•  A president can be elected by ANY plurality: 15, 20, 25 percent of the vote is enough.  NPV does not provide for run-offs, nor does it require candidate to meet a certain threshold.

• The margin between two candidates could be very close, yet a single state could find itself unable to participate in a recount.
• A state could be forced to award its electors to a presidential candidate who was not own its ballot.
• A state could be forced to award its electors t a candidate who was rejected by its own voters.

The NPV slogan “Every Vote Equal” is stunningly dishonest because the NPV proposal is based on legalized vote-stealing.  What could be more outrageous and un-American than to force electors to vote against the candidate chosen by their own constituents!  Yet NPV wants to require a state like Texas or Georgia to cast its votes for a candidate who won more votes in other states, such as New York or Illinois.  Without the Electoral College, voters in less populous states can be expected to live in the shadow of big cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Chicago in each and every presidential election.

 The NPV campaign lets people believe that NPV will elect presidents who win the majority of popular votes, but this is absolutely false.  Because of the third parties, we’ve had many elections (including three of the last five) when no presidential candidate received a popular-vote majority.  Abraham Lincoln won with less that 40% of the popular vote and only his Electoral College majority elected him President.

If NPV had been in effect in the year 2000, Al Gore would have become President instead of George W. Bush because Gore received more votes than Bush.  How could any Republican support that plan?  Remember our national trauma as we suffered through recounts in Florida where the margin between Bush and Gore was only 500 votes?  NPV would induce recounts in all or most of the 50 states.  The Republican National Committee voted unanimously to oppose NPV because members saw it as unconstitutional, unworkable and dangerous.

The Electoral College is one of the many safeguards inspired by the genius of our Founding Fathers.  It was part of the Great Compromise between big states and small states which transformed us into a constitutional republic.  This Great Compromise brought together the large and small states by means of a national Congress, with the House based on population and the Senate based on state sovereignty.  The Electoral College is grounded in this same brilliant compromise: it allows all states, regardless of size, to be players in the process of electing our President.  Our Founding Fathers understood that America is a nation of both “we the people” and a federal system of states.

People who pretend that the Electoral College system is undemocratic are not only ignorant of the history and purposes of the U.S. Constitution, but they probably don’t even understand baseball — The Great American Game.  Basing the election on a plurality of the popular vote while ignoring the states would be like the New York Yankees claiming they won the 1960 World Series because they outscored the Pirates in runs 55-27 and in hits 91-60.  Yet, the pirates fairly won that World Series, 4 games to 3,and no one challenges their victory.

The Electoral College induces presidential candidates to gear their time, money and policies toward the whole country, not merely toward the half dozen most populous states.

 Please do all you can to stop an NPV law from passing in your State Legislature.

“Tom Graves hit the ground running for his constituents.  Immediately upon being sworn in after winning a special election, he sponsored a bill to defund Obamacare,” said Schlafly.

“Graves is proving himself to be a solid conservative and pro-family leader,” Schlafly noted.  “He has earned a 100% score on Eagle Forum’s score card that tracks votes on issues relating to protecting life, protecting the family and protecting U.S. jobs and sovereignty.”

“Former Congressman Bob Barr, on the other hand, represents the kind of politicians that voters rejected in 2006, 2008 and 2010,” Schlafly declared. “He betrayed conservatives on vitally important issues and left the Republican Party to run for President on the Libertarian ticket in 2008.”

Barr wrote and championed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, but repudiated his support for the bill and is now calling for its repeal.  Also, while in Congress, Barr wrote an amendment that stopped a D.C. medical marijuana initiative, but after leaving Congress, he worked as a paid lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project.

“Now more than ever, we must take back our country by electing a veto-proof Congress full of rock solid conservatives, not people who betray our values and give us politics as usual,” Schlafly concluded.  “We need to re-elect conservative fighters like Congressman Tom Graves.  I urge all conservatives to vote for Graves in the Republican primary.”

Eagle Forum PAC supports candidates who are committed to a conservative philosophy of limited government, national sovereignty and traditional values.

More and more public schools are using TeenScreen, a controversial mental health screening diagnostic, despite public protests, myriad problems, and known conflicts of interest. According to TeenScreen deputy director Leslie McGuire, the program has expanded from 30 sites in 2003 to 600 sites in 46 states today. Requests for their screening questionnaires have almost tripled to 426,000 in 2010, according to the group.

