The Texas Sovereignty Act and the Texas Republican Platform

The Texas Sovereignty Act 

and the 

Texas Republican Platform

 As you all know, I have written you about the need for Texas to pass a Texas Sovereignty Act to claim our Constitutional right for our state to determine for itself whether or not a Texas law is Constitutional, or whether or not a Federal law, policy, executive action or legal ruling is Constitutional.  If you have not read my blog How Texas Can Reclaim Our Sovereignty <click here> you should definitely read it.  

Now the time is coming for Precinct Conventions, and soon after that County Conventions etc.  If you want to help move this idea forward, I am asking you to cut and paste the following resolution into a document, print it out, and present it to your Precinct Convention Meeting to be voted on and (hopefully) sent uo the ladder to the resolutions committees.  

This is a real grass roots effort.  What is a Precinct Convention?  If is a meeting held at your polling place after the polls close on election day, chaired by your precinct chairman (or if there is not one present, anyone that shows up for the meeting).   Anyone who voted in the Republican Primary in the precinct can attend the meeting and participate.  This is where you can nominate persons (including yourself) to serve as delegates to the County conventions (some populous counties are broken down into Senatorial District Conventions instead).   Anyone attending the meeting can submit a resolution and in open discussion make an argument for or against such resolutions.  These resolutions ultimately form the party platform.  This is your chance to participate!

TEXAS SOVEREIGNTY ACT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

AND WHEREAS it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by the Tenth amendment to the Constitution, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, are prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”.

AND WHEREAS the Constitution does not name the United States Supreme Court, or any other federal body as the exclusive or final interpreter of the United States Constitution. 

AND WHEREAS the late Justice Anton Scalia wrote in regards to recent US Supreme Court rulings: "I write separately to call attention to this Court's threat to American democracy... This practice of constitutional revision... robs the people of the most important liberty... the freedom to govern themselves..."

THEREFORE we strongly urge the Texas Legislature to pass binding legislation claiming and enacting the right of our state to judge for itself whether a state law is unconstitutional, or whether a federal law, policy, action or ruling is unauthorized or undelegated by the Constitution.  We urge the Texas Legislature to pass a Texas Sovereignty Act which will enact as a matter of enforceable and implemented Texas Law that the State of Texas, and not any branch of the federal government, shall be the exclusive and final judge for our state as to whether any Texas law (including the Texas Sovereignty Act itself) is Constitutional, or whether any federal law, policy, action or ruling is unauthorized or undelegated by the US Constitution.

 

Why Tim O’Hare is the Man to Lead the TCGOP

Why Tim O’Hare is the Man to Lead the TCGOP

By

James Scott Trimm

David W. Wylie is a tremendous asset to the Tarrant County Executive committee and I hope that he will continue to be such.  David goes above and beyond his duties in helping the party, and I greatly appreciate his efforts.  That being said, I do not believe David Wylie is the man to lead the Tarrant County Republican Party.

Under David Wylie’s leadership the Tarrant County Republican Party has allowed party resources to be used by known Democrat operatives such as Shane Hardin.  These Democrat operatives have been permitted to utilize our own party resources to attempt to influence the Tarrant County Republican Party. Specifically under Wylie’s leadership chairing the Technology Sub-committee (which currently oversees the party Facebook group), Shane Hardin, and many other Democrat operatives have had unmoderated use of the Tarrant County Republican Party Facebook Group owned by the Tarrant County Republican Party.  They have used the page without restraint to undermine and attack conservatism, our party platform, and the party itself with no real resistance from current party leadership. 

As I have said, David Wylie is a great asset to the party, but I just don’t believe he has the strength of leadership to lead the TC GoP.  Yes we should have a big tent and have openness, but that openness does not mean that we allow our TCGOP party resources to be exploited by Democrat Operatives.

I believe Tim O’Hare has the leadership ability to balance openness with mission.  Yes we should have an open tent, but we should not surrender control of that tent to known Democrat operatives such as the notorious Shane Hardin. 

Tim O’Hare demonstrated his leadership ability as mayor of Farmer’s Branch, not only in taking a tough stand against the problem of illegal immigration, but also in leaving the city with the lowest percentage of operating budget going towards debt that at any point in its history of over fifty years!  As a former Mayor, O’Hare knows how to chair and how to organize.  I believe Tim O’Hare has the vision to guide our party into the future.  And that is why I have endorsed Tim O’Hare for Tarrant County Chair.

Lib Democrat Operative Shane Hardin Endorses Fisher

Lib Democrat Operative Shane Hardin Endorses Fisher

By

James Scott Trimm

The Liberal Democrat Operative Shane Hardin has now publicy endorsed Scott Fisher:

Who is Shane Hardin?  Hardin is no Republican, and no friend of conservatism.  Shane Hardin was the Democrat challenger to Rep. Matt Krause (Fort Worth) in HD-93’s general election in 2012.  His donors included the Tarrant Democrat Party, the Tarrant Stonewall Democrats, the Mid-City Democrats, the Texas AFL-CIO, the Transport Workers’ Union, the Brotherhood of Local Engineers and Trainmen, Rep. Lon Burnam (Fort Worth), and the former Chair of Tarrant County‘s Democratic Party, Steve Maxwell.

