Greetings Tea Partiers, Republicans, and Patriots!
It's time to get back together! Our last MPTP meeting occurred just as the Presidential campaign kicked into high gear in 2016 and we got busy with campaigns & election activities. Then, silly us, we thought we could rest awhile! We owned all three chambers of the federal government! How sweet can it be??? Little did we know Hillary's defeat would incite the left to fight like cornered rats! Then we witnessed people we thought were on our side align with the swamp! Now the swamp is engaged in a battle against the Trump presidency and the people who put him in office. Here on the Middle Peninsula the 'resistance' is mobilizing to unite liberal forces eager to usher in their socialist agenda, resist and even impeach our President and further thwart our victory.We can't just let that happen!
Let's rekindle that fire we felt in our hearts and bellies! Once again Virginia has an over-abundance of conservatives running for an office! Corey Stewart, E. W. Jackson, and the new face, Delegate Nick Freitas are all in the GOP race to become the candidate to unseat Senator Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine is flush with money but so was Eric Cantor when Patriots who loved liberty more than big government won a decisive victory! Taking back a Senate seat in Virginia will take a small miracle but we must do all we can to make it happen! Liberty is worth preserving!
Please come!
➢ Join together for a simple meal
➢ Hear from our former Tea Party leaders and others
➢ Get inspired and energized to help 'Make the Miracle!'
Who: All Lovers of Liberty! (Patriots, friends, family, neighbors!)
When: Monday, May 14, 6 - 8 PM
Where: Middlesex Shooting Sports Club (1860 Twiggs Ferry Rd, Hartfield, VA 23071)
FREE! *
I NEED to hear from you! (to get a count so we'll know how much food we need!)
Looking forward to seeing you all as well as your neighbor or friend!
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SNAP (also known as food stamps) is under attack!!
Last week GOP leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee introduced a Farm Bill that would increase hunger and hardship by taking away—or cutting—food assistance from many struggling families, including children. [1] This week they are starting debate on the bill.
Here's what's happening: Representative Conaway (TX-11), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, released his Farm Bill proposal last week, which includes sweeping changes to the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or food stamps). The unworkable, harmful, unnecessary, and woefully-underfunded proposal takes SNAP benefits away from people 18-59 years old who are not currently employed or participating in training for 20 hours a week. (There are exemptions for parents of children under 6 years old and parents caring for an "incapacitated" child—but that is it!). [2]
Rather than helping anyone keep a job or find a job, this proposal is designed to create massive red tape that will make it harder for millions of people to put food on the table, including parents raising kids, low-wage workers, and people temporarily between jobs. This red tape is designed to produce massive cuts in SNAP funding in order to pay for the giant tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations that were passed in December.
Considering that SNAP helps 1 in 8 Americans across the country afford groceries and that 1 in 4 children live in food insecure households in America, proposals like this are cruel and only lead to more hunger and suffering —and are bad for our economy. [3]
The entire premise of these new restrictions— that somehow people who use SNAP are lazy — is dead wrong. Fact: Most adults on SNAP work. More than half of SNAP households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult work while receiving SNAP — and more than 80 percent work in the year before or after receiving SNAP. [4] Among those who are not working, most report illness or disability, caregiving responsibilities, being recently divorced or escaping an abusive relationship, or going to school as a reason for not working.
In other words, these proposed cuts are a direct attack on women, who do the lion's share of caregiving for children, elderly and family members with disabilities.
This of course all comes on the heels of the $1.9 trillion tax bill passed a few months ago, which gives historic tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires, and mega-corporations, but leaves working families in the dust. [5] There is a direct line between these tax cuts and what Congress is proposing to cut now around SNAP—in order to pay for the tax cuts for the 1% and Wall Street, GOP lawmakers need to find ways to make trillions of dollars in cuts. The health and well-being of our families should not be sacrificed in order to give tax cuts away to President Trump's cronies.
What should we do instead? Instead of taking away grocery money for struggling families to pay for new risky schemes, Congress should focus on policies that actually help create jobs, boost wages, and protect families.
