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FRACASSA
FOR SENATE
Warren Eastpointe Fraser Center Line Roseville Clinton Township
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ticket or be deemed "good enough" by strangers who have no right to judge.
America must stop judging people and start welcoming them. Invite people in. Don't deport them out. Only then will America be The Melting Pot again. And when it is, fractured separatists will see they benefit from having someone different living next door.
We've buttered our bread by rejecting sameness. We're not all the same and that's why we're so strong --- because exposure to different ways of thinking teaches us to adapt.
There is evidence true diversity through America's Melting Pot mission can recur in our lifetime. The president of the United States says so.
“We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few,” President Obama said in a speech.
Prove it, Mr. President.
Make it so.
Hawke Fracassa is a Republican candidate for state senate in Macomb County, Mich. Email him at Fracassa4Senate@gmail.com
By HAWKE FRACASSA
America was once known as the place where huddled masses came from everywhere to live a better life. Somewhere along the way we lost our way.
Americans got selfish and turned the country into their own private club and personal toy, not to be shared with others.
In the beginning and well into the 20th century, America was the embodiment of true diversity. People of different faiths, races, ethnicities and colors co-existed for everyone's greater good. The concept was brilliant.
The result was the construction of the mightiest country in the world, a place that people dreamed to make their home because it beckoned as a land of opportunity.
But as time marched on, America's people became more materialistic than welcoming. They wanted to keep and protect what they had amassed instead of sharing whatever they might have.
Americans today fracture, separate and segregate instead of unite, smothering the true diversity that had been our strength and source of our triumphs.
Our natural diversity of community brought to us by immigrants, once a great asset, is now a liability because we as selfish Americans do not truly embrace and accept others who are not like us.
We smile and say we do, but we are liars. Right now, for people who cannot help themselves, it is a
catharsis to immigrate to America.
Huddled masses are no longer welcomed. It's like winning the lottery to gain entry. Instead of welcoming everyone and becoming more diverse, and more strong because of our collective strengths, we have Border Patrol agents arresting "illegals" whose only crime is they sneak into the United States in search of a better life for themselves and their families, to escape poverty and famine and crime and oppression.
Don't we have better things to do with our money?
The federal government preaches "diversity," but its use of the word is an aberration. "Diversity" is a code word for racial favoritism. Choosing people of one color over another.
Programs such as Affirmative Action subjugate one class of people while rewarding another simply due to skin color.
This is not what diversity is. This form of "diversity" is divisive and wrong. True diversity is getting back to the mission of welcoming everyone and anyone who wants to be in America, no questions asked. This isn't an amusement park. You shouldn't have to buy a
America must welcome immigrants for 'true diversity'
Mr. Obama must offer immigration reform now to restore "true diversity."
Statement by President Obama on immigration reform
By PRESIDENT OBAMA
One year ago, the Senate introduced comprehensive bipartisan legislation to fix our broken immigration system. Both sides worked together to pass that bill with a strong bipartisan vote.
The Senate’s commonsense agreement would grow the economy by $1.4 trillion and shrink the deficit by nearly $850 billion over the next two decades, while providing a tough but fair pathway to earned citizenship to bring 11 million undocumented individuals out of the shadows, modernizing our legal immigration system, continuing to strengthen border security, and holding employers accountable.
Simply put, it would boost our economy, strengthen our security, and live up to our most closely-held values as a society. Unfortunately, Republicans in the House of Representatives
have repeatedly failed to take action, seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform.
Instead of advancing commonsense reform and working to fix our immigration system, House Republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like a punitive amendment to strip protections from “Dreamers”.
The majority of Americans are ahead of House Republicans on this crucial issue and there is
broad support for reform, including among Democrats and Republicans, labor and business, and faith and law enforcement leaders.
We have a chance to strengthen our country while upholding our traditions as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants, and I urge House
Republicans to listen to the will of the American people and bring immigration reform to the House floor for a vote.
BULLETIN
Why as a Republican I cannot support Terri Lynn Land and why I must support Democrat Gary Peters for U.S. Senate
If Terri Lynn Land is the best and the brightest candidate the Republican Party can offer for the U.S. Senate in 2014, then I have to go with the person instead of the party: I am a Republican, but I will tell people as I go door-to-door that I will vote for Democrat Gary Peters for U.S. Senate because --- like me --- he supports creating and keeping LOCAL jobs, not importing snot-nosed out-of-staters who can't even vote to work here.