When Hardin ran for School board in 2014 the Texas Score Card wrote:

Hardin is not just a liberal Democrat; he’s notorious for viciously attacking his ideological enemies in a manner consistent with the intolerant, left-wing political wing of the Democrat party.

He’s parroted propaganda that labels conservatives as extreme, racist and intellectually inferior.

(See more at: http://www.empowertexans.com/features/battleground-tx-finds-a-poster-child/#sthash.aZer16Xa.dpufhttp://www.empowertexans.com/features/battleground-tx-finds-a-poster-child/#sthash.aZer16Xa.dpuf )

So ask yourself, why is a Democrat Operative working with the Fisher campaign, and why is a known Democrat operative working so hard to oust Jonathan Stickland and replace him with a Straus recruit?

The Fisher campaign has engaged in a despicable negative campaign against conservative hero Jonathan Stickland.  I have written in the past about the Austin establishment’s plan to oust Jonathan Stickland <click here> and I have written an open letter from Rabbi Trimm to Scott Fisher concerning his unscriptural mudslinging attacks on his fellow Christian <click here>.

I recently revealed that the ultimate source behind this negative campaign is a known Democrat operative!  I suspected this when this individual began posting excess material on the internet that had not appeared in the press and had not [yet at least] been used by the Fisher campaign.  I kept my theory to myself at the time, but it has now been confirmed.  This Democrat operative could not contain himself and finally blurted out the truth, that he was the ultimate source of the negative information used by the Fisher campaign.

To begin with the Quorum Report broke the “smear campaign” story on Dec. 28th 2015 stating plainly that “The campaign of Scott Fisher, a pastor from North Texas, released to Quorum Report the internet posts…” and later in the day adding “After Stickland today talked about his past drug use, the Fisher campaign wasted little time in unveiling internet posts from 2008…”   So there is no doubt that this story was spoon fed to the media by Scott Fisher’s campaign. 

But now we know that the Fisher campaign obtained the information from a known Democrat operative named Shane Hardin (pictured above with "abortion barbie" Wendy Davis).  In an internet posting today Hardin blurted out the truth:

Jonathan Stickland is the true conservative, with a perfect conservative voting record.  Stickland is the only legislator in the House of Representatives to have a perfect conservative record.  Here are his scores:
 

Young Conservatives of Texas Score: 100

Texas Right to Life Score: 100

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility: 100 A+

 

Even the Dallas Observer wrote:

"Considering Stickland's bona fides, it's hard to see much room for Fisher to attack the state representative from the right." 

(Oct. 2nd 2015)

Do not let Democrat Operatives, Straus and the Austin establishment succeed in their attempt to oust a conservative champion from the Texas House, and replace him with a Straus recruit!  I encourage you to join me in supporting true conservative Jonathan Stickland.

Why Scott Fisher Scares Me

Why Scott Fisher Scares Me

By

James Scott Trimm

In George Orwell’s 1984 the government kept track of all of its subjects actions.  The government was likened to a benevolent big brother, and the government slogan was “Big Brother is Watching You.”  In order to control speech it was necessary to monitor everything the people did, so that the Ministry of Love could properly intimidate the population.

Big Brother kept track of his subjects thru various departments.  Thru the art of double speak (using words to mean the opposite of what they normally mean) Big Brother maintained control over the people through various government departments.  The Ministry of Peace dealt mostly with war.  The Ministry of Truth dealt with propaganda.  The Ministry of Plenty was in charge of rationing.  And the ministry of Love was essentially the secret Police. 

Ministry of Love

The world of George Orwell’s 1984 is a police state in which the police can stop law abiding individuals at any time for absolutely no reason and ask to see their papers.

It appears that Scott Fisher would like us to live in such a world.

In the Orwellian world the police could pull over a driver and ask for his “papers” (Drivers License/ID, insurance and registration) simply because he saw him driving an automobile on the street. 

It seems Fisher would support that kind of thinking, because Fisher has vocally criticized Stickland’s support of an amendment to the new “Open Carry” law that would have clarified that police officers could not stop citizens simply because they saw them openly carrying a firearm, just to ask to see their license to carry. 

In Texas openly carrying a firearm is a perfectly legal activity that requires a  license, just as driving a vehicle is a perfectly legal activity that requires a license.  Just as the police cannot stop drivers just to see if they are licensed, they should not be able to stop citizens that openly carry a firearm just to see if they have a license.  And in fact that is the current case law on the matter.  

