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FROM Mark Mix, President, The National Right to Work Foundation

Dear Eric,

In 2011, Wisconsin enacted sweeping reforms freeing public sector workers from paying forced union dues.

Wisconsin teachers and civil servants opted-out from paying union dues in droves, drying up Wisconsin’s union bosses’ forced-dues-to-politics pipeline.

Just a few years later, Wisconsin took the next step and became the 25th Right to Work state.

Now, a case just taken up by the Supreme Court could cut off the forced-dues spigot nationwide.

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is an important step towards finally respecting the First Amendment rights of America’s public servants.

Forcing teachers and other government employees to pay dues to a union they do not support as a condition of employment is now squarely before the court.

I’ll tell you how you can have a direct impact on this case in a moment, but I want to make sure you understand why this case is so crucial.

If a favorable ruling is handed down, every single American public sector worker could be freed from paying forced union dues -- nationwide.

So I've directed National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys to file a “Friend of the Court” amicus brief very soon -- bringing the strongest arguments possible in favor of worker freedom to the Court.

But for a case this important, you and I need to do more.

That’s why I’ve directed Foundation staff to put together a grassroots blitz in 15 targeted states.

The goal of this blitz will be to turn up the heat on 15 targeted attorneys general to urge them to sign on to an amicus brief as well.

The 15 targeted states are: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

These 15 attorneys general represent Right to Work states where the benefits of worker freedom have been proven time and time again over the course of years -- even decades.

With the right amount of pressure from constituents these attorneys general will have no choice but to sign on to an amicus brief.

And their signatures would add significant strength to the arguments for worker freedom.

But generating that grassroots pressure will only be possible with your help.

We’ve set a budget of $4,000 for each of these 15 targeted states. And we have a clear deadline by which all amicus briefs must be filed -- September 11th, less than a month away.

That means you and I must raise the full $60,000 needed by Monday, August 31st for this plan of action to have the greatest impact.

Will you make a generous contribution of $75, $150, or even $225 towards that goal today?

Depending on funding, your generous contribution will help implement a three-part plan in each targeted state, including:

• Placing full-page newspaper ads, explaining to the American people what's at stake;
• Contacting millions of supporters directly by mail, email, social media and phone to rally them to demand their attorneys general sign on to an amicus brief; and,
• Personally lobbying dozens of sympathetic columnists, talk radio hosts, editorial writers and bloggers in each state who can help mobilize public opinion.

But executing this full program will only be possible with your help.

You and I must raise the full $60,000 needed by Monday, August 31st for this plan of action to have the greatest impact.

Will you make a generous contribution of $75, $150, or even $225 towards that goal today?

I really hope that you will help out today.

That’s because a favorable ruling by the nation’s highest court would have sweeping ramifications beyond the First Amendment freedom of association rights of civil servants.

Not only could it give every public employee in America Right to Work protections, but with government union bosses stripped of their forced dues powers to fund Big Labor’s political agenda, the impact would be even bigger.

You see, Big Labor funnels billions of dollars each election cycle into the campaign coffers of their handpicked politicians -- money hardworking men and women earn to support their families, churches and communities.

In fact, according to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR), union bosses spent nearly two BILLION dollars supporting their pet candidates in 2013 and 2014 alone.

All funded with money stripped from the pockets of civil servants, many of whom would be fired if they didn’t pay up!

Ending forced unionism would free government workers forced to toil under union boss lock and key.

The fact is, compulsory unionism is the engine that skyrockets government spending, balloons taxes and corrupts our political system.

Year after year, elected officials negotiate labor contracts for over 19 million state and local government workers.

And when government union bosses “bargain” with elected officials behind closed doors -- taxpayers virtually always lose.

But executing this full program will only be possible with your help.

You and I must raise the full $60,000 needed by Monday, August 31st for this plan of action to have the greatest impact.

Will you make a generous contribution of $75, $150, or even $225 towards that goal today?

You see, the High Court will not only consider arguments by Foundation staff attorneys but also Big Labor lawyers, their “academic” apologists and probably even Barack Obama’s top lawyer.

Frankly, with essential First Amendment rights at stake, it’s crucial the High Court hear from as many state attorneys general in America, championing the freedom of association of their civil servants, as possible.

That's why your Right to Work Foundation's work is so critical.

The fact is taking on the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case is just one of the fronts we're fighting on..

