-- Tom Hoefling
"I have no problem at all compromising on insignificant things, like what we're going to have for dinner. But on the equal protection of innocent human life, the securing of the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity, the protection of marriage and the family, the preservation of our right to keep and bear arms, the defense of our national sovereignty, security and borders, and adherence to our constitutional form of republican, representative self-government, there can be no compromise."
-- Tom Hoefling
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"Dear Father, on this annual recollection of the Pearl Harbor tragedy, we pray for thy benign blessings and guidance. Enable us to reflect clearly and conscientiously upon our priceless heritage. Let us be determined to guard and preserve it through all trials and difficulties. Help us to be worthy of the lofty ideals for which so many courageous men and women sacrificed so much. Grant us steadfast spirits always to defend our great inheritance for the countless generations yet unborn. Cast thy countenance upon our beloved country, the United States of America. Shelter the inhabitants of our land from all anguish, peril, and gloom. May this blessed haven ever be the citadel of justice, freedom, and brotherhood. May the time not be distant O God, when mankind will live in security and confidence as it is written in the book of thy Prophet Isaiah: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." Then the glory of God shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Amen." I was asked a couple of good questions by a fellow Iowan yesterday, and I thought I would share my responses. - Tom
-----"What would be different in Iowa under your leadership vs that of Governor Branstad? What would your top priorities be as governor?"----- I'm a conservative Reagan Republican. Governor Branstad, for all his admirable qualities, is cut from “moderate” Republican cloth. So, you will see quite a bit of difference. 1) I will do everything within my legitimate power to stop the practice of human abortion in our state, and in our nation. It’s immoral and unconstitutional. Instead of fulfilling the ultimate stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity,” we are eradicating that posterity. 2) I will do everything within my legitimate power to stop the radical homosexual agenda which has done so much harm to the indispensable institution of one man-one woman marriage, religious liberty, and constitutional republican self-government in our state. 3) I will fight out-of-control judges, restoring the constitutional checks and balances which are supposed to be the mainstay of our system. I will work to amend our state constitution to restore control over the choice of our judges to the people and their elected representatives. It is an un-American violation of republican self-government, quite frankly, to let the bar association have control of our judiciary and our judicial picks as we have foolishly done for the last fifty years or so in Iowa. 4) I will work to reform our education system by restoring true local control over the schools. And that means control over the money. I don’t want to send our education dollars to either Washington, DC or to Des Moines, have them run those dollars through a huge bureaucracy, after which they send a fraction back to the local level with strings attached. In my opinion, that sort of system is stupid and wrong. We can do better. Much better. 5) I will work for real economic development, of a completely different sort than what has been passed off as such in recent decades. I believe that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, no special deals for favored individuals, companies or groups. I believe in the equal protection of the laws, so I would be seeking to implement policies and pass legislation that favors ALL productive Iowans, not just a few. ----“How would you be able to achieve your plans in light of the Democrat/Republican balance in the state house?”---- Let’s work together to throw them out of power in 2014 and then we won’t have to concern ourselves with that. I hope you don’t think that last reply is flip, because I’m dead serious. I have much more to say on all these subjects, but I’m simply out of time this evening. But let’s keep the conversation going! For Iowa, for America, for our Posterity, Tom Hoefling KMA
Dec. 5, 2013 by Chuck Morris (Lohrville) -- Tom Hoefling of Lohrville today announced his intention to enter the 2014 Republican primary race against incumbent Governor Terry Branstad. Hoefling, the long-time conservative activist and organizer, enters the campaign as an anti-establishment outsider, having spent the last six years outside the GOP as a registered independent, and as the founder and chairman of the national America’s Party. On the campaign’s newly-renovated website (tomhoefling.com), he says: “The Branstad era in Iowa is coming to an end soon. There is little doubt about that. The only real question is where we will choose to go from there. Will our longest-serving Governor be followed by a decade or more of liberal Democrat rule like the last time he left the executive office? Or, will he succeed at replacing himself with someone who represents the Republican status quo? I don't think either outcome is acceptable. I believe the people of Iowa deserve a principled, practical alternative.” Hoefling is 52-years-old and is married to Sienna Hoefling. He is the father of ten children and two foster children. Christian NewsWire
Contact: Tom Hoefling, 813-389-0801, tomhoefling@gmail.com LOHRVILLE, Iowa, Dec. 5, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- Tom Hoefling of Lohrville today announced his intention to enter the 2014 Republican primary race against incumbent Governor Terry Branstad. Hoefling, the long-time conservative activist and organizer, enters the campaign as an anti-establishment outsider, having spent the last six years outside the GOP as a registered independent, and as the founder and chairman of the national America's Party. On the campaign's newly-renovated website (tomhoefling.com), he says: "The Branstad era in Iowa is coming to an end soon. There is little doubt about that. The only real question is where we will choose to go from there. Will our longest-serving Governor be followed by a decade or more of liberal Democrat rule like the last time he left the executive office? Or, will he succeed at replacing himself with someone who represents the Republican status quo? I don't think either outcome is acceptable. I believe the people of Iowa deserve a principled, practical alternative." "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857 Common Core School Assignment Requires Parents to Self-Identify as Conservative or Liberal12/4/2013 From today's Patriot Post:
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*Excerpt* House Speaker John Boehner's new staffer in charge of immigration policy has significant experience in drafting immigration legislation and pushing for reform. She wouldn't be coming to Boehner's office if House Republicans weren't serious about doing something on the issue. What that is remains to be seen. Rebecca Tallent, former chief of staff to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will be coming to the speaker's office from the Bipartisan Policy Center, where she has served as director of immigration policy. Her move "is affirmation of [Boehner's] strong desire to move legislation in 2014," BPC's immigration task force cochairman, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, said in a statement. Tallent is a veteran of immigration fights and a big believer in reform, including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. One of her early endeavors in negotiating legislation was 10 years ago, when she worked as a staffer for former Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. Tallent helped draft a major immigration bill sponsored by Kolbe, McCain, and former Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., now a senator and member of the "Gang of Eight" who created the comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate in June. *End excerpt* "Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever."
-- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833 For Immediate Release
Contact: tomhoefling@gmail.com December 2, 2013 Tom Hoefling of Lohrville today announced his intention to enter the 2014 Republican primary race against incumbent Governor Terry Branstad. Hoefling, the long-time conservative activist and organizer, enters the campaign as an anti-establishment outsider, having spent the last six years outside the GOP as a registered independent, and as the founder and chairman of the national America’s Party. On the campaign’s newly-renovated website (tomhoefling.com), he says: “The Branstad era in Iowa is coming to an end soon. There is little doubt about that. The only real question is where we will choose to go from there. Will our longest-serving Governor be followed by a decade or more of liberal Democrat rule like the last time he left the executive office? Or, will he succeed at replacing himself with someone who represents the Republican status quo? I don't think either outcome is acceptable. I believe the people of Iowa deserve a principled, practical alternative.” |
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