Fisher clearly disagrees.  He criticizes Stickland’s support for that amendment.  Fisher wants police officers to be able to stop people who are openly carrying a firearm, just because they saw them carrying a firearm, just to see if they have a license.  Following the same logic, Fisher’s logic would allow the police to pull over any driver at any time, just to ask if they have a license.  In other words, Fisher’s position follows the logic that of a world in which the police can stop anyone at any time and say “papers please.”

I might add that the right to open carry would become so burdensome as to become impossible to actually practice, if anyone who dared claim that right would be stopped by every police officer that saw them and asked to present their papers.

In fact we should not even need a license to practice a constitutional right.  And Stickland also fought for Constitutional carry.  Can you imagine having to have a license to practice your first amendment rights?  Yet Fisher not only supports having to license our Constitutional rights, he supports having the police stop us on the streets to see those papers at any time!

The fact is that in this, and many other cases, Stickland has supported our Constitutional rights.  Unfortunately many law enforcement organizations are not on the “freedom and liberty” side of legislation, especially when it comes to our second amendment rights and our fourth amendment (privacy rights).  And for this reason they are endorsing against Stickland. 

It is wisely said (attributed to Thomas Jefferson) “He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.”

Ministry of Truth

Fisher also scares me because his campaign has demonstrated a mastery of propaganda and double-speak would put the Ministry if Truth to shame!

Fisher claims to “support” the Second Amendment and runs a series of Facebook ads asking people to “like” his page if they support the Second Amendment.  But Fisher’s definition of “supporting” the Second Amendment is requiring it to be licensed and allowing police to stop citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights and asked to see their papers.  Fisher’s “support” means licensing and repressing, classic double-speak And in fact his opponent Jonathan Stickland has given very strong and very real support to the Second Amendment. 

Fisher’s smear campaign against Stickland includes the claim concerning Stickland: “Stop police from asking ID’s of armed people”  saying Stickland “voted to stop police from checking licenses of people, even potential criminals, carrying weapons”.  It seems that Fisher sees any person  daring to exercise their constitutional and legal right to openly carry a firearm in Texas as a “potential criminal”. 

Fisher’s Ministry of Truth distorts the facts about this amendment.  Stickland’s support for this amendment was not outrageous of unusual as Fisher would have you believe. What Fisher does not tell you is that this very amendment was added to the Senate version of this bill with no controversy.  It was also originally adopted in the House, with only ten democrats voting against it.  But the amendment was later stripped out in conference through underhanded means by house leadership.

Fisher’s Ministry of Truth claims he supports and has even deceitfully promoted his candidacy using the logos of the NRA and STRA <click here> despite the fact that both organizations have actually endorsed Stickland and not Fisher!  In fact if Fisher had voted against the amendment he attacks Stickland for voting in favor of, it would have scored as an anti-gun vote by pro-Second Amendment groups!

Fisher’s Ministry of Truth, working with ready allies in the liberal press, have engaged in intellectual gymnastics in a wild attempt to recast a resolution he pushed through the JPS Board in 2013 as an “anti-Obamacare” resolution, when a realistic reading of the resolution by any normal person (and in fact, as I have recently shown, a grammatically correct reading <click here>) to advocate the expansion of Medicaid thru Obamacare in Texas. <click here>

Campaign of Intimidation

Just as the Ministry of Love sought to control the populace, Fisher and the Austin Establishment machine that backs him, is using a smear campaign to intimidate not only Jonathan Stickland, but any other normal citizens that never planned to run for political office from stepping up to the plate and running for office. The message is clear, they will come after you and smear you with everything they can find!

This is no surprise because Scott Fisher is a former member of the Orwellian “Texas Ethics Commission.  The Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) was created by voters in 1991 with the best of intentions, the very same kinds of intentions with which the road to George Orwell Hell is paved.  The original purpose of the TEC was “"provide guidance on various public ethics laws" within the state of Texas.  The legislature later gave this commission various other duties, including the Orwellian task of filing of campaign finance regulatory statements by citizens who engage in political speech related to campaigns and elections.  The TEC seeks to use its power to chill free speech and especially targeting conservative groups <click here>.  The fact that Fisher is a former member of this Orwellian agency is reason enough to scare any Texan.

I could write much more about bills on which Stickland voted to protect our First, Second and Fourth amendment rights, and for which Fisher distorts the facts and engages in double-speak and propaganda strategies to attack Stickland for supporting our freedoms and Constitutional rights!

Scott Fisher scares me!  He should scare you too!

Vote for Stickland, vote for more freedom and less government!

Grammar in Fisher Resolution is Revealing

Grammar in Fisher Resolution is Revealing
By
James Scott Trimm

The Fisher campaign and the liberal media (their surrogates) have been engaging in intellectual gymnastics to avoid the clear meaning of the resolution upon a natural reading by a normal person.  A facsimile of the resolution is at the bottom of this blog so you can read it for yourself.

