To Marilyn Carpinteyro of Common Cause:

To: Marilyn Carpinteyro, Director for Outreach, Common Cause

From: Phil Jennerjahn, Republican Nominee for Congress, CA-28

Dear Marilyn,

Thank you for your recent email, but I'm afraid we won't be having any more discussions about this subject because we clearly do not see eye to eye on this issue.

Unfortunately, you buy into the liberal fantasy that just because someone has a large amount of money, they can somehow "control" the outcome of an election.

You forget that Meg Whitman spent over $140 million dollars running for Governor of California -- and lost. By over a million votes.

Despite that wild spending, voters were clearly able to identify a candidate they didn't care for, and avoid her in the voting booth.

You and your group also buy into the liberal fantasy that any and all money involved in an election is somehow "wrong" or will lead to negative outcomes.

American citizens who vote are absolutely free to elect anyone that they want to public office, including underfunded or grassroots candidates, or even people who share your mistaken ideologies.

Your attitude clearly shows a lack of faith or trust in your fellow human beings.

You believe that they are sheep to be led around by the biggest dollar sign around.

The fact that you and your organization feel the need to "control" an election or its financing makes you Statists -- and dangerous threats to human freedom.

Political donations are free speech. The people making those donations are expressing their free will, and that free will should not be limited.

Limiting them in any way, shape, or form is an act of tyranny.

I won't be signing your "Declaration for Democracy" ... because it is not Democracy that you seek!

You seek Tyranny, and as a result I want nothing to do with you or your group.

Sincerely

Phil Jennerjahn

Republican Nominee for Congress (CA-28)

The Six Trillion Dollar Man

StopTheBagBan.org

A brief note about why action has been slow here at TJR.

Phones calls are being made and emails are flying back and forth between myself and various captains of industry in the plastics field. The Los Angeles City Clerk is being consulted with about the legal technicalities.

It looks like the citizens of Los Angeles have had enough with the "Philosopher Kings" down on Spring Street. These fellow patriots have had enough of taking their marching orders from The Dark Lord, The Hamburglar, Touchdown Tommy, and The Cat Whisperer.

It looks like there is a movement developing to defeat the plastic bag ban.

I have reserved the website domain StopTheBagBan.org in anticipation of political activity aimed in this specific direction.

Plastics executives are being consulted about our options.

I'll always think of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as a degenerate, but I admit that I have to be thankful to him for one small thing. His refusal to participate in the 2009 Mayoral Election activities muted interest in the election. Low turnout has had one surprising after-effect.

The number of signatures now needed for political forces to get a Referendum or Ordinance on the March 2013 ballot is quite reasonably -- and incredibly -- low.

Activists need only 27,425 valid signatures to get a Referendum on the ballot for the March election. For an Ordinance Initiative, 15% of that election vote total would be needed

... or 41,138 valid signatures.

One aspect of the delusional thinking on the City Council is that business owners and workers would sit back and watch their livelihoods get wiped out without a fight.

Certain owners have confirmed to me that this proposed plastic bag ban would cripple their business. They have indicated a willingness to commit time, energy, money, and labor to this effort.

We haven't formed the committees yet or completed any legal paperwork, but I assume that next step is coming soon.

The L.A. City Council has a fight coming...

Allen West & Calvin Coolidge

This is what free men can do....

This is what free men can do....

July 20th, 1969.

America puts a man on the moon.

No Communist nation has ever put a man on the moon.

Only Americans have set foot there.

That should tell you something.

One letter from the government that I actually like....

I never have received one of these forms from the Secretary of State before.

Let's hope it becomes a habit rather than the exception.

I want one more of these around the first week of December (certifying my win in November).

I know the haters have to hate..... (Joe B. among others)

But I'm probably going to be onstage with Mitt Romney at some point in the near future.

Let's hope Mitt didn't see a certain post on TJR on February 14th.

It wasn't exactly a Valentine for Mitt.

Priorities