One school district in Wisconsin has subjected its students to this dubious diagnostic for almost a decade. “Since 2002, we have been implementing TeenScreen mental health checkups throughout our system of 7,300 students,” wrote Fond du Lac High School principal Jon Wiltzius and district superintendent James Sebert in a letter urging fellow administrators to adopt the program.

A report authored by TeenScreen officials and published by the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in August said that nearly 20% of participating students attending Fond du Lac district high schools between 2005 and 2009 were deemed “at risk” for mental illness or suicide.

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Note:  TeenScreen is currently being used in Georgia’s Lowndes Middle School,  http://www.teenscreen-locations.com/Georgia.htm.

State Representative, District 25
Candidates
Bobby Banks (R)
Emory West Dunahoo, Jr. (R)
Dominic Ottaviano (R)
Todd W. Reed (R)
William “Sonny” Sykes (R)
Kris Yardley (R)
Paul Wayne Godfrey (D)
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State Senator, District 28
Candidates
Duke Blackburn (R)
Matt Brass (R)
Mike Crane (R)
Kyle Frank (R)
Dale Pepper (R)
Edward Stone (R)
Mark A. Washington (R)
M. Seabolt (D)
Jammie Williams (D)
Cynthia C. Bennett (non-partisan)
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State Senator, District 50
Candidates
Rick Austin (R)
Curtis Burger (R)
David R. Strickland (R)
John K. Wilkinson (R)
Mary Beth Focer (D)
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This survey is to provide greater insight as to the methods used regarding installation of smart meters in Georgia.

Please note, information gathered from this survey will be submitted to the Georgia Public Service Commission.

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Top Idaho officials have been traveling to China and entertaining Chinese officials to facilitate this plan. China is financing these enterprises with its sovereign wealth funds and government-owned enterprises. One Chinese firm is building a fertilizer plant in American Falls, Idaho. China bought 50 square miles of land south of Boise. Idaho Governor Butch Otter, who is a big booster of these plans, has agreed to give China “hassle free” landing rights at Idaho’s main airport.

Idaho is not the only state that is inviting Chinese money. China is buying a large chunk of real estate in Toledo, Ohio, and oil and gas fields in Texas.

U.S. taxpayers paid Communist China to build and install the replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge that was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake. That’s a $7 billion project, one of the most expensive structures ever built. This project didn’t make shovel-ready jobs for unemployed Americans. 3,000 Chinese laborers are doing the work to install more than two dozen giant steel modules. A typical Chinese employee works from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days a week, lives in a company dorm, and is paid $9 to $12 a day.

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Charter schools have opened up a path for foreign intervention into U.S. public education. In Ohio, an NBC TV station discovered that Ohio taxpayers’ money was used to recruit teachers from overseas, specifically from Turkey. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Turkish scientists, engineers and businessmen have opened 120 charter schools in 25 states, including several in Pennsylvania, funded with millions of taxpayer dollars. One called Truebright Academy received $3 million from the Philadelphia School District. The FBI and the federal Departments of Labor and Education are investigating whether hundreds of Turkish teachers and administrators, who were admitted to the U.S. by H-1B visas, are misusing taxpayer funds.

The New Orleans newspaper the Times-Picayune reported the investigation of charter schools in New Orleans and in Baton Rouge. Both are linked to schools and businesses run by people from Turkey. Many of these charter schools are in a network called the Gulen Movement led by an influential Turkish Islamic scholar. He now has a 27-state network of 122 charter schools operated by his followers. In Texas, these Turkish charter schools have received over $100 million in government funds.

Parents should look and see if you have a tax-funded charter school in your area that is run by the Turks.

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SUBJECT: DEFUND Sustainable Development Projects (Agenda 21)

UN resolutions AFFECTING AMERICAN PROPERTY RIGHTS are being implemented without congressional authority. Funding for these UN projects has been STOPPED IN THE FY 2012 FUNDING BILL THAT PASSED THE U.S. HOUSE AND MUST PASS THE U.S. SENATE.