The natural reading of this resolution is that is asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by proposing a single option: "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage,... "

In fact when the liberal Star-Telegram endorsed Fisher on February 10th, the article sought to justify Fisher’s Obamacare support writing:

Fisher is dogged by a 2013 hospital board resolution asking the Legislature for more money to fund indigent care, listing as one “possible option” to include more Texans in federal Medicaid.

It is reasonable for a county hospital trustee to ask the Legislature for more money for indigent care, particularly when many patients come from other counties that never contribute a dime.

And on an earlier occasion Pastor Fisher’s administrative assistant at Metroplex Chapel suggested that the document was forged with photoshop <click here>. That same day Stickland publicly confronted Fisher with the document at a candidate forum and Fisher was speechless.

Those trying to explain away Fisher’s resolution have now had time to formulate an excuse.  So now they want us to believe that Fisher’s resolution is contrasting “all possible options” with Obamacare which it discounts as unfeasible and unsustainable. 

While studying this document in detail I noticed a grammatical error which is very telling as to the intended meaning of the resolution.  I noticed that in the final phrase there is a very telling grammatical error:

Tarrant County Hospital District Board of Managers asks the Texas Legislature to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans that is feasible and sustainable.

Now the careful reader will notice that the noun “options” is plural while the verb “is” is singular.  This reveals to us that the plural phrase “all possible options” is actually a cover phrase for the singular “Obamacare” which is the only option which was actually mentioned in the document.  The document does not talk about what is not feasible and is not sustainable, it talks about what is feasible and is sustainable.  The verb is singular and the singular option presented is Obamacare.  The true intent of the document is to ask the Texas legislature to embrace Obamacare as the singular solution, and it is clearly Obamacare that the document intends to say “is feasible and sustainable”. 

Like Bill Clinton, Fisher is confused by the meaning of the word “is”:


Certainly this educated man would not have mismatched the verb “is” with a plural subject “options” unless he was using the phrase “all possible options” as a euphemism for “the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare]” which had been the singular option offered in the resolution. 

AADDENDUM:  Unless of course "care" is the noun intended to be paired with "is" in which case JPS is talking about care that is feasible and sustainable. ... in other words rationed healthcare and death panels.... Which is even worse.  This would also discount any claim that the documents saying that Obamacare is unfeasible or unsustainable because it would actually be talking about unfeasible and unsustainable levels of care rather saying that Obamacare is financially unfeasible and unsustainable for the State.

A Timeline of Fisher’s Obamacare Lies

A Timeline of Fisher’s Obamacare Lies

By

James Scott Trimm

2013 Jonathan Stickland fights an amendment that would have expanded Medicaid in Texas through Obamacare while Scott Fisher pushed a resolution thru the JPS board asking the Texas Legislature to expand Medicaid in Texas through Obamacare.

Fast Forward to 2016:

Jan. 15th 2016 - Fisher's first campaign finance report shows that TEXAPAC, a pro-Obamacare PAC, was Fisher's single largest contributor, bankrolling more than 10% of his total funding. 

Feb. 2nd 2016 - Empower Texans publishes minutes from JPS Network board meeting which state concerning "Resolution... Supporting Medicaid Expansion for Texas." "Mr. Fisher made a motion to approve a revised resolution.... supporting adequate compensation for uninsured patients... The motion passed unanimously." <click here>

Feb. 2nd 2016 - Fisher tweets ""I have fought Obamacare at every turn and will continue to do so in the Texas House,”

Feb. 5th 2016 - On Facebooks Fisher says in part "I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously."

Feb. 6th 2016 - Empower Texans publishes the actual revised resolution proving not only that Fisher lied about the resolution containing "anti-Obamacare" language, but also confirming that the resoltion encouraged the State Legislature to expand medicaid.

Feb. 8th 2016 - Dede Giesenschlag Miller, Administrative Assistant at Metroplex Chapel where Fisher serves as pastor suggests the Resolution released by JPS is Photoshopped lie. <click here>

Feb. 9th 2016 (afternoon) - At the Tarrant Star Republican Women Club candidate forum, Stickland confronts Fisher face to face with a copy of the actual resolution.  Fisher says nothing.

Feb. 9th 2016 (evening) At 6:51 PM Fisher is asked by a voter on Facebook "Why do they continue to say you pushed for it [Obamacare]? This is very confusing to the average voter." and at 6:53 PM Fisher responds "Because TRUTH does not matter to them! Tell a lie, tell it often, and hope it sticks...total desperation, "Hail Mary" pass."

Feb. 10th 2016 - Star-Telegram endorses Fisher and defends his 2013 support for Obamacare as "reasonable." <click here>

Feb. 11th 2016 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram repeats Fisher's Feb. 2nd Tweet "I have fought Obamacare at every turn and will continue to do so in the Texas House,” ignoring the fact that this has already been proven to be a lie.

