Gingrey (R-GA, 11) interested in FR, and in law restoring free speech
Meeting | 12-14-2003 | Robert A Cook
Posted on 12/14/2003 3:34:28 PM CST by Robert A. Cook, PE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1040281/posts Spoke briefly with Congressman Phil Gingrey (R, GA-11th) after church today.
http://www.house.gov/gingrey/ Gingrey is a OB-Gyn physician, a first-time conservative Congressman from a democratic gerry-mandered district spreading through democratic regions in west GA and metro Atlanta.
(1) I asked him to sponsor legistlation REMOVING the free-speech restrictions imposed under McCain-Feingold. He thought it was a good idea, but didn't know how much other Congressional support there would be.
Therefore: CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND CREATE SOME SUPPORT for removal of this section of the law.
Constitutionally, even though the vast majority of the bill has been upheld by the Court (thanks to liberal judges demanded by the Senate!), there is no reason the single section restricting free speech can't be also removed by a second law. The Constitution doesn't have a clause IMPOSING restrictions (yet!), so a law removing ("illegally-declared-but-liberally-declared-constitutional") restrictions should be "legal."
Further, this would FORCE the liberals (in Congress, in the press, and on the courts!) to visibly oppose free speech by publically opposing a law that explicitly restores free speech!
Removing the "money" talking points, and the other dnc-focus points of McCain Feingold from the discussion may get this bill through since it would be targetted ONLY at the 60-day advertising limits - if not in this session, maybe in the next.
Best? Sure; completely remove McCain-Feingold. But it won't happen in today's media climate, given the power this yields to the "national press corpse". So we shouldn't weight down a "possibly-successful" bill with dreams of revoking the whole thing.
It is at least a step to remove this clause. After all, even the whole Amendment invoking Prohibition was removed!
(2) Write, call, or email Gingrey's office(s) local and naitonal to support this bill.
Since it's not proposed yet, we need to show Phil that free speech is supported at the grass roots level. His office, frakly, will listen mostly to GA constituents, but evry call will help!
(3) He is interested in what we discuss here, in how widely-read the Free Republic site is, and how much more thorough we are than "the natioinal press corpse" who slavishly repeated only what they read from the dnc's faux fax sheet. When he expressed an interest in Free republic, I invited him to register and contribute (or at a minmum read along silently) to protect his public persona.
But, he needs a login-id.
So, I'm asking you respond to his web-site above and do three things: Thank him for supporting Bush in his war on terror;
Ask to submit his bill lifting restrictions on politcal speech imposed by the liberal press and the democrats,
Warmly welcome him to Free Republic, and recommend a screen name for FreeRepublic.com
I don't know if he has registered or not. Maybe someone from Ga would know.