WI Republican Resolutions Committee work on states rights

Members of the Wisconsin Republican Party, Milwaukee County district who met April 5^th 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 5^th 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.