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Tough Questions for Donald Trump from America’s Families
Texas Values Action ^
| Feb. 17th, 2016
| Jonathan Saenz
Posted on 02/18/2016 3:43:13 PM PST by DrewsDad
Texas Values Action and its national family policy alliance say questions remain for Donald Trump
Texas Values Action, CitizenLink, and our national alliance of nearly 40 state-based family policy councils representing millions of Evangelicals nationwide, today released an open letter to presidential candidate Donald Trump calling on him to answer direct questions on his policy positions.
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Mr. Trump:
We, the undersigned, represent millions of pro-family Americans who are dedicated to a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished. As a national alliance with nearly 40 state-based organizations, we have invited you to participate in our Presidential Teleconference Series to share your views on the issues important to values voters. We have interviewed most of the leading candidates, but after several attempts, we have not yet been able to schedule such a call with you. Therefore, we direct the following questions to you on policy issues important to our constituents:
- After years of describing yourself as "pro-choice in every respect"-even supporting partial-birth abortion-you now say that you are pro-life. Your explanation for this change of position - that a baby who was nearly aborted ended up being a "superstar" - is confusing, particularly since you acknowledged that if the child had been "a loser," your pro-abortion position probably wouldn't have changed. Please explain this utilitarian view of the sanctity of human life. Do you consider life only worth protecting if it meets certain criteria, and, if so, what are those criteria?
- How do you square your new position on life with your statements in 2015 supporting continued taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion seller?
- The next president is expected to nominate two to four U.S. Supreme Court justices, beginning immediately with the vacancy caused by the passing of Justice Scalia. These nominations will likely decide critical issues such as abortion. You've recommended your sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, for the High Court. Yet, as a federal judge, she overturned the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, writing that it "burdened a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion." How can we trust you to nominate judges who will respect the constitutional limits on judicial power and uphold the sanctity of human life?
- You claim to support religious freedom, yet a leading gay-activist organization calls you "one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency" - particularly because of your "standout position" when it comes to legislation that forces Christian business owners - and others of faith - to either betray their conscience or lose their business. How do you reconcile these contradictory positions?
- You have built your campaign on lifting the economic outlook of lower-income Americans, yet you built your fortune in part on gambling, which preys on those very people. How will you make America great when you've run businesses associated with increased crime, bankruptcies, broken marriages and suicides?
- The first casino in the nation to add a strip club was Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which boasts of "36,000 square feet of adult entertainment." What would you say to young girls and women who are concerned about a president who is directly connected with the exploitation of women?
- As someone who claims to be a fiscal conservative, how do you justify your statements in support of a huge tax increase and government bailouts. Regarding the bank bailouts, you even stated: "I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn’t matter, but you have to keep the banks going.â Perhaps most concerning of all is your continued admiration for single-payer, government-run healthcare systems. Please explain how this is consistent with the party of limited government?
- One of your favorite campaign themes is that you are going to "run America" if elected. Considering our system of checks and balances, and especially in light of the last seven years of government by fiat, how will you demonstrate your respect for the U.S. Constitution and the limited power the Founding Fathers intended for the federal government in general, and the executive branch in particular?
Mr. Trump, we look forward to your response to these, and many other questions, affecting the lives of American families nationwide.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; trump
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To: af_vet_1981
And THAT ladies and gentlemen, is how you make an ad hominem attack.
Beautiful execution.
To: DrewsDad
So you want to sway people with lies?
That isn’t going to work
Unless you believe the American public are idiots
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:08:35 PM PST
by
arl295
To: DrewsDad
Bill Pryor was nominated by that liberal George W Bush to the lower court.
And I will guarantee you that Bill Pryor is on Obama’s short list for the supreme court.
/s in case you can’t figure it out
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:11:35 PM PST
by
arl295
To: odawg
There's no greater regulatory reform than repealing every word of Obamacare. We need to enact reforms that make health care personal, portable, and affordable. Specifically, we need open insurance markets across state lines, expand Health Savings Accounts, and delink health insurance from employment.TedCruz.org - Jobs and Opportunity
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:12:06 PM PST
by
DrewsDad
(Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
To: DrewsDad
"They very well could have added Trump's suggested nominee of Bill Pryor who attacked Judge Roy Moore for posting the Ten Commandments." I could add that Judge Pryor is also a faggot... Photos of him in the buff are on the net....
But who can say they're real or not with todays photo shop thingie and all that stuff....
