WASHINGTON TIMES: “Stating the Obvious”

May 25, 2010

What if Americans actually could be better served by being governed and regulated locally to a greater degree? Our national government has taken on a life of its own, to the disservice of those it was established to serve. Perhaps a smaller national government, with many functions returned to the states, would be better.

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House GOP Launches “America Speaking Out” Online Initiative

May 25, 2010

We enthusiastically applaud the efforts of GOP leaders to actively listen to the American people. We also strongly encourage you to use “America Speaking Out” as an additional tool to make sure your voice is heard. Visit their site. Register your name. Get involved. Review the ideas. Write comments. MOST IMPORTANTLY… CAST YOUR VOTES. It can be found online at: it can be found online at http://www.americaspeakingout.com/.

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“Contract from America” Applauds GOP’s Initiative to Listen to the American People During Pivotal Election Year

May 24, 2010

Tomorrow, House Republicans are launching a new initiative to “engage Americans across the country and give them a voice in creating a new agenda for Congress.” Called, “America Speaking Out,” the effort is led by Chief Deputy Whip, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Ryan Hecker, founder of the Contract from America initiative said, “I think it is great that House Republicans are listening to the people and borrowing from the tea party movement and the Contract from America project”

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ROLL CALL: GOP to Roll Out Agenda-Building Project

May 24, 2010

[In an effort that looks vaguely familiar to other online initiatives,] House GOP leaders will roll out a new initiative on Tuesday that will become a central part of designing their policy agenda. “”America Speaking Out” will be our effort to engage the American people about their priorities for a new policy agenda,” said one GOP aide.

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THE HILL: GOP Plans ‘America Speaking Out’ Event

May 24, 2010

According to officials involved in the effort, “America Speaking Out” will focus on gathering feedback from Americans on what items that lawmakers should be focusing on in the future. GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) said on Monday “it’s part of a process of engaging Americans.”

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HUFFINGTON POST: “GOP Crowd-Sourcing Its Policy Agenda”

May 24, 2010

The Republican initiative comes after the Tea Party movement put forward its own version of the GOP’s 1994 Contract with America, which they call the “Contract from America.” “We’ve been talking to them throughout the process, but that wasn’t the impetus of this,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is heading up the initiative. “We hope they’ll make those ideas a part of this process.”

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WASH POST: “The Tea Party’s Allegiance to No One”

May 5, 2010

No one doubts the sincerity or power of the Tea Party movement anymore. We get it: free-market principles, limited government and individual liberty.

Those are the three fundamentals of the Tea Party’s “Contract From America,” to which any serious Republican must subscribe, nay, sign in blood. Make it real red.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: GOP Leaders Want their Money Back from Charlie Crist

April 29, 2010

There is a lesson for him [in] Crist’s sagging political fortunes, Cornyn admitted. He had asked Crist to run for the Florida Senate seat after former Governor Jeb Bush declined to run. “In this political environment, it is not necessarily helpful for candidates running in the states to have the national party chairman endorse them. I think more than any time I have seen in the recent past, instead of a contract for America, voters want a contract from America. They want to be listened to, not lectured to and not to have their choices made for them,” Cornyn said.

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WSJ: “Tea-Party Activists Stage Tax-Day Rallies”

April 17, 2010

Tea-party activists held rallies across the country Thursday, the deadline for filing federal tax returns, to highlight what they said were onerous taxes and a bloated federal government. The activists protested Democratic policies and displayed varying attitudes toward prominent Republicans. Some groups invited marquee conservatives, such as former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who addressed around 500 people in Austin, Texas.

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CONGRESS.ORG: Tea Partier to GOP… “Copy Away”

April 17, 2010

“I’m honored that they’re looking at the process we used,” Hecker said Thursday as he set up for a Tax Day rally on the National Mall. “At the end of the day, if the Republicans come up with their own document and it’s a strong document, that’s good,” he added. “But I hope that our agenda is still a central part of what they’re doing. “Hecker said the growing popularity of the tea parties is a big reason why the Republican Party is opening up their document to grassroots input. “I think they recognize that they’ve lost some legitimacy,” he said.

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