The 68th Anniversary of D-Day – My Thoughts

Written by:  Scott Cooper

My eye’s popped open this morning at 3:50 AM.  When I went to sleep last night, I was already reflecting on the 68^th anniversary of D-Day, which is this morning.  It is the first thing on my mind today. 

Before I comment on where we are today, I hope you will take time to listen to two brief speeches from that day:

General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1 min 43 second speech to the men of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 6 min 30 second speech to The American Public the night before.

For me, the most striking element of these brief speeches by our leaders at the time, a mere 68 years ago, was their reliance upon Providence, their willingness to beseech Almighty God and to boldly proclaim the righteousness of the cause the Allied Forces were embarking on.  President Roosevelt asks our people “to devote themselves in a continuance of prayer, invoking thy (God’s) help to our efforts.” 

The total military dead from WWII range from 22 – 25 million and civilian dead estimate about 40 million.  Over 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded in the Normandy invasion.  An extremely heavy price was paid for the liberty that was won for France, for Europe and indeed the entire world a mere 68 years ago.

According to Wikipedia, the length of a generation has risen, being somewhere between 25 and 30 years.  If we use 30 years, we are barely two complete generations removed from the day that 160,000 troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to reclaim a continent from tyranny.  Two generations removed, and we hardly remember that day or reflect on what transpired there and contrast those events to current trends.

I believe this is a day that we should be teaching all children of the western world about, especially here in America.  The reality is most youth do not know very much about it, nor will they reflect on this day and the sacrifices their great grand-parents’ generation made for the cause of liberty and freedom.  We should never forget, yet I fear for the most part as a nation, and the West as a whole, we have already forgotten.

This year (less than 2 months ago) in France, democratic elections took place where an individual whose philosophy and worldview is diametrically opposed to the ideals we fought and died for 68 years ago was elected.  Socialist Francois Hollande was elected President.  What is starker is that it was the socialist partnership with the Muslim population of France that put Mr. Hollande over the top.  Close to 2 million Muslims voted in the election, and 85 - 93 % voted for Mr. Hollande.  Without that vote, the socialist party would not have won.  It is also worthy of noting that as a group, atheists supported Holland.

I mention those two groups because the West is in a conflict of worldviews that no one in political leadership wants to talk about.  Our leadership 68 years ago understood the conflict.  Just 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan in his “Evil Empire Speech” on June 8, 1982 understood it and could articulate it, against the wishes of “his handlers.” 

This is not about individuals within a belief system it is about understanding how belief systems behave as blocks of power.  While there is a partnership right now between the socialists, atheists and Muslims, as we are witnessing in Europe, that coalition will only last until they conquer Western Civilization as it has been known in the 20th century, and then they will turn on one another.  Take a look at this picture taken Election Day in France:

There is only one French Flag, I think, in this picture.  They are not unified except in their desire to destroy the belief system which has led to the most productive and prosperous century in human history.  The belief system they are fighting against is the system our grandparents generation fought and died for. 

The relevance of our history is rapidly being lost.

It is my prayer to visit the beaches of Normandy one day, and see the graves of the men who died there, in a heroic effort to save France and a continent from Tyranny.

If you enjoyed this, here are some thoughts I wrote almost a year ago about “The Next Greatest Generation.”

Why We Need Conventions Instead of Primaries in Virginia

Written by Russ Moulton

1. Primaries allow large numbers of Democrats and other non-Republicans to select our nominees ! How is it fair to allow liberal Democrats to cancel-out the votes of hard-working, principled, loyal conservative Republicans, including our Republican veterans, military retirees and reservists, effectively disenfranchising them? Only those who want to “water down” our nomination contests and invite Democrats want Primaries. Open primaries violate our fundamental Constitutional right of Free Association. The Rotary Club doesn’t allow the Kiwanis Club to vote for the Rotary Club President. Why should we? Why should we allow Democrats to select OUR GOP nominee?

