Dr. Ralph Reed
Founder and Chairman
(FFC) Faith & Freedom Coalition
(P.O. Box 96321, Washington, D.C. 20090-6321)
https://www.ffcoalition.com/;
Ph: 770-622-1501
2014 Congressional Research
Survey
of 10,000,000 Voters on ObamaCare
Campaign to Undo ObamaCare
Dear Patriot,
I
cannot thank you enough for all of your loyal support for Faith & Freedom
Coalition (FFC). You have been such a wonderful friend. The battle to defeat
ObamaCare is far from over. I know you agree with me on this...
Also,
because you are such a loyal friend of Faith & Freedom, I wanted to be sure
to include your answers in the enclosed 2014 Congressional Research Survey of
10,000,000 Voters on ObamaCare we are now conducting.
This
is certainly the largest survey of voters yet conducted on the issue of
ObamaCare. We will deliver a comprehensive report on the results of this survey
to
•
House Speaker John Boehner and the House Republican Leadership;
•
Members of Congress and their key staff;
•
All 50 governors and state lawmakers;
•
President Obama and his top advisors;
•
Federal judges, including the nine Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court;
•
Radio talk show hosts and opinion columnists; and
•
Major news organizations, including influential news websites and blogs.
. . .
because this survey is so enormous, you can be sure the results will be studied
carefully by America's elected leaders. The purpose of this survey is to .
. .
1) Shore up
the courage of Republican House Speaker John Boehner to immediately HALT federal funding for ObamaCare (as
the House has the power to do under the Constitution);
2) Show the
50 governors (30 of whom are
Republican) that it will be popular with voters if they simply refuse to use
state taxpayer money to pay for ObamaCare (as the Supreme Court has now ruled
the Governors can do);
3) Send a
powerful message to conservative
candidates for Congress and the Senate in 2014 that they would do well to make
ObamaCare the main issue and focus of the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections
(as we saw in the 2010 mid-term Elections when conservatives achieved sweeping
victories at every level of government);
4) Send a
clear message to the National GOP
Establishment that they made a huge mistake in 2012 by dropping the ObamaCare
issue. (As a result, voters mostly forgot about the disaster of ObamaCare when
voting in 2012); and
5) Help us
identify, educate, and mobilize
tens of millions of voters to send a strong message to Congress, all 50
Governors, President Obama, and to elected officials that the overwhelming
majority of Americans want ObamaCare
repealed.
As
you will see from reading this letter, we have many powerful tools at our
disposal to undo ObamaCare. And we
have a detailed Battle Plan & Strategy to do just this — which I will
explain more fully in a moment.
As
you already know, with more than 700,000 members and supporters, Faith & Freedom is now America's largest organization educating and mobilizing
conservative Christian voters for effective political and civic action.
Faith & Freedom was founded in 2009 with the specific mission of STOPPING Barack
Obama and his radical agenda for America and to restore Constitutional government to our great
Republic.
Faith & Freedom believes in the central proposition of America's founding document — our Declaration of Independence, which states as follows:
"We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
In
2012, Faith & Freedom conducted
the largest Christian voter registration, education, and turnout campaign ever
seen in America's history. In all, Faith & Freedom made 155.2 MILLION contacts with Christian
voters to explain what was at stake in the 2012 Election and why we have a
moral duty to save America by voting.
THE RESULT: We were able
to increase conservative Christian voter turnout in the 12 key "swing"
states from 22 to 27 percent of the electorate - which translates to adding
2,700,000 votes to the conservative side in the 2012 Election.
In
other words, Faith & Freedom did its
job by increasing conservative Christian voter turnout by 18 percent in the
key "swing" states over what it was in 2008.
Unfortunately,
other elements of the GOP coalition stayed home on Election Day. So President Obama managed to win a narrow
tactical victory by spending more than $1 BILLION.
Our Biggest Wins So Far
Faith & Freedom had tremendous
success in the 2010 mid-term
Congressional Elections, where we saw sweeping conservative victories at every
level of government.
In
the 2010 mid-term Elections, Faith &
Freedom made 58 million contacts
with Christian voters (either via postal mail, a phone call, an email, text
messages, a VOTER GUIDE, and/or a personal visit).
