Members
of the Wisconsin Republican Party, Milwaukee County district who met April 5th at
the Hyatt in Milwaukee to pass the annual resolutions before the state
convention looked on with amazement as a small follow-up article by reporter
Dan Bice detailing a state’s rights resolution set off a national media
firestorm. Apart from one small comment from the Chair of the committee, no one
has bothered to ask committee members how or why a state’s rights resolution
came to be passed as the FINAL act of a very long day, a day that included 22
other very interesting resolutions, a day’s work, which in fact, started with a
firestorm of another sort.
From
our perspective it would almost appear that an agenda was being planned to take
the spotlight off of the first firestorm in order that it might be placed
somewhere else. In the interest of full disclosure we the undersigned members
of the resolutions committee will tell you the story behind the first and
biggest firestorm of the resolutions brought forward that day.
The
Resolutions Committee is made up of representatives of the individual districts
and are the direct interface between the local grassroots of the party and the
state Party as a whole. We pass what is on the minds of our members in the form
of resolutions to be presented to the state membership at the yearly convention
which along with resolutions from across the state are then voted on as a
representation to the nation as a whole as to what Wisconsin Republican members
are thinking.
On
the day of our resolutions meeting, it was obvious to a person what was the
topic de jour-COMMON CORE. The grass roots from our area have seen the dangers
of this agenda, in general, far before the even Wisconsin legislators. When a
move came before Wisconsin parents that would affected their children and
grandchildren for decades, Wisconsin parents became hyper observant and on the
issue of Common Core they studied the subject and recognized the synergy
between the money interests that have mobilized for the common core push who
stand to benefit financially, as well as the political forces that banded
together in Washington D.C. along with their lieutenants placed in the
individual states to carry out the common core political objective.
Not to mention the stealthy, manner in which the implementation of Common Core
was being conducted at blitzkrieg speed across all of the states, not just
Wisconsin. It was obvious right out of the starting gate on April 5th that
Common Core was thee firestorm hot topic and further, that all were in
agreement on the subject and that Common Core would be addressed as a starter
resolution for that day.
To
accent the point and add controversy, the members were so adamant on
emphasizing the importance of addressing the Common Core issue, that an
ancillary resolution was passed addressing the Wisconsin Senate Education
Committee Chair’s failure to follow the Republican Party’s mission statement
regarding Common Core.
Although
the last work of the day, resolution #23, the state’s rights resolution, was
made out to be controversial, it was in fact a coda to a crescendo that started
that day with addressing Federal government interference in Wisconsin’s
educational system. We recognize that the states are being pushed around by the
Federal government as of late, whether it be to try to insinuate a nationalized
health care system into Wisconsinites lives or to control how our state runs
its education system by mandating a nationalized curriculum with data gathering
on our children. The statement of the day was and is ENOUGH! It is time for the
powers that be from Washington D.C. to back off! We heard the voices from our
grass roots members and did the best we could that day to represent them at
committee.
We
hope you, the media, respect our intent to provide clarity on the activity and
purpose of the committee’s work that day. We, the undersigned members of the
Resolutions Committee, would hope that the media, in the interest of
representing the pressing news of the day as a public service, would
investigate and report the real firestorm of that day.
