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Who Should Pay for Partisan Nominations?

By: Cynthia Davis, Constitution Party candidate for
Missouri Lt. Governor

The special session is now over and the taxpayers got hit with a tab of over 280,000 dollars just for the added expenses of bringing the legislators back to Jefferson City (food, gas, lodging and extra staff.) If anyone says the state is running out of money, we have just observed that the state has plenty of money for whatever the legislators deem worthy of funding. In this case, the legislators showed up in Jefferson City, authorized tax credits, fought among themselves, dug in their heels in a standoff over budgetary and philosophical issues, then adjourned.

One of the purposes of the special session was to deal with an intriguing party nomination question. In many respects, a political party is similar to a labor union. While any qualified candidate can run for any office, the power comes from the solidarity of the team effort which in many cases can become an unbeatable force by any opposition. Each political party is expected to nominate one person for each position.

The Governor allowed the legislators an opportunity to make a legislative change that would save the taxpayers around $8 million. However the legislators failed to pass the bill. It pertained to how political parties select their nominee. Up until five years before I was elected, the political parties selected their presidential nominees internally. In 1998, the Missouri legislature, made up of Republicans and Democrats voted to force taxpayers to bear the expense. This was designed to spare the parties of doing their own work. In 1998, this new law cost our state four million dollars. Since the expenditure was put onto our law books, the legislators alleviated the political parties of having to figure it out for themselves. This law was specifically designed to help the Democrats nominate Dick Gephart and the Republicans nominate John Ashcroft who were both considering running for President of the United States.

In 2008, this law cost the taxpayers $7,000,000 and in 2012, the projected cost will be over $8,000,000. This primary expenditure is bad public policy on at least three levels:

1. The inner party operations are separate and distinct from state laws. Therefore, national political parties can change their rules anytime they want, but the state laws are very hard to change. The National Republican Party told the Missouri Republican Party they don’t want to have a primary in Missouri before March, but because the state legislature put into law a requirement of taxpayer funded nomination in February, we don’t have any legal option but to spend eight million dollars to conduct this effort.
2. Since the legislature couldn’t agree on repealing or amending the law, the National Republican Party told the State Republican Party it will be punished by holding this nomination. To spare themselves of losing half of their delegates, the Missouri Republican Party told the National Republican Party they will disregard the outcome of whatever the people decide during the February primary. The effort will be utterly pointless. How can voters feel inspired to go to the polls when they know the outcome will be completely null and void?
3. The Missouri Republican Party will be selecting the presidential nominee on June 2nd. It appears obvious that Barack Obama will be the Democrat nominee, so this expenditure will only benefit one political party—a party that doesn’t want it.

This raises questions like: Why did the senate deadlock 16-16 on something that should have been an easy vote? Why didn’t the Lieutenant Governor break the tie as he is constitutionally authorized to do? It says in our State Constitution, “Lieutenant Governor…shall cast the deciding vote on equal division in the senate…”

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I have served for years as an election judge and can attest that during primary elections it was very common for people to ask me why they must select a ballot for one specific political party. This shows how many voters do not understand that this is only a nomination for who the party will put forth. The best solution is for political parties to do their own business within their own party. The public should not be forced to pay for any private corporation to make internal decisions. If you don’t like the way your party determines the outcome, get involved in making it better. If we are going to limit our government from enlarging to greater proportions, we must all engage in our own civic responsibility.

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Today we launch an effort to take the second highest office in the State of Missouri. I am running for Lieutenant Governor because it is time to put principles ahead of politics.

Government is broken.

It no longer works for the people, but only for the big money special interests. And the problem isn’t just in Washington D.C., it is in Jefferson City as well.

For three weeks we have witnessed a circus in Jefferson City that has cost taxpayers over $175,000. All because some people think it would be a good idea for taxpayers to subsidize a so-called China Hub. Never mind that China is an unfair trading partner or that dumping more cheap goods on the market will only hasten the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Never mind that it is not the role of government to subsidize one business at the expense of another. The moneyed special interests want it, and the Speaker of the House and others, are doing everything in their power to appease their political benefactors.

This is exactly why 80% of the people disapprove of the way their government is being run and it is why the time is here for the voters of Missouri to send the failed leadership of both political parties a message.

