See the short video that we want Obama to see about jobs and the economy, lets see if he actually responds and listens!!

We are pleased to announce that the votes are in and the process complete for the 4th district US House and 49th NC House.

BJ Lawson is endorsed for the 4th district US House in NC: http://www.LawsonForCongress.com

Glen Bradley is endorsed for the 49th NC House District:

http://www.GlenBradley.net

The Independence Caucus vetting process for endorsement generally follows this process:

1) Candidates are emailed invitations to take our test with a copy of the questions.

2) Once a candidate responds that he/she agrees to take the test they are sent a link to submit the questions online (from our national vetting coordinator)

3) Assuming a score of above 70% (lowest was 91% so far in NC) we move to schedule an interview that is conducted online and/or over the phone with key members and others who wish to join.

4) The interview is recorded and placed online for any member in the state to listen to.

5) After it is online for about a week or so each member from the state is sent a link to submit an online vote.

6) If there is only one candidate it is yes or no, if there is more than one then each member must vote for the best candidate via the online vote.

7) A background check is run on the candidates who win.

8)  The candidate is endorsed and a letter is emailed to them, placed on facebook and then after they fill out some paper work they are added to our site of endorsed candidates.

We do not always endorse a candidate in every district at every level as it might be counter productive. There are ways to help in other districts if there is not a good candidate in yours…see below.

How we help endorsed candidates:

1) Plastering information about their endorsement all over facebook, etc.

2) Researching information on their opponent(s) on their voting history, etc.

3) Making phone calls on behalf of icaucus and/or the candidate(s)

4) Putting out yard signs

5) Handing out fliers

6) Educating ourselves about their stance on issues, how this relates to the issues at hand and their opponents voting record.

As of yesterday I received official word from the national vetting coordinator and the votes are in.

BJ Lawson will be endorsed in the 4th district for US House http;//www.LawsonForCongress.com

Glen Bradley will be endorsed in the 49th district for NC House  http://www.GlenBradley.net

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The Independence Caucus vetting process for each candidate generally follows this process:

1) Candidates are emailed invitations to take our test with a copy of the questions.

2) Once a candidate responds that he/she agrees to take the test they are sent a link to submit the questions online (from our national vetting coordinator)

3) Assuming a score of above 70% (lowest was 91% so far in NC) we move to schedule an interview that is conducted online and/or over the phone with key members and others who wish to join.

4) The interview is recorded and placed online for any member in the state to listen to.

5) After it is online for about a week or so each member from the state is sent a link to submit an online vote.

6) If there is only one candidate it is yes or no, if there is more than one then each member must vote for the best candidate via the online vote.

7) A background check is run on the candidates who win.

The candidate is endorsed and a letter is emailed to them, placed on facebook and then after they fill out some paper work they are added to our site of endorsed candidates.

We do not always endorse a candidate in every district at every level as it might be counter productive. There are ways to help in other districts if there is not a good candidate in yours…see below.

How we help endorsed candidates:

1) Plastering information about their endorsement all over facebook, etc.

2) Researching information on their opponent(s) on their voting history, etc.

3) Making phone calls on behalf of icaucus and/or the candidate(s)

4) Putting out yard signs

5) Handing out fliers

6) Educating ourselves about their stance on issues, how this relates to the issues at hand and their opponents voting record.

We are pleased to announce that ATPAC will be hosting a forum with Frank Anderson, co-founder of Independence Caucus. ATPAC will be using the IC system for vetting and recommending candidates for US Senate, US House of Representatives, and State General Assembly. Please join us for a unique opportunity to learn about the Independence Caucus process of candidate endorsement.

Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium
Cost: $20 for ATP members; $25 non members – box lunch included
Register by Saturday, July 24, 2010

Frank Anderson is the co-founder of Independence Caucus, a nationwide organization committed to removing compromised incumbents from office and replacing them with good men and women who commit to Fiscal Responsibility through Adherence to Constitutional Authority.

In 2008, Frank was a volunteer researcher and writer for the grassroots campaign of Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and he helped Chaffatz defeat a six-term compromised incumbent despite being outspent by more than 6 to 1.

In 2010, Mr. Anderson and the Independence Caucus helped organize the successful grassroots effort to defeat 18 year incumbent Senator Bob Bennett…the chief Republican architect of the TARP bailouts.

Frank has distilled his successful campaign experience and research into 2 presentations: “What’s wrong with Washington and how to fix it” and “How to LOSE grassroots campaigns…and how to win them, too!”

Fortunately for North Carolina, Frank will be delivering both presentations to us!

IC is focused on finding principled candidates, vetting, endorsing, and campaigning to get them elected; and holding them accountable to their principles and commitments. They are not a third party.

At the Golden Corral in Cary, NC on August 2nd from 5 – 9pm please join the founder of The Independence Caucus in an effort to gear up for the coming November 2010 and 2012 elections. This is a FREE service to look at joining an organization with experience in getting grass roots conservatives elected.

Frank Anderson is the co-founder of The Independence Caucus, a nationwide organization committed to removing compromised incumbents from office and replacing them with good men and women who commit to Fiscal Responsibility through Adherence to Constitutional Authority.

In 2008, Frank was a volunteer researcher and writer for the grassroots campaign of Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and he helped Chaffetz defeat a six-term compromised incumbent despite being outspent by more than 6 to 1.

In 2010, Mr. Anderson and the Independence Caucus helped organize the successful grassroots effort to defeat 18 year incumbent Senator Bob Bennett…the chief Republican architect of the TARP bailouts.

