tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167591964180914212024-03-26T22:04:48.397-04:00Take Care TimObservations of the Public Record from Michigan's 5th Congressional DistrictSteven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-89062104591055029202024-03-26T21:37:00.002-04:002024-03-26T22:04:13.577-04:00Video - Walberg on Gaza and Ukraine:"Get it over quick" "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AFqbphV3BTo" width="320" youtube-src-id="AFqbphV3BTo"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Link to Video: <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/AFqbphV3BTo">https://youtu.be/AFqbphV3BTo</a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">Link to Raw Video without Captions: <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/y4PQ47OEU0Y">https://youtu.be/y4PQ47OEU0Y</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This unedited video was recorded yesterday by Pat Ulanowicz and I was given permission to share it and use his name. I transcribed the video, and added the captions to the video.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">March 25, 2024 - Walberg Invitation-only Town Hall – Dundee, MI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[<i>Begin Video Clip</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">US Congress Member, Tim Walberg [MI-05]:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “President says it, or not, I don’t know how you build a port. He says it’s gonna be all in the water, but once that’s hooked up, that becomes fair game. So, you’re putting our troops in harm’s way. Probably CB’s <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Construction Battalions</i>]</span>, and others that are gonna be doing that engineering policies. I don’t see how you possibly could say that that isn’t putting our troops in harm’s way in Gaza, where we shouldn’t be. We should be resourcing Israel just like they want to, to kill Hamas on their own.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Constituent 1: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">“Mr. Walberg? I asked that question. Uh, the reason I asked is cause I was with a – a gentleman that’s in the US Army – He’s a diver – yesterday, and he said he’s being deployed on April 1</span><span style="font-size: 11.666666px;">st</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> to go into Gaza to build a pier, and they’re going to be protected by the IDF while they’re there. They’re there for a minimum of 90 days and deployed until the project is finished. Why are we spending our money to build a port for them?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Yeah. Um – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>4 second pause</i>] </span>It’s Joe Biden’s reason: We need to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. I don’t think we should. I – I don’t think any of our aid that goes to Israel to support our greatest ally, arguably maybe in the world to defeat Hamas and Iran and Russia, and probably North Korea’s in there, and China too, with them in helping – helping – uh – uh, Hamas. Um, we shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It – it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. The same – the same should be in Ukraine. Defeat Putin quick. Instead of 80 percent of our funding for Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes. It should be 80 percent, a hundred percent to wipe out Russian forces, if that’s what we want to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Constituent 1:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “We haven’t fought a real war since the World War 2.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Well, there’s a lot of people died in wars that were not classified as real wars, but they were real wars for those people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Constituent 1:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “I mean, we didn’t fight to win.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Dustin Krasny</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg’s staffer/Lenawee County Commissioner</i>]</span>: “We – we are - we got through all the questions, and we’re out of time, but – uh, speaking - <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">“I got two more minutes!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Krasny:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “But speaking of proud veterans – uh, Ken Moore – uh, has a question for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Ken?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Krasny:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Ken, from Monroe.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Moore:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Mr. Walberg, my name’s Ken Moore. I’m a Vietnam veteran, a friend of Will Bruck, 31 years in the Army...”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 10.5pt;">[<i>End Video Clip</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-90502368297419664742024-01-31T03:35:00.002-05:002024-01-31T11:12:51.536-05:00Walberg's "political work" in Uganda<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgitlxrEJ4Zq32F1o_NenJSzjNhIc0ouc3W1Y9HcTYQnlR08qIGDeoGucy9aOlcU4T9EhzefrmAXXseAyDmwYkXPKiYAp1GdKusEizcHqfvkU3noa7yDNTDnimoy5SO5e3hu9f4ke3pcwzNAhCrJjkbUl61AhriS7e4B3jyZ4mQNsFmGyTFrBfAFEL_3Ni4/s3000/1%20-%20Title%20Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1831" data-original-width="3000" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgitlxrEJ4Zq32F1o_NenJSzjNhIc0ouc3W1Y9HcTYQnlR08qIGDeoGucy9aOlcU4T9EhzefrmAXXseAyDmwYkXPKiYAp1GdKusEizcHqfvkU3noa7yDNTDnimoy5SO5e3hu9f4ke3pcwzNAhCrJjkbUl61AhriS7e4B3jyZ4mQNsFmGyTFrBfAFEL_3Ni4/w400-h244/1%20-%20Title%20Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>September 7, 2015: Walberg (wearing member pin) & family secretly met President Museveni<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: repeat black; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #fcdb02;">CONTENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: repeat rgb(251, 219, 3); color: black;">INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">TIMELINE OF THREE UGANDA TRIPS:</span> </b>September 2015, July 2021, October 2023<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: repeat black; color: #fcdb02;">REPORT:</span> Walberg’s “political work” in Uganda<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: repeat rgb(251, 219, 3); color: black;">SOURCES & APPENDIX WITH FULL TRANSCRIPTS</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(251, 219, 3); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: black;">INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY</span><o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">When asked on the radio what listeners should think of recent press coverage of Tim Walberg’s speech in Uganda from October 8, 2023, Walberg said, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“It’s a lie.”</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>Walberg denied the content of other speeches at the event, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“no one spoke to any law” </span></i>and denied the reality of laws against homosexuality in Uganda, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“They didn’t criminalize same-sex conduct. And I think it’s because of my advice 13 years ago. I discouraged them doing that. I discouraged them having a callout any homosexual activity under penalty of law. So, no. I think I’ve had some impact there.”</span></i> Walberg wasn’t even in Congress 13 years ago. His denials were an insult to the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni who’s been in office for 38 years, and Walberg said, <span style="color: #1f4e79;">“I have a close personal relationship with”</span><span style="color: black;">. Museveni thanked </span>Walberg at the 2023 prayer breakfast, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">“I want to thank the Congressman from Michigan because you have seen... the ones who come to tell you about homosexuals... there are other Americans, other Western people who think like us.”</span></i>. If Walberg had any sort of consistent values then he would want us to believe his ‘<i>close personal</i>’ dictator friend was lying about him too. <o:p></o:p></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">No evidence supports that Walberg has so much political influence in the national legislative chambers of Uganda that he could simply, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“discourage them”</span></i> and cause, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“some impact</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">” </span>upon their laws. It also contradicts Walberg’s own earlier denials to my questions about his two-week trip to Uganda from July 2021. In a radio call-in, Walberg described meeting with the Ugandan President, Attorney General, Secretary of Education, and <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“a number of parliamentarians”</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>and that 2021 trip was, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“a good opportunity during that two-week period to meet with some of those as well and do some – do some political work.”</span></i> When I asked Walberg to describe that ‘political work’, he denied his own earlier words, <span style="color: #1f4e79;">“<i>Um, I misstated in the statement I made, I think on the radio. Um, political work wasn’t what I did. I talked politics. I met with the President, and I’d like to not mention the country’s name.”</i></span> So, Walberg would prefer for constituents to believe that 28.5 years into his lawmaking career he confused himself over the meaning of ‘<i>political work</i>’, rather than clarify the nature of his meetings with [<i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">not mention the country’s name</span></i>]’s highest political leaders. I have previously reported on Walberg using his position in public office to broker meetings with powerful people to benefit his family’s Ugandan tourism business. Additional records from a 2015 trip now show that while Walberg was skipping multiple House committee hearings and roll call votes, he met with President Museveni, the Speaker of Parliament, and students at a tourism institute to promote <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“a gold mine”</span></i> of Ugandan tourism. Tim Walberg’s <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“political work”</span></i> is to selfishly exploit whatever limited influence he has from our Congressional office to stuff his own pockets for as long as he can.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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Hodges decision. The same day Walberg declared in a press release that he would continue to <i>“debate” </i>against human rights: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“The debate and decision over this issue should be left to individual states and the millions of Americans who democratically addressed the definition of marriage at the ballot box, not nine unelected Justices. Religious liberty is a central protection of the First Amendment, and <b>as we move forward in this debate</b>, government should not force citizens to be in a position to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Four days later, on June 30 Walberg went overseas to The Ukrainian Prayer Breakfast and never posted anything about it to constituents in Michigan. From August to September, Walberg secretly spent three weeks in Uganda. Walberg skipped two hearings on August 25 and August 27 of the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, and skipped a House vote on September 8. Since participating in a photo-op with some farmers in Morenci on August 19, Walberg did not appear at any other public events in the US until he showed up late to DC for a Roll Call vote on September 10. Earlier that day, Walberg was absent from a House roll call vote and from a hearing without any public explanation. During those absences, it was only Ugandan news coverage that showed Walberg attending several meetings and events to promote Ugandan tourism while skipping his Congressional duties.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">In 2017, Walberg described at a town hall on May 26, that he had been in Uganda, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“a few weeks back”</span></i> and paid, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“38 bucks... cash”</span></i> to have a dental crown glued back on. Other than that verbal account, I have not found any other public information about that trip.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">On October 17, 2018, Walberg’s Son-in-Law signed the State of Michigan’s Articles of Organization for the Ugandan tourism business, “Red Road Tours, LLC” based out of Tim Walberg’s home address in Michigan. His spouse, Sue Walberg was identified as the resident agent. On April 22, 2020 I wrote a report about Tim Walberg brokering a lot of meetings with campaign donors, Ugandan officials, and local colleges for the benefit of his family business. After that, Walberg became even more secretive about his dealings in Uganda. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: repeat black; color: #fcdb02;">2021:</span></b> Approx. July 2 to July 18 (<i>Walberg: “Two Weeks”</i>)<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvn4hIseYeVIZPfOw6PL1f8o71BrgOLtlkTAr_Vj7W4veHJcI3ZeAeCgYw0fQkzfVUZJ2eIK4lGVSscuvhCAuy6hxizf45n60uFJpgIRi3Cf8EsRYQY-QyxEZN_sAet7uIaS7qiUOBC0zwQuqMXk4GZCfgzXOA0U2dyG24Gss1gp7a6alWcAc3tp_HHWSh/s3300/3%20-%202021%20CALENDAR%20Markup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvn4hIseYeVIZPfOw6PL1f8o71BrgOLtlkTAr_Vj7W4veHJcI3ZeAeCgYw0fQkzfVUZJ2eIK4lGVSscuvhCAuy6hxizf45n60uFJpgIRi3Cf8EsRYQY-QyxEZN_sAet7uIaS7qiUOBC0zwQuqMXk4GZCfgzXOA0U2dyG24Gss1gp7a6alWcAc3tp_HHWSh/w400-h309/3%20-%202021%20CALENDAR%20Markup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg said purpose of private trip was to visit family and, “do some political work”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">In 2021, Walberg was conspicuously absent from the usual 4th of July events around the District. Whenever Walberg went on international trips personally or organized by The Fellowship Foundation, his office continued to post photo-ops of past events from around the district, as if Walberg was still around. Even after the fact, Walberg’s office avoided posting anything about his overseas trips. I decided to tune into the livestream Committee Hearing on July 15 when Walberg’s Republican colleague, Virginia Foxx announced that Walberg was calling in from Uganda. Walberg later told me, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“Virginia Foxx did that, and I’m disappointed she did it”</span>.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: repeat rgb(252, 219, 2);">2023:</span></b> October 4 to October 10 (<i>Source: House Ethics Disclosure</i>)<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYPCBeCg0ww4axInerc1t9WeyWRwIBtlFB1vWvAUDgwVAOoBQEiRCGOrvDvhoDwHs82wqUE6LopcPW_9WbuqVMxuuEJrfLkhA-PxW3rz5sKO9P8wXWvu2Utw7KhfaxXW-RKHp7XQImyGOn2Z4FQdO7KU_PAXHmbJ-71WIa7Tjw_MDq4NrY6ycg1mL66jz/s3300/4%20-%202023%20Calendar%20Markup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYPCBeCg0ww4axInerc1t9WeyWRwIBtlFB1vWvAUDgwVAOoBQEiRCGOrvDvhoDwHs82wqUE6LopcPW_9WbuqVMxuuEJrfLkhA-PxW3rz5sKO9P8wXWvu2Utw7KhfaxXW-RKHp7XQImyGOn2Z4FQdO7KU_PAXHmbJ-71WIa7Tjw_MDq4NrY6ycg1mL66jz/w400-h309/4%20-%202023%20Calendar%20Markup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Purpose of “gift travel” was to meet with Ugandan Officials and speak at Prayer Breakfast<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">In 2023, Walberg continued to flee from his responsibilities in US Congress for another secret overseas rendezvous. Walberg left for that trip the day after his party’s colleagues ousted their own Speaker of the House, without a prospective replacement. And they didn’t appoint a new speaker until two-weeks after Walberg returned. Per usual, Walberg’s office never posted anything about the trip.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Timeline note: This accounting of Walberg’s trips to Uganda is decidedly limited to only publicly available sources.</span></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background: repeat black; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background1;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #fcdb02;">REPORT:</span><span style="color: white;"> Walberg’s “political work” in Uganda</span><span style="color: #fbdb03;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“Now, this will probably get back to the national media in the United States, and I expect some pushback, but I’m not gonna give in to them.”</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>– Walberg, October 8, 2023<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrDmDbXPQf_GpGxYmfTRNWiB8iWuXiWrGzUezlc85QgZ0r1yYBD-rvNk37A0bX8yR3AYLGwmYkggdzwM0pwGiOrxJmfo-_8jasEext_B7ytoI4RJPAFAp4LsfaMkIVZhqoQ2f4yTWfs28awP4JpoqteihIPg1xT2E4FaGi3Xp_yc5AaOrz2Xs1MUBoAh2/s4032/5%20-%202024-01-04%20Detroit%20News.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2381" data-original-width="4032" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrDmDbXPQf_GpGxYmfTRNWiB8iWuXiWrGzUezlc85QgZ0r1yYBD-rvNk37A0bX8yR3AYLGwmYkggdzwM0pwGiOrxJmfo-_8jasEext_B7ytoI4RJPAFAp4LsfaMkIVZhqoQ2f4yTWfs28awP4JpoqteihIPg1xT2E4FaGi3Xp_yc5AaOrz2Xs1MUBoAh2/w400-h236/5%20-%202024-01-04%20Detroit%20News.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>The Detroit News named my blog for having “first reported” on Walberg’s Uganda speech<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">The wave of commentary and news coverage about Tim Walberg’s 2023 speech in Uganda contained almost no response directly from Walberg. His 2020 Campaign Manager, and current government Communications Director, Michael Rorke, sent the following two comments to different news outlets:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><table align="left" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; margin-left: 6.75pt; margin-right: 6.75pt;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Michael Rorke’s Comment <o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">to <i>WLNS-6</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>January 1, 2024<o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style="border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Michael Rorke’s Comment <o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">to <i>The Detroit News</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>January 3, 2024<o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal">“<span style="background: repeat rgb(251, 228, 213);">Despite inaccurate reports circulating</span>, <span style="background: repeat rgb(217, 226, 243);">the transcript clearly shows that</span> <span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217);">Congressman Walberg never endorsed any</span> <span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217);">legislation or law</span> while in Uganda. He did call out the World Bank for repeatedly holding <span style="background: repeat rgb(255, 229, 153);">Uganda, a Christian nation</span>, to a different standard than much of the rest of the world. There is an undeniable double standard where <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">other nations, like <span style="background: repeat rgb(237, 237, 237);">Afghanistan, receive uncriticized support from the World Bank</span>.” <o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="background: repeat rgb(251, 228, 213);">Despite inaccurate reports circulating</span> <i>in other outlets</i>, <span style="background: repeat rgb(217, 226, 243);">the transcript clearly shows that</span> <span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217);">Congressman Walberg never endorsed any</span> <i>Ugandan</i> <span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217);">legislation or law</span>, and <span style="background: repeat rgb(255, 213, 254);">he does not support the criminalization of homosexuality</span>,"<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">Analysis of Michael Rorke’s Comments:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“<span style="background: repeat rgb(251, 228, 213); color: black;">Despite inaccurate reports circulating</span>”: Walberg’s office has no basis to criticize any reports, because they failed to circulate anything to inform constituents even of the existence of that trip. Rorke also refused to ‘<i>entertain</i>’ the following requests for clarity from WLNS-6: <span style="color: #c45911;">“<i>If Congressman Walberg was not encouraging Uganda to stand firm on the Anti- Homosexuality Act, what was he encouraging the leaders to stand firm against?</i>”</span> and, <span style="color: #c45911;">“<i>In his speech, the Congressman says folks need not “necessarily” be on the side of the United States. What other issues can countries ignore U.S. diplomatic policy?</i>”</span> To which Rorke replied, <i><span style="color: #538135;">“We will not entertain hypotheticals... The body Congressman Walberg actually serves in is currently considering over 8,000 bills, and that leaves plenty of policy to discuss without venturing into the realm of what-ifs and hypotheticals.”</span></i> Requests for clarity on things Walberg told other world leaders in public, are not <i>‘what-ifs and hypotheticals’</i>. We also know that Walberg does not prioritize passing bills, because he flew out to Uganda the day after his GOP colleagues ousted the Speaker of the House without a prospective replacement. In his own speech, Walberg repeatedly said that his responsibilities in Congress are not his top priority, <span style="color: #1f4e79;">“<i>we’re, first: Christ-followers; and second: politicians</i>”</span> For years, Walberg has told international leaders that his elected duties are low among his priorities (exhibit below).<o:p></o:p></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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So, <i>‘the’</i> authoritative transcript that he cited must be the one that I, the transcriptionist created here. I haven’t found another transcript anywhere.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“<span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217); color: black;">Congressman Walberg never endorsed any</span> [...] <span style="background: repeat rgb(226, 239, 217); color: black;">legislation or law</span>”: So? Walberg did not dis-endorse any legislation either. Although he did say the World Bank, WHO, UN, and <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“our administration in America”</span></i>were all <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“worthless”</span></i>, which is a big dis-endorsement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“<span style="background: repeat rgb(255, 229, 153); color: black;">Uganda, a Christian nation</span>”: False. Uganda has never been a Christian nation. While Christian denominations are collectively predominant, Walberg ignored the Muslim member of Parliament, Hajji Mutumba Abdul who recited passages from the Quran to the Prayer Breakfast crowd. Walberg also ignored his ‘<i><span style="color: black;">close personal</span></i><span style="color: black;">’ friend, </span>President Museveni’s speech about the value of ecumenical religious diversity in Uganda, how he got along well with Muslims in his old military troop, and with Hindu citizens during a recent meeting. Another Muslim Parliament member, Asuman Basalirwa authored Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. Lots of people in Uganda still practice older traditional religions from before British colonization. Walberg also ignores that the United States, per the Constitution has never been a Christian nation either.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“<span style="background: repeat rgb(237, 237, 237); color: black;">Afghanistan, receive uncriticized support from the World Bank</span>”: False for two reasons: 1) Walberg’s speech never mentioned Afghanistan, and his spew about the World Bank wasn’t about their standards for different countries. 2) Five days before Walberg’s speech, Melinda Good, the World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan issued a press release criticizing their oppressive gender policies, <i><span style="color: #833c0b;">“To recover, the country needs to prioritize spending on human capital, basic services and climate resilience and address harmful gender policies.”... “Almost no girls and less than half of the country’s boys are getting a secondary education.”</span></i> I’m not here to defend The World Bank or terms like ‘<i>human capital</i>’, but the fact is they do criticize Afghanistan often.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“<span style="background: repeat rgb(255, 213, 254); color: black;">he does not support the criminalization of homosexuality</span>”: Nuh-uh. Firstly, to ‘<i>not support</i>’ is a weak, passive position. It takes effort to ‘oppose’ something, such as Walberg’s effort to earn perfect zero ratings for the past three consecutive terms in the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecards. Secondly, Walberg never expressed any such humane sentiment. Fully the opposite, Walberg told dehumanizing anti-trans jokes, gushed that Ugandan politicians were on the right side of God, and to not give in to global pushback. For which, Walberg was thanked by the Ugandan President for proving there are Americans, <i><span style="color: #538135;">“who think like us”</span></i> about homosexuals. Finally, on the same day Rorke sent those remarks to The Detroit News, Walberg called-in to WSJM’s morning radio show and claimed that Uganda<i>, <span style="color: #1f4e79;">“didn’t criminalize same-sex conduct. And I think it’s because of my advice 13 years ago. I discouraged them doing that.”</span></i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span><span style="color: black;">– Upon hearing my US Congress member say something that deranged, I started to work on this report.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">Walberg Denied The Existence of Laws Against Homosexuality in Uganda<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Link to WSJM video (54:10 mark) – or see transcript of exchange in Appendix: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2um-7iQ9oRk" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2um-7iQ9oRk</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The following video call-in to the WSJM morning radio show is the only public record I have found of Walberg directly responding to his 2023 speech in Uganda.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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I discouraged them doing that” <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">Analysis of Walberg’s Deranged Radio Call-In:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>So much for, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“had the guts to ask...”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;">: It was </span>a public disservice that those hosts neglected to follow-up on any of Walberg’s obvious lies, even with a gentle remark, like: <i>“Pardon, did I hear you say Uganda DIDN’T criminalize same-sex conduct?”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Walberg wasn’t even in Congress <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“13 years ago”</span></i></b>: Two Anti-Homosexuality Acts have been signed into law in the past 13 years, in 2014 and 2023, so which one does Walberg want us to believe he discouraged Uganda from? Ugandan courts overturned the 2014 law that same year based on a quorum technicality. The 2023 law is even more severely oppressive. Even with generous wiggle room on the timeline, Walberg’s lie is still implausible. Walberg lost his campaign in 2008 and was out of office by the time David Bahati first introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2009. Bahati’s connection to the Fellowship Foundation caused a lot of upheaval at the 2010 US National Prayer Breakfast, but Walberg was away from all that trying to get re-elected. Walberg won in 2010, but Congress still didn’t start their next session until January 5, 2011. Ugandan Parliament adjourned in May 2011 without any changes to the Anti-Homosexuality Act, and then that bill wasn’t reintroduced again in Parliament until 2012. So, it’s impossible to even tell what Walberg was trying to lie about with that <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“13 years ago”</span></i> thing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Walberg lied that, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“no one spoke to any law”</span></i> at the Prayer Breakfast:</b> Three of the leaders that Walberg flattered by name in his speech: Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal, Janet Museveni, and Yoweri Museveni all supported the Anti-Homosexuality Law explicitly in their own speeches (exhibits & analysis below):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Analysis of Ogwal’s speech:</b> Walberg has known Ogwal for about as long as he’s known David Bahati, since about 2007, and in his absurdly flattering estimation she, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“comes in second”</span></i> to God. Ogwal’s speech was violent, dehumanizing, and abhorrent. What sort of person could then casually walk up and pay Ogwal an, ‘<i>aw shucks</i>’ hat tip after listening to that?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5SqXAOqvVw3rTTrzkooS25DUulLcHZgCD5Lu1qWqtxw2_4I5bLlWaMA6HaeDTO70DJwIhGIjakh29wHV_MPF19UFsdEZrSZVOv4xl9ncQZBgfnEny9svADxW5TTJRcp9NWhWfE8PrSLV54yn3-jycxoRHP7bMZEAGPCj8aG-kIkcHH3zZTUx1qL5TxyG/s5100/12%20-%20First%20Lady.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5SqXAOqvVw3rTTrzkooS25DUulLcHZgCD5Lu1qWqtxw2_4I5bLlWaMA6HaeDTO70DJwIhGIjakh29wHV_MPF19UFsdEZrSZVOv4xl9ncQZBgfnEny9svADxW5TTJRcp9NWhWfE8PrSLV54yn3-jycxoRHP7bMZEAGPCj8aG-kIkcHH3zZTUx1qL5TxyG/w400-h259/12%20-%20First%20Lady.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Analysis of Janet Museveni’s speech:</b> Walberg had his head bowed and eyes closed in prayer during the First Lady’s speech, and still lied about what was said to all of us afterward.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9RPHkBOEY4fE5nEDUeZUTeFc_FkQzSKxFdxBPQYJMNen-3mK2NLrX-QTheyxUbtn4MG6jxfttTV_cA258n_G821UirSyG4GDCkASNMcrc7wwWNO5BA9bQIhYqnsxCuHm_hWYzktYfENE84nmxUa1R1WN4RlYV9NJxr6vXxNkgUoHfJ8-ACmqNMBE9ioZ/s5100/13%20-%20President.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9RPHkBOEY4fE5nEDUeZUTeFc_FkQzSKxFdxBPQYJMNen-3mK2NLrX-QTheyxUbtn4MG6jxfttTV_cA258n_G821UirSyG4GDCkASNMcrc7wwWNO5BA9bQIhYqnsxCuHm_hWYzktYfENE84nmxUa1R1WN4RlYV9NJxr6vXxNkgUoHfJ8-ACmqNMBE9ioZ/w400-h259/13%20-%20President.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Analysis of Yoweri Museveni’s speech:</b> More than anything, this fully voids Walberg’s denials about supporting Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Laws. To have the President of Uganda publicly thank Walberg from the national stage as an American, <i><span style="color: #806000;">“who think like us” “about homosexuals”</span></i><span style="color: #806000;">. </span>How else can Walberg explain that the dictator to whom he described, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“I have a close personal relationship with”</span></i>would say that about him, if it wasn’t true? Furthermore, according to the Itinerary attached to House travel disclosure, Walberg and Museveni had an hour-long one-on-one meeting on October 7<sup>th</sup>, the evening before the Prayer Breakfast. So, Museveni and Walberg fully understood one another. Museveni wasn’t just tossing out some random assumption, or suddenly decided to lie about Walberg in the middle of his speech. Walberg never expressed any surprise or objection to what Museveni said about him either.<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: black;">Walberg has never </span><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“discouraged them having a callout any homosexual activity under penalty of law”</span></i><span style="color: black;"> in America:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> So, why would Uganda be any different? Walberg’s entire career has been trying to use the law as a weapon to oppress LGBTQ people. There was a chillingly revealing moment from a local Republican primary debate in 2010, during rapid fire questioning where in the span of seconds <b>Walberg declared that he was: anti-same-sex marriage, pro-life, and pro-death penalty</b> (video source in appendix). Does Walberg think those set of values are inconsistent with Uganda’s “kill the gays law”? As a candidate </span>in 2004, Walberg testified at a committee hearing in Lansing to support a state constitutional amendment to outlaw the <span style="color: #1f4e79;">‘<i>homosexual-activity</i>’</span> of marriage. Around the same time, Walberg signed, “The Marriage Protection Pledge” by the hate group, Family Research Council (<i>per SPLC</i>). It included the commitment to also outlaw any legal benefit or status to any couples regardless of sex from entering into a, <i><span style="color: #833c0b;">“civil union, domestic partnership, or other similar relationship”</span></i> to narrow everyone’s relationships into Walberg’s fascistic little worldview. Yet, that pledge stayed deferential to states to decide how much incest or age restrictions would be included in their <i><span style="color: #833c0b;">“inviolable definition of marriage”</span></i> (exhibits below):</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlG5ClZfWB4dCXGvajeA8n4VNENMZjcSIdZx0EjOiHOkCd9Rt92TY1V4OlQ7TtMtg0W1lBkOFbRCP3LDy55H7Sg6BQlBqwQImO_9zzLZQ84HNPhneC6fY3BYXXXr-j9mR6b16E65yCbK2eppNb3uTktBsnWcmQ50iZlhQb6m6_rruQu_8e3sIVWE-ScZ6o/s4860/14%20-%20Age%20of%20Monicagate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4860" data-original-width="4400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlG5ClZfWB4dCXGvajeA8n4VNENMZjcSIdZx0EjOiHOkCd9Rt92TY1V4OlQ7TtMtg0W1lBkOFbRCP3LDy55H7Sg6BQlBqwQImO_9zzLZQ84HNPhneC6fY3BYXXXr-j9mR6b16E65yCbK2eppNb3uTktBsnWcmQ50iZlhQb6m6_rruQu_8e3sIVWE-ScZ6o/w363-h400/14%20-%20Age%20of%20Monicagate.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>How many voters feel like they need Congress to defend them against Janet Jackson<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbbdzd9gFeUrFjsKB-nMSEucNLEPei8WkolXKBXw4q2TQrIDiDmjEtmsjS-VUJPpThz4iDzH8cXMa05Ze-w_J5MkoBji-qIsZIEjm4TRqVck9zuyBvo06JVHhGaNDDMRnoiVS1AczWpIQL1vQ8AOpnlY7NW28kC5hR6kyiqvugRpj_4eS9c6ZGNNnSwRM/s1920/15%20-%20FRC%20Marriage%20Pledge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1599" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbbdzd9gFeUrFjsKB-nMSEucNLEPei8WkolXKBXw4q2TQrIDiDmjEtmsjS-VUJPpThz4iDzH8cXMa05Ze-w_J5MkoBji-qIsZIEjm4TRqVck9zuyBvo06JVHhGaNDDMRnoiVS1AczWpIQL1vQ8AOpnlY7NW28kC5hR6kyiqvugRpj_4eS9c6ZGNNnSwRM/w334-h400/15%20-%20FRC%20Marriage%20Pledge.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Tim Walberg pledged to outlaw all civil unions and domestic partnerships in the world<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">“On the issue of tourism, Walberg said Uganda is sitting on a gold mine”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Walberg does not carry so much political sway that, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“because of my advice... I’ve had some impact”</span></i> to influence lawmaking in other legislative chambers on other continents. There are a lot of remaining questions to explore though about Walberg’s secret trips and meetings with political leaders around the world, and why he never posts anything about those activities for the public.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">On July 15, 2021, Walberg called in via video to a House Committee Hearing from Uganda:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9enrIOxBgU2vYAYgrbdPfBdQpfyNVS7VXtyLPgGqXvVb21KpIkKLCq-1IBTnovmDbsyEP_bL_HP5TNtxJhAgP-qdpAoW9qnaD4TVkNjz8KIIJSOZEvbJxJIhGjmBJJRxq1b3jeaCZD7k2gn5L2w_eBsmMC1jsn5V8r6Nw90giHu7K32ogTDSiRSEHlsd/s5100/16%20-%202021%20Virtual%20Hearing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3039" data-original-width="5100" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9enrIOxBgU2vYAYgrbdPfBdQpfyNVS7VXtyLPgGqXvVb21KpIkKLCq-1IBTnovmDbsyEP_bL_HP5TNtxJhAgP-qdpAoW9qnaD4TVkNjz8KIIJSOZEvbJxJIhGjmBJJRxq1b3jeaCZD7k2gn5L2w_eBsmMC1jsn5V8r6Nw90giHu7K32ogTDSiRSEHlsd/w400-h239/16%20-%202021%20Virtual%20Hearing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg [four weeks after this]: “Virginia Foxx did that, and I’m disappointed she did it,”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">When Walberg returned, he called into a WKHM radio show and said that he had met with several of the highest political leaders in Uganda, which was, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“a good opportunity during that two week period to meet with some of those as well, and do some – do some political work.”</span></i>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkQpo6G-hRXn9lDGSoC_xr6gwrmIIz3zMX2kbZ3AJM5GXox_LNT2hOll4P5uwPkvkZXfgTBGoAQgfS1gOYC9-4QYKXKarLeMb2WOFQs1DyY6M4iiL1m43U9v7sYn24pz54pgNnut9SN8_hxkyMWKeEGiYXcu8_SMSpk43eSGzkmAFy0IKDHcTfvVVRV75/s5100/17%20-%20Walberg%202021%20Uganda%20Political%20Work.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkQpo6G-hRXn9lDGSoC_xr6gwrmIIz3zMX2kbZ3AJM5GXox_LNT2hOll4P5uwPkvkZXfgTBGoAQgfS1gOYC9-4QYKXKarLeMb2WOFQs1DyY6M4iiL1m43U9v7sYn24pz54pgNnut9SN8_hxkyMWKeEGiYXcu8_SMSpk43eSGzkmAFy0IKDHcTfvVVRV75/w400-h259/17%20-%20Walberg%202021%20Uganda%20Political%20Work.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg said two-week Uganda trip was, “a good opportunity” to, “do some political work”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Two and a half weeks after that radio call-in, I learned from a 3rd-hand source about one of Walberg’s invitation-only town halls organized near my house in Monroe County. While the event was fully organized with public resources, it was never announced publicly beforehand. Instead, Walberg’s office used government resources to pay Republican campaign vendors, Jamestown Associates and Advantage Inc to only mail invitations and robocalls to likely Republican supporters.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Inside the venue, Walberg displayed signs behind himself saying, “A COUNTRY IN CRISIS” and “TAXATION IS INFLATION”. He opened with a ten-minute rant comparing January 6<sup>th</sup> to <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“BLM riots”</span></i>. An attendee wearing medical scrubs expressed fear to Walberg that vaccine mandates would cause a, <i><span style="color: #833c0b;">“civil war within five years”</span></i>because, <i><span style="color: #833c0b;">“we’re being Socialistically told that we’re gonna lose our jobs if we don’t get it!”</span></i> More questions ranged from, <i><span style="color: #385623;">“illegals”</span></i> to, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">“the Marxist takeover”</span></i>. Near the end of the event, Walberg advised, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“we’re gonna have to <b>fight</b> for it. And yes, the word is <b>fight</b>. The word truly is <b>fight</b>. And we can’t get locked up in individual concerns at the expense of doing <b>the larger good of pulling back control from the Federal Government</b>.”</span></i> I asked for clarification, <i><span style="color: #806000;">“What do you mean by fight?”</span></i> Which provoked heckling towards me from other attendees to, <i><span style="color: #385623;">“Shut up.”</span></i> Instead of clarifying, Walberg replied, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“Go to the dictionary, Steven.”</span></i> So, that establishes context for the following scene in which I asked Walberg about his ‘political work’ in Uganda (<i>See Appendix for link to raw video and transcript of these exchanges</i>):</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHWKmQLYit1UMCAaxS675NqU7MwPZBBxUwgk9zzSKl_rfQ30uKnZz-s81E7VmQRm02d-tWhaPrYGb2GB97RKnRgEJkV21aa3Bnv9wCso54-DCRf6BBNKfe8yY0epHoLZ9aBvCUvIghknM7LKA6ErnKKUTES-MxsKFFKrNsImoE55PrCvl26Yq4ON8fJxa/s2880/18%20-%20Misstated%20Political%20Work.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2880" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHWKmQLYit1UMCAaxS675NqU7MwPZBBxUwgk9zzSKl_rfQ30uKnZz-s81E7VmQRm02d-tWhaPrYGb2GB97RKnRgEJkV21aa3Bnv9wCso54-DCRf6BBNKfe8yY0epHoLZ9aBvCUvIghknM7LKA6ErnKKUTES-MxsKFFKrNsImoE55PrCvl26Yq4ON8fJxa/w400-h238/18%20-%20Misstated%20Political%20Work.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg denied his own earlier statement of having done “political work” in Uganda<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6tBEbGDlLKu2YCSKRwNrT720CEsegnfOLYTMW0EJo_1y6AcpQHayGCbbNznZ9EMX3oMiA8rE-DroOlSa-drjS5UzHJI6hYVbxqETxGrY0Wjw0McF4fDHDFbK_AU8h5oPFuQ1S4U4nqBwy2AvzJTrgloGpKXjKg9pWOwN1_Mi-hG5X6V6x2duj30E30vN/s2880/19%20-%20Disappointed%20with%20Virginia%20Foxx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2880" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6tBEbGDlLKu2YCSKRwNrT720CEsegnfOLYTMW0EJo_1y6AcpQHayGCbbNznZ9EMX3oMiA8rE-DroOlSa-drjS5UzHJI6hYVbxqETxGrY0Wjw0McF4fDHDFbK_AU8h5oPFuQ1S4U4nqBwy2AvzJTrgloGpKXjKg9pWOwN1_Mi-hG5X6V6x2duj30E30vN/w400-h238/19%20-%20Disappointed%20with%20Virginia%20Foxx.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg was “disappointed” his Republican colleague, Foxx announced he was in Uganda<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhSxmI8EcCdq1jE5LuTyAKrfBeuvAdPfQAGt5PVBLqruKXWYmdT0Hyl2pRW-dVfaEVWRqqmP-cPzja05R5weS5gOVDx2QgZsIaWalv74fSkdgb4AGMhNzCHdweKztGR1IglQ0ZfKwxSzSssxPalaAzStguVqHA3MJ0llIV6lDeHu2V81u6WYWjzJfomu7/s2880/20%20-%20Go%20So%20Far.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2880" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhSxmI8EcCdq1jE5LuTyAKrfBeuvAdPfQAGt5PVBLqruKXWYmdT0Hyl2pRW-dVfaEVWRqqmP-cPzja05R5weS5gOVDx2QgZsIaWalv74fSkdgb4AGMhNzCHdweKztGR1IglQ0ZfKwxSzSssxPalaAzStguVqHA3MJ0llIV6lDeHu2V81u6WYWjzJfomu7/w400-h238/20%20-%20Go%20So%20Far.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg suggested when Michiganders say, “Uganda” it would provoke terrorism<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4JqhASC0AG9QTOHmpEyxAp-kKOKX_ZPbUgKN9rjpuThvXIMkNQpyAxecB-HkhcZAHstggArwMwR7FSC6qEFGmjwjzW6L1mKvtg1cAPOwcTRifZLT4qG4jksQkNdvcLhZnGT2c7tKNKS6s_i5wLZDugL88sRjMP5jIjzCMzFK1v3jE9eWgqX2ZPgqlSbS8/s2880/21%20-%20Just%20a%20Trip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2880" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4JqhASC0AG9QTOHmpEyxAp-kKOKX_ZPbUgKN9rjpuThvXIMkNQpyAxecB-HkhcZAHstggArwMwR7FSC6qEFGmjwjzW6L1mKvtg1cAPOwcTRifZLT4qG4jksQkNdvcLhZnGT2c7tKNKS6s_i5wLZDugL88sRjMP5jIjzCMzFK1v3jE9eWgqX2ZPgqlSbS8/w400-h238/21%20-%20Just%20a%20Trip.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg scolded me when I said I wasn’t interested in hearing about his family<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinPrimckhQ7ujjrGmfeB6d8sROWVH7lKMQgaGCdp7WpJ5IbDVmu-N_J-aJzE1PIGDUK8A0XqEO1z1k2bjvRcHyAHtOg2JHncnj0_NE1vDC-p2OcPNYXI0oxX2jvgPIWl_B8l1nrfa2T9lU1xzEjrwiDtXpuFK5lK0P6Pa82nRP5tgNT-1w2dgoSD5XSrbP/s2880/22%20-%20Uuuhmm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2880" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinPrimckhQ7ujjrGmfeB6d8sROWVH7lKMQgaGCdp7WpJ5IbDVmu-N_J-aJzE1PIGDUK8A0XqEO1z1k2bjvRcHyAHtOg2JHncnj0_NE1vDC-p2OcPNYXI0oxX2jvgPIWl_B8l1nrfa2T9lU1xzEjrwiDtXpuFK5lK0P6Pa82nRP5tgNT-1w2dgoSD5XSrbP/w400-h238/22%20-%20Uuuhmm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg struggled to deny having talked about tourism business while in Uganda<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“political work”</span></i> was Walberg’s own term - I wasn’t trying to trip him up. In that moment, Walberg had been a politician for 28.5 years, starting back in 1983. I think Walberg decided in that moment that it would have been worse for him to clarify the nature of his meetings with Uganda’s highest political leaders, than it was for him to deflect by telling his political electorate that he confused himself over the meaning of ‘<i>political work</i>’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">If it’s not already clear enough, my research and writing has only ever been about things my political representatives have said and done on the public record. Contrary to Walberg’s accusation that: <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“terrorists in Africa that could find out, <b>just like you</b> - find out where my family lives”</span></i> – I do not know, and I do not want to know where Walberg’s family lives. They deserve respect for their right to privacy and security. The public record though undermines Walberg’s accusation in his own words over the span of a decade from national public stages, on video, where he has routinely blabbed the name of where his family presumably lives (exhibit below):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_ex07sHa8OLvN5Eqc1cPZh3SqnTgGR6495twoHDaTr0zJeo7DD3kyrzksPVniIgHP6anMOnf9PZrj0Xb_xblBHlJvkRakTDvT4aYrphDswOmMir2T7NlX-qYvZOTKIx0gobhXqQPYFOPX5cFB5wYJj8_jdxUwzI76Gl6ofSM848IkVQez0fGosQJzM1k/s5100/23%20-%20Blabbing%20for%20a%20Decade.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="5100" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_ex07sHa8OLvN5Eqc1cPZh3SqnTgGR6495twoHDaTr0zJeo7DD3kyrzksPVniIgHP6anMOnf9PZrj0Xb_xblBHlJvkRakTDvT4aYrphDswOmMir2T7NlX-qYvZOTKIx0gobhXqQPYFOPX5cFB5wYJj8_jdxUwzI76Gl6ofSM848IkVQez0fGosQJzM1k/w400-h208/23%20-%20Blabbing%20for%20a%20Decade.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Samples of a decade of Walberg telling the public on video where his family lives in Uganda<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">The tourism website that I cited in my questions to Walberg was The Tourism Institute of East Africa, which still to this day predominantly features photos and articles of Walberg from a 2015 event to hand out certificates to students, and to deliver a key note address advising the students to, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“venture into private enterprise... develop better and more hospitable tour agencies... approach unique cultural leaders and <b>sell to them the idea of cultural tourism</b>”</span></i>. Then Walberg was gifted a framed, “Certificate of Appreciation” from the director of the institute. These were clearly planned engagements.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Walberg presented himself at those events in his full Congressional capacity: House member pin on his lapel the whole time, being addressed as “US Congressman”, “US envoy”, in conjunction with our District in Michigan that he was ostensibly representing. However, during that Ugandan trip, Walberg skipped three House Committee Hearings, two House Roll Call Votes, never posted anything about the trip to any House Committees, the House Ethics Committee, or to any of us constituents in Michigan (exhibits below):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzt9Fkk_47asZSTLl0_FtIw-QMWOqtRNvvsSnnYGJbXhNvb2sW_WwDLh-VBFKsEBXgFlARMRWjHBL2ZOO9MB1TzIzsPWXPVHKHorL2WSqw-zfuQDMSShokI68iocWS8Kvd2iKn-QhX-vZxV4UKovJWFvBGWs9I0YbR78174HHs27BoR1ff4ZzTQ8gyk3M/s3234/24%20-%20Tourism%20Institute%20of%20East%20Africa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3234" data-original-width="2882" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzt9Fkk_47asZSTLl0_FtIw-QMWOqtRNvvsSnnYGJbXhNvb2sW_WwDLh-VBFKsEBXgFlARMRWjHBL2ZOO9MB1TzIzsPWXPVHKHorL2WSqw-zfuQDMSShokI68iocWS8Kvd2iKn-QhX-vZxV4UKovJWFvBGWs9I0YbR78174HHs27BoR1ff4ZzTQ8gyk3M/w356-h400/24%20-%20Tourism%20Institute%20of%20East%20Africa.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>2024 Tourism Institute of East Africa front page still prominently features Walberg’s 2015 visit<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCuUYPmiO_ZZ3SG4jXwiWOiGkxy54wySnsQA1Jb5Pzyp-YQObD_djwpzDfoG3Ve4_bSZ3H9Ta4iGUQ4reZAeI2nxtptV7CHSGHx4LV4fv-tn-1FWE0pinvFm8gxsLK5zmTNqeShIlbyV3A5ycyW2KR7Ru6P8hBlmDm6W8247Ejsfg5X5hyphenhyphen5We6Ee28CDi/s2083/25%20-%20Certificate%20of%20Appreciation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2083" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCuUYPmiO_ZZ3SG4jXwiWOiGkxy54wySnsQA1Jb5Pzyp-YQObD_djwpzDfoG3Ve4_bSZ3H9Ta4iGUQ4reZAeI2nxtptV7CHSGHx4LV4fv-tn-1FWE0pinvFm8gxsLK5zmTNqeShIlbyV3A5ycyW2KR7Ru6P8hBlmDm6W8247Ejsfg5X5hyphenhyphen5We6Ee28CDi/w400-h266/25%20-%20Certificate%20of%20Appreciation.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Skipping House duties Walberg was gifted “Certificate of Appreciation” from Tourism Institute<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4d7w0hh0_Sx1tdQgKRnm9qtbH03YwxguGDgua9n-9fKojA50MHjn9wEhFikKIAGgR1ZcB2gwo7vfg3BCY87yfUdPVkv_T2zCp2EByqBlMQq1jr3Y77JK-3em187F4AKktJ7ixohwFzDphHGepGtGvAccJUW_HitLTKzwm2rfFkYRHMa17_dwVU9MlIFF8/s1936/26%20-%20Uganda%20Tourism%20Article%202015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="1936" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4d7w0hh0_Sx1tdQgKRnm9qtbH03YwxguGDgua9n-9fKojA50MHjn9wEhFikKIAGgR1ZcB2gwo7vfg3BCY87yfUdPVkv_T2zCp2EByqBlMQq1jr3Y77JK-3em187F4AKktJ7ixohwFzDphHGepGtGvAccJUW_HitLTKzwm2rfFkYRHMa17_dwVU9MlIFF8/w400-h285/26%20-%20Uganda%20Tourism%20Article%202015.