In announcing, I want to specifically address three groups:

To the Republicans: We have spent many years together. Some of the Republicans I have known feel they are in an elite club where their loyalty to the insiders won’t allow them to see the truth of how far their candidates have strayed from it. However, the majority of you are Republican for other reasons. We were Republican because we believed in limited government, personal responsibility and sound economics. We hold these foundational values in common, but our leadership and the system let us down.

I am your only choice if you believe in the sanctity of life, limited government and fiscal responsibility. If the Speaker of the House prevails in the Republican Primary, neither he nor the Democratic candidate will stand for the principles you and I share. They simply offer MORE OF THE SAME, bigger government, wasted tax dollars, special interest favors, and folding when VALUES conflict with the first three.

One thing you have learned from me in eight years in the Missouri House is that I won’t fold and I won’t bend when it comes to our fundamental values.

I thought I was going to be a Republican all my life as well until I saw the truth of what they are doing to us. Stay with me and you will finally have an office holder who is brave enough to do the right thing and adhere to our core values.

To the Democrats: We have some common ground. We may disagree, but I have never discouraged honest debate nor questioned the sincerity of those with whom I disagree. There are Democrats who also care about honest government and long for candidates who have integrity. Even when I ran as a Republican, I had many Democrat supporters tell me they have never voted for a Republican in their lives, but they are supporting me now because they recognize me as someone who is sincere and can be trusted. You will be proud of your choice because you will have someone who is trustworthy, honest, has integrity and who will always keep my door open to you.

To those who are Independent, support the Constitution Party or consider yourself part of the TEA Party movement: You hold all the power. There are not enough Republicans or Democrats to take any office by themselves. The best part is that there are more of you every day!

Thank you for bringing our state back to reality and showing both major parties that it is not about them—-it is about “We the people”. You represent the hope for our future. No longer will we be duped by the status quo trying to manipulate us into falling in line just to make others happy. We are about to prove a point to both major parties that we are smarter than that. We are about to embark on a crusade that will create national attentions and forever re-define what is meant by “The Show Me State”. The people of Missouri are very freedom loving — more so than many states.

You represent the true American spirit. This is the spirit we had when our country had the courage to break away from England and declare our independence. This is the spirit that allowed our founders to pledge their live, their fortunes and their sacred honor. In that same spirit, I pledge to you today my life, fortune and sacred honor for the cause of liberty.

This election will be about our ability to move beyond complaining and actually solving problems. The future of our state and nation depends upon people who have the courage to ignore the partisan politics and start voting for people who are willing to get the job done. History will record with the greatest astonishment that when the voters were actually presented with a real choice they finally moved our state forward.

The reason I am running for Lieutenant Governor is because this office will allow me to continue communicating with our citizens the positive message of getting our government back on the tracks. The Lt. Gov. is the only member of both the legislative and the executive branch of government and our state would be best served by having a Lt. Governor who is independent of both major political parties. We are tired of the cronyism that has made government repugnant to the spirit of the people. We are tired of those who listen more to the lobbyists and highest bidders than to common sense. We are tired of pandering politicians who say one thing just to get elected and then do whatever they please after they get into office.

I am the one to hold the two parties accountable!

I am engaging in this race because I have looked at the leadership of this State and I am not impressed. You are here today because you are not impressed either. And if you are not impressed, don’t just sit there and be depressed…let’s roll up our sleeves and do something about it!

We are hearty, brave and tough. We care about doing what is right regardless of the cost. We are in this for the long haul. Thank you.

Cynthia Davis is available to speak at your meetings and events by contacting her Campaign Manager, Donna Ivanovich, at (314) 956-6181 or DonnaIvanovich@yahoo.com

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A Constitution Party Response

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In the following article, Cynthia Davis addresses the reasons that compelled her to end her lifelong association with the Republican Party in Missouri. Rep. Davis is refreshingly open and forthright as she details the frustrations of serving in a party with leadership that that does not embrace the principles of constitutional governing. Her recognition as “Missouri’s Most Constitutional Legislator” by the Young Conservatives of America makes her a most welcome addition to the Constitution Party of Missouri.

A Letter to the Republican Party

Dear Central Committee Members:

First, I would like to thank all of you for your kind and understanding words of support and encouragement for my next step. My life, my beliefs, my friends and my core principles remain the same. I intend to be supportive of good candidates from both the Republican and Constitution parties who are true conservatives and understand the proper role of government.

I have spent decades trying to support and reform the Republican Party from within, even becoming a leader in the party and serving as an elected Republican official for nearly nine years. I have now, like many other Americans concluded it is a futile effort.

