Darrell Castle’s invitation to join the Constitution Party in his home state of Tennessee for the Presidential Nominating Convention in April:
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April 18-21 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, TN
Room reservations must be in by March 25 and registration should be completed as soon as possible.
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Plus, hear Darrell Castle’s invitation to join the Constitution Party in his home state of Tennessee for the Presidential Nominating Convention in April:
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In this podcast, Darrell Castle discusses the government’s real attitude about jobs.
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The Constitution Party of Tennessee filed a lawsuit in 2008 alleging that Tennessee’s ballot access law is unconstitutional, and on September 20 of 2010, Judge William J. Haynes agreed with us.
Jim Linger from Oklahoma was the lead counsel, and Constitution Party National Vice-Chairman Darrell Castle of Tennessee was co-counsel.
A special thanks to Richard Winger for all of his help in serving as an expert witness.
Here is a PDF link to the original article:
U.S. District Court Invalidates Tennessee Ballot Access Law for New and Minor Parties
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The Ron Ramsey for Governor campaign comes to Shelby County this Thursday and Friday, July 22nd and 23rd. This is an opportunity for those of you who support Ron Ramsey’s campaign to meet him and participate in his volunteer tour of Shelby County.
Those who wish to participate are urged to be at the Memphis Headquarters of the Ramsey campaign, located at 925 Yates near Poplar, at 4:00pm on Thursday and/or Friday.
More information on the tour is available at the campaign’s website.
Ramsey is a strong supporter of 2nd Amendment rights, as we all should be. He has also said that as governor, he will veto any legislation that Memphis may get passed allowing it to incorporate itself and Shelby County.
I don’t mean to put words in his mouth, but that could mean that he understands the significance of the movement toward consolidation and he supports the rights of individuals over those of the collective. If so, he finds himself in the company of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Darrell L. Castle
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The four candidates for Governor of Tennessee participated in a televised debate Monday night at Belmont University in Nashville – their last scheduled debate before the August 5th primary.
The candidates are Democrat Mike McWherter, who has no opposition in the Democratic primary, and Republicans Bill Haslam, Zach Wamp, and Ron Ramsey.
The candidates themselves consider Haslam to be the man to beat. That is only my opinion, but I make it based on the way they “tore into him” according to a report in the Commercial Appeal. Usually the contenders feel the need to knock the front-runner down in a debate.
Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam
Here are some highlights of the debate:
Haslam was widely criticized for refusing to disclose his tax returns. “What are you hiding’” asked McWherter. Haslam insisted that releasing his returns would make public the returns of others and that all sources of income have been revealed.
Ron Ramsey criticized Congressman Wamp for his congressional vote in favor of the bailout bill. “How do you justify taking our grandchildren’s money to bail out Wall Street barons? ” Ramsey asked. Wamp responded by saying that the nation’s banking industry was about to fall “off a cliff” and there were fears that depositors would not be able to withdraw their money.
TN Rep. Zach Wamp
I must comment for a moment on Congressman Wamp’s vote and his answer to the question. His answer is complete nonsense. There were no fears beyond F.D.I.C. insurance coverage. He simply voted to transfer trillions of dollars of bad debts owed by large banking houses to the backs of U.S. taxpayers. He seems rather ashamed of that vote now, as he well should be.
My conclusion from watching and reading summaries of this debate is that it was a very good thing, because it revealed conclusively that except for Ron Ramsey, there’s not a bit of difference between the rest of them. Ramsey is the only one who at least gives the impression that he understands what’s coming toward us and how a governor should defend his people.
- Darrell Castle
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Federal Reserve Headquarters in Washington, D.C. – photo by Dan Smith
On June 30th, 2010 the United States House of Representatives rejected Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed measure by a vote of 198 to 229. The audit was included in a motion to send the Dodd-Frank Fed Empowerment Act (H.R. 4173), i.e. the Financial Regulatory Bill, back to committee.
If Congressman Paul’s measure had passed, the Financial Regulatory Bill would have included a thorough audit of the Fed. Instead, the Fed is empowered to an even greater extent.
Zach Wamp, the Republican who has represented Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District for the last 15 years, was a co-sponsor of Congressman Paul’s original Audit the Fed Bill (H.R. 1207). In addition, he is listed as a member of Congressman Paul’s Liberty Caucus.
But despite his co-sponsorship of the audit bill, Congressman Wamp chose not to vote in what was undoubtedly the most important vote of his career. By using that tactic he gets political cover from being a co-sponsor, but pleases his Republican and Central Bank masters by not voting for it.
