To Whom it May Concern,
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”
Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.
Respectfully,
A Citizen of the United States of America
Agenda:
The COS / Dr. Vieira project.
Education and Organizing.
Outreach to Veterans.
Goals: Private sound money transactions; incremental State legislation to implement: constitutional sound money alternative, volunteer constitutional security, fully operational People's constitutional security to enforce the Constitutions and respond to any emergency in support to first responders.
Great post. Hope freedom would exists in the end. March 2nd is Texas Independence Day – alternatively known as International White People Stealing from Mexico Day. (I'm not judging.) The Republic of Texas declared it's independence from Mexico on March 2nd, 1836, and was annexed by the US as a state 10 years later. You don't necessarily need to get payday loans to celebrate, quote unquote Texas style – just get some Shiner Beer (a German Bock style lager) and barbecue – Texan BBQ is famous (rightly so) for slow cooked beef brisket, and relies on correct cooking to seal in flavor instead of sauce.
We don't have an official host as of yet.
this is a purely grassroots sponsored event.
I am working on the website and it should be available later this week.
bob who is hosting this?
got an official link?
I attended this show where Dave interviewed John McManus. This was perhaps Dave's best show. I am anxiously awaiting the video so that more people can see and hear the two of you in action.
KUDOS!!!!!
Jeff, the most important issue facing our Nation is the wars in the Middle East that are making the oil companies and war profiteers richer while bankrupting our government and sacrificing our troops. You don't even mention it in your comments.
Are you for or against these wars? Will you oppose funding to keep them going and work to bring our troops home!
You can contribute that to a number of the people we have over here that support him.
He's constantly getting plugged from people on FaceBook, and they have friends, who have friends, etc.
Plus, what with FaceBook's new layout and all, privacy has gone down the drain, heh,
Everyone will probably see everything at this rate,
Kamal doesn't need to worry about his message not getting enough "web air", that's for certain,
We need to put up a candidate for District 1 immediately. Fec.gov lists two challengers to Olver with $0 collected as of 12/31/2009. Does anyone know if these two are active/gethering signatures/serious?
Humphrey,
There are no "qualifications" for Auditor like there are for DA for example (must be a lawyer and a member of the Mass Bar to run). Second, the job is basically to oversee the ones who do most of the actual accounting work. Jain would first make publicly available all financial transactions of the State on the web so any of us could see where the gov't is spending its money. No qualifications needed to do that. Second, he would be the one state government elected official to stop LYING to the citizenry about the "budget" and all matters dealing with state finances. I would expect Jain to be VISIBLE and accountable to the public unlike the current auditor DiNucci. He would tell it like it is (as he is already doing) about the four "budgets" Mass has as well as off budget spending.
Anyway, my point is, you can bash Jain before he has a chance to officially start his campaign or you can look at who we could have instead- Mary Connaughton who has been in state government before (Turnpike board, etc) and is the Entrenched Establishment's pick.
Alexa ratings have Kain's site ranked 6,934,739 to Connaughton's 14,385,657. It looks like he is getting more "traffic" on his campaign.
Jarod, please stop spamming this forum. You only contribute free plugs for questionable financial instruments and nothing else.
I agree with you all. This bill would surely affect many of our citizens on the key protections of our health rights. SPAM REMOVED BY MODERATOR. Are there still chance we could stop enacting this bill? I don’t think this will help us in many ways! Also we should try our best to contact them and let our voice be heard!
This bill would strip many of the key protections of our health rights in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and could restrict or cancel our access to basic nutritional supplements. Become a friend of DSHEA on FB: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/DSHEA-Dietary-Supplement-Health-and-Education-Act-of-1994/222623911232?ref=ts
Hi every one you all came too know about this that The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators. According to one source at testking 70-270 the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to persuade him to settle his legal action over the illegal interception of his voicemail messages.
I am (ahem) apparently one of those lap dogs you decry in the February newsletter's "Precinct Project Advances." I won a contested write-in election for Republican State Committee Man for the First Middlesex state senatorial district.
