Participants At Pennsylvania Constitution and Libertarian Party Conventions Saturday, March 27th, 2010 closed ranks with George Washington’s assertion of power remaining in hands of America’s citizenry. Both parties embrace limited government principles. Both parties recognize elected officials are in office to represent constituent to government, not represent government to constituent or work to impose government edicts on constituents.
Participants at Constitution and Libertarian conventions last Saturday overwhelmingly endorsed Tim Cox’s GOOOH (“Go”) Project process for selecting candidates for elected offices. Pennsylvania GOOOH members numbered over 2,000 as of Friday, March 26th, according to GOOOH State Coordinator, Tom Viehman. Constitution Party National Chair, Jim Clymer, and co-Chair, Daryl Castle, personally told me they were going to call for Constitution Party members to use GOOOH’s candidate selection process nationwide. Pennsylvania State Senator Mike Folmer told Tim Cox he, Folmer, was behind GOOOH project without reservation. These convention outcomes are not surprising or misleading. GOOOH is a method designed to bolster election of true citizen government representatives chosen by binding contracts with constituents, regardless of political party affiliation. Candidates elected using GOOOH’s method will not be beholding to special interest, financial backers, party dictates, or pressure from leadership in office. They will answer only to their constituents, period.
Tim Cox’s GOOOH Project has coordinators in every commonwealth and state. Anyone with a desire to have a greater say in self-government and promote citizen sovereignty should contact their GOOOH state coordinators and form GOOOH support groups. Type GOOOH in any Internet search engine.
National Public Radio/Public Radio International (NPR/PRI), this morning, ran a clip on how House Speaker Pelosi was so strong and instrumental in forcing members to vote in favor of recently enacted H. R. 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)). One example reported was how Pelosi would not allow members to leave meetings till she accomplished her PPACA objectives. Speaker Pelosi’s power is not at issue. Why any member would think they must defer to a House Speaker, a President, or any other elected official is at issue. Elected officials have one responsibility and only one – to uphold their constituent’s wishes, as America’s first President reminds us.
Time-Tested Principles don’t change regardless of legislation, taxation, and regulation: 1. Laws Are LAWS. 2. TAXES are a COST OF DOING BUSINESS. 3. Every tax is a tax ON OUR PROPERTY. 4. CONSUMERS PAY FOR EVERYTHING. It behooves “We, the People” to not lose sight of these precepts.
Americans Will Have Opportunities to apply and strengthen their heritage of self-government in 2010 elections (as they have every day) provided they are willing to exercise sovereignty accorded them by their national and commonwealth/state Constitutions and oversee their government. Do not allow passage of legislation, taxation, or regulation unless it first withstands exhaustive public scrutiny, unless it does not reduce Americans’ discretionary income, and unless it gains public consent through voter approval. Promote GOOOH Project throughout legislative districts and stop another H.R. 3590 from becoming one more example of selective, arbitrary, and discriminatory legislation threatening American’s heritage of self-determination through self-government. Stand by America’s first President’s proclamation of citizen sovereignty.
Let Freedom Ring.
Best Wishes,
Len Ritchey
