Asian-American Republican ahead of Hispanic Democrat Congressman

Conservative Asian Immigrant Ahead of Incumbent Hispanic Democrat

• Kim is supported by 46% and Cisneros is supported by 42% of all potential voters – that is voters who have participated in an election since 2010 or have newly registered to vote (a group that represents about 85% of all registered voters in the district). Another 12% are undecided.  
• The Republican’s edge grows, though, when applying two different likely voter models. A historical midterm model gives Kim a 51% to 41% lead over Cisneros. But even a model that projects a possible turnout surge in Democratic precincts still gives Kim a lead of 49% to 43%. 

(Fox News)  -  A new poll shows a Republican candidate in a highly contested swing district in California is leading by 10 points over her Democratic opponent -- who was endorsed by former President Barack Obama but whose candidacy was plagued by accusations of sexual misconduct.

Young Kim, a former representative in the California State Assembly, is leading Democrat Gil Cisneros among likely voters in California’s 39th Congressional District, according to a Monmouth University poll released Tuesday.

The support among the candidates is divided mostly along racial lines, with most Hispanic voters supporting Cisneros, who made his riches in lottery winnings, while Asian voters and non-Hispanic white voters are supporting Kim.

Both Kim and Cisneros aren’t well recognized by the voters, but the Republican enjoys a positive 32-11 favorability rating, while Cisneros is viewed unfavorably by 24 percent of surveyed voters and only 23 percent have a favorable view of him.

The district has been leaning toward the Republicans for years, electing Rep. Ed Royce by 14 points, though Hillary Clinton won the district by eight points in 2016.

The Democrats have targeted the seat in their “red to blue” program, providing organizational and financial support in a bid to flip the seat in the upcoming midterm elections.

The Cisneros campaign benefited from Obama’s rare campaign visit in California – even though the former president didn’t initially endorse Cisneros – where he stumped for him and other Democratic candidates who are running in Republican districts.

But despite the support, the Democrat is struggling to make strides in the polls, with some pointing to the accusations of sexual misconduct that were weaponized by Republicans.

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Democrats drag Vietnamese GOP Senator off the floor

Senator Janet Nguyen, R-Garden Grove

Communist Democrats Attack

Immigrant GOP Senator

"A pair of sergeants-at-arms who were on their way to Nguyen’s seat on the Senate floor grabbed her by the arms and pulled her off the floor."

San Francisco Chronicle

(Sacramento Bee)  -  The California Senate was thrown into chaos and anger on Thursday when a Republican member was forcibly removed from the floor for allegedly speaking out of turn during a session.

Republican colleagues say Sen. Janet Nguyen, R-Garden Grove, was silenced by the Democratic majority when the Senate sergeant-at-arms escorted her from the chamber as Nguyen tried to criticize the late Democratic lawmaker Tom Hayden for his stance against the Vietnam War.

“I’m enraged at the violation to free speech, our Constitution and the precedent this sets,” said Senate Republican Leader Jean Fuller, who asked the Senate Rules Committee to look into what happened and make sure there is no “retribution” against Nguyen for the incident.

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Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee who represents a large Vietnamese community in Orange County, said she was shaken up and “quite upset” at being removed. Two days after the Senate memorialized Hayden, who traveled to North Vietnam with then-wife Jane Fonda in 1974, Nguyen said she wanted to offer “another historical perspective.”

“He sided with the communist government that enslaved and killed millions of Vietnamese, including my family,” Nguyen said. Without U.S. support for South Vietnam, “I wouldn’t be here today. I would be dead.”

Nguyen attempted to make her comments during the adjourn-in-memory portion of the Senate floor session, when members typically offer tributes to constituents who have recently died. After first delivering her comments in Vietnamese, Nguyen was quickly cut off as she tried to repeat them in English.

“Members, today I recognize in memory the millions of Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who died in seeking for freedom and democracy,” she said. “On Tuesday, you had an opportunity to honor Sen. Tom Hayden. With all due respect, I would like to offer this historical perspective ...”