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg wore House Member Pin while handing certificates to Ugandan tourism students<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">On September 7, during that same trip, Walberg, his spouse, and Son-in-Law all met with President Museveni, at the State House in Nakasero, Kampala, Uganda (photo used in title image of this report). The next day, September 8, Walberg met in the offices of the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, where he said, as I’ve previously reported, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“I apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the pressure on African countries to adopt the Maputo Protocol on Family Planning”</span></i> (AKA Human Rights). Now I know that in addition to apologizing on behalf of the United States, Walberg hustled the tourism industry to the Speaker, saying, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“<b>Uganda is sitting on a gold mine</b>”</span></i> for the tourism business (exhibit below):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8zulomk0eSBWhh0VNvK3tqm0dqcwNj9ueqTHKJAdZeXu4zQfU8kpljQsK1zdUW5dXWCI3sdhNaHMxoKmpuQwiTYRZiubQnRJk-1UtgKAe7DWCgD2itLmlWADFNPKGozLgv0BSXggtE9lTBH6983r2-dFiaUv0a15X66xdZsZAKF_wAfcjAVPM_Sp8yM-R/s3508/27%20-%20Speaker%20Kadaga%202015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2459" data-original-width="3508" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8zulomk0eSBWhh0VNvK3tqm0dqcwNj9ueqTHKJAdZeXu4zQfU8kpljQsK1zdUW5dXWCI3sdhNaHMxoKmpuQwiTYRZiubQnRJk-1UtgKAe7DWCgD2itLmlWADFNPKGozLgv0BSXggtE9lTBH6983r2-dFiaUv0a15X66xdZsZAKF_wAfcjAVPM_Sp8yM-R/w400-h280/27%20-%20Speaker%20Kadaga%202015.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg skipped House vote this day to hustle tourism to Ugandan Speaker, “a gold mine”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">As I previously reported, Walberg’s Son-in-Law and daughter own a Uganda tourism business, which was originally named, “Trinity Tours & Travel” featuring a wine glass in the logo and the tagline, “<i>ensuring pleasure at your leisure</i>”. In early 2016 the company rebranded as “Red Road Tours, LLC” with a new emphasis on all the things Walberg had hustled for: <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“cultural tourism”</span></i> and educational tourism. The Red Road Tours website heavily featured photos of American college students on tours wearing Spring Arbor University t-shirts. That university is in Jackson County Michigan, 8 miles from Walberg’s district office.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">In 2018, Red Road Tours, LLC licensed their business in the State of Michigan from Walberg’s home address, with his spouse as its resident agent. The license has been renewed each year, but never included in Walberg’s annual House financial disclosures (exhibit below).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ijidrow-5HqLHEAE5eEPfDaI0c7cfylxkwLXG-SNUKyh6vKFwDHfK0tVdTVOpMKtv-3dslQzaVleVOG3vLOmNBdP9NxT-MArthwyl9zjGHAOot8Nx55WQtdmY1-Qa41H4ectpX8wVQJn0MKj1JpS3FC-zuzUBa0eo-eoWovD-9zJxwLzar2xx7PLxDfg/s5100/28%20-%20Red%20Road%20Tours.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="5100" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ijidrow-5HqLHEAE5eEPfDaI0c7cfylxkwLXG-SNUKyh6vKFwDHfK0tVdTVOpMKtv-3dslQzaVleVOG3vLOmNBdP9NxT-MArthwyl9zjGHAOot8Nx55WQtdmY1-Qa41H4ectpX8wVQJn0MKj1JpS3FC-zuzUBa0eo-eoWovD-9zJxwLzar2xx7PLxDfg/w400-h259/28%20-%20Red%20Road%20Tours.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>This private Ugandan tour business is based out of Walberg’s home address in Michigan<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">It is a dizzying and exhausting effort to untangle the mess of Walberg’s conflicting denials and cover ups to find any glimmering threads of truth. A thread that ran most boldly through his 2023 Prayer Breakfast speech was Walberg’s anti-American sentiments. Tim Walberg is anti-American, which remains consistently evident in Walberg’s contempt towards questions from the American free press, and in the message he delivered to the invitees of his town hall to, <b><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“fight”</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>for,<i><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> “the larger good of<b> pulling back control </b>from the Federal Government”</span></i>. We saw how in 2004 Walberg pledged to defend against American citizens like Janet Jackson or Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“pulling back control”</span></i>. Walberg would take away Janet Jackson’s vote if he could.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">So, Tim Walberg’s <i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“political work”</span></i> is selfish. Walberg’s selfishness is limiting and diminishes his influence. That is why Walberg hides, while still trying to exploit whatever limited influence he has from our Congressional office to stuff his own pockets for as long as he can.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Steven Meyer<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Monroe, MI<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">January 31, 2024<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p>Link to printable PDF of this report:<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZtMx5u9MTFONLZvCT8VuJY10DEtEjpPb/view?usp=share_link"> </a></o:p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZtMx5u9MTFONLZvCT8VuJY10DEtEjpPb/view?usp=share_link">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZtMx5u9MTFONLZvCT8VuJY10DEtEjpPb/view?usp=share_link</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(252, 219, 2); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b>4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><!--[endif]--><b>SOURCES & APPENDIX WITH FULL QUOTES<o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">November 6, 2003 – Family Research Council “Marriage Protection Pledge” </span></b>(Tim Walberg Signed) – Web capture via Archive.Org<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">February 24, 2004 – Tim Walberg Campaign Press Release: “In an Age of Monicagate, Janet Jackson, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Tim Walberg Defends ‘One Man, One Woman Marriage’”</span></b> – Web capture via Archive.Org<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">June 21, 2007 - House of Representatives – Washington, DC – C-SPAN </span></b>(Video 3:46:45 mark)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?199256-1/house-session">https://www.c-span.org/video/?199256-1/house-session#</a>!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “The AIDS epidemic in Africa is a serious problem that demands serious results. However, I also had the privilege of seeing firsthand the success of Uganda's ABC program when I traveled to Uganda a couple of years ago to visit my daughter who's a missionary there and also a health educator dealing specifically with HIV/AIDS. Also, meeting with who has now become adopted into our family, Mama Nabali, who is a young woman with three children who has HIV as a result of behavior issues related specifically to a husband who was unfaithful in many, many ways.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">June 30, 2010 – Campaign Meet and Greet – Jackson, MI </span></b>(Video 3:00 mark)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_pmH7GBwGU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_pmH7GBwGU</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “We gotta realize we’re in competition with China and India. My daughter lives in Kampala, Uganda. You can chew the air there. It’s a Third World Country. They’re not gonna abide by our standards.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">July 8, 2010 – Lenawee 9/12 Group: GOP Candidate Primary Debate – Christian Family Center in Adrian, MI</span></b> (Video – 1:15 mark) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEims43nJI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEims43nJI</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Segment of four Rapid Fire questions for candidates</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Question number one: Do you <b>support legislation permitting same-sex marriage</b>?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Marvin Carlson: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Mr. Walberg?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Tim Walberg: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Mr. Rooney?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Brian Rooney: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Question number two: <b>Are you pro-life</b>?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Carlson: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Rooney: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Question number three: Would you consider pro-choice alternatives in certain situations?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Carlson: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Rooney: “No.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Question number four: <b>Do you support the death penalty for capital crime</b>?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Carlson: “I do.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Rooney: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Moderator: “Thank you, gentlemen!” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Room applauded enthusiastically. End of rapid fire questions</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">July 9, 2010 – Campaign Meet and Greet - Grass Lake, MI </span>- </b>(Video 0:30 mark)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcLpEUsyGs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcLpEUsyGs</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “You know, I visit my daughter in Kampala, Uganda, and I spend for lunch two-hundred, fifty-thousand – um, Ugandan. Two-Hundred and Fifty-Thousand! That sounds like a lot of money, because it’s such an inflated rate that - And my daughter buys a – uh, she buys a couch for – I’m trying to recollect how many million Ugandan that was. That looks like – That looks like a lot of money!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">September 2010 – Harper’s Magazine Article by Jeff Sharlet, “Straight Man’s Burden: The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions” </span></b>(Article comprised of several meetings and interviews with David Bahati about the origins of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, and his relationship with The Fellowship Foundation)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/straight-mans-burden">https://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/straight-mans-burden</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">November 4, 2014 – Election Night – Jackson, MI </span></b>– (Video: 1:00 mark)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWyp3Xo2aw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWyp3Xo2aw</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “I’d ask my daughter, Heidi who’s here all the way from Africa - No Ebola folks, no Ebola! Where’s my Son-in-Law?!” Prince! Come on. My daughter found her Prince.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">September 7, 2015 – Uganda High Commission in South Africa Facebook Page</span></b> – Source photo for title image of Walberg meeting with Yoweri Museveni<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">May 26, 2017 – Coffee Hour - Coldwater, MI -</span></b> (Video 37:45 mark)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zz0ub4Ucw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zz0ub4Ucw</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “The quality is unbelievable that we have here, but the cost is the problem. The only better way is getting back to an actual cash-pay where I can negotiate with my health care provider. I experienced that in Uganda a few weeks back, with having a dentist put back a crown that I had pulled out doing what I should do, flossing. I thought: Oh boy. Here I am in Kampala, Uganda. What’s this gonna mean? I can’t live with this crown off. My daughter’s a dental hygienist. She said: Dad, I’ll call this guy, this good dentist here in Kampala. Got me in. Within five minutes of getting to the dental office. 20 minutes he had it all polished up, glued back on, same type of chair setup I would’a had in the United States. Got back out to the reception desk, waited for my pay slip there, looked at it: 38 bucks. Paid cash. That’s the only thing you can pay from anybody. That’s difficult for Ugandans, cause there’s a lot of poverty in Uganda. But America, bit of a different story. While there’s a social safety net still needed for those who truly couldn’t pay. If we could get back to that, that would be great.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">September 14, 2015 – New Vision Article</span></b> (print): “Use your skills to start better private tourism enterprises – says US envoy” Photo Source, Twitter: @TourismInstEA<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">September 16, 2015 – New Vision Article</span></b> (online featuring photo of Walberg receiving a Certificate of Appreciation): “Address skills gap in the tourism sector, says expert” - <a href="https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1409462/address-skills-gap-tourism-sector-expert">https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1409462/address-skills-gap-tourism-sector-expert</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">September 2015 to Present - Tourism Institute of East Africa, which has featured Walberg on the front page for the past 8.5 years </span></b>- <a href="https://www.tieaeduc.com/">https://www.tieaeduc.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">April 22, 2020 – TakeCareTim article: “A Tour of Walberg’s Financial Ethics Conflicts”</span></b> (My report about Walberg brokering meetings and partnerships with his campaign donors and Ugandan officials for the benefit of his family’s Ugandan tourism business) <a href="https://www.takecaretim.com/2020/04/this-report-was-originally-posted-by-me.html">https://www.takecaretim.com/2020/04/this-report-was-originally-posted-by-me.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">June 28, 2020 – “Walberg’s Speeches in Ukraine”</span></b> – My video report featuring 3 of Walberg’s Prayer Breakfast Speeches in Ukraine from 2015 & 2019 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZenkaEv00">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZenkaEv00</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">July 15, 2021 – House Committee on Education and Labor</span></b> (Virtual Hearing – Video: 05:14:10 mark) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgEXcdQODE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgEXcdQODE</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Ranking Member, Virginia Foxx [(R) NC-05]: “Mr. Chairman, while the clerk is counting, I’d like to point out that – Uh, Mr. Walberg is on the call today from Uganda, where he’s visiting his – Um, family and meeting his third grandchild who lives there.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Chair, Robert (Bobby) Scott [(D) VA-03]: “Woo!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Foxx: “Uh, and so – Uh, he gets a prize for being on the call, and on the video from the farthest distance. I’m not sure we’ll have anybody – Uh, compete with that any time soon.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Suzanne Bonamici [(D) OR-01]: “Congratulations, Tim on the new grandchild.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Scott [smiling]: “All right!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Rick Allen [(R) GA-12]: “Tim, what time is it there?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “It’s – Uh, just past midnight. Five after midnight.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Allen: “Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Scott: “And – Uh, Dr. Foxx, we have a regular, Mr. Sablan – Uh, may actually be further away, I’m not sure.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[FACT CHECK: Shortest distance from Northern Mariana to DC = Approx. 7,800 miles; Shortest distance from Kampala, Uganda to DC = Approx. 7,250 miles]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Foxx: “Oh, yeah. Well, if he’s in – I can’t tell from his backdrop where he is. If he’s in the Northern Marianas, or what. But I’m impressed that Mr. Walberg can get the connection from there. When – Uh, and I’m not pa– Casting any stones. Happens to me too, when some of the rest of us can’t get it from here. So -Uh.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Jahana Hayes [(D) CT-05]: “It’s a good thing we have this remote option, so that you can do both. You can still join us, and be there for your grandchild.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Gregorio Kilili Comacho Sablan [(D) Northern Mariana Islands’ - at-large]: “Yeah. Congratulations, T-” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Well, I’d still rather be in Washington doing it the normal way.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Greg Murphy [(R) NC-03]: “Yeah!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “If I’m not with my grandchild.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Scott: “Clerk will report.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">July 23, 2021 – WKHM (Jackson, MI) </span></b>– (audio)<b> </b><a href="https://www.wkhm.com/episode/congressman-tim-walberg-48/">https://www.wkhm.com/episode/congressman-tim-walberg-48/</a><u><span style="color: #0563c1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Greg O’Connor [host]: “Welcome back Congressman, Tim Walberg. Been in – I think you’ve been in airplanes the past few weeks.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Yeah, we have been. It’s great to be back. Ya’ know, it’s good to go where you need to go, and I had the opportunity to go visit my newest granddaughter who lives uh, – who was born in Africa, and lives with my daughter and son-in-law and two other granddaughters. So, I had a chance for two weeks to – to be with them, and that’s a great experience - any grandfather or – father or grandparent listening right now knows – knows the joy of being with grandkids, and that’s the seventh one that god has blessed me with.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">“But, uh, – it was good to be there. I had a opportunity to, as I always meet with the President of that Country in Africa [<i>Yoweri Museveni</i>], a number of Parliamentarians, and Attorney General [<i>Kiryowa Kiwanuka</i>], and Secretary of Education [<i>Janet Museveni</i>], etcetera. Had a good opportunity during that two week period to meet with some of those as well, and do some – do some political work.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">“Um, yet to come home was great. 27 hours of travel time with a mask on left me with a chapped face – heh! heh! - from all the, all of the carbon dioxide, and uh – and uh, all of the wetness inside of a mask for that amount of time, but uh - ”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">O’Connor: But you’re alive.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Good trip, but we’re still home, yeah.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">O’Connor: “You’re alive, yeah. How was the weather?” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>some cross talk</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “I’m just-”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">O’Connor: “It sounds warm.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “No, it’s – this particular country, and – you know I’m - I say that because of security issues. I wanna make sure that my kids are – are protected. There’s some bad actors around the world, and – and uh, so I – I’m not trying to be strange about it, but uh – in that – in that particular country, uh, if you know what San Diego is like, uh, with good weather, moderate temperatures and all of that. That’s – that’s how this is. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">O’Connor: “Wow.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “It’s beautiful, sun, low humidity, um, I wasn’t – I wasn’t - I think the highest we got was 82 degrees. Um, generally stays right there in the mid 70’s - high 70’s. So it was nice – nice environment, uh, that I was in.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">August 10, 2021 – Invitation-Only Coffee Hour - Newport, MI</span> - </b>Video recorded by me, the only person in the room wearing a mask. I heard about this event third-hand. It was organized with public resources, but never publicly announced beforehand by Walberg’s office. Invitations and robocalls were sent only to likely supporters using Republican campaign vendors (Advantage Inc. and Jamestown Associates), paid for with government funds. (Video: 0:14:40 mark) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rbE9PqpD_w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rbE9PqpD_w</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Um, can you tell us about the political work that you did on your two-week trip to Uganda last month, and why you never posted anything publicly about that?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Um, I misstated in the statement I made, I think on the radio. Um, political work wasn’t what I did. I talked politics. I met with the President, and I’d like to not mention the country’s name.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “I mentioned it already in my question. It was Uganda.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “I wish you wouldn’t do that, and I’d ask you to understand. Here’s why: I have a family living in that country, granddaughters, son-in-law, and daughter. My life is always challenged. I have threats on my life. I have threats on my house. There are terrorists all around this world, and there are terrorists in Africa that could find out, just like you - find out where my family lives, and so I was disappointed in my colleague who made a statement on C-Span in a committee hearing that I was attending virtually while I was in Africa. I’ve said Africa.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “That was Virginia Foxx.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Virginia Foxx did that, and I’m disappointed she did it, cause I would’a never said the name of the country. So, I’m asking you, if there’s any goodness and humanity in you, that you would not broadcast any further the name of the country, cause I do not want a terrorist firebombing or kidnapping my granddaughters just because I’m an American Congressman.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “So, what were you – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Interruption</i>]</span>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “So, let me tell you! I had to do that so you wouldn’t go any further on that.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “I’m gonna go further on that.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Oh, I know you are. We’ll only go so far.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler towards me: “Well, where’s common sense fall into play?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Well, let me answer your question, Steve <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg filibustered for more than two minutes without getting anywhere near answering my question</i>]</span>. Any time I’m over in that country. If I have an opportunity to meet with Parliamentarians who I have a number of friends in Parliament there. I have a close personal relationship with the President, and if he has time to meet with me, we meet and we talk as friends.” And we talk about government issues. We talk about politics in the United States, what’s happening here. Uh, I’m not gonna tell you our exact conversation, that’s personal, but you can assume that I’m political. I work in government. He’s political, he works in government. We’re gonna talk about that. We’re also gonna talk about my grandkids. I’m gonna talk about his grandkids. I’m gonna talk about his farm, his ranch, any more cows that he has. Um, those type of things. And we’re gonna talk about infrastructure in that country. We’re gonna talk about – potentially about America doing some trade with that country. Uh, we’re gonna talk about COVID! We’re gonna talk about vaccines. All of those things COULD BE part of our conversation. That came as a result of me having a long time relationship because I have family that live there, and I’ve developed over time friendships within Parliament, and including the President’s office. That’s what it was! I was over there to see a brand new baby girl, my third granddaughter born over there, to reacquaint with my wife who had been there already four weeks, and spend time two weeks during our July 4<sup>th</sup> recess. The last day of those two weeks, having spent time with my two granddaughters that are my best buddies, and meeting my newest granddaughter, building a bunch of racks for their storage department – uh, compartments, putting some shelving in – in, in their closets.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “I’m really not interested in any of your family stuff.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>gestured hand out, as if to literally push me back</i>]</span>: “No, no, no! You’re going to hear what I’m going to say about that event, because you’re trying to put – cast aspersion on it, when in fact it was just a trip to be with family during those two weeks!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “So, did you also talk about the tourism – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler in back: “Can’t you shut up!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “No. No. Let’s – let’s – let him finish. He’s making my point.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler in back: “Oh, come on.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Did you also talk about the tourism business, and your family’s tourism business while you were there?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Looked upward and paused silently for 5 seconds</i>]</span> “Uuuhmm <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Sharp exhale</i>]</span>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “You’re featured all over the East Africa Tourism industry website, on their front page.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Oh, he’s a good – Yeah, right now, my son-in-law – My son-in-law is a travel and safari – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “You’re featured! I’m talking about you! You’re featured all over the front page of the East Africa Tourism industry website.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Ah. I didn’t know that. Well, that’s pretty special.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “So, did you talk about the tourism industry while you were there in Uganda?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “I don’t remember talking about it with the President. I talk about my Son-in-Law.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler in back: “So, what if he did talk about it?! What’s your point?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “And if you – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler wearing medical scrubs: “I’m gonna lose my job if I don’t get a COVID vaccine next month! And you wanna talk about him seeing his grandson. Who cares? Let’s talk about priorities!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>pointing at me</i>]</span>: “This is Steven! Steven spends his life researching everything about my life, every word that I state. He gets a transcript of every single interview that he can find on radio that I’ve done. That’s what he does. But, let me – let me answer it this way – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>interruption</i>]</span>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Another Heckler: “Hold on a second! Steve, are you a member of this community?! Are you in Monroe County?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Yeah!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “He’s Monroe.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “I live 15 minutes away.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Yeah. He’s Monroe County.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Different Heckler: “Can we have some questions here?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Let me finish it with this: I didn’t talk about tourism. Next question!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Later - 1:00:25 mark]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Now we come to a pandemic. That in the past we went through – We went through pandemics, and we never locked down, or put personal mandates on our people like we’re doing now. We’re in a dangerous situation folks. We need to stand together, link arms as Americans believing that our country is still the greatest – greatest gift to the world that’s been ever given. But we’re gonna have to fight for it. And yes, the word is fight. The word truly is fight. And we can’t get locked up in individual concerns at the expense of doing the larger good of pulling back control from the Federal Government.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “What do you mean by fight?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Heckler: “Steven, take a break. Shut up.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Really.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Other Hecklers: “Shut up.” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Din of other overlapping heckles towards me</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Don’t answer that then.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Go to the dictionary, Steven. You can do that.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Me: “Like physical violence?” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Din of more heckles, and Walberg did not reply with any clarification</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEONl-HPCwDBJb4dHA8HXuswZaWMualqnQW2k-uNcei9tJ23-aVntXOp_DnT14EEXo7Mm204hqlJKV6gYz3d9eNxa1Dh-TMyrSyJIgu-wy1lLd9mQr-UKBFmHDhDEjfzS2QmMSL-mccBDoUWfsnCez4asYv-l8LX1Ha6DjFKWM8kVeQYNvJ56b6n4urrw/s2489/29%20-%20Dictionary%20Fight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2489" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEONl-HPCwDBJb4dHA8HXuswZaWMualqnQW2k-uNcei9tJ23-aVntXOp_DnT14EEXo7Mm204hqlJKV6gYz3d9eNxa1Dh-TMyrSyJIgu-wy1lLd9mQr-UKBFmHDhDEjfzS2QmMSL-mccBDoUWfsnCez4asYv-l8LX1Ha6DjFKWM8kVeQYNvJ56b6n4urrw/w400-h185/29%20-%20Dictionary%20Fight.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Me: <i>“What do you mean by fight?” - </i>Walberg: <i>“Go to the dictionary, Steven.”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">October 14, 2022 – The Human Rights Campaign Congressional Scorecard </span></b>(117<sup>th</sup> Session, also includes comparison scores for the 116<sup>th</sup>, and 115<sup>th</sup>. The scores are based on 21 House bills most important to the advancement of Human Rights. Walberg scored zero in each of the past 3 House sessions.) <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/congressional-scorecard">https://www.hrc.org/resources/congressional-scorecard</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">October 3, 2023 – The World Bank Press Release: “Afghanistan’s Contracted Economy Faces Uncertainty, Afghan Families Are Struggling” -</span></b> <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/10/03/afghanistan-s-contracted-economy-faces-uncertainty-afghan-families-are-struggling">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/10/03/afghanistan-s-contracted-economy-faces-uncertainty-afghan-families-are-struggling</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">October 8, 2023 – UBC Television Uganda, Live Broadcast of National Prayer Breakfast</span></b> – (video)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">34:00 mark - <b>David Bahati, Member of Parliament, and Event Chair:</b> “When I invited Tim, our right honorable speaker, Congressman, one of the things I asked him when you say that I should keep in touch with him, I said: Are you comfortable keeping in touch with me? Because of the trouble we have been going through. He said: Don’t worry, we are on the right side of God.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">2:02:45 mark - <b>Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal, Member of Parliament:</b> “First and foremost, what is hurting each and every one of us born and reared in Africa. There is a force from the bottom of Hell attacking familyhood in our society, that is actually attacking the very core of God’s creation. God created – created whatever he created, and he said, ‘Go ye and multiply’. So, the moment you attack the very core of creation, you are attacking God. And that is this force which is called LGBTQ <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause</i>]</span>, the homosexuality forces. That is not just the mindset of developed countries against us, that is the force from Hell. And the Bible tells us we are not fighting human beings. We are not fighting flesh and blood. We are not fighting Europeans. We are not fighting Americans. We are fighting the forces of Hell! <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>large sustained applause, whistles, and cheers from audience</i>]</span>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">2:06:35 mark – <b>Ogwal </b><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>requested everyone in the audience stand up as she closed her eyes tightly in prayer with periodic sounds of affirmation from audience</i>]</span>:<i><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></i>“And we decree and declare that the power of God must take charge at this alter! Father, my God, today there are forces of LGBTQ coming against Africa, attacking familyhood, and creating things unimaginable, the transgender, the gay, lesbians, and all sorts of evil practices! Father, today we decree at this national alter that this power will not invade Uganda! We uproot them! We tear them down, and we destroy them, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Father, my God, the law is the law, but you are a God above the law! Father, today we are going to ask you to stand against those forces! They may be too big for us, but they cannot be too God – too big for our God! And father, today we pray, whatever weapon is being sharpened against Uganda because of our stand hearing the voice of God, and accepting to make a law to protect familyhood, Father my God, today I decree and declare that any evil weapon against Uganda will not stand!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">3:55:15 mark – <b>First Lady, Janet Museveni</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Led crowd in prayer with eyes closed and heads bowed, including Walberg</i>]</span>: “We thank you Lord for the bold and decisive leadership of our President who has led us with a fearless mantle over the years, and we appreciate his steady leadership, especially in times of trial. This year, Uganda made news around the world for our bold decision to stand for the righteousness and the protection of the traditional family and children. Here again, you used our President to withstand immense pressure levied on him by global forces. To ensure that we cast our vote with you our father and our god, we believe that the decision that was made this year to pass the anti-homosexual bill – homosexuality bill has secured our place as a chief nation among the nations of the world. We thank you Lord for this, and we trust that you will help us to take the necessary steps to become strong and completely independent economically, so that we can never again be held hostage to these evil forces.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">4:21:10 mark -<b> President, Yoweri Museveni:</b> “I want to thank the Congressman from Michigan because you have seen that we have got the west - the Western people you see here are not the only ones, there are others also, the ones who come to tell you about homosexuals, about what – about abortion, you now know that there are other Americans, other Western people who think like us. So, you have seen. <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>applause from crowd</i>]</span> So, I want to thank them for what they contributed.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">October 14, 2023 – TakeCareTim Article: “HOMOPHOBE and Abroad: Walberg’s Speech in Uganda -</span></b><span style="color: #d81e26;"></span><a href="https://www.takecaretim.com/2023/10/homophobe-and-abroad-walbergs-speech-in.html">https://www.takecaretim.com/2023/10/homophobe-and-abroad-walbergs-speech-in.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">October 20, 2023 – House Committee On Ethics, Gift Travel Disclosures for Walberg’s Trip to Uganda</span></b> - <a href="https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/gtimages/MT/2023/500027190.pdf">https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/gtimages/MT/2023/500027190.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">December 20, 2023 – TYT Article: “U.S. Prayer Breakfast Co-Chair Defends Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Law”</span></b> <a href="https://tyt.com/reports/inside-the-family/2023/12/20/prayer-breakfast-chair-defends-kill-gays-law">https://tyt.com/reports/inside-the-family/2023/12/20/prayer-breakfast-chair-defends-kill-gays-law</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">January 1, 2024 – Article (video): WLNS-6 “Walberg’s Uganda speech continues to receive pushback — Why it matters” -</span></b><span style="color: #d81e26;"> </span>Featuring Comments from Michael Rorke and list of questions Rorke refused to answer - <a href="https://www.wlns.com/news/walbergs-uganda-speech-continues-to-receive-pushback-why-it-matters/">https://www.wlns.com/news/walbergs-uganda-speech-continues-to-receive-pushback-why-it-matters/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">January 3, 2024 – WSJM (Benton Harbor, MI) – The Morning Show with Jonny and Ken</span></b> (Video – 54:10 mark) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2um-7iQ9oRk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2um-7iQ9oRk</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Ken Lundberg [Host]: “One of the things that we wanted to ask you about this morning was a speech that you made during a National Prayer Breakfast in Uganda. There’s been some stories coming out – uh, I think they started in December that we’re still seeing a couple of them today. The Hill, which is a Capitol publication in Washington, DC said your October remarks – um, said you were telling Ugandan leaders to <i>‘stand firm’</i> in the face of international outrage over the passage of a law criminalizing same-sex conduct, including the potential death penalty for individuals convicted of aggravated homosexuality. What should we think about that story?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “It’s a lie. That’s – heh, my basic answer. If you go to the video of my presentation, you see I was asked as the former chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast – co-chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast in The United States – uh, to come, and give a speech to the Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast. That was my purpose. I was given a theme to speak on. I didn’t go there to speak on any laws, any legislation, other than speaking on what they asked me speak on from Jeremiah, the 15<sup>th</sup>Chapter with the theme of: Fear Not, Repent, and Serve The Lord - and that’s exactly what I did.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">“I came as the National Prayer Breakfast movement, the International Prayer Breakfast movement comes always in the spirit of Jesus to draw people together, not cause disunity. That’s what I did. I did not speak to any issues. I spoke to the fact they need to stand according to God’s word. If God’s word says it, then stick to it. Others around the world, including the United Nations, The World Health Organization, maybe even The United States and this administration will oppose you for various reasons, but if God says it, then stand with it. I did not speak to any law. Uh, and in fact, no one spoke to any law out of any of the speakers that day in front of Ugandan Parliamentary individuals, as well as various people from all over Africa and Europe, and The United States.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">“So, this is being put forward by a group that has been against the National and International Prayer Breakfast movement for years. This was an opportunity they thought they could use and they’re attempting to use it, and their lies are being carried forward by some in the media, and I’m glad you had the guts to ask me about what the truth was. And if anybody wants to look, they can go back and see my exact words and statements: no mention of any law, no mention of anything relative to that law and its impact on any group in society, or around the world.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Lundberg: “I did – uh, I did watch your remarks, thank you for making certain that we did have the video on that. The – and I did think that it was funny that you wanted to be a Yellow Labrador Retriever.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “Hm – hm – hm – hm <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smiled and chuckled</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Lundberg: “Heh – At one point. But, how do you feel about that law itself? If you were to advise Uganda on their – their law criminalizing same sex conduct, what would you advise them to do?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Walberg: “They didn’t criminalize same-sex conduct. And I think it’s because of my advice 13 years ago. I discouraged them doing that. I discouraged them having a callout any homosexual activity under penalty of law. So, no. I think I’ve had some impact there. I’m not a Ugandan Parliamentarian. Um, I was not called to speak on that, but the world needs to know that they have not criminalized the homosexual life-size – uh, lifestyle.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Lundberg: “Hm. Well, we appreciate you speaking to that. And we’ve seen your statements in the media just telling folks that there’s a lot of misinformation out there, and there’s some political partisan agenda behind that. So, thank you for giving us the information.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d81e26;">January 3, 2024 – The Detroit News: “Michigan congressman faces backlash for urging Ugandan leaders to ‘stand firm’”</span></b> (online article behind subscriber-only paywall - January 4, 2024 – Print Edition, photo by me) <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/03/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-faces-backlash-for-urging-ugandans-to-stand-firm-anti-gay-law/72096185007/">https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/03/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-faces-backlash-for-urging-ugandans-to-stand-firm-anti-gay-law/72096185007/</a><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-84820462392983458302023-10-14T20:31:00.003-04:002023-10-15T03:52:33.440-04:00HOMOPHOBE and Abroad: Walberg's Speech in Uganda<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWRzWk0VFz0PNISQAwyJJ8QMhTJJJS9ZgEhwkBQsAmYGauGTi0qdqKIcZrB2kuTZwu61bEQwP5620oF1Ekti3a36DCtVGcLyhB0Am61W-Yoa5NwGU3pSS-3NVLxOmMG0VZHzzTnX5XRJhcvgBNDA6rLbvzQVV76ohFD01zT8Orr8fGVJxXPRdQDm0MsG-/s2002/1-Header%20Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="2002" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWRzWk0VFz0PNISQAwyJJ8QMhTJJJS9ZgEhwkBQsAmYGauGTi0qdqKIcZrB2kuTZwu61bEQwP5620oF1Ekti3a36DCtVGcLyhB0Am61W-Yoa5NwGU3pSS-3NVLxOmMG0VZHzzTnX5XRJhcvgBNDA6rLbvzQVV76ohFD01zT8Orr8fGVJxXPRdQDm0MsG-/w400-h195/1-Header%20Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Link to Printable PDF of this Report: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d9cQSPbGYQpp1CAC89eIeGldSzi9P2WB/view?usp=share_link">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d9cQSPbGYQpp1CAC89eIeGldSzi9P2WB/view?usp=share_link</a><p></p><p> <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f3864;">CONTENTS:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">1 – INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">2 – COMPLETE UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT OF WALBERG’S SPEECH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">3 – ANALYSIS – “That’s a message from America, and from God.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">4 – SOURCES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">1 – INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaIR7jAsU3sKkFOiHUnk2T48z0Eok4qWe94wi0KdJfzRYgUVneULeUlykgtxDBliyw94bReDk6qVrA08RPTJUXcd9iwp30kNI4dXecTs0faBuWWveFB67n41e2uLZJq7URcW741SGMkhN0q3L5e9gaVCDzqpSGqvvGB1nWrs6FDy95wSYy2uBTZWgrO-Z/s4800/2-Intro%20Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1642" data-original-width="4800" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaIR7jAsU3sKkFOiHUnk2T48z0Eok4qWe94wi0KdJfzRYgUVneULeUlykgtxDBliyw94bReDk6qVrA08RPTJUXcd9iwp30kNI4dXecTs0faBuWWveFB67n41e2uLZJq7URcW741SGMkhN0q3L5e9gaVCDzqpSGqvvGB1nWrs6FDy95wSYy2uBTZWgrO-Z/w400-h136/2-Intro%20Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Photo of Government-Funded Billboard in Monroe while Walberg was Secretly Away in Uganda<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On Friday, October 6 in Monroe, as I drove eastbound on M50 approaching Telegraph Road, I saw a new billboard, “<i>Paid for by funds authorized by the U.S. House of Representatives</i>” for Tim Walberg to promote his name and face, and falsely proclaim in all-caps, “HERE TO <b>SERVE</b> SOUTHERN MICHIGAN”. Unbeknownst to me in that moment, with the Republican-led House of Representatives failing to appoint a Speaker, Tim Walberg was not HERE in Michigan or in the USA, but instead secretly departed to Uganda for their National Prayer Breakfast under the theme, “FEAR NOT, REPENT AND <b>SERVE</b> THE LORD”. Despite attending that event in his official government capacity, bearing his House Member’s Lapel Pin at the Ugandan State House surrounded by top government officials, over the past week Walberg has not reported anything publicly about that trip: on social media, in radio call-ins, nor in his official government e-newsletter sent out this morning. It is unclear who paid for the travel, lodging, and other expenses for Walberg and his spouse to attend that event. As of now, there are no filings for the event in the House Disclosures webpage. Despite speaking there in his official capacity, Walberg described himself to the crowd in Uganda, “I don’t see it first and foremost as a Member of Congress, I see it as a missionary of the lord Jesus Christ”. Walberg’s speech was also full of anti-American declarations, such as asking the Ugandan officials, “Whose side do we want to be on? Not the World Bank, not the United States of America necessarily, not the UN – God’s side.” Walberg’s opposition to the World Bank, United States of America, and UN were all based on those entities’ sanctions against Uganda for violating human rights for signing into law four months ago, “The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023”. Widely referred to as the, “Kill the Gays” law, it includes penalties of life imprisonment or death for existing homosexually in Uganda. In 2004, Walberg campaigned on the hateful declaration, “It’s a sin to be gay”. Walberg has never swayed from his bigotry, though over the years he has more successfully masked it, or secretly travelled to other continents to express who he is openly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">2 – COMPLETE UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT OF WALBERG’S SPEECH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>October 8, 2023<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">UBC Television Uganda – Broadcast LIVE (3:10:35 mark):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Event Chair, David Bahati </b><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>author of Uganda’s 2014 ‘Kill the Gays’ law</i>]</span>: “As we turn to the second guest speaker, Congressman, Tim Walberg from Michigan. He has been in Congress for eight terms – for eight terms, and he was a pastor before. As I told you, his daughter was married here, and when we sent him a message as speaker, he asked me to keep in touch with him, and he did. And I asked: Are you comfortable with me keeping in touch with you? And he said: I have no problem because Uganda is on the right side of God <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause from crowd</i>]</span>. He traveled with his wife, your excellency, Susan, and we are happy to be with you here. I want to invite you Congressman to come and speak to the nation.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Begin Speech</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Tim Walberg: </b>“Well, thank you David. You’re a real brother. Uh, you were the first Member of the Parliament that I met here back in 2007. And then I met – I guess I would say - We all would agree that there’s only one that doesn’t change, and that’s God. Right? But Maama Ogwal comes in second <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>referring to </i></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal,</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"> Member of Parliament since 1996</span></i><span style="color: #7030a0;">]</span>. Heh! Ha-Ha! I met her back then, as well, and prayed with her, and still hasn’t changed.