"Pastor" Scott Fisher has lied!  There is no anti-Obamacare language in his 2013 Revised Resolution, in fact the resolution asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage,... "

 

Lib Media Admits: Fisher a Moderate Counting on Low Information Voters

Lib Media Admits: 

Fisher a Moderate Counting on Low Information Voters

By

James Scott Trimm

Two day ago the liberal Fort Worth Star-Telegram (known to many as the Startlegram) endorsed Scott Fisher against Conservative hero Jonathan Stickland.  Today, pretending to be neutral journalism, the Startlegram covered the front page with a supposedly neutral piece on the District 92 race.

But if we read between the lines of the Starlegram article, some very interesting admissions come out.


Admission One: Fisher is a "Moderate" (translation: Liberal)   

The Startlegram says:

The future of the Republican Party lies in Tarrant County.
And depending on how a few heated primary battles here turn out, it could help determine whether the party — and, more broadly, the Legislature — becomes more conservative or moderate.

 Case in point: the contentious fight for House District 92, which pits uber conservative and outspoken Tea Party firebrand state Rep. Jonathan Stickland against Scott Fisher, a local pastor who is backed by establishment Republicans.

That's right!  The Startlegram admits that Fisher is "moderate".  And when a liberal rag like the Startlegram says a Republican is "moderate" you know that translates "liberal".  Moreover the article is quite clear that it is Jonathan Stickland who is the true conservative in this race.

Admission Two: Fisher Was Recruited by the Austin Establishment to Oust Stickland

This was breaking news when I broke this story in this very blog back on October 20th.  Now the Startlegram essentially admits this is the case sayinging Fisher "is backed by establishment Republicans." and quotes Mark P. Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston as saying:

“If the GOP establishment and Austin Lobby could get rid of only one incumbent legislator this cycle, that incumbent would most likely be Stickland,” 


Admission Three: Fisher is Counting on Low Information Voters

By "Low Information Voters" I mean voters that may be tuned into the Presidential campaign, but have little knowledge of what has been going on in Austin in the State Legislature.  The Startlegram quotes Harvey Kronberg, publisher of the Quorum Report as saying:

“The Stickland part of the party does best in the mid-term elections … because they’ve got their grassroots networks that are more effective in lower-turnout elections.”

In other words Fisher is counting on votes from people who do not follow state politics and do turn out for the statewide gubernatorial races, but only show up for presidential elections, particularly if there is an atypically high turn out for a presidential election.  Fisher is counting on low information voters to vote for him.


Admission Four: Fisher Supported Obamacare

In today's article the Startlegram said:

Empower Texans recently weighed in on the race, criticizing Fisher for his work while on the JPS Board. “Even as Jonathan Stickland was fighting against liberal efforts to bring Obamacare to Texas,” Fisher, as past chair of the JPS board, “advocated for the state to be pulled into ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion scheme.”

And in their endorsement article on February 9th they said:

Fisher is dogged by a 2013 hospital board resolution asking the Legislature for more money to fund indigent care, listing as one “possible option” to include more Texans in federal Medicaid. 

It is reasonable for a county hospital trustee to ask the Legislature for more money for indigent care, particularly when many patients come from other counties that never contribute a dime.

 The Sartlegram actually tries to justify Fisher's support for Obamacare, though Fisher himself has dug in his heals denying the fact that he supported Obamacare even in the face of documents now made public which prove that he did!


Jonathan Stickland is the true conservative, with a perfect conservative voting record.  Stickland is the only legislator in the House of Representatives to have a perfect conservative record.  Here are his scores:
 

Young Conservatives of Texas Score: 100

Texas Right to Life Score: 100

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility: 100

 

Even the Dallas Observer wrote:

"Considering Stickland's bona fides, it's hard to see much room for Fisher to attack the state representative from the right." 

(Oct. 2nd 2015)

Do not let Straus and the Austin establishment succeed in their attempt to oust a conservative champion from the Texas House, and replace him with a Straus recruit!  I encourage you to join me in supporting true conservative Jonathan Stickland.

Star-Telegram Endorses Fisher, then Torpedoes him!

Star-Telegram Endorses Fisher, then Torpedoes him!

By

James Scott Trimm

The liberal rag known as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (or as some say, the Startlegram), a paper that endorsed Obama, has now endorsed Scott Fisher.  However having endorsed him, they immediately turned around and unwittingly torpedoed their own endorsee.

Last week Empower Texans published documents which they have uncovered showing that at the very same time Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as “past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to bring Obamacare to Texas. 

Fisher responded to the claim quickly and defensively claiming:

This claim is a total fabrication! I am a long-time conservative Republican and have opposed Obama and Obamacare from its inception. Empower Texans failed to check the facts, and facts are pesky things! A resolution was presented to the JPS Board of Managers to encourage the Texas Legislature to call for Medicaid expansion in Texas. I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.

