Our volunteer teams are gaining momentum all across the country.
In Colorado, the team held a rally at the state capitol last week, where keynote speaker Prof. Rob Natelson explained why a Convention of States is both necessary and safe.
Here's an excerpt from local media coverage from the Aspen Times:
States rights, a balanced federal budget and term limits for United States representatives and senators, as well as Supreme Court justices.
If you subscribe to those political objectives, two men in Pitkin County have a proposal for you: join the Convention of States Action.
“There’s no discipline in our front line of politicians, whether Democrat or Republican,” said Roger Nicholson of Old Snowmass, “and no restraint on our federal spending.”
Nicholson will join Aspen resident Maurice Emmer on Tuesday at the Capitol building in Denver, where they and other volunteer members of the Colorado Convention of States organization, which is part of a nationwide movement, will hold a rally and later meet with state lawmakers.
Nicholson introduced Emmer to the Convention of States about three years ago. Emmer, a retired attorney who once ran for mayor of Aspen, was so enamored of the organization that he became a co-director of its state branch.
And in South Carolina, Speaker of the House Jay Lucas signed on as a co-sponsor of the Convention of States Resolution.
According to South Carolina media outlet FITS News:
Supporters of an Article V convention – or “convention of states” – were ebullient this week when powerful South Carolina speaker of the House Jay Lucas joined their ranks. Lucas has signed on as a sponsor of H. 3125, one of several convention of states bills currently making its way through the Palmetto State’s legislature.
This particular bill – and its S.C. Senate companion (S. 112) – would make an application to the U.S. Congress on behalf of the S.C. General Assembly to “call an amendment convention of the states pursuant to Article V” of the U.S. Constitution.
However, such a constitutional convention would be “limited to proposing amendments … that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.”[...]
“This marks a major turning point in our efforts to get the Convention of States Resolution passed in 2020,” a post on the South Carolina Facebook page of the Convention of States Action group noted, referring to Lucas’ endorsement. “Speaker Lucas isn’t just the presiding officer of our State House of Representatives, he is the ideological standard-bearer. It means everything to have him onboard.”
Great job, South Carolina and Colorado! These are huge steps towards passing the Convention of States resolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth states.
If you want to join the effort in your state, sign the Convention of States Petition below or click here to join a volunteer team or sign up as a leader.
