Time to Fight the Pledge Card System

As you know, when we last visited Austin, we left a parting message with every Representative we met:  DO NOT SIGN A PLEDGE CARD!  We are visiting our reps one final time on Wednesday, May 25th, and will carry the same warning, including pledge cards that they can sign that pledge their loyalty to their constituents NOT to one man in the House.  Please read below for more information.

Via the North Texas Tea Party

If you need an understanding of how the Pledge Card system corrupts the electoral process, read this first.

With the legislative session coming to a close, you can rest assured that Joe Straus (whose incompetent/willful leadership resulted in over 70% of the Conservative agenda failing to reach the floor, even with a super-majority) will be busy hunting Pledge cards. This system, where pledges of support in the NEXT session are given and large donations materialize for the pledge givers is an abomination that needs to be contested, now!  We need to demand that ANY officeholder or candidate we support or will vote for withhold signing ANY Pledge card until well AFTER the election, and to publicly commit to this.  Refusing to do so will be taken as an affirmation that they have or intend to sign a pledge card before the electorate has had any say.

This campaign is in defense of the electorate and it’s ability to influence the leadership of the legislature, fighting the current situation where that leadership is purchased by interest groups and intimidation.

We need a BIG response to this call!

The following are some local State Reps email forms:  

Larry Taylor
Randy Weber
John Davis
Wayne Smith