(Please read through to the end because I am talking about
you)
I AM GOING TO TELL YOU ALL SOMETHING THAT MOST DO NOT KNOW
ABOUT ME OR ABOUT WHO I AM, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY SOMETHING YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT
YOURSELVES AND WHO YOU ARE! In 2009, WI had been suffering under an incredibly
bad Dem. Governor nicknamed "Diamond Jim" Doyle. At the time, I would
get together once a week with a regular group of guys and we would do two things: study the Bible and b*tch about how Diamond Jim was destroying WI's future. One
Saturday, I came to the end of myself and in private I cried out to God to heal our
land and our state. That night my buddy Dick Radocevich called me out of the
blue and said, "Vince, we can recall Doyle. I've been looking in the WI
Blue Book and we can do it." Without hesitation I responded, "Let's
do it!" The idea was presented to
the rest of our group and it quickly spread to others. Some were people of
faith and some were not but we all had the same goal; we were tired of sitting
by, watching our state die by degrees and we wanted to once again give Wisconsin
a bright future. We started out as a couple of nobodies who from that point on
said, "Lord, we have no resources but we are going to step out in faith
and leave the results up to You."
And step we did. We were quick to enlist the local team of
Chris Kliesmet and Orv Seymer from CRG-Citizens for Responsible Government, who
had run recalls not only across the state of WI but had helped in ousting the
local Milwaukee County Executive, Tom Ament, who was at least partially
responsible for the now infamous Pension Board scandal in 2002.
At this time, Doyle was presenting his tricked up/bloated state budget at public forums across the state for input. We dogged him wherever his budget went. This clip is from State Fair park in West Allis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nX8F5wumSw
Our action caught the attention of local media and the Recall Doyle team appeared on newspaper covers, talk radio forums, television interviews and even in the WI State Capitol rotunda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6wWWqkIEc
We hounded Doyle at as many public appearances as possible even to Milwaukee's East Side for his press conference announcing a smoking ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBnSBbgckBw
We held informational recall volunteer sign-up forums across the state of WI such as this one at a packed out Serb Hall in Milwaukee County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2iLqo8LPaU
Our action caught the attention of local media and the Recall Doyle team appeared on newspaper covers, talk radio forums, television interviews and even in the WI State Capitol rotunda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6wWWqkIEc
We hounded Doyle at as many public appearances as possible even to Milwaukee's East Side for his press conference announcing a smoking ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBnSBbgckBw
We held informational recall volunteer sign-up forums across the state of WI such as this one at a packed out Serb Hall in Milwaukee County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2iLqo8LPaU
Without ever really having experienced trying to unseat a
sitting governor before, we simply moved in the direction to which we felt led. I
will give critical technical kudos to CRG. They were the essential number
crunchers to help us be realistic in our goal of recall petition volunteers
needed: A STAGGERING 12,000 from across the state. We put up a website to aid
in volunteer sign up and our numbers bloomed. We sent out regular e-mails to
keep everyone apprised of where we were at. Our numbers really popped when we presented
our plan at a taxpayer protest on April 15th, 2009 outside the State Capitol.
Look and listen as the crowd, standing before the 2nd floor office window of
Gov. Jim Doyle, starts to chant for his recall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDtFkvAg63E
Through it all, I cautioned our core group that although we
had a goal of 12,000 volunteers, we did not know God's plan in all of this and
we needed to be sure we did not get ahead of Him or His plan for our efforts. We
had limited time because the governor's election was slated for the end of
2010. I had many members chomping at the bit to start circulating recall
petitions. We had set a drop dead date by which we minimally needed 10,000
volunteers and as the date approached, with only 7400 volunteers signed up, I
knew I had to ask the group to make a hard decision, one that I can safely say
was the hardest that I ever have had to make in my life. I called the meeting
in Brookfield at a local public location with press present and after
explaining the situation to them, I asked them to stand down on the recall. It
truly broke my heart to have come that far and to see their hopes deflated but
in the end the majority knew that to fail at the recall drive by having too few
volunteers would have given Doyle the renewed impetus that he needed to drive
forward with a re-election bid, something that I told the group from the
beginning we could never allow.
We never had the support of any political organization of
any kind though the process. CRG, a WI based grass-roots organization provided
us with logistics. Talk radio was generally hostile at least in the beginning.
