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Don’t Fund It – Sign the Senate Conservative Fund Petition to Defund Obamacare

UPDATE: I will periodically post the latest emails from the effort to defund Obamacare – or, Don’t Fund It – as I receive them. Speaker Boehner has made good on his promise that the House vote would vote on a continuing resolution that will defund Obamacare, but we must remain vigilant, because some GOP House leaders – even Rep. Paul Ryan – has already suggested he is ready to raise the white flag.

The latest email is below, then follows an up-to-date list of Senators who have or have not pledged to join the effort to defund Obamacare. Some, have declined to respond to requests to take a stand, altogether. Finally, at the end you will find a list of Senate candidates with either a “Y” or a “N” next to their names. Some of the names of those who have refused to take the pledge to defund Obamacare, may just surprise you.

Bottom Line: Those who do not believe that the effort to defund Obamacare has real potential to succeed, are simply defeatists who are not versed in American legislative history. It used to be common practice for Congress to defund prior legislation, especially in instances when the law grants the Executive Branch an unacceptable amount of power. We simply have to stand by them. The American people support the effort to defund Obamacare despite the scare tactics over a government shutdown, which you can read about in the column below.

Read: Letter to GOP Leadership: Defund Obamacare As Most American Want, Or Get Packing

Fellow Conservatives: YOU DID IT! Thousands of you made phone calls this week to encourage conservative lawmakers in the House to oppose the Republican leadership’s “trick rule” to fund Obamacare, and it worked.

House Republican leaders do not have the votes to advance the bill so they have pulled it from the calendar and postponed the debate until next week. This is a major accomplishment and you made it happen. Some Republicans in the House were annoyed by your calls, but that’s okay. They needed to know that freedom-loving Americans from across the country were counting on them to stop Obamacare.Only 18 Days to Go — Help Us Turn Up the HeatWHAT’S NEXT?The American people oppose Obamacare and the votes do not currently exist in the U.S. House to fund it.

The question now for Republican leaders in Washington is whether they will accept this reality and join us in the fight to defund Obamacare … OR … will they keep trying to find ways to trick us.Will John Boehner and Mitch McConnell listen, or will they continue to work to fund a program that will destroy our country? Time will tell.We hear that Republican leaders are now trying to cut a deal where Republicans would get a one-year delay of certain parts of Obamacare and give the Democrats more spending and a higher debt limit in exchange.There are a couple BIG problems with this.

The only way to delay Obamacare is to DEFUND it. If Obamacare is not defunded, the Obama Administration will still be able to use our tax dollars to implement portions of the law. The health exchange subsidies that are designed to make Americans dependent on Obamacare, for example, will go forward.
Americans should NOT be forced to permanently pay for more spending and debt just to get a temporary delay in Obamacare. Congress already spends far too much. If Democrats want to also raise the debt limit, they should be forced to completely REPEAL Obamacare and pass a balanced budget.

We will keep you informed as things develop.

TURN UP THE HEAT

We won Round 1, but the fight isn’t over.

Please help us turn up the heat by making a secure, online donation to the Senate Conservatives Fund today.

Your support will help us:

Run more national TV and radio ads against Obamacare
Build upon the 1.2 million petitions to defund Obamacare
Drive thousands of calls into House and Senate offices
Target wavering Republicans who need to join the fight

We need to raise another $50,000 to pull out all the stops.

Obamacare starts in October so we don’t have much time. If we work together, we can fund the government without funding Obamacare.

Best regards,

Matt Hoskins
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund

“This is the last opportunity we’re going to have to stop Obamacare before the January 1 deadline so we have to refuse to fund it now.”
— U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

“We can de-fund Obamacare if Republican leaders who tell their constituents they’re conservative stand up and act like they’re conservative.”
— U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

DO NOT BE FOOLED.

These senators are planning to vote for the continuing resolution (CR) later this month that funds Obamacare’s implementation and enforcement, but they don’t want you to know it.

Here are a few of the deceptive tricks being played by the top Obamacare Republicans in the U.S. Senate:

Senate Republican Whip List

Urge the Republicans who have not pledged to oppose Obamacare funding in 2014 (question marks) to sign Senator Mike Lee’s letter vowing to oppose it.

“For these reasons, we will not support any continuing resolution or appropriations legislation that funds further implementation or enforcement of Obamacare.”

NOTE: If they say they SUPPORT bills to defund Obamacare, that does not help us because those bills won’t be considered and don’t have to pass. We need them to OPPOSE the CR if it funds Obamacare. The CR must be passed in September and it is our only point of leverage.