Using
this same strategy, Faith & Freedom
also played a key role in helping Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker win his
recall election in June of 2012.
Faith & Freedom helped Scott Walker withstand a $45 MILLION assault from the Left and the
Big Labor Unions . . . because of the "ground game" we built, mainly through the churches.
Unfortunately, we came up short in 2012 against Obama's massive $1 BILLION
re-election machine.
Why Obama Won Re-Election in 2012
It's
my view that the National Republican Party is (and has been) making a huge
strategic blunder by talking only about the economy, when we need to be showing
voters how radical Obama really is.
Barack
Obama has promised to "fundamentally
transform" America. His agenda for America's future is clearly socialist (or worse). Most
Americans don't want to "fundamentally
transform" America into Barack Obama's socialist vision. That's what the
2012 Election should have been about. But it wasn't.
I
also believe the National GOP made a huge
mistake by stopping almost all talk of ObamaCare in 2012 - even though
focusing on the disaster of ObamaCare produced sweeping conservative victories
at every level of government in the 2010 mid-term Elections.
Had
the National GOP continued to focus voter attention on ObamaCare, I believe
Barack Obama would have been a one-term President.
Barack
Obama managed to eek out a very narrow tactical re-election victory in 2012
because he had a superior "ground
game," and he was able to maximize voter turnout in the urban areas.
Faith & Freedom is the only
organization on the conservative side
that's emphasizing building a "ground
game" that can match the "ground
game" of Barack Obama, the Big Labor Unions, and the Left.
We
had great success in the 2010 mid-term Elections. We also had great success with Governor Scott Walker's
recall election in June of 2012. We fell short in the 2012 Presidential
Election.
There
are now a number of Republican leaders who are saying the problem is our
conservative principles. I could not disagree more. We win elections when we emphasize our conservative, pro-freedom,
pro-Constitution principles. We lose when our candidates try to sound more
like liberals.
The great Ronald Reagan proved this truth
over and over again: Reagan won by emphasizing his
conservative (small government) agenda, not by downplaying it.
Reasons for Optimism
Despite
the disappointment of the 2012 Election, I am actually very optimistic about
the future. Here's why.
In
the sixth year of a Presidency, the President's party almost always suffers
massive defeat in the mid-term Congressional Elections which are coming up very
quickly in 2014.
I
think that will happen again this time — IF
Faith & Freedom is able to carry out its Battle Plan for 2013 and 2014. We then enter the 2016
Presidential Election cycle when I expect we'll have a very strong line-up of
solid conservative, pro-Constitution candidates.
But a huge key
to victory in the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections (and then the 2016 Presidential Election) is to get
back to focusing voter attention on what a disaster
ObamaCare really is for America — and to hold accountable in the 2014
mid-term Congressional Elections those members of Congress who voted for
ObamaCare.
Faith & Freedom now has 700,000 members and supporters. We need to double
this number to 1,400,000 over the next 12 months and have at least one Faith & Freedom chapter in every
Congressional district. That's how we match and surpass the "ground game" of the Big Labor
Unions and the Left.
So I
believe we will see sweeping conservative victories at every level of
government in the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections (just like we saw in
2010)—IF we do our job and keep
building Faith & Freedom.
My
expectation is that President Obama's approval rating will be in the 30's by
the time the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections arrive.
We'll
have an $18 TRILLION national debt on Election Day in November of 2014. And
many economists are now saying we are tipping into another Obama-created
recession.
The key for us is to concede no more
legislative victories to Obama and the Left. Conservatives still control the U.S. House of Representatives.
President Obama can't pass anything into law unless the conservative majority
in the House caves under pressure and gives Obama what he wants.
Faith & Freedom will be mobilizing our 700,000 members and supporters
to pressure their Representatives in Congress (with phone calls and letters) to
"HOLD THE LINE" by not
allowing any more of Barack Obama's radical proposals to pass into law . . .
until conservative reinforcements arrive in the 2014 mid-term Congressional
Elections.
