Bachmann to Hold Press Conference Regarding the St. Croix River Bridge

U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-06) will hold a press conference on Monday, March 15th at 10am at the Waterstreet Inn in Stillwater to discuss the recent court decision blocking the construction of the St. Croix River Bridge.

On Thursday, a judge ruled in favor of the Sierra Club’s objection that the bridge would have a dramatic change on the river’s scenery. Plans for a new bridge have been in the works for 20 years and have consistently been blocked at the 11th hour by the Sierra Club. The area was designated as a National Scenic Riverway in 1972, despite a local economy composed of small businesses, manufacturing and tourism. Bachmann is exploring a variety of options to move construction of the bridge forward so that Minnesota and Wisconsin families can travel to both sides of the St. Croix safely.

What: Press Conference on the construction of a new St. Croix River Bridge

Where: Waterstreet Inn, 101 Water Street South, Stillwater, MN

When: 10:00 am

http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=176047

This video dates back to mid July of last year, but it is a pretty powerful presentation by Congressman Mike Rogers' (R MI-8) opening remarks on health care legislation specifically the house version, but the video also applies to the Senate version. The YouTube video has been viewed by nearly 7 million people. It about 3 ½ minutes in length.

Scott Brown delivers the weekly radio address for the GOP. His address is on ObamaCare and why it should be defeated;

The link below lists the Delegates and Alternates elected at the SD56 Convention to the upcoming CD6 Convention and the State GOP Convention. The CD6 Convention is March 20^th in St Cloud.  The State Convention will be April 29^th - May 1^st at the Minneapolis Convention Center. These delegates are also elected to 2011 conventions.

Alternates and Delegates List  (pdf 4kb)

Dennis Prager has written an great article about the debt and Democrats. An excerpt;

And most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal and left. They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that from Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.

The entire article may be read here.

Michele Bachmann has authored a petition titled "Declaration of Health Care Independence". You can read it here or here where you can also sign the petition.

Declaration of Health Care Independence

In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution, We the People reject the imposition upon us of a new, Washington-controlled system of government-run health care. We demand Constitutional protection of the right to make our own health decisions and our own health care choices free of government denials, bureaucratic red-tape, and greater intergenerational debt.

A Washington takeover of American health care will

1) Deny fundamental personal and economic liberties and indisputably violate the Principle of Limited Government as established by the Constitution;
2) Impose increased costs and taxes upon individuals, families, and businesses, as well as taxpayers at the federal, state, and local levels;
3) Irreparably cripple the American economy, at the cost of jobs, businesses, productivity, and quality of life;
4) Create an inescapable new tax by imposing individual and employer mandates;
5) Institutionalize a massive, ever-expanding federal bureaucracy that is impersonal and impractical;
6) Empower bureaucrats to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, undermine the quality of care, limit choice, and increase the cost of health care.

We have appealed to the decency of the elected majority to respect the rights of all Americans, but their leaders have been deaf to the Voice of the People. We are appalled by their cavalier disregard of the Constitution and of the demands of the People. We are repulsed by their blatant political bribes and kickbacks.

We, therefore, the People and Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, do solemnly Publish and Declare that health care reform, as a matter of principle must

1) Protect as inviolate the vital doctor-patient relationship;
2) Reject any addition to the crushing national debt heaped upon all Americans;
3) Improve, rather than diminish, the quality of care that Americans enjoy;
4) Be negotiated publicly, transparently, with genuine accountability and oversight, and be free from political favoritism;
5) Treat private citizens at least as well as political officials;
6) Protect taxpayers from funding of abortion and abortion coverage;
7) Reject all new mandates on patients, employers, individuals, or states;
8) Prohibit expansion of taxpayer funded health care to those unlawfully present in the United States;
9) Guarantee Equal Protection under the law and the Constitution;
10) Empower, rather than limit, an open and accessible marketplace of health care choice and opportunity.

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 Also of interest is Michele Bachmann's bill HR502, "Health Care Freedom of Choice Act" which you can read here

Congratulations to the Republican state senate and state house candidates who were endorsed today at the SD56 Convention. The convention was held at Oak-Land Junior High School in Lake Elmo.

• For SD56 Senate - Ted Lillie
• For House in 56A - Kathy Lohmer
• For House in 56B - Andrea Kieffer