2. Statewide primaries cost the taxpayers ~$3M each. Why should the taxpayers be covering a political party’s nomination process? In these days of runaway spending, debt and being “Taxed Enough Already”, shouldn’t we make political parties pay for their own nomination processes?

3. Primaries tend to leave our Nominee broke and wounded with the General Electorate. In Conventions, the campaigning and advertising is generally restricted to Republicans-only (usually Delegates only). Statewide Primary campaigns advertise to the GENERAL PUBLIC, where independents see all the “mud” thrown back and forth between candidates at each other (VA lacks party registration, so you can’t be sure you are targeting Republicans only!). The candidates spend millions of dollars, frequently hurting the eventual winner with Independents. Conventions allow us to avoid the “bloodbath” and let our eventual Nominee hold back critical millions in campaign dollars to use in the General Election – against Democrats.  History bears this out.  We’ve lost the General Elections for Governor where we had contested primaries for the nominations.  By contrast, 5 of the 6 GOP Governors since reconstructions were nominated by Conventions, and the only one who wasn’t, Jim Gilmore in 97, was uncontested.  

4. Consultants are the big beneficiary of Primaries. They want them and lobby their candidates and SCC for them because they make big bucks off of them. Typical advertising fees for consultants are 15% of the ad-buys on TV, radio and direct mail. Let’s say a state-wide candidate spends $2M on ad buys. The consultant makes $300,000 ! The same consultant would be lucky to make $50,000 in a Convention. We have actually had consultants who stand to gain financially from SCC selecting a Primary HOLD PROXIES at SCC and argue and vote for Primaries! Talk about conflict of interest! We regularly have these same consultants LOBBY SCC MEMBERS TO PICK THE PRIMARIES TO LINE THEIR POCKETS. Just say NO to consultants. Pick a Convention!

5. Primaries favor those that already have large warchests and fundraising apparatus, and high name ID. Those candidates tend to be “establishment” types – the SAME ones that got our GOP in trouble in the first place and gave rise to the TEA Party. Great grass-roots candidates just getting started have a much higher hill to climb in a Primary. But Conventions allow great candidates just starting out in fundraising and name ID to have a fairer playing field.

6. Conventions allow us to CONSENSE on a nominee with a MAJORITY vote to nominate. Many good conservatives can run without fear that the lone establishment candidate will win by plurality. Primaries are PLURALITY win, where a majority of the Republicans may not be happy with our nominee, or even outright opposed to the Primary selection. Frequently, many good conservatives run in a primary, splitting the conservative vote, and allowing the establishment candidate to win with a mere plurality.

7. Conventions energize our activist volunteer base, and give us a ground army to win elections. Our conservative activists (ie. pro-lifers, 2^nd amendment advocates, anti-taxers, traditional values coalition, Tea Party and Ron Paul activists, etc) benefit by Conventions, because their sheer numbers in a Convention tend to out-weigh the more liberal participants, and we tend to get nominees more reflective of our Party’s principles.

8. Conventions allow the grass-roots to better hold our Nominees accountable. For example, US Senate candidates nominated by Convention must come back to the SCC to select their method of re-nomination. If SCC gives them a Primary, the SCC cedes forever to that candidate its right to pick the method of re-nomination, abdicating its authority. If that US Senator (ala John Warner) starts voting bad (ala Judge Robert Bork, etc) – they merely select the Primary, which is open to Democrats and Independents, and appeal to those Democrats and Independents to “save them” from those angry Republicans. Warner got SCC to pick a Primary for his nomination method, and after he torpedoed Bork, he was able to select the Primary for re-nomination. Good numbers of Democrats and Independents – along with his enormous fundraising advantage of incumbency -- saved him from his Republican challenger in the Primary. The grass-roots of the Party was thus unable to hold him accountable. It is widely believed Warner would have lost a Convention to a grass-roots backed challenger due to the outrage from rank-and-file Republicans.

