Vote for a conservative in Patrick Ruffini’s poll of conservative online activists.

Human Events Online ran a good story on Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, InformedPA, and the fight that is currently going on up in Pennsylvania.

In response, Jubelirer today launched his own radio campaign in defense. YCOP member Mark Harris says people like Jubelirer view YCOP as an outside special interest group. “Their tactic is to paint us as crazy extremists,” he said.

Chris Lilik, who directs the campaign, says he has been contacted by Ron Harper, a contract Senate employee directed to “research people and subjects important to the Senate,” on three separate occasions. Lilik says Harper implied he could face jail time for his campaign.

‘Stupid Mission’

Jubelirer aide Mike Long says YCOP can expect a lawsuit. Although Jubelirer will not file it, one of his supporters is likely to make the motion. He told Capitol Wire, “I think it is absurd that a conservative group would target Republican leaders who have helped maintain the Republican majority in the senate for almost 25 years and maintained Republican leadership. It is a stupid mission if one believes in conservative principals and conservatism because it is the Republican Party that preserves those ideas.”

Lilik’s denies these charges. “This isn’t a Republican issue. This isn’t a Democrat issue,” he says. “This is a matter of trust and our state legislature violated that trust when they voted themselves a massive unconstitutional pay increase in the dead of night without debate.”

Today, YCOP announced their campaign will be extended in Lancaster County, home of Wenger, chairman of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus.

Listen to the radio ads here.
Donate here!!! (Liberty needs your help even if it is only a few bucks, the RINOs in PA are flipping out, now is your chance to join the fight)

Tom Tancredo in Iowa now, and invited by another Representative… hmm things are getting interesting. Maybe Tommy T ain’t the out-of-step Rep the Bushies tried to paint him as back in the day.

King hosts illegal immigration forum

DES MOINES, Iowa U-S Congressman Steve King has gathered a panel of anti-illegal immigration proponents to sway Iowans before the next onslaught of presidential candidates hits the state.
Guests at the Des Moines forum included Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen Project, a national movement that has stationed citizens on the U-S-Mexican border to stop illegal immigrants.

King, a conservative Republican, says he wants Iowans to understand immigration policy and challenge the presidential candidates during the Iowa caucuses.

Iowa Lietenant Governor Sally Pederson, a Democrat, says King’s forum featured the Republican Party’s most staunch anti-immigration advocates, including Congressman Tom Tancredo, from Colorado, and Congressman J.D. Hayworth from Arizona.

She says Iowans understand this is a state and a nation of immigrants, and they expect a fair immigration policy, not one based on hate and discrimination.

King says he’ll hold more forums leading up to the presidential election.

According to Truth Caucus and confirmed by several state chairs, the CRNC is going to be sending out seven field reps this fall, as grumbles begin to rumble out from many CR feds across the country. Several state chairs, many of whom were Gourley supporters, are grumbling about not being given what they were promised they would get when they supported Gourley during the election.

This is an interesting, though hardly unexpected development as the CRNC simply doesn’t have the money they used to in order to maintain the field program. In contrast the Leadership Institute will be putting dozens of field reps into the field. In defense of some of the new administration members, when your fundraising is destroyed there is not much you can do to put full time staffers into the field. This does not excuse those Hoplin holdouts in the administration who oversaw the disintegration of the fundraising integrity of the organization. Let’s hope they can get their act together in the spring, because none of us benefit from the CRNC falling apart.

From NRO and John Fund’s article in WSJ on voter registration and picture IDs:

Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador who spoke at [a Voting Rights Act anniversary] rally, believes that in an era when people have to show ID to rent a video or cash a check “requiring ID can help poor people.” He noted that Georgia is deploying a mobile bus to issue voter IDs and allowing groups like the NAACP to arrange for it to go to specific sites. ***

Mr. Young says rehashing arguments about the 2000 and 2004 elections doesn’t solve much–”I accept the recounts that show George Bush won”–and says it’s time for fresh thinking. “[Let's] ask what we do about low voter turnout and whether it’s the result of racial discrimination or not,” he told me. “I don’t think it is, since everyone is equally inconvenienced by how we vote.” He suggests moving Election Day to a weekend and expanding the hours polls are open. But many liberals can’t be bothered with a positive agenda. A new 300-page report by the American Center for Voting Rights, a group with Republican ties, documents both examples of voter fraud as well as the flimsy nature of many charges of voter suppression. David Porter, the deputy editorial page editor of the Orlando Sentinel and an African American, says he was “bewildered” last year by reports of voter intimidation in his city that didn’t pan out. John Kerry routinely accused Republicans in the 2000 election of “disenfranchising a million African Americans and stealing their votes” but provided no evidence. In that vein, a Kerry election manual advised workers that if they hadn’t seen signs of intimidation they should “launch a ‘pre-emptive strike’” and cry wolf anyway.

For those of you who don’t remember, Young also came out and slapped the Democrats silly over opposing Condi. Now I am sure he and I agree little on many issues, but this is one man who actually cares about improving peoples lives and not just holding onto a bygone fifedom (::cough:: Jesse Jackson :::cough, cough:::)

According to IraqTheModel

Regarding Islam and the constitution: it was agreed upon that no laws that are against the widely agreed upon values of Islam can be issued and no laws that are against the values of democracy and human rights can be issued.
Natural resources according to the draft will be managed in cooperation between the central government and the local administrations of the federal states/provinces.

This is better that originally reported, which is allowing me to breate a bit easier.

The site was hacked over the weekend, so I took this opportunity to upgrade us to WordPress 1.5.2. As you can see we’re using the default WP 1.5.2 look at the moment, but we will work on customizing it as we go along. Thanks for all your support.
-The mgmt