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Women On The Wall – “NO TO PLEDGE CARDS FOR JOE STRAUS”

By Alice Linahan

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May 24, 2011 04:14 PM

WOMEN ON THE WALL

by Rebecca Forest

Join with WomenOnTheWall.Org and other Tea Party group leaders and activists across Texas in saying, “NO TO PLEDGE CARDS"

This practice is unethical and perhaps even illegal and it is time for members of the Texas Legislature to pledge their support to their citizen constituents, not the power brokers in Texas business and politics!

Time to end corruption in Texas politics.

Sign the Grassroots Texans Open Letter to members of the Texas House (click link below), urging them to stand for the people and not sign pledge cards.

From our Friends at Grassroots Texans:

As the Texas State Legislature draws to a close, the House Leadership is right now pressuring House members to sign ‘pledge cards,’ which are pledges of loyalty to the current House leadership.

If you believe, as I do, that our elected public servants owe their loyalty to THE PEOPLE rather than to the House leadership, I encourage you to join me in signing on to this Open Letter urging our elected public servants to refuse to sign ‘pledge cards’:

http://GrassrootsTexans.net/pages/openletter-pledgecards

With enough of our fellow Texans standing with us, we can let our elected officials know, in no uncertain terms, that we expect them to express their loyalty to THE PEOPLE, not to other politicians.

Thank you.

Your contributions to help fund this WOW video project and others are greatly needed and appreciated!

WomenOnTheWall.org

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Larry Bettag

Cherry Creek Mortgage Illinois Residential Mortgage License LMB #0005759 Cherry Creek Mortgage NMLS #: 3001 - Saint Charles, IL

Vice-President of National Production

I can't even imagine them signing pledge cards for loyalty to a government. Sounds very Soviet like.

May 24, 2011 05:46 PM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Alice, the best way to get rid of the corruption and bribery in the Texas Legislature... is to get at least half of the Republicans OUT of there. I know it, and you know it, as well.

May 24, 2011 07:09 PM

Alice Linahan

Voices Empower - Argyle, TX

Larry it is amazing. The things that going on behind closed doors has be a real eye opener for me.

May 24, 2011 07:14 PM

Hi Karen Anne,

I hope all is well and that you are staying safe in this crazy weather we are having tonight.

You are right about needing to replace at least half of the Republicans in Austin. I think where we differ is who we would replace them with.

That is when it comes down to knowledge about issues and understanding that the people who show up are the ones who run the government. So Conservatives better start showing up!!

I would replace them all with Conservatives first and formost. At least with the Democrats we know who and what they stand for. Rhinos are wolves in sheeps clothing.

That is how nations are lost......

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."

Quote by:

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

Source: Attributed. 58 BC, Speech in the Roman Senate

May 24, 2011 07:28 PM

Dale Terry

Yadkinville, NC

It is sad to watch, these are the things that people do when they start to finally understand that they no longer have a willing audience. Pledge cards, name calling, just a few of the interesting things in politics before the &^%& hits the fan.

May 25, 2011 01:28 AM

Dale,

You hit the nail on the head!!

May 25, 2011 04:57 AM

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