Help Get Rick Womick Elected Speaker of the TN House DECEMBER 10TH... Want Common Core repealed? FAVORABLE 2ND AMENDMENT legislation? Want a CHANCE of Obamacare and other federal mandates being NULLIFIED? Want a legislature that REPRESENTS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE? CALL AGAIN, EMAIL AGAIN, WRITE A HAND WRITTEN LETTER again... December 10th is the vote! Ask, plead, beg representatives to vote Rick Womick For Speaker of The Tennessee House! capitol.tn.gov/house/members/ From Rick Womick...For those of you who have been inquiring about the second letter I wrote to my fellow representatives asking for their support and vote for Speaker of the House, below is a copy of what they each received. Thank you all for your support and help. If you feel so inclined, please call your state representative and ask them to vote for me on Dec. 10th. Rick December 2, 2014 Dear Fellow Representative: As I write to you again regarding my candidacy for Speaker-Select, I am reminded how each of us has come to Nashville with the desire to make a difference. We chose to come to here to serve and to represent our friends, our neighbors, and our fellow Tennesseans. They are the citizens who have bestowed upon us their confidence and the awesome responsibility to be their voice in the legislature. We are ninety-nine co-equal representatives, empowered by our state’s Constitution, to enact laws that best serve the people of Tennessee. We are the publicly elected servants of the people, not pawns who answer to the Executive branch. Our Constitution is very clear; the Governor is to faithfully execute the laws passed by the General Assembly and he is to keep the General Assembly informed on the state of our government with recommendations for improvement. Unfortunately, over the last two years, we have watched our co-equal representative status transform into an oligarchy, where all the power, the money, and the agenda are vested in a few, and the policies and desires of the Governor are the top priority. We have seen public policy and the legislative agenda controlled via a nefarious committee structure, a fraudulent fiscal review process, preferential rewards, and targeted retribution. We have witnessed the Speaker of the House prohibiting twenty-two, constitutionally elected, freshman legislators from serving on sub-committees and committee chairman preventing “unsanctioned” legislation from being calendared in their committee. We’ve seen fraudulent fiscal notes used as de facto veto’s by the Governor and his Administration, and we have watched the Speaker cancel numerous committee hearings designed to investigate discrepancies by leadership and the Executive branch. We have had our legislation “flagged” by the Governor and committee chairman subsequently declare our “flagged” bills dead on arrival as they are calendared in their committee. As legislators, we have voiced our concerns about these discrepancies to leadership. We have objected to the lack of transparency in the committee process. However, our appeals continue to fall on deaf ears, and the very individuals we elected to lead us, rebuff us with conciliatory reassurances. I submit to you that this tactic of “plausible deniability” leads to no confidence in our elected leaders, and is certainly not the kind of leadership that our founders envisioned when they penned Article II of our Constitution. This election is all about leadership, but two very distinct styles and philosophies of leadership. I bring to the table leadership that will be transparent, and that will lead with the attitude and heart of a servant. If you want to see leadership that leads by example, leadership that takes care of its members by helping them raise money, and leadership that encourages you to represent the constituents in your district, then I’m asking you for your vote. If you want to see committee chairman who run their committees with impartiality, fairness, and priorities that are based on the will of the people, and a fiscal review system that is reformed from top to bottom, then I’m asking you for your vote. If you want to see leadership that works with the Governor and not for the Governor; leadership that prohibits the “flagging” of our legislation by the Governor and that protects its ALL of its members from being targeted in primaries by his Administration, then I’m asking you for your vote. Finally, if you want a Speaker whose focus is centered on the members of this caucus with a vision for a better Tennessee, instead of personal fundraising ambitions for statewide office, then I’m asking you for your vote. Together we can change the direction of the Tennessee House of Representatives from the voice of the few, to the voices of Tennesseans all across this great state. Sincerely, Rick Rep. Rick Womick 34th District
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:00:10 +0000
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