The existing political parties can’t be reformed because there are just too many special interests with too much money to allow it. When I joined the Republican Party, it was to make our state better, not to be a member of some elite social club.

This explanation probably won’t resonate with those who consider themselves vested members of the old guard. These words are for those people, who like me, want only good, honest and fair government from all civil servants.

My life, my philosophy and my loyalty remain with the enduring principles that made America great. Yet I realize that despite the campaign rhetoric, the Republican Party is mainly paying lip service to the values of personal responsibility, limited government, fiscal responsibility and remain within our constitutional boundaries. These are my reasons why I want to join with others who have a larger vision of restoring America and the right solutions to our problems which include respect for our life, liberty and property.

Here is my criticism of the Republican Party. It is not a criticism of the many fine people who consider themselves Republican…but a critique of those insiders who control the Republican Party who have allowed these things to occur when they could have acted.

Growing Government Bigger
There is a lot of dissension in the Republican Party because despite the expressed will of the voters, partisan power brokers have undermined efforts to put real restraint on policies that grow government bigger and bloat the budget. They have passed laws that reduce our liberty, disrespect life and make America economically weaker, with no party discipline. We are at a point today where the Republican Party has put its stamp of approval on “bigger government” programs with no Constitutional authority; No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, Race to the Top, unfunded medical insurance mandates, and a whole host of other “Big Brother” bills diminishing the freedoms assured to the people through the Bill of Rights. Additionally, both major political parties are responsible for implementing bad policies that are destroying the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. Every time they expand government further, it costs the taxpayers more. In the eight years I was in the House, I saw our budget grow from 18 billion to over 23 billion—under Republican leadership.

Pandering Over Principles
Both Washington D.C. and Jefferson City politicians have developed a culture of corruption. Legislative priorities are defined by the largest campaign donors. Many candidates are disingenuous in their campaign promises, knowing by the time the election is over it will be too late for the voters to hold them accountable for whatever they said before the election. The majority of the Republicans don’t understand their own platform enough to know what they believe. Jumping on whatever bandwagon is passing by is disingenuous, manipulates voters and is the reason many voters have lost respect for the politicians.

Government of the Highest Bidders
Giving leadership and chairmanship positions to those who donate the most money to the party is the common practice in both Washington D.C. and Jefferson City. This is similar to buying Senate seats and perverts the process of selecting the most qualified and competent people. This allows “Big Money” instead of better ideas to set the agenda. Bills that advance the party platform save lives, taxpayers, marriages and family values are kept bottled up because they aren’t being pushed by well funded lobbyists. With seemingly one sex scandal after another, how can either the Republican or Democratic Party claim superiority when it comes to providing moral leadership? With enough money, any act of moral turpitude can be kept away from public scrutiny.

Republican Cannibalism
Candidates trash one another while the party looks the other way. There are no repercussions or discipline for those who maliciously lie and make personal attacks intended to ruin the reputations of honest candidates. Far from it, those who make a living tearing down others are rewarded with lucrative campaign consulting jobs. While good people of integrity are being permanently destroyed, the Republican Party looks the other way. Intra-party bullying has proven to be worse than external party bullying.

Blocking Fair Primary Nominations
The party insiders distort and manipulate the primary process by allowing only favored Republican candidates and incumbents to have access to voter data. They purposely block other Republican candidates from accessing the same database. This allows them to “manage” the primaries and select who wins and who loses, rather than leaving that decision to Republican primary voters.

To be a favored Republican insider, elected Representatives and Senators are called upon to donate money from their own campaign coffers to support “anointed” candidates. Despite their Pharisaical efforts to enact ethics reforms, big party money is being laundered through candidates and PACs for the purpose of concealing the true sources.

As Christine O’Donnell, a maligned Republican US Senate candidate from Delaware said, “The GOP establishment leaders would rather control the way they lose [elections] rather than lose control of their party.”

This is what is so frustrating to most grassroots supporters. We put country first. They are still putting party first.

The founding fathers did not set up our government based upon political parties—which is why there is no mention of parties in our Constitution. Political parties are a fabrication of power brokers to raise money and cut deals. This practice thwarts average citizens from having opportunities to serve for more noble reasons. The power of the two current major political parties has driven otherwise sensible people to forfeit their own autonomy and reasoning capacity for the sake of the party. This is destructive to our state and nation and explains how we arrived at a point where what’s best for America is being betrayed by both major political parties for the sake of raising more money, gaining more favors, and holding on to power in perpetuity…because in politics, power often equates financial reward.