Presiding Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, interrupted Nguyen and gave the floor to Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, who said Nguyen was out of order because she did not raise her objections during the Hayden tribute ceremony two days before. Nguyen continued to speak for several minutes, even as Lara repeatedly asked her to take a seat and then eventually ordered the sergeants to remove her.

GOP Senator Nguyen and her son enjoy the Westminster Tet Festival

“Sergeants, please remove Sen. Nguyen from the chamber,” Lara said. “Have her removed immediately. Sergeants, please remove Sen. Nguyen, she is out of order.”

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The decision infuriated Republicans, including Fuller, who complained that Nguyen had been disrespected.

“Just last year we let one of our guests speak on the floor, a movie star that we had no protocol for doing so, and yet we’re shutting a member down,” she said. “I am deeply disturbed.”

One Democrat, Sen. Tony Mendoza of Artesia, defended Nguyen’s right to “say what she needed to say and express her feelings and thoughts about what she feels strongly about, especially as it relates to her district and community.” He said someone should have given her direction on the appropriate time to speak, “but to forcibly remove her, I think that’s too extreme.”

The end of the session shortly after did not quell the furor. Sen. Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, loudly complained that de León had cut the discussion short. Senate staff and colleagues moved in to calm him down.

Republican senators later took to social media to denounce the incident, comparing it to a controversy in Congress earlier this month when Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was prevented from reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King during a debate over the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“This sad episode is a textbook case of men trying to silence a woman whose views they did not like,” Sen. Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, said in a statement. She added the “#ShePersisted” hashtag that emerged after the Warren event.

Nguyen said she chose not to speak at the Hayden memorial on Tuesday out of respect to his family in attendance. She said she alerted de León’s office of her intention to make a “point of personal privilege” on Thursday and was informed by email Wednesday night that she could not do so.

The email, from de León chief of staff Dan Reeves, suggested that Nguyen post a statement on Facebook or her website instead. Nguyen said she was told that her comments would be “highly inappropriate” and that she should respect the right of others to have a different perspective on Hayden.

Feeling that she had no other option to make herself heard, Nguyen said she “put up my mike.”

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Commie whores are always worshiped by Democrats

Jane Fonda posing on a North Vietnamese anti aircraft
gun, laughing and smiling. 

5,000 Hindu Americans turn out for Trump

Republican Hindu Coalition

Hindus in India call Donald Trump the “Savior of Humanity.”

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You won't see this footage on the corrupt 

Elite Media Machine "news"

From The Gateway Pundit

Asian-American GOP Majority on Orange County Board of Supervisors

GOP Supervisor Andrew Do (a Vietnamese-American)

A GOP Asian Majority

Three of the five members of the Orange County, California Board of Supervisors are Asian-American Republicans.

(OC Politics Blog)  -  Andrew Do’s defeat of former Democrat State Senator Lou Correa in the Jan. 27 First District Special Election has made history by creating a majority Asian Board of Supervisors here in Orange County.

Other Asian County Supervisors include Michelle Steel, a Korean-American who replaced John Moorlach after moving into Orange County from Los Angeles County, and Lisa Barlett, a Japanese-American who replaced Pat Bates.  Both Moorlach and Bates termed out.

Supervisor Shawn Nelson was easily reelected last November in the 2014 General Election but his seat could eventually go to a Korean American as there is a large Korean population in North Orange County.  In fact a Korean Republican, Young Kim, defeated incumbent State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva last November in the 65th Assembly District.

Orange County GOP Supervisor Lisa Bartlett (a Japanese-American)
and GOP Supervisor Michelle Steel (a Korean-American).

Do is the second Asian-American to prevail in the First District.  He was preceded by Janet Nguyen, who is also Vietnamese.  She was elected to the 34th State Senate District last November.  At this point the First District can be considered safely Vietnamese even though the district has a large Hispanic population.  The difference?  The Vietnamese-American voters actually vote while the district’s Latino voters tend to stay home on Election Day.

This is a big deal in Orange County as our County Supervisors tend to move on to State and Federal offices.  As our incumbent Congressional Representatives retire it is very likely that our Asian Supervisors will take their seats.

