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Babies and Undocumented Women Win in the Midwest After Republican Janssen Attacks Prenatal Care and Fails

Monday, April 1st, 2013

We informed you last month with regard to Republicans like Sen. Charlie Janssen and Gov. Dave Heineman who have been attacking prenatal care and an undocumented woman’s right to choose life for their babies.

Shirl Mora James is a Civil Rights and Immigration lawyer in the Midwest who has committed her life to protecting a woman’s right to choose in keeping their babies.   Shirl is also the President of a woman-led movement via SOMOS INDEPENDENTS (formerly the National Tequila Party Movement) who testified in the Nebraska legislature in support of women who want to keep their babes. She is not your ordinary internet arm  chair revolutionary — nay, she walks her talk not limited to hosting rallies in an effort to increase getting out the vote and conducting educational seminars with regard to the DREAM Act and DACA.  She is a mover and a shaker and you can hear her testimony here.

PRO LIFE Showdown as Republicans Attack “Brown” Women Who Choose Life

We are happy to announce Janssen’s efforts have failed. Life won today and evil plans by organizations like FAIR and the John Tanton network were destroyed.  Hallelujah.

According to 1011 Now:

Lawmakers have halted an attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care for the unborn children of illegal immigrants in Nebraska.

The Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee voted 6-0 to kill the measure, with one lawmaker abstaining. Janssen says he was disappointed with the vote.

Here is Shirl Mora James testimony regarding prenatal care … one more time for the gipper!

CAPTION: Shirl Mora James Defending Women Against Nebraska Republican Bigotry

Vote Adrian Carrasquillo and Michelle Herrera Mulligan in the Social Revolution

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The time has come to vote in the Social Revolution, and there are two notable individuals that ought to be supported.

Please vote Adrian Carrasquillo and Michelle Herrera Mulligan with regard to the the Social Revolution vote.

The social revolution was very smart to consider such a dynamic woman like Michelle as a nominee, so we encourage our women audience to vote for her. Michelle is an author, a magazine writer, and an enthusiastic commenter on feminism, race, weird natural cures, and other random stuff.

All you have to do in order to cast your vote is scroll through the nominees and click on the “like” button.

2016 Matching Funds an incentive for Libertarian – Republican voters to vote for Gary Johnson this year

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

The Republican Party ignored Gary Johnson when he was a Republican, in fact they ignored him. Now that Gary is a Libertarian, he is able to speak freely. Several former Republicans have fled the GOP to become Libertarians or Independent voters.

Allow this writing to be specifically directed to Libertarian and Libertarian-Republican voters…

Did you know that if Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson gets at least 5% of the vote, that means the Libertarian Party will have the OPTION to  receive several millions in matching campaign funds in 2016?  Johnson is polling at 6% nationally.

Johnson is clearly onto something.  Major parties, along with minor parties that reach the 5 percent threshold, do indeed qualify for grants in federal matching funds (although the $90 million figure Johnson referred to is unclear at this point).

Remember when the Republican Party would not include then Republican Gary Johnson in the debates?  Well it appears excluding Gary from his freedom of expression is not helping them this 2012 election year.

I predicted the GOP would regret excluding Johnson last year when I wrote:

Now that Gary Johnson has left the Republican Party, he will become political power house and help frame political discourse

 

And now the test of time has taken place and the prediction is coming into fruition.

TIME recently wrote:

For months, as Johnson ran in the Republican presidential primary, the GOP ignored him as best it could, hoping he’d just go away. Then he did, leaving the Republicans to join the Libertarians. When I ran into him at the GOP convention in Tampa, Johnson looked like a man far removed from his former party, blocks from the convention center, standing on a street corner in front of a Hooters doing interviews.

The GOP isn’t ignoring him anymore. Now that Johnson is threatening to siphon votes from Mitt Romney in close elections in Colorado and Nevada (he’s also on the ballot in 46 other states and Washington, D.C.), Republicans are doing whatever they can to limit his appeal. Michigan party officials kept him off the ballot because he filed his paperwork three minutes late. In Pennsylvania, the GOP hired a private detective who went to canvassers’ homes and flashed his old FBI badge before questioning the signatures they collected, a lawyer for Johnson’s campaign alleged. The state GOP and the investigator denied doing anything improper. (On Oct. 10 a judge decided that Johnson will be on the Pennsylvania ballot.) The experience has left Johnson, 59, alienated from some of his old comrades—which, it turns out, he doesn’t mind at all. “Going to Republican events, as I did a zillion times, I listened to Republican candidates do their spiel. I cringed at a lot of what they said, whether it was abortion, the terrorist threat, the homophobia, the ‘illegal immigrant is the source of all our problems’—man, that stuff made me crazy. The kook element of the Libertarians gets up, and I don’t cringe.”