My departure from the Republican Party is not a repudiation of my friends in the Republican Party. This is a repudiation of the party bosses in both parties who suppress those who put principles before party and shun independent thinkers. Off the record, many of my former colleagues in the Missouri General Assembly would acknowledge that what I have said is true. Although they dare not say in public, what they know to be true, for fear of retribution.

We must engage our state and nation with the proper solutions to our problems and vigorously debate the issues. We owe it to the nation to show the power elites that they cannot stifle the will of the people or limit our success. Who is responsible to right these wrongs? We all are!

President James Garfield expressed it best when he said:

“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their
Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is becausethe people
tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption.”

The problem is that voters are restricted to two choices: Either vote for the anointed candidate of one political party or the other. Want to send a message to Washington or Jefferson City? Vote for the person, not the party label. Don’t be afraid to support the one who best reflects your ideals. Get your friends to join us. We need to see through the slick campaigns and start supporting the candidates who best embody the principles that made our country great in the first place. The gate has been locked and both the Republican and Democratic Party insiders think we the people are too lazy or stupid to ever figure it out.

But we are smarter than they give us credit for. The Declaration of Independence says, in part:

“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
government…”

Both the Democratic and Republican Parties have become “destructive” to our rights and freedoms. That verdict rendered by the American people in polls that show the lowest opinion of Congress in decades.

All that is left is for the voters to send the two-party system an eviction notice by electing new party and independent candidates to office. To borrow a theme from Ronald Reagan, “We didn’t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left us!”

In October, I will be announcing my decision to seek a statewide office on the Constitution Party ticket. Some are asking, “Why the Constitution Party?” As we are watching our country head in the wrong direction, more people are looking for a party that is governed by principles, holds its candidates accountable and upholds a philosophy based upon a proper understanding of government. That is the very definition of the Constitution Party.

It is time to exercise our rights as Americans and join in the effort to alter the political landscape in a meaningful way. It is time to improve the state we’re in.

I therefore tender my resignation as St. Charles County Republican Party Township Committeewoman, not with any malice, but simply because the party has lost its capability to respond to the crisis we face in our state and nation.

Cynthia Davis

Once upon a time there were two brothers. The older would, by birthright, inherit all that his father owned. A day came when the older wanted something to eat. He had been outside all day, and was hungry. The younger had a meal already prepared. The older asked the younger to give him the dinner. The younger agreed, on the condition that the older would give up his birthright in return for the free meal. The older took the deal, gave up his birthright, and ate.

Most of us recognize the story. And we scratch our heads at a person who would give away an entire birthright for one meal.

We shouldn’t. We are just like him.

America was founded on the recognition that each of us has a birthright of endowed and unalienable rights. Like all birthrights, it brings the promise of opportunity and blessing, provided that we honor the responsibility of protecting and cherishing it. Our birthright cannot legitimately be taken from any of us, but each of us can choose to give it away. If enough of us make that choice, the birthright’s promise will be lost to all of us.

Sadly, many Americans are making that choice. They are selling their birthright of endowed rights for the free meal of government entitlements. And like the older brother in the story, they are convincing themselves that their immediate needs are so important that meeting them is worth what they are losing.

They may not even realize that they are selling one thing to get another. But they are.

It is not a coincidence that as the number of government entitlements increases, there is an equal increase in government’s assault on our endowed rights. The government is slowly changing its own job description from “protector of endowed rights” to “grantor of entitlements”. If it completes the transition, it will also have changed its status from “servant to” to “master of” America’s citizens.

Let’s look at just one example. The government is marketing an entitlement to health care. Accepting it means allowing the government “entitler” to determine who may receive what treatment at what cost under what conditions, effectively selling the endowed right of life. And, since the law creating the entitlement says the government’s power to make those treatment determinations is not limited to the individuals who have accepted the entitlement, the loss of the endowed right is more universal than the entitlement it has been traded for. Every American will be affected by the fact that some Americans have decided to sell their birthright.

The younger brother understood the value of the birthright, and he was willing to give something to get it. He understood that the meal would quickly end, while the birthright would last forever. His elder freely chose immediate satisfaction over long-term blessing.

Today’s government also understands the value of our birthright. To get us to trade it away, that government has created a whole system of enticements, hoping that we will act like the older brother -focus only on the meal and forget what we are selling. So far, the tactic is proving to be successful.