I'm Hawke Fracassa, and I not only approved this message, but also I WROTE IT all by myself. If you want to call the Land campaign and complain about them supporting out of state hiring, call (248) 702-6433. Contact me directly at hawkefracassa@aol.com.
to a simple inquiry.
The offices she shut without good explanation remained closed, making Terri Lynn Land no friend of my neighborhood and no friend of Macomb County.
Since her departure, the Secretary of State has returned to my neighborhood at Hoover and 12 Mile. No thanks to Terri Lynn Land.
Today, when I criticized the attack ads on Gary Peters, and the Republican Party's glib, confusing "I am a woman" game-show response ads to the Democrats' claim that Ms. Land is anti-woman, the out-of-state aide said I am not intelligent.Well, I did go to a public school. But I know stupid when I see it.
Terri Lynn Land
Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI)
Future Senator-Elect Hawke Fracassa
Terri Lynn Land, the former Michigan secretary of state who is running as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate vs. Democrat Gary Peters of Oakland County, has hired a snotty, prissy, empty-headed twentysomething from out of state to represent the Land campaign from Oakland County.
My beef isn't that the kid is a jerk with a smartypants, condescending mouth, which she is; it's that Ms. Land is hiring out-of-state people to push her campaign as the Republican nominee.
If you want my support, you have to hire LOCAL. Ms. Land is not doing that, and her choice of hired guns is a poor one at that.
Doing what Terri Lynn Land has done supports sending jobs outside of Michigan and that is a message I will not accept.
Beyond that, Terri Lynn Land is not a friend to Macomb County.
When she was secretary of state of Michigan, she shut the SOS office at 12 Mile and Schoenherr and moved everything to Dequindre and I-696. Then she closed that office, too.
When she closed the offices, I shouted loud about it on my Facebook page.
Someone in her office can read, and put her in touch with me.
Terri Lynn Land and I had a 90-minute cell phone conversation in which I felt like I was talking to drywall. I mostly spoke, and she mostly answered in circles, apparently incapable of making a coherent response
An important message from
9th District state Senate
candidate Hawke Fracassa:
Are House Republicans giving away the Internet?
By ROBERT ROMANO
turning over the administration of vital Internet functions —governing the assignment of domain names and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses — actually authorizes their giveaway.
All the Obama administration would have to do is turn in a book report that could say, well, pretty much anything.
It might report that relinquishing Commerce Department contractual rights to administer the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) would nullify First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and of the press and of religion in administering that authority.
That, in the process, users of the Internet would lose an essential recourse in federal court against any incidences of censorship committed by whomever will by assigning Internet domain names and numbers.
Or, that there is a risk that multinational elements, such as in China, Russia, or the United Nations, might eventually assume control of these functions via the multistakeholder model now being supported by the Commerce Department. But none of that will matter.
Once the Comptroller General via the Government Accountability Office (GAO) turns in its report — even if its findings are devastating — the Commerce Department will be authorized to throw caution into the wind and complete its plans to give away the Internet.
In the meantime, there is a compelling argument to be made that the Obama administration cannot complete the transfer
“Until the Comptroller General of the United States submits the report required by [this statute], the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information may not relinquish or agree to any proposal relating to the relinquishment of the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration [NTIA]… over Internet domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions, and related root zone management functions.”
That is the text of legislation that has just passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, the agonizingly named DOTCOM (Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters) Act.
The legislation now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee, headed by Chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.).
The framers of the legislation pretend that it will “prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet domain name system” to some as of yet unnamed international body.
That is, “until the Comptroller General of the United States submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to such system.”
In other words, the very bill the purports to “prohibit”
without an affirmative vote in Congress.
The only way to salvage this magic show might be to incorporate strong legislation by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.), the Internet Stewardship Act, which would require explicit congressional authorization to turn over the Internet’s names and numbers functions.
Failing that, the ill-conceived DOTCOM Act should be defeated. Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens issued the following statement in support of the Kelly bill: “President Obama should not be giving the Internet away to anyone without a vote in Congress.
Rep. Kelly’s legislation will reaffirm Congressional authority over any Internet transition taking place, guaranteeing that our elected representatives have a say in keeping the World Wide Web free and open from censorship.”
