BizzyBlog is very pleased and proud to be among those listed at Blogs4Pierce. Go there to see who the other distinguished members of this victory-expecting contingent are.
If you are a blogger who wishes to help the cause of electing a true citizen-legislator to the United States Senate, feel free to lift the graphic and link to Bill’s blog. If you want to be added to the Blogs4Pierce blogroll at Bill’s blog (of course you do!), contact Matt here.
To contribute to Pierce campaign, as I just did (but in an amount that cannot be seen as reducing my ability to see things objectively), go here.
We have seen in other races how a very large number of relatively small contributions have made a big difference, even THE difference. If you support Bill, do your part to make this another one, and encourage your Pierce-supporting friends to do likewise.
I haven’t exactly been on the fence, but it’s time to clearly and definitively get off the fence once and for all.
Today I am formally endorsing Bill Pierce for US Senator from Ohio. I encourage all who read this to vote for Bill in the Republican Primary on May 2, and also ask that everyone spread the word that this man is the best qualified of the three candidates to represent our party, and the best qualified person of either party to represent our state. Bill Pierce CAN win in May, and if he wins in May, he WILL win in November.
I’ll have more to say on Bill in the coming days, but here’s a quick checklist:
- Integrity, check.
- Strong moral values, check.
- Private sector experience, check.
- Classroom teaching experience, check.
- Citizen legislator envisioned by the Founding Fathers, check.
- Will limit himself to two terms, check.
- Right on immigration, check.
- Right on War on Terror, check.
- Right on ending judicial filibusters, check.
- Right on unclogging the federal courts, check.
- Right on energy policy and drilling in ANWR, check.
- Right on ending pork and earmarks, check.
- Right on getting the federal budget under control, check.
- Right on taxes, check.
- Right on reining in out-of-control regulations, check.
- Right on tort reform, check.
- Right on 2nd Amendment issues, check.
Unlike one or both of his opponents, Bill Pierce:
- Is a long-time state resident.
- Has many years of private sector and public/private education system experience.
- Isn’t vague or evasive about his past.
- Has visited, and will continue to visit, all areas of the state, and stay in touch with GOP and other officials at the county level, even after elected.
- Has been the clear overall winner in fair and open county endorsement votes during January, February, and March.
- Won’t be known by the far-left company he keeps in co-sponsoring legislation.
- Will perform the regulatory oversight required of legislators, instead of letting the bureaucrats run free.
- Speaks out on the issues that matter, instead of spending years in relative silence.
On May 2, Ohio voters need to send a message to the Ohio Republican Party, the national GOP, and the rest of the nation by electing one of us — Bill Pierce.
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I am so not surprised (HT Michelle Malkin):
The Montgomery County schools’ decision to grant students community service credit for attending Monday’s immigration rights protest is raising concern among some parents as well as activists who say officials should focus on education, not political advocacy.
First, I’m not surprised at what the school system is doing. Second, I’m not surprised that it appears that many of those outraged at the decision are shocked (shocked!) that the schools are encouraging political advocacy. Where have they been?
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Steyn nails a few of the many hypocritical arguments and postures in the immigration debate and the administration of immigration law:
All developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that “family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.” True. They don’t stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you’re an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what’s supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like “advance parole” that leave her vulnerable to the whims of the many eccentric interpreters of U.S. immigration law at the nation’s airports and land borders.
Here’s another place where family values stops: The rubble of the World Trade Center. Deena Gilbey is a British subject whose late husband worked on the 84th floor: On the morning of Sept. 11, instead of fleeing, he returned to the building to help evacuate his co-workers. A few days later, Mrs. Gilbey receives a letter from the INS noting that as she’s now widowed her immigration status has changed and she’s obliged to leave the country along with her two children (both U.S. citizens). Think about that: Having legally admitted to the country the terrorists who killed her husband, the U.S. government’s first act on having facilitated his murder is to add insult to grievous injury by serving his widow with a deportation order. Why should illegal Mexicans be the unique beneficiaries of a sentimental blather about “family values” to which U.S. immigration is otherwise notoriously antipathetic?
How about “the jobs Americans won’t do”? Most of them would be more accurately categorized as the jobs American employers won’t hire Americans to do — that’s to say, in a business culture ever more onerously regulated, the immigration status of one’s employees has become one of the easiest means of controlling costs.
He does make a point that pushing immigration enforcement down to employers is hypocritical when the government doesn’t hold up is end. I’ll accept that; make the government hold up its end (e.g., build the Rio Grande wall), and at the same force employers to verify citizenship status before hiring anyone.
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It’s been a few days, so I apologize for the delay, but a hearty welcome to new S.O.B. Alliance members Chuckoblog and Black Swamp Conservative.
Chucko appears to be going the anonymous route, and posts on politics and Catholicism. He seems to catch interesting things others are missing.
Chad Baus of Black Swamp is from Fulton County in Northwest Ohio, which recently rocked incumbent US Senator Mike DeWine’s world in an unfavorable way, and is with the Buckeye Firearms Association. Though I think it’s safe to say that S.O.B. folks across-the-board are Second Amendment supporters, the perspective of an activist is clearly welcome.
On the brand-proliferation front, I have just learned that Paul Miller of Newshound, Northwest Ohio.net Opinion, and Ohio Politics Weekly, has had another blog called Along the Tracks for some time. It has been dutifully added to the S.O.B. Alliance Blogroll.
Welcome to all.
The Cincinnati Beacon Reports on Cincinnati’s Channel 9 Pre-Packaged “News” Stories
This is fundamentally dishonest, and really weak:
Local news station WCPO has joined the ranks of television news centers broadcasting commercial advertisements and masking them as original news reports. This is particularly troublesome, as these corporate produced videos are designed to mimic legitimate news reports.
They’ve done it twice already.
Remember this the next time some antique media outlet beats up on blogs and forums for lack of transparency.
