrombie resigned his 1st District seat on Feb. 28 to run for governor. He is running against Lt. Governor James Aiona who stands against homosexual marriage as well.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Got that so far? The 1st District is two to one Democrat, but there are two Democrats running who are very strong. First is former Congressman Ed Case who has raised lots of money and who is popular. But he tried to unseat aging Senator Akaka in the Democrat primary in 2008. Akaka is still mad and has given $100,000 so far to Case’s opponent, Hawaii Senate President Colleen Hanabusa. In Washington the Democratic National Congressional Committee (DNCC) has decided to give money to Case. The result is two heavily funded Democrats knocking each other out, which could allow the election of Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou. Unfortunately the Republican National Congressional Committee (RNCC) has refused to assist Djou, instead concentrating on the Murtha seat in Pennsylvania where they have already spent nearly $500,000.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GING-PAC is NOT endorsing Djou for two reasons: First he has been endorsed by the homosexual group Log Cabin Republicans. This homosexual group endorsed him because he said he would vote to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military, thus allowing homosexuals to “serve” openly. Secondly, he has not responded to us about his position on abortion.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b>THE SENATE</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CALIFORNIA: </b>In my last update I mentioned that I attended an event with former HP executive Carly Fiorina in her bid to win a Senate seat from left-wing nut Barbara Boxer in California. I was specifically at the event to talk to her about social issues and to see where she really stood on abortion and “gay” issues. She answered all my questions but we did not endorse her because of issues while she was heading HP. I received dozens of e-mail's and letters from current and former HP employees telling me not to back Fiorina. Virtually all mentioned that they were forced into “love the gays” orientations at HP. The question remains: Was all the pro-gay training at HP directed from her office? If the pro-gay agenda was coming from her office did she have a change of heart?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I wrote this update I received word that the Susan B. Anthony List, the largest pro-life PAC was going to endorse Carly Fiorina “in recognition of her firmly pro-life values.” GING-PAC is still staying out of the race and one of the main reasons is the cost of the primary. Right now Fiorina is splitting the conservative vote with Senator Jim DeMint’s candidate, state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. I do not view Tom Campbell as a conservative and right now he is in the lead with 31 percent with Carly Fiorina at 17 percent and 14 percent for Chuck DeVore. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>KANSAS: </b>Our candidate in Kansas is doing well against the establishment Republican RINO candidate. It appears that the powers here in Washington believe that after 12 years of strong wins by conservative Senator Sam Brownback that Kansas is ready to go back to the “moderate” Bob Dole era. We are continuing to back Congressman Todd Tiahrt for the seat Sam Brownback is leaving to run for governor.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b>YOUR HELP IS NEEDED</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To have impact in these races, particularly the special election in Pennsylvania GING-PAC must have funds. It is crucial that we have at least an additional $50,000 as primaries begin in earnest. Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift at </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gingpac.org/">www.gingpac.org</a></span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-68120197596771625512010-03-13T08:22:00.000-08:002010-04-28T18:14:10.822-07:00March 2010 Campaign Update<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>THE SENATE</strong></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong> </strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">COLORADO</span>: </strong>There is a very good chance that Colorado, which was a red state turning blue, may be mo</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">v</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">ing back to the conservative side. In late February I met with a very strong social conservative who is running for th</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">e</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Senate slot on the Republican ticket. The election process in Colorado is very convoluted. On March 16th precinct caucuses are held to elect delegates to the county conventions. The county conventions are held</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">in April to elect delegates to th</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">e state convention. At the state convention candidates receiving more than 30%</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">of the votes of delegates are then</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">placed on the primary ballot which is held in August. Thus, the c</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">andid</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">ates must work to get their delegates elected at the precinct and county level to win the 30% plus votes needed at the state convention to even appear on the primary ballot. Got that?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">In any event, I have met with former Lt. Governor Jane Norton who is running for the very w</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">innable Senate seat in Colorado. I can report that she is 100% pro-life and an ideal social conservative candidate. Norton believes that life begins at conception and that marriage is an institution ordained by God as a union between o</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">ne man and one woman. She is also an economic conservative who would be well suited to the ranching and mining interests in Colo</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">rado.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Government Is Not God - PAC has endorsed Jane Norton for Senate in Colorado, and our first check to her for $1,000 was issued in February. As additional funds are raised we will do our best to support Jane Norton in both the primary and general elections.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"> <em>(In photo above GING-PAC chairman William J. Murray presents Jane Norton an offical "Government Is Not God" bumper sticker.)