CALL GEORGIA’S U.S. SENATORS, ASKING THEM TO VOTE YES ON THE FY 2012 FUNDING BILL TO STOP FUNDING THE UN AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, which includes such projects as the installation of smart meters.

THE FY 2012 FUNDING BILL PASSED THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE MAY VOTE ON IT TODAY. IT DEFUNDS GRANTS FOR IMPLEMENTING THIS UN AGENDA.

ACT TODAY! CONTACT:

SENATOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS, 202 224-3521, FAX 202 224-0103
Atlanta, 770 763-9090, fax 770 226-8633
Macon, 478 741-1417, fax 478 741-1437
Toll-free 1 800 234-4208

SENATOR JOHNNY ISAKSON, 202 224-3643, FAX 202 228-0724
Atlanta, 770 661-0999, fax 770 661-0768

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Sustainable Development is a UN initiative, a jobs killer and it destroys infrastructure – refusing to build roads, tearing down dams and the like. Success on this issue will strike a huge blow against Sustainable Development, which is the UN Agenda 21, that was never authorized by Congress.

Message from Tom DeWeese:

The Senate must maintain the House restrictions on the sustainability planning grants and the caps on planning expenses now called for in the Fiscal Year spending bill. America cannot afford these grants. The cuts will save billions of dollars and keep special interests out of your community’s planning decisions. Tell them you oppose Sustainable Development.

Make the calls and counter the impact of the APA, one of the nation’s most powerful forces behind Sustainable Development. Passage of FY 2012 (as passed the House) will turn the tide away from top down control and soviet-style government – and towards freedom!

If you have a chance, call your Representative in the House and thank them for standing firm against this Sustainable Development monster. And ask them to continue to stand firm if the final bill goes to a conference committee. Defund Sustainable Development and strike a blow for fiscal sanity and freedom.

Thank you for reading,

Tom DeWeese,
President, American Policy Center
tom@americanpolicy.org
americanpolicy.org

Our U.S. Constitution is the oldest and longest-lasting constitution in all the world’s history! Every American should read it to understand why it is the fountainhead of our great liberties — religious, political, and economic. The Constitution is the instrument that has enabled America to grow and prosper, becoming the most powerful country in the world, while at the same time preserving individual freedoms. The American philosophy is that government is the servant of the people, not our master. President Ronald Reagan expressed this concept when he said that government is the problem, not the solution.

Eagle Forum has a splendid teaching tool that is appropriate for schools to use during Constitution Week, and it’s a good program for homeschoolers and adults, too. It is a study program on the courts using my book on court decisions called The Supremacists, and it’s available free on Eagle Forum’s website at www.eagleforum.org. You can download this book’s chapters one at a time for individual lessons, one on the religion cases, one on the property rights cases, one on parents rights cases, one on immigration cases, and other topics. The text is easy reading, and each chapter has questions for discussion and supplementary notes.

I highly recommend that you observe Constitution Week by inviting your friends for a series of sessions on what supremacist judges have been doing to our Constitution. Then you will be ready to help us confirm good judges who respect the Constitution the way it was written instead of the way they wish it had been written.

Resolution B-14, for example, states that “discrimination and stereotyping based on … sexual orientation, [and] gender identification … must be eliminated” and that these factors must not affect the legal rights of “partners in … civil unions … in regard to … medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption, and immigration.” School “activities, and programs must increase respect, understanding, acceptance, and sensitivity toward individuals and groups in a diverse society composed of … gays, lesbians, bisexuals, [and] transgender persons.” The NEA believes that “students who are struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identification” must be provided by the school with “counseling services.” Another NEA resolution declared that hiring policies and practices must be nondiscriminatory and include provisions for the recruitment of a diverse teaching staff so that public schools “Offer … diverse role models” among teachers, … and education employees.”

NEA Resolutions for the classroom demand that the schools “Eliminate … stereotyping in curricula, textbooks, resource and instructional materials, [and activities” and “Integrate an accurate portrayal of the roles and contributions of all groups throughout history across curricula, particularly groups that have been under-represented historically.” Another resolution urges the use of Multicultural education because it “should … reduce … homophobia … and all other forms of prejudice, and discrimination.” Just so you will know — these are the stated beliefs of the biggest teachers union.