ACTION ITEM: Call, Tweet, Facebook Your US Rep – TX to #FireBoehner
Call, tweet, and /or Facebook message your TX Representative Today!
Ask him/her to #FireBoehner & VOTE for GOHMERT (or Yoho) for Speaker! Either will do. We just need 29 votes for someone not Boehner to put his speakership on hold. Even if we can’t defeat him, we can let them know that his appeasement and working with Pres. Obama is NOT what we voted for in November.
CALLING?
Good article to read before calling re: Speaker’s Race: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/01/a-conservatives-guide-to-the-speaker-election
Keep it short, cordial and leave your name and address if you live in the District.
SAMPLE TWITTER:
@JudgeTedPoe #FireBoehner Vote for Gohmert or Yoho. CRomnibus passed w/o reading/debate, fully funds OCare. http://tinyurl.com/mfpoq2k
From the article linked in the tweet: A Conservative’s Guide to the Speaker’s Race by Daniel Horowitz:
Unlike last month’s vote, which served to nominate Boehner in conference as the GOP pick for Speaker, the vote on the floor of the House will not be a voice vote by acclimation, nor will it be a secret ballot. Each of the 435 members is called to stand before a packed chamber and the millions of viewers on television to proclaim their choice for Speaker. No member is bound to vote for the nominee of his party; each member is free to vote for any individual qualified to serve as Speaker. Indeed, on 17 occasions since 1913, individual members have registered votes for “third choices.”
A group of 17 progressive Republicans orchestrated a similar stratagem in 1923, whereby they blocked the party’s nominee from securing a majority for nine consecutive ballots until the party leadership agreed to implement some of the reforms they were suggesting. Certainly the seriousness of our constitutional and political crisis warrants an effort like this from a group of bold conservatives in order to secure a reasonable compromise with a new Speaker, even if the choices that emerge are from the establishment wing of the party.
The operative point here is that it is not sufficient to garner a plurality of the votes; the winner must secure a majority of the total number of votes cast. Consequently, given that there are 247 Republican members in the new Congress, if 29 members vote for someone other than Boehner – be it Rep. Jim Jordan, their favorite colleague, or even a private citizen – Boehner will be denied the majority of likely votes cast.
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