When our numbers bloomed to the point that our volunteers started to harass the
stations to recognize Recall Doyle, we did finally get some respect and air
time. Media was generally a no-go zone except for Connely media publications, which
printed local newspapers, the Waukesha County Freeman newspaper being the one
who generously gave us the most coverage for which we are forever thankful. We
survived on donations given at our volunteer sign-up events. We had many low
points, especially during some fundraising times. One anonymous woman at one of
our informational meetings dropped a large donation into our hands, something for
which I will forever be thankful. We had one organizer, Emily, who no doubt was
God's angel sent to Recall Doyle, who arranged multiple events across the
state's midsection all by herself. We held meetings, we held rallies, and we made
Recall Doyle appearances all across the state which even included in the
Wisconsin sky! A Recall Doyle banner was flown by a pilot hired out of
Illinois across the Milwaukee skies before the 4th of July fireworks because
no WI pilot was willing to go up against Gov. Diamond Jim. All of this this
entire recall effort was done with a small amount of volunteer money totaling
around $10,000. However, what we did have was a faith, a faith that our God was
bigger than our problem. Some of the volunteers never did get the faith aspect
of our journey; the rest of us relied on it.
Our group never lost sight of the fact that this was about
the future of WI and making it a better place for our kids and grandkids to
live in. We knew that Doyle was killing their future a little bit more every
year that he stayed in office. Many told us to just wait Doyle out because he probably
only had a couple of years left because he might not run again. I said to every
crowd I spoke in front of that when you have a problem you don't shelve it and wait for it to get
worse; YOU DEAL WITH IT NOW BEFORE IT GETS WORSE! Further, we already knew that there
were several good candidates in the wings and one was a good man who had
proven himself as the Milwaukee County Executive for 8 years, Scott Walker, who
was planning a run for governor (and eventually became our next Governor). We also knew that if Doyle was out of the running, it would be an easier race and a quicker path to healing for our state.
And now for the coda. Shortly after we shut down Recall Doyle
what was the end result? Doyle decided against re-running for office in August of
2009: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/53302852.html Quoting from the article: "One
veteran Democratic legislator who asked not to be identified out of loyalty to
Doyle said he thinks Doyle started the year expecting to run, but later in the year, asked himself this question: "Why do I want to continue to do this?" Now some will say our group was a bunch of dreamers and Doyle would have decided
not to re-run anyway but Orv Seymer from CRG
and I know differently. We decided to attend Doyle's scheduled public
press conference in Madison in which he was to publicly announce his decision not to re-run for
office. While public and press waited in the hall of Doyle's old elementary school,
Orv and I waited with them. Mind you we had no identification on us as we saw a
man come out of one of the side office doors and make a beeline for us. He
looked us right in the eye and sternly said, "You two will not be allowed
in for the public announcement!" We noticed that as he walked away he went
over to a WI trooper standing by the door and said something. As we lined up
along with everyone else to go up the steps into the public room the law officer stopped us and said he had orders not to allow us in. Orv and I, not
wanting to make a scene, sat out in the hall, but that wasn't enough, the officer then tried, in his best manner, to coax us outside of the building, no
doubt to lock the door behind us so that Doyle would not have to see our faces
ever again, nor would the press know the Doyle administration’s dirty deed! We
did not oblige and after the news conference was over, we did eventually get the ear of news reporter Mick Trevey from Milwaukee NBC affiliate WTMJ, who did add the details to the Doyle announcement on what Doyle’s henchman had done to us. We may have been locked out from publicly seeing Doyle
step down but the satisfied feeling of victory rode in that car with us all the
way back to Milwaukee that day.
SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ME TELLING YOU ALL THIS? WE
REPRESENTED YOU THAT DAY! WE REPRESENTED THE FUTURE GENERATIONS, NOT JUST IN WISCONSIN
BUT ALL ACROSS AMERICA AS WELL! WE CHOSE TO DO SOMETHING, IN FAITH, INSTEAD OF
JUST B*TCHING ABOUT IT EVERY WEEK! WHEN THE GOOD PEOPLE STAND FOR SOMETHING,
THE POWERS OF THE OPRESSOR WILL FAIL.
We in this country are being conditioned to become dis-spirited.
We are being made to believe that nothing can change, "at this point what
difference does it make?" after all. I am here to tell you that when one person
joins with another and another and we choose to say, "ENOUGH!" then
true hope reigns once again and true change is possible. We have a scourge on
this nation. A usurpation of power like we have never seen before in the
history of this Republic! Change will not come from the top because most of them
at the top are power drunk and deluded by power fever. They make special
exemptions for themselves that exclude them from the pain we are legislated to
have to suffer. They have lost the truth of what it means to go forth for a
time and represent 'we the people', and then RETURN AS ONE OF US. They have made
themselves a permanent ruling class to lord over us AND WE LET THEM!
