This Belongs at Freedomworks, But...

This e-mail, forwarded from Carol Stopps by Patricia Evans, is the sort of thing I try to post on Freedomworks (Freedom Connector), but they "are offline for maintenance" this morning. Here's the e-mail, edited for a computer-generated spelling "correction" error and to hide an e-mail address we don't have specific permission to display:

"From Carol Stopps
Chair: Cooperative Legislative Action ( CoLA )
Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation

Hello Everyone,

Those of you who know me, know that the Federation CoLA committee has always focused on legislation in the Virginia General Assembly. Now we are faced with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The final language of this trade agreement was released at 3:30 on Nov 5th. Congress has 90 days to take an up or down vote.

There will be many think tanks and individuals attempting to read and interpret the 6,ooo pages and 2 million words contained in the 30 chapters. (Only 5 chapters deal with trade) Personally I am on information overload ...

If this agreement (and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)) are not stopped, it won't matter what laws are passed, or who is elected in our country at the federal, state or local level. We lose our sovereignty. PERIOD! These agreements will supersede our laws and constitution through international rules and regulations. Conflict outcomes will be decided in international tribunals. (The WTO has already overridden US law) These are "living" documents which means that once they are passed, no vote in Congress is required to add new issues, regulation or participants to the agreements. (Think 2nd amendment / environmental regulations / China, Russia and the entire EU)

I hope you will join me in an all out effort to get information out there to help stop these agreements from passing. This will be a fight against the most powerful elite on earth.

These articles are full of details on what is known or suspected to date. Also contained are lists of our elected representatives, major corporations and international uber-elites who are advancing / supporting the agreements and their ultimate goals.

Secret TPP Text Released: GOP to Push Obama’s Dangerous Trade Deal

10 Reasons Why You Should Oppose TPP and TTIP

Trading Away Their Oaths Lists - Members of TPN and their mission.

Please forward to me any new articles / videos that give detailed interpretations of the actual language now that it is public...salolianigodagewi@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance,

Carol Stopps

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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson"  

More Thanks to Republican Delegates

This web site is fairly sure Virginia's Republican Delegates have already seen Carol Stopps' pithy report on their good work. This web site would have forwarded her e-mail to them with a heading like "More Thanks" or "Second the Thanks," last week, if this web site had been more active than it was. This web site is now embarrassed by its inactivity. Anyway, here, for posterity, is CS's Cooperative Legislative Action group's commendation:

"We may be getting rolled in Washington. But in Virginia Republicans are holding strong.

We owe a big thank you to all committee members who yesterday killed two big parts of the progressive statist agenda.

 

The Obamacare State Exchange...DEAD in the House

An increase in the minimum wage...DEAD in the House

"At present, we are getting rolled in Washington.  Democrats have pushed an omnibus bill, a disastrous farm bill, endless debt ceiling increases, and amnesty for illegals.  Instead of an equal and opposing force in the opposite direction, Republicans have….. pushed an omnibus bill, a disastrous farm bill, endless debt ceiling increases, and amnesty for illegals."    -    Erick Erickson, Morning Briefing 2/5/14

Here are the bills:

HB 292 Obamacare state exchange. Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor by voice vote

HB 32   Minimum wage increase. Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote

HB 536  Minimum wage increase. Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote

These are the Republican members of the Commerce and Labor Committee. We have no way to know exactly how they voted without recorded votes, but we will assume the best, and we thank them all   :)

Kilgore (Chairman),   Byron,  Ware,  Hugo,  Rust,  Marshall, D.W.,  Cline,  Miller,  Loupassi,   Bell, Robert B.,  Comstock,  Habeeb,  Villanueva,  Farrell, O'Quinn

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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."  - Thomas Jefferson "

Virginia Tea Party Patriots' Bill Reading Results

From Carol Stopps and the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation:

"

We have now finished reviewing the bills that were amended / substituted during the first half of the 2014 General Assembly session.

The bills below are the complete list of the VA Tea Party Patriots Federation legislative priorities for the second half of the 2014 session. For your convenience I have marked the bills which were not on the list dated February 9th.

Thank you all very much for your service to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Sincerely,

Carol Stopps

Chair: Cooperative Legislative Action (CoLA)

VA Tea Party Patriots Federation

"A statewide coalition of Tea Party and Patriot groups" 

804-955-5485

SUPPORT

...HB 17 Electronic communication or remote computing de... ...HB 99 NEW Tax information; changes unlawful dissemination... ...HB 121 NEW Tax information; disclosure by Department of Ta... ...HB 197 Virginia history and United States Const...

