Here’s an open letter to share with friends going to the Republican Party District 01 Convention in Tulsa this weekend. I am asking for your vote and your prayers and your support in this effort. Thank you for all you do for life and for liberty in our land!
Dear Republican Friends/Leadership,
Most of you know me from things we have worked on together or via websites/blogs/emails/ and our mutual efforts to get our country back on course. I would love to represent you and serve in the capacity of a delegate to the National GOP Convention this year. I believe my experience serves the party well in this role. Most know that I have worked tirelessly to move the ship of state in the ‘right’ direction. I place core principles and operating philosophy above party, because I believe that is what will best grow our party and solve the tremendous problems we face. While Christian values will always trump party politics, I think that is what makes our party the hope of the nation — because we do honor ethics and values in our party. Sure we need to do better and we will as we challenge one another in the process and as we shine the light on matters.
We as a party must now come to a consensus and work together in the days ahead not only to defeat Obama, but to elect principled conservative, Republicans up and down the ladder. You know me and that I will continue to work to get out the truth and build our party around core principles. On that you can rest assured. In addition to that, I will continue to work to keep people involved in productive ways. There is much we all agree on and much left for us to debate as we work toward difficult economic solutions ahead and get our businesses set free from over-reaching regulations so that they can truly prosper and innovate and create jobs. We need less government — a lot less government!
Through the years I have served on most committees and in most volunteer roles available in campaigns and relative to issues advocacy in the Republican Party both in Texas and now in Oklahoma. In recent years, I have focused on communications networks and mentoring future leaders. I appreciate the many people and the countless hours that go into making our party great. You are a part of that process. Thank you! Together, we must hold our own people and our own party accountable to our platform and core principles even as we challenge our opponents on substantive matters.
It is important what we say and how we say it. The message and the actions must line up! I helped with some of the original teaparty efforts and rallies and became widely known for social networking; training and mentoring others all along the way. I will work with you to continue to grow our party and I believe that in doing so we will all help to Restore the Republic in the process. This will cause others to join us and actively engage as they see that we mean business and we mean what we say.
I ask for your support to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention to be held in Tampa later this year. I will do my best to represent you well and will work with with others to reach consensus on what is truly best for our party and our nation. We will achieve our common goals together. We must. The very future of the nation depends upon us doing so.
Vote Sandra Crosnoe for National Delegate
for Life and LIberty in our Land
with Republicans in office working to Restore the Republic!
National Committeewoman Carolyn McLarty exposes U.N. Agenda 21 from the podium at the Tulsa County GOP convention 3-24-12
“Special thanks to Bryan Mayberry for the video and to Carolyn McLarty for making the Tulsa GOP delegates aware of the UN Agenda 21. I hope people will follow her recommendation and read the book and talk to elected officials about this effort to change our way of life. We need less government — a lot less government!”
Earlier this week, someone made improper use of the Tulsa
GOP email list to create division in our party. The email
claimed that there were efforts by those who favored
Congressman Paul in the Primary to expropriate Delegate
votes from the three candidates who are due them under the
rules of our party.
Such efforts to divide our party are counterproductive and
are rejected by all who are familiar with the email and were
the subjects of its derision.
The Tulsa County Republican Convention must be one in which
Republicans can discuss issues with fervor while finding
common ground on the very issues that drew us all to become
Republicans in the first place. While our policy priorities
may vary in degree, our core ideals are in common.
Is there a Republican at the County Convention who believes
that violations of the US Constitution are appropriate?
Is there a Republican who holds that our money should be the
unrestricted plaything of the Federal Reserve?
Is there a Republican who likes unfettered abortion on
demand?
Is there a Republican who agrees with the destructive and
escalating debt?
Is there a Republican who desires the reelection of Obama?
We say “NO!”
Let’s put aside the efforts to create factions after the
Primary is beyond us. Let’s have a great Convention. Let’s
send every active Republican we can find to our District and
State Conventions. Let’s agree that we need every
Republican to restore our constitutional republic.
Signed by the active Republicans who raised $450 to aid our
County Convention on Sunday.
Note:
This is a one-time email permitted in response to the
earlier unsolicited email. You will receive no further mail
from us.
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This email went out earlier in the week from Concerned Tulsa Co. Delegates” <soonerpolitics@gmail.com:
Subject: Warning: Tulsa County Convention Under Attack
If you are a Ron Paul supporter, there’s probably no reason to read this email as you already know what you’re up to.