To win, I canvassed door to door, compiled public voter registration and performance information from my district's municipalities (i.e., identified who actually shows up to vote consistently), sent a mailer to the 3800 high-probability folks out of 88,000 registered voters, appeared on a local cable-access show and then got the various local cable committees to run it across the district, and designed and produced a voter guide / sticker system approved for a voter to carry into the polls with him. I spent $1300 of my own money in addition to the $300 in donations that I was astonished to have received.
Yes, the state committees do vote policy, budget and chairman for their parties. They also supervise local convention delegate-selection caucuses. Somebody has got to assume the responsibility and liability for that, and in our (small-r) republican form of government, it is the party state committees. The meetings are public, with proceedings recorded in minutes and dates posted well in advance. The same is true for duly constituted local ward and town committee meetings.
The fundamental goal of party committees at every level is to get their candidates elected. What could be simpler and more transparent than that?
Sometimes we do extracurricular activities. For example, I managed a telephone bank on behalf of a wonderful (though unsuccessful) candidate for the Second Middlesex House District. We completed 33% more calls than the Campaign requested. I also wrote software to help me schedule and track the volunteer callers' efforts.
I can't speak for the Dems, but we GOP folks have all kinds in our state committee. We have constitutional strict constructionists vs. blunt pragmatists, a few old-money types whose participation goes back several generations, ardent feminists, pro-life vs. pro-choice vs. "don't bring that subject up" people, western MA and cape & islands residents who resent being ignored by Beacon Hill, some social climbers / wannabes, successful political hired guns / still more wannabes, urban vs. suburban vs. ex-urban mentalities, ethnic and racial variations, spare-haired old gray heads vs. younger folks etc. You name it, we've got it. They all have in common that they were elected to office.
It's not such a fabulous office. It is strictly voluntary, at zero pay. It does not legislate public policy, spending or revenue. (If you enjoy holding a gun to the citizenry for money, run for the legislature, not the state committee.) It exposes the officeholder to liability. Pretty much, it's the "dog catcher" of elected Massachusetts offices.
Factual corrections to your article:
1) Delegate rules vary from one convention to another and are up to the individual political parties as approved by their state committees. (We had a few skirmishes over these in the GOP state committee, let me tell you!) In particular, the GOP rules this time provide one elected delegate slot for every 300 votes cast in favor of Gov. Romney's election, rounded upward for any remainder after computing that division.
2) I am not a "default" delegate. I am an ex officio (Latin for "by virtue of office") delegate. Other GOP ex officio GOP delegates this time are county sheriffs, mayors and city councilors, chairmen of local GOP committees, and school committee members
3) Bicameral has nothing to do with your point in the final paragraph of your article. The camerae (Latin for chambers) are the House and Senate. Context suggests you mean "bipartisan."
4) No state has been sovereign since approving the Constitution of the United States. If you really want Massachusetts sovereignty restored, you are talking secession. Wow, imagine Shay's Rebellion and the Civil War all over again.
Lastly, what exactly is "all the trouble" that the two parties have caused? A party coalesces because people of similar outlook figure they will get farther by banding together based on their similarities than running away based on their differences. Political party official and defacto platforms evolve constantly. They morph quickest in response to elections. (For instance, Chicago community organizer-style Hope 'n' Change has not worked out so well for the Dems, who are therefore rethinking things.)
Two parties tend to predominate in the United States because three or more would result in an unstable system that naturally collapses back to two. That is not to say that a vibrant new party cannot overrun an older one. (When was the last time you saw the Whig party on the ballot?) For example, the nascent Republican Party gained strength by being on the correct and popular side of abolishing slavery in this country. The Dems opposed abolition.
Want multiple parties? It's easily done by replacing a popularly elected president with a powerful prime minister elected by the national legislature. If this appeals to you, Italy beckons.
Woof, woof.
-- Jeff Wilson
I just called Kerry's office, but the link provided for Brown is no longer working. I am guessing that Brown has not yet set up his office in DC. Here is his Beacon Hill office # 617-722-1555. It is 6:00pm now and I will call in the morning. Thanks for posting this Dave.
