March - April Update

WHAT GING-PAC CANDIDATES ARE DOING NOW!

CONGRESSMAN RANDY FORBES - 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.

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.

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.

CONGRESSMAN TRENT FRANKS - 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.

CONGRESSMAN TODD AKIN - 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.”

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)

CONGRESSMAN DOUG LAMBORN - 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.
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.”

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.

CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN - 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.

SENATOR ROY BLUNT - 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.

MORE OPPORTUNITIES AWAIT US! 

ANOTHER SENATE SEAT IN MISSOURI? - 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. 
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.   

ABOUT BARACK OBAMA

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. 

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.

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 www.gingpac.org 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.

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

November - December, 2010 Campaign Update

ELECTION SUMMARY

            OVERVIEW -  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^st congressional district located on Long Island is still in dispute, and will probably be decided in court sometime next year.

            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: http://www.nrcc.org/news/Election-Results-Map

THE SENATE

            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.

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.

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.

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.  

THE HOUSE

MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE: 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. 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.

In Florida we backed David Rivera in the 25^th, Daniel Webster in the 8^th and Allen West in the 22^nd. 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.  

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.

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, The Pledge: One Nation Under God. Bachmann has been a champion of traditional values.

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.

WHAT NOW

            For the rest of the year the radical left is still in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress. 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 40% of the federal budget to be covered with borrowed money that our kids and grandkids must repay.

To really change America we must change the occupant of the White House. America simply can’t afford Barack Obama! 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 www.gingpac.org.

June-July Campaign Update

WHO'S YOUR DADDY? - 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.

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.

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.

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.

OTHER SENATE RACES – 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.

CALIFORNIA - 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.

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!

COLORADO – 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.

ARIZONA – 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.

MISSOURI AND THE REST – 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.

THE HOUSE – 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.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

To have impact in these races, it is crucial that we have additional funds. Please send a check to help today, or give an online gift or send to GING-PAC, PO Box 77237, Washington, DC 20013

May-June 2010 Campaign Update

WE LOST IN PENNSYLVANIA – THIS TIME

     PENNSYLVANIA: 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^th district the weekend before the vote to knock on doors for Burns. GING-PAC had endorsed Tim Burns in the May 18^th special election.

     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.

     ARKANSAS: The GING-PAC candidate in Arkansas 1^st District, Princella Smith, lost in the primary election on May 18^th 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.

     IDAHO: Our candidate for one of two House seats in Idaho, Vaughn Ward, lost the primary on May 25^th. 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.

    PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN GENERAL: 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^st and June 8^th.

     HAWAII: 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.

THE SENATE

     A GOP SENATE?:  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.

     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.”

     CALIFORNIA: 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.

     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.

     ARIZONA: 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)

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

            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 www.gingpac.org.      

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

Djou win in Hawaii is no real victory

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.
William J Murray, Chairman, GING-PAC

WATCH PENNSYLVANIA ON MAY 18TH

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 Tim Burns could win the seat. See latest polls