. .HB 198 Student discipline; expulsion due to fir...  . .HB 199 NEW Local government expenditures or reducti...
  ..HB 258 Higher educational institutions; restrictions o...
  ...HB 286 State Inspector General; appointment by General...
  ...HB 324 NEW Virginia Virtual School; established, report, e...
  ...HB 333 NEW School calendar; local school boards responsbil...
  ...HB 357 Concealed handgun permit applicant; access to i...
  ...HB 364 Civics Education, Commission on; reestablished ...
  ...HB 449 Student information; release to federal governm...
  ...HB 492 Notaries; if not accredited to represent person...
  ...HB 610 NEW School calendar; local school boards responsibl...
  ...HB 706 General Assembly member; legislative standing t...
  ...HB 754 Student discipline; modifying long-term suspens...
  ...HB 790 General Services, Department of; inventory of a...
  ...HB 1006 NEW Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP); DCR to ut...
  ...HB 1034 NEW Dams, certain; liability of owners.
  ...HB 1043 Health benefit exchanges; regulation of navigat...
  ...HB 1053 State Inspector General, Office of; powers and ...
  ...HB 1084 Permits and approvals, certain; damages for unc...
  ...HB 1147 Health insurance; offering plans.
  ...HB 1173 Stormwater management programs; optional for so...
  ...HB 1176 Health insurance; notice of increase in premium...
  ...HB 1200 Elections; qualifications of candidates, reside...
  ...HB 1256 Detention and removal of U.S. citizen from Stat...
  ...HJ 40 Virginia Medicaid program and Medicaid-funded n...
  ...HJ 147 Affordable Care Act, federal; Bureau of Insuran...
  ...SB 194 Eminent domain; date of valuation, inverse cond...
  ...SB 239 Student mental health policies; violence preven...
  ...SB 242 NEW Higher education; students' personal informatio...
  ...SB 325 NEW Standards of Quality; waivers from third grade ...
  ...SB 423 Stormwater management program; regulations, sin...
  ...SB 446 General Assembly; reports accompanying general ...
  ...SB 503 Notaries; legal advice on immigration, etc.,non...
  ...SB 542 Health benefit exchanges; regulation of navigat...
  ...SB 578 Permits and approvals, certain; unconstitutiona...
  ...SB 582 NEW Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP); DCR to ut...
  ...SB 603 Oyster grounds; condemnation. OPPOSE if amended to match HB1092. [No judicial review]
  

OPPOSE

... HB 975 Hybrid electric motor vehicles; repeals annual ...
  ...HB 1025 Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; re...
  ...HB 1059 NEW Electric utility regulation; recovery of certai...
  ...HB 1092 NEW Oyster grounds; condemnation. [No judicial review]
   ...HB 1116 Banister River; Scenic River designation.
  ...HB 1220 NEW Research and development, qualified; increases ...
  ...HB 1239 Real and personal property taxes; exemption for...
  ...HB 1249 Prescription Monitoring Program; registration w...
  ...HB 1253 Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Com...
  ...HB 1267 Va.Beach arena; if Va. Beach issues bonds for a...
  ...SB 45 left in committee Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; established / oppose any budget amendments to establish a state exchange or expand Medicaid
  ...SB 48 Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management ...
  ...SB 127 Hybrid electric motor vehicles; repeals annual ...
  ...SB 250 Employment applications; inquiries regarding cr...
  ...SB 252 NEW Insurance; state health care plan to provide th...
  ...SB 257 Tye River; designation as component of Virginia...
  ...SB 294 Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements o...
  ...SB 297 NEW Medicaid enrollees; work search requirements fo...
  ...SB 418 Solar equipment; certified pollution control eq...
  ...SB 464 NEW Human Resource Management, Department of; state...
  ...SB 498 NEW Electric utility regulation; renewable energy p...
  ...SB 510 Firearms; possession following a misdemeanor co...
  ...SB 513 Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; created...
  ...SB 551 Cranesnest River; designates as component of Vi...
  ...SB 571 Va.Beach arena; if Va. Beach issues bonds for a...
  ...SB 604 Immigrant Assistance, Office of; created.
  ...SB 653 Renewable energy property; grants for placing i.


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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."  - Thomas Jefferson "