Why ObamaCare is so Dangerous
to America's Survival
as the "Land of the Free"
This
will be Faith & Freedom's primary
focus because ObamaCare truly is one of the gravest threat to freedom our
nation has faced.
ObamaCare sets up a Soviet-style health
care bureaucracy that will destroy
freedom in America and wreck our health care system if it's allowed to
take root and spread like a cancer into every area of American life. ObamaCare . . .
o Requires the
hiring of 16,000 brand new IRS agents to enforce the 2,700-page law;
o Establishes
159 brand new government agencies to administer the program; and
o Includes 21
new taxes and tax increases.
Barack
Obama is out to "fundamentally
transform" the American system (his words) — including our
Constitutional structure of government. The
engine that's driving this fundamental transformation of our society is without
question ObamaCare.
Communists
and socialists have always known that the fastest and surest way to move a
country into socialism is through socializing medicine — that is, by putting a
country's health care system under government control.
Vladimir Lenin, the founder and architect of the Soviet Communist
state said, "Socialized medicine is
the keystone to the arch of the socialist state."
Lenin and the Communists knew that once you control people's access to
health care and medical treatment, you control their lives. The Left here in America is well aware of this also.
When
radio host Paul W. Smith asked liberal Congressman
John Dingell (D-MI) why it will take the government until 2014 to fully set
up the ObamaCare system, Dingell said this:
"It takes a long time to do the
necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation
together to control the people."
(Source: News Talk WJR Radio with Paul W. Smith, 3/23/2010)
So
ObamaCare has nothing to do with making health care more affordable or better.
ObamaCare is all about setting up a vast
government bureaucracy to "control
the people." No wonder Cuba's Communist dictator Fidel Castro hailed the passage
of ObamaCare as "a miracle."
No
wonder the late Communist dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez,
called Obama "Comrade Obama"
and said in a speech that he believed Obama might be even farther Left than
himself and Castro.
In
other words, when Barack Obama told us in 2008 that he was out to "fundamentally transform" America, he meant it. And he's doing it primarily through ObamaCare.
Our Four-Part Battle Plan to End
ObamaCare
The
good news is, we have a realistic and doable FOUR-PART Battle Plan to END
ObamaCare.
PART
ONE: The U.S. House of
Representatives can simply refuse to fund ObamaCare.
The
U.S. House of Representatives is still under conservative majority control. Under the Constitution, all funding for the
federal government must originate in the House. So the House has the
authority to simply not fund ObamaCare.
House Speaker John Boehner and the House Republican Leadership just need the
courage to say "NO" to ObamaCare — that is, to stop
ObamaCare from receiving another penny of taxpayer money.
Just
doing this would stop ObamaCare dead in its tracks . . . until we have a new
President and enough votes in the Senate to fully repeal ObamaCare.
This
is why your survey is so important — so we can show Speaker Boehner why immediately
stopping funding for ObamaCare will be very popular with the voters essential
for the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections.
But
there are still more ways we can stop ObamaCare, even while Obama is still
President. The law has a number of structural flaws Obama and the Left
overlooked when they were writing it.
PART
TWO: The Supreme Court ruled in 2012
that the federal government has no authority to compel the states to pay for or
administer ObamaCare.
ObamaCare
passes many of the costs of the program onto the states. This was part of the
legislative trickery Obama and the Left in Congress engaged in to make
ObamaCare appear less costly than it really is.
Obama
wanted to be able to say the cost of ObamaCare is under a TRILLION dollars —
when the true cost of this enormous program is actually many TRILLIONS of
dollars.
But
in 2012, the Supreme Court ruled
that the federal government has no authority under the U.S. Constitution to
force the states to pay for or administer ObamaCare.
Specifically,
the Supreme Court ruled that forcing the states to pay for or administer
ObamaCare is a violation of the
Constitution's TENTH AMENDMENT and sovereignty of the states.
In
other words, this ruling wiped out one of the primary mechanisms by which ObamaCare
is supposed to be funded and administered — IF the governors of the states simply refuse to pay for or administer
ObamaCare.
So a
big part of Faith & Freedom's
strategy is to persuade most of the 50 governors (30 of whom are
Republican) to refuse to cooperate with ObamaCare. If the governors take a stand against ObamaCare, the program
becomes unworkable.