The challenger for the Republican Party of Orange County will be to figure out how to be relevant to Latino voters as the face of their party becomes more and more Asian.

In a way these political changes reflect what is happening in Orange County’s workforce where more and more Latinos are reporting to Asian executives and business owners.

The Democratic Party of Orange County is in a real fix as they can’t figure out how to motivate Latino voters and can no longer point to the OC GOP as a majority white party.  The famed blue “donut hole” in Orange County – the mostly Democratic Central Orange County – is no longer blue.  The only elected Democrats of any note who remain are U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez and State Assemblyman Tom Daly.

The Santa Ana City Council remains dominated by Latino Democrats but their days are likely numbered.  Vietnamese residents are moving into Santa Ana in droves and it won’t be long before they are winning City Council seats and maybe running for the SAUSD School Board too.

Orange County, California

Welcome to Orange County
About 18% of the population is Asian-American.

Court: Judges can’t belong to Boy Scouts

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye
Republican Cantil-Sakauye is a Filipino-American jurist and the 28th Chief Justice of California. Appointed by GOP Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Bi-Partisan Authoritarianism

• The GOP majority on the California Supreme Court joined with Democrats to dictate what organizations a judge is allowed to belong to in their private life.
• So-called "Conservatives" are anything but Conservative when they dictate that you cannot belong to the "evil" Boy Scouts.
• Once again I say this is proof that we are ruled by a one-party state.  The Republicrat Party beats you down until you submit to the will of Big Brother.

The People's Republic of California  -  The state Supreme Court has voted to prohibit judges in California from belonging to the Boy Scouts because the 2.7 million-member youth organization bars gays and lesbians from becoming troop leaders.

The court announced Friday that its seven justices had voted unanimously to accept a February 2014 recommendation from its ethics advisory committee to ban Boy Scout membership. As of Jan. 21, 2016, judges affiliated with the Scouts will be in violation of the state Code of Judicial Ethics, which the court oversees, and could face removal from office.

California has been among 23 states with an ethical code that prohibits judges from belonging to organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. But the state’s Supreme Court in 1996 approved an exemption, unique to California, for “nonprofit youth organizations” to accommodate judges affiliated with the Boy Scouts reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Bar Association of San Francisco and other legal organizations sought to repeal that exemption in 2003. The court refused, and instead instructed judges to disclose connections to the Boy Scouts when they heard cases involving gay rights and related issues, and to disqualify themselves for any conflicts of interest.

In a statement that responded to the committee’s proposal last year, Deron Smith, a spokesman at Boy Scouts headquarters in Irving, Texas, said the Scouts “would be disappointed with anything that limits our volunteers’ ability to serve more youth. ... Today, more than ever, youth need the character and leadership programs of Scouting.”

The proposal had drawn a mixed response from judges. In written comments to the court, one opponent said the prohibition would elevate “gay rights above religious freedom rights,” and another said it would interfere with judges’ rights to raise their children as they choose.

But the California Judges Association, which represents 1,575 of the state’s 2,000 judges, supported the ban.

Republicans get 49% of Asian-American vote

Republican Janet Nguyen
A Vietnamese-American, 
Nguyen won 60% of the vote for 
a California State Senate seat.
Janet 2014.com

The Coming of 
Asian-Republicans


Recent US election cycles suggest Republicans have some distance to go in winning minority support in major elections. But there was some indication from Tuesday's polls that they are making headway with Asian-Americans, the fastest-growing minority group in the country.

While the sample included only 129 Asian respondents, the data may reflect greater Republican engagement with minority voters since 2012.

National exit polling of voters electing House of Representatives members found that almost half of Asian-Americans questioned - 49 per cent - supported Republican candidates. That is about twice the share who backed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.

The issues that Asian voters identified as most significant mirrored those of the general electorate - the economy first, followed by health care, foreign policy and immigration reports the South China Morning Post

More Asian voters (21 per cent) identified foreign policy as the most important issue than the electorate did generally (12 per cent).