Otherwise, as a delegate to the Tulsa County Republican Convention, you need to know that the local Ron Paul supporters are preparing for battle during the County, District and State Conventions. The end result, they hope, is to seize as many delegates as possible, which were legitimately won by the other three campaigns on Super Tuesday. If activists like you don’t act to stop them, Ron Paul may win as many as 25 of Oklahoma’s 43 delegates to the Republican National Convention, despite the intentions of more than 90% of Oklahoma’s primary voters.
Ron Paul’s activists don’t care if they steal from Gingrich, Santorum or Romney. They just want our delegates!
Among their plans, as we understand them, is to stack the County Convention’s delegation with individuals who did not attend their precinct meetings due to their various contrived reasons (chairman didn’t show up, chairman didn’t speak English, etc.). If there are more Paul supporters who show up at the convention on March 24th, at 8 AM, at the Union High School Performing Arts Center, then they can vote to change the rules of the convention, and allow in enough voters to then control the District 1 Convention, to be held on April 14th, at the Renaissance Hotel at 6808 S 107th East Ave, in Tulsa. If they win at the District Convention, then they will steal the three delegate slots set aside for Gingrich, Romney and Santorum (one each).
If they win statewide, they could take most of the 25 delegate slots that are selected at the State Convention, which will be held in Norman on May 12th.
What can you do to stop them? Show up Saturday and stay all afternoon until the gavel falls, ending the convention.
At each convention, we anticipate there will be a push to bog down the process with parliamentary procedure and confusion as we’ve already seen in Missouri last Saturday, where two Ron Paul supporters were arrested for dissent. They will try to draw out the proceedings so that when the other candidate’s supporters leave, they can overpower the voice of the voters.
Bring bottles of water and granolas bars, because they hope you’ll get hungry and leave!
At the moment, the Ron Paul supporters make up around 24% of the delegates. To put that in perspective, Ron Paul got 9.6% of the vote in contrast with 33.8% for Santorum, 28% for Romney and 27.5% for Gingrich.
It is incredibly important that you attend the conventions and stay until the very end. We cannot let the voice of the people fall by the wayside because the disgruntled Paul supporters are finding loopholes to force their minority of supporters into the process and misrepresent the people in our precincts, county and district.
Please help. If you need more information, or explanation, just reply to this email. We’ll help you better learn what you need to do.
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This is what I have to say about all that:
“Promoting People of Principle is what the delegate process is all about — it matters what you stand for, what you say, how you live and how you treat one another. May the cream rise to the top and may the Lord be pleased to bless our nation once again~”
Emails Reveal Tulsa County GOP Controversy On Convention Day
Sandra Crosnoe reveals on her blog that there’s controversy within the Tulsa County Republican Party about allegations that Ron Paul supporters will try to take over the county convention today.
Crosnoe has obtained two emails that frame the debate.
My personal experience is that the battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party is alive and well. Most are trying to build the party on principles that we all agree on. A few are trying to divide and conquer. It has worked in the past, but I think folks may be wising up to the tactic. We’ll see.
As I said at the end of the post:
“Promoting People of Principle is what the delegate process is all about — it matters what you stand for, what you say, how you live and how you treat one another. May the cream rise to the top and may the Lord be pleased to bless our nation once again~”
Your readers and GOP Convention Delegates around the state will have to decide who that is and select people who treat each other properly and who really stand for what they say they stand for. That is what representative government is all about. We need each other and we must grow the party in order to win elections. We want our leaders and our delegates to be people who make wise decisions along the way with the Constitution as our guide.
I have been contacted by a few of you with some concerns recently, so I thought it was critical to share regarding some issues that have arisen in the past couple of weeks about which it would be premature to detail. I hope to attain clarity in the next few days and share additional information, so I appreciate your patience.
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In the meantime, please keep your lists (entire databases, email, phone, etc.) secure and do not oblige requests by anyone who requests copies. This advice, while necessary to highlight at the moment, due to reported efforts ongoing and expanding at the moment, is sound as a general practice.
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There is simply no reason to pass your lists to anyone. If an individual, group, or organization representative contacts requesting your list(s), whatever their stated capacity, the best policy for the protection of the privacy of the information you have obtained from the individuals who entrusted it to you, for all of your time and your efforts to build and maintain a contact list, is to politely refuse, but offer to review any message or material the individual would like to convey to the people on your list.