With nearly 200 active cases right now, here's just a glimpse of what Foundation attorneys are working on:

• Scores of cases attacking Big Labor's use of forced dues to fund its political machine -- vitally important now as union operatives are already gearing up to install another puppet politician in the White House and take back the U.S. Senate.
• Challenges to the aggressive compulsory unionism policies pushed by Obama appointees in the executive branch, including the Department of Labor and the NLRB.
• Critical cases defending and enforcing state Right to Work protections, especially in the newest Right to Work states: Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Here's the rub. Your Foundation continues to operate on a tight budget in 2015, and it's crucial we allocate our resources to cover all our bases.

That’s why when I directed Foundation staff to put together this grassroots blitz for 15 targeted states, I assured them supporters like you would step up.

With the deadline to file amicus briefs coming up on September 11th, we don’t have much time.

That means you and I must raise the full $60,000 budget needed for this program by Monday, August 31st for this plan to have the greatest impact.

Will you make a generous contribution of $75, $150, or even $225 towards that goal today?

Thank you in advance for standing up for worker freedom.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix
President

P.S. In 2011, Wisconsin enacted sweeping reforms freeing public sector workers from paying forced union dues.

And with those reforms paving the way, Wisconsin became the 25th and latest Right to Work state earlier this year.

Now, a case just taken up by the Supreme Court could do the same thing nationwide.

The Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case is critical for worker freedom.

That’s why I’ve directed Foundation staff to put together a grassroots blitz in 15 targeted states to turn up the heat on those state attorneys general to urge them to sign on to an amicus brief as well.

We’ve set a budget of $4,000 for each of these 15 targeted states. And we have a clear deadline by which all amicus briefs must be filed -- September 11th, less than a month away.

That means you and I must raise the full $60,000 needed by Monday, August 31st for this plan of action to have the greatest impact.

Will you make a generous contribution of $75, $150, or even $225 towards that goal today?

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, is assisting thousands of employees in nearly 200 cases nationwide. The Foundation's mailing address is 8001 Braddock Road, Springfield, Virginia 22160. Its web address is http://nrtw.org/.

To help the National Right to Work Foundation grow, please forward this to a friend.

See the following links for more related articles:

• Unions Control Governments at All Levels
• Senate Bill 204: National Right to Work Act
• Unaccountable Union Make-work Job Failure
• Rand Paul's National Right to Work Petition
• STOP Obama's out-of-control NLRB

[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.

FROM Ghost Gunner: Leveling the Playing Field

Those who seek out positions of power tend to be paranoid, hypocritical wimps. Consider the issue of firearms. Politicians have many thousands of mercenaries (soldiers and "law enforcers") wielding all sort of deadly weapons--guns, tanks, missiles, drones, etc. Yet those same politicians pee themselves at the thought of the rabble owning semi-automatic rifles. From their twisted, elitist perspective, it's perfectly fine for them to swipe many billions of dollars from their subjects to spend on all manner of armaments, but if YOU want to possess a rifle, they think you should have to ask their permission, and register it, and make sure they always know what you own.

They also expect to be allowed to do things in secret, while claiming the right to spy on you and everyone else. As far as they are concerned, it's none of your business what they do, or what weapons they have, but it is their business to know everything that you do and everything that you have. Of course, they will pretend that their goal is to protect you from the "criminal element," but you'd have to be pretty dense to actually believe that. Why do you suppose they mostly whine about civilians having weapons that:

1. are used in only a tiny percentage of actual crime, and;
2. are the most effective types of weapon for resisting "government" aggression?

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. People who gravitate towards political office think they have the right to rule you. That's the job they applied for. And, of course, extorting you and bossing you around could be rather more difficult if you are better armed than their enforcers. So they hand out machine guns to their mindless thugs, but have tantrums about you having a 30-round magazine.

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Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington gave the Internal Revenue Service exactly a month — until Aug. 10 — to file a report, which he demanded as part of a lawsuit from a conservative watchdog, Judicial Watch, against the agency.

Judicial Watch is seeking a wide range of documents from the IRS, including Lerner’s emails, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. It has complained that the IRS didn’t tell it that the agency couldn’t recover all of Lerner’s emails from 2009 to 2011.

Sullivan cast his ruling as a compromise, and a potential way for Judicial Watch to get answers without the court wading any deeper into the matter. Judicial Watch had asked the court to potentially compel IRS officials to testify about the lost emails, through a process called limited discovery.

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The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.

According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.

So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, “Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey”. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.

1. Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
2. Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
3. Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
4. Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
5. Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?

[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]