9. former Gov George Allen, former Governor Jim Gilmore, and current Gov Bob McDonnell were ALL nominated by Conventions for their first statewide offices. Allen was nominated for Governor by a Convention in 93. Gilmore was nominated for Attorney General in 93. McDonnell was nominated in 2009 by Convention. Former Gov Jim Gilmore was nominated in a convention for US Senate in 2008. In those years, all of them sought the Convention as the method of nomination by the State Central Committee, and no one complained. All were/have been very successful statewide office holders. Were Allen, Gilmore, and McDonnell all somehow wrong for advocating for Conventions back then? Were they “disenfranchising” people for advocating Conventions? It sounds more like campaigns that think they have an advantage in a Primary are pushing these trumped-up political arguments against Conventions.

10. Conventions best reflect our representative form of Government. For Conventions, we elect Delegates to represent large blocks of Republicans from various districts (counties/cities), just as we elect representatives to represent large blocks of voters. A very large number of these Convention Delegates are veterans, small business owners, pro-lifers, smaller-government folks, champions of the Constitution and liberty, traditional values folks, etc … They represent well the interests of our military, the unborn, large families, small businesses, gun-owners, children, etc …, just as a Congressman or Delegate or State Senator represents the interests of his/her constituencies. Do we complain when voters don’t get to come in and directly vote for Speaker of the House, or vote directly on a piece of legislation? Of course not. Only Democrats and the otherwise uneducated believe we are in a pure democracy where everyone votes on everything directly, ala a referendum.

A Very Timely Petition for Conservative Republicans in Virginia

Written by:  Scott Cooper

This is a letter I sent out today to my friends in Virginia:

Good Afternoon:

I am sending this to friends of mine in Virginia.  You may be a personal friend or someone I have met through grassroots activities during the course of the last three years. 

If you are a voter, but have not seriously engaged in party politics, you may not understand the process through which the Republican Party of Virginia selects its’ candidates.  There are two methods used: Conventions and Primaries. 

I encourage you to do your own research. 

In a nutshell it is easier for a conservative to receive the Republican Nomination through Conventions rather than Primaries because whoever has large grassroots support can enlist their supporters to invest a day at a convention.  Furthermore, if there are multiple candidates, a convention forces consolidation and run-off’s. 

In a primary, mostly what is required is money and name recognition.  Money purchases airtime, signs and loyalty, which will turn out votes in a Primary, and the candidate with the most votes wins, regardless of the percentage of the vote – i.e. in a four way race a candidate can win with 25.26 % of the vote, and there would be no run-off.

The sad reality is Primaries often turn out a vote that is uneducated in all the issues or of all the candidates – folks simply know the name of the individual who could purchase the most airtime.  It also turns out our opposition, the Democrats, to vote in OUR selection process.

What you may not know is that for the last two election cycles, The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) has voted to select their candidates through a Primary system, not a Convention.  In fact, before the 2011 election, RPV voted to hold primaries for the 2013 selection process.  Never before in the history of our Commonwealth has that decision been made that early.  Many believe that effort was strategically done to shut out the newly engaged grassroots activists, who were still focused on the 2011 elections and not forward thinking enough to be watching the strategies for 2013 that were being played out.

Grassroots activists who want to save America are doing so on shoe string budgets.  While many candidates say they are conservative, they are fearful of their ability to garner the volunteers to win in a convention, so they are pushing for Primaries.  Again, I encourage you to do your own research.

On June 15^th, The Central Committee of Virginia will reconsider the vote they took in October about whether our 2013 nomination process should be a Convention or a Primary.  I am asking you to sign a petition which will go to The Central Committee of The Republican Party of Virginia, asking them to vote for Conventions.

Send a message that you want Conventions as the method to select your candidates in Virginia.

Here is the link for that Petition – for the entire state of Virginia.  Please sign today.

If you live in the 7^th Congressional District, and are Represented by Eric Cantor I ask you to also sign this petition.

