The Principles of Bill Pierce Explain Why He Should Defeat Mike DeWine
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BILL PIERCE'S PRINCIPLES
from Ohio US Senate GOP Primary Candidate Bill Pierce
Link is here.
Review of a Campaign of Principles
With your help, we can replace the liberal ideals, liberal philosophy, and most importantly the liberal votes which Senator DeWine has exhibited over the past eleven years with our shared conservative principles, to:
- Protect and Defend the Sanctity of Life. I oppose abortion in all cases with the rare exception of protecting the life of the mother when the decision must be made as to which life will be saved. I also oppose human cloning;
- Protect Traditional Marriage. I feel that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman and that states should not be forced to recognize same-sex unions.
- Protect and Defend the Constitution. As your Senator, you have my solemn word I will protect and defend the Constitution with special assurances to protect America's "first freedom" - the 2nd Amendment;
- Less taxes and less regulation. Let's renew the Reagan Revolution and free the spirit of American enterprise. We must make permanent the tax cuts enacted earlier and revise the Tax Code, and stay the hands of unelected federal bureaucrats who hamper small business creation;
- Reign in federal spending. Pork, earmarks, uncontrolled growth in entitlement programs, and unnecessary spending will enslave our children into an intolerable level of debt. I will join Senators Coburn, Ensign, and DeMint to form a foursome of former small business owners who understand the need to balance the budget to reverse the fiscal "bad habits" of the past;
- Develop a real national energy program. America needs to be energy independent and will require the policy and the political will to make this happen. Developing all our natural resources will be required, including drilling in ANWR;
- Work to form a coalition to dismantle the Department of Education. We must eliminate federal mandates and return education to State and local control - it is what the Constitution demands. Thirty years of a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet, a Department of Education, a lot of money, and mandates have failed to reverse the trend of a failing public school system;
- Secure borders and control illegal immigration. A country that does not protect its borders will soon disappear. Our nation, built upon a foundation of the rule of law, must ensure that all laws are enforced or anarchy will reign - and, that applies to illegal immigrants and the businesses who employ them. Add the real threat of terrorism and there are plenty of reasons to secure our borders;
- Address the crisis in the Judiciary. I will work to expose and correct the imbalanced case load versus staffing issues in the judiciary, and ensure that the President's judicial nominations receive their "day in court" without delay by filibusters, which result in more vacant seats on the bench - justice not served is justice denied; and
- Enact tort reform. We must eliminate frivolous lawsuits that benefit nobody other than the lawyers;
Finally - I do not, nor will I ever, subscribe to today's prevailing attitude that Massachusetts and New York have sole patent rights for out-spoken Senators. I will speak out about the issues listed above and I will not hesitate to challenge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who work against our "common sense" approach to these critical issues.
The positions listed above are but a few of my central concerns. You may have noticed that Senator Mike DeWine supports the first one, recently began to support the second, and has either voted against one or more of the remaining OR not concerned himself with any of these "big" issues. I can and will do much better, but I need your help on Tuesday, May 2nd.
William G. Pierce, P.E.
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Pierce campaign links:
Pierce for Senate
Pierce for Senate Blog
Pierce for Senate ContributeMike DeWine's recent votes for permissive immigration, to investigate oil companies for "high" prices (when HE is the one who has consistently voted agains ANWR), and, finally, his recent harsh criticism of Donald Rumsfeld in Salon ("history will judge him harshly") should end any conservative patience anyone might have had with him.
Bill Pierce lays it out perfectly. All that's left of Mike DeWine's "conservatism" is being prolife and a recent convert to defending traditional marriage (DeWine opposed the Ohio Marriage Constitutional Amendement that was on the ballot in 2004 that passed overwhelmingly).
Fortunately, there's a principled conservative alternative on May 2: Bill Pierce. If you're in Ohio, vote for him and spread the word. If you're not in Ohio, spreading the word is enough. :-->
What's the point of having a Republican senator if he almost never votes, acts, or speaks like a Republican?
As Bill noted, Mike DeWine can only be seen as "conservative" on prolife issues, is a Johnny-come-lately on defending traditional marriage, and is either clearly not conservative or deafeningly silent on every other item listed.
Vote Bill Pierce on May 2 if you're in Ohio, and spread the word -- there's a legitimate conservative alternative who will support drilling in ANWR, defend our borders, etc., but most importantly, won't just let things happen without speaking up, as Ohio's senior incumbent senator has.
The grass-roots does not like Mike DeWine, and I mean REALLY doesn't like him. Bill Pierce has defeated Mike DeWine in three of five ballot-based GOP County endorsement processes, and has tied him once; that isn't supposed to happen to a two-term incumbent, BUT IT HAS.
The grass roots is responding to Bill Pierce who is a genuine and articulate conservative and will be the citizen legislator our Founders envisioned, in the mold of a Coburn or DeMint.