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Remember the Constitutional Carry Sell-outs? Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 06/07/11

Remember the email a few weeks ago warning of Scott Walker and Jeff Fitzgerald conspiring to sell out your Constitutional rights?

So who are those in leadership that are scheming to kill Constitutional Carry?  Scott Walker and Jeff Fitzgerald.

You read that right: Scott Walker and Jeff Fitzgerald are trying to sell out your rights because they want to appease big government liberals so that you have to beg for permission from the government to carry your firearm.

They want to turn your rights into privileges that they can control.

Well this past week, Scott Walker made good on those intentions.  Walker issued a statement Friday saying any bill that reaches his desk should include a permit and training.  His spokesman stopped short of saying the Governor would veto anything less.

Why is Scott Walker so afraid of your right to protect yourself?

Permit carry is unacceptable to all gun owners.  We do not want to beg the government and have our rights turned into privileges that will be taken away.

Now is the time to pass Constitutional Carry and Scott Walker is trying to stop us.

Our continued pressure has pushed Constitutional Carry farther than anyone expected it to go, but we are far from finished.

Permit Carry is a step in the wrong direction: government will have more control over your guns than ever before.  If Permit Carry passes, what kind of restrictions will big government politicians pile on when they are in power?

Allowing permits and other restrictions on your guns will only lead to more restrictions on your gun rights!

Constitutional Carry is the only clear choice that restores the rights of the people and does not increase invasion of government into our personal lives.

Will you call Scott Walker right now and tell him how disappointed you are that he is turning his back on your rights?  Tell him to stand up for the Constitution and the rights of gun owners in Wisconsin.  Tell him to come out in support of Constitutional Concealed Carry.

Call Scott Walker at (608) 266-1212.

Tell him that support of a bill that requires permits, training, or other fees is unacceptable and will be considered a failure to represent the people, uphold the Constitution, and will not be forgotten.

The second amendment says that we have the right to bear arms; it does not say only if it’s visible or only if you are hunting.

For too long the Wisconsin government has stripped you of your right to protect yourself.  Enough is enough.  Together we will demand the laws forbidding concealed carry be repealed and our rights returned!

It is proven that crime rates drop when concealed carry is not prohibited or restricted.  This is common sense.  The only thing restricting your right to carry ensures is that violent criminals have less to worry about.

You as a law-abiding citizen should not be punished for simply protecting yourself.

Call Scott Walker right now at (608) 266-1212 and tell him what you think of his support of big government permit carry.

In Liberty,

Todd Welch
Interim State Coordinator
Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty

P.S.  Why has Scott Walker chosen to fight for the rights of workers to be free from forced unionism but is turning his back on the rights of gun owners?  Call Scott Walker right now at (608) 266-1212 and ask him.

Who Is Robbing You of Your Constitutional Rights? Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 06/02/11

The concealed carry bills are in a holding pattern right now as "leadership" tries to figure out what to do next.  They are looking for the easiest way out of this situation you and I have put them in.

Many of them want their Big Government Permit Carry so they can control guns but they now know that we are not going to allow it.

Our continued pressure has pushed Constitutional Carry farther than anyone expected it to go, but we are far from finished.

The Constitutional Carry bill, SB-93, has passed out of committee and is now available for a full Senate vote.

Do we have enough Senators to pass Constitutional Carry?

Big Government Permit Carry supporters are trying to tell us that we do not, and nothing that we can do will change that.

I am not buying it... With your help we have come this far and with your continued pressure we will prevail.

Right now, our battle is in the Senate, since Jeff "Permit" Fitzgerald is content on trashing the Constitution and the will of the people in the Assembly.

If you and I can get Constitutional Carry passed in the Senate, then Jeff "Permit" Fitzgerald will be forced to allow a vote in the Assembly.

Permit Carry is a step in the wrong direction: government will have more control over your guns than ever before.  If Permit Carry passes, what kind of restrictions will big government politicians pile on when they are in power?

