As an Independent voter, I am willing to support any candidate that will honestly SUPPORT and DEFEND the Constitution of The United States of America – including respecting and honoring the intent of those that wrote it.
There is one Democrat in Utah County that I know of that is willing to do so. It’s Jim Crismon in house district 57. I don’t agree with everything that he believes in, but for the most part he has the right ideas. I attended to hear from him, and see what the others are saying.
As an Independent, I was quite turned off in the initial part of the program by both the gentleman running the show, and by State Senator Pat Jones. Both of these people made derogatory comments about those in the Tea Party movement. Pat Jones in particular spoke about working together, while quite clearly looking down on the folks involved in the Tea Parties. Her tone was one of arrogance – much like the arrogance of one B. H. Obama.
Those two clearly demonstrated that they just don’t get it.
They don’t understand how angry WE THE PEOPLE are at those in power in BOTH of the mainstream parties.
They don’t understand that they are on a course that is self-destructive.
They don’t understand that WE THE PEOPLE want LESS GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE and LESS GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF OUR LIVES AND OUR FINANCES.They don’t see that we are still willing to try to work within the system and deal with this at the ballot box.
They don’t understand that if they don’t turn away from the course they are on, and continue in arrogance to ignore WE THE PEOPLE, that they will force us to turn to the same recourse that was left to the Founding Fathers, and that they also left to us.
That arrogance is part of the problem, and after hearing Pat Jones, I plan to work to help defeat her.
She said that the recent bills in the State to relax the child restraint laws were an effort by the Republican Party to hurt Utah families. Yet she spoke to a great extent of her LDS faith.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that all of those upon this earth backed a plan to have everyone come here, get bodies, and learn right from wrong – but not be FORCED to do right or do wrong. They have freedom, and the commensurate INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY that comes with it.
The other plan – presented by Satan himself – was that he would force everyone to do the right things, and keep bad things from happening. The catch was that he wanted all of the glory.
Since she is here, at that time she backed the plan that would teach people good principles and let them govern themselves.
But now, she wants to empower government to take more control of our daily lives, and force us to do things according to what she feels is right.
Now tell me – which plan does that sound like?
She also took issue with the “statement” bills, such as SB11 which states that provides that a firearm or one of various firearm-related items manufactured in the state for in-state use is not subject to federal firearms laws and regulations.
Again, she does not understand that WE THE PEOPLE are fed up with a federal government that is not responsive to WE THE PEOPLE, and that we are doing all that we can using peaceful means to wake them up to that fact. They are working within the system. But if our elected representatives do not begin responding and doing the right thing, we will eventually be forced to resort to the same means used by the Founding Fathers, and which they left to us.
Utah and 5 other states have passed such laws, and some 20+ other states are considering them. It is because WE THE PEOPLE are truly fed up with an overreaching federal government. At least some of our elected representatives at the State level are starting to see that some things ARE worth fighting for – the rights of WE THE PEOPLE and the powers that should reside in the States being chief among them.
We need less government at ALL levels. We need representatives that understand that GOVERNMENT CAN NOT BE and MUST NOT BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE. Government needs to be small, less burdensome, and let WE THE PEOPLE take care of ourselves. The principles of INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY as well as FREEDOM are foreign to her and those like her.
Jim Crismon seems to have a better grasp of this. So does Jim Matheson – I will say that I was mostly impressed with him. But overall I saw a bunch of people that want to force us to live according the dictates of their “faith” – their faith being imposing their will on us, taking our tax dollars and spending them for us, rather than allowing us to use our monies to support our own families.
No thank you, Pat. You don’t get it. I hope that you listen to the message of the Tea Party folks rather than dismissing them all as idiots the way you did. But at this point, as an Independent, I’ll do all I can at the polls to make sure that you don’t waste any more of my tax dollars trying to force me and my family to do things your way.