The president's struggles in foreign policy may help to explain the relative success that Republicans had with Asian-American voters. But another explanation is that Republicans devoted more effort to cultivating Asian voters. The Republican National Committee (RNC) focused on them in key races in Virginia and Colorado, and they played a part in targeted congressional races in California and other states.

In Virginia, the Asian vote is becoming increasingly significant. A recent RNC report noted that Asian-Americans made up one-twentieth of Virginia's population, a 68 per cent increase over the past decade.

Senate candidate Ed Gillespie and House candidate Barbara Comstock led events in the Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian and Filipino communities. Comstock was victorious in a challenging congressional district, while Gillespie's race is too close to call.

In Colorado, the RNC held events in the Korean and Chinese communities for Senate and House candidates, who both won, and its candidate for governor, who narrowly lost.

Republican Ling-Ling Chan
Chinese-American Chan pulled a massive 64% of the vote to win a 
Los Angeles County area seat in the California State Assembly.
Ling 4 Assembly.com

Republican Young Kim
Korean-American Kim won 55% of the vote to take an Orange County,
California State assembly seat.
Young Kim 2014.com

Republican Allan Fung within 1% in Rhode Island Guv's race

GOP Gains in New England

• Republicans now have a genuine shot to control 4 out of 6 New England governor's seats after Tuesday: Charlie Baker up by 2 to 7 in numerous polls in Massachusetts; Paul LePage with a small but consistent lead of 1 to 3 in Maine; and Tom Foley either slightly behind or up as much as 5 in Connecticut. A 5th race - Walt Havenstein in New Hampshire has closed as well to within 4 points. Though, there have been no polls to date to show Havenstein with a lead. 
• Republican Allan Fung served as the Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island since 2009. Fung became the first mayor of Chinese ancestry in Rhode Island. 

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI.com) – One of Washington’s top election prognosticators is upgrading Republican Allan Fung’s chances of winning the race for Rhode Island governor.

The Cook Political Report, an influential D.C. forecasting firm, on Friday changed its rating on the Rhode Island gubernatorial race from “Lean Democratic” to “Toss Up.” Cook had already changed its rating in Fung’s favor back on Oct. 17, when it switched the rating on the race from “Likely Democratic” to the less-certain “Lean Democratic.”

“This is not a typical Democrat versus Republican contest,” Jennifer Duffy, a Cook senior editor who happens to be a Rhode Island native, wrote Friday in explaining the rating change.

“As a result of her work on pension reform, some union members simply won’t support state Treasurer Gina Raimondo, the Democratic nominee,” Duffy wrote. “She does, however, get some support from moderate Republicans and independents. GOP nominee Allan Fung, who is mayor of Cranston, picks up a little of that union support (as well as Democrats in Cranston), but so does Moderate Party nominee Robert Healey.”

“Polling shows Raimondo with a small but consistent advantage over Fung, while Healey appears to be over-performing,” Duffy added. “We still give Raimondo the edge here, but the polling has been close enough to warrant a move to the Toss Up column.”

While Raimondo has held the lead in all public polls released since the primary, her margins have almost always been low, shrinking to the smallest yet in a Brown University poll released earlier this week that called the race “effectively tied.” Raimondo, Fung and Moderate Bob Healey met for their final televised debate on Thursday night.

Raimondo is seeking to become the first Democrat elected Rhode Island governor since Bruce Sundlun won a second term in 1992; outgoing incumbent Lincoln Chafee won in 2010 as an independent but became a Democrat last year. A Fung win would be the eighth Republican gubernatorial victory in Rhode Island since 1984; the most recent GOP governor, Don Carcieri, won with 54% of the vote in 2002 and 51% in 2006.

Both candidates have been bringing in big names to boost their campaigns in the final stretch. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, visited the state for a second time this week on Fung’s behalf and is returning Monday. The first lady, Michelle Obama, came Thursday for Raimondo, and President Obama made a brief visit to a Gregg’s with her while in Providence on Friday.

The Democratic Governors Association had spent $755,000 in Rhode Island on Raimondo’s behalf through Thursday, while Christie’s RGA had spent $125,000 on Fung’s behalf through Oct. 20, according to the two organizations’ R.I. Board of Elections disclosures. Raimondo and the Rhode Island Democratic Party hold a small financial advantage combined over Fung and the Republican Party.