However Fisher refused to produce the actual resolution.  Earlier this week Empower Texans obtained and published Fisher’s actual revised resolution, which Fisher himself had refused to present. 

It turns out that the supposedly “anti-Obamacare resolution” asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage... "  This is NOT an anti-Obamacare resolution by any definition of the terms! 

Just today Fisher was asked by a voter on his own Facebook page “Why do they continue to say you pushed for it [Medicaid Expansion via Obamacare]? This is very confusing to the average voter.”

Fisher dug in his heals insisting “Because TRUTH does not matter to them! Tell a lie, tell it often, and hope it sticks...total desperation, "Hail Mary" pass.”

But the facts are the facts, and the Star-Telegram article did not try to deny the documented truth that Fisher in fact voted for this resolution and they did not try to deny that the resolution called for an Expansion of Medicaid.  Instead the Star-Telegram engaged in a defense of Fisher’s support for Obamacare Expanded Medicaid, saying:

Fisher is dogged by a 2013 hospital board resolution asking the Legislature for more money to fund indigent care, listing as one “possible option” to include more Texans in federal Medicaid.

 

It is reasonable for a county hospital trustee to ask the Legislature for more money for indigent care, particularly when many patients come from other counties that never contribute a dime.

Now it is no surprise that the liberal Star-Telegram finds it reasonable for Fisher as a county hospital trustee to ask the state to expand Medicaid through Obamacare, but the problem is that Fisher is not trying to claim that his vote was justified, instead he has lied repeatedly insisting that the resolution was not only not asking for Expanded Medicaid through Obamacare, but was actually an anti-Obamacare resolution! 

The Star-Telegram has just torpedoed their own endorsee by exposing him as a liar, as well as exposing his support for Obamacare expansion in Texas (which he has been trying so hard to hide)!

The fact is that District 92 voters do not support the expansion of Obamacare in Texas!  Fisher knows this is true, which is why he has lied about his support for Obamacare.

Fisher has a history of voting to support Obamacare, and his largest single contributor has been the pro-Obamacare PAC of the Texas Medical Association, TEXPAC.

Fisher supports Obamacare, TexPac knows he supports it, and the Star-Telegram knows he supports it, he just does not want District 92 voters to know he supports Obamacare and so he has been willing to say anything to get elected!

Jonathan Stickland is the true conservative, do not be fooled by the outright lies of his challenger!

Pastor Fisher’s Deluded Administrative Assistant: JPS Document is a Photoshopped Lie

Pastor Fisher’s Deluded Administrative Assistant:
JPS Document is a Photoshopped Lie
By
James Scott Trimm

On February 2nd Empower Texans published documents <click here> which they had uncovered showing that at the very same time Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as “past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to bring Obamacare to Texas.

Fisher responded very defensively claiming:

This claim is a total fabrication! I am a long-time conservative Republican and have opposed Obama and Obamacare from its inception. Empower Texans failed to check the facts, and facts are pesky things! A resolution was presented to the JPS Board of Managers to encourage the Texas Legislature to call for Medicaid expansion in Texas. I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.

However Fisher refused to produce the actual resolution.  Well Empower Texans has now obtained and published Fisher’s actual revised resolution that Fisher has refused to present. <click here> Yes, facts are pesky things, and the actual resolution proves that the unscrupulous Mr. Fisher has blatantly lied!

The supposedly “anti-Obamacare resolution” asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage,... "

This is NOT an anti-Obamacare resolution by any definition of the terms! 

When Fisher says “I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.” He is telling a flat out LIE!

All of this was reported in my recent blog <click here>

Today Pastor Fisher’s Administrative Assistant at Metroplex Chapel  (where he serves as Pastor), Dede Giesenschlag Miller (see bottom) , has gone so far as to suggest that the Resolution document  is a forgery saying “…everything you've written is a lie. Looks like just more creative photo-shopping on your part.”  

 Dede Giesenschlag Miller 

Administrative Assistant at Metroplex Chapel

Suggests Resolution is Photoshopped lie.

The document in question was released Friday afternoon (Feb, 5th) by JPS administrators!  <click here>

It is very sad that the “Pastor” has so lied to and deluded his flock, that they have drank his Koolaide and cannot accept the truth in black and white when laid in front of them.

Unfortunately it has become clear that Pastor Scott Fisher has sold his integrity for thirty pieces of silver and will say absolutely anything to get elected.

Judge Sinha Claims Discretion to Act Unconstitutionally

Judge Sinha Claims Discretion to Act Unconstitutionally
By
James Scott Trimm

Our nation is built upon the Constitution.  The Constitution limits the power of government and is a chain that binds the governmental leviathan.  Likewise the Texas State Constitution protects us further from the powers of State Government. 

