Call to Action!!!: Contact Gov Walker to Stop ObamaCare Implementation

EMAIL/PHONE Gov. Walker Immediately

 to Stop ObamaCare Implementation

FVI National Issues Committee, November 16, 2011

Action Request: Since Gov. Walker could sign an emergency rule to implement ObamaCare as early as today (November 16), please email Gov. Walker at govgeneral@wisconsin.gov and/or phone him at 608-266-1212 immediately and demand that he reject this emergency rule that would begin to implement ObamaCare in Wisconsin!

As some of you already know, State Senator Frank Lasee refused to take action on (in effect killing) AB 210, a bill to implement ObamaCare in Wisconsin, in his committee a couple weeks ago.

However, our delight in Senator Lasee's action has been short-lived. Just yesterday several Tea Party groups and the Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty sent out urgent emails telling us that "Now the State Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) submitted to Governor Walker an emergency rule that will bypass the legislature and threaten to embed ObamaCare language into Wisconsin State Statutes."

Governor Walker is expected to sign this emergency rule as early as today, November 16. This emergency rule would bypass the state legislature and begin the implementation of ObamaCare similar to what AB 210 was designed to do.

Click here to read the Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty email alert for further information.

See attached “Tea Party Emergency Rule PR” Word doc for an explanation of this whole Scott Walker/Emergency Rule issue that was sent out to Tea Party groups by seven Tea Party-type groups around the state.

The Emergency Rule memo from the Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance, Theodore K. Nickel, to Members of the Legislature is also attached as a further resource.

A problem that has arisen is that Tea Party activists and other conservatives are getting confused by seeing many Republicans supporting AB 210 and the emergency rule to begin implementing ObamaCare in Wisconsin now. The pro-implementation-now proponents argument is that if Wisconsin doesn't implement ObamaCare now, then the federal government will force our state to implement ObamaCare in a way that infringes on our state sovereignty and adversely affects our health insurance companies.

We can't succumb to these arguments to collaborate with the Obama administration now in order to get some temporary benefits for ourselves. A fully implemented ObamaCare program would destroy our healthcare system.

Instead, we need to rally together by fighting ObamaCare every step of the way and work to get ObamaCare repealed by Congress and signed by the President in 2013.

Don't count on the Supreme Court to solve this problem. Probably the best we could hope for is that they might find the individual mandate unconstitutional, but that's only a tiny portion of ObamaCare.

Since Gov. Walker could sign an emergency rule to implement ObamaCare as early as today, please email Gov. Walker at govgeneral@wisconsin.gov and/or phone him at 608-266-1212 immediately and demand that he reject this emergency rule that would begin to implement ObamaCare in Wisconsin!

Update on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 11:20PM by Fox Valley Initiative

Update, November 20, 2011: This article was first posted on November 17, 2011. It has since been learned that Gov. Walker had already signed his approval of the emergency rule to begin implementing ObamaCare in Wisconsin on November 3, 2011. Click here (We've found that some browsers don't download this URL; Safari doesn't seem to work, but Firefox does.) and scroll to the bottom of the document to see Walker's memo of approval. The memo itself doesn't describe what it's about, but by taking the memo in context with other information in the linked document and other official state documents, you can see that it is Walker's approval of beginning the implementation of ObamaCare in Wisconsin.

The emergency rule went into effect on November 16, 2011. The Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance is taking comments until 4:30 PM on November 29, 2011 on whether the emergency rule should be made permanent (link works with Firefox, but not Safari). Comments should be sent to Jim Guidry at Jim.Guidry@wisconsin.gov.

Comments

[Greg Lipovac]

I was told the Governor was pondering this and might sign the rule on November 15th or the 16th. Now it been reveled that the Governor had already signed the emergency rule on November 3rd.

As the recall process against him starts we are being told "Scott Walker stands with us"

I thought Scott Walker was a man of integrity who believed in open and transparent government - not someone who would to sneak an executive order of this magnitude past the citizens. Why the lack of openness and transparency when it came an executive order of this magnitude? If saying that he is considering signing an order when he had already done so is his idea of openness Scott Walker does not stand with me.

I thought Scott Walker believed in the legislative process - not in using backdoor procedures to implement an unconstitutional policy the legislature already rejected. A governor who uses a bureaucratic emergency rule from the OCI to implement Obamacare to take effect does not stand with me. A governor who throws Frank Lasee and the other legislatures who worked to stop the bill trying to implement Obamacare under the train and instead stands with Obama does not stand with me.

Remember he also led the charge against constitutional carry, pulled the rug out from under legislatures trying to repeal the smoking ban, refused to veto language put into the budget at the last minute kneecapping craft breweries, has not shown any support for raw milk, and remains silent on the issue of industrial hemp.

I have campaigned for Walker the last two election cycles. He is a huge improvement over Doyle and one of the best governors in the nation. I admire his fiscal leadership and policies. But, his failures when it comes to freedom and personal liberty are adding up and assisting Obama and the left with healthcare is way more than I can tolerate.

It's obvious that when it comes to social issues Walker does not stand with me. Why shouldn't I support the recall movement and try to replace him with a fiscal conservative who understands the concepts of freedom, liberty and limited government?