Thank you for your time and serious consideration in this very important matter.  If you agree – Please forward this message to your sphere of influence and ask them to sign the petition as well.

Scott Cooper

P.S.  Here is a very important video discussing the upcoming June 12^th Primary here in Virginia and two blogs I wrote on this subject last Fall:

                Important Video about June 12^th Primary

                Primaries/Conventions – A Significant Segment of the War at Hand

                Challenging The Establishment

Virginia Absentee Voting and Voter Registration Deadlines

Written by Scott Cooper

Many of my friends in Virginia are unclear of some of the upcoming deadlines and requirements – so I wanted to provide you with some helpful information!

Absentee Voting Available

Absentee Voting is currently available to all Virginia residents for the Republican Primary. If you meet any of the following criteria, you may vote absentee instead of having to drive to your local polling place

• Students at institutions of higher learning, and their spouses
• Absent for business purposes
• Absent for personal business or vacation
• Scheduled to work at one’s workplace at least 11 of the 13 hours the polls are open (includes commuting) (6:00 AM to 7:00 PM)
• Firefighters and first responder personnel
• Unable to get to the polls because of disability, illness, or pregnancy
• Caretakers of confined family members
• Awaiting trial and under confinement
• Serving time for misdemeanor convictions
• Religious conflicts
• Active duty uniformed services or merchant marine personnel and dependents residing with them
• Regularly employed outside the U.S. and dependents residing with them
• Living abroad indefinitely (may be eligible to vote only for federal offices)
• Registrars, electoral board members, or officers of election scheduled to work the election
• Political party or candidate representative volunteers scheduled to work inside the polls or at different polling places

WARNING: If you register to vote by mail, you must vote in person the first time you vote unless you are a full time college student; on active duty military’ residing overseas; physically handicapped; or age 65+ (with another qualifying reason, as age alone is not a justification). First-time voters who register in person may vote by absentee ballot.

Important Deadlines:

Deadline to submit application for ballot to be mailed: 5 pm on Tue June 5

Ballots must be received in order to be counted: 7 pm on Election Day

In-person absentee voting: Starts Apr 27 and ends at 5 pm on Sat Jun 9

Hours for in-person absentee voting: 8-5 Mon-Fri through Jun 8 (Office closed May 28), and Sat Jun 9, 8:30-5  Location of in-person absentee voting: Depends upon the county/city. To find your county’s/city’s location click here.

How do you apply for an Absentee Ballot:

• Eligible Virginia registered voters can download an application or contact your local Voter Registration Office to request an absentee ballot application. You can either return the completed application to your local voter registration office either by mail or fax. The absentee ballot application must be received in your local voter registration office by 5:oo PM eastern standard time on the Tuesday prior before the election day in which the applicant offers to vote.

• Overseas Personnel (Military & Non-Military) See Absentee Voting Procedures for Overseas Personnel (Military & Non-Military)

• If you are an absent active duty military voter (or spouse/dependent) or overseas voter you should download the Federal Post Card Application instead of the Virginia application. After downloading the application form: 1) print the form, 2) read the instructions accompanying the form, 3) fill out the requested information on the form carefully, 4) sign the form and, 5) mail or fax the completed application to your local general registrar’s officeby 5 :00 PM eastern standard time on the Tuesday prior to the election in which the applicant offers to vote .

• Alternatively, you can go to the Republican Party of Virginia’s GOP Absentee website to get an Absentee Ballot Request form. This form must be completed and then mailed or faxed to your local Registrar’s Office, so that an “Official Ballot” can be mailed to you.

If you require additional information, you can visit the Virginia State Board of Elections.

Don’t Just Remember the Dead - HONOR Them by Engaging in the Current War

Written by Scott Cooper

For much of my life, Memorial Day has been spent thinking about the men and women who fought and died to preserve freedom in this generation and the generations of my parents, and grandparents.  Growing up, the majority of the focus was given to those in World War I and World War II who fought tyranny on foreign lands, to defend our allies and Western Civilization.  We must continue to honor these men and women, as well as the individuals who died in all American Wars.

