September 24, 2014 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release
Tea Party of Louisiana Endorses Zach Dasher
for US Representative, 5th Congressional District
TPoL Endorses Dasher as Most Viable Conservative in 5th District
BATON ROUGE - The Tea Party of Louisiana (TPoL) is proud to announce its official endorsement of Calhoun businessman Zach Dasher and its support for his candidacy to be Louisiana’s Representative for the US 5th Congressional District of Louisiana.
Zach Dasher and his family are solid conservatives who have a proven track record of standing for Louisiana's conservative values. Zach understands that our rights come from God, and not from politicians in Washington, DC. We are confident that Zach Dasher will stand firm with us and defend the Constitution of the United States.
We feel that Zach Dasher offers our best opportunity to voice our opposition to the agenda of the current administration and congressional leadership, and that, he will clearly be a firm advocate for reducing the size of government, reviving our economy, and restoring sanity and honor to our government and to our country. We have endorsed Zach Dasher because we believe that he will speak for and represent the best interests of the citizens of the 5th District and of our state and work for us instead of the self-appointed “ruling class” in Washington.
Zach Dasher lives in Calhoun, Louisiana with his wife of 13 years, Jil. The Dashers have four children: Laela, Max, Bear and Fred. Zach is a businessman with a background in healthcare, real estate and non-profit fundraising. He earned a degree in Business Administration from Harding University. He is a member of White’s Ferry Road Church of Christ and is involved in campus ministry at University Church of Christ at ULM.
TPoL requests all conservative voters of the 5th Congressional District to join with us to elect one of us, Zach Dasher, to Congress as our next US Representative, 5th Congressional District.
The election will be held on November 4. You can learn more about Zach Dasher at www.ZachDasher.com
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PRESS RELEASE – TEA PARTY OF LOUISIANA LABELS SENATOR VITTER A TURNCOAT OF LIBERTY WITH HIS RECENT STRONG SUPPORT OF COMMON CORE STANDARDS
August 18, 2014 For Immediate Release
Baton Rouge - The Tea Party of Louisiana (TPoL) wishes to express its shock and outrage at Senator David Vitter's recent statements in support of "Common Core State Standards". TPoL has always thought of Senator Vitter as a friend of Liberty, but his statements in support of Common Core are not what we'd have expected from someone who is a defender of Louisiana's children and a champion of Freedom and less government. Sadly, Senator Vitter's remarks sound more like the rhetoric we'd expect from a D.C. elitist who doesn't believe that we average citizens are capable of making our own decisions, running our own lives, and raising our own children. This leaves us at TPoL at a loss to understand Senator Vitter's inexplicable change of heart, especially given that in his announcement for Governor of Louisiana, this past January, Senator Vitter assailed Common Core as being an instrument of "big government", stating that he was running for governor to, among other things, "......to protect our Citizens from heavy-handed, big government policies like "Common Core", and all the rest". That was Senator Vitter's position just over six short months ago, and now he throws a "John Kerry" at us: "he was against Common Core before he was for it". Really? Where did that come from? What changed, Senator? Why the "flip-flop"?
The Breitbart organization stated that Senator Vitter's remarks "suggest a lack of awareness of the issues surrounding Common Core". We agree, and want to point out that the two talking-points Senator Vitter touched on in his statement diametrically contradict each other, and smack of Washington insider "double speak". Senator Vitter said (paraphrasing) that "he is for the Common Core standards", but is also for "local control of curriculum".
Unfortunately, Senator Vitter can't "eat his cake and have it, too"; he has to choose one position or the other: either he supports the big government, nationalized curriculum imposed via Common Core, or he supports local control of education. Which is it, Senator?
We can only hope that Breitbart is right, and that Senator Vitter's position on Common Core indicates his ignorance on the subject, because his new-found support of Common Core, coupled with Senator Vitter's recent "trial balloon" about the possibility of expanding Medicaid in Louisiana leave us at TPoL scratching our heads, and, frankly, wondering if Senator Vitter is really the true conservative we always thought he was.
We hope that Senator Vitter's recent position statements do not indicate that he's decided to cater to "big money" interests at the expense of the average Louisiana citizen. Supporting Common Core may net him a financial windfall from certain large campaign contributors, but it is also certain to cost him tens of thousands of crucial votes in the next governor's race.
Hoping that Senator Vitter really IS the man we've always thought him to be, The Tea Party of Louisiana urgently calls on him to rethink his position on Common Core and immediately, and publicly, reverse his ill-advised support of this threat to the future of our children and vow to STOP Common Core in Louisiana. We need real solutions for improving education, solutions like universal vouchers, solutions that put parents squarely in charge of their children's education, not another outmoded and doomed-to-fail, big government "boon-doggle" like Common Core. Are you listening, Senator Vitter?
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By Barry Huggins (TPoLA)
Thursday morning, commenting about Tuesday's Massachusetts senatorial election, US Senator Mary Landrieu was quoted as saying "The loss in Massachusetts should serve as a wake-up call.........".
All I can say to this is: WOW. Thank you, Senator, for helping me to finally understand the frustration former Saints Coach Jim Mora must have felt when he made his famous "Playoffs? Are you kidding me? Don't talk to me about playoffs" rant. If she was listening this morning, I'd like to follow the coach's example and rant, "Wake-up call? Are you kidding me? Don't talk to me about wake-up calls. We've been trying to give you a wake-up call since last April".
Here's a short re-cap of how we've tried to get her attention:
We've written card and letters. We've gotten back form letters; sometimes not even on the subject we wrote about.
We've made phone calls. We got busy signals. Perhaps understandable on occasion, but all day? Were the phones purposely disconnected? I hope not, but we'll never know.
We demonstrated in front of her office and were met by Federal Marshals who wouldn't even let us come onto the steps of a building WE paid for.
Now, after all of these efforts to let her know how we feel, she's so out of touch that she thinks MASSACHUSETTS sent a wake-up call? Someone should tell Senator Landrieu how much this makes her sound like a 21st century Marie Antoinette.
I don't want to give up on Senator Landrieu; she's one of our own, but statements like this serve to prove the old saying that "denial is not just a river in Egypt".
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