These new requirements will hurt working families already struggling to balance work and family and make ends meet—and also hurt our economy. Economic analysis shows that there is a high return on investment, in fact, for SNAP because people immediately spend those funds on food in ways that also immediately fuel our economy. Further, requiring documentation of every hour of employment to obtain vital health care, nutrition, and housing assistance creates more red tape headaches for people, especially those who are self-employed, have seasonal jobs, or who are caring from family members and making ends meet through short term informal jobs like babysitting.
There is no evidence that work requirements would even help people get back to work faster—as supporters of this policy falsely claim. Even common sense says that taking food assistance away from struggling households will increase hardship and won't make it easier for the to find work. Also, these ideas of cutting SNAP are not new ideas. These are old, recycled ideas that have failed to work in the past. Washington state and Louisiana have tried it in the past with Medicaid. It didn't work. Rather than getting more people back into the workforce, work requirements led to more paperwork and less people receiving the healthcare coverage they desperately need—including many eligible people losing coverage. [6]
Once you take action, make sure to forward this email to your friends and family and post our action page to Facebook. This bill is moving quickly through Congress so we need to have as many people as possible speaking out against these harmful policies. Help us have our voice echo through the Halls of Congress!
Thank you for continuing to speak out and protect our families' health and nutrition!
P.S. Are you currently or have you ever used SNAP? How would an employment requirement affect you and your family? MomsRising wants to hear from you…your experiences with these programs matter! Share your story with us here.
P.P.S. We will be discussing this topic in more detail on Friday, April 20th with nutrition experts during our regular #FoodFri tweetchat from 1-2pmET/10am-11am PT. Join us on Twitter by following #FoodFri!
Bowing to the demands of the liberals, the leadership in the General Assembly is working overtime to expand Obamacare in Virginia.
But you can stop them.
That's right- after conservatives have stood strong for eight years against the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion, the new Speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox, has sold out.
So let us call it what it is- Cox-care.
Not only that, but now Cox has support in the State Senate with both State Senators Wagner and Hanger publicly stating they are supporting the expansion of Obamacare, and its associated Medicaid Expansion, here in the Commonwealth.
We need your help today, I cannot say it any other way. We simply cannot afford to lose one single vote in the State Senate, or be prepared to see both your taxes and insurance rates skyrocket.
You need to call the following State Senators TODAY and tell them they must not vote for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion-
State Senator Hanger- 804-698-7524
State Senator Wagner- 804-698-7507
And then call Speaker Kirk Cox -(804) 698-1066- and tell him he must not permit a vote on the Medicaid expansion in Virginia, or you will hold him accountable in the next primary election.
This may be the first email you have received from the Loudoun Constitutional Conservatives.
LCC is a no compromise, grassroots group dedicated to the Constitution, individual liberty and true conservative principles.
And I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with the lack of a spine shown in the General Assembly. I cannot even wrap my head around the lack of principle and the spreading surrender complex seen in Richmond today.
Just watching neighboring West Virginia residents suffer under the Medicaid Expansion, as their schools are de-funded, their roads neglected and the cost of health care increasing over 32%.
We cannot allow that to happen here in the Commonwealth.
And we will not back down. We are currently staffing up and running thousands of of phone calls into key districts to stop the Medicaid Expansion.
But we desperately need your help.
Which is why I am sending you this email today.
You need call the following State Senators TODAY and tell them they must not vote for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion-
State Senator Hanger- 804-698-7524
State Senator Wagner- 804-698-7507
Then you need to contact your state delegate and tell them they also must oppose the Cox-Northam- Obama Medicaid Expansion.
Meanwhile, we here at the Loudoun Constitutional Conservatives will be working hard to reach as many voters as possible this week, to urge them to contact their elected officials to oppose this far left socialist program.
But we are an all volunteer group, a true grassroots organization. And unlike the national level, left wing groups that support this horrible legislation, we depend solely on the donations of patriots like yourself.
But we work smart, for just less than $50, we can reach 1,000 voters in key districts, having them contact their representatives to tell them to vote against Cox- Northam- Obamacare.
PS-No one will ever convince us that bad Republican laws are better than bad Democratic laws. We do not play team sports and do not give a pass to any politician who violates the Constitution or true conservative principles just because of the letter behind their name.
Is Country Music Going the Way of the NFL? .... Conservatives need not apply .... Governor Mike Huckabee out of the board of the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation
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