Frank has distilled his successful campaign experience and research into 2 presentations: “What’s wrong with Washington and how to fix it” and “How to LOSE grassroots campaigns…and how to win them, too!”

Fortunately for North Carolina, Frank will be delivering both presentations to us!

IC is focused on finding principled candidates, vetting, endorsing, and campaigning through volunteerism to get them elected; and holding them accountable to their principles and commitments. There are websites for bloggers, opposition research, videos about opponents and general communication. They are not a third party.

Please join us for this important event.

Please RSVP here:

http://www.triangleconservativesunite.com/calendar/14031599/

A founder of the Independence Caucus, Frank Anderson will be in SC, NC, and VA in July and August. The Independence Caucus organization resulted from the 2008 election win of Jason Chaffetz of UT (US House 3rd district) who did not have a paid staff member. Mr. Chaffetz won by a team of volunteers and removed a 6 term incumbent and was out spent 6 to 1. The group was also instrumental in removing Bob Bennett from office earlier this year.

Icaucus has a complete vetting process with opposition research teams for each endorsed candidate. Plans have been laid out on how to do just what Jason Chaffetz did in 2008. We can take this country back but we have to learn from those who have experience. With not much experience to go around Frank Anderson is a real gold mine to have.

Please contact me at Independence at Worthyemail dot com if you have a group that would like to hear Mr. Anderson speak and teach them how to win elections in 2010 and 2012. There can be mock vetting processes done if people would like in addition to him speaking. The following dates are planned:

It appears that way.  It turns out that MMS and BP have known there was a problem in that well since Feburary. It took 60 days to get the Jones act removed, there has been beyond pathetic communication and it’s the biggest oil spill in history… both are looking bad to say the least.

 See here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-17/bp-struggle d-with-cracks-in-gulf-well-as-early-as-february-documents-show.html

It’s perfectly logical that there is a cover up of sorts and both are working together in some fashion as this could spell and is spelling disaster for dems and Obama.

 Another theory that has been floated is that BP has been a leading voice among oil companies for alternative energy sources and has billions and billions invested in it.  So, should cap and trade pass it will greatly benefit BP with these investments…just as the health care reform benefited big pharma, insurance companies and big health care while robbing the common working person by not putting the power in the people’s hand.  According to a Feb 2008 article in Fast Company Magazine BP ” is one of the world’s largest solar-power players and invests an unusually large share of overall capital expenditures in low-emissions R&D”. They did however note their terrible safety record which would certainly match what happenend in the gulf.

See link here: http://www.fastcompany.com/investing/2008/bp.html

I’m only saying that perhaps the blow up happened and they decided to keep the response slow to raise awareness of such a thing and it’s gotten out of control.  Either way, both knew about it since Feb. and both look really bad right now so working together would be a good thing (not to mention that 20% of BP is owned by the British government!!)

According to an article in the AIP news Alveda King, the neice of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.

Civil rights activist Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., yesterday released a statement praising Bill Randall, candidate for US House in North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District. Due to her current work for Priests for Life, King does not endorse political candidates.

Randall is one of two remaining Republican candidates in a runoff election to be held on June 22. The winner will compete against incumbent Democrat Brad Miller in the general election on November 2.

Dr. King released the following statement:

Dear Voters,

Bill Randall’s history of supporting life and family issues is remarkable. He can be counted upon to fight for the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for all people.

Because of my work for the non-profit organization Priests for Life, I cannot endorse him in that capacity. But as an individual and as the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I heartily support Bill’s efforts on behalf of life and know that if he were elected he would continue to work for life as well as civil rights for all.

A vote for Bill is a vote for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.

God Bless you,
Dr. Alveda C. King

The issue of right to life highlights similarities and differences between Randall and his opponent Bernie Reeves. Unlike the incumbent, both Reeves and Randall oppose public funding of abortion and want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. However, Reeves and Randall disagree on whether preborn babies are persons with a God-given unalienable right to life.

Reeves advocates that Roe v. Wade be overturned so that each state can decide whether abortion should be legal. His emphasis is on states’ rights.

In a May 13 debate Reeves said, “I am not pleased with the fact that the issue has become so politicized, because I think it finally boils down to an argument between two absolutes, the right of a fetus and the right of a woman, and I think we’re now leaving politics and we’re now into religion and morality and personal issues that everybody has to face—or in this case has to face. So I would repeal Roe v. Wade. Now, repealing Roe v. Wade would be the way that I would go about making this decision. One thing is is that Roe v. Wade is another federal intrusion into the lives of the people of America. Until Roe v. Wade, each state had its own set of laws. North Carolina’s was very liberal. I think Louisiana’s was not. Maybe it all depends whether is was Catholic, whether it was this, whether it was that. Repeal Roe v. Wade, and then we use local standards to make a decision.”

Randall, on the other hand, regards abortion as primarily a moral issue involving persons with a God-given unalienable right to life. Therefore, like slavery, abortion needs to be resolved at the national level. The 5th and 14th amendments to the US Constitution guarantee the right to life to all persons.

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in Roe v. Wade, “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”

In the May 13 debate Randall said, “I think that you need to understand that Ronald Reagan wrote a book called Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. If we cannot protect the life of the innocent in the womb, what does that say for us as a nation? And as far as life is concerned, I believe it should be protected from conception to geriatric care and the elderly.”

For a news story about the May 13 debate, see NC-13 US House candidates differ on moral, governmental issues in debate”.

Link here:

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=15022

According to the News and Observer below is the full article and then the link. Please be sure to comment.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/12/528950/tea-partyer-faces-publisher-in.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=355112&tab=story_tab_comments