HALC member “TrinityTexas77″ shot videos of many of the speakers at this event. This is the video for former Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina. Videos for other speakers will follow soon. Please share but give Miss Trinity credit… Enjoy!
Constitution Day Celebration
Entertainment, Education and Celebration for the Whole Family. Sponsored by the Texas Liberty Campaign of Brazoria County, http://txlcbrazoriacounty.com/ .
Calling All Patriots!
You are hereby cordially invited on Sunday the 18th of September at 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm for free admission to a celebration of the Constitution of the united States
Event will also be broadcast live on http:// www.liveonlocation.tv
Freeport Municipal Park /Riverplace and Pavillion, 421 Brazosport Blvd, Freeport TX 77541.
Activities to include, but not limited to:
Guest Speakers to Include:
Essay contest for school children on the Constitution and it’s significance. See http://constitutiondaycelebrationtx2011.com or on Facebook .
(This event is not a fund raiser or endorsement of any political candidate or party!)
**The $8.00 at the door is the cost of your meal only. There is no charge just to attend to listen to the speakers.
Dear Friend,
If you ever wondered whether the big government agenda is alive and well in Texas, you need look no further than this morning’s Austin American Statesman. “Conservative, Republican” State Senator Steve Ogden is calling for a state-wide property tax. And other “conservative Republicans” rather than decrying this socialist agenda, are quoted in the article either advocating the policy or saying we need to consider it as a possible option.
Consider it, like Hell, I say! We better get in this fight and we better get all in NOW!
With Republicans like these, Texas doesn’t need to wait on President Obama and the Democrats to destroy us, our Republican leaders are doing it single handedly.
Want proof? Look at the 2008 U.S. Economic Index, page 11 shows Texas is now ranked 31 having fallen from the 8th spot in 1999. That’s under “conservative Republican” leadership! Thanks to these sorts of policies, Texas now labors under nearly the largest state government (second only to New York) with the largest amount of state regulation (second only to Louisiana). Read it for yourself, see page 34 of the study.
Mingle with guests early and enjoy a light potluck-style dinner compliments of HALC members and volunteers.
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About The Houston Area Liberty Campaign
The Houston Area Liberty Campaign is an organization defined by the message of liberty and freedom – a community of volunteers, organized from the ground up, with the purpose of bringing this message to the people. This group can do nothing without the individual heroism of vigilant patriots. It is our belief that through grassroot actions we can bring about a revolutionary change across the entire spectrum of the political process. Upholding the ideals of decentralized action and individual leadership has allowed us to accomplish much, and the continued embodiment of these principles will lead us to continued success.www.halc.us
About Debra Medina
Ms. Debra Medina is a recent Republican gubernatorial candidate, garnering almost 20% of the vote while running against two career politicians with huge war chests. Debra was recruited for her run as a gubernatorial candidate by the grassroots because she was known to the average Texan as hardworking, honest, and principled, and therefore a true “peoples’ candidate.” She was recently named as one of the 50 most influential Texans in the public policy arena by the national publication, Politics and Elections Magazine.
While running in the gubernatorial campaign, Debra earned the respect and support of thousands of citizens across Texas and subsequently formed We Texans so that she and her supporters could continue to educate and work on the issues which have become so important to Texas citizens. The non-profit, non-partisan organization promotes public policy and legislation which advances and protects private property and personal and economic liberty. We Texans, through education and activism, engages in research and analysis with the ultimate goal of returning the Texas government to the citizenry within the framework of constitutional government.
Debra has also excelled in her personal and political life prior to her gubernatorial run. She and her husband of 25 years, Noe, home schooled both their children, when it wasn’t nearly as easy or acceptable as it is today. Debra is a registered nurse and founder and CEO of Prudentia, a medical consulting firm. She is the Wharton County Republican Party Chair and has been involved in politics for over twenty years.
Debra is a sought after speaker, a much requested guest on radio and television stations, has had literally hundreds of web site and blog mentions, and has had articles published by The 10th Amendment Center as well as other online media outlets.
About John Baeza
Mr. John Baeza is an Assistant State Coordinator with the Florida Campaign for Liberty. John educated himself about the Constitution, has developed a Constitution course for the Florida Campaign for Liberty, teaches that course and also gives presentations about the Federal Reserve.
