Posted on 09/18/2004 6:44:31 AM PDT by johniegrad
Karl Rove's Master Plan Started With the Texas Courts
Getting David Van Os elected to the Texas Supreme Court is not just about winning one race. It is about charging straight at the heart of Karl Rove's master plan.
From best-selling author James Moore's (author of Bush's Brain and Bush's War for Re-election) BuzzFlash essay, "Karl Rove's Master Plan: A One-Party America:"
"It began here in Texas when Rove was rebuilding the Republican Party in the Lone Star State. Rich people were asked to contribute to an organization called the Civil Justice League. They were billed as a grass roots political action committee that wanted to elect judges more sympathetic to the business community. And they did." See More.
From Molly Ivins' column, "Is Texas America?":
"Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a/k/a the bidness lobby, is a major player and has effectively eviscerated the judiciary with a two-pronged attack. While round after round of "tort reform" was shoved through the legislature, closing off access to the courts and protecting corporations from liability for their misdeeds, Karl Rove was busy electing all nine state Supreme Court justices. So even if you should somehow manage to get into court, you are faced with a bench noted for its canine fidelity to corporate special interests."
As David says, "It is all part of a big picture." We Texans have a chance this year to fight back hard against Karl's plan to steal away the people's government from the people. Placing David Van Os on the Texas Supreme Court will be one of Karl's worst nightmares. We the people have the power to make it happen
(Excerpt) Read more at vanosforsupremecourt.com ...
Texas Democratic Veterans Endorse David Van Os
Statement of Texas Democratic Veterans
August 27, 2004
Texas Democratic Veterans was formed June 14, 2002, at the Texas Democratic Convention held in El Paso, Texas. This was at a time that at the Republican Convention Republican Congressman Sam Johnson stated, Democrats did not think like Americans. We are proud that we were the first Democratic veterans group to be formed in the entire country.
Today in Austin, as she was in her past, Texas is besieged by tyrants that seek to undermine her Constitution. The self-proclaimed goal is to exterminate dissent by exterminating those of us who dare oppose them. They divided the Citizens of Texas among themselves, behind closed doors, to increase their own personal and political power. Like the Dictator of years past they undermine our Constitution and thus deprive us of the fundamental political right of Representation.
Our members have served or have seen their loved ones serve from World War II to our current War in Iraq and against terrorism. We recognize and honor our loved ones service to our country by supporting us and by suffering with us for the defense of our country by separation from their loved ones and financial hardships from low pay and benefits. We swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and Texas with our lives. We do not think that this oath ends upon receiving a DD214. It is a sacred oath, rooted deeply in both the American and Texan Character and history.
We now swear that NEVER AGAIN will we allow our honor and our patriotism or the honor and patriotism of our fallen Comrades be questioned and it to go unanswered. We now swear, like our forefathers, to defend Texas and Our Nation from all who would seek to undermine our Constitution and our ideals for their own personal interest or their narrow Partisan Political Purposes and from all enemies foreign and domestic.
We have found in David Van Os an intelligent and able ally and true champion of the people and their Constitutional Rights, especially their right to trial by jury. Like us, David has an abiding faith and love for our Constitution. David will be a tireless defender of both our Texas and United States Constitutions. He will be vigilant in writing and speaking out against the current Supreme Courts trend towards marginalizing juries and the right to trial by juries guaranteed by our Texas State Constitution restoring to the court a return to the Checks and Balances intended by our forefathers. Davids respect in the legal community can be seen in the fact that David got 48% of the vote to his opponents 52% in a statewide State Bar of Texas judicial poll. He is an AV-Rated Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell peer rating system, highest rating for legal ability and ethics, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, Woodward & White, by peer review, Labor & Employment Law, since 1986, is a Member, College of the State Bar of Texas, and was listed in Texas Monthlys Super Lawyers 2003.
Born in 1950 in Kilgore, Texas David Van Os gets his fighting spirit from his grandfather, a World War I Veteran and his father a Veteran of World War II. Throughout the state David Van Os is raising the cry against a Republican good ole boy system of justice in Texas.
On behalf of our membership the Texas Democratic Veterans Executive Committee is proud to announce that we hereby endorse David Van Os for Texas Supreme Court Place 9. In this endorsement we are proud to join with: Texas AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, State Association of Electrical Workers, United Auto Workers, American Federation of Government Employees, Texas Carpenters & Millwrights Regional Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Texas Working Families Political Action Committee, Rio Grande Valley Teachers Association, Austin Black Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of Austin, and Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio.
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To be endorsed by proud Texas veterans at a time when our Constitutional liberties are at stake is a tremendous honor. Veterans of our countrys service are among the most honorable individuals in our society. They swore undying oaths to defend our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. They struggled, sacrificed, and bled on behalf of their fellow citizens. This endorsement places upon me the responsibility to conduct the peoples business in accordance with the high expectations of our countrys warriors for defense and preservation of the Constitution, the freedom, the democracy, and the liberties that they offered their lives to protect. It is a weighty responsibility that I do hereby humbly accept.
David Van Os
Article is wrong. The Texas strategy started with electing a Republican Governor. Electing Supreme Court Justices, Railroad Commissioners etc... was impossible because no one knows who the candidates are. Those are strictly "coattail" races. We first hired Rove when he was a graduate student at the Univ of Texas to help train people to work in Congressional races.
Texas is the land of the Straight-Ticket-Republican Voter. This shyster has NO chance of being elected. From my observation as a poll worker, it takes most voters less than a minute to vote, that that usually includes a number of Texas constitutional matters.
Mamzelle's link suggests that he has been defeated previously. I thought the connection to current events and the Memogate was interesting.
Seems like he may have just committed hairy kerry.
Texas FReepers need to help make sure this goon doesn't end up on the TX Supreme Court bench - in front of it maybe. :)
Burkett's Attorney Running for Texas Supreme Court
(David Van Os)Excerpt:As David says, "It is all part of a big picture." We Texans have a chance this year to fight back hard against Karl [Rove]'s plan to steal away the people's government from the people. Placing David Van Os on the Texas Supreme Court will be one of Karl's worst nightmares. We the people have the power to make it happen .....
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Bump!!
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Vote Early and Vote Often!!
Vote Early and Vote Often!!
David shouldn't quit his day job.
Thanks for pinging the Texans...bump. Hope this thread stays around a little while--I think it just might be interesting. Our possible forger's lawyer is former head of Travis County Democrats. Is he tight with Doggett?
I was hoping some one would keep an eye on this. Thanks for posting it. Thanks for the ping Meek.
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You're welcome. BTTT.
Thanks for the ping! It just gets deeper and deeper, doesn't it? Soon we'll be wearing hip waders!!
Texas slimeball bump
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