STATE	SENATOR	PHONE	PLEDGED TO OPPOSE 2014 FUNDING
AK	Murkowski, Lisa	202-224-6665	?
AL	Sessions, Jeff	202-224-4124	?
AL	Shelby, Richard	202-224-5744	Won’t Pledge
AR	Boozman, John	202-224-4843	?
AZ	Flake, Jeff	202-224-4521	Won’t Pledge
AZ	McCain, John	202-224-2235	Won’t Pledge
FL	Rubio, Marco	202-224-3041	Pledged
GA	Chambliss, Saxby	202-224-3521	?
GA	Isakson, Johnny	202-224-3643	?
IA	Grassley, Chuck	202-224-3744	Pledged
ID	Crapo, Mike	202-224-6142	Pledged
ID	Risch, Jim	202-224-2752	Pledged
IL	Kirk, Mark	202-224-2854	?
IN	Coats, Dan	202-224-5623	?
KS	Moran, Jerry	202-224-6521	?
KS	Roberts, Pat	202-224-4774	Pledged
KY	McConnell, Mitch	202-224-2541	Won’t Pledge
KY	Paul, Rand	202-224-4343	Pledged
LA	Vitter, David	202-224-4623	Pledged
ME	Collins, Susan	202-224-2523	?
MO	Blunt, Roy	202-224-5721	Won’t Pledge
MS	Cochran, Thad	202-224-5054	?
MS	Wicker, Roger	202-224-6253	?
NC	Burr, Richard	202-224-3154	Won’t Pledge
ND	Hoeven, John	202-224-2551	?
NE	Fischer, Deb	202-224-6551	Pledged
NE	Johanns, Mike	202-224-4224	?
NH	Ayotte, Kelly	202-224-3324	?
NJ	Chiesa, Jeff	202-224-3224	Pledged
NV	Heller, Dean	202-224-6244	?
OH	Portman, Rob	202-224-3353	?
OK	Coburn, Tom	202-224-5754	Won’t Pledge
OK	Inhofe, Jim	202-224-4721	Pledged
PA	Toomey, Pat	202-224-4254	?
SC	Graham, Lindsey	202-224-5972	Won’t Pledge
SC	Scott, Tim	202-224-6121	?
SD	Thune, John	202-224-2321	Pledged
TN	Alexander, Lamar	202-224-4944	Won’t Pledge
TN	Corker, Bob	202-224-3344	Won’t Pledge
TX	Cornyn, John	202-224-2934	?
TX	Cruz, Ted	202-224-5922	Pledged
UT	Hatch, Orrin	202-224-5251	Won’t Pledge
UT	Lee, Mike	202-224-5444	Pledged
WI	Johnson, Ron	202-224-5323	?
WY	Barrasso, John	202-224-6441	?
WY	Enzi, Mike	202-224-3424	Pledged

Please report what you hear from these senators so we can update our background information.

Senate Candidate Pledge

Here are the Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate in 2014. See who has pledged to stop the funding for Obamacare and who has not.

Download the Pledge

Y = Candidate Has Signed Pledge N = Candidate Has Not Signed Pledge

“I, ___________, pledge to the taxpayers of the state of ___________, and to the American people, that I will: ONE, support the full repeal of Obamacare (also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act); and TWO, oppose any bill or budget resolution that provides funding to implement or enforce any part of it.”

STATE	CANDIDATES
AK	Joe Miller – Y Mead Treadwell – N
AR	Tom Cotton – N
AL	Jeff Sessions – N
CO	Ken Buck – N Owen Hill – Y
GA	Jack Kingston – N Karen Handel – Y Paul Broun – Y Phil Gingrey – Y
IA	David Young – N Joni Ernst – Y Matt Whitaker – Y Sam Clovis – Y
IL	Doug Truax – N
KY	Matt Bevin – Y Mitch McConnell – N
LA	Bill Cassidy – N Rob Maness – Y
ME	Susan Collins – N
MI	Terri Lynn Land – Y
MS	Thad Cochran – N
MT	Champ Edmunds – Y Corey Stapleton – Y
NC	Greg Brannon –Y Heather Grant – Y Thom Tillis – N
NE	Bart McLeay – Y Ben Sasse – Y Shane Osborn – Y
SC	Lee Bright – Y Lindsey Graham – N Nancy Mace – Y Richard Cash – Y
SD	Annette Bosworth – Y Larry Rhoden – Y Mike Rounds – N Stace Nelson – Y
TN	Brenda Lenard – Y Joe Carr – Y Lamar Alexander – N
TX	Dwayne Stovall – Y Erick Wyatt – Y John Cornyn – N
WV	Pat McGeehan – Y Shelley Moore Capito – N
WY	Liz Cheney – N

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Richard D. Baris

Rich, the People's Pundit, is the Data Journalism Editor at PPD and Director of the PPD Election Projection Model. He is also the Director of Big Data Poll, and author of "Our Virtuous Republic: The Forgotten Clause in the American Social Contract."

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Eleanore D. Steward, Ph.D., J.D. says:

August 12, 2013 at 6:24 PM

Get rid of life-time politicians who have sucked at the public trough throughout their lifetimes...if they were not at the government tit, they couldn't qualify for standing room in a hog-pen! The whole miserable lot of them (535 +9 on the Court) are a den of thieves!
- Richard D. Baris says:
  
  August 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM
  
  Couldn't have put it better myself. Well said!