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For those who believe in Constitutional, limited government, personal responsibility, and sovereignty, it is important to reflect those principles in efforts we conduct. Therefore, such efforts should be organized, guided, and conducted by folks at the local level, who know the people in their areas. Lists and information should be kept local, not ever-more centralized.
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In addition to the concept of the duty to protect privacy, two other best practices are to “group send” using bcc and to provide some mechanism for opting out of being contacted on each email transmission.
There’s been a lot of discussion of the PATRIOT Act, and we’re told basically we wouldn’t be able to capture these terrorists if we didn’t give up some of our liberties; if we didn’t give up some of the Fourth Amendment and allow it to be easier for the police to come into our homes.
We were so frightened after 9/11 that we readily gave up these freedoms.
We said, well, the Fourth Amendment is not that important. We’ll just let the government look at all of our records and we’ll make it easier for the government to look at our records.
The question you have to ask, though, is whether or not we would still be able to catch terrorists by using the Fourth Amendment as it was intended, and having the protections of the Fourth Amendment.
What you have to ask yourself is think about the worst person in your community. Think about someone accused of murder or rape or a pedophile.
You think of these people; do you know what happens if someone is accused of that?
Even if it’s 3:00 in the morning and they want to get their records or they want to go into their house, they call a judge. This is something very important.
They get the warrants almost all the time. But it’s one step of protection. What you have is the protection where you don’t have police officers writing warrants to come into your house. You have to have it reviewed by a judge.
What we’ve done to the PATRIOT Act is taken away some of the protections of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment says you need to name the person and the place to be searched.
We’ve taken away those protections.
The Fourth Amendment says you need to have probable cause. We’ve taken away those and made it to where it, if it’s relevant or they think they might be related to it.
Originally the FISA court lowered the standard somewhat on the Fourth Amendment, but it recognized that it was lowering the standard and was careful.
We had secret courts set up and the FISA court was the court that dealt with things that had to do with national security or terrorism or intelligence.
The information was kept secret so we didn’t let everybody in the world know the name but the name had to be divulged to the judges.
Those who argue you have to have the PATRIOT Act, to do this or we will not be able to stop terrorism, they need to explain why the FISA court did tens of thousands of search warrants and never turned any down.
In fact, the history before the PATRIOT Act was no search warrant had ever been turned down.
Do we really want to give up our liberties in exchange for more security?
Franklin said those who give up liberty in exchange for security may end up with neither.
Right now if you have a Visa bill that’s over $5,000 and you choose to pay for it over the phone which is a wire transfer, the government is probably looking at your Visa bill.
They don’t have to show probable cause and they don’t have to have a judge’s warrant. And this does apply to U.S. citizens. Often they’ll tell you it’s only foreign terrorists we’re looking at.
They want you to feel good about allowing the spying, but this spying is going on by the tens of thousands and even by the millions.
With regard to these suspicious activity reports, we’ve done over 4 million of them in the last 10 years.
We’re now doing over a million a year.
These suspicious activity reports, all the trigger is you don’t have to have anything to do with terrorism.
The trigger is you have over $5,000 that you transfer by bank account.
You say, well, the courts have decided that your bank records aren’t private.
Well, the hell they aren’t. They should be private.
My Visa records, if you look at my Visa records, you can tell whether I go to the doctor, what kind of doctor I go to. You can conceivably tell what kind of medication I’m on. You can tell what kind of magazines I read. You can tell what kind of books I order from amazon.
Do we want a government that looks at our Visa bill?
Do we want a government that looks at our records and is finding out what our reading habits are. One of the provisions apply to library records. Do you want the government to find out what you’re reading at the library?
We now have a president that wants to know where you contributed before you do work for the government. Do we want that kind of all-encompassing government that is looking at every record from top to bottom and invading our privacy?
There is another aspect of this called national security letters. These are basically warrants that are written by FBI Agents. No judge reviews them. This is specifically what James Otis was worried about when he talked about general warrants that weren’t specifying the person or the place and that were written by police officers. And this is a problem because really this is — we depend on the checks and balances in our society.
We never want to give all the authority to either one group of congress or to the president or to police or judges. We have checks and balances to approve — to try to prevent abuse.
Now, some have said, well, if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?
