Democrats Attack Our Free Speech Rights
Congressman Marty Meehan (D-Massachusetts) has introduced H.R. 2093 that will harm the rights of citizens to receive information about and criticize Washington.
Please call your United States Representative today and tell him or her to oppose H.R 2093, the Meehan grassroots bill. Go here to find contact information for your U.S. Rep:
And please forward this email to as many people you can today, and ask them to act quickly.
The House Democratic leadership is keeping their timing under close wraps, but congressional staffers have said this unconstitutional bill may be considered by the Judiciary Committee as part of lobbying reform as early this Friday, but more likely next week. If it gets voted out of committee, then it goes to the floor of the House.
Whatever day HR 2093 is considered, it’s important to start calling Congress now, and forwarding this email alert now to help get more callers to oppose this bill.
The Meehan bill will regulate citizen-supported grassroots causes. What would trigger this new law? Citizens engaging in their First Amendment rights to (1) speak, (2) publish, (3) associate and (4) petition the government. It even will regulate some religious activity.
But get this. It will help big special interests, billionaire George Soros, and even big-time lobbyists themselves. The bill was written by lobbyists, so it will, of course, protect them and their clients.
My letter this week to Congressman Meehan shows how our First Amendment rights are being done in by secret dealings with insider lobbyists and Mr. Meehan’s own lawyers.
Dozens of grassroots organizations joined by the ACLU have signed a letter opposing the Meehan bill, H.R. 2093.
Grassroots causes would be required to tell Congress what they’re talking about in private communications to you and other citizens – often before they even say it.
This is very bad legislation. It is actually dangerous to our democracy because it attacks our basic freedoms to speak and criticize government.
The grassroots bill was defeated in Senate earlier this year, 55 – 43.
Now citizens must tell the House of Representatives that the First Amendment means what it says, “Congress shall make no law . . .”
So please, call your U.S. Rep today.
Tell him or her to vote against H.R. 2093, the Meehan grassroots bill.
And please forward this email to as many people as you can today, if you can.
Thank you.
Mark Fitzgibbons
GrassrootsFreedom.com
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Here is my letter to Congressman McCaul:
Congressman McCaul,
Your office knows that I frequently contact you about issues both foreign (e.g. Taiwan Strait issues) and domestic (most anything). Sometime I do so totally on my own and sometimes because a grassroots organization has informed me of pending legislation that I have an interest in supporting or opposing. With regards to the domestic issues I am a bit weary of having to spend so much time asking you and my US Senators to vote to defend the Constitution against legislative attacks and against the attacks of the likes of billionaire George Soros -- who lobby with impunity, desiring to impose their far leftest ideology on America.
That said and to my point, please vote against H.R. 2093. Is there any doubt that this is Orwellian legislation? Introduced on May Day, traditional demonstration day for socialist, communist, and anarchist groups a Communist, this bill would effectively set up a system whereby all grassroots organizations spending more than $100,000 on efforts to inform the public of pending legislation would be regulated by Congress. In such a situation where all "lobbying" persons and entities would be rendered equal do you doubt that some will be deemed more equal than others?
H.R. 2093 will for the first time ever allow the federal government to regulate organizations that spend money to urge citizens to call or write their federally elected officials. This unconstitutional effort to regulate the free speech of organizations and citizens and their right to communicate with each other about what Congress is doing will not stop with H.R. 2093. Future legislation could easily lower the $100,000 per quarter requirement. If this bill is passed, we will see more and more regulation and limitation of so-called grassroots lobbying, which is nothing more than average citizens exercising their First Amendment right to “petition Congress.”
Please vote no on H.R. 2093.
Respectfully Yours,
Timothy E. Bradberry
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