The Kelly bill would prohibit the turnover “unless such relinquishment is permitted by a statute enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act.”
That has a lot more teeth to it than simply requiring that a report be submitted by researchers. What purpose will the GAO report even serve anyway?
Perhaps, so that future generations can go back and read an accounting of how it was the Internet became controlled and censored by unaccountable, transnational elites. That is, if they can even find the report online.
Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.
Republican revolt over leadership in the works in Ga.
By RICK MANNING
John Stone seems like the perfect candidate. A congressional aide who came north from Georgia with the late Representative Charlie Norwood in the Contract with America revolution of 1994, Stone has the credentials, expertise and contacts to defeat Georgia House Democrat incumbent John Barrow.
But contrary to what conventional wisdom would expect, in today’s crazy, mixed-up world at the dysfunctional National Republican Congressional Committee, that exact know-how scares them to death. Until recently, Stone faced a one-on-one primary battle with Rick Allen, a wealthy businessman who was defeated in a primary run-off to meet Barrow in 2012.
This mano a mano confrontation would guarantee that the Republicans came out of the primary with a single candidate who could focus upon winning the seat after the primary election on May 20, avoiding the exact kind of messy, expensive run-off election that has helped Barrow in the past. Seeing this opportunity to have a clean shot at Barrow, the D.C. Republican operatives should have been jumping for joy, but something changed.
John Stone pledged that he would support changing the entire Republican leadership team in the House, and his polling numbers jumped from a too-close-to-call race against Allen to a huge advantage when voters learned about that position.
Suddenly, alternative candidate recruitment by the NRCC in this otherwise extremely winnable district became a priority. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that state Rep. Delvis Dutton’s entrance into the race was orchestrated by NRCC operatives who have gone so far as to set up his consulting team and even managed his campaign announcement.
In addition, a fourth candidate, Eugene Yu, has left behind his longshot bid to become a U.S. senator from Georgia to jump into the race at the last minute. The impact is simple. Democrat Congressman John Barrow is licking his chops expecting that he will, due to NRCC meddling, be facing a general election opponent who won’t even be chosen until a July 21 run-off election.
In Georgia if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in a primary, the top two candidates face off, delaying the selection of a nominee for two additional months. That opponent is likely to have a depleted campaign treasury, and will have endured two more months of rigorous negative intra-party campaigning.
Meanwhile Barrow will be sitting on a $2 million bankroll ready to unleash a torrent of attack ads against the defenseless Republican who emerges from the nomination process. There are only two possible conclusions that can be drawn by the NRCC’s blundering into the 12th Congressional District of Georgia race at the last minute and doing grievous harm to their nominee.
Either they are incompetent boobs who have made it exponentially harder for a Republican to win in this Republican district by accident, or they would rather have Democrat John Barrow in the seat than a reformer who understands how politics is played in D.C. like John Stone.
Incredibly, the two new entrants into the race that threaten to throw the nomination to a
Stone is making Republican leaders uncomfortable.
run-off are so flawed that they would be destroyed in a general election should they become the nominee.
Yu’s company went bankrupt because his deal to sell military parts and equipment to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela fell apart. Yep, you got it, a Republican spoiler candidate in the race was trying to sell arms to an avowed enemy of the United States just 10 years ago. I can’t wait to see the Barrow ad against this guy in a general election.
The other candidate, Dutton, has $660,000 in judgments against him and his business. These judgments include government claims that he failed to pay his taxes and also the unemployment insurance for his employees. And this is the guy the NRCC recruited and convinced to jump into the race as a credible general election opponent?
The NRCC’s haplessness in this late candidate recruitment is not isolated. Recently they anonymously knifed the Republican nominee just before a crucial Florida special election in the inside-the-Beltway publication, Politico. Now they are picking egg off their faces as the Republican won the race and is coming to Washington to confront the self-serving leakers.
In spite of the evidence to the contrary, the House party campaign organization is not staffed by a bumbling bunch of buffoons. Instead, they are clearly motivated in the Georgia race by the fear that John Stone’s experience and savvy could lead the entire 2015 freshman Republican class in a revolt to change House Republican leadership, thus threatening their jobs.
The NRCC needs the race to go to a run-off in the hopes that Allen’s deep pockets will overwhelm Stone’s message between May and June, so they deliberately gummed up the primary. The D.C. Republican establishment has to stop Stone now before he wins the nomination.