</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="color: blue;">CALIFORNIA:</span> In California there are two very strong candidates who are running in the GOP primary. Senator Jim DeMint formed the Senate Conservatives Fund to assist conservatives running for the Senate. In Florida he has backed Marco Rubio, as has GING-PAC. In California Senator DeMint’s PAC has backed Chuck DeVore who is a member of the California State Assembly. He ended a twenty-four year career in the military as a Lt. Colonel and served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon as a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs. He is 100% pro-life. The rest of the GOP Senate establishment, even pro-life Senators such as my friend Senator Jim Inhofe, are supporting Carly Fiorina. As mentioned above, DeMint also bucked the establishment and backed Marco Rubio in Florida.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/FiorinaWJM0sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="William and Nancy Murray with Carly Fiorina" border="0" height="155" src="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/FiorinaWJM0sm.jpg" style="margin-top: 2px;" width="205" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The establishment theory is that a “true conservative” can’t win in California and a more moderate candidate is needed to beat Senator Barbara Boxer in November. I have not as yet met with Chuck DeVore, but I did meet with Carly Fiorina during her last trip to Washington, DC in late February and talked with her extensively. The establishment has a problem if they are supporting Carly because they think she is a moderate. She is pro-life and believes that marriage should be only between one man and one woman. On the life issue she publicly sides with the official Republican party platform that is against abortion “except in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.” She does, however, believe that life begins at conception. While this is a contradiction, it is not the point I am trying to make. <em>(Left photo of William and Nancy Murray at a social event in Washington, DC with Carly Fiorina.)</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Republican establishment is no more going to be able to sell Fiorina to Californians as a “moderate” than they would be able to sell Chuck DeVore as a “moderate.” Real conservatives can win in California and there is no need to label someone a “moderate” to win. After all, Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he was President of the United States.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I am not promoting Carly Fiorina, and GING-PAC has not endorsed her. GING-PAC will probably stay out of the California primary, but I can proclaim that either Chuck DeVore or Carly Fiorina would be a welcome replacement for the far left, people-hating environmentalist, Senator Barbara Boxer. Boxer has helped destroy tens of thousands of lives in California by helping take water from farms to support a fish less than an inch long. Boxer needs to go.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">THE HOUSE</span></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>FLORIDA:</strong></span> We have now added Colonel Allen West for Congress in Florida’s 22nd District. We have supported</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><img alt="Allen West for Congress" height="171" src="http://gingpac.org/images/stories/West22FL.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 2px;" width="168" /></strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"> Allen West in previous campaigns. He would have won in 2008 had it not been for the Democrat landslide in the Ho</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">use because of the economy. Now people realize that the economic problems were far deeper than politics, and the Democrat controlled Congress’ wild spending did nothing but create debt for our children and grandchildren to pay.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong></strong>As I mentioned in the February campaign update, GING-PAC will also step forward to defend great conservative spokesmen who will be under attack from wealthy far left organizations such as Moveon.org this year. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota is going to be a major target of the far left. In Virginia radical left organizations have already begun a campaign against my good friend Eric Cantor who is the Republican Whip in the House. We want to get more conservative congressmen elected but we have to watch our backs and make sure that some of the conservative workhorses we have in the House are not defeated by the far left with their huge cash reserves.</span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><strong>PLEASE HELP</strong></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">To have impact in these races GING-PAC must have funds. It is crucial that we have at least an additional $50,000 as primaries begin in earnest. Please send a check to help today, or <a href="http://gingpac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=39">give an online gift</a>.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Not</span> God - <strong>PAC</strong>P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013</span></span></div>William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906429051821095828.post-26738248167206363022010-02-19T10:38:00.000-08:002010-02-19T10:45:21.814-08:00February, 2010 Campaign Update<b style="color: red;">JOHN MCCAIN IN 2010 AND 2012<br />
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REALLY BAD NEWS:</b> Senator John McCain has every intention of a rematch with Barack Obama in 2012. He has kept his presidential committee intact and when asked about Gov. Sarah Palin running in 2012 he said, “I’m not dead yet.” Nothing could be worse for the conservative cause and the Republican Party in 2012 than to have Senator John McCain at the top of the ticket again. The Senator will be 74 years old this year and 76 when he runs in 2012. The oldest man ever elected to the presidency was Ronald Reagan; he was 70 years old the day we was sworn in as the 41st president of the United States. Am I saying McCain is too old to be president? No, but I do remember Senator Bob Dole running for president in his seventies against a vigorous, younger Bill Clinton. In 1996 just about anyone could have beat Bill Clinton -- except Bob Dole. I believe the error is about to be repeated with an aging Senator running against a vigorous young president. I believe just about any Republican can beat Barack Obama in 2012 -- except John McCain.<br />
