CCV GOALS AND PRIORITIES



CCV GOALS AND PRIORITY ISSUES

At our initial meeting early in 2010, the Concerned Coastal Voters developed the following major goals for our organization to pursue:

1. To publicly present conservative views in a professional, factual manner and to counter misinformation where appropriate.

2. To research topics of interest at the national and state levels, and share the information among members of our group.
3. To identify and pursue the most effective venues for disseminating factual information related to our priority issues.

4. To expand membership of our group to like-minded persons regardless of their political affiliation.


Some of the Issues We Care Most About:


1. Free Enterprise Economy (e.g., fiscal responsibility, tax policies that promote growth of businesses, jobs, and general prosperity, elimination of unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation)


2. Limited, responsible, and responsive government.


3. Strong national defense, including border security.


4. Adherence by politicians and the courts to the Constitution and the rights of the individual. (e.g., civil rights, freedom of expression, right to bear arms)


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Thursday, July 5, 2012

IT'S VITAL


(Published in the Independent Coastal Observer)

Conservatives are split on what to make of Chief Justice Roberts’ unexpected decision that kept Obamacare on life support. A majority of the Court struck down the Individual Mandate, which should have been the end of Obamacare. But, it wasn’t. The Chief Justice recast the Individual Mandate as a tax. Never mind that the President and almost every every other Democrat proclaimed long and loud for two years that the Individual Mandate was not a tax. In spite of the Court’s ruling, Democrats are even now running around glassy-eyed and flush with victory saying, “Tax, what tax?”
Some conservatives see a silver lining in the limitations the Court placed on expanding the Commerce Clause, a tool that liberals have used for decades to gobble up individual freedoms like a giant PacMan. But this Decision defines its limits; that is, Americans can’t be forced to buy a product that they don’t want or don’t believe they need. Still other conservatives see the newly-minted “tax” as another way to achieve the same end for our "elite" rulers- - the never-ending expansion of government powers over individual citizens.

Overanalyzing or even psychoanalyzing the majority Decision is a fool’s errand. We have what we have. The political battle lines for November are clearly drawn. The conservative priority is to elect Mitt Romney and as many conservative Senators and Congressmen as we can.
Replacing Obamacare, with its legion of 16,000 new IRS agents and unprecedented intervention in the patient-doctor relationship, is vital to our freedom. It is equally important to restore the spirit of the American people and to allow our inherent entrepreneurial genius to once again place this great country on a sound economic footing - - well out of the grasp of these irresponsible leftists and far from their reach.
Jim Littlejohn
Concerned Coastal Voters
Gualala, CA