The reality is, we can either be endowed, or we can be entitled. An America where endowed rights are cherished will be free and prosperous forever, while an America full of entitlements will last about as long as the older brother’s meal. We all know what we think about that older brother. The question is, what do we want our children to think when they remember us?

Peg Lutsik is a wife, mom, principled thinker, debater extraordinaire, and two-time Constitution Party candidate for Pennsylvania governor! A staunch pro-life leader, she authors the Internet blog, From the Kitchen Table, and is the founder of the Center for American Heritage. Please take time to visit her website, http://www.centerforamericanheritage.com .
Peg has graciously given us permission to reprint her blog posts.

On the day of the 2008 Presidential Election, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, I voted for John McCain, only because he was the lesser of the two evils, when compared to the alternative candidate, Barack Obama. Throughout 2008, I volunteered my time at the local GOP precinct to help support John McCain’s presidential campaign. What I noticed was that there was an obvious lack of enthusiasm for McCain among most of the campaign volunteers. It was quickly evident that the only reason many of the campaign volunteers, including me, who helped out with his presidential campaign was McCain was the lesser of the two evil alternatives for the 2008 presidential election. Other than the reason he was the lesser of the two evils, I and many of the other volunteers, could not find any other compelling reasons to support John McCain for president.

Over the past two years since this November 2008 presidential election, I have re-examined the American political system and I am beginning to learn the REAL truth about the Republicans and the many so-called “conservative” Republicans currently in the House of Representatives and the Senate. When I first learned about the REAL truth, I was outraged about the length and depth of the deception and betrayal by what I would describe as “Establishment Insider Elite Conservatives” (in many ways, an oxymoron). Clearly, something is very wrong with what I learned about them, and I saw the truth about our political system back in 2009. This is the main motivation for me to get involved with the “TEA Party” conservative/constitutional movement and use my Facebook account as a medium to spread truth and express my political activism.

Sadly, during every election cycle, the American voter is almost always presented with two equally bad choices, and has no other choice, but to vote for the lesser of the two evils. Often times, for a Republican, such as the lackluster phony conservative, John McCain in 2008. However, the GOP leadership, since they are out of touch with the American voter, continues to nominate neo-conservative, establishment, insider politicians, who can campaign and pander with conservative rhetoric. Once they are in office, they continue along with the Democrats to further the globalist, insider agenda. The Republicans are just as much at fault as the Democrats.

Americans, especially in the conservative/constitutionalist, “TEA Party” movement (including me) are sick and tired of all of this “business as usual” politics of Democrats versus Republicans, where one or the other is the lesser of the two evils or equally evil. As the Democrats and Republicans have become more and more similar over the past several years (in other words, Liberal, Leftist, straying away from the Constitution, or simply, just disregarding it completely), this leaves the American voter with no other options, leaving them hopeless and without a voice that can really be heard. However, there still is hope, and there still is a voice for the American voter, The Constitution Party. I used to be a Republican, but quit the GOP some time in 2009 to become an official “card-carrying” member of the Constitution Party in March, 2011.

For the above mentioned reasons, the environment is right for a viable third party like the Constitution party, a party that REALLY and truly champions and stands for Conservative principles and Constitutional governance. Now, it is mostly up to us conservative voters to decide what we would rather do:

1. Continue to do the same thing that has been done for almost a quarter of a century, in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2008, and vote GOP just because they are the lesser of two evils (with the dismal results we have seen).

2. Have the courage and flee the GOP in large droves to the Constitution Party, so that the GOP loses its large base of support and declines in influence in American politics.

Sure, option #2 is a more daring and riskier one, but we must ask ourselves this question:

Do we want the same old status-quo voting for the lesser of the two evils, as we have had for the past 20 years, or do we want REAL change, a change for conservative and constitutional governance, something that the GOP has never, does not, and will never stand for?

Therefore, lack of support for the GOP is not a vote for the Democrats; it is vote for constitutional governing. We, the conservative American voters, must embrace this new paradigm to be set free from this antiquated and obsolete mindset that produced and promoted loss of liberty and economic prosperity for all Americans.

Kevin Shen is a new member of the Constitution Party. He has a large following on his Facebook page, Conservatives Against Mitt Romney. Visit Mr. Shen’s Facebook page to educate yourself with solid facts and figures on Mitt Romney and other candidates.