Mr. President, You asked for it, Icaucus answered........

Recently President Obama made disparaging remarks about the Tea Parties and grassroots movement. He challenged us to show him how we would fix the economy.
Here is the first answer from the Independence Caucus.

On October 1st, iCaucus (a “Grass Roots” National Citizens organization) has answered this challenge with the release of “Creating Jobs in America… Stimulating Solution #1 from the American Grass Roots”


Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUv4u9VE-do

This is just the first of a series of open letters to President Obama (and the rest of our out of touch elected officials) that will be released periodically over the next few weeks. Our next open letter will spell out how to fix the broken federal budget process in order to stop the out of control spending spree that Washington has embarked upon.

Posted with permission from http://www.icaucus.org/.

INTERESTING RACES IN THE CAROLINAS

For anyone interested in current events and politics, the races in North and South Carolina are worth watching. There is South Carolina's Alvin Green vs Vic Rawl. Here is an excerpt from Ann Coulter's recent article on this race:

Democrats have decided that Alvin Greene's surprise victory in the South Carolina Democratic senatorial primary must be the result of a Republican dirty trick.

Greene beat Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge, with a whopping 60 percent of the vote in last Tuesday's primary, despite Greene's having no job, no house, no campaign website, no campaign headquarters -- indeed, no campaign. Other than paying the $10,000 filing fee, Greene seems to have put no effort into the race whatsoever. Continue reading here: http://tinyurl.com/2db3qsy
I agree with Ann Coulter, this race is hilarious and it would be a miracle if Greene could beat Jim DeMint. But this will never happen.

Then there is North Carolina. Politics as usual between Bernie Reeves and Bill Randall. Randall, a US Navy veteran and a teaparty candidate, endorsed by Icaucus which means he has proven to be a fiscally conservative constitutional candidate is being hammered by Reeves and his handlers. Bernie Reeves, a former democrat, got into the habit of paying himself a salary from his campaign fund. That is a no-no under the FEC campaign finance laws. Carter Wrenn, Reeves' campaign manager has a long history of campaign violations and race baiting. The local media is currently looking into Reeves' campaign finance. From what I see he is not an honorable man and I wish Bill Randall best of luck in his pursuit.

ICAUCUS - THE NEW AND HOT YARD SIGN

When you will see yard signs as these shown below, you can rest assured that those individuals are to be remembered when you go to the polling and voting station this November.

 H/T Opus-6 from MAInfo

OUR PRINCIPLES ARE:


*LIMITED GOVERNMENT

*FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

*ADHERENCE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

*REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE TO WASHINGTON; NOT WASHINGTON TO THE PEOPLE

OUR GOAL IS TO:

*BRING GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY BACK TO THE PEOPLE

*REMOVE THE INFLUENCE AND CONTROL OF “BIG MONEY” SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

*HOLD OUR REPRESENTATIVES ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR PROMISES AND PRINCIPLES

OUR METHOD TO ACCOMPLISH OUR GOAL IS TO:

*FIND, VET, ENDORSE AND THEN HELP ELECT PRINCIPLED CANDIDATES

*TEACH OUR DELEGATES A PROVEN METHOD TO ACHIEVE GRASSROOTS ELECTORAL SUCCESS

MI CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS, ROCKY RACZKOWSKI GOT MARRIED

April 10, 2010 Rocky Raczkowski was married to beautiful Amalia. My husband and I had the honor of attending the wedding. It was beautiful, to say the least. With Amalia now at his side, Rocky is complete. He will make a perfect congressman. I've been supporting Rocky since the day of his announcement speech. That was before he got the well deserved endorsement from the Independence Caucus http://www.icaucus.org/  See his endorsement here: http://tinyurl.com/yhcfb9q To learn more about Rocky and to join his campaign or make a donation to the campaign, click here http://www.rockyworksforus.com/ He currently has 2 opponents to beat before the primary. But after that he has to compete with the US Congress' most liberal representative, that voted 95% with his party and has 1.5 Mill in his warchest.  To win this seat will be crucial not only for his district or state, but for the entire country.

Enjoy this beautiful wedding photo.

AN INVITATION TO JOIN INDEPENDENCE CAUCUS

I'm a member of the Independence Caucus (http://icaucus.ning.com/). We are an organization whose primary mission is to replace our compromised, fiscally irresponsible incumbents with good men and women who share our principles and values.

Every conservative group shares that same goal and we have something to offer the other groups that they cannot do for themselves or their members. We truly are the last-mile solution to get the job done. At Independence Caucus, we have five golden keys to help us accomplish this.

1) Independence Caucus has a well defined candidate vetting process which includes a set of 80 principle-based vetting questions, which we pose to all potential candidates for office. We believe that this is a job interview, and that the primary reason we have so many people in office who have not represented us well in the past is because we have not vetted them properly. The Independence Caucus members and partners for each area (comprised of people who are in that particular candidate’s voting district), must agree with at least a 70% majority, that the candidate is the right person to back before Independence Caucus will endorse that candidate.

2) We conduct specific research on incumbents to show the link to their voting records & earmarks, and which big money special interest groups have donated to their campaigns and how much they’ve donated (it’s a whole lot more than the media reports). We use that research to give our endorsed candidates an advantage in campaigning against that incumbent.

3) Our founders understand that “all politics is local” and they have a strong knowledge of how politics works down to a precinct level and understand what is needed to win campaigns. Their first win was Jason Chaffetz from Utah’s third Congressional district. Chaffetz is the Congressman who sleeps on his cot in his Washington office to save the tax payers money. Frank Anderson and Monte Bateman, the co-founders of Independence Caucus helped Chaffetz beat an incumbent Congressman while being outspent by 6:1.

4) We’ve identified 26 specific functional positions within a campaign that are needed in order to win and beat compromised incumbents who are owned by the big money special interest groups.

5) Finally, the Independence Caucus currently has programmers developing a powerful political social networking tool, which connects candidates to enthusiastic and motivated volunteers for their campaigns. This social networking tool contains all the tools a candidate needs to manage his/her campaign, as well as the tools and training volunteers need to be most effective in working for their chosen candidate.

We would like to partner with any and all groups as well as individuals who share our goals and would like to participate with us to use the tools we provide. Are you interested?

Thanks,

Rotti

p.s. Whichever state you live in, after joining, make sure you join your state group and if you are in MI, join your district as well.  Hope to see you all there.

p.p.s. If you are from MI, please let me know that you joined.