Governor Rick Perry has already announced that Texas will not pay
one penny to expand Medicaid and will not set up the ObamaCare
"exchanges."
So
far, at least 20 governors have
indicated they are not inclined to go along with ObamaCare. Even some
Democrat governors have expressed dismay at how much ObamaCare will cost their
states.
We
at Faith & Freedom are mobilizing
our 700,000 members and supporters (plus millions of other Americans) to write
and call their governor and state Representative to demand that they not spend
one penny of state taxpayer money on ObamaCare.
PART
THREE: Additional Supreme Court
Constitutional challenges to ObamaCare.
Faith & Freedom is supporting two more lawsuits challenging the constitutionality
of ObamaCare. These lawsuits hold out great promise for overturning much of
ObamaCare as unconstitutional.
Yes, the Supreme Court shockingly ruled in 2012 that the ObamaCare requirement of purchasing
health insurance is allowable under the taxing power of the federal government.
But the Court also ruled that ObamaCare has no authority to force the states to
cooperate with ObamaCare. So that was a mixed ruling.
But
now Faith & Freedom is supporting
more than 70 Catholic and other Christian organizations who have filed a
lawsuit in federal court challenging the requirement that Christian and
pro-life Americans purchase health insurance that includes coverage for abortion-inducing drugs clearly a violation of the Constitution's FIRST
AMENDMENT protection of freedom of religion and conscience.
ObamaCare regulations also appear to require pro-life doctors and hospitals
to perform abortions if they want to stay in the medical field. So this is also
a clear violation of the Constitution's
First Amendment.
The
second lawsuit Faith & Freedom is
supporting is one launched by the state of Oklahoma (now joined by other states) which argues that
ObamaCare is unconstitutional because.
o The
Constitution requires all tax legislation to originate in the House. The
Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the "Individual Mandate" to purchase
health insurance is a tax, but this aspect of ObamaCare originated in the
Senate so is therefore unconstitutional and illegal.
o Much of
ObamaCare is supposed to be enforced by the IRS. But the writers of the
ObamaCare law simply forgot to write the proper language into ObamaCare
granting the IRS this statutory authority. The
IRS can't enforce anything without explicit statutory authority.
o The Obama
Administration is expecting the IRS to grant tax-credits and subsidies to
low-income Americans so they can purchase health insurance. But the ObamaCare
law includes no statutory authority for the IRS to do any of this either. So
the law is also unworkable on these grounds.
In
other words, there are some serious
flaws in the way the ObamaCare law was written and many legal experts now
believe they are fatal flaws.
PART
FOUR: Make ObamaCare the key issue of
the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections.
Inexplicably,
the National GOP leadership has, for the most part, stopped talking about
ObamaCare.
If repealing ObamaCare had been the
focus of the 2012 Election, I have no
doubt Barack Obama would have been a one-term President. Instead, the Romney
campaign and the National GOP leadership mostly ignored ObamaCare in 2012. So
the voters forgot about ObamaCare in 2012 (which is just now starting to go
into effect).
Republicans achieved sweeping victories in the 2010 mid-term Congressional Elections by
making the disaster of ObamaCare the key issue. We can achieve sweeping
victories again in 2014 if we focus the attention of voters on what a disaster
ObamaCare really is.
ObamaCare is being implemented right now and becomes more unpopular with each
passing week.
Throughout
2013 and 2014, Faith & Freedom will
be using radio, direct mail, email and VOTER GUIDE distribution to make
sure voters know exactly how their Representatives voted on ObamaCare and we
will be specifically targeting those Representatives who voted for ObamaCare
who represent conservative "swing" states and districts.
Why Your Donation Is Urgently Needed
As
you can see, we have many tools at our disposal to DEFEAT ObamaCare. And we at Faith & Freedom are using all these
tools right now to throw sand in the gears of ObamaCare and render ObamaCare
unworkable — until we have a new Senate
and a new President and can fully repeal ObamaCare.
As
the reality of ObamaCare starts to break through to voters, it's my prediction
that ObamaCare will soon become so
unpopular that even many Democrats will want to get rid of ObamaCare —
especially as we approach the 2014 mid-term Congressional Elections.