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Your excellency, President Museveni. First Lady, Janet. So good to see you. So good to see you! I pray for you regularly <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of cheers and applause</i>]</span>. First Lady of Kenya <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Mama Rachel Ruto</i>]</span>, I bring greetings to you. I was there on that special day at your Prayer Breakfast, when we had the handshake and hug heard around the world. That still sets examples for many of us today.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Speaker of the House, I come to you right now from Congress that doesn’t have a Speaker <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg smirks and pauses to scan crowd’s reaction</i>]</span>. We’ve got some work to do. And I may have to leave early tomorrow to get back for the process of voting. All the Parliamentarians and – but – I must admit to you that - Uh, I probably want to greet more than any other individual or group in this room: all of us. Citizens of countries around the world. Citizens, more importantly of the kingdom of heaven.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Citizens who agree with me, that we’re, first: Christ-followers; and second: politicians, government officials, doctors, lawyers, parliamentarians, members of congress, members of divinity – you name it. And I’m delighted that there are representatives from all sorts of religions here, and beliefs, and values. I certainly believe in my faith that God has placed in my heart an understanding and a belief that goes beyond words that Jesus Christ is my savior because I was a sinner in need of a savior. And he bought me back <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>sic</i>]</span> if I’d just accepted that free gift, and that’s made all the difference in the world. Right, Madam Justice <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg turned to Catherine Bamugemereire, Justice of the Court of Appeal of Uganda, seated behind him</i>]</span>? I’m a new creation in Christ. And so, I love to share that with anyone and everyone. And so, I believe that my faith stands up to anything, and I share it freely and offer it. But in this nation, as I’ve talked with his excellency, President Museveni, he said we want this nation to be open to all. As a nation that has been based upon Christian principles, we ask you not to change us, but we want to be open and free. And so, I am delighted to be here today. I’m kind of amazed that I was asked, David <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg turned around towards David Bahati</i>]</span> to share with you today. Because being both a former pastor, before God called me to the mission field in government back in 1982.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“And I’ve had a wonderful ministry in government in all those years. Cause I don’t see it first and foremost as a Member of Congress, I see it as a missionary of the lord Jesus Christ. In a context that many people wouldn’t have, and you Members of Parliament have that as well. We have answers that come from the word of God that are clear and available to us. So today, to stand here at this 25<sup>th</sup> National Prayer Breakfast, on the day before you celebrate 61 years of independence and go onto 62. In a year when President Museveni and First Lady Janet have celebrated 50 years of marriage, congratulations, Janet <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause from crowd</i>]</span>. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! You’ve had to put up with him all those years! I would say the same about my wife, who’s put up with me for 49 years. We’re gonna catch up next year, but then you’ll go ahead. So, congratulations. You set an example and may your tribe increase in showing that to the world.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“And I would also say, let’s pray for the peace of Israel. And dear friends from Israel, we – our heart breaks for you right now. To be in war. But we know that those of us who stand with Israel will be blessed. And those that oppose Israel will be cursed. And so, I for one say that America stands with you. And we’ll continue to do that, and you’re in our prayers <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause from crowd</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“For 81 years in the US House of Representatives there has been a Thursday bi-partisan Congressional Prayer Breakfast <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>organized by the Fellowship Foundation, AKA The Family, which also organized this event in Uganda</i>]</span>. I had the privilege of chairing that last term. Democrats, Republicans come together, and we follow the pattern of Acts 2:42, that says simply <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>not verbatim from any standard translation</i>]</span>: They would continue devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“So, we continue to meet. We break bread together. We share the good things of Jesus in our life. And as we walk with him, we talk about those things. We sing a song – heh-heh, and the parliamentary choir – Thank you for singing today again. It was wonderful <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause</i>]</span>! I listened to your choir in 2019 when I was here for your prayer breakfast. I took a video of it, went back to our prayer breakfast, and I said, ‘<i>Listen to this. We need to do this.</i>’ So, the next year, we stood on the platform, President Trump was president at the time, and we sang a Hank Williams song, ‘<i>I Saw the Light</i>’ <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>MGM Records, 1947</i>]</span>. I played guitar with four other guitarists. And I think – at least I thought we were wonderful <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause</i>]</span>. We’ve never been asked to sing again. So, I loved hearing you today <span style="color: #7030a0;">[some <i>laughter from crowd</i>]</span>! Thank you for doing that.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“The theme as was stated to you today so clearly by many and my brother here <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>gestures to Joseph A. Alexander</i>]</span>, Bishop Alexander: Fear not, Repent, and Serve the Lord! I want to hitchhike, add on to the foundation that my brother established for you, because it’s so important to understand – Um, scripture says in Jeremiah 15:19 <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Quoting from New American Standard Bible, 1995 translation</i>]</span>: <i><span style="color: #c00000;">’Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘If you return, then I will restore you – Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless-</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">’ </span>– Catch that, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘if you extract the precious from the worthless</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">’</span> – He said, <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>If you return</i>’</span> – That’s a repentance. That must be there. But in doing that, you need to extract those things that matter. Those things that are timeless. Those things that never change. Those things that develop a nation. Those things that develop a family. Those things that develop an individual. Those things that are eternal. Things I look at in my country, our foundational principles that our framers and founders established The United States of America on were timeless. Why? Because they were based on scripture.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“And so, Jeremiah, here speaking to the Lord, and receiving from the Lord, in a very difficult time where he’s being put upon, he’s being persecuted. He’s in ridicule, and he’s speaking to the nation of Israel. And he’s speaking for return, of repentance. <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>If you return, then I will restore you – Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless-</i>’</span> – The worthless are those things of the world. The worthless is the thought of the world. The worthless – for instance, is the thought of The World Bank, or The World Health Organization, or The United Nations, or sadly, some in our administration in America who say you are wrong for standing for values that God created. For saying there are male and female, and God created them! That’s science folks! I’ve been told all throughout COVID, and everything else, ‘<i>follow the science</i>’. But when they come to understanding that there’s male and female, and God created it <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>sic</i>]</span> - That’s science! And to lie to our children, to groom our children to think that they can determine whatever they want - I told someone this morning, jokingly, - Please media, report that - That if I could decide what I want to be, what gender, whatever it is, I’d be a yellow Labrador Retriever. I love that dog. And for a day, I’d love everybody to love me. So, I’m a Yellow Labrador Retriever. Who doesn’t like a Yellow Labrador Retriever? That’s not science.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“So, go from the worthless. Preserve the precious. There are human beings – And I’ll speak from our experience, sadly in The United States where 62 innocent – innocent babies – 62 million innocent babies, at least, have been aborted. And now we’re encouraging more of that in The United States of America. Almost half the States in the union right now have abortion on demand, and almost to the day of delivery. And it’s being called health care. If there are any doctors in the room, health care is when you try to save lives – preserve lives. True health care doesn’t mean that one dies and maybe one lives. That’s the worthless. That’s the worthless. God breathed into us his image and likeness, right?! Do you agree with me?! We are image-bearers of God himself! Why would we destroy?! I can say that about war! I can say that about genocide! I can say that about all of that! But we – we who are in government – and again, after marriage, the family, came government. The church came later on, and it was sure needed. But we in government need to return to repent.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“I could go on and on, but I feel David breathing down behind me. He says to Jeremiah, <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you -</i>’</span> – They might! They might listen and turn to you! But then he says, <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>But you must not turn to them.</i>’</span> That would be the pressure. That’s what The World Bank is saying to Uganda. That’s what the administration in The United States is saying to you. That’s what The World Health Organization is saying to you. Don’t turn to them <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of applause</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“I love Uganda. And over almost the 20 years I’ve been coming to Uganda, I’ve traveled on Lake Victoria. My district, I represent Lake Michigan and Lake Erie – two of the Great Lakes. No biting fish. No salt. I love Lake Victoria, and the beauty of it. Especially I love the tilapia. I’ve been down the Nile River. I have the record – I believe, your excellency, at least for Members of Congress, there is no other Member of Congress – maybe no Parliament – Member of Parliament that has ever bungeed over the Nile River. Last - Last August, I bungee jumped in Entebbe over the Nile River. The last que – the last <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg turned to his spouse</i>]</span> - In Jinja. Not Entebbe. In Jinja – That’s why I need my wife of 49 years. And I hear my daughter out there saying the same thing. The last question I asked before I bungee jumped the top of that great high pillar and said, ‘<i>Do you see any crocodiles down there today?</i>’ <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>some laughter in crowd</i>]</span>. They said, ‘<i>Not this morning.’</i>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“I love the creation. Going on safari and Murchison Falls National Park – and going to Murchison Falls and seeing all of that. There’s a story told about King Leo – King Leo the lion. He decided he was going to walk through his domain in Murchison Falls National Park and see what his constituents were thinking of him – kind of like Parliamentarians, or the President that I’ve seen many times sitting beside the road talking to constituents. He said, I’m gonna check and see what they think of me. So, he sauntered off down the jungle path, and he came to a Jackson Heart Beast. I represent Jackson, Michigan, so I like Jackson Heart Beast. And he said <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>feigned a deep gravelly voice</i>]</span>, ‘<i>Jackson Heart Beast, who’s the king of the jungle?</i>’ – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[feigned a meek nervous voice]</span> ‘<i>Oh, you are, oh King. You’re the king of the jungle.</i>’ Pleased the king. He sauntered a little further. He came to a warthog, and said, ‘Warthog, who’s the king of the jungle?’ Warthog said <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>feigned a nervous nasally voice</i>]</span>, ‘<i>Oh King Leo, you’re the king of the jungle.</i>’ Pleased the king. Went a little further into a beautiful clearing, saw this big bull elephant, gently munching on the grass. King Leo said, I think this’ll be a test. So, he walked up to the elephant, and he pulled himself up to full height and he said, ‘<i>Elephant, who’s the king of the jungle?</i>’ No motion, just flapping of ears. King Leo said, must be an old elephant, he’s hard of hearing. So, he pulled himself up further, and said, ‘<i>Rooaar! Elephant! Who’s the king of the jungle?!</i>’ Elephant quietly reached out his trunk, wrapped it around King Leo’s neck and – whip – whip -whip – Boom! Against the tree - Dust – Splinters – Leo comes to the ground, shaken. And I want you to catch this: Leo got up. He looked at the elephant, and brushed himself off, and he said, ‘<i>All right already, elephant. You don’t have to get so angry since you don’t know the answer.</i>’ <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smattering of laughter in the crowd</i>]</span>. This proves that Ugandans are kind to laugh at that joke. But it’s more than that. That’s what it means to not give into them. Regardless of what they think, move on. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Jeremiah says then <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Jeremiah 15:20</i>]</span>, <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>Then I will make you to this people -</i>’</span> – Jeremiah, <span style="color: #c00000;">‘<i>A fortified wall of bronze; And though they fight against you, They will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you,</i>’</span> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>cheers and applause among crowd</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Whose side do we want to be on? God’s side. Not the World Bank, not the United States of America necessarily, not the UN. God’s side. I think as we go on here, it says, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘So I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.’</span></i> – Who’s gonna do that? God is gonna do that. Your esteemed President, his excellency, President Museveni needs a nation that stands with him and says, though the rest of the world is pushing back on you, though there are other major countries that are trying to get into you and ultimately change you, stand firm. Stand firm. And he knows that he has a Parliament, and he knows that he has a people, and he has a clergy, and he has members of the civil society, and he has members around the world, even Congressmen like me, who will say: We stand with you.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Now, this will probably get back to the national media in the United States, and I expect some pushback, but I’m not gonna give in to them. <i>Someone</i> once said, <i>‘We honor Christ. We do not defend the honor of Christ. He can do it himself.’</i> Let’s honor him. He will bring the best even through trials to individuals, to families, to countries, if we walk with him. I know that your President is a warrior. I like that about him. We’re in a battle, folks. We are in a battle.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“And so, I am going to end with this passage of scripture. Psalms 7, verses 6 through 11 <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg only read verses 6 through 10, taken from New American Standard Bible, 1995 translation</i>]</span>. The psalm it says, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Arise, O Lord -’ </span></i>– Catch this,<i> </i><i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries, And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment. Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You, And over them return on high. The Lord judges the peoples; Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me. O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds. My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart.’</span></i> – That’s my prayer for all of us today. We’ve heard prayers. We’ve had songs. We’ve heard sermons, but our prayer must go from here and say, God, we want the righteousness of you to dwell on us. And that means, we say, ‘<i>No</i>’ to what you condemn, and we say, ‘<i>Yes</i>’ to what’s righteous. It’ll be a challenge. With God’s strength, I’m up to it. With God’s strength, you all can be up to it, as well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“And this great land of Uganda – And I say that not pandering to you. I love Uganda. More than anything, I love its people. They bring me joy when I’m here, and some good food. But God will bless the righteous <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg shut eyes very tightly</i>]</span>. Father, I pray for these people, that they will be people of righteousness! They will support their leaders with righteousness! In giving strength to their leaders to exemplify righteousness to the world as well. And then you Lord, fight the battle for them! It’s in the name of Jesus, my savior, I pray, amen <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>applause from crowd, Walberg sat back down</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Event Chair, David Bahati:</b> “Thank you! Thank you, so much. That’s a message from America, and from God. Thank you so much, Tim. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of Speech</i>]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0;"><br /></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">3 – ANALYSIS – “That’s a message from America, and from God.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">For Americans unfamiliar with Tim Walberg’s deeper sentiments, one of the first jarring themes of that speech was how every mention of The United States was negative and every mention of Uganda was effusively praising, as outlined in the following table:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(222, 234, 246); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Walberg on The United States of America<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 24pt;">🇺🇸</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 24pt;">☹</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 24pt;">️👎</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 242, 204); border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Walberg on Uganda<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 24pt;">🇺🇬</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 24pt;">😃👍</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“I come to you right now from <b>Congress that doesn’t have a Speaker</b> [smirks].”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>I love Uganda</b>. And over almost the 20 years I’ve been coming to Uganda, I’ve traveled on Lake Victoria.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>The worthless</b> – for instance, is the thought of The World Bank, or The World Health Organization, or The United Nations, or sadly, some in <b>our administration in America</b> who say you are wrong for standing for values that God created.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>Your esteemed President, his excellency</b>, President Museveni needs a nation that <b>stands with him</b> and says, though <i>the rest of the world is pushing back on you</i>, though there are other <i>major countries </i>that are trying to get into you and ultimately change you, stand firm. <b>Stand firm</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>sadly in The United States</b> where 62 innocent – innocent babies – 62 million <b>innocent babies</b>, at least, have been aborted. And now we’re encouraging more of that in <b>The United States of America</b>. Almost <b>half the States in the union</b> right now have abortion on demand, and <b>almost to the day of delivery</b>. And it’s being called health care.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>he</b> [Museveni] knows that he has a people, and he has a clergy, and he has members of the civil society, and he has <i>members around the world</i>, even <b>Congressmen like me, who will say: We stand with you</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“That’s what the administration in <b>The United States</b> is saying to you. That’s what The World Health Organization is saying to you. <b>Don’t turn to them</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“But in <b>this nation</b>, as I’ve talked with <b>his excellency, President Museveni</b>, he said we want this nation to be open to all. As a nation that has been based upon Christian principles, <b>we ask you not to change us</b>”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>Whose side do we want to be on</b>? God’s side. Not the World Bank, <b>not the United States of America</b> necessarily, not the UN. God’s side.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“I know that <b>your President</b> [Museveni] <b>is a</b> <b>warrior. I like that about him</b>. We’re in a battle, folks.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“this will probably get back to the national media in <b>The United States</b>, and I expect some pushback, but <b>I’m not gonna give in to them</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“And <b>this great land of Uganda</b> – And I say that not pandering to you. <b>I love Uganda</b>. More than anything, I love its people.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Walberg’s anti-American declarations were not new for him when speaking to high-ranking Ugandan government officials. Those were reflected in Walberg’s 2015 meeting with the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, as he said, “I apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the pressure on African countries to adopt the Maputo Protocol on Family Planning.” That protocol was developed by the continental union of 55 African nations, as a basic standard of human rights. It included minimal abortion rights for people subjected to violence or risks to their health or life due to pregnancy (attached image).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qJO6B-gtuSqatuSoAaubaBQd1xLoWZbup8qx0kkLTzeV7VdZN59THC2KNgRtE9oJVjEWycdpGXP0iZIJQQvtXRLvSjotqo-5I0ekASURYly0bg4-H3jmBNDrOnUhEyRpsy6uzfjle_FThSXOTRl1Or08UThm3iBK4f2zHcHwPv3J3dyOuxygefF1AG6k/s2268/3-Apology%20to%20Speaker.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="2268" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qJO6B-gtuSqatuSoAaubaBQd1xLoWZbup8qx0kkLTzeV7VdZN59THC2KNgRtE9oJVjEWycdpGXP0iZIJQQvtXRLvSjotqo-5I0ekASURYly0bg4-H3jmBNDrOnUhEyRpsy6uzfjle_FThSXOTRl1Or08UThm3iBK4f2zHcHwPv3J3dyOuxygefF1AG6k/w400-h299/3-Apology%20to%20Speaker.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>2015 Walberg apologized for “the people of the United States” for promoting human rights<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The basis for Walberg’s anti-American sentiment was less specific in his speech on Sunday than it was in 2015. While he mentioned the USA, UN, and World Bank all pressuring Uganda to change something, he avoided ever specifying what caused that pressure. It was, “The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023”. That is the actual title of the law signed by Yoweri Museveni in a brazen assault against human rights (exhibit below).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDupbM17xqFGz8TuVpmOYZKtCjpDL0sCKFbJLJBZ44xxBrX8M2mKf77nFhZYH4YzogNjjCVJ5GzoKCopo86oUzzeeQmRoeFE1RoNcSbD0iaumhDxDmWrg4wMcT0_Z824xFQ-dhBXpQYlf2Qxwvpd9AvVIoadKgDIZ_qqPESniPpl-E5_gdsN9wyPBbt80_/s4800/4-Anti-Homosexuality%20Act.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3045" data-original-width="4800" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDupbM17xqFGz8TuVpmOYZKtCjpDL0sCKFbJLJBZ44xxBrX8M2mKf77nFhZYH4YzogNjjCVJ5GzoKCopo86oUzzeeQmRoeFE1RoNcSbD0iaumhDxDmWrg4wMcT0_Z824xFQ-dhBXpQYlf2Qxwvpd9AvVIoadKgDIZ_qqPESniPpl-E5_gdsN9wyPBbt80_/w400-h254/4-Anti-Homosexuality%20Act.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>These are actual pages from the law<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Every time Walberg told the Ugandan Officials to “stand firm”, and “We stand with you” against the pushback from the rest of the world – he was referring to that law. So, as a legislator, if Walberg really stands with the values of Uganda, why doesn’t he introduce an identical “Kill the Gays” bill in the United States? Walberg spent the whole speech claiming to have courage to obey God’s values, <i>“we say, ‘No’ to what you condemn, and we say, ‘Yes’ to what’s righteous. It’ll be a challenge. With God’s strength, I’m up to it.” </i>Walberg also tried to preemptively make himself look tough against presumed future media attention, “<i>I expect some pushback, but I’m not gonna give in to them.</i>” So, if Walberg was so confident in those convictions, then why won’t he simply post the video or transcript of that speech anywhere, or even mention the mere fact that he spent all last weekend in Uganda?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 214, 236); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">MORE TABLES OF WALBERG’S BLECCH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Walberg Prioritizes Religious Activity Above Job Responsibilities in Government<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">⛪</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">️</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"> > </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🇺🇸</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“<b>we’re, first: Christ-followers; and second: politicians</b>, government officials, doctors, lawyers, parliamentarians, members of congress”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“being both a former pastor, before <b>God called me to the mission field in government</b> back in 1982. And I’ve had a wonderful <b>ministry in government</b> in all those years. Cause I don’t see it first and foremost as a Member of Congress, I see it as a missionary of the lord Jesus Christ.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“our foundational principles that our framers and founders established <b>The United States of America</b> on were timeless. Why? Because they <b>were based on scripture</b>”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“But we – we who are in government – and again, after marriage, the family, came government. The church came later on, and it was sure needed. But <b>we in government need to return to repent</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Walberg Contradicts His Own Stance on War in the Span of Minutes<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🪖</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🔫😢🚫</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">⬅</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🤷</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">➡️</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">👍😃</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🪖</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🔫</span><o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“We are image-bearers of God himself! <b>Why would we destroy?! I can say that about war!</b> I can say that about genocide!”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“I know that <b>your President is a warrior. I like that about him.</b> We’re in a battle, folks.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #2f5496;">“Why would we destroy?! I can say that about war! I can say that about genocide!”</span> </i>– Shame Walberg’s moral convictions fall short of saying that about Uganda’s <i>“Kill the Gays”</i> law.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="background: repeat rgb(222, 234, 246); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Walberg Does Not Understand “things that develop”<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🌱</span><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">➡️⏳➡️</span></b><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 26pt;">🌳</span><span style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>DYNAMIC THINGS<o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>STATIC THINGS<o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that develop a nation”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that are timeless.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that develop a family.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that never change.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that develop an individual.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“Those things that are eternal.”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">“our foundational principles that our framers and founders established” <span style="color: #7030a0;">*See Amendments 1 through 27 (1791-1992)</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-color: currentcolor windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 214, 236); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">WALBERG’S 55-MILE BUNGEE JUMP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3:24:45 mark<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #2f5496;">“Last August, I bungee jumped in Entebbe over the Nile River. The last que – the last - In Jinja. Not Entebbe. In Jinja – That’s why I need my wife of 49 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNBHeLHFOH1_WyoCnOiBtSzggZyyE4br73062NFXabXwxv7ozDTkJeYC5JrdwFntTfibsv9iAThMS9L2KIYmqxf5ieSL7O3mZr1vJqRM9tQ6nOO3qy8LHnZTz607If-ARnuqSBgUS4b8_4WB0GJzlqzj0U-dFNyK4TzTD_FfoBvJv5t1uC-L5kPwXDPWl/s2239/5-Bungee.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2239" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNBHeLHFOH1_WyoCnOiBtSzggZyyE4br73062NFXabXwxv7ozDTkJeYC5JrdwFntTfibsv9iAThMS9L2KIYmqxf5ieSL7O3mZr1vJqRM9tQ6nOO3qy8LHnZTz607If-ARnuqSBgUS4b8_4WB0GJzlqzj0U-dFNyK4TzTD_FfoBvJv5t1uC-L5kPwXDPWl/w400-h224/5-Bungee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg was standing at the State House in Entebbe, 55 miles southwest of his brag<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This blunder isn’t a big deal, but it’s funny that Walberg was standing there trying to brag about bungee jumping as though it’s a praiseworthy political accomplishment. He included a lot of specific detail in his story while standing in the Seat of Government in Entebbe. He asserted that Entebbe, where he was standing was over the Nile River, when in fact the location of his brag was 55 Miles away. Lately, Walberg has been trying to gain political leverage out of Joe Biden making harmless verbal blunders, so it is fair game to point out how Walberg frequently makes the same blunders. We all do. I am aware this is the least meaningful point of this report.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 214, 236); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">“I Saw the Light” – SO VERY LIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3:25:50 mark<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“we sang a Hank Williams song, ‘I Saw the Light’. I played guitar with four other guitarists. And I think – at least I thought we were wonderful. We’ve never been asked to sing again.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggygBeFHt3hhdt19D0ZdD1A1JXGc0jPKDlDuPr0dmIK8S3Hjs98x2iXaRqPHdfA3tJY5p289l2BiekmFuTyy9QiBZjqxEg-P5cEc8KsKJCu6PA0L7ZBwmv9j_sIP55kLZMrVVW5gP8KyD71IcT2XX50TrZBmIxgZAMaNpYVfe-gpIjQlpJICy74MIHXHlB/s6000/6-I%20saw%20the%20light.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3270" data-original-width="6000" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggygBeFHt3hhdt19D0ZdD1A1JXGc0jPKDlDuPr0dmIK8S3Hjs98x2iXaRqPHdfA3tJY5p289l2BiekmFuTyy9QiBZjqxEg-P5cEc8KsKJCu6PA0L7ZBwmv9j_sIP55kLZMrVVW5gP8KyD71IcT2XX50TrZBmIxgZAMaNpYVfe-gpIjQlpJICy74MIHXHlB/w400-h217/6-I%20saw%20the%20light.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Event from February 6, 2020 – 3 of those 5 guitar-playing lawmakers are retired now<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I agree that image is the stuff of nightmares, five aging male lawmakers including Louie Gohmert beaming satisfied expressions, singing, and playing guitars behind the caption: “COMING UP: PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS AT NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST”. I was raised by parents who steeped me in their favorite music from the 1960’s American Folk Music craze, so the music itself didn’t bother me at all. Walberg was aware of the cringe-affect his music had on people, but I can’t criticize the sound of it. I will criticize the larger context of simply never wanting to see sitting lawmakers doing stage acts like that. It smacked too closely of the title character from the movie Bob Roberts (1992) by Tim Robbins, a satire about a right-wing demagogue Senator who toured around performing white nationalist folk-style music on the guitar, with song titles such as, <i>“Times Are Changin’ Back”</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 214, 236); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">OF COURSE, WALBERG THOUGHT LEO WAS THE HERO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3:25:50 mark</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“Boom! Against the tree - Dust – Splinters – Leo comes to the ground, shaken. And I want you to catch this: Leo got up... That’s what it means to not give into them. Regardless of what they think, move on.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is so self-incriminating that Walberg thought the Lion was the hero in that “Leo the Lion” story. It was also audacious for Walberg to stand there comparing the Lion to the Parliamentarians and to Museveni, because the Lion character was so obviously a pathetic and insecure tyrant. The other animals affirmed the Lion’s status as King out of fear and pressure, not because they believed it or wanted it. The elephant was the hero, because it could both live in peace with all the other animals and did not fear the lion or even acknowledge the lion’s requests for affirmation. The elephant demonstrated its capability to defeat and thoroughly shame the Lion. The story ended with the Lion limping away while utterly self-delusional. How absurd that Walberg thought the moral takeaway was that it was good for the Lion to get back up and not change anything after being defeated. If anything, it explains why Walberg is incapable of functioning in a Democratic system of government.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: repeat rgb(255, 214, 236); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">WALBERG, THE “TERFURRY” (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Furry)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3:21:20 mark<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1f4e79;">“if I could decide what I want to be, what gender, whatever it is, I’d be a yellow Labrador Retriever. I love that dog. And for a day, I’d love everybody to love me. So, I’m a Yellow Labrador Retriever.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6i6M8gy1HCP8pC28Ge7EfM3XXmVNOL20qnznOff77w3mlDshtdKEn9mdf3IE_7ihWqaFGow8lrnpXKj6jE_hScKcfyDfg6QwL7PwYbjJ4M6rOwbMHTlwvw08cBcRwMaCF_vPtoBYawmlwb9ZPcxUPXWAtyVeZku5eOXlLfYMVfMYcgJvuRwGJXy3Cg01w/s4800/7-Terfurry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1901" data-original-width="4800" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6i6M8gy1HCP8pC28Ge7EfM3XXmVNOL20qnznOff77w3mlDshtdKEn9mdf3IE_7ihWqaFGow8lrnpXKj6jE_hScKcfyDfg6QwL7PwYbjJ4M6rOwbMHTlwvw08cBcRwMaCF_vPtoBYawmlwb9ZPcxUPXWAtyVeZku5eOXlLfYMVfMYcgJvuRwGJXy3Cg01w/w400-h159/7-Terfurry.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Is Walberg aware of the distinction between gender and species?<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There are large animal roleplay communities who would be happy to strip Walberg naked to a collar and a leash, toss him treats on the floor, and thoroughly indulge all his desires to be loved as a dog. So, why would he deny others in their pursuits of love, happiness, self-actualization, or simply to exist? This was not Walberg’s first time using a dog analogy to try to justify his oppressive anti-LGBTQ bigotry (exhibit below).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Msii0J9u5mGEUlJ8AolfpvWuysJhQG9T28tTyX7nFfi2qJVgVbZzqoOpJ90dDSSsqDrB4-uX6w0VA5FhyiZpjJYAMTO6g06bqjguHeeF698Vbr_B1-1kl4w3FUiRN-Z9UIlL8Li_kCaiAjO3BHAkmGPLcmCC6HTLshGequmqWm20sW4Y_trnAWimgbH7/s4400/8-2004%20bigot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4134" data-original-width="4400" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Msii0J9u5mGEUlJ8AolfpvWuysJhQG9T28tTyX7nFfi2qJVgVbZzqoOpJ90dDSSsqDrB4-uX6w0VA5FhyiZpjJYAMTO6g06bqjguHeeF698Vbr_B1-1kl4w3FUiRN-Z9UIlL8Li_kCaiAjO3BHAkmGPLcmCC6HTLshGequmqWm20sW4Y_trnAWimgbH7/w400-h376/8-2004%20bigot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>2004 Walberg called gay people’s existence, “a sin” and based his bigotry on a dog analogy<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">While Walberg’s hatred of homosexuality has become more masked since 2004, his hatred of the trans community is still wide in the open. For three months this year, Walberg ran two government-funded attack ads targeting trans athletes on Facebook. Notably, both stock photos in those ads were not from the US. Walberg utilized the work of photographers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Russia (exhibits below). So, one current consistency in Walberg’s hatred towards LGBTQ citizens is his reliance upon workers abroad.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8wAj4GCzhOqRf0A0gexZpm6BMfKADmYUKdPntR7X5u3KI_y6Ts-d05ZNU-gaTUObaCNVpCP8nK9EYPgk-dBw_UWGd8N3afh1hn3bWQy15sYDzwLK2-aQ7lEzj294wZVlknr32ekwUUxwGdgVZ3h6_dzBe4x8iTR88QWrq2bUi5CttTAW7UVLzlrferh9/s4800/9-Anti%20Trans%20Ad%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4800" data-original-width="4800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8wAj4GCzhOqRf0A0gexZpm6BMfKADmYUKdPntR7X5u3KI_y6Ts-d05ZNU-gaTUObaCNVpCP8nK9EYPgk-dBw_UWGd8N3afh1hn3bWQy15sYDzwLK2-aQ7lEzj294wZVlknr32ekwUUxwGdgVZ3h6_dzBe4x8iTR88QWrq2bUi5CttTAW7UVLzlrferh9/w400-h400/9-Anti%20Trans%20Ad%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg spent government funds to attack trans athletes with this ad for 3 months<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNzcAY-qKmPIyXZkIKPSV_UBrTARRR-dwUaiSVWkSCZp4Uq4P6coJbWTPhHUxMzU6HV-LneY50FAzGqAHZofIyQEwLq6Sy3jhhtJ_rO04m-2jjORNSxorm7sM18g-JUvDHYTvX5zPZegc_NoxJ9RzTKGmFqn_ThZAZDQJQ2lUjyb4klylxBdZo-y-sC1E/s4800/10-Anti%20Trans%20Ad%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4800" data-original-width="4800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNzcAY-qKmPIyXZkIKPSV_UBrTARRR-dwUaiSVWkSCZp4Uq4P6coJbWTPhHUxMzU6HV-LneY50FAzGqAHZofIyQEwLq6Sy3jhhtJ_rO04m-2jjORNSxorm7sM18g-JUvDHYTvX5zPZegc_NoxJ9RzTKGmFqn_ThZAZDQJQ2lUjyb4klylxBdZo-y-sC1E/w400-h400/10-Anti%20Trans%20Ad%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg spent government funds to attack trans athletes with this other ad for 3 months<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background: repeat rgb(189, 214, 238); border-collapse: collapse; border: medium; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1f3864;">4 - SOURCES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">September 2010 – Harper’s Magazine Article by Jeff Sharlet, “Straight Man’s Burden: The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions” - <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/straight-mans-burden" style="color: #954f72;">https://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/straight-mans-burden</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">November 2010 – Harper’s Magazine Letters, “Bob Hunter and Jeff Sharlet: An Exchange” (Bob Hunter of The Fellowship Foundation, discusses the organization’s involvement in Uganda’s Anti-Homosexual legislation) - <a href="https://harpers.org/2010/11/bob-hunter-and-jeff-sharlet-an-exchange/" style="color: #954f72;">https://harpers.org/2010/11/bob-hunter-and-jeff-sharlet-an-exchange/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">February 1, 2011 – Huffpost Article: “Uganda Hangs Over National Prayer Breakfast Once Again” - <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-god-factor-national-p_n_817151" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-god-factor-national-p_n_817151</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">December 13, 2012 – Vice Article: “I Spoke to the Author of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill” (interview with David Bahati) - <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbwak7/an-interview-with-the-author-of-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbwak7/an-interview-with-the-author-of-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">December 20, 2013 – NPR Article, “Uganda Passes Anti-Gay Bill That Includes Life In Prison” – this article features David Bahati as the author behind this earlier anti-LGBT legislation - <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/12/20/255825383/uganda-passes-anti-gay-bill-that-includes-life-in-prison" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/12/20/255825383/uganda-passes-anti-gay-bill-that-includes-life-in-prison</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">February 14, 2014 – Full Text of “Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014”, introduced by David Bahati, and Signed into Law (Months Later overturned by courts in Uganda) - <a href="https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/530c4bc64.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/530c4bc64.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">September 9, 2015 – Post by Speaker of the Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga about meeting Walberg, where he said, “I apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the pressure on African countries to adopt the Maputo Protocol on Family Planning. The majority of the Members of the Congress stand for life and support the reality that it is God who gives life,” - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaKadagaUG" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaKadagaUG</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">February 6, 2020 – NBC News Livestream US National Prayer Breakfast, of Walberg Singing a Hank Williams Song (0:05:15 mark): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqioRyHasg4" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqioRyHasg4</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">February 27, 2020 – Earlier version of “Leo the Lion” story in a longer verse form: <a href="https://letterpile.com/poetry/Funny-Pun-Number-Two" style="color: #954f72;">https://letterpile.com/poetry/Funny-Pun-Number-Two</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">2021 - Quora Answer from Ed McManus, featuring an earlier version of the “Leo the Lion” story:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Do-lions-have-any-natural-predators/answer/Ed-McManus-5" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.quora.com/Do-lions-have-any-natural-predators/answer/Ed-McManus-5</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">February 14, 2023 – Reuters: “Uganda move to close UN rights office angers opposition” - <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-move-close-un-rights-office-angers-opposition-2023-02-13/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-move-close-un-rights-office-angers-opposition-2023-02-13/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">March 22, 2023 – Freedom From Religion Article: “FFRF’s Mark on the Hill: How we won on the National Prayer Breakfast” - <a href="https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/42113-ffrf-s-mark-on-the-hill-how-we-won-national-prayer-breakfast" style="color: #954f72;">https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/42113-ffrf-s-mark-on-the-hill-how-we-won-national-prayer-breakfast</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">April 6, 2023 – TYT article: “'The Family' Tied -- Again -- to Anti-LGBTQ+ Death Penalty Bill”: <a href="https://tyt.com/reports/inside-the-family/2023/04/06/96841ed3b37396edf" style="color: #954f72;">https://tyt.com/reports/inside-the-family/2023/04/06/96841ed3b37396edf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">May 26, 2023 – Full Text of “The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023” signed into law by Yoweri Museveni - <a href="https://www.parliament.go.ug/sites/default/files/The%20Anti-Homosexuality%20Act%2C%202023.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.parliament.go.ug/sites/default/files/The%20Anti-Homosexuality%20Act%2C%202023.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">May 29, 2023 – White House Official Statement: “Statement from President Joe Biden on the Enactment of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act” - <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/29/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-enactment-of-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/29/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-enactment-of-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">May 31, 2023 – “World Bank Group Statement on Uganda 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act” - <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2023/05/31/world-bank-group-on-uganda" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2023/05/31/world-bank-group-on-uganda</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">June 14, 2023 – Open Democracy, Opinion Article: “If Biden’s appalled by Ugandan anti-gay law, he should look closer to home” - <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/joe-biden-uganda-anti-homosexuality-act-2023-national-prayer-breakfast/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/joe-biden-uganda-anti-homosexuality-act-2023-national-prayer-breakfast/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">June 16, 2023 – U.S. Department of State, Press Release: “Visa Restrictions for Undermining the Democratic Process in Uganda” - <a href="https://www.state.gov/visa-restrictions-for-undermining-the-democratic-process-in-uganda/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.state.gov/visa-restrictions-for-undermining-the-democratic-process-in-uganda/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">July 1, 2023 – September 28, 2023 – For 3 Months Walberg Ran Two Government-Funded Ads on Facebook to Spread Hate Towards Trans Athletes - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.facebook.com/ads/library</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">July 26, 2023 – United Nations, Press Release – “UN Human Rights Committee publishes findings on Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, Lesotho, State of Palestine and Uganda” - <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/un-human-rights-committee-publishes-findings-brazil-burundi-colombia-cyprus" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/un-human-rights-committee-publishes-findings-brazil-burundi-colombia-cyprus</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">August 4, 2023 – United Nations – UN News Article – “Uganda: UN human rights office to close on Saturday” - <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/08/1139432" style="color: #954f72;">https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/08/1139432</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">August 8, 2023 – “World Bank Group Statement on Uganda” - <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2023/08/08/world-bank-group-statement-on-uganda" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2023/08/08/world-bank-group-statement-on-uganda</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">August 29, 2023 – BBC News Article: “Uganda's anti-LGBT laws: Man faces death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'” - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66645740" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66645740</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 3, 2023 – Parliament of the Republic of Uganda Press Release: “National Prayer Breakfast to take place at State House, Entebbe” - <a href="https://www.parliament.go.ug/news/6926/national-prayer-breakfast-take-place-state-house-entebbe" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.parliament.go.ug/news/6926/national-prayer-breakfast-take-place-state-house-entebbe</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 4, 2023 – The Independent, article: “MPs divided over prayer breakfast at State House”: <a href="https://www.independent.co.ug/mps-divided-over-prayer-breakfast-at-state-house/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.independent.co.ug/mps-divided-over-prayer-breakfast-at-state-house/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 6, 2023 (morning) – Radio Call in to The Steve Gruber Show – Gruber: “I found Congressman Tim Walberg. I guess he was just – uh, fed up with Washington for a day or two. He decided, you know what, I’m just gonna get outta town for a couple days. He – uh, just had a bad phone line. Now, Congressman, good to have you back.” – Later, Gruber: “I understand you need a little bit of – uh, fresh air out of town.