Allowing permits and other restrictions on your guns will only lead to more restrictions on your gun rights!

Constitutional Carry is the only clear choice that restores the rights of the people and does not increase invasion of government into our personal lives.

To make Constitutional Carry a reality we must keep up the pressure.  We must get Constitutional Carry passed in the Senate.

To do this you need to contact the Republican Senators that have yet to sponsor Constitutional Carry.  These Republican Senators are trying to rob you of your Constitutional gun rights:

Senators Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling, Michael Ellis, Sheila Harsdorf, Randy Hopper, Frank Lasee, Luther Olsen, Dale Schultz, and Van Wanggaard.

Will you contact them all right now by email?  You can click here for all of their emails in a nice, easy-to copy and paste format.  Demand that they sponsor SB-93 Constitutional Concealed Carry.  Tell them that big government permit carry is unacceptable!

To win we need seventeen votes for Constitutional Carry; right now we have ten sponsors.  As we have learned from past bills, though sponsors are not for sure votes, sometimes people sponsor a bill just to look good, never expecting to actually have to vote on the bill.

Because of this we need to make sure that we have as many sponsors as possible and on record in support of or against Constitutional Carry.

Click here to get the email addresses of the remaining Republican Senators that have not signed on in support of the Constitution and your gun rights.  Demand that they sponsor SB-93 Constitutional Carry right now or risk losing your support.


In Liberty,

Todd Welch
Interim State Coordinator
Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty

P.S.  We are doing a great job keeping up the pressure, and we will soon begin running phone calls in support of Constitutional Carry urging people to contact their legislators.  To make this even more effective we need more funds, so please click here right now to donate $5, $10, $25 or more.

Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty 2011 Annual Conference (Liberty Fest 2011) in Review Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 05/19/11 Last updated 05/19/11

Liberty Fest 2011 was a resounding success, the speakers this year where amazing.  Everyone who attended had a great time and left with a very positive outlook on what we can and will be doing to bring Liberty to Wisconsin.

Check out the Videos and pictures below:

Your Privacy Exported out of State Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 04/20/11 Last updated 04/20/11

Dear Patriots,

How do you like the idea of all of your personal information, everything necessary to steal your identity, being shipped out of state to a third party?

The days of having your photo taken at the DMV and walking out with a new driver’s license or ID card will soon be over.  DOT operations manager Patrick Fernan says people will have to wait up to 30 days for those items to come in the mail, as the state implements the federal REAL-ID law aka Dangerous ID.

So instead of getting your driver’s license at the DMV, an out-of-state vendor will make them and mail cards to customers.  That's right: all of your personal information will be going to a third party that is out of state.

What about WI jobs?  How in the heck does this keep your vital info safe?

They are going to require you to give them all of your vital information that is absolutely needed to steal your identity and ship it out of state where our laws on privacy can’t be enforced?  Is this making any sense?

And it gets even worse.  Drivers will not leave the DMV empty-handed.  Fernan says a photo receipt will be issued that will have all of the same features as the permanent card.  It will still work as an ID for banking, voting, and boarding airplanes.

Wait a minute — they are going to use an easily forged ‘temp’ that TSA is going to use to let people get on a plane in WI (or anywhere else in the US)?

"Hi Mr. TSA agent!  This photocopy is my official ID!"

Not only does the idea of this make no sense, the fact that Wisconsin is planning to implement REAL ID aka Dangerous ID is very scary.

Dangerous ID is a clear attempt to establish a National ID System, the reality might even be much worse — an INTERNATIONAL Identification System.

You see, Dangerous ID actually requires that driver’s license photographs meet United Nation’s biometric format standards.  At this level of sophistication, government software can analyze facial characteristics and generate a unique identification number.

Think about that for a moment — your identity will be reduced to a single number in an international database that can be tracked globally by one-world government surveillance cameras and facial recognition software.

As of right now the DOT does not have a specific date when the new license standards will be in place, so let’s make sure that they do not go into place!