:)
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:12:49 PM PST
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: af_vet_1981
I’m not sure they get any salary or benefits. It’s probably all fundraising based and if you are part of one of those organizations, you can ask.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:15:34 PM PST
by
DrewsDad
(Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
To: DrewsDad
From the article: “We have interviewed most of the leading candidates, but after several attempts, we have not yet been able to schedule such a call with you.”
LOL ~ I think I know why! I would also be curious to know:
“Since your wife, Melania, would be the first FLOTUS who has posed in the nude, will she be apologizing for these actions, or will she think it’s okay for teens [and beyond] to look up to her, and also pursue this type of career?”
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:15:55 PM PST
by
mlizzy
(America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
To: DrewsDad
And there is always hope that your little Inquisition will be schlonged.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:16:51 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: arl295
You are free to refute any “lies” that you see.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:16:55 PM PST
by
DrewsDad
(Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
To: DrewsDad
There's no greater regulatory reform than repealing every word of Obamacare. Pft. If you really want "regulatory reform" overturn Wickard v. Filburn.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:17:46 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: mlizzy
.. since your wife, Melania, would be the first FLOTUS who has posed in the nude ..How very Christian of you.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:18:07 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: Byron_the_Aussie
I can’t find the post right now, but it appears that all the other major Republican candidates have met with these organizations and answered their questions. I guess Trump thinks he can fool a certain number of pro-family voters without answering tough questions.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:20:01 PM PST
by
DrewsDad
(Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
To: DrewsDad; All
"These nominations will likely decide critical issues such as abortion." With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following about the so-called constitutional right to have an abortion.
As a consequence of many generations of parents not making sure that their children are taught about the Constitution, particularly 10th Amendment-protected state powers versus constitutionally non-enumerated, PC rights, low-information patriots are not able to argue the following simple point against the so-called right to have an abortion.
Unlike the states did with the rights expressly protected by the Bill of Rights, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called right to have an abortion.
What happened with abortion is that state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-abortion activist justices wrongly amended the Constitution from the bench to establish the PC, vote-winning right to have an abortion. And not only did they steal legislative powers to do so, but they breached the Founding States division of federal and state government powers, stealing 10th Amendment-protected state power to do their dirty work.
Note that abortion is one of the reasons why low-information conservatives and liberals are so concerned about lawless Obama nominating a new justice. More specifically, since abortion is not a constitutionally enumerated right, pro-abortion liberals must continually fight to keep pro-abortion activist justices on the bench in order to keep that fictitious right alive.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from federal government overreach, unconstitutional federal funding for abortion an example of such overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-abortion activist justices.
To: DrewsDad
Iâm not sure they get any salary or benefits. Itâs probably all fundraising based and if you are part of one of those organizations, you can askI asked; you proffered them as our representatives. I notice they all seem to be Presidents, CEOs, or Executive Directors which imply highly compensated ...
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:23:17 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: DrewsDad
You are free to refute any "lies" that you see.
This list is a nothing burger
They could not even research this nonsense
The first casino in the nation to add a strip club was Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which boasts of "36,000 square feet of adult entertainment." What would you say to young girls and women who are concerned about a president who is directly connected with the exploitation of women?
I hate to inform the idiots that wrote the above concern. But Trump is not in charge of Trump Entertainment Resorts. He lost the company to bankruptcy. He is a minority stock holder with 5% because they want to continue to use Trump on the buildings. He is not making any decisions here. You want to complain about strip clubs in casinos, please contact the CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts, Robert Griffin.
These hit pieces are getting tiresome
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:23:42 PM PST
by
arl295
To: DrewsDad
.. I guess Trump thinks he can fool a certain number of pro-family voters .. A guess is something which assumes other possibilities.
What you have made is an assumption that fits your politics. Keep throwing that first stone, Byron
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:26:23 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: odawg
Trump will never answer any of this, there are no answers possible, they are all campaign lies by Trump. He might sue though.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:28:05 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: DrewsDad
Here's a sample of Teddy Bare;s own Family Values. His eyes say it all! His daughter even rejects him! LOL!
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:28:15 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
(What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate -D.Trump)
To: DrewsDad
This is interesting. Can’t wait to see the letters to each of the other candidates. Now that I think about it. It would have been on a fair and equal footing if everyone else got their letter at the same time. And thats both sides Dems and Repubs..
Wait, no one else.
May I also say, Trump was a citizen. Not an office holder. Office holders promises during an election just about form a contract with the voters. When they go back on their word, sure they should be held accountable, period. But they never are. Every other candidate has past issues in this regard. So, I again say send out the letters. I look forward to everyones replies.
To: WorksinKOP
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