And
as the 21 new ObamaCare taxes and tax increases
begin to kick in (plus the avalanche of onerous
ObamaCare regulations that will be hitting in 2013 and 2014) we'll have a
powerful issue to use against any liberal members of Congress who voted for
ObamaCare.
In
other words, the battle to UNDO, DEFEAT,
and ERASE ObamaCare is far from over. In fact, Faith & Freedom Coalition has just begun to fight. But we
urgently need your help and support right now if we are win this battle.
In
addition to returning your completed survey, my hope and prayer is that you
also include your best donation.
THIS IS
IMPORTANT: The only way we can fund
this $20.2 MILLION advertising, media, voter education, and grassroots lobbying
campaign to DEFEAT ObamaCare is with donations from wonderful patriotic
Americans like you who understand what a grave threat ObamaCare really is to
our Constitutional Republic.
Most
of Faith & Freedom's 700,000 members
and supporters send donations in the $25 to $100 range. But some of Faith &
Freedom's friends, like you, are blessed to be able to send donations of $1,000 or even more, while our other
wonderful friends are making and equal sacrifice by contributing $20, $15, or even just $10.
We certainly value every donation that arrives.
Only
you know what you are able to contribute. What's most important is that you
make every effort to contribute what you can. I'm counting on a near 100%
response to this important fundraising appeal.
As
you know, UNDOING, DEFEATING, and
ERASING ObamaCare will require an enormous and united commitment from every
Patriot I am mailing this letter to. But if we all do what we can, I am
confident we can and will ultimately end
ObamaCare.
Thank
you so much for reading my letter. I will anxiously look for your reply to
arrive by return mail in the next few days. Please help!
Sincerely,
Dr.
Ralph Reed
Founder
and Chairman, FAITH & FREEDOM COALITION
P.S. Your survey
is very important. It's a key part of Faith & Freedom's Battle Plan to show
Congress (and candidates running for Congress in 2014) that the overwhelming
majority of voters want ObamaCare repealed now - and want Members of Congress
who voted for ObamaCare held accountable at the ballot box in the 2014 mid-term
Congressional Elections.
Please don't spend more than
a few seconds on each question . . . Your initial instinctive response to each
question will be more accurate and helpful to us as we carry out our FOUR-PART Battle Plan to
UNDO, DEFEAT and ERASE ObamaCare.
We are also in urgent need of
donations if we are to fully fund Faith &
Freedom Coalition's FOUR-PART $20.2 MILLION Battle Plan I've outlined for
you here to UNDO and ERASE ObamaCare. . . so we can STOP President Obama from fulfilling his promise to "fundamentally transform" America
into a country you soon won't recognize.
. . . specifically, we at
Faith & Freedom are, right now, mobilizing our 700,000 members and
supporters, plus millions of other pro-freedom patriots, to . . .
o Pressure House Speaker John Boehner and Republican
Leaders in the House to use the power they have right now under the
Constitution to HALT funding for ObamaCare;
o Pressure the governors of the 50 states (30 of whom
are Republican) to refuse to spend any state taxpayer money on ObamaCare; and
o Make sure those members of the House and Senate who
voted for ObamaCare (especially those who represent conservative states and
districts) are held accountable for their pro-ObamaCare vote in the 2014
mid-term Congressional Elections.
Governor Rick Perry of Texas has already courageously
announced that he will not use one penny of Texas taxpayer money for ObamaCare. So far, at least 20 governors have indicated they will follow Governor Perry's lead
and not participate in ObamaCare. As a result, the Obama Administration has
already announced that the implementation of the ObamaCare
"exchanges" in the states will be delayed by at least a year.
So our strategy of using every tool at our disposal to throw sand in the gears
of ObamaCare is working . . . until we
have a new Senate and a new President so we can fully repeal this disastrous
2,700-page law.
But the only way we can win
this battle to save America as the "land of the free" is with your
support. So please send the best donation you can along with your survey . . .
To put your gift to work immediately, you can also
donate online at:
https://www.ffcoalition.com/?s=jan2014newsletter
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