Campaign Update - April, 2012

THE HOUSE

IOWA: STEVE KING – 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:  

Congressman Steve King

 “I’m going to add to this that neither shall we vote to fund Planned Parenthood  and I shall be looking for ways to unfund every other entity like them that promotes abortion or provides abortion as a matter of practice in their facilities.”

 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.

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.

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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.

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FLORIDA: SANDY ADAMS – 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.                                      
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.

FLORIDA: ALLEN WEST - All I can say is wow! 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.

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!

MARYLAND: KEN TIMMERMAN – Simon Wiesenthal said this about Ken Timmerman: “I have spent my life tracking down the murderers of yesterday. Mr. Timmerman is tracking down the murderers of tomorrow.” — Simon Wiesenthal
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.

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.)

If anyone can beat radical Chris Van Hollen, it is Ken Timmerman. GING-PAC will stand behind Ken in his bid for the House.

THE PRESIDENCY

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.

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.

Now we must move forward, and 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. Donate today! Thank you and God bless you.   

William J. Murray, Chairman
Government Is Not God – PAC
P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013 

WWW.GINGPAC.ORG

January - February Update

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. 

A sizeable majority of House Republicans in the new 112^th 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.

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.”

ERIC CANTOR – 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.

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.”                          

MICHELE BACHMAN - 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.

RANDY FORBES - 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.

It is to be hoped that the new members of Congress whom we supported will prove to show similar courage and leadership.

ANN MARIE BUERKLE -   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
CONGRESSMAN ALLEN WEST,  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. 

MARCO RUBIO -  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.

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.

THE 2012 CYCLE
The good news is that Speaker John Boehner was sitting behind the president for the State of the Union address on January 26^th. 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.

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.

America simply can’t afford Barack Obama! 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!

William J. Murray,

Chairman

March 2010 Campaign Update

THE SENATE

 

COLORADO: There is a very good chance that Colorado, which was a red state turning blue, may be mo v ing back to the conservative side. In late February I met with a very strong social conservative who is running for th e 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 in April to elect delegates to the state convention. At the state convention candidates receiving more than 30% of the votes of delegates are then placed on the primary ballot which is held in August. Thus, the c andidates 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?

In any event, I have met with former Lt. Governor Jane Norton who is running for the very winnable 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 one man and one woman. She is also an economic conservative who would be well suited to the ranching and mining interests in Colorado.

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. (In photo above GING-PAC chairman William J. Murray presents Jane Norton an offical "Government Is Not God" bumper sticker.)

CALIFORNIA: 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.

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. (Left photo of William and Nancy Murray at a social event in Washington, DC with Carly Fiorina.)

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.

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.

THE HOUSE

FLORIDA: We have now added Colonel Allen West for Congress in Florida’s 22nd District. We have supported Allen West in previous campaigns. He would have won in 2008 had it not been for the Democrat landslide in the House 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.

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.

PLEASE HELP

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.

William J. Murray, Chairman
Government Is Not God - PACP.O. Box 77237,  Washington, DC 20013

June-July 2009 Campaign Update

SENATE RACES TO WATCH

First the bad news: Senator Sam Brownback is leaving the Senate to run for Governor of Kansas. For many years Senator Brownback has been the supporting backbone in the Senate for social conservatives. He has been the sponsor of the Values Action Team (VAT) in the Senate. The VAT is made up of social conservative Senators and social conservative groups such as the Religious Freedom Coalition. I attend the VAT meetings Senator Sam Brownback chairs each week that Congress is in session. I can’t even begin to tell you how important these VAT meetings are.

I have arranged for presentations at the VAT meetings by Iraqi Christian refugees; by our evangelist from the West Bank; by conservative Christian members of the Swedish parliament; by persecuted Christians from several Middle Eastern nations including Saudi Arabia, and many more. This allows me to introduce individuals to numerous social conservative groups who attend the VAT as well as to other Senators besides Senator Brownback. In addition, I and others have stopped really bad anti-Christian legislation cold by organizing in the VAT. The Vat has also been instrumental in passing pro-life legislation such as the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Before each VAT meeting a handful of people, including myself, meet in Senator Brownback’s office for prayer.

How can we replace this man in the Senate?

