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"Jihad" Against Montana Freedom Caucus
"Terrorist" is the go-to line for RINOs who get challenged by the Freedom Caucus.
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Friends,
Former House Speaker John Boehner once famously compared his Republican opponents to “political terrorists.” In January, when House Freedom Caucus members held up Kevin McCarthy’s vote to become Speaker, Rep. Dan Crenshaw went on Fox Radio and said, “we cannot let the terrorists wins.”
This is how RINOs respond when members of their own party stand up and demand they actually govern as conservatives. They have nothing to say on the issues so they resort to comparing conservatives to terrorists. Certainly an effective way to govern!
Believe it or not, it happened to our state freedom caucuses twice this week.
MONTANA:
One of the biggest villains to the Montana Freedom Caucus has not been anyone in the legislature, but the state Supreme Court legislating from the bench. Specifically, the court has prevented the legislature from passing laws to protect unborn life, and claiming the state Constitution guarantees a right to an abortion when no such word exists in the document.
In response, the MT Freedom Caucus has proposed several amendments to the state Constitution to hold the court accountable, such as reducing its size, making Supreme Court elections partisan, and giving the governor power to fill vacancies.
This did not sit well with former Montana Supreme Court Justice James Nelson, who called for a “jihad” against the MT Freedom Caucus and said that it would be a “fight to the death” to stop them from passing the amendments.
SOUTH CAROLINA:
The South Carolina legislature spent the week negotiating their budget for the next fiscal year. The SC Freedom Caucus offered a bold conservative vision that cut government spending, reformed the pension system, and defunded DEI and ESG programs in the state.
Ultimately, the supermajority “Republican” House, along with Democrats, shot down most of the SC Freedom Caucus’s amendments. In the end, the SC Freedom Caucus voted against the woke, bloated budget - it was the largest number of people to vote against the budget in 50 years.
It wasn’t all bad though, as they were able to get an amendment into the budget that prohibited schools from incentivizing students to take the COVID vaccine. And Republican leadership agreed to hold a vote later this year on defunding DEI at South Carolina’s universities.
And like our friend on the Montana Supreme Court, a RINO state senator called the SC Freedom Caucus’s common sense proposals “Taliban-ish.”
IDAHO:
Idaho Republicans went all in on amnesty this week. In a state with just eighteen elected Democrats in the state legislature, a Memorial (aka resolution) was passed this week despite opposition from the ID Freedom Caucus. The memorial calls on the Biden Administration to flood the United States’ labor market with more foreign workers, as well as give green cards to millions of illegal aliens holding American jobs.
As an historic crisis continues to rage on our southern border, this is what your red state leadership is focused on. Thankfully, the Idaho Freedom Caucus will continue to put their citizens before special interests.
ARIZONA:
The Arizona Freedom Caucus stood up against Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) this week, introducing legislation that would ban it in the state. RCV is one of the biggest scams being pushed by the Left today to take over our elections. It overcomplicates the election process, taking power away from the voters and giving it to political consultants.
RCV is what allowed RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski to win re-election in Alaska last year despite being censured by the state Republican Party.
The AZ Freedom Caucus is ensuring that it will never come to Arizona.
WYOMING:
Wrapping up the week with some good news: Life has won in Wyoming.
Two bills this week that were championed by the WY Freedom Caucus in the legislature to protect life from conception and ban the selling of abortion pills in the state become law.
Keep fighting,
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
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