Although the RGA has spent significantly less than its Democratic counterpart in Rhode Island so far, executive director Phil Cox expressed enthusiasm about the chances of Fung and other GOP candidates for governor across the region. “There’s a lot happening in New England,” Cox told the AP. “We’re on offense in five out of six states.”

Thanks to Libertarian Republican.

Charles Djou locked in a dead-even tie in Hawaii

An ex-GOP Congressman, Major Charles Djou served with
the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan.

Will the GOP wave hit Hawaii?

HONOLULU (Hawaii News Now)  - Our latest Hawaii News Now/Star Advertiser poll in the campaign to represent urban Oahu in Congress suggests the vote could go either way.

In the race between Charles Djou and Mark Takai,volunteers and the candidates will crank up efforts to get out the vote with their campaigns in a dead heat. It's tied at 47 percent according to our new Hawaii poll.

Mark Takai said this about the results, "As in the primary we were behind until the very end and in fact 5 days before we were tied, so this is nothing new for us."

2nd Congressional District of Hawaii
takes in most of the islands of the state.

Charles Djou responded, "The fact that we're in a position to win this campaign just shows the level of excitement the people of Hawaii have here in our race and here in our campaign."

Djou has made the case that the State should send one member of its congressional delegation into the majority with seniority.

Hawaii News Now political analyst Colin Moore said, "It seems to have resonated because Djou is polling very well. They like Djou personally. He has very high favorability."

60 percent polled had a favorable opinion of Djou. That's a virtual tie with Takai's 63 percent. Djou had double the number of unfavorable views, but more voters have never heard of the Democrats' nominee.

Takai said he would keep working hard to get his message out, explaining, "We want to make sure that people understand this is an important race. We stand for Democratic values and we believe we best represent the values of Hawaii."

Djou said, "Ultimately it doesn't matter to me if you're a Republican, Democrat, or Conservative or Liberal. My ideology and philosophy is to get things done and I think the overwhelming majority of people in Hawaii, that's their philosophy."

Thanks to The Libertarian Republican.

Racist Democrats Attack Asian-Americans

Racist Democrats

• Black and Latino Democrats have withdrawn their endorsements of Chinese-American Senator Ted Lieu because he refused to back a racial quota bill that would prevent thousands of Asian-Americans from attending college.

Racist Democrats in the People's Republic of California are frightened to death that Asian-American students are enrolled at many of California's top schools in numbers far greater than their proportion of the state's population. 

Heaven forbid that they are enrolled in schools based on their ability instead of race.

In an act of pure racism Democrat State Senator Ed Hernandez authored a bill to effectively install racial quotas and prevent thousands of Asian-Americans from attending college.  See our original story - Calif. Dem Latinos Push Spanish in Schools and Racial Quotas.  College admission would now be based on skin color not ability.

Currently Asians make up 36% of the University of California's students compared to their 13% of the general population.

But there was an unexpected pushback from families of Asian descent who mobilized through Chinese-language media, staged rallies and organized letter-writing campaigns has all but killed the measure this year reports ABC News.

Three Asian-American Senators, all Democrats who were seeking higher office at the time, withdrew their support of the bill after being bombarded by public criticism.

• Six black and Latino lawmakers have since withdrawn their endorsements of Sen. Ted Lieu, who is Chinese-American, in a Los Angeles-area congressional race where he faces another Democrat in the primary.
• Other black and Latino Assembly members this month withheld votes from unrelated legislation about the state's carpool program by Assemblyman Al Muratsutchi, D-Torrance, who is Japanese-American.

The Senate's Democratic leader, President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, acknowledged the animosity. He said in a statement that he wanted "a serious and sober examination" of affirmative action, adding "I am deeply concerned anytime one ethnic group turns on another."

Republicans are now capitalizing on the controversy by targeting upwardly mobile Asian-Americans.

Peter Kuo, a Republican candidate for state Senate, has been outspoken on the issue during his campaign for an eastern San Francisco Bay Area district that is 40 percent Asian-American.

