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'TOXIC' Even Democratic Governors are Concerned about Arizona Lawsuit
Boston, the site of the original Tea Party, was also where Obama administration officials met with Governors from all over the country. Many of the gubernatorial participants wanted to focus on creating jobs in a down economy. However, courtesy of a battle between the White House and the state of Arizona over immigration, the economy got short shrift.
Predictably, Arizona governor Jan Brewer was a focal point during the private meeting but just as noteworthy was the reaction of some Democratic governors to the lawsuit filed against Arizona by the federal government. One governor, Tennessee's Phil Bredesen referred to the issue as “toxic”.
Ned Ryun and Matt Robbins, the president and executive director, respectively, of American Majority, see Democratic governors distancing themselves from the president on this issue because, once again, the president is going against the will of the American people. As many of these governors are facing tough re-election campaigns, they don't want to find themselves on the wrong side of public opinion.
The motives behind Democrat reticence when it comes to supporting the president are initially obvious. The economy is what Americans want their leaders focusing on and by going against the will of the American people, Obama is hurting the re-election chances of Governors who stand with him on this issue.
TOO CLOSE TO HOME?
There is potentially another factor at work. Governors consider themselves colleagues and when they see a fellow governor in the political cross-hairs of the White House, it's not much of a stretch to imagine a scenario in the future where it might be them or their state targeted in a similar way, if even on a different issue.
This is the essence of the Tea Party movement and smaller government. It may be far too early to say that the states are uniting with one another and reclaiming their rights from a bloated federal government but it is apparent that the Obama administration has seen fit to govern against the American majority. In the example that is Arizona and the lawsuit filed against it as well as its Governor, Jan Brewer, some of Brewer's Democratic colleagues may be tacitly siding with her.
Ironically, while in Boston, governors of states may have gotten a little taste of tea.
Call Special Guests today for an interview with Ned Ryun or Matt Robbins for a firsthand account of a movement that has become an albatross for the Alinsky-ites in power.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE HELPFUL DURING SHOW PREP:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12governors.html?_r=1
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:
http://summit.americanmajority.org/
http://americanmajority.org/
ABOUT AMERICAN MAJORITY PRESIDENT, NED RYUN:
A former presidential writer for George W. Bush and son of former U.S. Congressman Jim Ryun, Ned Ryun is currently the President of American Majority, a national organization committed to identifying and training liberty‐minded leaders. Ned was the co‐founder and former director of the Generation Joshua program.
Ned earned degrees in English and History from the University of Kansas and has co‐authored Heroes Among Us and The Courage to Run with his father and his twin brother, Drew. Ned and his wife, Becca, reside in Northern Virginia with their sons, Nathaniel and James and their daughter, Charlotte “Lottie.”
When asked which Founding Father he relates to most with, and why, Ryun answered, “Roger Sherman. I am fascinated by a man who is not well known, but who signed the Articles of Confederation, helped draft and then signed the Declaration of Independence, and then also signed the Constitution and was a member of the First Congress, sitting on the committee that helped draft the Bill of Rights. He had a tremendous impact on the founding of this country.”
ABOUT AMERICAN MAJORITY EXEC. DIRECTOR, MATT ROBBINS:
Previously he was political director for the California Republican Party, the largest Republican state party in the United States. He has also served as a Coalitions director on McCain-Palin 2008 and as the Director of Training at the Leadership Institute.
Matt has personally trained thousands of political activists nationwide and in several foreign countries on campaign management, communications and party and candidate development.
Additionally, Matt has worked as a “friendly-fire” analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, as campaign staff on Bush-Cheney 2004, and in both state-level races and state government.
Matt is also a founding partner in a grassroots advocacy firm, where he helped clear the Supreme Court nominations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito.
Matt has trained, lectured and debated worldwide with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the American Council of Young Political Leaders, the Close Up Foundation, the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, GOPAC, the International Republican Institute, and the Leadership Institute.
Matt is an Arkansas native and holds a degree in English from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
ABOUT AMERICAN MAJORITY:
At American Majority, we believe that real political change begins at the local level. It is going to take engaged citizens working together in their communities to effectively implement freedom on a national level. We believe that individual liberty will only be achieved through limited government and free markets and that by training candidates and activists to be effective towards those goals today, we will enhance tomorrow.
American Majority is a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to train and equip a national network of leaders committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market. Headquartered in Purcellville, Virginia, we currently have state offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas, with plans to open additional state offices in 2010.
Our organizational philosophy remains centered around the grassroots. We work hard to ensure our premier training programs are accessible to activists and candidates around the country. Since our inception in 2008, we conducted hundreds of training sessions in dozens of states, providing resources and education to more than 5,000 candidates and grassroots activists.
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