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That brings us back to 2010 and the Senate race in Arizona. My good friend Congressman J.D. Hayworth has decided to run against John McCain in the Republican Primary. The race shows what kind of man John McCain really is. Before Hayworth even made the decision to run, John McCain began running hateful negative ads against him. He demanded that the radio station that employed Hayworth as a commentator should fire him. He complained to the FEC about Hayworth having a radio show even though he (Hayworth) was not an announced candidate.<br />
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I have seen the vindictiveness of John McCain before. I have watched him turn red-faced and explode on the subway that runs under the Capitol between the various office building. McCain has a vicious temper which has not been tempered with age. On the other hand in his announcement for his run for the Senate, J. D. Hayworth said that John McCain had served the nation with honor, but that it was time for him to go. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">THE TALE OF THE TAPE: </b>J. D. Hayworth is far more conservative than John McCain in every area, including social issues. The American Conservative Union shows Hayworth in the top 4% of elected officials, but McCain only in the top 32%. That is a huge difference. Then there is this: McCain sponsored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act. The law prohibited conservative non-profit groups from campaigning but allowed Barack Obama to raise three quarters of a billion dollars for his presidential campaign. Much of that law has now been found unconstitutional. McCain sponsored the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, which would have capped CO2 emissions at the 2000 level. He also sponsored the McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration bill in 2005. McCain also voted in favor of the $850-billion TARP bailout one month prior to the 2008 elections, sealing the fate of his presidential campaign.<br />
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GING-PAC will back the conservative in this race and that is <a href="http://www.jdforsenate.com/">J. D. Hayworth</a>.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">OTHER SENATE ACTION: </b>I had not planned on GING-PAC being involved in many Senate races not only because of the expense, but also because for a while it seemed hopeless for conservatives to take back the Senate in 2010. There are eight Republican seats vacant because of retirements and Senators running for other offices, such as governor. Our favorite Senator, Sam Brownback, is running for governor of Kansas. GING-PAC is supporting Todd Tiahrt to replace Sam Brownback in the Senate. Todd has personally promised me that he will take over the Senate Values Action Team and actively promote social conservative legislation, as Sam Brownback has. Dr. James Dobson, among many others, has endorsed Todd Tiahrt for the Senate.<br />
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With eight Republicans leaving, things looked a little bleak, that is until several high ranking Democrats also decided to step down. The latest is Senator Evan Bayh in Indiana. Indiana is a red state that has in the past gone blue for the Bayh family. Both Evan and his dad were governors and Senators in Indiana. Without a Bayh in the race, the seat will probably go to a Republican. GING-PAC does not have a candidate in that race as yet. Bayh’s decision comes after Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT, and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, announced their retirements in January. Democrats also have to defend the seats of Barack Obama in Illinois and Joe Biden in Delaware. There are also vulnerable Democrat seats in other states. <br />
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In Missouri GING-PAC is supporting <a href="http://www.royblunt.com/">Congressman Roy Blunt</a> who stepped out of his leadership roll as House Whip to run for Senate. Roy’s son was a popular governor of Missouri who did not seek reelection, but the Blunt name has a very good reputation in Missouri. Congressman Blunt is very conservative and 100% pro-life. <br />
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In my position as chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition I have worked numerous times on pro-life and other social conservative legislative issues with Congressman Blunt. This is a man who will help social conservatives once he is in the Senate. The most likely match-up in November appears to be pro-life Roy Blunt against pro-abortion Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. <br />
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</div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b>THE HOUSE</b></div><br />
On the House side we have added another candidate to the endorsed list. Tim Walberg was a true activist for social conservative and pro-life issues who lost his Michigan seat last year to a far left leaning liberal who was swept in with Barack Obama. Tim Walberg has a good chance at getting this seat back. A National Research Inc. poll has Walberg leading Schauer 46-37, and 50-40 with "leaners." It appears that voters in the conservative leaning 7th district of Michigan are having buyer’s remorse after watching Mark Schauer vote consistently with Nancy Pelosi in the House. <br />
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GING-PAC will also step forward to defend great conservative spokesmen who will be under attack by wealthy far left organizations such as Moveon-org this year. These include <a href="http://www.michelebachmann.com/">Michele Bachmann</a> in Minnesota, Dr. Paul Broun in Georgia, Trent Franks in Arizona and Todd Akin in Missouri. While we want to get more conservative congressmen elected, we have to watch our back and make sure that some of the conservative workhorses we have in the House keep their seats.<br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b>OUR NEW INTERNET SITE</b></div><br />
Last year Government Is Not God - PAC’s new Internet site went up. The old site was at www.govnotgod.org, and to archive our old material we kept that site. The new site is located at www.gingpac.org and is friendlier to use and has modern features. As we get closer to elections I urge you to check the site for information and the latest candidates we support.<br />
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To have impact in these races GING-PAC must have funds. It is crucial that we have at least an additional $50,000 as primaries begin in earnest. Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift at <a href="http://gingpac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=39">www.gingpac.org.</a><br />
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William J. Murray, Chairman<br />
Government Is Not God - PAC<br />
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013William J. Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587814954984463648noreply@blogger.com0