Well, the thing is that it will not always be angels that are in charge of government. You have rules because you want to prevent the day that may occur when you get someone who takes over your government through elected office or otherwise who really is intent on using the tools of government to pry into your affairs, to snoop on what you’re doing, to punish you for your political or religious beliefs.
That’s why we don’t ever want to let the law become so expansive. But the thing is you have to realize that you can still get terrorists. We get rapists and murderers every day by calling a judge. That’s what I’m asking for.
I’m asking that we go through and obey the Fourth Amendment.
Many conservatives argue that well they love the second amendment. Some liberals say they love to be able to protect the first amendment. If you don’t protect the entire bill of rights, you’re not going to have any of it.
If you want to protect your right to own a gun, you need to protect your gun records from the government looking at your gun records and finding out whether you’ve been buying a gun at a gun show.
You need to protect your privacy. If you want to protect the first amendment, you’ve got to have the Fourth Amendment.
In fact, we specifically had to go back there.
The original PATRIOT act said that you couldn’t even consult with your attorney. You couldn’t even tell your attorney — you were gagged from telling your attorney.
Even now, though, you say I don’t know if they’ve investigated me. You know why? Because they tell your phone company if they’re looking at your phone records right now or your Visa records, it’s against the law for Visa or the phone company to tell you that.
It’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines and jail time. It’s five years in jail if your phone company tells you they have been spying on you.
Now, some of this doesn’t even require a letter from government. Some of it is done by the banks. The suspicious activity reports, we have simply told the bank here, anybody that deals in cash, anybody that has over a $5,000 transfer, wire transfer or who deals in large amounts of money, the bank — it’s incumbent upon the bank to spy on their customers now.
This is a real problem, and I think that we need to have some argument and debate in our country over these things.
Some want to have these things permanently. They want to permanently give up their Fourth Amendment protections, and I disagree strongly.
Not only would let these expire, but I think we really should sunset the entire PATRIOT Act and protect our liberties the way it was intended by our founding fathers.
James Otis was an attorney in Boston, and he wrote about these things they called in those days writs of assistance. These were general warrants. The king would write them, or actually they were written by soldiers here. They didn’t name the person to be searched or the place, and they were used as a way to have the king have his way with the people and to bully the people.
The idea of general warrants is what really sorely offended our founding fathers. That’s why we got the Fourth Amendment.
The Fourth Amendment was the product of a decade or more of James Otis arguing cases against the British government. But the question you have to ask yourself when thinking about these issues is it’s not so simple that you can just say well, I’m either against terrorism or I’m going to let terrorists run wild and take over the country.
You can be opposed to terrorists. We can go after terrorists. We can go after murderers and rapists and people who commit crimes, but we can do it with a process that protects the innocent.
You know, we — we looked at — I think so far they say we have looked at 28 million electronic records. We have looked at 1,600,000 text messages, and we have 800,000 hours of audio. We have so much audio that they can’t even listen to it all. Twenty-five percent what they have recorded of your phone conversations is not listened to because they don’t even have time to listen to it.
My point would be that we’re eavesdropping on so many people that it could be that we are missing out and not targeting. It’s just like the airports. Every one of you is being searched in the airport and you’re not terrorists and you’re no threat to our country.
Why are we not looking for the people who would attack us and spending time on those people? Why do we not go to a judge and say this person we suspect of dealing with this terrorist group, will you give us a warrant? Why don’t we have those steps?
Instead, we’re mining and going through millions of records, and I think we’re overwhelmed so much with the records that we may well be doing less of a good job with terrorism because we’re looking at everyone’s records.
But the bottom line is I don’t want to live in a country where we give up our freedoms, our privacy. I don’t want to live in a country that loses its constitutional protections that protect us as individuals.
We do have a right to privacy. You have a right not to have the government reading your Visa bill every month. We do have rights and we should protect these, but we shouldn’t be so fearful that we say well, I’m a good person, I don’t care, just look at my records.
If you do, you’re setting yourself up for a day when there will be a tyranny, when there will be a despot who comes into power in the United States and who uses those rules that you said oh, I don’t have anything to hide.
What happens when someone takes over who believes that your religion is — is to be combated, who believes that your political beliefs and your literature should be combated? What happens when that day comes?
We cannot give up our liberty. If we do, if we trade it for security, we’ll have neither.
So I rise in opposition to the vote on cloture.
I will be introducing amendments to the PATRIOT Act this week, and we will be having a real debate about how we can stop terrorism but also preserve freedom at the same time.
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