Activist judges who believe they have the power to act unconstitutionally are destroying our nation.  They believe they have the power to violate the separations of powers, and to violate the rights of the states and the people. 

Major victims of this destruction of the US Constitution have been the Right to Life and the American family.  In the recent judgment from the US Supreme Court inventing a right to a gay marriage out of thin air, Justice Anton Scalia famously wrote in his dissenting opinion:

"I write separately to call attention to this Court's threat to American democracy... This practice of constitutional revision... robs the people of the most important liberty... the freedom to govern themselves..."
-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

So here in the Red State of Texas, in the Red County of Tarrant, you would expect that we would have Constitutionalist Judges, especially in Family Courts, being that the American Family has suffered so much under liberal judicial activism. 

Yet a video has surfaced in which Judge Mike Sinha, the judge of our 360th Family Court declares that as a district family court Judge in Texas he has the liberty and discretion to do things that are unconstitutional!  Sinha actually said:

"I have a lot lot of liberty and a lot of discretion as a district court judge when it comes to families.  The Family Code is fair.  And the District Court has the opportunity to do things that are Constitutional and unconstitutional."

If video does not work click here to view.

Judge Sinha is the Unconstitutional Judge.  We need strong constitutionalist judges in Tarrant County Courts, which is why I have endorsed Patricia Baca Bennet in the race for the 360th Family Court.  She has plainly stated her judicial philosophy:

"The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one; those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted." Article 1, Section 2, Texas Constitution

A judge's role is to apply the law, not make the law. A judge cannot substitute her personal beliefs for the law. Like the Constitution of the United States, the Texas Constitution sets forth a scheme of divided government with specific powers to be exercised by each branch of government. The Texas Constitution specifically limits the powers of each branch of government and Texas Statutes limit the powers of each court. The founders of our country and our state understood the necessity of separation of powers as a check on the excesses of government and as a means for protecting our liberties and freedoms.

Family courts in Texas are courts of law and equity. However, equitable principles can only be used if there is no adequate remedy at law and are limited by both statute and case law. A judge who sees a modern-day family court as simply a "court of equity" fails to recognize the limits Texas law places upon a judge.

I am a Constitutional Conservative. I respect the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Texas. I understand the role a judge plays in our governmental scheme. I am committed to following the laws of this great state. The people coming into our family courts deserve the certainty that the judge hearing their case is applying the laws as passed by the Texas Legislature.

Activist judges that claim the power to act unconstutionally must go!  These sorts of judges have no place in Tarrant County, nor do they have a place on the bench anywhere in the nation!

The Gig is Up! Fisher Lied About Obamacare Support!

The Gig is Up! Fisher Lied About Obamacare Support!
By
James Scott Trimm

On February 2nd Empower Texans published documents which they had uncovered showing that at the very same time Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as “past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to bring Obamacare to Texas. 

Tony McDonald of the Texas Scorecard reported:

Documents uncovered by Texas Scorecard reveal that in April 2013, Scott Fisher urged fellow JPS board members to pass a resolution “supporting Medicaid expansion for Texas” under the provisions of ObamaCare.

Scott Fisher’s ObamaCare resolution passed the JPS board just one week after Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R–Bedford) led the fight against an amendment to the state budget that would have implemented the program. The liberal leadership of the Texas House brought an amendment to the budget implementing the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion before conservatives, led by Stickland, turned the effort back.


Fisher responded very defensively claiming:

This claim is a total fabrication! I am a long-time conservative Republican and have opposed Obama and Obamacare from its inception. Empower Texans failed to check the facts, and facts are pesky things! A resolution was presented to the JPS Board of Managers to encourage the Texas Legislature to call for Medicaid expansion in Texas. I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.

However Fisher refused to produce the actual resolution.  Well Empower Texans has now obtained and published Fisher’s actual revised resolution that Fisher has refused to present.  Yes, facts are pesky things, and the actual resolution proves that the unscrupulous Mr. Fisher has blatantly lied!

The supposedly “anti-Obamacare resolution” asks the state "...to seek all possible options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the poverty line to Medicaid coverage,... "

This is NOT an anti-Obamacare resolution by any definition of the terms!  

When Fisher says “I totally opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.” He is telling a flat out LIE!

As Tony McDonald reports in the Texas Scorecard:

Contrary to the version that exists in Fisher’s alternative campaign reality, there was no attack on ObamaCare or condemnation of the noxious program. Instead, the resolution spends three clauses blaming rising premiums on “uncompensated care for the uninsured.”

The complete resolution, as obtained by the Texas Scorecard is pictured at the bottom of this blog.

The fact is that Scott Fisher’s largest single contributor in the published financial disclosures was TEXPAC, which donated more that ten percent of Fisher’s total campaign funds.  TEXPAC is the PAC of the Texas Medical Association, and supports abortion, euthanasia, death panels and yes OBAMACARE.

