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John Shadegg - Jeff Flake - Jon Kyl - The Goldwater Institute and the r3VOLution

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Bottom Line....
 
The 20th Anniversary of the Goldwater Institute was a well attended event at the Arizona Biltmore,... except for the scheduled Congressmen and US Senator.
 
The welcoming remarks were to be presented by AZ congressman John Shadegg, one of the toasts were to be done by AZ congressman Jeff Flake and the Keynote Speaker was to be introduced by US Senator Jon Kyl but none of them attended the event.
 
 
 
 
I attended the event ($135 for the dinner) after I learned that some of my hard core libertarian friends had a table with room for me.
 
At the entrance to the resort there were a dozen or so freedom activists that were able to take a couple of hours with only a few hours of notice to show up and hold some signs.
 


From the inside of the event it was very,... interesting to be the benefactor of comments in support and opposition to what was happening at the entrance to the resort.
 
The main speaker, Vaclav Claus the President of the Czech Republic, was given the Goldwater Award on the organization's 20th Anniversary for being a free-market freedom fighter that is a student of Austrian Economics that was punished for his support of liberty in the dark days of the late 60's.
 
There were emails exchanged with opponents of John Shadegg's actions and  supporters of the Goldwater Institute (names many would recognize) about the education of attendees to the event by effective marketing (including protestors). Names are not important,... but know that Ron Paul will b getting calls about our efforts and a demand that he get "his people" under control.  They just don't get it :)

I'll have more details tomorrow. But I wanted you to know that the effect of immediate and targeted activism by a few dedicated individuals had an very great effect.
 
Peace,
Ernie
 
 

4 Comments in Response to

Comment by Philly Dave
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Looks like Flake voted Against.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

Comment by Ernest Hancock
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Barry wrote:

I spoke with Ron yesterday and I do not believe he would approve of your action. John Shadegg is a lot closer to Ron than many others. Pick your targets wisely to have the most affect. This is not a wise move and I'd sugest you cancell this...........Barry

The best always,
Barry

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From: Andrea Garcia
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Just a heads up!
To: Barry

Barry, I appreciate and respect you tremendously. How ever, John Shadegg was elected as our Representative. He did the right thing and voted against the bailouts on the first round. For that action I would stand on corners put up signs or do whatever it took to get him re-elected.

When he voted no along with all our AZ Reps. We posted emails to make sure they were thanked for listening to us. Even the Democrats we called and thanked.

When Rep.Shadegg chose to go public on KTAR and announce his decision to vote in favor of this bill, he lodged himself against liberty and freedom, as well as betraying his constituents. Our target tonight was the purse strings to his campaign. We know you do not control every person in your organization. however there are those who support John Shadegg and raise money for him. Those are the people we wanted to target. maybe if even one of them would call John and say" Hey, I heard you say you would vote for the bailouts, You need to reconsider." That was the goal.

Also Jon Kyl will be called out soon. He too betrayed true conservative values by voting for the bailout. I appreciate that Ron and John are close, however I disagree with the idea that Ron would disapprove. He has taught us to hold our elected officials accountable and to fight for Liberty through peaceful civil disobedience. I believe your father would have applauded our actions and called John and his supporters out himself. My daughter just wrote a 5 page report for Constitution week about your father. One question she had to answer was "What did this person contribute to history" Her answer was "The idea that we must always follow the Constitution and the first Politician to recognize we have a lot of work to do to change a corrupt Government" My daughter and my grandchildren can not grow up in a socialist society. John is voting for Socialism. I will fight him. Again i hope you understand you were not the target tonight, supporters of Kyl and Shadegg were.

Yours Truly in Liberty, Andrea.

Comment by Bennichs
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The street action was a great success. There was a lot of heavy traffic and positive response.
We will see who the traitors are tomorrow.

Comment by Ducatijeanne
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ohh....tell us more!