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://stevegruber.podbean.com/e/rep-tim-walberg-rfk-jr-in-michigan-mccarthy-ousted-as-speaker/" style="color: #954f72;">https://stevegruber.podbean.com/e/rep-tim-walberg-rfk-jr-in-michigan-mccarthy-ousted-as-speaker/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 8, 2023 – Live Video of Uganda Prayer Breakfast - Broadcast, UBC Television Uganda: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bai0JS6v8</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 8, 2023 – Official Press Release by President Yoweri Museveni about the Prayer Breakfast - <a href="https://statehouse.go.ug/president-museveni-hails-national-prayer-breakfast-for-being-a-uniting-factor-among-ugandans/" style="color: #954f72;">https://statehouse.go.ug/president-museveni-hails-national-prayer-breakfast-for-being-a-uniting-factor-among-ugandans/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 8, 2023 – Photo by Mama Rachel Ruto, First Lady Kenya: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MamaRachelRutoKE" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.facebook.com/MamaRachelRutoKE</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 8, 2023 – Photo by National Resistance Movement – NRM (Party led by President, Yoweri Museveni): <a href="https://www.nrm.ug/blog/president-museveni-hails-national-prayer-breakfast-being-uniting-factor-among-ugandans" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.nrm.ug/blog/president-museveni-hails-national-prayer-breakfast-being-uniting-factor-among-ugandans</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 9, 2023 – New Vision, Photos and Article: “Museveni urges unity at National Prayer Breakfast”: <a href="https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/museveni-urges-unity-at-national-prayer-break-NV_172185" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/museveni-urges-unity-at-national-prayer-break-NV_172185</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">October 14, 2023 – Walberg’s Weekly Government Newsletter had no mention of his trip to Uganda - <a href="https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=107668&c=MI07TW" style="color: #954f72;">https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=107668&c=MI07TW</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-5826147951061714962021-05-30T11:04:00.005-04:002021-05-30T11:04:34.374-04:00Walberg's Misleading Social Security Mailer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFNi7kJdzGXPNaoSThgxhtWCP19naWDpTm3B-tuAEqjFtZjLXCy-GqnLmfswxa1_KEW5d1ydmDgYkK_vHuoF85l0RQhGYPr6J3PhGkk4dSE2DoaerxAPDceoaTNYFhTjsv-Cn8aiaKxF1/s2550/Header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="2550" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFNi7kJdzGXPNaoSThgxhtWCP19naWDpTm3B-tuAEqjFtZjLXCy-GqnLmfswxa1_KEW5d1ydmDgYkK_vHuoF85l0RQhGYPr6J3PhGkk4dSE2DoaerxAPDceoaTNYFhTjsv-Cn8aiaKxF1/w400-h194/Header.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Note: This report was initially posted earlier today as a Twitter thread (@TakeCareTim), as a series of 280-character-limit parts, and is presented here in the same way.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbz_BxrwUM6ClNAuk6tzYjWBZJKe7DmchPUGQSRAXop8mJsCXqdb62Ufk2xMHeXLENAfbsw5mBynX6XInT6GlTQPhQq5a3iSIDE1b3Sa6yS7v_jOxdPVxTI53gt7LmsozyQAIQ9Ejpvs3/s2048/Walberg+COLA+Flyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1325" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbz_BxrwUM6ClNAuk6tzYjWBZJKe7DmchPUGQSRAXop8mJsCXqdb62Ufk2xMHeXLENAfbsw5mBynX6XInT6GlTQPhQq5a3iSIDE1b3Sa6yS7v_jOxdPVxTI53gt7LmsozyQAIQ9Ejpvs3/w259-h400/Walberg+COLA+Flyer.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Lots to say about @RepWalberg’s new 12”x9” tax-funded mass mailer. It’s big, expensive & flashy for a bill he introduced & evidently doesn’t care about. HR 2266 is similar to last term’s HR 7765. Walberg delivered no speeches & had zero cosponsors on either bill.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7GX7apI2PWr6InH5ZsgQ3MMGZpeGaWuVy4uTQyeQt5M2wh5S9XhID-Gaph-GZCT3qATAZCcunXbxKBMwFyhr6R8EXwutKewu5jFwU0ZIxfCD26BMCJCxMpF-bVHx1kAkk4ah1-7WyCRY/s2048/COLA+Bill+Markup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7GX7apI2PWr6InH5ZsgQ3MMGZpeGaWuVy4uTQyeQt5M2wh5S9XhID-Gaph-GZCT3qATAZCcunXbxKBMwFyhr6R8EXwutKewu5jFwU0ZIxfCD26BMCJCxMpF-bVHx1kAkk4ah1-7WyCRY/w285-h400/COLA+Bill+Markup.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GTVjBhysnABgiAXoCSXPwRZZP9mqhm35Kfwg8SK5OuwTNvptSnpLnPx3n3Zzw4dIXki3fSSLIwJTd6FH_aAE35NtdSgvy2t97_MhVbL-QtU4hu1H534_ssLbSxYOKJyoBPlUSDopgOJD/s2048/Zero+Cosponsors+COLA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GTVjBhysnABgiAXoCSXPwRZZP9mqhm35Kfwg8SK5OuwTNvptSnpLnPx3n3Zzw4dIXki3fSSLIwJTd6FH_aAE35NtdSgvy2t97_MhVbL-QtU4hu1H534_ssLbSxYOKJyoBPlUSDopgOJD/w375-h400/Zero+Cosponsors+COLA.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Walberg’s put more public resources into advancing that mailer to mislead seniors into believing he cares about Social Security, than he’s put into advancing his bill through Congress. Walberg used to be openly hostile to Social Security, but now keeps intentions cloaked.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mNvfmgdnED6SICIQe6FdbPWQhQW2f8-MOsgr_oh8IumdVma88Ymh0dbBWA9oJWT-b9wM8hGnTwylq9DPEHWW5sQizyahnLWu8HcgJCSXPj-LKU8NfijI6zpcbYb4MpZJHeC4X_rNNqgf/s2048/DyE7XHDWkAAgIDV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1983" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4mNvfmgdnED6SICIQe6FdbPWQhQW2f8-MOsgr_oh8IumdVma88Ymh0dbBWA9oJWT-b9wM8hGnTwylq9DPEHWW5sQizyahnLWu8HcgJCSXPj-LKU8NfijI6zpcbYb4MpZJHeC4X_rNNqgf/w388-h400/DyE7XHDWkAAgIDV.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UAxhsyrU8fOZ1rdECA1XUQfcZ4_6RbbyJuWdGonTu36M-hNIAjO73sDPATWqfbcmk6v6G3uzIYFbfw821o1I32uVQb4orvUi0e8nY5GS6O0BWcm9lrhdqPMO59x8YXifLexH7OsJ6423/s2048/EdHePIXXYAA9Blu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1582" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UAxhsyrU8fOZ1rdECA1XUQfcZ4_6RbbyJuWdGonTu36M-hNIAjO73sDPATWqfbcmk6v6G3uzIYFbfw821o1I32uVQb4orvUi0e8nY5GS6O0BWcm9lrhdqPMO59x8YXifLexH7OsJ6423/w309-h400/EdHePIXXYAA9Blu.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> During his losing 2004 campaign, @RepWalberg was open with his hostile feelings about Social Security. He called it Socialism, big government dependency, & proposed privatizing it. After realizing that’s a literal losing message, he cloaked those intentions & won.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsp7oDuHR_1txwZbd3TCVa-0eSrUI4H-yx7ZMzU6IH4Uy4RyyubEvOENs4aLJKCESWlVjbNRlpi3f347a7ykkxnOp51Jjpisa4fIedyrsCKko8yeWH24g6RLP63PyHez96IhRHGI4f6abn/s2048/Walberg+Promise+Social+Security.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1325" data-original-width="2048" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsp7oDuHR_1txwZbd3TCVa-0eSrUI4H-yx7ZMzU6IH4Uy4RyyubEvOENs4aLJKCESWlVjbNRlpi3f347a7ykkxnOp51Jjpisa4fIedyrsCKko8yeWH24g6RLP63PyHez96IhRHGI4f6abn/w400-h259/Walberg+Promise+Social+Security.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 1st way @RepWalberg learned to cloak his hostility was to call for protecting “the promise” of Social Security & intentionally neglecting to say what “the promise” is. It’s darkly cynical because Walberg believes “the promise” assures for no Social Security benefits.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWKlbIXd9ehZzfhBLC1LMvVpOYVtT2Ow8XKn0pr78au_yOMy8TqnpgTbAG4QbEwlaySZHeFkv90e-NRlB7x-UZqQKLuiWdhKwfBgntnDebL2xLNKZWFdyebM6ApKNZwLxRpMPw0Zqt1HF/s2048/iCaucus+Interview+%2528dragged%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWKlbIXd9ehZzfhBLC1LMvVpOYVtT2Ow8XKn0pr78au_yOMy8TqnpgTbAG4QbEwlaySZHeFkv90e-NRlB7x-UZqQKLuiWdhKwfBgntnDebL2xLNKZWFdyebM6ApKNZwLxRpMPw0Zqt1HF/w309-h400/iCaucus+Interview+%2528dragged%2529.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHgsulsAVTghWh-ojWuq3Uuz-K9I4OIv0QNhXzxFChrCxBkPIrINHBg63PSt2rCpjkAkoff2ph841O4mRXf8nIulkzk9WRDHAIr_9JKJqTREvbnQwnpqS3Y_mg9OnDnnDCu2erPUPzmRI/s2048/iCaucus+Interview+%2528dragged%2529+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHgsulsAVTghWh-ojWuq3Uuz-K9I4OIv0QNhXzxFChrCxBkPIrINHBg63PSt2rCpjkAkoff2ph841O4mRXf8nIulkzk9WRDHAIr_9JKJqTREvbnQwnpqS3Y_mg9OnDnnDCu2erPUPzmRI/w309-h400/iCaucus+Interview+%2528dragged%2529+2.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> Walberg’s cloak sometimes slips, such as 2010 iCaucus interview where he called for Social Security privatization, that it’s a Ponzi Scheme, & said there are no legal “promised” benefits. Audio (10:30 mark): <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mi07rawfootage/walberg-icaucus-interview" style="color: #954f72;">https://soundcloud.com/mi07rawfootage/walberg-icaucus-interview</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVejBDKBzloDlhb4MfLQhdyxqQzK-TIdxpZL-BNEsGQ7bVWqcolx_eX_1xe3F9RNcpOrL8QsvkADnOaqDYN94cu8bPexdZyZ_5kNtKRp1id8LJO52yvZzVy8RgCYVX8iCqyb4W1zUtuPBi/s2048/Zero+Cosponsors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1482" data-original-width="2048" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVejBDKBzloDlhb4MfLQhdyxqQzK-TIdxpZL-BNEsGQ7bVWqcolx_eX_1xe3F9RNcpOrL8QsvkADnOaqDYN94cu8bPexdZyZ_5kNtKRp1id8LJO52yvZzVy8RgCYVX8iCqyb4W1zUtuPBi/w400-h290/Zero+Cosponsors.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> 2nd way @RepWalberg cloaks hostility is to introduce nice-sounding, but toxic bills such as, “Social Security & Medicare Lock-Box Act”. Zero other members have cosponsored that bill in four of the Congressional terms that Walberg has introduced it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNbiwBFFO_QMe52oHo8h4Qoeh1ALVlmftA0iFrEGn942gv3GMbT2N9X5x4jGuHuVVU8fN2vfemd5oglcTsPetj87x_non1HYLTWQ6NhgiNz5Y3_GCexjSO5j70NsTFPKZu9zgF_Xw7WNO/s2048/Walberg+Alternative+Investments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNbiwBFFO_QMe52oHo8h4Qoeh1ALVlmftA0iFrEGn942gv3GMbT2N9X5x4jGuHuVVU8fN2vfemd5oglcTsPetj87x_non1HYLTWQ6NhgiNz5Y3_GCexjSO5j70NsTFPKZu9zgF_Xw7WNO/w400-h228/Walberg+Alternative+Investments.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> At a town hall, when a constituent asked about specifics of that Lock-Box bill that @RepWalberg authored & reintroduced every Congressional term for a decade, Walberg failed to explain what his own legislation says. Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wq9X8hW39g" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wq9X8hW39g</a><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjc6qXatdR5yAWx3gby4MIgvo1v9NkZVJuRmFrHIxbEhhWjrTh7jV-Louwre6k66KSeo7eHWfNAII4iOXqqGxgngMvA8UvwI2dYLJ2H8utUCfYkaoJGB5_8PK5AIajDAPXfQ8DbHH_F4Vt/s2683/Walberg+British+Composite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2683" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjc6qXatdR5yAWx3gby4MIgvo1v9NkZVJuRmFrHIxbEhhWjrTh7jV-Louwre6k66KSeo7eHWfNAII4iOXqqGxgngMvA8UvwI2dYLJ2H8utUCfYkaoJGB5_8PK5AIajDAPXfQ8DbHH_F4Vt/w400-h175/Walberg+British+Composite.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8mCSlbMn6IEdlEcAYNaNff592ZwyP0CSz4glSOrZ7x0-eGtp5-rf-DD5NmHpb8XBTiJwkf8nMAwWZtpQtpqNVJvM_hAjq1xrRLVEM2vrfFBZ-9UX3qLf9UkQamGPzpq5n4zQoAgkQBYs/s2048/Walberg+Spanish+Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1325" data-original-width="2048" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8mCSlbMn6IEdlEcAYNaNff592ZwyP0CSz4glSOrZ7x0-eGtp5-rf-DD5NmHpb8XBTiJwkf8nMAwWZtpQtpqNVJvM_hAjq1xrRLVEM2vrfFBZ-9UX3qLf9UkQamGPzpq5n4zQoAgkQBYs/w400-h259/Walberg+Spanish+Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In @RepWalberg’s new mailer about U.S. Social Security, the stock photos were both from Europe: Spain & The U.K. One of which was a composite where the head and body of the U.K. woman were taken from different photos.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg97kdy1oA_KjFbMEE87FctZFRrWXdQeJyvp-SlBCc5iTFrIOWhrZQcFvEdqH0aOgjHW2e8vY-sePofoTYP56a7NBct5T3x8cJy7KapRSW_cyFwRZVKevU3aBOJ_9ReNlUzc2sSwdkez4l/s2048/Markup+Walberg+COLA+Flyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1325" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg97kdy1oA_KjFbMEE87FctZFRrWXdQeJyvp-SlBCc5iTFrIOWhrZQcFvEdqH0aOgjHW2e8vY-sePofoTYP56a7NBct5T3x8cJy7KapRSW_cyFwRZVKevU3aBOJ_9ReNlUzc2sSwdkez4l/w259-h400/Markup+Walberg+COLA+Flyer.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Some claims @RepWalberg makes about his bill in the mailer are not evident in the bill itself, particularly with “requiring one-year advance notice” of payment increases. Overall, I think it is cruel how misleading Walberg is with this mailer.</span></p>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-29803722176159793782021-05-22T12:19:00.005-04:002021-05-24T13:05:03.823-04:00Video - Walberg: "I Don't Support Democracy."<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uRVciDnnuqk" width="320" youtube-src-id="uRVciDnnuqk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/uRVciDnnuqk">https://youtu.be/uRVciDnnuqk</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Tim Walberg, in his own words: "I don't support democracy." He said that on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at a town hall in Temperance, MI, which was not publicly announced. The only constituents who were notified were Walberg's supporters, who were mailed invitations (exhibit below, from House mass comms disclosure).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DdokPbkWaF2Qb3qvV5Goy2VCpUN49SX6GTgUSAgoYklds4-PPeDItxfuyOPIMgLP-yWBwuHdzQtrDgM7GkMwDHXXdSOfRlUJqMNOe9l2qq4X0SUIoznuCx5Q6sZmQnoj7GPUT3tcNHUl/s2048/2021-05-04+Invitation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DdokPbkWaF2Qb3qvV5Goy2VCpUN49SX6GTgUSAgoYklds4-PPeDItxfuyOPIMgLP-yWBwuHdzQtrDgM7GkMwDHXXdSOfRlUJqMNOe9l2qq4X0SUIoznuCx5Q6sZmQnoj7GPUT3tcNHUl/w309-h400/2021-05-04+Invitation.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> On Friday, April 30, 2021, Walberg called into WKHM radio (link to audio below), and told host, Greg O'Connor how excited he was about the GOP retreat that weekend in Florida, especially because of the lax COVID safety measures. At the end of the call, Walberg said that he would be having a couple town halls in the District next week, but he did not mention any details about them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Audio (10:40 mark): <a href="https://www.wkhm.com/episode/area-congressman-tim-walberg-7/">https://www.wkhm.com/episode/area-congressman-tim-walberg-7/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> On Monday morning, May 3, 2021, I called the District office, and asked the staffer for details about the town halls that Walberg talked about on the radio on Friday. The staffer asked me where I lived, and then they only told me the details about the town hall in Temperance (Monroe County), on Tuesday. I asked about the other town halls, because Walberg said on the radio that there would be a "couple". The staffer refused to tell me any more. So I shared the details about what I knew online, and to The Monroe News, and I asked them to record the event, which they did. That same day, one of my friends in Eaton County called the district office, and asked about town halls near them, and the staffer said that there would not be any town halls in Eaton County. On Friday, May 7, 2021, Walberg did have a town hall in Charlotte (Eaton County), so Walberg's staff lied to that constituent, and shut them out of that town hall.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> That same Monday, another constituent who lives right near the border of Jackson and Washtenaw Counties called with the same question about town halls nearby to them, and the staffer told them no. On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Walberg did have a town hall in Grass Lake, which is right near the border of Jackson and Washtenaw Counties, near that constituent. That constituent shared that account with Eclectablog, here: <a href="https://www.eclectablog.com/2021/05/why-is-gop-congressman-tim-walberg-hiding-from-his-constituents.html">https://www.eclectablog.com/2021/05/why-is-gop-congressman-tim-walberg-hiding-from-his-constituents.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Since I was able to spread the word about that town hall on May 4, there were some attendees there who asked Walberg tough questions. One of them was Paul (featured in the video), who asked Walberg about not announcing his town halls. Walberg claimed it was due to safety, which is doubtful because moments later that day, Walberg made jokes about the security around the Capitol, and members being, "<i>allegedly vaccinated</i>" to Bedford Township Supervisor, Paul Pirrone (exhibit below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2FNNW37B77SZe6LOkKyV2TPZL5MCOYCbn761BiOTCksvceGIB1hmvLgPRxj58KhOMBPKn4gKM-kcsT1twFvroBrH0ZCf8AgorN4JGglP42ZlAkfJCqRe7jXL0DQP94Ygl8C2WC3ps_HT/s2048/Walberg+Allegedly+Vaccinated.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2FNNW37B77SZe6LOkKyV2TPZL5MCOYCbn761BiOTCksvceGIB1hmvLgPRxj58KhOMBPKn4gKM-kcsT1twFvroBrH0ZCf8AgorN4JGglP42ZlAkfJCqRe7jXL0DQP94Ygl8C2WC3ps_HT/w400-h225/Walberg+Allegedly+Vaccinated.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Video Source: <a href="https://fb.watch/5rVjYLe7Jv/" style="color: #954f72; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">https://fb.watch/5rVjYLe7Jv/</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Also, if Walberg cared about following safety protocols, then he would properly wear a mask in airports, which he has routinely been caught not doing (exhibit below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXjRquzm_cubgHAuS_mDep9vSEKnmbLZz8H82I5JtKWLUYMg1Mj0DM13Z8NtbadcL7g_hpFKxYjTJBF_udQJLqg3j1JwIZQ3BIHivARGBN1qP9RQant7pa1gGAmc2kGCXng3iw-lRvKlg/s2048/Walberg+Maskless+Airport+Again.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXjRquzm_cubgHAuS_mDep9vSEKnmbLZz8H82I5JtKWLUYMg1Mj0DM13Z8NtbadcL7g_hpFKxYjTJBF_udQJLqg3j1JwIZQ3BIHivARGBN1qP9RQant7pa1gGAmc2kGCXng3iw-lRvKlg/w400-h266/Walberg+Maskless+Airport+Again.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> Walberg's Michigan GOP Congress member colleague, Lisa McClain (MI-10), has publicly announced town halls this year, widely in Press Releases, with a full week's advance notice (exhibit below).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Wj_LngWhbjFVmqO8yC8-5MJLBK5R_honNNgI2tVVTWd7zObXa8fnTqJWy15RAGlA6kg0Y-_uo9HbvFZ-MADeNoStXXSGTLskeSXGKCdae1gXcZGZDOlp8ys6acGOMJu0i6mRoTmJ5Tja/s2048/McClain+Town+Halls.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1797" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Wj_LngWhbjFVmqO8yC8-5MJLBK5R_honNNgI2tVVTWd7zObXa8fnTqJWy15RAGlA6kg0Y-_uo9HbvFZ-MADeNoStXXSGTLskeSXGKCdae1gXcZGZDOlp8ys6acGOMJu0i6mRoTmJ5Tja/w351-h400/McClain+Town+Halls.jpg" width="351" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Lastly, if Walberg actually did enjoy doing town halls, and safety was his only concern, then there would be no issue with: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Announcing his telephone town halls in advance.</li><li>Publicly live-streaming those. </li><li>And publicly archiving the audio of those too, so that anyone could listen into those later, who might have missed the event live.</li></ol> Nearly every other Michigan Congress Member does do those three things (exhibit below), in accordance with supporting democracy:</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_Ak8782dIhl5nGhbX62G4aTn3KRn527Q8aoO27C67Ca9RuphWMXf1z44unrFCSMI4cKhcOyDdWuoCHw2kuT4_F90lAM-MyjjBo0D6JWypLSqDBfNVBtyIa3vOXPve8k1_cJ7pDZMc6Mk/s2048/Survey+of+Michigan+Congress+Members.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1790" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_Ak8782dIhl5nGhbX62G4aTn3KRn527Q8aoO27C67Ca9RuphWMXf1z44unrFCSMI4cKhcOyDdWuoCHw2kuT4_F90lAM-MyjjBo0D6JWypLSqDBfNVBtyIa3vOXPve8k1_cJ7pDZMc6Mk/w350-h400/Survey+of+Michigan+Congress+Members.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-38657024074114180852020-11-02T18:57:00.002-05:002020-11-02T18:57:22.947-05:00Buying Their Cover: Self-Dealing Inside Walberg's Campaign HQ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Contents, and Summary of Findings</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">The Roof Repair Fundraiser</span></b> -<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span>On May 1, 2018, Jackson Right to Life (JRTL), a 501 (c)(4) non-profit announced a <i>“desperate need”</i> to their donors for $16,000 for roof repairs on the building that they lease. That solicitation occurred one week after JRTL’s largest annual fundraiser dinner and auction (<i>April 24, 2018</i>), and two months after they had an in-person consultation with a contractor for the repairs (<i>March 3, 2018</i>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">The Landlord Beneficiary, Jerry Potts</span></b> - Gerald (Jerry) Potts is the private landlord of the building leased by JRTL. His spouse, Kathleen (Kathy) Potts is JRTL’s Executive Director and Principal Officer. Unless the lease says otherwise, then Jerry Potts would be responsible for major building repairs, not the non-profit’s donors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">The Organizers and Promotors from Walberg’s Campaign</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>-<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span>US Congress member, Tim Walberg’s principle campaign office is in the same building as JRTL. Walberg’s campaign staffers, Peter Baergen and Billie Fox Dawson helped create and promote the roof repair fundraiser online, and were publicly thanked for that by JRTL.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">The “generous gift” from Barker Weber</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span>- On May 23, 2018, JRTL publicly thanked Timothy Walz and Daniel Weaver, executives at Barker Weber Insurance Agency, Inc. for <i>“their generous gift”</i>, which completed the roof fundraiser. Two weeks later, Kathy Potts started working as an agent for Barker Weber.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">1</span></u></b><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f8; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">) The Roof Repair Fundraiser</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: #fde5f8; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;"><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">At 6:23 AM, <b>May 1, 2020</b>, Jackson Right to Life posted to Facebook, a <i>“DESPERATE need”</i> solicitation for funds for roof repairs on the building that they lease. Later that morning, the post was shared by <i>Tim Golding,</i> co-owner of <b><i>Covenant Construction Group</i></b>, who had consulted with JRTL on those repairs two months earlier. Later, an expanded formal email was sent out to JRTL’s supporters, signed by the Executive Director, Kathy Potts, with a link to the crowd-funding webpage on the <b>Anedot</b> platform <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Exhibit Below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcEiX4Ny4ssl9low0jjgArFLDL56SX5cK_EHlmhK6zO6IFwKwpYT-ab0EVaMpNzBN12_XXljZeMAHjVxvbh-LygQwjxndFfdrM4iYzQJt_umPgQ-oBopeeExGFJAYOeG3WLSlf_buWrK6p/s1911/2+16%252C000+Letter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="1911" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcEiX4Ny4ssl9low0jjgArFLDL56SX5cK_EHlmhK6zO6IFwKwpYT-ab0EVaMpNzBN12_XXljZeMAHjVxvbh-LygQwjxndFfdrM4iYzQJt_umPgQ-oBopeeExGFJAYOeG3WLSlf_buWrK6p/w400-h358/2+16%252C000+Letter.png" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Email from Potts to JRTL donors soliciting $16,000 for roof, linked to the crowdfunding site<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The tone of desperation in JRTL’s solicitations was undermined by two facts: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Two Months earlier, on <b>March 3, 2018</b>, the <b>Covenant Construction Group</b> posted on Facebook that they were already starting work on the roof of the Jackson Right to Life building. The contractor mentioned that the weather had finally cleared up enough to start doing that work. So that means that the contractor had already been communicating with Jackson Right to Life about that work for several weeks, at least <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUXHe3NurL0B7Zx0WsQ8-fEkDBrr_wFqk2r8cLpXQcaA0McYCoBqDo1vvHeeVTmdGuSlGvKOccnyxXUny09HuEaIrfxaMl-ga_Mjk164GwRCMi7fD-u-0BqfBC9hePMO1yFs1Bt-9msKA/s2048/4+FOL+Tickets.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUXHe3NurL0B7Zx0WsQ8-fEkDBrr_wFqk2r8cLpXQcaA0McYCoBqDo1vvHeeVTmdGuSlGvKOccnyxXUny09HuEaIrfxaMl-ga_Mjk164GwRCMi7fD-u-0BqfBC9hePMO1yFs1Bt-9msKA/w400-h225/4+FOL+Tickets.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>JRTL’s annual fundraiser was one week before their roof solicitation<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Based on the contractor’s post, we know that Jackson Right to Life had already been working on their roof for months, so I suspect that it was discussed at some point during their April 24 <i>Focus on Life</i> fundraiser event too. Jackson Right to Life usually posts photos and videos of their annual fundraisers, but they did not post any photos from their 2018 event. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">The key point: Jackson Right to Life’s <i>“desperate”</i> solicitation to their donors neglected to mention that the non-profit did not own that building. So, the donors to Jackson Right to Life should not have been burdened with those repair costs. Usually, the building’s landlord must pay for major repairs like that, unless there was a highly unusual stipulation in their lease that put that burden on the non-profit. The building’s landlord is Gerald (Jerry) Potts. Tim Walberg’s campaign pays rent to Jerry Potts for space in the same building. Kathy Potts, the Executive Director and Principal Officer of Jackson Right to Life since 2004, is the spouse of Jerry Potts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">I asked <b>Phillip Berkemeier, Treasurer, of Jackson Right to Life</b> if he, and the other Board Members approved using donor funds on the roof repairs. I also asked Berkemeier if the donor funds were disbursed to the roof contractor, to Jerry Potts, or to someone else. I have not received a reply at the time of this report <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see list of questions in Appendix</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">2) Jerry Potts – The Landlord Beneficiary</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3hqW94M10CaowmQ39UDvDJgu9lGxf3Mw0X3JlEAge0BTmQ9vhuVG6ilkdzNvJWORQdxsphr9M6rh_i2HE-Uctm2ohyphenhyphenY7QEHugSSRffBpiCQowVdwjW4Q0M_HAvK4YDJGaPIrEhrK-_wp1/s2048/5+Carson+Potts+Thorrez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1463" data-original-width="2048" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3hqW94M10CaowmQ39UDvDJgu9lGxf3Mw0X3JlEAge0BTmQ9vhuVG6ilkdzNvJWORQdxsphr9M6rh_i2HE-Uctm2ohyphenhyphenY7QEHugSSRffBpiCQowVdwjW4Q0M_HAvK4YDJGaPIrEhrK-_wp1/w400-h286/5+Carson+Potts+Thorrez.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Jerry Potts at Grand Rapids Right to Life fundraiser, where Ben Carson delivered the keynote<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">The building owned by Gerald (Jerry) Potts houses both Jackson Right to Life and Tim Walberg’s principle campaign office. It is located approximately 1,000 feet from the front door of Tim Walberg’s government office and also Jerry Potts’ accounting office <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUmLg80ieMKC0b3Mf5UDMKeHjaC_2bTvR5yrr9DzjPnI9LF3s1yy9NTMxM5oUR2zl5MVbT1sI3zLa-9WaFJxttY88VoctRxZsqh5B9L2sQUc_L_TKZ5s1-y5kBEzEjWd8ounliQWzYP8M/s2048/6+Parcel+Information.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="2048" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUmLg80ieMKC0b3Mf5UDMKeHjaC_2bTvR5yrr9DzjPnI9LF3s1yy9NTMxM5oUR2zl5MVbT1sI3zLa-9WaFJxttY88VoctRxZsqh5B9L2sQUc_L_TKZ5s1-y5kBEzEjWd8ounliQWzYP8M/w400-h230/6+Parcel+Information.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Jackson County Parcel Viewer shows JRTL building owned by Gerald R Potts <span style="color: #7030a0;">[with my markups]</span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Jerry Potts is a professionally licensed accountant in Michigan <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. From 2008-2017, Gerald Potts’ accounting business was listed among the corporate sponsors on Jackson Right to Life’s website. In 2018, JRTL removed the list of all of their corporate sponsors from their website <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see Archive.org, for web captures over time</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qHyIzSRwbujRXfODaiQBbr56Dvwhx39sK5q3DLK0XmjlTjqWQ8j1B2QlE3j0dFkbJFoIs85Bw_yDoy0JoUMdEvVdZR1dMdGFhxA9dwHD7BMxbdKaHDdi99O0NG6expsFHcFcx3hK8GUm/s1913/7+Jerry+Potts+CPA+LICENSE.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="1913" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qHyIzSRwbujRXfODaiQBbr56Dvwhx39sK5q3DLK0XmjlTjqWQ8j1B2QlE3j0dFkbJFoIs85Bw_yDoy0JoUMdEvVdZR1dMdGFhxA9dwHD7BMxbdKaHDdi99O0NG6expsFHcFcx3hK8GUm/w400-h214/7+Jerry+Potts+CPA+LICENSE.png" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Gerald Potts is a Public Accountant, Professionally Licensed in Michigan<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">On November 3, 2008, Walberg paid his last rent check to Potts (until June 2010). The next day Walberg lost the election <span style="color: #7030a0;">[e<i>xhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lqRxLIq7E47Z0pY38W2rgdfFxL0NCvUYhhKikLJGp59CRvtMmJKIjRTSMTP7fKeYUYw461MIjrWeJhu-aH8fHBTU4DEczkublvjK6loyDGgd-NRQ1AUI-NdyCq0E_rB8EY6ZDjQkbmlm/s3151/8+Potts+Rent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="3151" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0lqRxLIq7E47Z0pY38W2rgdfFxL0NCvUYhhKikLJGp59CRvtMmJKIjRTSMTP7fKeYUYw461MIjrWeJhu-aH8fHBTU4DEczkublvjK6loyDGgd-NRQ1AUI-NdyCq0E_rB8EY6ZDjQkbmlm/w400-h126/8+Potts+Rent.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Walberg’s campaign paid rent to Gerald Potts the day before the 2008 general election<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Jerry Potts is not a distant, disinterested landlord with regard to the activities of Jackson Right to Life, or of Tim Walberg’s campaign. He regularly attends Right to Life events throughout the state <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit page 5</i>]</span>, and shortly after receiving Walberg’s last rent check in 2008, Jerry Potts wrote a letter to the <b>Jackson Citizen Patriot</b> newspaper, expressing gratitude and praise to Walberg’s spouse and to his campaign staffers by name, who he had gotten to know well over that time <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">In that letter, Jerry Potts praised the political position that Walberg took, opposing the 2008 Wall Street banks bail out (H.R. 1424). Potts said, <i>“He rightly knew those responsible should clean up the mess, not taxpayers.”</i> <b>Very well, if Jerry Potts believed that taxpayers were not responsible for cleaning up the mess of Wall Street Bankers, then likewise, donors to his spouse’s nonprofit should not be responsible for cleaning up his mess as a landlord.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHftNYn2C-plch2iWbpCY6BQA572EsVLNDJT-kCrgQCa8UiC68WO_-Xvi04rdeQ6mYmTgc_LzKbSwv7Zddb1zpd2gBy_DG6D0qiEQ9mz66A8jv_maT6bQW3GHhkJkjjl3IodVZxCpRU4v/s2048/9+2008-11-19-Jerry+Potts+Goodbye+Walberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1538" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHftNYn2C-plch2iWbpCY6BQA572EsVLNDJT-kCrgQCa8UiC68WO_-Xvi04rdeQ6mYmTgc_LzKbSwv7Zddb1zpd2gBy_DG6D0qiEQ9mz66A8jv_maT6bQW3GHhkJkjjl3IodVZxCpRU4v/w300-h400/9+2008-11-19-Jerry+Potts+Goodbye+Walberg.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Jerry Potts wrote this letter after receiving Walberg campaign’s last rent payment in 2008<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">3) The Organizers and Promotors from Walberg’s Campaign</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">There are no delineations between Walberg’s Campaign and Jackson Right to Life’s activities. Walberg’s campaign office stays operational with salaried staff all year-round. Walberg’s campaign signs are always visible from outside of the Jackson Right to Life building, either on the front lawn, displayed from the front windows, or affixed to the front door. In the months leading up to elections every year, the front lawn of Jackson Right to Life pops with an array of pickets for other right-wing candidates <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9LO2wiFAKm2D5UodkBcjJQkiWxcNs1gi2Icx8gmSRi2tRaexI9MY-MGAGXnL-6-LE-RdOzSV3X3yyKNWX61c-tING-xQLr-YbJMEDLox3fRY6rJWEFzdf7muXsse7lsMWFbQ43Zu0UPq/s2048/10+JRTL+Campaign+Exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1399" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9LO2wiFAKm2D5UodkBcjJQkiWxcNs1gi2Icx8gmSRi2tRaexI9MY-MGAGXnL-6-LE-RdOzSV3X3yyKNWX61c-tING-xQLr-YbJMEDLox3fRY6rJWEFzdf7muXsse7lsMWFbQ43Zu0UPq/w400-h274/10+JRTL+Campaign+Exterior.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Campaign signs displayed outside Jackson Right to Life from 2008 to 2020.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">The interior of the building is no less overtly political as the outside. There is not one direction for a person to turn their eye - above door entryways, across windows and every wall – without seeing Walberg campaign signs. Yet, Kathy Potts described the building as a, <b><i><span style="color: #7030a0;">“safe and secure shelter”</span></i></b>, and <b><i>“This is where we meet worried mothers with unborn children and others seeking assistance with pro-life needs.”</i></b>That description evoked a soothing place of refuge, but that is not at all what we see of the building’s decor. Also the term “shelter” comes with specific, necessary responsibilities for non-profits, which JRTL is not equipped for.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJnnocsawV_ddf5AAtQL5aidSt8Xn6il_MZADyEhElO1WHrJT51M9Adm1d7b0rF84SUe2pezZgRIdgA4RFDB8B8DmSzeH4fjElMXf2zBz3up0tPh8qqnXOkkj-PgI_VCa5fQ405Tmvr88/s2048/11+JRTL+Campaign+Interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="2048" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVJnnocsawV_ddf5AAtQL5aidSt8Xn6il_MZADyEhElO1WHrJT51M9Adm1d7b0rF84SUe2pezZgRIdgA4RFDB8B8DmSzeH4fjElMXf2zBz3up0tPh8qqnXOkkj-PgI_VCa5fQ405Tmvr88/w400-h285/11+JRTL+Campaign+Interior.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Photos from inside the Jackson Right to Life nonprofit building from 2008 to 2020<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Jackson Right to Life’s roof fund solicitation on <b>May 1, 2018, 6:23 am</b>, linked to a crowd-funding webpage, hosted by Anedot, an exclusively Republican campaign fundraising vendor. <b>At 6:41 am</b>, the same day, <b><i>Grassroots Jackson</i></b> reposted that solicitation. Then, at <b>8:32 am</b>, that same day, JRTL posted a reply, thanking <b>Peter Baergen</b> and <b>Billie Fox Dawson</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdDHmDBz2FAWEDyliCWvUMd7ruMllgBeOIEWrHJZ7iZB6m_edav3S5VYFENyjpvmzwDK8kB0xbR7Si7iAGqUHGqSfbKVNpZ9sm083EUjUX2SWKsMKlfQGRql7EQxlfb3HAPPk4cDpmdOM/s1453/12+JRTL+Roof+Post.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1453" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdDHmDBz2FAWEDyliCWvUMd7ruMllgBeOIEWrHJZ7iZB6m_edav3S5VYFENyjpvmzwDK8kB0xbR7Si7iAGqUHGqSfbKVNpZ9sm083EUjUX2SWKsMKlfQGRql7EQxlfb3HAPPk4cDpmdOM/w400-h330/12+JRTL+Roof+Post.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Initial solicitation for roof funds on May 1, 2018, thanking Peter Baergen and Billie Fox Dawson<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Staffer Spotlight: Peter Baergen</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"> In 2013, when Peter Baergen was 16 years old, MLive news wrote an article about his creation of a viral Twitter campaign hashtag, <b>#ScheduleIt</b>, to pressure Michigan state legislators to vote on an anti-abortion insurance bill before the end of that legislative year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"> Link to article: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.mlive.com/politics/2013/12/scheduleit_right_to_life_of_mi.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.mlive.com/politics/2013/12/scheduleit_right_to_life_of_mi.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Throughout his teen years, Peter Baergen was involved in a lot of JRTL’s <b><i>Jackson Students for Life </i></b>events. That teen group was created by Kathy Potts for political purposes. Potts described that she formed it out of her<b> </b>concern with the 2008 election outcome, because as Potts said, <b><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">“We needed something to counter that,”</span></i></b>. Quote from mlive article: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2010/12/group_of_area_high_school_and.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2010/12/group_of_area_high_school_and.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>Jackson Students for Life</i> operates and fundraises as an assumed name for Jackson Right to Life <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>per Michigan LARA filings</i>]</span>. In 2014, Peter Baergen joined other volunteer children at the Jackson Right to Life building to canvass the city on behalf of <b>Tim Walberg’s</b> and <b>Mike Shirkey’s</b> political campaigns <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>attached image</i>]</span><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHR_TKE6fOCfv5pS4jxxqZ6E_QE5qyVqDpVDC6R_kHsmRYz5S0y7f1S9jS4-qZqbWUli48sse3neEYQyJB-eFGFBT1GrXk58uazsvIwXMAOdXtNTdfvh9xQZnMZ32vY2s-83O-vs18UAa/s2048/13+Baergen+Kids+Campaign+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHR_TKE6fOCfv5pS4jxxqZ6E_QE5qyVqDpVDC6R_kHsmRYz5S0y7f1S9jS4-qZqbWUli48sse3neEYQyJB-eFGFBT1GrXk58uazsvIwXMAOdXtNTdfvh9xQZnMZ32vY2s-83O-vs18UAa/w400-h300/13+Baergen+Kids+Campaign+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Baergen campaigned with other children for Walberg & Shirkey from the JRTL building<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 2015, at 18 years old, Peter Baergen was hired as the Campaign Manager for <b>Bill Jors for Mayor of the City of Jackson</b>, and again gathered volunteer children to run canvassing operations from the Jackson Right to Life building <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>attached image</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid05zI4Qj6s8qT7k08N18jhNmzs58PXRhPpNFC_hDAtm2bcLUX8u3J4uNWi19Eh1oKwFvIbebm1xiJ1HvdQGKXTiuXdmISOtmoT_7CwdoqSHNXWEEKka57IwSivb_Tg9FNKhhrqJ36Qmsd/s2048/14+Baergen+Kids+Campaign+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1402" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid05zI4Qj6s8qT7k08N18jhNmzs58PXRhPpNFC_hDAtm2bcLUX8u3J4uNWi19Eh1oKwFvIbebm1xiJ1HvdQGKXTiuXdmISOtmoT_7CwdoqSHNXWEEKka57IwSivb_Tg9FNKhhrqJ36Qmsd/w400-h274/14+Baergen+Kids+Campaign+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Peter Baergen, Campaign Manager for Bill Jors, with child canvassers at JRTL building<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 2016, at 19 years old, Peter Baergen was hired as <b>Walberg’s Deputy Campaign Manager</b>, and that same year performed in a Walberg TV advertisement as a vocational trainee, led by Walberg through a tooling facility, for the message favoring job training over college education <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>image below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV-X6Fk69VNyQMylsext-EzotuW4qf2tF68lxlZfFIRzEpYkU38ON8UToXdM8Zg_-IGLHIGW_mW5G3pLGH-THXzxCyjedMnnXHH31_caDqesta2UQcLgvGgwUgm5iYxm85aEvcXD7TACq/s2048/15+Baergen+Walberg+TV+Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV-X6Fk69VNyQMylsext-EzotuW4qf2tF68lxlZfFIRzEpYkU38ON8UToXdM8Zg_-IGLHIGW_mW5G3pLGH-THXzxCyjedMnnXHH31_caDqesta2UQcLgvGgwUgm5iYxm85aEvcXD7TACq/w400-h225/15+Baergen+Walberg+TV+Ad.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Peter Baergen, deputy campaign manager, acted as a vocational trainee in Walberg TV ad<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"> Link to Walberg’s campaign TV ad: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwl1BXAH2eI" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwl1BXAH2eI</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Peter Baergen founded and co-owned the campaign business, <b><i>Wilberforce Strategies</i></b>, and both Baergen and his co-owner publicly opposed the election of Donald Trump on social media. In 2019, Baergen quit politics to work full time on disaster relief evangelism with Franklin Graham’s charity, <b><i>Samaritan’s Purse</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Staffer Spotlight: Billie Fox Dawson<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">In January 2018, Billie Fox Dawson founded the business, <b><i>In to Amen Tactics</i></b>, to produce graphics, messaging, and digital outreach for non-profits and political campaigns. On March 15, 2018, Tim Walberg’s official government Twitter account tested a new constituent engagement gimmick, telling Twitter users to submit questions about the <i>Tax Cuts & Jobs Act</i> using the hashtag <b><i>#AskTim</i></b>. On Twitter, the most engaged person in that activity, by far, was Billie Fox Dawson. She tweeted three friendly questions to Walberg (at 3:43pm, 3:44pm, & 4:02pm), and shortly thereafter, Chris Dawson tweeted a question (at 4:15pm), who had only Tweeted twice before in the previous two years, and never again since. Chris Dawson’s Tweet to Walberg received a single <i>“like”</i>, from Billie Dawson <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>image below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFfnki_R0OQoogt4Vu0-lCqJqymFGPyyt7qINyu3gBhLHdLJ_R7GOvk9Zmin_MrI4HSZiH_2EDuZ4nGrQU__269MjMXiK_0qa-ifpQ2G8I9QtivmpfM-OA4wg-0SZdXTBTmc2lf_84MoX/s1208/16+Chris+Dawson+Tweet.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1208" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFfnki_R0OQoogt4Vu0-lCqJqymFGPyyt7qINyu3gBhLHdLJ_R7GOvk9Zmin_MrI4HSZiH_2EDuZ4nGrQU__269MjMXiK_0qa-ifpQ2G8I9QtivmpfM-OA4wg-0SZdXTBTmc2lf_84MoX/w400-h259/16+Chris+Dawson+Tweet.png" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Chris Dawson’s #AskTim tweet, liked by Billie Fox Dawson<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">During the <i>#AskTim</i> activity, Billie Fox Dawson tweeted defensive replies to constituents who criticized Walberg. On March 16, Walberg Tweeted only two video responses in the entire <i>#AskTim</i> activity. One of them was to Dawson’s question <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Exhibit below</i>]</span>, and the second one was to another constituent’s more challenging question. One month after that <i>#AskTim</i> activity, on <b>April 17, 2018</b>, Walberg’s campaign made its first payment to Billie Fox Dawson for <b><i>“Advertising – internet”</i></b>. It is a violation of House ethics for a Congress member to use campaign funds to pay for services related to government work, or visa-versa. Again, that <i>#AskTim</i> activity was on Walberg’s government Twitter account. Walberg has never done another <i>#AskTim</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzthY2LE3vw0rsg4UQhWmwO7ebrUwVgnGa-ddBoObe_fr4GdlgVvdJOXdSfn2tCbUsecyVyL_2EaL3Mwis7rCZdLgcJCBwQmpwoG4EhhNgbD6ekXTBRTg-lKRZ5hqlPzLVDYXGmcBXXysg/s2715/17+Dawson+Ask+Tim+Payment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2715" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzthY2LE3vw0rsg4UQhWmwO7ebrUwVgnGa-ddBoObe_fr4GdlgVvdJOXdSfn2tCbUsecyVyL_2EaL3Mwis7rCZdLgcJCBwQmpwoG4EhhNgbD6ekXTBRTg-lKRZ5hqlPzLVDYXGmcBXXysg/w400-h170/17+Dawson+Ask+Tim+Payment.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Dawson participated in this #AskTim gimmick one month prior to first payment from campaign<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">On <b>March 29, 2018</b>, Billie Fox Dawson was quoted in an MLive news article on behalf of the group, <b>“<i>Grassroots Jackson</i>”</b> regarding a petition to push Michigan’s DNR to allow a large Christian cross structure to stay in place at a state park in Grass Lake. Grassroots Jackson was founded in December, 2016 as nothing more than a PO Box. The group then started Facebook page on May 5, 2017 mostly to just repost local conservative links and news stories. The <i>“about”</i> section on the Facebook page said that they were <i>“Paid for with regulated funds”</i>, and that they were, <i>“not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee”</i>. There is no filing in Michigan’s LARA system, nor any Campaign filings related to Grassroots Jackson, nor any public information identifying the leadership behind the group. On May 1, 2018, JRTL’s roof fundraiser solicitation was reposted by Grassroots Jackson 18-minutes after it was initially posted by Jackson Right to Life. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">On <b>June 15, 2018</b>, Billie Fox Dawson received her first salary payment from Walberg’s campaign, and the very next day, Jackson Right to Life thanked Dawson for creating new graphic designs for the organization’s Facebook profile and cover pictures <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4OgUzpD_yKwdYYL0jAAarZZaxVhLgc5VHdqtGZDdirn1buRU3tF-4sCs62-4hENi5FieUlMxmueOIi9hiJ96X-mFOButZlJ2a3-P79GHgsnr_znYbjhr8ooOxwE1MSOPz6BSyb329UpD/s2048/18+Dawson+Salary+JRTL+Thanks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="2048" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4OgUzpD_yKwdYYL0jAAarZZaxVhLgc5VHdqtGZDdirn1buRU3tF-4sCs62-4hENi5FieUlMxmueOIi9hiJ96X-mFOButZlJ2a3-P79GHgsnr_znYbjhr8ooOxwE1MSOPz6BSyb329UpD/w400-h283/18+Dawson+Salary+JRTL+Thanks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>JRTL posted this the day after Dawson’s first salary payment from Walberg’s campaign<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Billie Fox Dawson continues to do both government and campaign political work. In 2018, Dawson created ads and ran social media for <b>Sarah Lightner’s</b> campaign. On <b>January 7, 2019</b> Dawson was hired by Walberg’s district government office as <b><i>“Constituent Relations Spec”</i></b>, while simultaneously remaining a year-round salaried employee on Walberg’s campaign. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Most recently, from June through October 2020, Billie Fox Dawson’s did marketing and social media work for <b>Craig Pappin for District Judge</b>’s campaign. In July 2020, Jackson Right to Life began to display large Craig Pappin campaign signs in front of their building. Craig Pappin’s campaign signs are modeled exactly off of Walberg’s campaign signs, just with different colors <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit on page 9</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Baergen and Dawson’s Work Together</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">The paths of Peter Baergen and Billie Fox Dawson had crossed a few times before they formally joined together on the campaign committee for <b>Teri Aiuto, Republican for State Representative</b>. Their work for the Aiuto Campaign coincided with the kickoff of JRTL’s roof fundraiser. On April 29, 2018, Baergen’s company, <i>Wilberforce Strategies</i> was paid by Aiuto’s campaign for “<i>In House Design and Website</i>”. The fundraising platform used on Aiuto’s website was <b>Anedot</b>, the same fundraising platform used for the JRTL roof. On May 1, the day that the roof fundraiser kicked off, Dawson’s company, <i>In to Amen Tactics</i> was paid by Aiuto’s campaign for, <i>“in house graphic design-social media”</i> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiJ-S2ZXg-pDJySG0dj7RmTab2jMvd9mYUgE5k8E6icr8BtJg7FClAdXLfcZHbZByBlq6OoEU4N-EXD5ZAXL0mTGZaOU4Po0pCQwRmQ5wK0ZSp3g8fZQR6_MDbNUD_9zUm69GlflqUFkJ/s2048/19+Baergen+and+Dawson+Business.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiJ-S2ZXg-pDJySG0dj7RmTab2jMvd9mYUgE5k8E6icr8BtJg7FClAdXLfcZHbZByBlq6OoEU4N-EXD5ZAXL0mTGZaOU4Po0pCQwRmQ5wK0ZSp3g8fZQR6_MDbNUD_9zUm69GlflqUFkJ/w400-h250/19+Baergen+and+Dawson+Business.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Baergen and Dawson worked on Teri Aiuto’s campaign at same time as JRTL’s roof fundraiser<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Baergen and Dawson’s professional skills for design, social media, and fundraising, used in Teri Aiuto’s campaign, were all applicable simultaneously in the creation of Jackson Right to Life’s roof fundraiser.