Will you do two things to help stop this stupidity?

1. Call DOT operations manager Patrick Fernan at (608) 261-8605 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting   ="background-position: -5849px 1px ! important;">      
      (608) 261-8605      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.  Tell him you do not want all of your personal information shipped out of state.  Tell him that easy to forge ‘temp’ ID cards are unacceptable.  Demand that anything involving REAL ID not be implemented in Wisconsin.
2. Email or call your legislators and ask them what they are doing to stop the privacy-invading REAL ID from being implemented in Wisconsin.  Tell them it is not acceptable for the DOT to ship your private information out of state.  Click here to get your legislator’s contact information.

I know it's hard to believe that this is even an issue that we have to deal with, but unfortunately it is.  Dangerous ID is dangerous to our privacy and our independence as a state and as a nation.


In Liberty,

Todd Welch
Interim-State Coordinator
Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty


P.S.  If you dislike the idea of your private information being shipped out of state and a forgeable paper receipt being issued as ID, contact DOT operations manager Patrick Fernan at (608) 261-8605 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting   ="background-position: -5849px 1px ! important;">      
   (608) 261-8605      end_of_the_skype_highlighting and click here to contact your legislator.

We are on Ground Zero Posted by ToddWelch

Posted 04/08/11

Dear Patriots,

You and I are standing at Ground Zero in the fight between big government and limited government, and we just had a huge win!

I was pulling my hair out as the election results came in on April 5th and the lead went back and forth between Prosser and Kloppenburg, and as results finally completely came in on Wednesday it looked like Liberty advocates had lost and disappointment ruled the day.

Today, though, is another day, and as I write this letter, news of a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield.  The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg!

This is an unbelievable turn of events here in Wisconsin; if Kloppenburg would have won, we would have an activist Supreme Court, a court that we could not rely on to uphold the rule of law.

The result is still extremely close, and there's still a recount to grapple with, but this is a HUGE change from yesterday which had Justice David Prosser down by 204 votes.  And it's proof that the grassroots army we have formed to battle big government is a force to be reckoned with.

And I knew it was happening because thousands of us Wisconsin C4L members, along with our friends and allies, voted, volunteered, knocked on doors, hit the phones, and got out information to liberty-minded citizens on where the candidates stood on the issues through our emails, posts and tweets.  We're a part of this, but now we need to make sure what has happened so far in Wisconsin doesn't stop here.  We must continue our fight for limited government.

Big Labor in Madison will continue to fight for radical big government with their "my way or the highway" tactics, threatening to shutdown the government in order to force the Republicans to cave on the budget and countless other things. They're willing to harm countless Americans in order to impose their agenda on the rest of us.

But Wisconsin C4L is fighting back. We are planning a huge statewide lobbying campaign, capturing the energy from our victory to win this massive battle for our state's future against Big Labor's plans to destroy our march towards smaller government.

Can you help stop Big Labor by chipping in $10 right now?

I read a quote the other day from the Tea Party Express, and they could not be more right about the stakes in this election:

The result of this election will have an important impact right here in Wisconsin on the battle for smaller government.  But a Prosser victory is also sending a message nationally that Americans are rejecting the radical big government/Big Labor agenda that has swept across other states and our federal government.

I need your help to keep the momentum going.  We're doing great here in Wisconsin, but Wisconsin C4L needs your support to make sure the growing grassroots movement to protect our liberties doesn't stall here.

We need to raise $5,000 today to do it—for ads, field mobilizations, and polling.  Can you help?

Click here to chip in $10 or more.

Thank you for all that you're doing.


In Liberty,

Todd Welch
Interim-State Coordinator
Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty

P.S. We must keep up the fight against big government and big labor in Wisconsin.  With the Prosser victory, we have momentom with us that we must not waste.  Click here to chip in $10 or more so that we can continue the fight for small government in Wisconsin now and well into the future.