"The Democratic Party is the party using the name of equality and diversity to lower the standard and preventing us from going into higher education," said Kuo, who came with his family from Taiwan when he was 14.

 

"I can't go and tell my kids, 'Hey, because you're Asian you can't get into the school you want,'" he said.

Republican Peter Kuo
GOP State Senate candidate Peter Kuo said, "I can't go and tell my kids, 'Hey,
because you're Asian you can't get into the school you want.'"
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Kuo was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Peter Kuo for Senate.com

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Now Democrats want us to be judged
by the color of our skin.

The GOP needs to follow Marco Rubio on immigration

GOP Mayor Pedro Rios
In my area of California Pedro Rios was the Republican candidate for the state legislature in 2012.  As a child Rios came to America as an illegal alien from Mexico.  He later became a citizen, businessman, joined the military, became Mayor and is a Conservative Republican.

“If Rubio helps lead us into sanity on the issue it would be great for him and very good for the GOP. We need a savior on immigration.”
- - - Ed Rogers, Republican lobbyist and longtime operative


By Gary;

The great debate on immigration begins.  Republicans must not fall into the immigration trap Democrats have set for them.  The Left wants us to oppose any reforms.  That way Conservatism is painted as racist.

As Bobby Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants said, the GOP needs to stop being the stupid party.  We need to let Senator Marco Rubio lead Conservatives to the promised land on immigration reforms combined with enforcement.

GOP Governor Nikki Haley
Daughter of Sikh immigrants from India.

Immigrants have been coming to America for centuries.  Sorry, but they are not going to magically vanish tomorrow night.  They are in our schools, work in our cities, open businesses and they do pay many taxes into the system. 

And don't you dare bring up welfare.  American citizens from Main Street to Wall Street are all sucking on the public teat of the government.  There is no point to singling out immigrants while American citizens are lining their pockets with welfare cash.

The desire to open a business and own private property that is safe from government theft is universal among the peoples of the world.  Mexico has just elected two pro-business Conservatives as President.  The new President of South Korea is a Conservative.  Chile has a pro-business Conservative President.  Conservatives have come to power in Japan and in Spain.

A business friendly GOP needs to make real alliances with the the pro-business elements in immigrant communities of Hispanics and Asians.  Conservatives can either grow up and make those alliances or hand power over to the Marxists.


Hispanic Republican Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada

Former California GOP Assemblyman Van Tran
The anti-Communist Vietnamese community in California has given the Republicans a much larger share of the vote than most other immigrant groups. To win Republicans need to recruit candidates who can speak the language of immigrant groups and relate to their issues.

Some 14% of Californians are of Asian heritage.

Bobby Jindal: "GOP should stop being the stupid party"

Jindal:  "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments."

• Jindal warns the GOP to get its act together.

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal spoke at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee, where the top party activists from every American state and territory have gathered to chart the GOP's next move.

They're nervous about the party's future and worried about their ability to bring minorities into the fold. They're looking for a leader. Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, sees a chance to make an early impression on the party faithful, and boldly calls for change.

"We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," he said. "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."
 

Throughout his 25-minute speech, Jindal rebutted Obama's defense earlier this week for a robust and active federal government and offered a counterphilosophy focused on growing private businesses beyond Washington without relying on the engine of the federal government reports Yahoo News.

European "Conservative" Socialism
There is essentially no difference between American Republicans and big government loving European Conservative Socialists like Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron.  So-called "Conservatives" on both sides of the Atlantic cannot stop themselves from protecting and funding government programs to buy votes.

 

"We must lay out the contrast between liberalism’s top-down government solutions and our bottom-up real world philosophy. We believe in creating abundance, not redistributing scarcity," he said.

"We should let the other side try to sell Washington’s ability to help the economy, while we promote the entrepreneur, the risk-taker, the self-employed woman who is one sale away from hiring her first employee. Let the Democrats sell the stale power of more federal programs, while we promote the rejuvenating power of new businesses."