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Neither Peter Baergen, nor Billie Fox Dawson stood to personally benefit, nor did they appear to receive any financial compensation for the work that they did on JRTL’s roof fundraiser. They both appear to be very idealistic and trusting of the people that they have worked for, and there is no reason to suspect that they knew of any potential wrongdoing on the part of the leadership of Jackson Right to Life with regard to the roof fundraiser.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">4) The “Generous Gift” from Barker Weber</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: #fde5f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">:</span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">From 2008 to 2017, Jackson Right to Life listed their corporate sponsors on their website, which included Kathy Potts’ employer at the time, <b>Anderson Insurance Agency Inc</b>. In 2018, the list of corporate sponsors was removed, and not put back <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see Archive.org</i>]</span>. The removal seems to have coincided with Kathy Potts departure from that employer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">JRTL announced the completion of their roof fundraiser on May 22, 2018 (10:21 pm), on Facebook. That night, (12:16 am), <b>Timothy Walz</b>, an executive at Barker Weber Insurance Agency, Inc., posted a comment of congratulations. The next day, May 23, 2018 (7:56 pm), JRTL responded, thanking <b>Daniel Weaver</b> (President of Barker Weber) and Walz by name for completing the fundraiser with a, <b>“<i>generous gift</i>”</b>. JRTL also linked to the Barker Weber website in their comment <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjkdAyuU2N-JkPgoU2ahjiv9NQWl__Z0xStx9RoUR9IWWe2u5QmCrMKDg2M73W3gX5skSQiSaVVYB1NqZMgM0SyT0VeWO4_UdoThNy2x9RJns-StLF7QORUD_EaSlv7WlEeM6NEAyc3FQ/s2048/20+Barker+Weber+Donation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1719" data-original-width="2048" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjkdAyuU2N-JkPgoU2ahjiv9NQWl__Z0xStx9RoUR9IWWe2u5QmCrMKDg2M73W3gX5skSQiSaVVYB1NqZMgM0SyT0VeWO4_UdoThNy2x9RJns-StLF7QORUD_EaSlv7WlEeM6NEAyc3FQ/w400-h336/20+Barker+Weber+Donation.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i>Just before Kathy Potts started work at Barker Weber, they topped off her roof fundraiser</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">About two weeks later, Kathy Potts began working for Barker Weber Insurance Agency.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjaPQ2Iseh_th_IQfU51F98c-_ZbQsau7KoaEPUuDmKb3o3WZTK4eqjpzXBJORXWzMNJwpBAuUTReaWyk_GGABsjZeZ1maeTlhD4mW2zJG3URRDJCb1cNntz7AK2ACBTy6i-_nYM-d1R4/s1621/21+Potts+Barker+Weber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1621" data-original-width="1369" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjaPQ2Iseh_th_IQfU51F98c-_ZbQsau7KoaEPUuDmKb3o3WZTK4eqjpzXBJORXWzMNJwpBAuUTReaWyk_GGABsjZeZ1maeTlhD4mW2zJG3URRDJCb1cNntz7AK2ACBTy6i-_nYM-d1R4/w338-h400/21+Potts+Barker+Weber.jpg" width="338" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Kathy Potts began working for Barker Weber right after they donated to JRTL’s roof fundraiser<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I asked Walz and Weaver if their donation to the roof fundraiser was a corporate tax-deduction <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see questions in Appendix</i>]</span>. The flyer for the <b>Focus on Life</b> fundraiser dinner <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit page 4</i>]</span>, said that Corporate reservations to the fundraiser <b>“<i>may be tax-deductible</i>”</b>. So, if Barker Weber’s donation was tax deductible, then essentially our taxes went to the personal enrichment of Jerry Potts, and to a new roof for Walberg’s campaign headquarters.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f8; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">CONCLUSION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>Were Any Laws Broken<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->All legal analysis was decidedly outside the scope of this report. I am an amateur researcher, blogging about things I observed on public platforms. <b>I am not a lawyer.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>Who Benefitted<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Kathy Potts</b> and <b>Jerry Potts</b> had the most knowledge and control over the scope of the roof fundraiser, and also personally benefitted financially from those non-profit funds. Jerry Potts benefitted from having the non-profit donors pay for repairs on his private property.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Tim Walberg</b> indirectly benefitted from his longtime relationship with Kathy Potts and Jerry Potts. He got a new roof for his campaign headquarters. Walberg had some knowledge and responsibility over the activities of his staffers. There were several opportunities for him to intervene. Jackson Right to Life would have coordinated that construction work with him as a fellow tenant, during the 2018 general election period.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>Injured Parties<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>The donors</b> to Jackson Right to Life were misled about the <i>“desperate”</i> need for the roof funds, and the description of the building as a, <i>“shelter”</i> for <i>“worried mothers”</i>, which it is not. The donors were not informed that their money would enrich the building’s landlord, and cover his neglect of repairs on his private property.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>Areas for Further Inquiry<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Jackson Right to Life has never filed a full IRS Form 990</b>, which would publicly disclose their total annual receipts, disbursements, and holdings. Instead, each year they file a short 990-N (e-Postcard), in which they claim that their gross annual receipts are less than $50,000. Frankly, I do not believe that. In 2018, JRTL would easily have received more than $50,000 from three activities: 1) the roof fundraiser; 2) the <i>Jackson Students for Life</i> trip to the March for Life in Washington, DC; and 3) the Focus on Life benefit dinner and silent auction. <b>There should be a public audit of JRTL’s books.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Steven Meyer<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Monroe, MI<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">November 2, 2020<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="background-color: #fde5f8; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">APPENDIX: Questions for Fundraiser Participants<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>On the morning of November 2, 2020, I sent the following messages, and questions to the individuals involved in Jackson Right to Life’s 2018 roof fundraiser. As stated in the letter, I will honor any and all wishes for anonymity in their responses, or as permitted, I will include their responses in a follow-up report. <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b>Subject: Questions About Jackson Right to Life’s Roof Fundraiser in 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">Good Morning <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[<i>name of fundraiser participant</i>]</span>,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">My name is Steven Meyer, and I have drafted a report for my blog about the fundraiser from 2018, for the new roof on the Jackson Right to Life building. I became interested in that event while researching our Congressman, Tim Walberg. I am seeking to include your comments, and any records or information that you have on that subject in my report, or in a follow-up report on my blog, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/">www.TakeCareTim.com</a></span>. I will honor your preferences, with respect to any information that you provide. Based on your preferences, I will either credit you by name, or anonymously, or keep your responses entirely on background. To date, the information that I have gathered for this report has been entirely through public sources. I intend to publish my initial report this week.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;">These are my questions for you <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[<i>per addressee below</i>]</span>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">--<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Kathy Potts </b>(Executive Director, Principle Officer, former President of JRTL, 2004 - present)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>emailed to Potts’ public JRTL email and the organization’s “info” email address</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) Did Jackson Right to Life’s board of directors approve the decision to solicit donors for the roof repair fundraiser? Did Jackson Right to Life’s Treasurer, Phillip Berkemeier sign off on paying out those roof repair costs using donor funds?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Was there any discussions with the other tenants, or the landlord, Gerald Potts, about who was responsible for paying for the roof repairs? Does Jackson Right to Life’s lease designate the non-profit as responsible for major structural repairs? Was the landlord aware of the plans to hold a special non-profit fundraiser for those repairs on his privately owned building?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) Did Jackson Right to Life’s donors contribute more than the $16,000 that you solicited for the new roof? What was the total gross for the roof fundraiser?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) How much money did Timothy Walz and Daniel Weaver contribute in the roof fundraiser? Was their contribution designated as an official corporate donation from Barker Weber? Was their contribution designated as tax-deductible? Did you discuss the roof fundraiser with them during your hiring process at Barker Weber?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">5) Was the contractor’s final invoice for the roof repairs higher or lower than the gross total from the fundraiser? What was the total cost of the contractor’s work? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">6) Were the roof repairs discussed during the 2018 Focus on Life event, the week before the roof fundraiser kicked off? What was the gross total raised at Jackson’s 2018 Focus on Life event from donations, dinner tickets, and the auction?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">7) How much in annual gross receipts did Jackson Right to Life raise in 2018? Are the itemized financial records for Jackson Right to Life available for the public to look at? Can you show me where to find those?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">8) Did you solicit help, or provide direction on the fundraiser to the staff of the Walberg for Congress campaign?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Gerald Potts </b>(Landlord of JRTL / Walberg for Congress building, 2006-2008, 2010-present)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>emailed to Potts’ public accounting office email address</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) As the building landlord, when did you become aware about the roof repair fundraiser that Jackson Right to Life conducted for your property?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Don’t you, as the building’s landlord, have the responsibility for major repairs like that? Did the tenants of the building ever discuss the need for the new roof with you? Why should Jackson Right to Life’s donors take on the financial burden of those repairs?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) Does the lease agreement place the burden of major repairs for the building on Jackson Right to Life? Is the lease agreement for Jackson Right to Life available for the public to see? Could you provide a copy of that for me? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) What was the total gross for Jackson Right to Life’s roof fundraiser?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">5) As the landlord, were you ever involved in discussions with Tim Golding of the Covenant Construction Group, or with any other potential contractors for the roof repairs? What was the difference in amount between the money raised for the roof repairs and the final invoice for the roof repairs? Which contractor did the roof repairs for the Jackson Right to Life building?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">6) Does Jackson Right to Life pay rent to you? Have you ever been the recipient of any other funds from Jackson Right to Life?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Phillip Berkemeier</b> (Director/Treasurer of Jackson Right to Life, 2009 – 2011, 2015 - present)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>emailed to Bekemeier’s public law office email address</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) As treasurer, when did you become aware of the plans for Jackson Right to Life to conduct a fundraiser for the building’s roof repairs?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Did you and the other Jackson Right to Life board members approve the decision to solicit donors for the roof repair funds?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) As treasurer, did you sign off on paying out those donor funds for the roof repairs? Who did Jackson Right to Life pay those funds to: the contractor, the landlord, or someone else?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) How much in donor funds were paid out for the roof repairs?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">5) Was the Jackson Right to Life building’s landlord, Gerald Potts involved in the discussion with the tenants of the building, or the non-profit board members, about who was responsible for paying for major repairs on the building?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">6) Did the building’s landlord agree that the nonprofit donors were the responsible party to pay for major repairs on his property?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">7) Are the financial records for Jackson Right to Life available for the public to look at? As treasurer, can you show me where to find those?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">8) Are Jackson Right to Life’s monetary holdings kept in more than one account? Does the board need to approve any and all of Jackson Right to Life’s financial disbursements?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Tim Walberg</b> (principal campaign office inside JRTL building 2006-2008, & 2010-present)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>submitted message through the Contact portal on Walberg for Congress Website</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) Were you involved in the discussions or the planning with your fellow tenants, for the major roof repairs that occurred on your campaign office’s building in 2018?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Did you ever discuss the need for major repairs with your building’s landlord, Gerald Potts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) When did you become aware that your co-tenant, Jackson Right to Life would conduct a fundraiser for those roof repairs? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) Were you aware that your paid campaign staffers were involved in the organizing and promotion of Jackson Right to Life’s roof fundraiser? Did you or your campaign leadership direct their involvement in that?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">5) Why did your landlord not pay for those major roof repairs?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Timothy Walz and Daniel Weaver </b>(Executives at Barker Weber Insurance Agency, Inc.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>emailed to their two public insurance company email addresses</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) When did you become aware of the roof fundraiser at Jackson Right to Life?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Was your contribution to the fundraiser made on behalf of Barker Weber, or on behalf of yourselves as an individuals?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) How much money did you, or Barker Weber contribute to that fundraiser?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) Was your contribution to the Jackson Right to Life roof fundraiser tax deductible?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">5) Was your contribution made before or after the decision to hire the Executive Director of Jackson Right to Life at Barker Weber? Was the roof fundraiser discussed at all during that hiring process?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Peter Baergen </b>(Walberg campaign staffer, 2016, 2018)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>attempted, but unable to find public contact info for Peter Baergen for this report</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Billie Fox Dawson </b>(Walberg campaign staffer & government staffer, 2018 – present)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Note: <i>emailed to Dawson’s In To Amen Tactics address, & received delivery error. Unable to find alternate public contact info for Dawson to send these questions.</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">1) What was your involvement in the roof fundraiser conducted by Jackson Right to Life in May 2018? When did you first become aware of the plans for that fundraiser? Did leadership at Jackson Right to Life or the Walberg campaign direct your involvement in the roof fundraiser?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">2) Were you aware of any individuals who stood to personally profit from Jackson Right to Life’s roof fundraiser?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">3) Was anyone else from the Walberg for Congress campaign involved in the roof fundraiser with Jackson Right to Life?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">4) Does Jackson Right to Life and the Walberg for Congress campaign collaborate or share resources on a regular basis?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">--<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">Sincerely, Steven Meyer <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[attached my contact info]</span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-78969293023409613722020-10-24T19:26:00.005-04:002020-10-24T19:26:59.312-04:00Video: Tim Walberg Agrees Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lJ628zQBI-A" width="320" youtube-src-id="lJ628zQBI-A"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">At the October 22, 2020 candidate forum hosted by the Lenawee County NAACP, Tim Walberg was challenged by Gretchen Driskell on his past statements about Social Security. Walberg flatly denied ever supporting privatizing Social Security or calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme. This video, and these sources below show that Walberg’s denials were lies.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Sources:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">June 25, 2010 - iCaucus Interview (10:30 mark):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mi07rawfootage/walberg-icaucus-interview" style="color: #954f72;">https://soundcloud.com/mi07rawfootage/walberg-icaucus-interview</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">September 10, 2010 - Schauer for Congress Ad:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2SyZp0f-o" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2SyZp0f-o</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">February 14, 2012 - Heritage Foundation Bloggers Briefing (22:30 mark):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.blogtalkradio.com/thebloggersbriefing/2012/02/14/the-bloggers-briefing" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.blogtalkradio.com/thebloggersbriefing/2012/02/14/the-bloggers-briefing</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">October 22, 2020 - Lenawee NAACP Candidate Forum:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/855307521190586/videos/427377361566518" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.facebook.com/855307521190586/videos/427377361566518</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-43935213943883767162020-10-11T08:50:00.000-04:002020-10-11T08:50:14.006-04:00Video: Walberg Dismisses Pandemic Fatalities<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FO0cb4_OIz4" width="320" youtube-src-id="FO0cb4_OIz4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On September 25, 2020 U.S. Congress member, Tim Walberg (MI-07) called into WKHM - Jackson's NewsTalk radio, and spoke to host, Greg O'Connor about the ongoing pandemic. Walberg dismissed the over 200,000 fatalities, and the fact that it would continue to increase. Walberg stoked doubt in the advice of medical doctors and epidemiologists, and tried to stoke doubt in the efficacy of masks for safety.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link to audio source (Walberg says other awful, irresponsible things in that same interview): <a href="https://www.wkhm.com/episode/congressman-tim-walberg-33/">https://www.wkhm.com/episode/congressman-tim-walberg-33/</a></span></div><p></p>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-13578647029495815902020-09-30T03:18:00.004-04:002020-09-30T13:33:04.024-04:00Unprincipled Walberg: Coward Lawmaker<p> Link to Printable PDF: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1liGp15L_xVuwiJC2X_ieSMxqyfAjxB_G/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1liGp15L_xVuwiJC2X_ieSMxqyfAjxB_G/view?usp=sharing</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHby_Tdkk4zbAf8wZYEwAb9q-y73iAJAIOPmLxjyeCBaO3DfuZfR-V3DrgbJmKx6_7oU_FeQy4jRZuYHuBYGE48mi46FYkRPcezZFupvFRBgPH62bvAXFjiQxBFObOC7vzGh7IA6JeV0e5/s2546/1-Header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="2546" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHby_Tdkk4zbAf8wZYEwAb9q-y73iAJAIOPmLxjyeCBaO3DfuZfR-V3DrgbJmKx6_7oU_FeQy4jRZuYHuBYGE48mi46FYkRPcezZFupvFRBgPH62bvAXFjiQxBFObOC7vzGh7IA6JeV0e5/w400-h194/1-Header.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Source of graph (<i>Financial Times</i>): <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6ffca03e-e936-11e8-a34c-663b3f553b35" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.ft.com/content/6ffca03e-e936-11e8-a34c-663b3f553b35</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #ff6100; font-size: 16pt;">Introduction </span></i></b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">A chronology and analysis of Tim Walberg’s absence from Congress’s rescue of the auto industry in December 2008. The excuses from Walberg’s office for that absence have been inconsistent. In subsequent years, Walberg has refused to tell the public his stance on that legislation. Every other Michigan Congress member voted in favor of the auto rescue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">After losing the 2008 election, for the duration of the term, Walberg never voted in the House or updated his government website. The auto rescue bill challenged Walberg’s claimed principles, as explored in the <i><span style="color: #7030a0;">table below</span>.</i> Today, verging on another economic recession, we should know if our Representative has any principles left to uphold. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgoq74DyNBU-YCuTk-8Y6csYa_VAZDDFqBfR6hugmrqElTChGh9y0xbfYt8tDvmq3YvK1pgA62Us_pPReXxnPmS_1rGqPCiMoAmkovouKkft6G0FUMicayOyg3mL_aE4-WFNmXd5yRurHr/s2570/1a-Table+Auto+Rescue+Dilemma.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2570" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgoq74DyNBU-YCuTk-8Y6csYa_VAZDDFqBfR6hugmrqElTChGh9y0xbfYt8tDvmq3YvK1pgA62Us_pPReXxnPmS_1rGqPCiMoAmkovouKkft6G0FUMicayOyg3mL_aE4-WFNmXd5yRurHr/w400-h190/1a-Table+Auto+Rescue+Dilemma.png" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 97, 0); text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff6100; font-size: medium;"><b><i>CHRONOLOGY</i></b></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #ff6100;"> & ANALYSIS OF </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #373467;">WALBERG & THE AUTO RESCUE:</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Friday, October 3, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Wall Street Bailout</span> – <span style="color: #0070c0;">Washington, DC</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Two months before the rescue of the auto industry, Congress passed the Wall Street bailout (H.R. 1424). Walberg campaigned proudly against that bill, based on his claimed principles. Walberg even publicly criticized of the Republican President, <b><i>“I am extremely disappointed in President Bush”</i></b> for pushing the bailout <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsJUhwu7hWCA_k3MrCtWQMr3MkfE311ZIfxWL92nla-xmT9dB8tNnHcAs_V3awTHxxUU9GFM0_QAsCsrTv3QzRJ4Mi9xk27cad5RVkSQSR0-YpXNcl9CNuZde-tDdwGjswO0x_R6J091X/s2618/2-Wall+Street+Bailout.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="2618" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsJUhwu7hWCA_k3MrCtWQMr3MkfE311ZIfxWL92nla-xmT9dB8tNnHcAs_V3awTHxxUU9GFM0_QAsCsrTv3QzRJ4Mi9xk27cad5RVkSQSR0-YpXNcl9CNuZde-tDdwGjswO0x_R6J091X/w400-h184/2-Wall+Street+Bailout.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Webcap from Walberg’s campaign website, He Opposed Wall Street bailout & Criticized GOP President<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Walberg Used to Be Willing to Criticize a Republican President</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg’s criticism of the Bush Administration stands in stark contrast to Walberg’s current praise of everything the Trump administration does, including the <b>increasingly expensive farm bailouts</b> which are a result of the administration’s own tariffs and trade wars. Hardline, free-market, economic conservatives have always opposed those things that Walberg now praises. In 2008, it was not a mark of distinction to oppose the Wall Street bailout, because the majority of House Republicans (108), and a lot of House Democrats (63) also opposed it. Six Michigan Congress Members, both Democrats and Republicans opposed it. The bill, with Senate Amendments ultimately passed the House <span style="color: #7030a0;">(Yea: 263, Nay: 171)</span>, and then was signed into law by George W. Bush the same day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Friday, October 31, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg Ceased Updating Government Website</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->When Walberg lost the 2008 election, he stopped posting any content on his official government webpage for the duration of the term <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. So, there was never an update about the rescue of the auto industry. Prior to the election, the website was frequently updated with features, <i>“Walberg Weekly Wrap Up”</i>, News, a Blog, and more.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEMTLxo227O-B5_YQekK5nQ8PHe3RWFpK2XydExf_ReOe6I2lEYY799AUmvRDOVL0m6dWZMuWdENHU3cfGxOHRP7XNctdinnBS6LQz8-xeGgfBhfQjE7n8CpBK8nQEEu8qTiR90yE7mmW/s2048/3-Oct+31%252C+2008+-+Last+Update+ever+to+Walberg%2527s+Gov%2527t+Website.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="2048" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEMTLxo227O-B5_YQekK5nQ8PHe3RWFpK2XydExf_ReOe6I2lEYY799AUmvRDOVL0m6dWZMuWdENHU3cfGxOHRP7XNctdinnBS6LQz8-xeGgfBhfQjE7n8CpBK8nQEEu8qTiR90yE7mmW/w400-h233/3-Oct+31%252C+2008+-+Last+Update+ever+to+Walberg%2527s+Gov%2527t+Website.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg stopped all communication through his government webpage after he lost the 2008 election<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Tuesday, November 4, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Election Day</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg lost the election to Democratic candidate, Mark Schauer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Thursday, November 20, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Congress Announced Special Session</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Announcement that Congress would return for a special session to rescue the auto industry in two and a half weeks: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2008/11/20/news/economy/auto_industry_bailout/index.htm" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://money.cnn.com/2008/11/20/news/economy/auto_industry_bailout/index.htm</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Sunday, November 30, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg’s Press Secretary Demoted</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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Lahr then left Walberg’s office one week later <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>per House Statement of Disbursements</i>]</span><span style="color: black;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Sunday, December 7, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Congress Returned for Auto Rescue</span><span style="color: black;"> – </span><span style="color: #0070c0;">Washington, DC</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Walberg’s Press Secretary, Matthew Lahr was demoted & left right at the start of the auto rescue</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Wednesday, December 10, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">House Voted on Auto Rescue</span> – <span style="color: #0070c0;">Washington, DC</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg was absent from all seven House votes this day, including the critical vote on the auto industry rescue bill (H.R. 7321). The split across the House of Representatives between support and opposition for saving the American auto industry <span style="color: #7030a0;">(Yea: 237, Nay: 170) </span>was very similar to vote for saving Wall Street banks <span style="color: #7030a0;">(Yea: 263, Nay: 171)</span>. <b>Michigan was unique though</b>. The entire Michigan delegation, minus Walberg, supported it, even by those who opposed the Wall Street bailout <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see table below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhEpvpuKBEf8gWrGjcpnzaTtqzDIKdMr6VZDDC_ImAjMYJ_w_345CficMOMBqNVxjJ4HqKaEbyW7kelcA6gE3kj5J_Ork4v6em0_DqCXWdjGDPD5Mm2u0R79M7xLIkEP1OuTOCqzQOuCz/s2048/5a-Table+2008+MI+Delegation.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="2048" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhEpvpuKBEf8gWrGjcpnzaTtqzDIKdMr6VZDDC_ImAjMYJ_w_345CficMOMBqNVxjJ4HqKaEbyW7kelcA6gE3kj5J_Ork4v6em0_DqCXWdjGDPD5Mm2u0R79M7xLIkEP1OuTOCqzQOuCz/w400-h223/5a-Table+2008+MI+Delegation.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Friday, December 12, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg Returned to Michigan & Talked to Reporters <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg traveled back to Michigan from DC <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>per House Statement of Disbursements</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Same Day - <span style="color: #c00000;">Article: MLive (Jackson)</span><span style="color: #e95186;"> </span>–<span style="color: #e95186;"> <span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">by Bob Wheaton<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg’s Chief of Staff, Joe Wicks told <b>Bob Wheaton</b>, a reporter for MLive (Jackson), that Walberg was absent from the vote due to <b>shoulder surgery </b><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>. Then Walberg called Wheaton back, to revise his Chief of Staff’s earlier statement, to claim that it was a different type of surgery, but refused to specify. Walberg also told Wheaton that he would have voted to rescue the auto industry, without any note of misgivings. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8ogJ1ZFUXogpko7FTUWt7DpL_YY0PRp2XCOayRc-kGGNPvj_HeWRMSEsYPOSrA-rVCL7WtTslDtdwGEdFx1vZ4xW-G5KkV-JpO-ooc0S7I39CBtMukXJM_xdzhsQBzReOH2_1mSWYVmH/s1639/6-Chief+Contradiction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1639" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8ogJ1ZFUXogpko7FTUWt7DpL_YY0PRp2XCOayRc-kGGNPvj_HeWRMSEsYPOSrA-rVCL7WtTslDtdwGEdFx1vZ4xW-G5KkV-JpO-ooc0S7I39CBtMukXJM_xdzhsQBzReOH2_1mSWYVmH/w400-h295/6-Chief+Contradiction.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">This LSJ editorial would not have occurred if Walberg’s office issued a press release about his absence<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>December 17, 2008 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Article: Ann Arbor News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg told Ann Arbor News reporter, Sonia L. Gottfried that he was in a <b>Maryland hospital</b> during the vote, and then <b>recovered from that non-specific surgery at staffer’s home</b> over the next two days <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qrWIRdo2mFPyXRh-SDhNJWvQaJddIoUOpMqqHjhFLdqRBc4Q7nCtZl78B-pLR0DaAbAGhiglmgnSlTkp8FLr8T8xbLJ32jNQ3n_1vKiweObuWZqFd3bSrCuyKl5qbu3iLEOdKdb-n0cr/s2048/10-Recuperate+in+Staffers+Home.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2048" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qrWIRdo2mFPyXRh-SDhNJWvQaJddIoUOpMqqHjhFLdqRBc4Q7nCtZl78B-pLR0DaAbAGhiglmgnSlTkp8FLr8T8xbLJ32jNQ3n_1vKiweObuWZqFd3bSrCuyKl5qbu3iLEOdKdb-n0cr/w400-h264/10-Recuperate+in+Staffers+Home.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2008/12/walberg_missed_auto_vote_but_h.html">https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2008/12/walberg_missed_auto_vote_but_h.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Walberg Freeloads in Home of Subordinate and our Government Office</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->From 2008 FEC receipts, we can see that Walberg’s Chief of Staff and two-time Campaign Manager, <b>Joe Wicks lived in a two-story home, with 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms in Springfield, Virginia</b>, 14 miles from the Capitol <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>property specs: Zillow.com</i>]</span>. Joe Wicks was the first staffer to comment to reporters about Walberg having ‘<i>shoulder surgery’</i>, so Walberg was probably staying at Wicks’ house at the time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->For 12 years, <b>Walberg has used our Capitol office as a makeshift free lodging</b>, when not crashing at the home of a subordinate staffer. Walberg used to brag about living out of our Capitol office, until exposés reported that it was mostly male Tea Party Republicans who turned their government offices into dormitories, which Congress members never did until the 1990’s. Those same Tea Partiers also opposed calls for a public accounting of the members who did that, and the associated costs to taxpayers. Walberg no longer brags about it, so I asked him about it at a town hall on <b>January 31, 2020</b>, and Walberg complained that construction noise at the office building makes it hard to sleep, and said, <b><i>“They should’a paid me!”</i></b>, overlooking the fact that we already do pay him:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: medium;">Video (37:05 mark): <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://youtu.be/id2pkGcX2TA">https://youtu.be/id2pkGcX2TA</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>May 24, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Republican Women’s Candidate Forum</span> – <span style="color: #1f4e79;">Hillsdale, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKU_0bbD_hyuHd5Wrix1ZSFBvRGENqz9F5XqIJh6iN3rvIOJXDmEO64uVuvOVPrtgIKHwO6qk3hqese0IQ6A_th2ADYARlN005gPCy0AKmnb1xOpz9Jhl77oCX71KarKg4bjx9dnmaQAlH/s2048/11-2008+Lie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKU_0bbD_hyuHd5Wrix1ZSFBvRGENqz9F5XqIJh6iN3rvIOJXDmEO64uVuvOVPrtgIKHwO6qk3hqese0IQ6A_th2ADYARlN005gPCy0AKmnb1xOpz9Jhl77oCX71KarKg4bjx9dnmaQAlH/w400-h250/11-2008+Lie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Xdk0EaAMY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Xdk0EaAMY</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #4472c4;">Submitted Question:</span></b> “When was the last time you voted in Congress, the month and year please?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “<b><i>December 2008</i></b>. But, I remember <b><i>November 2008</i></b>, calling the <b><i>key vote</i></b>, the last <b><i>key vote</i></b> of my career, was against the financial bailout. That was a tough vote, when your President comes and says, ‘<i>the world is gonna fall apart unless you support this</i>’. And you realize that isn’t true. That’s not how our system of government works. That’s not how our financial system works. That’s not we work. And to do the bailout that that entailed, was the wrong vote. And I remember voting solidly against that vote, and I think it’s been proved to this day that that was the right vote to have taken for this country, for its citizens, and even for the financial institutions.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“You know, sometimes you have to develop a philosophy that’s solid, that’s tested and true when you go into political office because <b>the pressures that come</b>, not only from the President, but from a electorate as well. When sometimes you have to say, ‘<i>Listen, I will support my electorate in every single case, in majority, unless they ask me to do something that violates my conscience or my Constitution</i>.’ And that’s where <b><i>principle </i></b>comes in. And I’m afraid in shifting times with Mark Schauer and others, their votes are for sale to who will bring them back into elective office…” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see video for full response</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I went into Congress for my two-year stint in tough times, and I look forward to going back with experience in knowing how to go through those tough times, with <b><i>clear principles</i></b> that work. As opposed to fresh new ideas. I mean,<b> </b>how do you like all this <b><i>hopey-changey</i></b> now <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>quoting <b>Sarah Palin</b>, February 6, 2010, Tea Party Convention - Nashville, TN</i>]</span> with the fresh, new ideas of our President?”<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Walberg Lied to Women’s Group and then Bragged About His Principles</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Her innocent, kindhearted question smacked squarely into Walberg’s sore spot. To which, Walberg responded with <b>a two-worded lie, <i>“December 2008</i></b><i>”</i>, before skedaddling away to focus on an irrelevant vote to her question, and then bragged about his <b><i>“clear principles”</i></b>. The auto rescue was no less of a <b><i>“key vote”</i></b> than the Wall Street bailout. Walberg’s attempt to downplay the importance of the auto rescue seems to be a subconscious defense impulse against his guilt for having missed the vote on it.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>July 8, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">GOP Primary Debate</span> – <span style="color: #1f4e79;">Adrian, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8z0pXEkNehc6mttLfmddyOABaPTKpy5nPFtI7bQN6S6u3ISbsq0EPhyphenhypheng2LmY7T87csm04TbrYSRdO9-lqK9q1usyvqtG7JAtCJS9O9H6iYpyn06e81VGtKPHuKf2QvsvtGYhFiIsuKvm/s2048/12-Walberg+Too+Long+in+Front+of+John.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8z0pXEkNehc6mttLfmddyOABaPTKpy5nPFtI7bQN6S6u3ISbsq0EPhyphenhypheng2LmY7T87csm04TbrYSRdO9-lqK9q1usyvqtG7JAtCJS9O9H6iYpyn06e81VGtKPHuKf2QvsvtGYhFiIsuKvm/w400-h250/12-Walberg+Too+Long+in+Front+of+John.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://youtu.be/v71bV41zJog">https://youtu.be/v71bV41zJog</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Full Exchange<o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">My Analysis</span><o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Rooney:</span></b> “In 2008, I believe it was, after you lost the election to Mark Schauer, Congressman Schauer, your voting record’s not there anymore. You basically stopped voting. Why?”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Brian Rooney</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> started smartly, by presenting the question using simple, unchallenging facts for Walberg’s to comment on. Rooney reserved his more pointed, challenging questions for the follow-ups.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “I was on an operation table and a recovery table, during five and a half hours of voting that happened one - on the last day of the term, that is normally not the last day of the term, it’s already finished - a non-elective, scheduled surgery. My physician was willing to hook me up to a <b>leg bag</b>, a gurney, and take me to the floor if it was necessary. <b>It was not</b>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“<b>You could have read <i>that</i></b>, had you been a resident of this district, in the papers that reported why I was not there for that final voting process.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">No newspapers had those details. Per the <b><i>“leg bag”</i></b>, a lot of people on catheters lead very productive lives. On May 8, 2020, in response to the increase in absentee voting, Walberg told radio host, Steve Gruber, <b><i>“If you can’t get to the polls and vote, you shouldn’t be voting.”</i></b> So, based on his own standards, if Walberg was incapable of voting while on a catheter, he should have resigned from Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Audio source:<span style="color: #7030a0;"></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://stevegruber.podbean.com/e/tim-walberg-michael-flynn-release-of-all-the-documents-from-the-house-intelligence-committee/">https://stevegruber.podbean.com/e/tim-walberg-michael-flynn-release-of-all-the-documents-from-the-house-intelligence-committee/</a></span><span style="color: #7030a0;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Rooney:</span></b> “I’ll tell you what I did read, Congressman Walberg, is that your campaign spokesman said that you were having elective shoulder surgery, in a press release. You came back and said, no, I was not having elective shoulder surgery. And then the reporter said, well, what surgery were you having, and you refused to answer. So, I think it’s important you be accurate as far as what you were doing, because in my opinion, one of the votes you missed was the auto bailout vote. <b>Congressman John Dingell</b>, whether you love him or hate him, would have been there on a gurney making that vote.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Note how Rooney’s question was about errors in messaging and accountability from Walberg’s office. <b>Walberg did not address those things</b>, instead he misdirected everyone’s attention with graphic details of surgery, which was not what Rooney asked about.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “Well, now that you asked, if you’re not too squeamish, when you have a prostate reamed out, you’re not able to walk on the floor and vote. And besides that – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>short crowd applause</i>] </span>– Besides that, Brian, <b>Congressman Dingell</b> is always there to make government bigger, and more expensive, and more intrusive.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“And I’m healthy now! No cancer! It wasn’t for cancer, okay?! It just took me too long in front of the john. So that’s it! Hope we’re over it now.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Walberg’s gory details misdirected the audience’s attention away from Rooney’s question about accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Walberg described a <b>Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (T.U.R.P.)</b>; a one hour procedure. A scope would be inserted into Walberg’s penis and urethra to trim excess tissue from his prostate to relieve pressure from his urinary tract. Walberg would be kept on a catheter for a day or two until the swelling went down.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Why Fly to Maryland During the Holidays for a Common Surgical Procedure?</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->That debate had a lot more details, that we can now try to piece together with the reports from December 2008, when Walberg described having a <b><i>“long-planned surgery”</i></b> at a Maryland hospital, <b><i>“to coincide with a traditional break on Capitol Hill”</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.75in;"><b><u>Let’s Consider the Logistics of Walberg’s Long Plan:<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->T.U.R.P. is a common procedure available at hospitals all throughout the District<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The calendar fast approached Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Walberg had just finished a grueling political campaign and election loss<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Walberg supposedly had no expectation of being called back to Congress<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.75in;">It would have been so much more efficient and less burdensome to have the surgery in Adrian, Ann Arbor, Jackson, or any number of local urology specialists. Walberg could recuperate cozily at home with his family and prepare for Christmas, instead of getting on an airplane to impose himself to recuperate at the home of a soon-to-be-laid-off staffer, and then drag himself in a post-op condition onto another cram-packed airplane to get back home.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>July 28, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Campaign Meet & Greet</span> - <span style="color: #0070c0;">Napoleon, MI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UpnBj9mvq0uyCbAS7FS12-xf50p6Bn5IGldNIJcv6mE__Pt8S2ElaOvvRga3YUFnDT50ukssLPue2BIGLk3RbkSNXtSbNy20gPYqC_S3K0QxPkIBDleXf131-fYj4B7MeaPc-0V3Eph7/s2048/13-Walberg+thumb+sucking.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UpnBj9mvq0uyCbAS7FS12-xf50p6Bn5IGldNIJcv6mE__Pt8S2ElaOvvRga3YUFnDT50ukssLPue2BIGLk3RbkSNXtSbNy20gPYqC_S3K0QxPkIBDleXf131-fYj4B7MeaPc-0V3Eph7/w400-h250/13-Walberg+thumb+sucking.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video 1 (3:00 mark): <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://youtu.be/ImPzXi9BBnw">https://youtu.be/ImPzXi9BBnw</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video 2 (continued): <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://youtu.be/ms1fvP3uaP8">https://youtu.be/ms1fvP3uaP8</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg picked up a campaign mailer sent by his GOP Primary opponent, Brian Rooney</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “When I go to this page and I see, <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>read from <b>Rooney’s mailer</b></i>]</span> <i><span style="color: #0070c0;">‘When Tim Walberg lost his congressional race, he stopped voting. <b>Walberg was still our Congressman, but he just stopped voting</b>. Walberg didn’t even vote when our jobs were on the line, but Walberg showed up every month to collect his Congressional salary. <b>That’s just not right</b>, and we can do better.’</span></i>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “And I agree, if that’s the truth. <b>If I was in the Bahamas, sucking my thumb, angry at you folks for not sending me back, and still taking my Congressional salary - absolutely true, <i><u>it wouldn’t be right</u></i></b>. But what bothers me is that Brian Rooney knew the answer from a debate on July 8<sup>th</sup> in Adrian, <i>9-12 Group</i> had. And he directly asked me the question about this, and I was surprised, him being an attorney that he would ask a question that he did not already know the answer to. You don’t do that, but he did.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “And I looked at him, and <b>he said</b>, uh, <i><span style="color: #538135;">‘Why weren’t you there?!’</span></i> And <b>I said</b>, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Well Brian, I was – I was in surgery, in recovery.’</span></i> And <b>he said</b>, <i><span style="color: #538135;">‘Well, that’s what you said in the press! But what was the surgery?’</span></i>” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>meet & greet attendees moaned and chuckled</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “And <b>I said</b>, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Well Brian, ya’ know, there’s some things ya’ kinda like to keep personal.’</span></i> And <b>I said</b>, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘You’re a young man, and you’ll probably find that out later on.’</span></i>Especially when you have to wear those stupid gowns. But <b>he said</b>, <i><span style="color: #538135;">‘Well! I mean, you owe it to your constituents! If you believe in transparency, as you say you do?! Then you ought ta’ know!’</span></i>” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “And I looked at him, and <b>I said</b>, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Brian? If that’s what you want, all of you out there, if you’re a little squeamish, cover your ears.’