Let's get Kamal in office this November!
2-9-2010 - I just got an update from Sen. Bob Hedlund that the bill is NOT Dead yet. The conference committee could still address this legislation in the months to come. We are hoping that as we get past the "flu season" that it will die in committee. As the threat to contracting the flu dimishes, so does the possibilty that this bill will be redressed. The key date to look forward to is July 31st. This is when the possibility for the committee to reconvene will have passed. The bill will not be offficially dead until Jan 2nd 2011.
Seems Patrick has his first opponent in the election from his own party. Everyone remember Green Grace Ross? The Green candidate from 2006?
Well, Grace has decided to face off with Patrick in the Democratic Party Primary.
It's getting heated up!
More info from IPR
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/02/former-green-running-f...
I can guess about them judging by their name, but I wish they would've made an About Us section.
Right in the middle of my town, a nice, quiet, easy to navigate place.
Have they done anything like this before?
This is the first time I've heard of them doing anything in Charlton.
I fear Kamal will run into problems against Connaughton financially. I'm not sure where everyone stands up the moment, but last time I heard via the RMG interview with Kamal, Connaughton had a lot more funds to spend then he.
State Reps in Senator Richard Moore’s district
George Peterson is a Republican and a very good Rep and his district overlaps Moore’s district but unfortunately George lives outside Moores’ district.
Moore-DISTRICT REPRESENTED: WORCESTER AND NORFOLK. — Blackstone, Douglas, Dudley, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, Oxford, Southbridge, Sutton, Uxbridge and Webster, in the county of Worcester; and Bellingham, in the county of Norfolk.
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JENNIFER M. CALLAHAN
State House District Information
Room 130 112 Uxbridge Road
Boston, MA 02133 Sutton, MA 01590
Telephone: 617-722-2130 508-865-7788
Email: Rep.JenniferCallahan@hou.state.ma.ushttp://www.mass.gov/legis/member/jmc1.htm
Party Affiliation - DEMOCRAT
DISTRICT REPRESENTED: Eighteenth Worcester. - Consisting of the town of Bellingham, in the county of Norfolk; and precincts 1, 2 and 4, of the town of Uxbridge, precincts 1 and 2, of the town of Sutton, and the towns of Blackstone and Millville, all in the county of Worcester.
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PAUL KUJAWSKI
State House
Room 466
State House
Boston, MA 02133
Telephone: 617-722-2017
Facsimile: 617-722-2813
E-Mail: Rep.PaulKujawski@hou.state.ma.ushttp://www.mass.gov/legis/member/p_k1.htm
Party Affiliation - DEMOCRAT
DISTRICT REPRESENTED: Eighth Worcester. - Consisting of the towns of Douglas and Dudley, precinct 4, of the town of Oxford, precinct 3, of the town of Uxbridge, and the town of Webster, all in the county of Worcester.
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JOHN V. FERNANDES
State House District Office
Room 136 12 Main Street
State House P.O Box 436
Boston, MA 02133 Milford, MA 01757
Telephone: (617) 722-2396 (508) 473-3063
Facsimile: 617-722-2215 (508) 478-4420
E-Mail: Rep.JohnFernandes@Hou.State.MA.UShttp://www.mass.gov/legis/member/jvf1.htm
Party Affiliation - DEMOCRAT
DISTRICT REPRESENTED: Tenth Worcester. - Consisting of the towns of Hopedale, Mendon and Milford, all in the county of Worcester.
Kamal is making two political miscalculation. First to run for Auditor in the first place, it is a position for which he is not qualified.
The second is forgoing independant status and going directly on the November ballot as there are two other Republicans seeking the position.
Earle Stroll, MBA forensic accounting
http://stroll2010.com/
and
Mary Z. Connaughton, CPA, is a professional auditor http://www.maryforauditor.com/
Knowing the state of the Republican Party in Massachusetts he will now be out of the running after losing the primary because he will not attract a sufficient number of "independants" to the primary.