In the course of the last two years I have spent a lot of time walking Civil War Battlefields.  Living in Fredericksburg has afforded me great opportunities to do so.  As Americans, with the exception of a few terrorist attacks (Ft. Hood, 9-11 and the first world trade center bombing) we have been blessed to not experience warfare on our continent in 147 years.  Warfare that we can visibly see that is, warfare that has casualties in the form of human dead with gravesites where we can place American Flags.

The reality is we are at war today.  It is a war of ideas, where the enemies of our republic are philosophically diametrically opposed to the ideas espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of our United States – the pieces of paper which the hero’s we celebrate today swore an oath to protect and defend.

The enemies of our republic today are not fighting with guns, cannons, aircraft or boats.  They are waging war through main stream media, social media, entertainment, and education systems.  They have cool catch phrases and beautiful pictures.  The exhibit in The Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC describes these catch phrases and pictures as propaganda – but that was WWII, not today! 

The enemies of our republic have infiltrated every aspect of our society and they are rapidly gaining strategic footholds with the intent to strangle freedom’s last breath from our continent, all without firing a shot, while the majority of Americans remain complacent.  There is not a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11 in their strategy that will wake us up and call us to arms, it is a slow and gradual fade of our republic, and right now they are winning.

I could list hundreds of examples, but I am going to start at the top.  The man who currently occupies The People’s House, The White House, has a slogan for his campaign this year.  It is a one word slogan.  Forward.  Please read the Washington Times Article about the history of this slogan.  Its’ history is not tied to our founding.  Nor does it have roots in anything we celebrate today, Memorial Day.

This man has appointed significant numbers of men and women with ties to The Muslim Brotherhood in high positions of power within our Government.  If you do not understand the philosophical views of the Muslim Brotherhood, they are not aligned with our Declaration of Independence or our Constitution.  In fact, their written purpose is to “crumble our miserable house from within.”  Please take this 10 episode course on The Muslim Brotherhood In America, written by my friend Frank Gaffney to learn more.

As we set out to celebrate Memorial Day today, we must remember those who have gone on before.  We should celebrate, and have quality time with our family on this day that we have set aside to do so.  That is right and fitting.  But it must go beyond that.  We must honor our dead by rising up to defend what they so nobly fought and died for, on our behalf.

Today, still, the war is fought at the ballot box.  Unless more American Patriots begin engaging in the battlefield of elections, electing candidates who can articulate the true threats to our republic, our children will be memorializing more than just the dead who gave us and preserved our freedoms.  Failure to engage in the electoral process ensures future generations will be memorializing the republic itself and the ideals their ancestors fought and died for: life, liberty, property rights, individual responsibility, personal charity, the rule of law and justice – not justice where everyone is guaranteed equal results, but where everyone is guaranteed equal justice under the rule of law.

If you do not know how to get engaged in the electoral process before election day, i.e. to help identify, recruit and train solid constitutional conservatives, please send me an e-mail and I can point you in the direction of great organizations who are doing phenomenal work in this area.

Happy Memorial Day.  May God Bless you and your family.  May God continue to bless The United States of America.

Please Pray About Becoming A Partner With Me!

Written by Scott Cooper

The following is a letter I sent to many of my closest friends on May 4, 2012, sharing with them the direction I was being led, and asking for them to prayerfully consider partnering with me.

I Want You to Partner With Me To Save America

I have a passion to return our republic to the conservative principles we hold so dear.  I firmly believe that we must be engaged in the civic arena, fighting for the principles that made our country great and work toward electing individuals who not only espouse these values but live them in their own lives.  I believe all the issues we face in our country ultimately are moral issues; therefore we must elect individuals who are solid social conservatives, who share our moral values.