If you and I are going to be the change, the first thing
that must change is our own thinking. WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER RIGHT NOW
AND WE MUST BEGIN TO ACT AS THE CARETAKERS OF FREEDOM AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE BY
THE FOUNDERS. They entrusted each successive generation to be the watch guards
of freedom. We were to instruct the young as to the loving Creator who gives
freedom and further, whom the enemies of freedom are. Make no mistake, the
enemies of freedom are very real and very plentiful! We were to instill a love of freedom and country based upon the uniqueness of the individual, not subjugation
to the collective as we do today through rampant and copious political
correctness police! We were to teach the tenets of freedom to the young and to
seal it into their hearts to ultimately be passed on to subsequent generations.
We have not only failed to do all this but we have invited those very same
enemies of freedom right into the highest halls of government! Those who would
not only not love our free way of life but those who would covertly seek to
change it into a system that would be deemed by the Founders, by their very corruption of our Constitution,
to be the enemy of freedom!
The next thing that must happen is we need to be tied
together in communication. You are on the internet. You are reading this right
now. NOW SHARE YOUR INFORMATION. YOU DON’T HAVE ANY INFORMATION? THEN SHARE
THIS, SHARE FRIENDS' INFORMATION, SHARE WHAT INFORMATION YOU RECEIVE. SHARE, SHARE, SHARE AND YOU CAN BECOME A VIRUS
FOR GOOD SPREADING HOPE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEATEN DOWN! LET THEM KNOW WHAT
THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM ARE. LET THEM KNOW THAT WE ARE BORN WITH BASIC INALIENABLE RIGHTS, RIGHTS THAT WERE GIVEN BY A LOVING CREATOR GOD. RIGHTS THAT NO MAN,
PRESIDENT OR KING CAN NEITHER TAKE AWAY NOR LEGISLATE AWAY, EVER! AT ONE TIME
NONE US EVEN KNEW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WAS. NOW LET US BECOME THEIR
WORST NIGHTMARE: AN INTERNET COMMUNITY OF ORGANIZERS! No, I know it is not natural
for us. It’s not natural in the same sense that the communists and socialists
have been community organizing, to our detriment, on American soil for decades.
It will be a starting point though, and we are fast learners, are we not?
Many will say, "What is the use? We have said all that
needed to be said before and no one listened." They didn't listen before because
they were mesmerized by a cult of personality. Obama has since shown his cracks.
Obama said he came to unite but all he did was divide, by class, by sex and by
race. Obama criticized his predecessor for running up debt but in the end he
made his predecessor look austere by comparison with his own tsunami of red ink.
The multitudes of cracks are there and now the people are finally beginning to see
him for who he really is! Those who once thought he was perfection on Earth,
now know he is just another slick-talking politician with his own agenda and
what is worse, one who does not love this country as it stands. One who lives to tear down this country and seeks
to rebuild it in the Marxist mold as expressed by the dreams of his father.
THEY WILL LISTEN NOW! No idea is as powerful as one whose time has come! All of
you who were exposing Obama in '07 and '08, and onward, it is time to dust off
your material because now is the time to hit it fast and hit it hard. You don't
let up for a minute and you share like crazy! I can tell you now, that Obama has
been backed up against the wall with the last election. He is going to pretend
that life goes on, but he is scared inside. What we must do now is swing the
hammer hard until his numbers really start to fall. WE CAN AND WE WILL TAKE THE
WIND OUT OF HIS SAILS! WE MUST!
You say, "How is this possible?" I say, have a
little faith, because I know of a small group of people who stepped out with no
power, and no resources, but a little bit of faith and they removed a mountain
in Wisconsin and it can happen just the same way across this great nation of
ours. We need brother and sister joined together at the heart, acting humbly
before our Creator, tapped into something greater than our own individual
strength! TOGETHER, WE WILL SEE THIS THROUGH AND LIVE TO SEE THE HEALING THAT
STARTED IN WISCONSIN, SPREAD ACROSS EVERY STATE OF OUR UNION! I BELIEVE IT. I
KNOW IT BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE MY EYES! WILL YOU JOIN WITH ME?
LET THE HEALING BEGIN ACROSS THE NATION!
Sincerely yours,
"WE THE PEOPLE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.-Chronicles II 7:14
