Posted on 03/13/2012 10:04:03 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
In a display of the arrogance of power for which the left have become so well known, Democrat El Paso Mayor John Cook decided not only to overrule the results of a 2010 ballot decision, he is hoping to jail those who dared circulate a recall petition in response to his contempt for the will of the voters.
In 2009, Mayor Cook and a majority of the El Paso city council decided that health insurance benefits should be provided for unmarried and homosexual “partners” of city employees, at taxpayer expense of course.
Church groups and others opposed to the decision gathered the necessary petition signatures to put the issue on the 2010 ballot.
By a 55-45 margin, El Paso voters passed the ballot proposition which stated: “The city of El Paso endorses traditional family values by making health benefits available only to city employees and their legal spouse and dependent children.” (1)
The left have often evinced a glaring lack of concern for the will of American voters and Mayor Cook carried on this tradition by ignoring the ballot results and choosing to provide the health benefits anyway.
As a result, Tom Brown Ministries, the Word of Life Church and other groups and individuals circulated recall petitions for Cook and the city council members who chose to impose their own views rather than bow to the legal, expressed wishes of El Paso voters.
And the people’s recall initiative succeeded as, with the required number of signatures and necessary approval of Governor Rick Perry, a new election was scheduled for April of this year.
Naturally Mayor Cook went to court, filing suit against Brown and those who worked on the recall petitions. After all, should the wishes of simpleton voters...
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This corrupt maggot need to go to prison for life. He is an enemy to America.
So in essence the Democrat Machine has been turned loose on those members of the church, and their associates that participated in their legally structured protest, and recall.
This is first and foremost a warning to all citizens to NOT mess with the will of the Democrat authoritarians, and to hide in the darkness out of sight of their rulers, or be severely punished.
Typical of a democrat to think himself king vs. public servant. Voters spoke, now deal with it. Voters chose to recall, deal with it. If this guy doesn’t man-up, I hope pressure from Austin gets him to see the light.
(Sarcasm) Surprised the ACLU isn’t in there filing suit about the mayor disenfranchising voters and/or the right to recall...
“The Alliance Defense Fund which has filed a petition with the Texas Supreme Court on their behalf states that hundreds of Christians and other El Paso citizens “are facing jail time for exercising their constitutionally protected right to speak out against Mayor John Cook’s policies.”
All of those people need to publicly challenge the tyrant to send them to jail. That would make world news if they were imprisoned. “I am Spartacus”.
just another clear case that democrats do not care about the will of the people nor the law.
There is a message in this man’s actions. I saw similar things in Florida when I lived there.
Anyone going to figure out what this means?
Maybe it is time to fill the El Paso jails with Christians.
Maybe it is time to fill one lamppost with a mayor.
The people of El Paso should study the battle of Athens.
It means that we are done as a nation unless we rise up in armed resistance to this totalitarian regime which is the Democrat Party, right NOW!
Yep.
Our job is to prove them wrong by first making them private citizens via the ballot box. Once out of power then we need to proceed with charging them with crimes, prosecuting them, and then putting them in jail.
If we play defense we lose. They are going beyond the pale and need jail time.
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