Through a series of events in the last 18 months, God has opened doors that I personally could not have orchestrated if I had wanted to.  I can see God’s hand at every step, and it has been an amazing journey. 

I had the privilege of meeting Senator Rick Santorum at the

Values Voter Summit in Washington DC in October 2011.

Allow me to share some highlights of the last 18 months:

• I began by participating in Tea Party events, attending a few conferences and listening to CD lectures to educate myself in issues and political strategies.  Thus my networking began!
• In the fall of 2010, 13 months before the 2011 election, I was asked to serve in the “Kitchen Cabinet” of the Bryce Reeves for State Senate Campaign.  Bryce is a solid social conservative who in 2011 defeated 28 year incumbent Democratic State Senator, Edd Houck and became the 20th Republican State Senator,  which with a Republican Lt. Governor gave the Republicans control of the Virginia Senate, a situation that had only existed 8 of the previous 129 years!

Bryce Reeves and I meeting with Ronald Reagan's Attorney General Ed Meese at

The Heritage Foundation in March 2011.

• In May 2011 I was asked to serve as the Membership Coordinator of The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation, which is a coalition of 40 groups across the state.  This is an elected position, one that I was re-elected to serve in 2012. 
• In June 2011 I was asked to serve on The Steering Committee of a new organization, The Sharia Awareness Action Network, a group that is dedicated to educating American Citizens on the threat of Sharia Law.
• In June 2011 I was asked to serve as a State Coordinator for the National Tea Party Patriots Organization.
• During the November 2011 election season I helped in a couple of local county election races.
• The contacts I have made have given me the opportunity to meet policy experts, elected officials and grassroots activists throughout our republic, and even speak in situations I never could have planned, one example is below:

A New Opportunity:

One of the men I have been blessed to get to know in the last couple years is William J. Murray.  There is a lot I could write about Bill.  For a history of his life, I would encourage you to read the link that is attached to his name, and consider getting his autobiography which is referenced there.  The 30 year anniversary edition was just republished. 

Since becoming a believer, Bill founded The Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC) which works to promote religious freedom around the world.  In addition to being Chairman of RFC and engaged in several other ministries, Bill also founded and is Chairman of The Government is Not God Political Action Committee (GING-PAC), the oldest social conservative PAC. 

Founded in 1992, the purpose of The Government is Not God Political Action Committee (GING-PAC) is to help elect social conservatives to Federal Office.  Some of the most prominent races GING-PAC has worked on are The Mike Huckabee for President Campaign in 2008, The Rick Santorum for President Campaign in 2012, as well as playing key a key role in electing FL Congressman Allen West, FL Senator Marco Rubio, MN Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, SC Senator Jim DeMint and many, many others.

Bill has offered me the opportunity to become the Executive Director of GING-PAC, agreeing to mentor me for a period of time, providing me the opportunity to build GING-PAC into whatever I am capable of.  In addition to working to elect solid social conservatives, a key benefit is I will have the opportunity to mentor under a Godly man, be shown the ropes of this important arena of political activity, as well as meet the contacts he has established in over three decades of working on Capitol Hill. 

Until now, GING-PAC has been run through Bill’s volunteer efforts; however now he needs to focus his energies on the ministry of The Religious Freedom Coalition.  Therefore, $ 50,000 must be raised to accomplish three immediate, specific tasks:

• First, immediately start financially supporting 2012 candidates who share our values.  Men and women like Allen West of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas, Michelle Bachman of Minnesota and Steve King of Iowa to mention just a few.
• Second, to accomplish GING-PAC’s first direct mail campaign since my becoming Executive Director.
• Finally, to pay me a salary, enabling me to invest more time in this important work.

As I mentioned above, I believe that all the issues we face as a republic lead back to moral issues, and there are very few PAC’s addressing this leg of the conservative stool.  As a Reagan Conservative, I believe all three legs of the stool are important: Fiscal, Defense and Social – but without strong moral values, the other two will crumble.