Congressman Wamp has not given a reason for his refusal to vote that I have seen, but I suppose that reason would be listed as something like “in Tennessee campaigning for Governor.” Well, if that is the reason, as they might say in the 3rd District, that old dog won’t hunt any more.
He doesn’t get paid to be a candidate, he gets paid to represent the 3rd District; and besides, his hypocrisy can’t be rewarded with success in the Republican Primary. If Congressman Wamp wins the Republican primary, the message Tennessee Republicans will have sent is “we reward your duplicitous, hypocritical conduct.”
Why is it import to audit the Federal Reserve? Because the Federal Reserve (Fed) is a private, not a public, institution that has power over the American monetary system to the extent that it can create money, loan it to the federal government, and then require us to pay that loan back with interest.
Our history as a nation revolves around Fed’s action for the last 100 years. The debt and currency problems that we are having right now can be laid right at the feet of the Fed. The 60-year credit expansion and resulting collapse of the banking system with its recession and unemployment can be laid right at the feet of the Fed.
How presumptuous of us, then, to demand that the Fed tell us what it has done with trillions of our dollars.
Do we dare ask the Fed how much of our gold it actually has, and what it did with the rest?
No, says the House of Representatives, you have no right to do that. Zach Wamp says, I have no opinion on that.
Well, I suggest that this August, Republicans send Congressman Wamp a clear message that his refusal to put the State of Tennessee and its people before the central bankers is not appreciated.
- Darrell Castle
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The Tennessee state primary election is scheduled for August 5th, 2010. In that election candidates of the Democrat and Republican Parties will be selected to face each other in the November election for Governor of Tennessee.
One of the leading candidates in the Republican primary is Zach Wamp, and fortunately we do not have to search very long to find Mr. Wamp’s philosophy of government, as Zach Wamp has been in the United States Congress representing Tennessee’s 3rd District since 1995.
Let’s now examine a small part of Congressman Wamp’s 15-year voting record.
He voted to authorize the war against Iraq and has repeatedly voted to continue its funding. As a result of that war over 4000 young Americans have lost their lives and tens of thousands more have been physically and/or psychologically injured for life. Only God knows for sure how many Iraqis have been killed – perhaps hundreds of thousands or more. Millions more have been reduced to the status of homeless refugees; the infrastructure of their country destroyed; their land, water, and air contaminated by depleted uranium weapons. Keep in mind that Iraq was a country which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and represented no threat to the United States whatsoever.
Congressman Wamp states on his campaign website that “we need a balanced budget,” and “reckless spending cannot continue.” Those are noble sentiments, but his voting record does not indicate a genuine commitment to them.
He voted against the ban on UN funding, for the Cash for Clunkers program, for the banker bailout, for the Economic Stimulus Act, for the Peru Free Trade Agreement, for foreign aid, for the Oman Free Trade Agreement, for the Iraq War authorization and continued funding as previously stated, for various supplemental appropriations funding, and repeatedly for deficit spending and unbalanced budgets.
Those votes do not indicate a committment to fiscal responsibility or to the U.S. Constitution.
Photo credit: Republican Party of Shelby County
If that were all it would be plenty, but there’s more. He voted for warrantless searches, for electronic eavesdropping, for criminalizing legitimate dissent through the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, for military tribunals for those designated unlawful enemy combatants, for Patriot Act reauthorization, and against an amendment to deny funds for implementation of the National Animal Identification System.
These votes do not indicate a commitment to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill Of Rights.
Congressman Wamp’s voting record as a whole indicates a firm commitment to the congressional leadership of the Republican Party but a weak commitment to the best interests of the American people. For those reasons I cannot support him as a candidate for Governor of Tennessee.
- Darrell Castle
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Last Friday the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to override the veto of Governor Phil Bredeson in the gun bill we have previously reported in these pages.
Yesterday the bill was enacted into law by the Tennessee Legislature. The bill will allow the holders of concealed carry permits to carry in establishments that serve alcohol as long as the carrier does not consume alcohol.
Individual business owners can prohibit those with a carry permit from exercising it in their establishment by posting a notice to that effect.
Thanks to those legislators who worked tirelessly to enact this bill.
- Darrell Castle
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Last week I wrote an article about Governor Bredesen’s veto of SB3012 (the bill to repeal the alcohol/beer statute).
Yesterday the Tennessee Senate overrode the governor’s veto by a vote of 22 – 10. The legislation now moves to the House and may be decided as early as the end of next week.
For more information regarding the override, see this report.
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