</span></i> And I would say the same thing now. So, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">‘Brian? You’re asking? You want me to tell? Sure. I was in the hospital, in surgery, having my prostate reamed out. Wasn’t cancer, and I sure feel good now. Is that fine?’</span></i>” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>meet & greet attendees chuckled</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “Sue was looking directly at him. And my wife said he kind of- ” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg mocked a wide-eyed startled expression.</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #0070c0;">Attendee:</span></b> “I think he felt a little <i>remorse</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “I think he felt <i>embarrassed</i>. And I think <b>the crowd felt</b>, <i><span style="color: #c45911;">‘Attaboy, Walberg! Too bad you had to go through that.’</span></i> Um, so he knew it! That was on July 8<sup>th</sup>, and you started receiving <b><i>that</i></b> this week.” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>holds up Rooney’s campaign mailer again</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">2<sup>nd</sup> Attendee:</span></b> “That’s a pretty drastic step, just cause you could not vote!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “Heh, heh, heh. And, <b>if I was in the Bahamas or something</b>, that would be a different story. And I think most people who know me, know that <b>I never walked away from a legitimate fight, and a vote, and a tough vote.</b>”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Rooney’s Mailer, <i>or Petulant Loser Walberg Sucked Thumb in the Bahamas</i></span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Every word from Brian Rooney’s campaign mailer was truthful.</b> Walberg did not even argue that there was anything specifically untruthful in the mailer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Rooney’s mailer did not characterize Walberg with the facts it laid out. <b>It was Walberg who connected those dots and characterized himself as a petulant, infantile loser, sucking his thumb</b>. Between the known facts, and Walberg’s characterization, there is a large gradient of possible behavior that we can agree: <b><i>“wouldn’t be right.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Compare how Walberg’s recounting of the dialogue from the debate compared to the actual original debate, to see how Walberg distorted things.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>October 11, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Campaign Meet & Greet</span> – <span style="color: #1f4e79;">Adrian, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr style="height: 1pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguGrnRCpPeKglewUxPSfX_EZdzVP5AJVxqZAQWbTBXXUf4hPCAFh9q4omZMhWE5JKhUS7KJzG4cGCXqoJCTto0895Tc_tkR-thUr4KfrGWPNG2yKhVznZpkhyqtLwXdIbuq-Hygm4gPjTX/s2048/14-Walberg+Conjecture.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguGrnRCpPeKglewUxPSfX_EZdzVP5AJVxqZAQWbTBXXUf4hPCAFh9q4omZMhWE5JKhUS7KJzG4cGCXqoJCTto0895Tc_tkR-thUr4KfrGWPNG2yKhVznZpkhyqtLwXdIbuq-Hygm4gPjTX/w400-h250/14-Walberg+Conjecture.jpg" width="400" /></a><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> </b></b></div><p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 1pt;"><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke3ipTXtozM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke3ipTXtozM</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Walberg Refused to Answer for his own Legislative Record</span><span style="color: #525252;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b>“I don’t answer.” </b>In a just world, that would be an instantly disqualifying response from a United States Representative.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b>It was not conjecture!</b> That bill was actually the most recent legislation that the House voted on from Walberg’s record. So, Walberg had a duty to make a decision on it, and to own up for his decision to the public.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: red;">Shame on Walberg</span></b> for calling that attendee’s polite, legitimate and relevant question, <i>“conjecture”</i>, and for attempting to make that person feel bad, as though they did something wrong for asking it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>October 13, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">General Election Debate</span> - <span style="color: #1f4e79;">Charlotte, MI</span></b> (<i>Moderator: <b><span style="color: #538135;">Tim Skubick</span></b></i>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr style="height: 1pt;"><td colspan="2" style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyspp1vreZsPtlu8jV2CXNQX6Bpkc_ghdL_L_QMNoySQ41qmFl1FbHMfWCHmb9Imm208_sJRQ4wIDxZdfYPH9T7ZcyRAhmlgLehFXq_ADhtpdNnJ7U_0dCHiZWIPGTW2CFvncIfY0UpV1x/s2773/15-Skubick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="2773" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyspp1vreZsPtlu8jV2CXNQX6Bpkc_ghdL_L_QMNoySQ41qmFl1FbHMfWCHmb9Imm208_sJRQ4wIDxZdfYPH9T7ZcyRAhmlgLehFXq_ADhtpdNnJ7U_0dCHiZWIPGTW2CFvncIfY0UpV1x/w400-h164/15-Skubick.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 1pt;"><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 467.5pt;" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdscCrG4Ojc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdscCrG4Ojc</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 1pt;"><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Full Exchange<o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; height: 1pt; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">My Analysis</span><o:p></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Skubick</span></b>: “<b><i>Had you been there</i></b>, Mr. Walberg, would you have supported Federal aid to General Motors and Chrysler?”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">The <b>hypothetical wording</b> of the question made it unclear that this was an <i>actual bill </i>from Walberg’s record in Congress.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “<b><i>Had I been there</i></b>, would I have supported aid to General Motors or Chrysler? Um, the issue I think more importantly for what I would have done, <b><i>had I been there</i></b>, would have been working for a better economy that would give Chrysler and General Motors a greater opportunity to succeed. Uh, we see all sorts of aid packages being offered. We see stimulus packages that my opponent supported. We see Cap and Trade, energy tax increases. We see stimulus packages. Uh, we see Pelosi budgets that are deficit-producing into the trillions of dollars. And yet we see an economy that’s still struggling. My efforts when I was in Congress, and will be if I go back will be to reduce the excessive cost, regulatory fees, impingements upon the economy, and growing so that companies like Chrysler, General Motors, and may I say, Ford, who did it on their own <b>without government bailouts</b>, without government incentives, and now they are competing, really on an unlevel playing field, and yet are doing it because they are using <b>what grows an economy, and that’s the private sector</b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Walberg, <b>exploited that hypothetical wording</b> to veer away into his own fantasy terrain. Clearly, the thrust of Walberg’s response was his opposition to the auto rescue, but he was too cowardly to just say so.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Skubick:</span></b><span style="color: #538135;"> </span>“So, you <b><i>would have</i></b> voted <b><i>NO</i></b>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span>“I <b><i>would have</i></b> voted <b><i>FOR</i></b> an economy that grows strong.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">So, Walberg would have voted <b><i>FOR</i></b> a non-existent bill.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Skubick:</span></b> “I understand. But <b><i>if</i></b> the vote was up on the board for aid to GM and Chrysler, you would have – <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg interruption</i>]</span>.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #7030a0;">“if…”</span></i></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> That wording allowed Walberg to keep pretending like it was not a real vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “<b>We work on reality, Tim</b>. You know that. We’ve worked with each other for, well, since 1982. You know that <b>I work on reality</b> of what grows an economy. And that’s the economy that says let’s get out of the way and let GM, lets Chrysler, let Ford, let what grows an economy, and that’s private sector work.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #7030a0;">“work on reality…”</span></i></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> – Sure… and let’s hear more about that imaginary, ‘<i>economy that grows strong</i>’ bill that Walberg would have voted for, as we try to muffle our to rage-puke with our pocket Constitutions.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Skubick:</span></b> “Not to belabor the point, but if I’m <b><i>reporting</i></b> Mr. Walberg’s position on <b><i>aid </i></b>to GM and Chrysler, it was a <b><i>NO</i></b> vote on that.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">For the fourth time Walberg, answer the damned question.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “<b><i>My report</i></b> on <b><i>aid</i></b> to GM and Chrysler is giving them <b><i>aid</i></b> through a growing economy.”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">“<i>My report…</i>”</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> You can see Walberg’s technique was to grasp for random words to try to spin back onto the moderator, and dodge the question, however incoherently.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #538135;">Skubick:</span></b> “<b>Understand</b>. Mr. Schauer?”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;">“<i>understand</i>”</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;">? Why be charitable?<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #1f4e79;">Schauer: </span></b>“Well…”<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5.75pt; width: 233.75pt;" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0;">Mark Schauer went on and gave a clear, coherent answer to the question.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>October 14, 2010 – <span style="color: #c00000;">Article: Jackson Citizen Patriot</span> – <span style="background-color: #deeaf6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #00b050;">by Chris Gautz</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Chris Gautz’s first-person report on the debate <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>, and from 2008, made Walberg’s contradictory statements have personal visceral impact. Gautz was one of the first reporters that Walberg spoke to about the auto loan in 2008. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYKGvcZzsIMCEhyWpLAAG1YR-9Zjf3byuqwJcmvQ71ydICNvpsyzVTWEVElrWz2KStp7c3A2MS4ptKnfyKqDFlYHgrKFyLeMDtnpOBNP7VSGJZ0xq2kLHafd31xIv9msC8ba3ubPhH06i/s2048/16-Clam+Up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYKGvcZzsIMCEhyWpLAAG1YR-9Zjf3byuqwJcmvQ71ydICNvpsyzVTWEVElrWz2KStp7c3A2MS4ptKnfyKqDFlYHgrKFyLeMDtnpOBNP7VSGJZ0xq2kLHafd31xIv9msC8ba3ubPhH06i/w400-h300/16-Clam+Up.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.mlive.com/jackson-politics/2010/10/republican_tim_walberg_now_refuses_to_say_he_would_have_voted_for_the_auto_industry_bailout.html">https://www.mlive.com/jackson-politics/2010/10/republican_tim_walberg_now_refuses_to_say_he_would_have_voted_for_the_auto_industry_bailout.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b>November 2, 2012 – <span style="color: #c00000;">MLive: Jackson</span><span style="color: #e95186;"> </span>–<span style="color: #e95186;"> <span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">by Bob Wheaton<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Bob Wheaton’s reports bookended the professional reporting on Walberg and the auto industry rescue. Wheaton also did the first bit of analysis, and identified a <b><span style="color: #067dfb;">KEY POINT</span></b>, on how <b>the bill was a dilemma for Walberg’s claimed principles</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dhxwo_N7cWAEzOLICnI-QRZEB7UlA4YtCKtro5cR0VW96o6opWPg-hozPZsadc9iLFJYQyw6vqIytPbBGlpRaaVuU5jAfClt6Oyuzon-E_Lem0OHBWfbhDu4eppsJGRhkZN4fuogkrQV/s2048/17-Walberg+2012+Article.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1951" data-original-width="2048" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dhxwo_N7cWAEzOLICnI-QRZEB7UlA4YtCKtro5cR0VW96o6opWPg-hozPZsadc9iLFJYQyw6vqIytPbBGlpRaaVuU5jAfClt6Oyuzon-E_Lem0OHBWfbhDu4eppsJGRhkZN4fuogkrQV/w400-h381/17-Walberg+2012+Article.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2012/11/rep_tim_walberg_says_how_he_wo.html" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2012/11/rep_tim_walberg_says_how_he_wo.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #fd6303;">Analysis:</span> <span style="color: #363366;">Four Years a Coward</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p style="background-color: white;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Four years after the House voted on the auto rescue, Walberg was still incapable of taking a position on it. Walberg failed to vote on it then, and has been too cowardly to take a position on it ever since.<br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="color: #fd6303;">CONCLUSION: </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #373468;">WHAT A DECADE OF SPINELESS CRONYISM HAS WROUGHT</span></i></b></span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #373468; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMVFTar5OdnwQu6rHNZrjEmcwB_tayJ4dQnfl8njYmgzp8pRbHlKTTBzhHWrsk9WyxgkWWDAS7LDeCFt4Nwdzgsn5Ppj2tLheAFg5ZcSmjOkuSxtp6Cp2gxfuLuqQK_ROAdf5FGN4v5Mk/s3072/18-Walberg+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="3072" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMVFTar5OdnwQu6rHNZrjEmcwB_tayJ4dQnfl8njYmgzp8pRbHlKTTBzhHWrsk9WyxgkWWDAS7LDeCFt4Nwdzgsn5Ppj2tLheAFg5ZcSmjOkuSxtp6Cp2gxfuLuqQK_ROAdf5FGN4v5Mk/w400-h134/18-Walberg+2020.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Here we are, and gosh, Walberg is so pleased.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Walberg’s Shift: </b>The last quarter of 2008 was an inflection point. Walberg’s claimed principles had failed against the needs of our district. So, in 2010, Walberg returned transformed from having been somewhat principled and willing to criticize a Republican President, into being an unprincipled coward driven by shameless lies, short-term advantages and crony-interests. Walberg has remained in power ever since.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>The Excuse: </b>Walberg has a credibility deficit. So, we should not accept at face value that he flew out to DC for the full week of the special session, to lodge with his subordinate government staffer, to receive and recover from a common surgical procedure, while neglecting his duties at the Capitol all week. Walberg failed to inform the public of any of that, and his Chief of Staff bungled the excuse to reporters. So, I would need real proof and a better explanation, before accepting that excuse from Walberg.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Worker Toll:</b> None of Walberg’s discussion around the auto industry rescue, accounted for the imminent harm that faced workers, retirees, or their families in our district if the auto industry collapsed, and their earned savings and pensions were all dissolved. Walberg claimed without evidence that a private restructuring would have worked out better for the industry, but that would not have favored workers or retirees.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>“<i>I don’t answer.</i>”:</b> And thus, Walberg disgraced the title of Representative. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Steven Meyer<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Monroe, MI<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">September 30, 2020</p></div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-6010454701379425542020-07-23T05:57:00.000-04:002020-07-23T08:06:30.582-04:00Video: Walberg Fails to Explain His Own Legislation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This video above, shows two occasions when constituents asked Walberg to explain basic things about bills that he had authored and introduced, and Walberg failed to explain those basic things.</div>
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<li>The Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act, was a bill that Walberg first introduced in 2007, and campaigned on it in 2010, and reintroduced the bill with its current text in 2013. Walberg has reintroduced it with identical text each term since. Walberg refers to the bill in vague terms usually only when people challenge him on protecting Social Security and Medicare, because the bill sounds like it will protect those things. Walberg has never worked hard in Congress to gather any support for the bill. During most terms, the bill has had zero cosponsors. The most support it ever got was in 2007, with three cosponsors.</li>
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<li>I discussed Walberg’s response to my question about his 2018 Direct Sellers bill in my report about Walberg’s Dexter Coffee Hour, here: <a href="https://www.takecaretim.com/2020/02/20-questions-for-walberg-at-dexter.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.takecaretim.com/2020/02/20-questions-for-walberg-at-dexter.html</a></li>
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This video compiles a pattern of US congress member, Tim Walberg lying to the public about the sources of his information. Two of the examples show constituents directly asking Walberg what his source was, while the information was still in Walberg’s hand, and he lied directly to those constituents’ faces. One of those constituents was me, and it wasn’t the first time Walberg had done that to me, and I refuse to get used to it, which is why I make these reports.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14pt;">(00:36) - April 10, 2013 – Floor speech, U.S. Capitol</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14pt;">(05:52) - September 29, 2015 – Oversight Committee, Washington, DC</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14pt;">(07:56) - March 31, 2017 – Coffee Hour, Eaton Rapids, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14pt;">(10:20) - August 7, 2017 – Coffee Hour, Jackson, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 14pt;">(13:28) - March 11, 2019 – Coffee Hour, Dexter, MI</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-57079062819794149802020-07-12T08:28:00.000-04:002020-07-12T15:38:34.949-04:00Video & Report: Walberg's White Nationalist Rant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">On June 25, 2020, our congress member, Tim Walberg delivered a racist, white nationalism rallying cry from the floor of the US Capitol (see video above). The objective of Walberg’s speech was to delegitimize the ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism, and to smear the protesters as un-American. At first, Walberg did contend that there was, <b>“a bad cop”</b> - singular, who murdered George Floyd, though failed mention the other three cops holding Floyd down and standing guard against the pleas of citizen eyewitnesses. Walberg also failed to acknowledge any of the other recent brutality from police against unarmed, vulnerable black citizens, such as Breonna Taylor, an emergency medic who was shot to death while asleep in her bed at home on March 13, after police barged in unannounced, and then lied in their filing about the incident. Walberg certainly did not acknowledge any systemic problem. Rather, Walberg spent the rest of the speech referring to protesters as, “evil”, “punks”, and “warlords”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Walberg’s speech established an <b><i>“Us”</i></b> and <b><i>“Them”</i></b> dynamic, between himself and the protesters. Walberg claims an in-group ownership over the history of George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ulysses Grant. Walberg denies the protesters any claim, as fellow Americans with regard to those historical figures. Essentially it is, <b>“<i>Our History</i>”</b> – <b><i>Not Theirs. </i></b><i>As Walberg said verbatim:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Walberg exhibited much more concern about the vandalism of statues in the protests, than the purpose behind the protests. The damage of statues by protesters is not as Walberg said, “an attack on America”, or our freedoms, and it does not “destroy” history. Statues are subjective artworks, and certainly have value but not as histories of their subjects. History is based on primary historical sources. As subjective works of art, statues inform us more about the artist and the time of their crafting. Most statues are not contemporaneous to their subjects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The bingo card featured in the video is comprised of racist “dog whistle” quotes from Walberg’s speech, and terms that he has used elsewhere over the years, as well as related White Nationalist phrases. The term “dog whistle” refers to the veneer of decorum that white supremacists such as David Duke and Stephen Miller use to soften their racist messages, in order to blend in with mainstream social circles that would typically reject such messages in a more explicitly racist form. Walberg’s use of these racist dog whistle terms sends a message of solidarity that is heard clearly by white nationalists, whether Walberg accepts the affiliation, or not. That is why the Proud Boys gang stood outside of Walberg’s office flashing ‘white power’ hand signals while holding a sign saying, “THANKS TIM AND TRUMP” (exhibit below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12pt;">Bingo Card comprised of Walberg’s quotes, and similar White Nationalist phrases</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">Tim Walberg will object to being publicly identified as a White Nationalist, but his entire political career is built around White Nationalist tenets. During his first term in Michigan state legislature, Walberg was one of only three legislators that opposed enacting Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as a public holiday (SB 528, January 17, 1984). Walberg supports mandating English as the one official language of the U.S. despite the inherent First Amendment violation. Walberg consistently receives among the lowest legislator ratings from civil rights justice groups, including ACLU and NAACP. On August 14, 2017, I called Walberg’s office to ask why the Congressman was being silent throughout the weekend about the horrors we saw from white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Walberg’s staff replied that just that moment, he had issued a Tweet about it. So, I replied, “Is that it?” Well, take that racists! You sure don’t want Congressman Walberg to exercise the power of his office to tweet out another long-delayed, generalized condemnation about racism, and thereafter brush his hands of the whole matter! On August 7, 2019, I asked Walberg if it bothered him to see all of the Confederate flags on display throughout our District. Walberg called that, “a total loaded question” and didn’t answer it, but Walberg did tell me that Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee were, “great Americans” (link to video in the Appendix), so based on that, the inference would be that Walberg is quite proud to see at all of Confederate Flags displayed throughout our District, in tribute the traitors he calls, “great Americans”. Tim Walberg has never done anything to distance himself from the most extreme, explicitly racist White Nationalists in federal office, such as Steve King and Donald Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">If Tim Walberg objects to being identified as a white nationalist, then he should affirm so through deed and legislation to distance himself from the affiliation. I would happily support Walberg if he ever decided reject the affiliation through legislative action. In the meantime, Walberg voted against the House’s, <i>George Floyd Justice in Policing Act</i> (H.R. 7120), and Walberg’s July 25 speech affirms his continued solidarity with white nationalists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #bae3ca; color: #c6456e; font-family: "helvetica";">APPENDIX: Background on Some of the other Terms used on the Bingo Card</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">During a <b>June 5</b> call-in to the Delaney in the Morning radio show, Walberg explicitly named George Soros, and accused him on the basis of nothing, of funding Antifa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">Link to Audio(5:50 mark): <a href="https://wtvbam.com/podcasts/delaney-in-the-morning-1/67/congressman-tim-walberg-72/" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://wtvbam.com/podcasts/delaney-in-the-morning-1/67/congressman-tim-walberg-72/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "helvetica";">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";"> “This is not America, so it has to be dealt with, but it’s not America to tear down our cities, to go in and loot indiscriminately, to bust up stores and windows, to steal and rob, and <b><i>those people</i></b>, I’m not sure they even know what they’re doing that for except this is a chance for mayhem. And <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I’m sure Antifa is in on it</span></b>, and there’s no way to corroborate that, unless you’re an FBI agent. But knowing what’s gone on in the past,<b> <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Antifa’s involved</span> </b>with it as well, and<b> <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I wouldn’t be surprised if George Soros is paying for a lot of what’s going on</span></b>. Nonetheless, America’s too strong to continue to let this happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This video is an introduction and overview of my report from December 8, 2019 about US Congress member, Tim Walberg’s speeches in Ukraine. Link to original report:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The video contains two significant new findings about Walberg’s Trips to Ukraine, which are discussed further in this follow-up report.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>New Findings:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Link to Walberg’s Ethics Filing for Ukraine Trip: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/GTImages/MT/2019/500021482.pdf" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">http://clerk.house.gov/GTImages/MT/2019/500021482.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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When congress members accept privately-funded trips, in their official capacity, there is a standard approval process with the House Ethics committee:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Ethics filing for Walberg’s 2019 Ukraine trip contains contradictions, violations, and lies, some of which should have been caught and flagged in the review by the Ethics committee. The Three Problems that I have identified pertain to: <o:p></o:p></div>
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1) Source of funding for the trip<o:p></o:p></div>
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2) Exorbitant airfare & VIP lounge expenses<o:p></o:p></div>
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3) Walberg lied about his activities from the sponsor’s agenda<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Glaring Contradiction in Ethics Filing regarding <b>Source of Funds</b> for Walberg’s Trip<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The most glaring contradiction in Walberg’s ethics filing pertains to the source of funding for his trip. In the very first line, the sponsor claimed that the trip was funded, <b><i>“by the donations”</i></b> to the organizing committee. The sponsor contradicted that below, by claiming to have, <b><i>“not accepted from any other source, funds intended directly or indirectly to finance any aspect of the trip”</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The sponsor should have chosen the other option, <b><i>“sponsor has accepted funds from other source(s) intended directly or indirectly to finance all or part of the trip”</i></b> That option then requires a listing of the names of each of those entities, with attached disclosure forms for each of the entities that funded the trip.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ukraine is not a wealthy country. Yet, the photos of the event that Walberg attended show extravagance: VIP American guests in a large convention center, with surround sound systems, music, stage lighting, custom animated screen graphics, huge outdoor banners, table cloths, serving staff, etc. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Furthermore, as discussed in the next section, the sponsor upgraded and paid for Walberg’s first-class travel and VIP airport lounge. And as discussed in the subsequent section, the sponsor also organized an entire second prayer breakfast event in another city, Zhytomyr: That event consisted of an outdoor stage in the city square with chairs, a slate of performing artists and stage crews, custom banners just for that one event, and none of that was even mentioned in the trip agenda. Walberg attended it though. – Who paid of all of that? Who were the deep-pocketed donors, who gave Walberg the first-class VIP treatment, ostensibly <i>“in connection with”</i> his official duties as a member of the US House of Representatives?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The space to disclose those answers is required on the Ethics form. The House Ethics Committee neglected to enforce it, and let the unaccounted funding sources, and glaring contradiction slip through under their watch in the filing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #deeaf6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2) Exorbitant Airfare & VIP Lounge Expenses</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>Walberg’s travel costs greatly exceeded estimates, & were unnecessary to official duties<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Walberg’s post-travel form shows costs exceeded the pre-travel estimate by <b>$13,508</b>. That excess expense could pay-in-full for a nice used vehicle with low mileages at a local car dealership.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That excess expense was mostly due to Walberg’s airfare cost. Walberg claimed in the pre-travel filing that the airfare was <b>business class</b>, and according to the rules on the form, any first-class travel would require an explanation to the Ethics Committee. That excess airfare cost can only be explained by an <b>advancement to first class</b>, because business class ticket costs do not fluctuate by tens of thousands of dollars.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Comparison, Walberg’s Gift Travel filing to a <b>Baptist University Graduation in Romania in 2016, cost $4,365</b>, which matched exactly with that trip’s estimated cost. When Walberg traveled to the <b>Ukraine Prayer Breakfast in 2015, the airfare cost $2,000</b>, it also matched exactly with its original estimated cost. Neither of those earlier trips included any Airport VIP lounge expenses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Clearly, the sponsor decided to splurge on Walberg, and give him a first-class VIP treatment. For the Ethics committee to let that disparity slip through without any remark was negligence. According to the rules on the form, any first class travel required an explanation. Also, Walberg exhibited dishonesty and bad faith by claiming that the first class and VIP expenses were <i>“necessary”</i> to his official duties as a Congress member.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #deeaf6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3) Walberg Lied About his Activities from the Sponsor’s Agenda</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>Walberg lied to Ethics Committee about activities that he did & did not participate in<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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For this third problem, I entirely blame Walberg for falsely certifying in his Ethics filing to having participated in activities that he did not actually participate in, as well neglecting to mention a lot of other significant activities from the trip. I don’t blame the Ethics committee for not knowing that Walberg lied to them about that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On October 1, 2019, at a coffee hour event, myself and several other constituents asked Walberg about that discrepancy in his schedule from the Ethics filing.<span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<i>Exhibit Below</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg was proud to say he passed the Ethics requirements, and that the <b>financing, travel, and schedule were, <i>“fine-tooth combed”</i></b> by the committee. Then in the next breath, Walberg admitted to us that the schedule that he submitted to the Ethics committee was incorrect. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg falsely certified to the Ethics Committee that the Schedule was, “true, complete, and correct”. The Ethics form provided Walberg with space, and required him to explain any change in activity from the agenda, but Walberg left that space blank.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Several of us after that coffee hour continued to be concerned and frustrated by Walberg’s lack of candor and contradictions surrounding his Ukraine trip. The next week, one of the attendees outlined those concerns in a Letter to the Editor to the Monroe News. Link to letter: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Seemingly, in an effort to undermine that constituent’s letter, the same day, The Monroe News hacked out a mess of a front-page story, uncritically echoing messages from Walberg’s Communications Director, without informing about what Walberg actually did on the trip to Ukraine, nor addressing any of the concerns from the constituent’s Letter. The one new piece of information to me from the Monroe News article was,<b>“Walberg headed a delegation of U.S. diplomats”</b> in Ukraine. It particularly struck me because there was nothing in the Ethics Filing about Walberg heading any such delegation. The article didn’t mention the size, or name any members of that delegation, or whether it was coordinated with any official US Agencies like the State Department. I marked up that front page with my criticisms that day, and highlighted that “delegation” part with particular interest. <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Exhibit below</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Front page story seemed only to undercut a constituent’s letter from same day<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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As laid out in my earlier report, Walberg’s, <b>“delegation of U.S. diplomats”</b>, consisted of: <b>Michele Bachmann, James Garlow, Rosemary Schindler Garlow, and Marc Nuttle</b>. Now I further know that “delegation” took Walberg’s place in some of the activities from the sponsor’s agenda. They did that while Walberg went off on his own to do other activities, such as the prayer breakfast in Zhytomyr, which was not mentioned at all in the sponsor’s agenda.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tim Walberg’s lies to the House Ethics Committee is a serious offense. There is a citation to the US Criminal Code, that willful and knowing misrepresentations on the Ethics form would be subject to criminal prosecution. It is certainly applicable in Walberg’s case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg, Gohmert, & DeVos: Theocratic Shadow Diplomacy in Ukraine</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Ukrainian news articles referenced:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Former Chair of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (2014-2019), Oleksandr Turchynov wants Ukraine to be a conservative Christian state. He has been trying to gather support in that “project” from private and public interests in Ukraine, as well as internationally. In the United States, Turchynov has gotten support in his project from <b>Tim Walberg, Louis Gohmert, and Betsy DeVos</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>See articles linked above</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Zelensky won the Presidential election, he appointed a replacement for Turchynov at the NSDC. Zelensky is Jewish and politically secular, which is probably why he chose to not participate in the Prayer Breakfast activities or meet with Walberg. When the trip sponsor drafted the agenda, they likely expected that Poroshenko would win re-election.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oleksandr Turchynov and Pavel Unguryan are very much leading partners in the conservative Christian politicization effort in Ukraine, and trying to build a coalition with like-minded politicians around the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Ukraine, Turchynov was criticized and accused of misappropriating National Security funds and resources for his private religious projects. Turchynov didn’t really deny that. He seemed to embrace and bask in any controversy around his public religiosity. When Russian Propogandists pegged him with the nickname, “Bloody Pastor”, for said religiosity, and his fondness for posing next to missiles and large military weaponry, Turchynov embraced that nickname too, and didn’t consider it an insult.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year, Pavel Unguryan and Oleksandr Turchynov attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. The two of them met with assorted Congress members in their offices. The photos on Turchynov’s website, show that in addition to meeting with Tim Walberg, they met in the offices of Robert Aderholt (AL-04), and Bill Huizenga (MI-02).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among the many things wrong with what Walberg is doing: <b>It’s shadow diplomacy</b>. It’s not the official position of The United States to establish a coalition of Conservative Christian countries around the world, or to build a Conservative Christian political party in Ukraine. It is also wildly outside of the scope of Betsy DeVos’s duty as US Secretary of Education.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg’s duty is to serve the 700,000 people in our Michigan District. Secret theocratic diplomacy projects don’t help us here. Lying on Ethics forms doesn’t help anyone. Walberg insults us by secretly delegating tasks to Michele Bachmann and Jim Garlow, while referring to them as “CODELs” and “Diplomats”, without any of the actual responsibility or accountability of such jobs. Walberg knows he’s not serving our District. That is evident by his choice to never post anything about his trips to Ukraine or about his meetings with Turchynov & Unguryan, and to deflect our questions about it in coffee hours. That is most explicitly evident by what Walberg told the Ukrainian crowd about where the concerns of constituents fall in his set of priorities <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-15946390970967488502020-05-20T00:50:00.001-04:002020-05-20T00:50:55.399-04:00Video: Walberg Lies To Us about his College Credentials<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Link to original report: <a href="https://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html">https://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html</a>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-63217685085739611152020-05-10T15:30:00.001-04:002020-05-10T15:30:25.705-04:00Video: Walberg Lies to Us About His Sources<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my first attempt at editing video, to provide an overview and introduction to my original report from July 29, 2018:<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.takecaretim.com/2018/07/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.takecaretim.com/2018/07/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html</a></span>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-73748114499579431962020-04-22T05:22:00.001-04:002020-04-23T07:45:03.917-04:00A Tour of Walberg’s Financial Ethics Conflicts<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[New Findings Thread 1/15] – Since 2013, @RepWalberg appears to have leveraged the power of our Congressional office to broker partnerships between his campaign supporters and Ugandan officials for the benefit of his family’s Ugandan tourism business.</span><br />
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[2/15] – Last week, April 15, @RepWalberg requested the maximum 90-day extension for his annual financial disclosure. Walberg has never requested such a long delay, and to date has failed to list his family’s international business asset on his financial disclosures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[3/15] – Oct. 17, 2018, @RepWalberg’s daughter & son-in-law, Heidi & Prince Sabena filed for a MI license for the Ugandan-based business, “Red Road Tours”. The business office is Walberg’s home & his spouse, Sue paid the filing fee, and is the resident agent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[4/15] – The most prominent customers, as featured across the business’s website & social media, are students of Spring Arbor University, from our Congressional District.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[5/15] – Originally, the business’s name, “Trinity Tours & Travel”, had a focus & tagline, “ensuring pleasure at your leisure”, with a wine glass in their logo. Back then, the website & social media didn’t feature any large groups of students or educational tours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[6/15] – May 20, 2013, the business announced that they landed a major customer, Spring Arbor University, who has provided them with repeated business ever since.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[9/15] – March 2015, Heidi & Prince Sabena spoke with David Rawson’s class at Hillsdale College, shortly before they returned to Uganda from a yearlong stay in the USA. This article described Spring Arbor University & Sabena’s business as “partners”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[10/15] – September 7, 2015, @RepWalberg, Sue Walberg, & Prince Sabena met privately with the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. Neither Walberg, nor any US outlets reported anything about this meeting, but it was reported in Ugandan outlets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[11/15] – The trip was not reported in House/CODEL travel disclosures either, yet Walberg met with Ugandan officials in his official Congressional capacity to “apologize on behalf of the people of the United States”, & tossed around various business prospects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[12/15] – Shortly after those meetings with President Museveni and Ugandan Parliamentarians, the business rebranded and changed its name from “Trinity Tours and Travel” to “Red Road Tours”, and launched a new website emphasizing education tours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[13/15] - November 21, 2017, @RepWalberg and Sue Walberg had a meeting in the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC with “key opinion leaders” from the “Private Sector”. Once again, Walberg never announced anything about this meeting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[14/15] – January 31, 2020, @RepWalberg said, “my staff constantly pushes back” on his unethical inclinations, & based on his financial disclosures, “I’m a walking felony or misdemeanor waiting to happen”. Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2pkGcX2TA" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2pkGcX2TA</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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[15/15] – @RepWalberg’s latest financial disclosure, signed May 6, 2019 did not mention that he established an international business at his house in 2018. So, Walberg’s benefits, stakes, and brokerings with his family business needs a lot more “fine-tooth” scrutiny.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-3941075066209097602020-02-18T21:35:00.000-05:002020-02-19T06:17:31.529-05:0020 Questions for Walberg at DexterLink to printable pdf of this report: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p03f03mz3Qze-3_P_YNcgofI2Obq-EOV/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p03f03mz3Qze-3_P_YNcgofI2Obq-EOV/view?usp=sharing</a><br />
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Link to <b>full raw video</b> of this coffee hour: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hl7gfxfB60" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hl7gfxfB60</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #490577; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 16pt;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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An evaluation of all 20 of U.S. Congressman, Tim Walberg’s responses to constituent questions at a town hall on March 11, 2019, in Dexter, Michigan. The “Effective Town Hall” rating system developed for this report, is based on the quality of engagement with constituents. Positive scores are for responses that address constituents’ questions and concerns truthfully, without being dismissive, divisive, or condescending. No points go to responses that fail to deliver on those minimum qualities. All except for one of Walberg’s responses failed that minimum standard. One of Walberg’s responses achieved the ideal rating.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eea8c0; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 16pt;">CONTENTS</span><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffbb5; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 16pt;">20 QUESTIONS AT DEXTER</span><span style="color: #a5a5a5; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 16pt;"> with analysis of each </span></div>