William J. Murray and I in Washington DC

I Am Looking for a Few Key Partners

This is important work I am asking you to partner in.  I want to invest my time, my talent and my treasure to this work.  We are losing our freedoms on a daily basis, and I believe we each need to invest in electing individuals who share our values.  Some will contribute time.  Some will contribute talent.  Some will contribute treasure.  Some will contribute all three, just like our founders.  In order for me to give more of my time and talent, I need individuals like you who will give of their treasure.

As I mentioned, we need to raise $ 50,000 to accomplish the goals above.  Please consider being an individual who gives at one of the following levels:

                                    An Individual Contributing                            Total at this Level

                                    1 of 3 individuals give $ 5,000.00                =    $ 15,000.00

                                    1 of 5 individuals give $ 2,500.00                =    $ 12,500.00

                                    1 of 10 individuals give $ 1,000.00              =    $ 10,000.00

                                    1 of 10 individuals give $ 500.00                  =    $   5,000.00

                                    1 of 70 individuals give $ 250.00                  =    $ 17,500.00

    

Please pray about what God would have you do.  Also, please pray for me and for GINGPAC as we engage in the work God has called us to: electing men and women who represent our core beliefs, in a world that is increasingly hostile to those beliefs.

In closing, GING-PAC has been a good steward of its resources during its 20 year history.  I guarantee GING-PAC will continue to be a good steward of all we are entrusted with.  Please click here to give online, or you can mail a check to:

 

Government is Not God

P.O. Box 77237

Washington, DC  20013

Please know I will be calling you to share with you personally what I am doing and to answer any questions you may have.  If you have any questions before then, please do not hesitate to e-mail or call me.

Blessings,

Scott Cooper

Scott@gingpac.org

www.gingpac.org

540-455-9306  

P.S.  Three Additional Points:

1.     Please think about your sphere of influence, social conservatives who believe in this cause, who would consider helping us in this important task.  Please forward this letter on to them.  One of the questions I will ask you when I call is, do you know of any Individuals who share our passion, who I could call and ask to contribute to this very important effort.

2.     I have added your name to receive GING-PAC's weekly e-mail updates.  If you decide you do not want to receive these updates, you may unsubscribe at any time.

If you assist GING-PAC with this fundraising effort, you will begin receiving our monthly newsletter through the mail!  Here is the online version of our last newsletter.

Learn How To Win at The Leadership Institute

Written by Scott Cooper

In the last 17 Months I have invested close to two weeks of my life and a few hundred dollars at The Leadership Institute.  The training I have received has been invaluable. 

If you are a part of the grassroots movement and you are ready to get beyond the protests and demonstrations that the media believes is the only thing the Tea Party is about…..if you are ready to leave Tea Party 1.0, and move into the more mature Tea Party 2.0 arena, the best place to start is getting an education at The Leadership Institute.

The Leadership Institute does not teach Party Loyalty, because it is non-partisan.  While it is primarily attended by conservatives, they accept students from both side of the aisle.  The Leadership Institute teaches teach how to win.

If you are a Constitutional Conservative, who is dismayed at where your party leadership has taken the party that you most closely align yourself with, I strongly urge you to get some training at The Leadership Institute.  Click Here to get their most recent training schedule.  If you have a group, they will make arrangements to come to you for a very reasonable cost.

If you have money to donate to the cause of educating our movement, please consider donating to this amazing organization.

In closing, I want to share with you the founder of LI, Morton Blackwell’s “The Laws of The Public Policy Process.”  There are 45 of them, and I will share have my top 6, and then link to the list.

45.          Pray as if it all depended on God; work as if it all depended on you.

19.          All gains are incremental; some increments aren’t gains.

31.          Don’t fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

13.          Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good.

24.          Actions have Consequences.  (My addition – so does inaction).

3.            Don’t Get Mad, except on purpose.

All forty-five of the Laws are worth reading.  Check them out here!