Self-proclaimed journalism watchdog group Media Matters for America took note of this week's appearance by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts at an event hosted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation during which Roberts -- an endorser of Convention of States -- said that the COS project should not be abandoned merely because a new administration is heading to Washington.
In a post published on November 20, Media Matters quoted the comments by Roberts:
KEVIN ROBERTS (PRESIDENT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION): There's a whole bucket of longer-term objectives we need to be thinking about, and we just need to keep as a tool in our toolbox some equally radical ideas that are very sound and legitimate -- like, the Convention of States. Just because Trump and Vance won, doesn't mean that we should give up on that project.
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And Heritage -- maybe having something to do with my being there the last few years -- has become a sponsor of the Convention of States, because we realize the objective isn't just short term. It's long term. And I know that President Trump and Vice President Vance are thinking about that.
The post then excerpted a Media Matters article from 2023 about COS and drew from the right-wing runaway convention deck:
The Constitution has been amended 27 times, always by securing two-thirds support in both chambers of Congress as a first step. Article V of the Constitution provides for another option, though, in which two-thirds of state legislatures call for a convention to consider and put forward amendments. In both cases, any proposed amendment would then need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. [Mark] Meckler and his organization want to use the second, never-before-used method as a way of fundamentally transforming the federal government.
In theory, any kind of amendment could come out of a convention like the one envisioned by Meckler. In practice, virtually everybody pushing for this unlikely process are right-wing activists with a conservative agenda aimed at limiting progressive elements of the federal government.
The post abruptly ends there.
It should come as no surprise to Media Matters or anyone else that Roberts publicly reinforced his endorsement of COS. But the notion that "virtually everybody" who supports the movement to call a nonpartisan, limited-purpose Article V convention is a "right-wing activist" has withered.
That is unless "right-wing activists" now include Democratic legislators from all over the country who have voted in favor of the COS resolution in committees and on the floors of state legislatures, such as Hawaii state senator Mike Gabbard (Tulsi Gabbard's father).
Additionally, recent polling conducted by the highly reputable Susquehanna Polling & Research Inc. revealed that 68 percent of Americans from all political perspectives favor an Article V convention to propose amendments to the Constitution that would establish term limits, impose spending limits, and curb the power of the federal government.
Perhaps when it comes to advancing a tired theme, those facts don't matter.
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