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This coffee hour occurred March 11, 2019 in Dexter, Michigan, and was one of Tim Walberg’s first events of the 116th Congressional term. I was present and recorded full video, and in the following weeks, gathered testimonials from four other constituents who had been present. They gave me permission report their testimonials, and to refer to them as:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I created the following scale to measure the quality of engagement with constituents:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Measure of an <span style="color: #7030a0;">Effective Town Hall</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 18pt;">Usage in this Report:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We ended up voting on only two, really two pieces of legislation. That being H.R.1, which we finished up on Friday. Which was the <b><i>alleged</i></b> election reform bill. Uh, <b>we can talk</b> about that if you’d like. <b>We can also talk</b> about the other one. <b>I believe it was H.R. 8</b>, which was a bill, or a <b>resolution</b>. It was supposed to take issue with some anti-Semitic comments made by <b>Representative Omar</b>, continuing anti-Semitic comments being made that <b>question patriotism of members of Congress who support Israel</b>, which is the majority of us, Democrat and Republican… ultimately at the end of the week on Thursday afternoon finally, a vote was taken that was just a <b>nebulous resolution against being anti about anything</b>. It’s hard to vote against something like that because <b>I’m not anti-Semitic. I’m not racist. I’m not anti-Islam</b>.”</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Walberg held his phone</b> out in his hand since the event started, so I anticipated that it would be used for something. Then he raised it up to recite an <b>untruthful Stalin quote</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“There’s a quote as we start this new round of town halls, it was a quote given by a <b><i>famous world leader</i></b> who said, <b>‘<i>America is like a healthy body, and its resistance is threefold-’</i> </b>Note what he said,<b> ‘<i>Its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life-’</i></b>. Went on to say, <b>‘<i>If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.</i>’</b> That’s a pretty scary thought…” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg elaborated on that for a bit</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Me:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Who’s that quote from?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“That is a quote of a world leader. Let me ask,<b> who do you think it’s from?</b>”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>Who do you think it’s from?</b>”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Me:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“You attributed it to <b>Joseph Stalin</b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Joseph Stalin. Isn’t that something? He caught it. He caught the uniqueness of the strength of America.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/09/investigation-red-flagging-walbergs.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/09/investigation-red-flagging-walbergs.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Last week, it came out from a non-partisan organization, that I was rated the <b>most effective legislator</b> in the Michigan Republican delegation, 30<sup>th</sup> most effective out of the 244 Republicans in congress… <b>The effective rating was based on legislative advancements, committee assignments, and those type of things</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Video Sources (April 29, 2010)</i>: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EanoCUoPa0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EanoCUoPa0</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>(September 2, 2010)</i>: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPwZAZDM1w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPwZAZDM1w</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Video Source</i>: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://jtv.tv/congressman-walberg-addresses-civil-discourse-tax-reform/">https://jtv.tv/congressman-walberg-addresses-civil-discourse-tax-reform/</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>FEC Receipt of one of Moderator, Karl V. Fink’s 12 contributions to Walberg’s campaigns<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">PREAMBLE)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating: </span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">fails minimum standard</span><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Reason: Walberg’s preamble was <b>untruthful</b> and<b> divisive</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION ONE)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Coffee Hour Format</span></b> - Video time stamp: 11:00<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“Why must questions be submitted this way? <b>Follow-up questions</b> are not well addressed with this system.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Maybe. Maybe not. We’ve done it from long years of experience of <b>trying to make this hour, which is always a short hour</b>, as efficient and as <b>effective</b> as possible, and allowing more people to ask their key questions than just a few people that I know have follow-up issues, but many times, that just drags on and on. <b>And sometimes, we’ve seen very clearly that becomes just really an opportunity for disagreement to continue on.</b> And so, we’re doing our best to get the questions, and <b>that’s the reason we’ve done it both ways</b>. But, there are some in smaller settings. There are <b>sometimes where we won’t even do the cards</b>. But today, this is large enough that we want to get through as much as possible.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“If you’ve been on my <b>tele-town halls</b>, you’ve heard in the last two tele-town halls, I’ve taken a different approach as well. We take the question, and then <b>like on normal talk shows</b>, we cut it off, answer the question, move on. I was averaging 12 questions and answers over the course of an hour on the phone. And now we’ve gotten up, approaching 20. <b>That makes a lot of people more happy</b>. Having sat on the line waiting, and then not getting a chance to even ask a question, so, we’re doing our best to cover time.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">Analysis of Response One<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<i>Recent events Walberg attended for longer, and/or more accessible times than his town halls<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><u>Cross-References:</u></b> <b>Telephone-town halls</b> was discussed further in <span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">QUESTION 10</span>. Also, Walberg referred to his <b>town hall format</b> again during <span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">QUESTION 18</span>. Lastly, see <span style="color: #4a0577; font-family: "marker felt thin";">APPENDIX</span>, where <b><span style="background-color: #c5e0b3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kim</span></b>’s op-ed describes how follow-up questions were shut down at Dexter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION TWO)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Pregnancy / birth policies</span></b> - 12:45<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“In my opinion, the Republican party is not pro-life, rather pro-birth. Once that baby is born, the <b>Republican party</b> works hard to <b>cut food, medical attention</b> from that baby that give even a <b>minimum quality of life</b>. Also, the baby the parents couldn’t afford wouldn’t have been born in the first place if the Republicans didn’t <b>shut down women’s health centers</b> that provide birth control. Your comment on that that, please?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, you might guess I disagree with it, very firmly. As a Republican, I’ve strongly supported life after life. I served on a <b>charter board of an adoption agency</b>. I served on <b>board of a pregnancy care center</b>, and at a <b>shepherding home</b>, as well for <b>unwed mothers</b>, and as a <b>ministry to unwed fathers</b> as well, in trying to disciple them to become men that take responsibility”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ve supported legislation that provides social welfare assistance, including food assistance <b>to people truly in need</b>. And I’ve also done, I think what is pro-life position as well in supporting legislation that would encourage work-capable individuals to perform some hours of work at least for things like their food stamps.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“In America, we hurt people if we just allow people to receive care, but no responsibility with it. We’ve seen that with the burgeoning of the <b>food stamp program under the last administration, tremendously increased</b>. We saw that. Did that help people? No.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Some constituents responded contrarily, “Yes.”, and Walberg did not acknowledge them.</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“And now we’ve seen as a result of good policies, economic policies, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, <b>a continued increase in wages for the middle class wage increases.</b> We’ve seen that continue…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[Walberg then talked for 1.25 minutes about anti-abortion legislation]<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“…If a baby lives after an abortion attempt, is born alive, we take care of that baby in the same way that we would take care of any other baby. That’s pro-life.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Link to article: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut">http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This is true. This was the <b>Christian Cradle Adoption Agency</b>. Walberg signed onto their articles of incorporation in 1983 <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see document below</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Possibly <b>Living Water Works, Inc.</b>, AKA <b>CPC: Care Pregnancy Center of Lenawee</b>. None of the records that I found showed Walberg as a board member.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not know what group this was either. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Candidate Profile From Lansing State Journal, July 29, 2004 (with my markups & corrections)<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i>Articles of Incorporation from the <b>Christian Cradle Adoption Agency</b>, 1983<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“What can be done to <b>prevent tax increases</b>, including the <b>proposed gas tax</b>? What would be the most efficient ways to check that funds are being allocated properly? Example: <b>Taxes for schools</b> not working - Not wanting to keep dumping money when not accounted for.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, the only way to deal with that, is make sure you’re in contact with your legislative branch, your legislator at each level of government that is considering tax increases, or revenue enhancements – whatever term they use today. Uh, <b>the gas tax</b> that’s being talked of – that’s at the state level, so you need to talk with <b>Donna Lasinski</b> </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>state 52nd district</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, for instance, and discuss what her position is on it. <b>Any tax at the federal level</b> that we’re looking at, whether it’s a tax in the <b>New Green Deal </b></span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>sic</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, or whatever, uh, <b>please keep in contact with me</b>. At the local level, <b>school boards</b> are the people to talk to for any type of <b>tax increases that go toward education</b>, or certainly your county commissioners, or your local township or village officials.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Again, um, ‘<b><i>Price of liberty is eternal vigilance</i></b>’ was once said. I think that’s true, and it’s your liberty that’s in question in your mind, so make sure that you keep in contact directly. You certainly, <b>by evidence of being here today</b> are some of the minority, sadly, that <b>really take an active involvement in their governmental system</b>. Go to the school board, and you’ll see another set of people. Go to a County Commission, you’ll see another set of people. But basically dealing with the issue at hand of that meeting. <b>That’s the important thing to do</b>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We gotta clean it up. That’s another issue that <b>Debbie Dingell</b> and I, as well as <b>Dale</b></span> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>sic</i>] </span><b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Kildee</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> are working on, continue calling for the appropriate agencies to do the work. <b>Fortunately in Michigan, we’re ahead of the game. During the last administration, a Czar</b> – It’s not her exact title, but a Czar was put in place to oversee all of that water contamination issue, and to acquire the funding, both from the state level, and the state has put some significant dollars into it, and <b>Debbie and I, and Dan, and others are pushing the Feds to up their responsibility with dollars that would go toward environmental cleanups</b>: PFAS, PFOS, and any other thing that comes up.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“These are contaminants that we are now able to quantify and find. And we found them in numerous places – well, not numerous, but thus far in a number of places across the 7th District: In the Huron River, here in the Ann Arbor area, as well. And <b>we’re working to</b> clean it up, and <b>make sure that we don’t let it continue</b>, and also check on other things that might be contaminating as well.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response.</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“Last year, my Federal withholding tax dropped $2.86 from my paycheck, yet instead of receiving a tax refund, I now have to pay the IRS hundreds of dollars. The math doesn’t add up. The <b>GOP tax cut</b> has not worked for me.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, I’m sorry it hasn’t worked for you. <b>I can’t really comment on the specifics,<span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> cause I don’t know the specifics.</span></b> </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>note the contradiction below</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> But, if you would like to contact my office, where we have time -”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Uh, not today.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“ You’ve given your statement. <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We’ve talked about it before, but you have a unique situation.</span></b> </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>note the contradiction above</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> And we have people in my office that can walk you through your tax policy, your tax reform.” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Let me say, <b>the majority of people across the state, because of the tax cuts, have experienced just the opposite of what you’ve experienced.</b>” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #ffd9f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Multiple Constituents:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>Not true - not true.</b>” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Incredulous laughter throughout the room</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Twp</span></b>: <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Good! Listen here!”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“The <b>most recent report</b> came out, in fact, <b>from a non-partisan group</b>, saying that <b>the average was a 33% reduction of individuals</b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Me:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Oh, definitely not.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Twp</span></b>: <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Could you have a raise of hands, please?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Okay, let’s move on to the next one.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Twp</span></b>: <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Ugh! This is supposed to be a <b><u>discussion</u></b>, isn’t it? </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>see invitation below</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> It’s a coffee hour, a conversation.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Notice the <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">contradiction</span></b> in Walberg’s response. He first claimed, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I don’t know the specifics”</span></b> about the constituent’s situation, but then he interrupted her to say, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We’ve talked about it before”</span></b>, and he already understood her, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“unique situation”</span></b>, and did not need to hear her repeat the details. Two weeks after the event, I wrote to the <b><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Township</span></b> for clarity on that contradiction, and she responded: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #470876;">“Yes, the Dexter event was the first time I had brought up my situation of having an additional tax burden this year. I had no communication with Walberg or his offices about my situation previous to the Dexter event. Neither Walberg nor his offices has reached out to me since (the question card included my name, address, email address).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Reflection from<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Township</span></b> (<i>March 25, 2019</i>)<span style="color: #470876;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg was <b>untruthful</b> with regard to the invitations that he sent out for the Dexter event, stating that the purpose was, <b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“to <u>discuss</u> important issues facing our community and nation”</span></b>, including<i>, </i><b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“issues to help hardworking <u>Michigan taxpayers</u>”</span></b>. So, Walberg should have been happy and well-prepared to engage in discussion about a tax problem with the <b><span style="background-color: #f7caac; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Constituent from Lima Township</span></b>, instead of shutting her down <b>in defiance of his own invitation for the event:</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Invitation mailed to some constituents for this March 11<sup>th</sup> Dexter Coffee Hour event<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I could not find any recent non-partisan report that had any such favorable figures about the GOP Tax Reform. On <b>March 19, 2019</b> I called Walberg’s DC Office to request more details on Walberg’s claim. I read the full quote to <b>his intern, Leah</b>, and <b>I asked: </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Leah said she would have to ask Walberg’s legislative team, and would get back to me. They didn’t get back to me, so I kept calling. <b>By my third and final follow-up call, on April 2, 2019,</b> Walberg’s <b>intern, Brad</b> assured me that they were still working on my question, and would get back to me. I told Brad that it should not take weeks of effort to resolve such a simple question. If Walberg’s statement had been truthful, then his staff could glance over at that <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“most recent report”</span></b>, and just tell me the name of it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg’s office never followed up with me on that.<b> <span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">So I conclude that Walberg lied to us</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Reason: Walberg <b>disregarded constituent’s concerns</b>, was <b>untruthful</b>, <b>dismissive</b>, <b>divisive</b>, and <b>condescending</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION SIX)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">School / border security</span></b> - 21:35<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“Our local tax dollars are being spent to <b>redesign our public school building’s</b>entryways in order to route visitors through the main offices <b>for security reasons</b>. How is this any different than tightening our <b>national borders</b> for increased security?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Full response:</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Good deduction. <b>I don’t think that there’s any difference to it.</b> And Federal tax dollars were sent to state and local communities to be used in doing whatever is necessary to secure our schools so that our kids can go to school safe and come home safe. And the same thing is true with our national borders. <b>Same thing is true when past Presidents spent money on building walls along our national borders as well.</b>”</span> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">Analysis of Response Six:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION SEVEN)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Checking Trump</span></b> - 22:35<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“Your fellow Republican House member, <b>Liz Cheney</b> has criticized the President’s plan to force U.S. allies to pay billions of dollars more for hosting American troops on their soil. Have you ever <b>publicly disagreed</b> with any of this <b>President’s policies</b>? If yes, <b>please elaborate</b>. If no, are you really in <b>total agreement</b> with every Presidential policy, or just willing to stay silent?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Full exchange:</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, um, <b>I can’t speak for Liz Cheney</b>, why she disagreed, though she supports the President overwhelmingly as well. <b>I’ve disagreed</b> and have made statements in town halls like this about <b>some</b> of his <b><i>personality statements</i></b>, some of his <b>tweets</b>. Can’t go back and give specific <b>tweets</b>, there has been plenty of <b>tweets</b>, that have taken place.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“That was my question. <b>I’m not asking about the tweets.</b> I’m asking about <b>the policy</b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, <b>the tweets are the policy in many cases</b>, as well. And so, we’ve taken positions against those. When we talked about<b> closing the borders to Muslims, that’s a policy. I can remember taking a stance against that.</b> And I think my rating is somewhere up above 95% in support of the President’s policies. Why wouldn’t they be? <b>They’re conservative policies. They’re economic conservative policies.</b> And oh, and by the way, they’re working. And America is stronger now than it’s been in quite a few years, economically, militarily as well. And I think I’d also state we haven’t seen missiles flying from North Korea, over Guam for quite some time right now.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of exchange</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">Analysis of Response Seven:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<i>Walberg’s email reply to me concerning Trump “closing the borders to Muslims”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Walberg signed onto this amicus brief supporting Trump “closing the borders to Muslims”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Against budget deficits</b> – the <i>Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017</i>, pushed by Trump, directly increased the national deficit by $2.5-trillion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reason: Walberg <b>disregarded the question</b>, was <b>untruthful</b>, and<b> dismissive</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“Thank you for your past support of the <b>Global Partnership for Education</b>. Will you please support a level of 125 million within the basic education budget for the fiscal year 2020? You can sign onto the ‘<i>Dear colleague</i>’ letter being circulated by Congressman Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania to do so, but the letter closes next week, March 17<sup>th</sup>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Our policy has been, and it’s traditional policy of <b>not signing onto letters that affect specific committees that I serve on</b>. And because we’ll be dealing with that in the committee itself –“ </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[Interruption]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, it’s <b>education</b>, so we have oversight over that as well. In Congress, <b>unlike the House and Senate in the state legislature</b>, you have jurisdictional areas, and multiple jurisdictional areas, <b>so if it deals with any type of education it’ll come to our jurisdiction as well.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “<b>Even in foreign aid</b>. But bottom line, I’ll wait to see what the figures actually are, and how they line up with what the ability we have to fund. Any given – Let alone in the Global Education Fund. <b>I’ve supported it in the past</b>…” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg added a few more general comments about Trump’s proposed budget</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>One week prior, Walberg signed this letter directly related to his Committee assignment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><u>Cross Reference</u></b>: Walberg made a similar false claim about Dear Colleague letters, during <span style="color: #ee588f; font-family: "marker felt thin";">QUESTION 20)</span>, saying <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We don’t sign letters on appropriations issues.”</span></b>. Note how in above letter, members base their request to Nielsen on their <span style="color: #385623; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>recent appropriations</b>”</span>.<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q8)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><b><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“In light of your <b>recent award</b> as Michigan’s <b>most effective legislator</b>, how do you plan on continuing to <b>work in a bi-partisan manor</b> for our district?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>Same way as before. It’s not gonna change</b>. I’m in the minority. So I’m gonna have to find different mechanisms, but the relationships I’ve developed already. Not only with <b>Debbie Dingell</b>, but now with <b>Elissa Slotkin</b>, who’s a new member representing the 8<sup>th</sup> District in Michigan. We’ve spent time together. I attended her ceremonial swearing in, in Lansing, surprised the room full of about 500 people, my wife and I walked in. Uh, but we’re colleagues now. We work together. <b>In fact, right now, we’re planning a town hall together</b>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“So, uh, we’ll continue to work that way. I don’t have a chairmanship this term. I’m a ranking member on the same subcommittee. So we have to function a bit differently, but the basic personal relations we have, and the philosophy that I have, hasn’t changed. So, <b>I think we’ll work together probably about the same way</b>.”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<i>end of response</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Photo from Elissa Slotkin’s ceremonial swearing in, Lansing, Michigan January 13, 2019<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><u>Cross Reference</u></b>: More of the methodology of Walberg’s “effective legislator” rating is discussed in <span style="color: #ee588f; font-family: "marker felt thin";">QUESTION 15</span>.<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "Marker Felt Thin";">Q9)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating: </span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Reason: Walberg’s response was <b>untruthful</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION TEN)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Tele-town halls</span></b>, by <b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel from Dexter</span></b> - 27:50<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“I would like to attend one of your <b>tele-town halls</b>. However, I, like many people these days, do not have a landline. <b>How can I participate?</b>”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Full Exchange:</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“That’s a challenge. There’s a creative tension there. A lot of people have their mobile phones now, and they would hope that by having their mobile phones, they wouldn’t have robo-calls at their mobile phone. I receive plenty of junk calls to my mobile phone, and I don’t know how they got it, but they are gradually getting it more and more.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“So, the <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">organization that we use </span></b></span><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; color: #7030a0;">[<b><i>singular</i></b><i> unnamed service</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, we pay to set up the robo-call setting for a tele-town hall, where a call is made announcing that a tele-town hall is going on. How they get their lists, I don’t know. I know they get some cell phones. Um, my wife gets a call on her cell phone. Um, I know some others that get a calls on their cell phone, I’ve heard, at least.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ed7d31;">Constituent, man:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I do.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<b>Acknowledges</b> and <i>engages with him</i>]</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“You get one. So, you probably get a lot of junk calls on your cell phone too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ed7d31;">Constituent, man:</span></b><span style="color: #ed7d31;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Yes, I do.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Could you post that on your website?”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<b><i>Unacknowledged</i></b>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“The Do-Not-Call List just doesn’t seem to work anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Could you post that on your website?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Post what?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“That you’re having a tele- whatever it’s called, tele-town hall?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s done in a local community. For instance, we’ll do – I think the last one we did was Monroe, Washtenaw, and Eaton Counties. And those portions, of those counties are called by the <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">list server</span></b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; color: #7030a0;">[<b><i>singular</i></b><i> unnamed service</i>]</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">that makes those calls. What phone numbers are on that list, I have no control over. I’d assume that- ” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Interruption</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d1c1f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Greg</span>:</b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“You’re not answering any of the questions, sir!”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Thank you. <b>Let’s go onto the next question then</b>, we’ll try that one!”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>That was my question</b>, and you gave an opinion on my cell phone use, you didn’t actually tell me what you are doing to ensure that you have <b>equal access to all of your constituents-</b> ” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Interruption</i>]</span>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“All I’m saying is you’re gonna have to, um, have to talk to, uh, <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the companies</span></b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; color: #7030a0;">[<b><i>plural</i></b><i> unnamed services</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">that do that researching.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I would love to.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We don’t do that.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Can we talk after this meeting?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> “<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Talk with my office, they would be glad to give you the name of <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">that organization</span></b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; color: #7030a0;">[<b><i>singular</i></b><i> unnamed service</i>]</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">that does it. And if you would like to call them and find out how to get on it. </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg shrugs shoulders</i>]</span>. <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I would assume that your cell phone is called by plenty of other people, and maybe over time they’ll find that.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;">:</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Thank you. If you’d like to make an application to my staff, you’re welcome to do that. <b>Let’s move on</b>.”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of exchange</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #470876;">“He fumbled hilariously at first and tried to avoid the question. <b>Ultimately, he deflected by claiming ignorance.</b> But he did instruct me to contact his staff for the answers to my questions, which I was surprised by. I intend to do this follow up until I can prove that I’ll never be invited to a tele town hall because these are not truly open to the public but are instead <b>targeted to likely or possibly Republican voters</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Taxpayer payments from Walberg’s government office to GOP campaign company<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">followed-up with</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Walberg’s District Director/Campaign Manager, Stephen Rajzer</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">right after the event. Rajzer told her that the DC office organizes the telephone-town halls. Walberg’s staff never gave her the name of that company or helped her to ever join in on our Congressional office’s telephone-town halls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“The Guardian reports that Trump has made 7,645 false statements since becoming President. That was in January of 2019. How can you, as a <b>fundamentalist Christian</b>, <b>support</b> a proven liar?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ve <b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">supported</span></b> a number of Presidents. I’ve <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">worked with</span></b>, uh, a President that I <b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">didn’t support</span></b> on his political philosophy. I’ve <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">worked with</span></b> members of Congress who may not have always told the truth, or their statement was taken out of context, and made to be a lie, when it really wasn’t. Right now I don’t have a choice on what President I <b><span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">work with</span></b>. I represent the 7<sup>th</sup> District for the best effect that the 7<sup>th</sup> District can have as a result of my representation, and what goes on with the policy in Washington.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Uh, I could not have<b> <span style="background-color: #e2efd9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">worked</span></b>, if you would have made the same thing, the same question, if <b>Hillary Clinton</b> had won the Presidency, the same thing could have been true for her. The exact same thing – at least assertions about lying and deceit. <b>That lady was a liar and a deceiver, and it’s been proven.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“No she’s not. But if that would’ve been the requirement, I couldn’t-a <b>worked with</b> her either. <b>Now, I don’t know whether the President’s lies, that are <i>alleged</i> to be lies, are lies.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg praised Trump’s policies. Constituents tried to steer back to the part of the question regarding Christianity, which Walberg deflected from again. End of exchange.</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q11)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION 12)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Radical left</span></b> - 34:20<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“I’m concerned about a <b>radical, Socialist, left agenda</b>, lowering the voting age to 16, abortion, infanticide, The Green Deal, national legalization of marijuana, allowing <i>illegals</i> to vote. What is your take on this, and any <b>action plan you have</b>?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>smiling and chuckling</i>]</span> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>I agree!</b> What more can I say? I agree.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg then pulled out his phone to read us these House GOP talking points</i>:]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Adrian Daily Telegram article devoted around Walberg’s House GOP talking points<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q12)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“The <b>election reform bill </b>would have ensured fair elections. Why did you vote against it? It would have reduced the role of big money, and closed loopholes that allow foreign entities to buy campaign ads.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>Well, the ACLU and I stood together on that</b>; took away First Amendment liberties. <b>It took away non-partisan FEC, Federal Election Commission, that’s a 3-3 split, and put it to a 5-2 split. That’s a concern. That becomes partisan.</b> It took away certain – it expanded the numbers of statements that could be made that could be considered political in a campaign. That’s amazing. It gave taxpayer dollars, as long as you didn’t give more than 200 dollars, it matched what you gave, 6-to-1 from taxpayer dollars.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“That’s from corporations, who have been fined against improper donations.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s not taxpayer dollars!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“- you’re gonna defend the fact <b>of having more corporation involvement in campaigning? Now <span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">that’s why I voted against this bill</span></b>, and a number of other reasons. It’s a terrible bill. It took away protections for legal ballots. It said that you could vote of course, at any time up to the election day, <b>not having a legal affidavit to prove who you were, but you could do it online with a picture. That picture may not have been you</b>. Or, you could simply sign an affidavit. That signature may not have been the one you were signing for. <b>You could harvest ballots</b> under this provision, <b>like they did in California</b>, where seven members won on election eve, election night, last election, and within six weeks later they lost, because anyone – anyone could come in and bring a ballot, or <b>a stack of ballots</b> that they had selected, <b>they had harvested from friends and neighbors, who <i>allegedly</i> had not been able to vote yet.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“It didn’t work well in North Carolina either.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“And that’s why we don’t need it for the rest of the country.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“The bottom line is, it won’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“And <b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">that’s why I voted against the bill</span></b>. And that’s why <b>I’m glad you and I agree on this one</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">That’s why the ACLU opposed it as well</span></b>. Let’s go onto the next one.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>end of exchange</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg’s responses to follow-ups were <b>untruthful</b> and<b> condescending</b>, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“you’re gonna defend the fact of having more corporation involvement in campaigning? </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now that’s why I voted against this bill”</span></b>. Walberg categorically distorted the point that the constituent made. Furthermore, H.R. 1 did not allow for <b>more corporate</b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>involvement</b> in campaigns. So <b>Walberg was untruthful about his own reason for opposing the bill</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>From the ACLU letter on H.R. 1, which supports the bill’s proposals on ballot access<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“Have you ever spoken with Representative <b>Will Hurd</b>, a Republican of the 23<sup>rd</sup>Congressional District of Texas? He represents voters living in a District that includes the longest section of the U.S./Mexican border. He has stated that there is no emergency, and a wall is not necessary. Why do you think it is?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Because it is, and it is because the people who actually take care of the country – and Will Hurd’s district – I know Will, we’re good friends, and a good portion of his district doesn’t need a wall. He would tell you the portions of his district that do need a wall. And his response to this, the questions of people saying: Do we need a wall on the entire border? – No. We don’t need a wall on the entire border. We need where it needs to be. And <b>that’s all the President’s doing</b> by going to Customs and Border Patrol </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[<i>sic</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Homeland Security agents and leaders and asking them: <i>Where is it needed, and whadd’ya need?</i> <b>That’s where he got the 7 billion dollar price tag. And that’s where he got the 8 billion dollar price tag</b> that he’s offering now in <b>this new legislation</b>. It’s going to take more than that to do the entire border where it’s needed. But he’s taking it in component parts. We can only build so much. And we are building. We have been building. President Obama built. President Bush built walls. <b>And only because the President’s name is Trump, right now, is there any opposition to it.</b>”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituents, assorted:</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span><b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“No.” “Not true!”</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<i>Walberg <b>dismissively</b> ignored the dissent in the room, and turned to the moderator for the next question. End of exchange.</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q14)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION 15)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Political divide</span></b> - 42:00<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“Given the <b>divisiveness</b> in partisan politics that seem to be increasing in our country, what are <b>you personally doing</b> to address this problem so that Congress actually does the job they were hired to do?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“They say in congress, they say there are work horses and show horses. My effective rating was based upon being a work horse. You’re not seeing me on a lot of national media. <b>We don’t attempt to be on national media. Local media’s a different story, cause I think the people oughtta hear me, the people who I represent.</b> But <b>the effective rating came cause we did work in a bipartisan fashion.</b>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“My Democrat colleagues know exactly where I can come down and where I can’t. And if they don’t know that, they ask me. And if they find a position where we can come together on, we come together on. <b>That’s why Dan Kildee received support from me</b>, and other members, at least a majority of members of our Republican delegation <b>on the Flint water issue</b>. That’s why we worked together on – on the, uh, <b>Great Lakes Restoration Initiative</b>, and are able to fully fund that, and continue to do it. <b>I bet this budget, the President’s budget this year, it will have full funding in it this time.</b>He’s heard from us. We worked together on it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“But there are things we can’t work together on. <b>I’m not gonna work together on infanticide…</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“…So, where we can work together, we work together. <b>And uh, it seems to be workin’.</b>” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“This past October, you introduced the “<b>Preserving Direct Sellers Independence Act</b>”. Can you explain how that legislation was <b>written</b>, and what its <b>purpose</b> was? And why did no other Members of Congress in the <b>Direct Sellers Caucus</b> ever cosponsor it?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “<b>Direct Sellers Act, it was in my committee</b>. I sponsored it – <b>co-sponsored it</b> because it dealt with the issues of concern to direct sales, whether it’s <b>Amway</b>, or whether it’s um, - what the uh, – <b>Jenny Craig</b>. A number of direct sellers that are in this country that people find great benefit from. Reducing unnecessary burdens upon them, to carry on the work that they do. And any member of Congress has the opportunity to sponsor any bill that they choose to sponsor. We don’t sponsor every bill that we end up voting on as well. And for that reason, being that I represent Michigan, that has one of the <b>premier Direct Sponsors in the nation</b>, that being <b>Amway</b>, and other component parts of it, we certainly help those that have legitimate concerns and needs, from our frame of reference.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “How was it written? What do you mean?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “No. No. It always has to go through drafting - bill drafting in the House. It has to meet the correct parts of the bill – language. No. I’ve never had a bill that was handed to me from – whether it’s <b>Farm Bureau</b>, or whether it was from a <b>Direct Sellers</b>, or whether it’s from <b>insurance industry</b> for annuities for retirement savings, um, whether it was from <b>NRA</b>. It comes - it comes – <b>ideas come</b>, and then we put the idea together to meet the need.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Me:</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> “You were the only sponsor of that legislation. There was no other cosponsors on it. So, you wrote it yourself? Or, how did –?”</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Interruption</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Direct Sellers Association Press Release citing Walberg’s bill as a lobbying victory<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><u>Later Developments</u>:</b> On June 26, 2019 Walberg quietly reintroduced this bill with identical text - no press releases - no floor speeches. So, he must understand that it is toxic legislation. <b>If Walberg believed that the bill was good for constituents, then he would champion it proudly</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION 17)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Gun safety ideas</span></b>, by <b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel from Dexter</span></b> - 47:15<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“We brainstormed a list of ideas for studying <b>gun violence</b> and improving gun safety in this country together after the <b>Parkland</b> shooting in February of 2018. What actions have you taken towards the ideas we generated together?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Um, I remember that list on the white board. <b>I don’t remember every specific point</b>. But we passed a <b>major package for gun safety</b>, and opposition to gun violence in this country. Which included what I mentioned earlier, the funding that goes to the states and the local communities, local school districts that can be used for putting in place what is necessary to prevent something like Parkland: training of individuals as well as operational issues and component parts...</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;">” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg said different schools need different security / claimed majority of mass shooters “had mental health issues”, so he “upped the support for mental health”</i>] </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“The Bills that were passed in the House, and <b><i>happily </i></b>will not pass the Senate, but were passed in the House just two weeks ago <b>would not have done anything for any of those school shootings, theater shootings, church shootings – nothing</b>. It wouldn’t have prevented any of those people who had those guns from still having those guns.”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<i>End of Response</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Bleak, demoralizing products fueled by Government funds and ongoing gun violence in schools<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><u>Background Context on the Question</u>:</b> <b><span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel</span></b>’s question at Dexter was a follow-up to a question that she asked one year before, right after the gun massacre at the <b>high school in Parkland</b>. In response, Walberg pulled out a white board to list out constituents’ ideas:<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“What types of <b>legislation would you support</b> to improve <b>gun safety</b> and <b>school safety</b>? Will you support tighter rules for <b>licensing</b> and <b>background checks</b>?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Let’s try it this way. </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>lifts up white board and sets it on the easel</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> Carly </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg’s Senior Legislative Correspondent</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, could you help me out, please? <b>Let’s have a brainstorming session.</b> Give me some ideas on how we can protect kids in the schools better than we can now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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After 18-minutes, Walberg cut off the constituents who still wanted to discuss the topic. Walberg moved on to other submitted questions without addressing the ideas on the white board. <b>Furthermore, Walberg never answered <span style="background-color: #bbe8f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rachel</span>’s original question that had prompted the whole 18-minute white board stunt.</b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q17)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION 18)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Background check bill</span></b> - 49:10<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“What is your reasoning for voting no on <b>H.R. 8</b>, when the majority of Americans, including gun owners believe that stronger <b>background checks</b> are needed for every gun purchase?