If Fisher opposes Obamacare as he has claimed, why is his largest single contributor the pro-Obamacare TEXPAC?

The documents speak for themselves, Fisher supports Obamacare and wants to expand Obamacare Medicaid in Texas, but he will say absolutely anything and lie through his teeth to get elected!

Incredible Deception by Fisher Campaign

 

Incredible Deception by Fisher Campaign
By
James Scott Trimm

 

It appears that the establishment will pull every deceptive trick in the book in their efforts to replace conservative hero Jonathan Stickland.  The depths of dishonesty to which the Fisher campaign is willing to sink is shocking.  In their latest Facebook graphic, Fisher uses the logos of the NRA (National Rifle Association) and TSRA (Texas State Rifle Association)

Several weeks ago we told you about misleading sponsored Facebook ads from the Fisher campaign, (on the Second Amendment) <click here>; (On Illegal Immigration )<and here> (On Obamacare) <and here> but now Fisher has gone so far as to promote his campaign using the logos of organizations that are actually endorsing his opponent, Jonathan Stickland!
Do not be led by Fisher’s campaign of deception! 

Stick with Stickland, the true conservative! 

Fisher Campaign Rocked by Obamacare Revelation

Fisher Campaign Rocked by Obamacare Revelation

By

James Scott Trimm

 

Confronted by the facts now coming forth from The Texas Scorecard documenting his efforts as former chair of the JPS board to bring Obamacare to Texas, Fisher is now making the outrageous claim that he actually “stood up against Obamacare and won.”

The fact is that the uncovered documents “reveal that in April 2013, Scott Fisher urged fellow JPS board members to pass a resolution “supporting Medicaid expansion for Texas” under the provisions ofObamaCare.” (Texas Scorcard)

Below is the actual snapshot from the minutes of that meeting, as obtained by the Texas Scorecard:

Moreover, in this very blog we have also uncovered the Obamacare money trail that leads to Scott Fisher.  The most recent campaign finance reports show that Fisher’s single largest contributor is the Texas Medical Association’s TexPac.  TexPac has largely bankrolled Fisher’s campaign, donating thousands of dollars, more than 10% of his total campaign funding:

TexPac is pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-death panel and very much pro-Obamacare.  TexPac is not pouring thousands of dollars into Fisher’s campaign so he can fight Obamacare! 

 
Do not let these mud slingers succeed in replacing a true conservative with an Austin Establishment, Democrat backed recruit who wants to bring Obamacare to Texas!

Scott Fisher's Secret Obamacare Agenda

Scott Fisher's Secret Obamacare Agenda
By
James Scott Trimm

In the recently released financial reports, Scott Fisher’s largest single contributor by far was the Texas Medical Association’s TEXPAC which has funneled literally thousands of dollars into Fisher’s campaign, totally more than ten percent of his total financial support!

Not only is TEXPAC pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and pro-death panel, but TEXPAC is also a big pusher for bringing Obamacare to Texas! 

So why is TEXPAC pouring thousands of dollars into the Fisher campaign?  And why did TEXPAC recently announce that they are endorsing Fisher (as well as Geren, Cook, Straus and others)?

Well today Empower Texans has published documents which they have uncovered showing that at the very same time Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as “past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to bring Obamacare to Texas. 

Tony McDonald of the Texas Scorecard reports:

Documents uncovered by Texas Scorecard reveal that in April 2013, Scott Fisher urged fellow JPS board members to pass a resolution “supporting Medicaid expansion for Texas” under the provisions of ObamaCare.

Scott Fisher’s ObamaCare resolution passed the JPS board just one week after Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R–Bedford) led the fight against an amendment to the state budget that would have implemented the program. The liberal leadership of the Texas House brought an amendment to the budget implementing the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion before conservatives, led by Stickland, turned the effort back.
Fisher claims to champion the second amendment (though Stickland has the NRA endorsement), Fisher claims to be against illegal immigration (though he is endorsed by BacPac) and he claims to be the pro-life candidate (though his biggest contributor is TEXPAC and Stickland has the Texas Right to Life endorsement).  So if Fisher claims to stand for all of the things that Stickland has already been standing for, why run?  Well his hidden agenda is now revealed.  Scott Fisher wants to bring Obamacare to Texas!

The Empower Texans article goes on to say:

Expanding Medicaid under Obamacare is the number one healthcare platform plank of the Texas Democratic Party. No wonder then that Democrats have also been working with the Scott Fisher campaign to fuel nasty personal attacks against Stickland.

As we broke the news in this very blog, Fisher’s campaign has resorted to working with a known Democrat Operative to obtain “dirt” for their despicable smear campaign against conservative hero Jonathan Stickland.

Do not let these mud slingers succeed in replacing a true conservative with an Austin Establishment, Democrat backed recruit who wants to bring Obamacare to Texas!