John is a retired NYPD Detective where he worked undercover narcotics with the NYPD before spending the last six years in the Special Victims Squad investigating sex crimes, child abuse, serial rapes and sexual homicides. John’s success in sex crime investigations resulted in a method of determining truthfulness of alleged assault victims, perpetrators and witnesses named after him: the “Baeza False Report Index” (BAFRI). http://twitter.com/johnbaeza
Before retiring, he also worked as a deputy sheriff in Florida. Even though he’s a retired Detective, John is a staunch libertarian and sees Constitutional issues as very black and white. John believes the premise for the ‘War on Drugs’ violates the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In 1984 he began his 24-year law enforcement career, as a corrections officer at Sing Sing. But then came the day when John no longer felt that being a soldier for prohibition had anything to do with helping people. After an undercover assignment gone wrong, from which John had barely escaped with his life, the first thing his department chief wanted to know was whether the drug-buy money stolen from John at gunpoint had been recovered.
“After this encounter, I never made another buy,” John relates. “An epiphany, a life change – who knows? All I know is that this near-death incident changed everything about me. I no longer believed in the ‘drug war.’ I no longer felt the police should criminalize an individual for self-medicating himself while not infringing on the rights of others. I was a changed man.” He immediately transferred out of narcotics and went to the Special Victims Squad where he then became an investigator in sexual assaults; murders; and child molestations. Grisly work but satisfying when you can put bad guys behinds bars.
So he has fought in the “War on Drugs” at just about every law-enforcement level, all because, as he puts it, “I wanted to help people.”
About Bill Tofte
Mr. Bill Tofte is the former Chair of HALC and, along with his brother Mike, operates ITD Precision, founded in 1946 by Bill and Mike’s father. ITD Precision is a metal stamping, heat treating, e-coating and insert molding company that has been in continuous operation for 64 years and specializes in high-quality metal stamping. Automotive, electronic, oil field, construction, power transmission, electric and appliance companies find that ITD fits their special requirements for quality, delivery, and price. ITD Precision has an office in Houston, near US 290 and Telge Road and an office in Harlingen, Texas. www.itdprecision.com
Bill has given presentations to business groups about business operations. Bill also has given several speeches and presentations on issues such as “Audit the Fed,” “End the Fed,” and constitutional issues in general.
[An important message from We Texans]
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September 3, 2010
Dear Friend,
I have some important information and some really great news to share with you. I hope that after reading this update that you will consider giving to WeTexans. We are going full speed ahead with the agenda we all had during the primary – we “lost a battle” but we have not “lost the War” – not by a long shot. This is evidenced by calls from folks who are willing to do TV commercials with us (you will be surprised!), and calls from other campaigns and/or their supporter or staff wanting our endorsement. It is also evidenced by the fact that so many legislators are willing to visit with me about our property tax agenda. I have been surprised and pleased at the responses I have been getting. However, we all know that elected officials can’t always be trusted to do what they say they will do, so I keep beating the pavement, knowing you’ve got my back! Thank You!
I continue to travel across the state carrying our message. As you know gas and other travel incidentals are expensive these days so please, if you still consider our work worthwhile, consider giving anything you can. $5.00 helps more than you know. And my thanks to all of you who have been so generous in the past!
I was also surprised to learn that I had been named as one of the Top Influential Texans by www.politicsmagazine.com. Although I was pretty far down on the list I did make it. When I saw my name I thought that should really say WeTexans instead. I was thinking that this time last year almost no one knew me, the WeTexans slogan or anything about us and our liberty movement. So we have come quite a ways in 12 months time – from an unknown grass roots movement to being sought out by legislators, the media, and having been designated as “influential”!
The battle between Democratic and Republican Party operatives over the Green Party’s ballot access petition drive, now headed for the Texas Supreme Court, has the potential for consequences not yet brought to light. The ban on corporate contributions in Texas campaigns could be ruled unconstitutional by the Republican aligned Texas Supreme Court in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court Citizen’s United ruling, which makes it easier for corporations and labor unions to fund federal campaigns. The Texas corporate (and union) ban, established in 1905 during the heyday of the populist movement, is one of the few campaign finance laws in Texas. It is widely supported by voters of all political hues including independent-minded (read: independent of Rick Perry) tea partiers.
Attorney David Rogers is an independent Republican who has worked with former Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina and former Texas Supreme Court Justice Steve Smith. Rogers currently represents the Green Party in its appeal to the Texas Supreme Court seeking a ballot line in November’s general election. Rogers believes that the Democrats fighting Green Party ballot access really don’t have a case because petition drives are exempt from the corporate ban as a “normal operating expense.” Rogers said, “The Democrats are playing a dangerous game. They have, by virtue of naming the two corporate entities involved in the fray, Free and Equal, which managed the petition drive and Take Initiative America, which may have provided the funding to Free and Equal, set the stage for the possibility that the Texas Supreme Court could strike down the corporate ban as unconstitutional, something neither I nor my clients would support.”
