Posted on 02/21/2003 8:51:05 PM PST by webber
ConservativeAlerts.com
ISSUE: Our friends on the Left Coast need our help.
According to the Campaign for California Families (SAVE CALIFORNIA), the Democrat-controlled California State Legislature doesn't like the "no new taxes" messages that activists have been sending them through their website, so they're blocking the people from petitioning their government.
The State of California's Legislative Data Center has been blocking all email message sent by citizens opposed to tax increases who sent their messages through this pro-family organization's web site. But the people are fighting back with immediate legal action and more "no new taxes" messages.
This week, CCF took legal action to stop the state from selectively blocking email messages from California citizens. p> A petition for writ of mandate was filed in Sacramento County by the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) on behalf of CCF and the people of California.
Since the beginning of the week, hundreds of California citizens have been emailing every state legislator and Gov. Gray Davis through CCF's web site. In the first 40 hours of CCF's "no new taxes or fees" campaign, every legislator, both Democrats and Republicans, was sent nearly 1,000 email messages from citizens protesting new taxes and fees to solve the state's budget deficit.
On Wednesday afternoon, the State of California's Legislative Data Center communicated by telephone and email to Vortech, Inc., CCF's web hosting company, and announced that the emails emanating from their server would be rejected. "We have currently blocked incoming mail from your email server", wrote Diana Waldo of the Legislative Data Center. Vortech abruptly dumped CCF's web site which became temporarily inaccessible to the public. And according to CNS NEWS, e-mail messages.
This is an abuse of power by the state. It is absolutely wrong for the state government to prevent citizens from exercising their constitutional right to petition their representatives.
This is the equivalent of telling the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver certain people's letters.
Maybe they just need a little reminder from the rest of us... so we're here to help.
ACTION ITEM: The state has no right to interfere with the ability of the people to communicate with their elected representatives, or to destroy the written petitions of the people. Both Governor Gray Davis and the unelected bureaucrats need to hear that message loud and clear.
Go to our site below to contact Gov. Davis, the Democrat legislative leaders and the Legislative Data Center, and remind them of citizens' constitutional rights:
CONTACT G0V. DAVIS
This is the equivalent of telling the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver certain people's letters.
Hardly. I'd say it's more akin to throwing junk mail in the trash.
Change that. I doubt that legislators are Constitutionally required to read spam.
Funny how they interpret these rights so differently.
Also, seems to me that if I have a RIGHT to petition my government, then the constitutional assumption is that my government petitioned MUST read and reflect on what's been petitioned.
or is it just me?
This is the equivalent of telling the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver certain people's letters.
Hardly. I'd say it's more akin to throwing junk mail in the trash.
You are ignoring the point. They are not "throwing junk mail in the trash", they are telling the Post Office that they cannot devliver mail from selected people. You hope you just misunderstood and are not so pro DemocRatic Party that you don't care.
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