This month I have spent some time with Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) who is running in the primary to replace Sam Brownback. Congressman Tiahrt is a member of an Assembly of God Church in Kansas, and he makes his evangelical belief in the absolute nature of the Bible clear. Also, at his Internet site and available for all to see, it reads:

“Healthy families are essential building blocks to any flourishing society. Todd supports legislation that seeks to uphold the sanctity of life and promote traditional family values that are important to Kansans.”

I regret to say that most Republican candidates for the House and Senate do not address any social issues at their campaign sites, even if they do vote pro-life. Todd Tiahrt does. In the primary election Kansans overwhelmingly supported Mike Huckabee for president and I believe they will elect a man such as Todd Tiahrt to the Senate. GING-PAC has endorsed Todd Tiahrt in the primary race for Senate and has assisted in funding his campaign. When you support GING-PAC you are supporting candidates such as Todd Tiahrt .

OTHER SENATE NEWS

SOUTH DAKOTA - Keep an eye on Senator John Thune of South Dakota. He is amassing a huge war chest that he may plan on using for something in addition to his reelection. His campaign meetings here in Washington are organized far better than those of other candidates, and often serve as “briefings” in which he has ten or twelve other members of the Senate present. He could very well be a dark horse for higher office than Senate in 2012.

Regardless of who runs against him, including former Senator Tom Daschle, Thune has a ten to thirteen point lead in the polls. His defeat of Daschle in 2004 put the Senate firmly in the hands of the GOP, only to be lost again in 2006. GING-PAC supported Thune in his first run for the Senate and will support him again next year.

NEVADA - We don’t have a solid candidate in Nevada, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is very unpopular there. As Majority Leader he has taken on the task of passing the far left agenda of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi in the Senate. In a recent poll by the Las Vegas Review Journal he had a favorable rating of only 34%. That is less than the 39% approval rating of Republican Senator Ensign after he admitted to an extramarital affair. Before admitting the affair Ensign had an approval rating of 54%. Reid is so unpopular that this seat can be won next year -- all we need is a candidate!

FLORIDA - GOP Senator Mel Martinez is retiring and the well healed Republican governor, Charlie Crist, wants his seat. Most social conservatives, including Governor Mike Huckabee, have endorsed his opponent Marco Rubio, the former Speaker of the House in the Florida legislature. Rubio’s conservative values are impeccable, while Governor Crist is considered a “moderate.” The entire Republican establishment has jumped on the Crist bandwagon, which gives me pause. At the various meetings I attend around Capitol Hill the main reason for backing Crist is his “fund raising ability” and the fact that he already has more than $2 million on hand to run his campaign. Having money left over from his various state races does not make him the best candidate for the Senate. Like Governor Huckabee, I am supporting Marco Rubio .

GING-PAC is a small social conservative PAC. We can enter only a few Senate races in the 2010 cycle. As a result we must choose those races carefully.

TOUGH FIGHT AHEAD WITH OBAMA AND PELOSI

Did you know that the month of June is now specially designated to honor homosexuals and other sexual perverts? President Obama issued a proclamation declaring June to be "LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered) Pride Month ." Think back just ten years ... could you imagine the time that a president of the United States would issue a proclamation honoring

sodomy? We are not just waging a political battle in America; it is a moral and spiritual battle.

In Washington we are continuing to fight a far left machine that now controls virtually all the reins of government. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is as far left as a human being can get without falling off the planet. We have a President and a Speaker of the House with a warped, irrational view of the world. They see sodomy as normal and Islam as tolerant. At the same time, Obama and Pelosi see you and me as threats to society because we believe in Biblical truth. They make up truths for themselves and society without regard to the reality of God or of human nature.

We need to pray for real change .... at the same time we must work for rational change. We need to get rid of the pie-in-the-sky, tree hugging, Kumbaya singing crowd that runs our nation and replace them with rational people who understand the sin nature of man. There is only one way to do that. We need to place real social conservatives in the House and Senate, and hopefully to get either the House or the Senate, or both, out of the hands of utopian leftists before they destroy the nation. Your help is needed.

Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift at www.gingpac.org .

William J. Murray, Chairman

Government Is Not God - PAC, P.O. Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013