Dear Fellow Patriot,
This week’s exercise:
CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND STATE SENATOR with the following message:
(Find your legislator here)
“I am very concerned about the state of the Texas economy. Economists have noted that the mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important as the amount. Just as a small burden badly placed may distress a mule that could carry with ease a much larger one properly adjusted, so we are becoming impoverished and our power of producing wealth destroyed by property tax, which, levied in any other way, could be borne with ease.
Property taxes impose a larger burden on a state’s productive sector than do sales taxes. Consequently, property taxes reduce overall economic performance more than necessary to raise the same amount of tax revenue. This larger cost created by property taxes compared to sales taxes creates a tax reform opportunity for Texas. Do you have in your office a copy of the Texas Public Policy Foundation – Enhancing Texas Economic Growth Through Tax Reform, Texas Public Policy Foundation April 2009?
You have an opportunity to make groundbreaking change in Texas! I want to be sure that you are on board to ensure we have a Constitutional Amendment that secures, once and for all, private property ownership in Texas by repealing property tax.” Read the rest of this entry »
WHAT’S NEXT FOR WE TEXANS: PILLARS OF LIBERTY
Latest News: HOT HOT HOT!
Dear Fellow Patriot,
While we prepare to celebrate our nation’s independence, We Texans got a jump on the festivities when we held our launch party in conjunction with the Republican Party of Texas state convention in Dallas on June 11. Judge Andrew Napolitano was our special guest as over 500 Texas patriots converged on the Fairmont Hotel for a wonderful time of food and fellowship. Judge Napolitano pointed out government abuse that has occurred almost since our founding and challenged us to check that abuse and protect personal freedom as the founders intended.
Prior to that, we issued our first call to action and headed to the Texas Capitol to offer testimony to the Senate’s Health & Human Services Committee. You can view video footage of that effort here.
Now, despite this being a traditionally slow political time, we’re not resting on our laurels. We Texans will host our inaugural Pillars of Liberty Symposium at the Radisson Inn & Suites in Austin on July 24. The event will address strategies for governing and campaigning for liberty. New York Times bestselling author, Thomas Woods; as well as Texas political stars: Royal Masset, Peter Johnston, Penny Langford Freeman and Jean McIver will be on hand to lead the discussions.
This is a forward from one of our companion groups on Meetup.com, Spring/Klein/Tomball Ron Paul PAC in SD 7.
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Please help me get Sheriff Mack on the 2010 Texas Sheriff Conference agenda.
Please sign the online petition to add Sheriff Richard Mack to speak at the 2010 Texas Sheriff Conference, http://www.petitiononline.com/Sheriff/petition.html.
Sheriffs need to be reminded that they are the highest authority in the County and stand between us and an over-reaching federal government. Sheriff Mack would speak about his winning 10th Amendment Supreme Court case, Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana V. United States, 521 U.S. 898, in which: “The Federal Government may not compel the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program.” [Case preview is here.]
Sheriff Mack’s winning case at the Supreme Court was triggered by the unconstitutional Brady Bill, but the ruling covers Government Controlled “Health Care,” Cap and Trade, and almost every battle we will deal with this year and beyond.
Sheriff Mack is an excellent speaker with complete credibility and conviction. You can see him on You Tube, his website http://sheriffmack.com or in the movie “Don’t Tread on Me.”
Please forward this free petition to other patriotic groups, we need 10,000 signatures by June 30th! It take just a second or two. If you prefer a paper petition, contact us and we will be happy to e-mail it you.
Thank you for your efforts to restore our republic.
Michele
OathKeepers
A New Grassroots Organization in Texas
The battle for private property ownership and state sovereignty continues in Texas! I hope you will join me for the official launch party for We Texans, Friday June 11 at 7 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News Network Freedom Watch will be our keynote speaker.
We are thrilled to bring Judge Napolitano back to Texas! He is a strong advocate for freedom, the very ideals We Texans are fighting for. Judge Napolitano lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and human freedom. He has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications.
We Texans is chartered as a non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting public policy and legislation that advances and protects private property, personal and economic liberty, and the legitimate role of the states and their citizens within the framework of constitutional government. Through education and activism, We Texans will engage in research and analysis and strive to return accountability and freedom-minded principles, in accordance with the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, to the Texas legislature and her citizenry.
Join us for our launch party! Tickets available now!
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