"Higher taxes still do not create prosperity for all. And more government still does not grow jobs," Jindal said. "If you believe in higher taxes, more debt, more government spending, weakness abroad and taking guns from law-abiding citizens—you already have a party that is well represented in Washington. No, the Republican Party does not need to change our principles, but we might need to change just about everything else we do."
 

"Today’s conservatism is completely wrapped up in solving the hideous mess that is the federal budget, the burgeoning deficits, the mammoth federal debt, the shortfall in our entitlement programs … even as we invent new entitlement programs. We seem to have an obsession with government bookkeeping," Jindal said. "This is a rigged game, and it is the wrong game for us to play."

"Instead of worrying about managing government, it’s time for us to address how we can lead America to a place where she can once again become the land of opportunity, where she can once again become a place of growth and opportunity," he said. "We should put all of our eggs in that basket as conservatives and Republicans."

The speech, delivered during a dinner amid the clanking of silverware and dishes, was interrupted only a few times by polite applause.  That really says it all.

Bobby Jindal: "Abolish the income tax"

Bobby Jindal attacks the Marxist Confiscation of Wealth

- - - - Abolish the state income tax.
- - - - Will the GOP legislature go along?  Or will they protect Marxism and wealth re-distribution?



Constitutional Federalist Republican Governor Bobby Jindal said on Thursday he wants to eliminate all Louisiana personal and corporate income taxes to simplify the state's tax code and make it more friendly to business.

The governor did not release details of his proposal, but his office released a statement confirming that the taxes are targets of a broader tax reform plan.

"Our goal is to eliminate all personal income tax and all corporate income tax in a revenue neutral manner," Jindal said in the statement reports Reuters News.

He did not confirm reports that he will seek an increase in sales taxes in order to offset lost income tax revenue, but said: "We want to keep the sales tax as low and flat as possible."

Political analyst John Maginnis, who on Thursday reported in his email newsletter LaPolitics Weekly that Jindal will propose balancing the tax loss by raising the sales tax, now at 4 percent, said the strategy fits with the governor's interest in keeping a high national profile.

"Just proposing a plan on the scale being discussed would win Jindal acclaim among fiscal conservatives here and nationwide," Maginnis told Reuters.

Jindal is often mentioned for national office including the U.S. Senate and as a possible presidential candidate.

Louisiana's neighbor Texas has had no income tax for years, relying on a windfall from its rich energy resources and other forms of taxation. Other states in the region governed by Republicans are trying to copy Texas, including Oklahoma and Kansas, which have both considered lowering taxes.

But political analyst Maginnis questioned whether the Republican-majority Louisiana legislature would endorse Jindal's ambitious plan.

"Any tax increase (such as sales tax) or elimination of exemptions would require a two-thirds vote, a form of legislative approval that would require (Republican) solidarity and significant Democratic support," Maginnis said.

Jindal said his team will meet with lawmakers soon to discuss details of his tax reform plan.

"Eliminating personal income taxes will put more money back into the pockets of Louisiana families and will change a complex tax code into a more simple system that will make Louisiana more attractive to companies who want to invest here and create jobs," he said.

"Soak the Rich."
Republican William Howard Taft and a GOP Congress brought Marxism, wealth re-distribution and class warfare to the U.S. by passing the income tax amendment to the Constitution.  At the time, Republicans boasted to voters that the income tax would target the wealthy job creators in society.
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The Big Government loving GOP controlled Congress from 1995 to 2007 protected the Marxist and progressive Federal income tax.  No meaningful Conservative reforms or a flat tax were adopted.

Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech on Long Island in 1917


A GOP Marxist progressive inheritance tax too

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.

The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means.

Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective, a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.”   - - - Theodore Roosevelt

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“A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like would be on a small fortune. No advantage comes either to the country as a whole or to the individuals inheriting the money by permitting the transmission in their entirety of the enormous fortunes which would be affected by such a tax . . . "    - - - Theodore Roosevelt

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"Many of the men who call themselves socialists today are in reality merely radical social reformers, with whom on many points good citizens can and ought to work in hearty general agreement, and whom in many practical matters of government good citizens can well afford to follow."    - - - Theodore Roosevelt