On September 28 Convention of States leaders in Southwest Wyoming (Regional Captain Marlene Brady, District Captain Rick Breininger, State Director Steve Duerr, and Comms Coordinator Rod Geil) participated in a COS event with a full video presentation and a Q&A session that lasted for over 90 minutes.
It was a truly great turnout in Evanston. The audience pondered various problems that originate from Washington, stirring several questions about whether our Article V application could fix such issues.
They discussed the positive benefits of an Article V convention and the Convention of States platform of: imposing fiscal restraint on Congress (less spending), implementing term limits on elected and appointed federal officials (including Congress, Supreme Court justices, and Deep State officials), and reducing federal overreach (eliminating overburdensome regulations and duplicative federal agencies).
Special thanks to Drew and Aundee Halprin, the new owners of the Painted Lady Saloon & Steakhouse. After 16 months of red tape and renovations to a historic three-story grain mill, the Painted Lady Saloon finally opened last winter.
With the government-mandated COVID restrictions, they had to pause their business yet again. They are COS supporters and hosted the town hall after a Grand Reopening event on October 9.
Kudos to Drew and Aundee for their persistence to move through the twists and turns of business and government regulations that restrict our country's entrepreneurs.
In the days of our Founders, the word regulations meant something quite different than it does today. Circa 1787, the various states had trade laws that behooved their local economy but became very tenuous in the interstate trade market, which was essential to the economy of the young nation.
In order to "regularize" the trade between states and strengthen the national economy, interstate trade laws were fashioned to induce better trade as a whole.
On the other hand, it seems that today's regulations assume that trade is bad and abuses the consumer. This is not the positive result the Founders wanted. Today's regulations are often written by unelected bureaucrats. Lawmaking power was to be held exclusively by Congress.
This nation is in a battle with those who abuse the Constitution and those who want to revive the Constitution by using Article V of the Constitution. It's the Founders' fix given to us in 1787.
Time to use the “V”!
