(UPDATE) ACTION ALERT: EMAIL THESE NINE DEMOCRATS
April 7, 2009 1 Comment
Iowa Family Policy Center has sent out this action alert:
Thank you for your interest in protecting marriage!
The Iowa House DOES have time to pass the Iowa Marriage Amendment, also known as HJR 6.
HJR 6 is the first step toward giving Iowans the chance to vote to protect marriage, in response to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.
In order to debate HJR 6, the House must force it out of committee with a procedural vote. The House Republicans are prepared to initiate this procedural vote, but to pass it we need your help!
We only have 43 votes, and we need 51 to pass the procedural vote so HJR 6 can be voted on. Please contact the House Democrats listed below, and tell them to vote to bring HJR 6 out of committee.
THERE ARE NO LEGITIMATE EXCUSES FOR VOTING AGAINST THIS CRITICAL PROCEDURAL VOTE! In this case, a “no” vote on procedure is a “no” vote on traditional marriage.
The following Democrats have indicated they support traditional marriage. Therefore, they SHOULD vote to bring the IMA out of committee. Call AND email them repeatedly until they commit! You may also consider knocking on their door.
Representative Brian Quirk – brian.quirk@legis.state.ia.us, 515.242.6436 (desk), Home Address: 1011 Sunset St., New Hampton, IA, 50659
Representative Mike Reasoner – mike.reasoner@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.3238 (desk), Home Address: 702 New York Avenue, Creston, IA, 50801
Representative Kurt Swaim – kurt.swaim@legis.state.ia.us, 515.242.6417 (desk), 641.208.6330 (cell) Home Address: 504 North Davis, Bloomfield, IA, 52537
Representative Larry Marek – larry.marek@legis.state.ia.us, 515.242.6442 (desk), 319.430.0294 (cell) Home Address: 1741 Riverside Road, Riverside, IA, 52327
Representative Kerry Burt – kerry.burt@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.7342 (desk), 319.215.8685 (cell) Home Address: 150 Hawthorne Ave., Waterloo, IA, 50702
Representative Wayne Ford – wayne.ford@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.4061 (desk), 515.271.0605 (home) Home Address: 3301 Cottage Grove Ave, Des Moines, IA 50311-3709
Representative Nathan Reichert – nathan.reichert@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.7332 (desk), 563.571.5242 (cell) Home Address: 1155 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine, IA, 52761
Representative Paul Shomshor – paul.shomshor@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.7325 (desk), Home Address: 3018 Avenue M, Council Bluffs, IA, 51501
Representative Phyllis Thede – phyllis.thede@legis.state.ia.us, 515.281.7336 (desk), 563.508.1773 (cell) Home Address: 2343 Hawthorne Court, Bettendorf, IA, 52722
You would think that our representatives would want the people to vote on such matters. Isn’t that the entire purpose of our Constitutional government… Changeable by the people not just a select few elected and UNELECTED few.
Personally this whole issue is a symptom of a bigger problem of the size of government and really isn’t very high on my Issues list. But I do draw the line when people in our government decided they can circumvent our process.
This would not be such a problem if the government wasn’t so involved with our personal lives to begin with with income taxes, estate affairs, statuses and the like. When you come down and think about it every aspect of our life has chains of some sort from this obsessive government we have created that we have allowed to be created that we are unwilling to change.
I keep thinking of a G.K. Chesterton quote I like: “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”