And make no mistake, prior to their machinations, Stone was in line to be the nominee poised for a clear shot at Barrow based upon his in-district party support of 14 of 17 county Republican chairs. This institutional support combined with his wildly popular vow to vote for conservative alternatives to returning Speaker John Boehner and his team made Stone the clear frontrunner.
While Stone is still likely to win the run-off for these same reasons, his chances in the general election will be dramatically handicapped. If this political observer were the cynical type, he might believe that the Republican establishment would prefer a Democrat backbencher representing the people of Georgia’s 12th House District, than a Republican who threatens their hold on power.
Remember this story, when people ask you why Washington, D.C., never seems to change. A story demonstrating that the elites will use every trick in the book to stop any candidate who stands up to power, all the while denying any involvement.
Rick Manning (@rmanning957) is vice president of public policy and communications for Americans for Limited Government.
He stockpiled small pox vaccines. (PolitiFact, 7/30/12)
I could go on but the point is made. Had these reasonable
Republicans
won these eminently
winnable races,
Republicans would now
control the Senate. So how does it become the common wisdom that unreasonable Tea Party candidates are the cause of GOP minority status in the Senate? Why are Murdock and Akin maligned and demonized while Brown, Mack, Hoekstra, Wilson, Thompson, Rehberg and Berg are held harmless?
Washington is a company town that is increasingly isolated from the rest of the country. Brown, Mack, Hoekstra, Wilson, Thompson, Rehberg and Berg are part of the club that keeps it that way. Murdock and Akin are not. They would have and did rock the boat.
Consequently their words are taken out of context and they are hammered endlessly by Democratic operatives claiming to be journalists. Meanwhile vice president gaffe machine Joe Biden prattles on without notice while his president visits the 57 states.
As I look at the Republican establishment, I am reminded of the words of Oliver Cromwell, spoken on April 20, 1653: "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
Don Todd is director of research for Americans for Limited Government.
got 38 percent against
Debbie Stabenow,
whose approval rating
has never been much
over 40 percent.
Former
ultra-reasonable
Republican
Congresswoman
Heather Wilson
got 45 percent for an open
Senate seat in New Mexico.
Tommy Thompson,
the former governor of Wisconsin who also occupied a chair in the Bush Cabinet, collected 46 percent of the vote to lose to Tammy Baldwin by 5.5 percent in an open seat race. Baldwin's main claim to fame is that she is a self-proclaimed lesbian, making her another first in the Senate.
Denny Rehberg even managed to lose in a state that Mitt Romney carried by nearly 14 points. Rehberg lost by a reasonable 4 points.
Romney received 58.3 percent of the vote in North Dakota. In an open seat race, North Dakota's only congressman, Rick Berg, lost to Heidi Heitkamp, who ran on the issues of putting politics aside and being North Dakota nice.
It is unclear what issues Berg ran on.
The business-as-usual crowd is perfectly personified by the aforementioned Tommy Thompson.
Thompson was secretary of Health and Human Services for four years. That put him in charge of one of the largest budgets in the world.
Can anyone name one thing he did during his tenure? I cheated and looked it up.
It is an article of faith in Washington among the ruling class that were it not for those unreasonable conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee that Republicans would control the Senate. Those are the types, so the mantra goes, who win primaries and then lose elections that could otherwise be won. Were it not for them, Republicans would control both houses of Congress rather than just one. They invariably point to Richard Murdock of Indiana and Todd Akin of Missouri.
Granted they lost, but what about the anointed "reasonable" Republicans? How have they done in recent elections? To keep things simple let's just look at the 2012 Senate elections.
Scott Brown, the incumbent senator from Massachusetts who was elected by promising to be unreasonable about Obamacare, came to Washington and joined the smart set. With all the advantages of incumbency he managed to get 46 percent of the vote against the fake Native American, Elizabeth Warren. He now is threatening to screw things up for the GOP in New Hampshire.
In Florida, Connie Mack IV, son of the former reasonable Republican Senator Connie Mack III, managed to round up 42 percent of the vote against Senator Bill Nelson, who has a hard time stringing three words together.
Former reasonable
Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra of Michigan
By DON TODD
Are Senate Republican failures the Tea Party's fault?
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