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“But they may have stopped a future shooter.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“They would not have stopped those shooters, or any others like them to come. We have background checks already. In fact, these background checks made it more difficult. For instance, if one of your <b>neighbors</b> had a restraining order against a <b>partner, fiancé, lover, or husband</b> who was committing <b>domestic violence</b> that was ratcheting up to the point that he, or she felt that they needed to have a weapon, this legislation would have expanded the waiting time from three-days, on up to potentially 20-days for that person to get a gun to protect themselves. It also would have, if that was my <b>neighbor</b>, and she came to me saying, <b>‘<i>I am fearful for my life-</i>’</b></span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg stops himself and points to </i><b>Greg</b><i> in the back of the room</i>] </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">- I’d like you all to turn around and see this gentleman here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“These are the <b>signs that he holds up</b>. And that’s the type of – the reason why we do the town halls like we do. Uh so, the <b>‘<i>Low IQ</i>’</b>, uh, it’s referring to me, as I try to answer your question.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“So what it would have done, what <b>it would have done is made it impossible for me to loan my gun to my neighbor</b>. To say, until you finish your background check of three days presently, which would now be ten to twenty days, and you have that paper, that restraining order, and you believe humanly-speaking that that piece of paper is not going to stop an attack from this individual who keeps coming, and has shown evidence that he, or she does not care about the restraining order…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I’d add one other point: <b>change The Constitution. Do away with the Second Amendment</b>, if you want to go to that direction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Walberg interrupted himself to divide all of the constituents against one constituent<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Walberg’s Rules, shown on the back of the question card of the Dexter event, allow sign-holding<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #470876;">“I was happy that he had everyone take notice of my presence since most people in the room had not noticed my signs prior to that moment. However, I do think he was being rather disingenuous in order to try to turn the room against me. He called attention to my "<b>low IQ</b>" sign but never said a word about the "<b>Uninformed</b>" or "<b>Dishonest</b>" signs that were used far more frequently. I will continue to use all the signs when attending in hopes that he calls me out similarly in the future. I think that it is interesting that he has already once publicly admonished that term from me when <b>DJT has used it repeatedly to refer to his colleague Maxine Waters and also to our former VP Biden</b>. Has he spoken out against that use of the exact same term? Or is he a hypocrite?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Walberg tried to divde room against constituent, Greg for holding a sign that quoted Trump<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin";">Q18)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 16pt;">Effective Town Hall Rating:</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "copperplate gothic bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> fails minimum standard</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Reason: Walberg <b>disregarded the question</b>, was <b>untruthful</b>, <b>divisive</b>, and <b>condescending</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ee588e; font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">QUESTION 19)</span> <b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt;">Mueller / Impeachment</span></b> - 53:30<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">“If the Mueller report comes back <b>indicating</b> that Trump is involved in crimes, will you hold him <b>accountable</b>, and possibly vote to impeach?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“If it comes back that he was involved in crimes? Absolutely. I do not support any elected official that has been <b>proven</b>, not simply <b>indicted</b>, but <b>proven under a court of law</b> as any of us deserve, that he’s perpetrated crimes. Absolutely. Why wouldn’t I? Why wouldn’t I?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, man:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Cause you’re a Republican.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“But you know something, uh, Republicans are law-abiding like Democrats, as well. Uh, I will stand with the law. Um, and I hope the Mueller report comes out soon. <b>Over two years</b>, a lot of money spent, and so far no Russia collusion. </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>A bit of a tittering uproar</i>]</span> <b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">No. And that’s what it was about. No Russia collusion.</span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d1c1f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Greg</span>: </b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“If the report’s not out, how do you know that? Do you have insider information?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Walberg was <b>dismissive</b> of that follow-up question, and turned toward to the Moderator.</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Moderator:</b> <span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ve been told we’re out of time.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of exchange.</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">Analysis of Response 19:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Walberg <b>disregarded the question</b> about holding Trump <b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Accountable”</span></b>. Impeachment was just one option for that. The question also said, <b><span style="color: #00b050;">“indicating”</span></b>, meaning to suggest, not, <b>“indicting”</b>, meaning to legally prosecute. Walberg deflected to talk about the President being <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“indicted”</span></b> and, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“proven under a court of law”</span></b>, which is an impossible threshold for impeachment. Mueller operated according to a Justice Department memo that stated <b>it is unconstitutional to indict a sitting President</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #a1d972;">“Representative Walberg, concerning the <b>Global Fund</b> request, will you speak or write to Representative Rodgers on the Foreign Operations subcommittee? He’s requesting 1.56 billion appropriation on the fiscal year budget of 2020. This request aligns with President Trump’s goal of <b>eliminating HIV/Aids</b>, as stated in his State of the Union Address. The Global Fund has successfully reduced <b>Aids and Malaria</b> around the globe since its inception under President Bush. It’s a modest increase with significant payoff.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ll speak to him, absolutely. That’s generally how we do it. <b>We don’t sign letters on appropriations issues.</b>But I’ll speak to him.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of response</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Letter on Appropriations that Walberg signed onto two months prior<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Letters on appropriations that Walberg signed in the years-long leadup to the 2013 shutdown<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #fff67e;">Federalist Papers / Creator of the Universe / Being in the Minority</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Full concluding remarks:</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“I always try to end this way: That we’re Americans. Aren’t we?”</span><b><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050;">Constituent, woman: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Thank you for posting a little bit in advance this time, so we actually knew you were having the meeting. Can you do that on a regular basis?”</span><span style="color: #7030a0;"> [<i>Walberg ignored her</i>]<b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg: </span></b><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We’re Americans. We have our disagreements, very clearly, but still the greatest nation on the earth. God has blessed us. And key principles were put in place at the inception of this country. I’d encourage each of you to go look up the <b>Federalist Papers</b>. Read the Federalist Papers, <b>unless you’re not American, or don’t care about America</b>. You’ll be amazed. <b>You will be amazed at the wisdom of these founders. They debated everything we’re debating today, including health care</b>, including the Federal banking system, including uh - military engagement, foreign affairs, all of that. They deliberated, and they came up with the genius of our Constitution, for reasons that have effectively kept this nation going and growing unlike any other place in the earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“We also had a set of values, set of values that were set into the universe by <b>the creator of the universe</b>, that when we walk away from that – and in this country, <b>you don’t have to believe in the creator of the universe</b>, that’s the beauty of this country, but the founders did. And that’s why they designed this government the way it works. And it’s worked pretty well. Let’s not screw it up.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>Let’s debate it</b>. Let’s consider, but let’s be very, very careful about walking very far away from what that amazing Constitution with its first ten Amendments, The Bill of Rights implemented for us, regardless of our belief, lack of belief, our position, our political party, where we live in the country. It was designed in a way that would benefit this country the best, and I think it has, and I don’t get my way in every case.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>I’m serving in the minority now</b>. I did that my first term. <b>I didn’t like it then. I don’t like it now</b>, but that’s America. And I’m going to work my best to still be the most effective member of the Michigan delegation, the most effective member if at all possible in the entire Republican delegation, <b>to impact this country for what’s best</b>. So, </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>sharp exhale</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">again, thanks for being here, and uh, <b>hope to see you again</b>.” </span><span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>End of event</i>]</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I hope this report helped to articulate and substantiate the bad feelings that a lot of constituents have felt after attending Walberg’s coffee hours. The one </span><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ideal</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> response that Walberg delivered was not a high bar achievement. Walberg could keep doing that and win favor with a lot more constituents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This Dexter event was not an anomaly. Walberg always performs this badly. Walberg is not an a outlier in Congress either. After I created this scale, I watched dozens of Congressional town hall videos from other Representatives whose responses routinely failed to achieve the minimum level. Let’s not lower our expectations though. We should keep pressuring our elected officials to do better, and keep electing better officials.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At a coffee hour in 2016, Walberg proudly told a story about committing fraud with his high school wrestling team <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>exhibit below</i>]</span>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the moment, a thought begins to form, <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“Wait, so Walberg proudly admitted to a systematic wrestling fraud and compared it to what he does now in Congress? Did I miss something?”</span> </b>Before that question could fully take shape, Walberg had already switched over to a different topic. There was no time to say, <b>“Hang on, what’s the deal with that wrestling story?”</b> Teams have gotten suspended for entire seasons over lesser offenses than that. Wrestlers are not even supposed to be dehydrated during weigh ins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“My only responsibility was not to get pinned… And that’s Congress, at times.”</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Avoiding getting pinned for fraud, is the exact opposite of, <b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“responsibility”</span></b>, Congressman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back in the day, Walberg’s wrestling opponents probably walked away thinking, <b>“Something felt wrong about that guy. That set didn’t feel legitimate.”</b> And that is how Walberg’s coffee hours feel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, I hope that the length of this report felt purposeful, by exploring each point of the event. I hope that it also delivered some satisfaction for my fellow disaffected constituents, by pinning down one slippery old fraud, Tim Walberg. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for reading,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steven Meyer<o:p></o:p></div>
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Monroe, Michigan<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 18, 2020<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "marker felt thin"; font-size: 14pt;">Additional Sources<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Part 1 of 3: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeSbYkKDU7A" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeSbYkKDU7A</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Sun Times News</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Chelsea, Dexter, Manchester, Saline</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Representative Tim Walberg (Congressional District 7) Does Not Listen To His Constituents And Is Divisive.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I attended Mr. Walberg’s coffee hour in Dexter on Monday, March 11, at 9:30 am. He makes it difficult to attend his open meetings. He invites a select few constituents by written invitation. The vast majority of the meetings are on weekday mornings and are announced on his website shortly before they occur, making attendance by most working constituents impossible. Because of my work schedule, I was able to attend this meeting and have attended a few others. I have learned of each of them by word of mouth and at the last minute.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Walberg does not allow his constituents to speak at his open meetings. Attendees are required to write questions on postcards which are then read by a moderator, who can filter them as he or she chooses or is instructed. Luckily, at the Dexter meeting, the moderator was Judge Karl Fink, who read each postcard verbatim. When a question is posed, Mr. Walberg gives his response. <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Follow up or discussion of his answer is not allowed, not even by the person who wrote the question, and not even when the response given by Mr. Walberg contains misleading or untrue information. When a constituent does try to speak up, Mr. Walberg will use his microphone to speak over the top of that person.</span> This is very frustrating. As a result, constituents sometimes resort to shouting or holding signs that indicate their feelings about his response. For example, at the Dexter meeting one postcard indicated that the person had seen an increase in her taxes this year, despite being on a fixed income. Mr. Walberg dismissed the premise, denying her experience, calling it unusual. Multiple people tried to speak up to indicate they had had the same experience, and someone asked for a show of hands, but Mr. Walberg spoke over the top of the audience and changed the subject. I have witnessed him react the same dismissive way when people try to tell him their reliance on the Affordable Care Act, on Planned Parenthood, and on net neutrality, to name a few occurrences. Not surprisingly, there are often people in the audience who know quite a bit more about a given subject than Mr. Walberg, but he will not let them speak. On more than one occasion, I have watched constituents leave in anger because he will not listen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">His tactics are divisive. He frequently uses hot button words and insensitive comments. He will introduce a divisive subject, that thoughtful, intelligent, caring people can have different views on, and does not allow discussion</span>. At the Dexter meeting, it was Mr. Walberg, not a constituent, who brought up the subject of abortion, but only his opinion was voiced. He makes statements that many in the audience know to be untrue or misleading. Because he will not let us speak and will not listen, people become frustrated and angry. Those who agree with him become frustrated and angry at the people who are trying to be heard. The atmosphere is tense and unfriendly by the end. He has been asked by many people on many occasions, including via his mandatory postcards, to let his constituents speak but he has refused.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In contrast, I also attend the Dexter Forum. These are twice monthly meetings on Saturday mornings that are well attended, open to anyone, scheduled on a regular basis, and moderated by John Hansen and Karl Fink, Democrat and Republican respectively. These meetings are always interesting and people on both sides speak and listen to each other. There is no shouting or sign holding, because we all have an opportunity to speak on any subject. Those who know more about a subject, either by education, profession, or personal experience, are encouraged to give their opinions and to inform the rest of us. We do not all come to agreement, but our community is strengthened by the open exchange of information, ideas, and opinions. The atmosphere is warm and congenial.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this time of polarization, we need more listening and more inclusiveness. In our communities, we have much more in common with each other than differences. I recently heard Representative Will Hurd (Texas Republican) in an interview say he represents all the people in his district – those who voted for him, those who voted against him, and those who didn’t vote at all. We need a representative who will do the same, not a representative who only wants your donation and your vote, not your input. We deserve a representative who lets us speak and brings us together, not Mr. Walberg who refuses to listen and continues to divide us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">[</span><b><span style="background-color: #c5e0b3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kim from Dexter</span></b><span style="color: #7030a0;">]</span><b><span style="background-color: #c5e0b3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i>Walberg on May 30, 2019, at a panel discussion in Ukraine Parliament<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>This report presents full transcripts and video links for the first time in the United States, three speeches that US House member, Tim Walberg (MI-07) delivered in Ukraine in 2015 and 2019</b>. They took place at Prayer Breakfast events organized in partnership with <b>Doug Burleigh of The Fellowship Foundation</b>, aka The Family, who was in attendance for the two main breakfast events.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On July 8, 2019</b>, I found the Ethics filing about Walberg’s five-day trip to Ukraine the previous month. <b>I was concerned that Walberg had met with so many leaders in public arenas in Ukraine, and yet there was not a single word or photo about it in any outlets in the United States</b>. None of Walberg’s newsletters, social media, or press releases mentioned a thing about it. Walberg’s social media accounts continued to post material while he was in Ukraine, but nothing about the trip before or afterward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On August 7</b>, at Walberg’s coffee hour in <b>Northfield Township</b>, some constituents and myself asked Walberg about the trip, and why he had kept it all hidden from constituents. When one constituent asked, <b>“why are we only hearing about this today…?”</b> Walberg flippantly replied, <b>“You asked me.”</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Video (<i>16:30 mark</i>): <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7HlVyrkgRI" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7HlVyrkgRI</a></u><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79;">Me:</span></b> “Could you <b>post your speech for all of us to</b>- ?” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[Interruption]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “Nah, <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I’m not gonna post my speech</span></b>. I gave it. If you want to look online, it’s probably there.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79;">Me:</span></b> “I’ve looked. I can’t find it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “I know there were YouTube things that were on there.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #843c0c;">Constituent, Greg:</span></b><span style="color: #843c0c;"> </span>“What are you hiding?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “I’m not hiding anything. <b>It was a great speech</b>. So,”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1f4e79;">Me:</span></b> “Yeah, we have to take your word for it.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>In September, when the scandal between Trump and Ukraine started to be revealed</b>, I became more interested in finding out about the hidden work that Walberg had done in Ukraine. In that ongoing effort, I found these speeches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>My Analysis follows each of the speeches below. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fcd600; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #005dbb; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SPEECH ONE</span></b><b><span style="color: #005dbb; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 2, 2015 – Kyiv, Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Video: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/radatvchannel/videos/1615528308729861/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.facebook.com/radatvchannel/videos/1615528308729861/</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(very beginning of speech clipped off from video)</span> “…Senator <b>Roger Wicker</b>, from Mississippi. And I also bring to you greetings from other members of Congress who asked me to greet you today, Congressman <b>Randy Forbes</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(VA-04)</span>, who chairs our <b>Congressional Prayer Caucus</b>, then Congressman <b>Juan Vargas </b>from California <span style="color: #7030a0;">(CA-51)</span>, Congressman <b>Chris Smith</b> from New Jersey <span style="color: #7030a0;">(NJ-04)</span>, and Senator <b>James Inhofe </b>from Oklahoma who sent a personal letter of greeting and support to <b>President Poroshenko</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(2014-2019)</span>, and to Parliament that I would like to pass on for someone to take it to the President for his greetings.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“God bless the Ukraine. I feel as if I were standing here amongst the giants of the American revolution, but rather of the Ukrainian revolution; a courageous effort for freedom that speaks not only to the Ukrainian people, but to the world. I want you to know that I pray for President Poroshenko, and your country, and the parliament that leads it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I come to you as a member of Congress, a member of government, and remembering that God has established government, but more importantly, I come to you as a follower of Jesus, in the spirit of Jesus.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The world is a challenging place today. And you, the leaders of the Ukraine know that as well as anyone. I want you to know that we pray for you in our <b>Congressional Prayer Caucus</b>, and the many small <b>Fellowship</b> groups <span style="color: #7030a0;">(aka The Family)</span> that meet in our Capitol. You do well in having a similar group in Parliament, and this National Prayer Breakfast. Our groups are non-partisan in nature, Republicans and Democrats meeting together in the spirit of Jesus. This is how it should be, and how it was from the beginnings of our country.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Prayer to God, and the principles of the Bible were the founding principles of our country, and its government. God has indeed blessed America, but that blessing can be lost if we go away from the spirit and the principles of Jesus. These timeless principles that lifted us above revolution, world challenge, and mere human thought.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<b><span style="color: red;">Joseph Stalin</span></b> said, and you know of him well, ‘<i>America is like a healthy body, and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.</i>’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Please pray for America, as we pray for you. Our morality and our spiritual life is being undermined. For this reason, our <b>Congressional Prayer Caucus</b> has put out a call for our national, state, and local leaders, along with our pastors and congregations all over America to <b>sign a proclamation</b> committing ourselves to continuing prayer, asking God to heal our land. For it is only God that can do that healing.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What if that same movement began right here, for the Ukraine, and for other countries around these tables? What if each of you led that healing? God would indeed bless the Ukraine, and he would heal and bless America. Please take this challenge.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“My prayers are with you, your nation, and your leaders, and the spirit of Jesus and God’s principles in the bible will make you strong. God bless you. <b>дуже дякую</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[duzhe dyakuyu – thank you very much]</span>. Thank you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="background-color: #deeaf6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 16pt;">Analysis of SPEECH ONE:</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doug Burleigh of the Fellowship Foundation speaking at the 2015 Ukraine Prayer Breakfast</span></i></div>
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Link to report: <a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/09/investigation-red-flagging-walbergs.html" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/09/investigation-red-flagging-walbergs.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Audio (23:00 mark): <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.sermonconnect.com/sermoninfo.php?church=151718&id=201507070807444718F9" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.sermonconnect.com/sermoninfo.php?church=151718&id=201507070807444718F9</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">May 30, 2019 – Kyiv, Ukraine </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(The Main Prayer Breakfast Event)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Walberg:</span></b> “<b>привет</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">[pryvet - hello]</span>. I want to say to you how great it is to be here today, with you. I come as a member of Congress, yes, but first and foremost, I come as a Christian, one who has accepted Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior, for the forgiveness of my sins, for the purpose of my life, and for my future that’s eternal and will be with him. And for that I praise God.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Today, what I would say to you is, first and foremost America stands with Ukraine. As a member of Congress, I think I can speak for the majority of members of Congress, that we stand with Ukraine, and thank God for the experience that we have learned through you and your desires to be people who support freedom, opportunity. But in recent years, I have been just so blessed to see the passion of members of Parliament and leaders here in this great nation stand for the purposes that God intends for a people, and that’s freedom, opportunity, liberty, but a commitment to God himself and the lordship of the savior Jesus Christ.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is important that you know that <b>every Thursday morning</b> members of the House of Representatives, we meet for prayer in the <b>Congressional Prayer Breakfast</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(hosted by The Family aka Fellowship Foundation)</span>, and we pray for other nations, and we have prayed for Ukraine as well. And I believe that God is answering our prayers, because he is building a nation here of Ukraine and leadership that are an example to the rest of the world, the United States as well. And I thank you for that.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“United States has been a blessed nation. And it wasn’t blessed just because we had good principles of economics, free enterprise, capitalism, a representative government where as <b>our founders</b> said, ‘<i>Here, the people rule</i>’ <span style="color: #7030a0;">(see fact check in analysis)</span>. But in truth, it came as a result of our nation, and <b>our framers and founders</b> being committed to the God who designed us all, and <b>built into our country principles</b> that were indeed Christian, <b>based upon Judeo-Christian values</b> yes, but based upon the sovereignty of God himself, who desires that all men come to the knowledge of the truth, and that truth is found wrapped up in his love that he demonstrated in giving to us, first and foremost, his best, our savior Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“And so I come to you in the spirit of Jesus today, as a member of the world, as a representative of a district in Michigan, as a proud member of the U.S. Congress, but again as a proud member of the family of God through faith in Jesus Christ. I come to encourage you today. Build up your faith. Continue to pray together. Continue to learn the word of God together, because in the word of God the bible there is truth, and there is everything needed for life, both for here now, and to come.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The word of God has principles that will make Ukraine greater than it is today. That will make Ukraine a beacon for the rest of the world to see, as a nation that honors the principles that are timeless, and is willing to stand on things that God can and will bless. Even as we’ve seen in America God bless our nation to the point that now we find that there are people who seem to want to, uh, go a different way, and thinks that in their human wisdom, they can make a nation greater than was designed under principles of God. You pray for us, please.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I plead with you to pray for America, that we would stand firm, and that we would not just be a great economic powerhouse, and I thank God for that. I thank God that our people are working in our country. That there’s more jobs now available than people to fill those jobs. I appreciate that, but I want our nation also to understand that there are principles that relate to life itself, that we would stand <b>for life, and against abortion</b>. That we would stand for the <b>institution of marriage, designed by God, between one man and one woman for life</b>.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“For that, I thank God for having a wife of 45 years, who has stuck with me, and I am delighted that Sue could be with me here today. I’m glad that I have the opportunity to be the father of 3 children. I’ve heard some of you have 8, and 10, and 11 children. I’m embarrassed that I only have 3, but I thank God for those 3. And I thank God for my 6 grandchildren. That gives me the opportunity, the responsibility to press on for whatever it means ‘til God brings me home.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I would leave this with you today; in <b>Second Timothy, chapter two, verse 15</b>, the <b>apostle Paul</b> said to his son in the faith, <b>Timothy</b>, and I take that personally, cause my name is Timothy, and he said to Timothy, ‘<i>Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, as a workman that doesn’t need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.</i>’” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“At the end of each day, almost every day, I ask these three questions related to that wonderful scripture. First of all, is God pleased? ‘<i>Present yourself approved to God</i>’. Secondly, have I done the work well? ‘<i>a workman needing not to be ashamed</i>’. And then finally, finally, have I used the word well? ‘<i>accurately handling the word of truth.</i>’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I challenge all of you who are parliamentarians, who are local government officials, who are leaders of your party, who are military, who are teachers, who are faith leaders in our churches, and our religious associations, I challenge you to at the end of each day to be able to say, I’m approved by Jesus. I’m approved by God. He’s pleased. Yes, I’ve done the work well, and yes, I’ve used the word well. You see, when we’ve used the word well, we can expect to say yes to each of those other questions, because God has led us, he’s directed us with wisdom that’s timeless.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“And in the case of Ukraine, it will make a nation that is greater than anything you could imagine right now, because the hand of God will bless you and bless the world. May God bless Ukraine.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Link to Ford’s Presidential Library: <a href="https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/quotes.asp" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/quotes.asp</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Link to vile amicus brief:</b> <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-107/113569/20190826112615797_17-1618%20-1623%2018-107%20Amici%20BOM%20Members%20of%20Congress.pdf" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-107/113569/20190826112615797_17-1618%20-1623%2018-107%20Amici%20BOM%20Members%20of%20Congress.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Link to article: <a href="https://www.monroenews.com/news/20191011/walberg-travels-to-ukraine-for-prayer-breakfast" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.monroenews.com/news/20191011/walberg-travels-to-ukraine-for-prayer-breakfast</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Walberg speaking at the Prayer Breakfast, observed by his “delegation of U.S. diplomats”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Doug Burleigh watching Walberg at the panel discussion in Parliament</i></div>
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Link to report:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainians-contacted-us-officials-in-may-about-aid-fears" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainians-contacted-us-officials-in-may-about-aid-fears</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">May 31, 2019 – Zhytomyr, Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Video (20:00 mark): <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sk1tv/videos/371684136788458/">https://www.facebook.com/sk1tv/videos/371684136788458/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Forgive me for my Ukraine. <b>Mr. Mayor</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(</span><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #7030a0;">Serhiy Sukhomlin</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: #7030a0;">, of Zhytomyr)</span>, thank you for the welcome to your city. To the leaders in the religious community, thank you. It is a privilege for my wife Susan, and me to be here this morning. We love Ukraine. Every time we come here we are encouraged by a nation and a people that are growing in their commitment to freedom, and more importantly to Jesus Christ. God will bless you, regardless of the circumstances. I pray for you regularly.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is important that a nation like Ukraine be seen as an example as coming from bondage of communism to freedom, and freedom of religion. God has blessed America because we chose to follow his principles. There are strong efforts in our country to move us away from those foundational principles. Please pray for us that we will stand firm.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I come to you today first and foremost as a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, who is my savior. Secondarily, I am a husband, a father, my wife Susan has put up with me for 45 years. God has blessed us with three children and six grandchildren. And then, he has blessed me with <b>giving me the ministry as a member of the US Congress</b>.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mr. Mayor, <b>politics is a ministry</b>. Remember it is said in scripture that <b>God is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king </b><span style="color: #7030a0;">(Isaiah 33:22)</span>.<b> Those are the three branches of government </b><span style="color: #7030a0;">(Um… see analysis below)</span>. I am privileged to serve with a number of Christ-followers in Congress. Whether we are Democrats or Republicans, we meet together every Thursday morning for prayer <span style="color: #7030a0;">(hosted by The Family aka <b>Fellowship Foundation</b>)</span>, to have breakfast together, to sing songs, and to pray, and then we fellowship together learning more about each other and how God is working in our lives. We have found that this unites us as we work together in politics. We still enjoy fighting over politics, but it’s easier to see each other as brothers and sisters when we have prayed together. We also meet, a number of us, for <b>bible study every week</b> <span style="color: #7030a0;">(This is another group, <b>Capitol Ministries</b>, see analysis)</span>. There are bible studies in the House, the Senate, and in the White House.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Pray for our President. He has a powerful witness of Christians surrounding him. Our <b>Vice President Pence </b>is a strong believer in Jesus Christ. The majority of the President’s cabinet are fine Christians. So only God knows what the impact will be on <b>President Trump</b>. And yet we know <b>because of the influence of Christians</b>, our President has been one of the strongest proponents in modern history for the cause of life and marriage: <b>marriage between a man and a woman for life</b>, and the support for <b>life from conception to natural death</b>. He has also been a strong supporter of <b>religious liberty</b> in our country.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“For that reason, I salute you for prayer breakfasts like this, where believers can join together, and leave sometimes our theological fights, to center on our commitment to God and the authority of the Bible. For it is only that God’s principles found in scripture can give us freedom, opportunity, and a moral way of life that builds society, and doesn’t tear it down. I thank God for your example here in this community, and all across Ukraine.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“My prayer for you would be this: That you, as well as I would be willing to commit ourselves to following God’s principles, whatever they would ask of us. God will then bless, in spite of our circumstances.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In <b>Second Timothy</b>, a special book to me, since my name is Timothy, the <b>apostle Paul</b> instructs his son in the faith Timothy with this clear principle: Paul says, ‘<i>be diligent to present yourself to God approved by God as a workman needing not to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth</i>’ <span style="color: #7030a0;">(2 Timothy 2:15)</span>. At the end of each day, I attempt to answer the three questions in that verse. The first question: Is God pleased? ‘<i>Present yourself approved to God</i>’. Is God pleased? Secondly: Has the work been done well? ‘<i>a workman needing not to be ashamed</i>’. And then finally: Has the word been used well?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In my life, as a member of congress, a husband, and a father, if I use the word of God well, accepting his principles, whether I understand them fully or not, I know that my work will have been done well for him, and my God will be pleased. <b>Regardless of what my constituents think of me, the God who I serve will be pleased</b>.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“These three principles can be the same for a country or for a city. If God is pleased with your work for your church, for your city, for your family, your community and your country will be blessed. You will find the greatest purpose for your life, and god will bless your land. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I again thank you for your commitment to be here today, to do the things that God honors, to love the people that he loves, to stand for the principles that he condones, to oppose what he condemns, but to oft the reconciliation that he gave through his son, our savior, Jesus Christ.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I will pray for you. I would ask you to pray for us, and together, God will be glorified. May God bless Ukraine, and may God bless America.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Link to their site:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://capmin.org/ministries/washington-dc/congressional-sponsors/" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;">https://capmin.org/ministries/washington-dc/congressional-sponsors/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">“he has blessed me with <b>giving me the ministry as a member of the US Congress</b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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That explains why Walberg ignores pressure from constituents.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">“<b>Regardless of what my constituents think of me, the God who I serve will be pleased</b>.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>So, Walberg, as a U.S. Representative told Ukrainians that he does not serve, or regard what his own constituents think.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-2361233048656814022019-07-07T21:20:00.000-04:002019-07-07T21:53:35.931-04:00I've Renewed this Domain: Quick Check-In<div>
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I got this web domain a year ago, and have renewed it today.<br />
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Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read through these reports. </div>
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">I still have a lot of reports in the works.</b> </div>
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I feel both a sense of urgency to share the things that I find in my research, as well as a sense to do so in the most responsible, diligent way possible.</div>
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I have gathered a big backlog of material, that I am still sorting through.</div>
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Currently, I have numerous drafts of reports that have felt very close to finished, but then little hanging details in them open new doors to whole new lines of research. </div>
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Before I ever thought of starting this site, I spent a year working on that one report about Walberg's <b>college credentials</b>. I didn't know where that research was going, or what I would end up doing with all of it, but I felt a personal need to do it. I kept following through on those research trails, checked, and organized everything before I ever finished it and posted it here. All of the research I gathered while looking into that one topic of Walberg's college credentials turned into the other reports that I wrote last year, and into reports that I am still working on.</div>
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On <b>April 23, 2019, at the Coffee Hour in Chelsea</b>, Walberg responded negatively to that report of his college credentials:</div>
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Audio (43:00): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcPSAHQASP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcPSAHQASP4</a></div>
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I was not at that coffee hour in Chelsea. That happened right on the heels of the <b>Manchester, coffee hour, on April 8, 2019</b>, which I was also not at, where Walberg cited me and my report on his father's citizenship. I ended up writing a whole new report about that incident: </div>
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<a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2019/04/walberg-responds-to-report-on-his-lies.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2019/04/walberg-responds-to-report-on-his-lies.html</a></div>
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I was able to put out that Manchester response so quickly because it was part of the ongoing backlog of material that I had already gathered. I don't have any backlog of material on Walberg's college credentials though. Everything I could possibly find was in that original report. So, responding to what Walberg said at that Chelsea Coffee Hour didn't really warrant a new report.</div>
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<b>Isn't that weird?</b> </div>
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- To now find myself, as a private constituent of Walberg's, in a position to say:</div>
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">My US Congressman's criticism of me and my work, at his recent government town hall, does not warrant a response from me.</b></div>
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<b>That's how it is though.</b> I said what I had to in that original report, and I stand by it.</div>
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That's where I'm at now. That's the biggest change this new term: how my work has become something of a known blip throughout our District. While I'm still a private constituent, I'm proud of who I am, and the research and reports I've produced here. I do this work seriously, and as responsibly as I possibly can.</div>
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I have a lot more reports on the way.</div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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Steven Meyer</div>
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Sunday, July 7, 2019</div>
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Michigan's 7th Congressional District</div>
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Link to formatted pdf of this report: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bGnEYSaj2r21A1Z9lVX1pmQgsSslqZSf/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bGnEYSaj2r21A1Z9lVX1pmQgsSslqZSf/view?usp=sharing</a></div>
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Link to the original report, from October 28, 2018: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/10/update-walberg-lied-about-his-fathers.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/10/update-walberg-lied-about-his-fathers.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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On Monday, this past week at the Coffee Hour in Manchester, a constituent asked a question related to a report that I wrote last year about Tim Walberg lying for years about his father being an immigrant. <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>link to report above</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg addressed me several times in his response, even though I was not at the event. Walberg did not dispute the findings from my report <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>success!</i>]</span>. However, Walberg also failed to accept any responsibility for his lies from over the years <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Boo</i>]</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the conclusion to my original report, I alluded that, <span style="color: #0070c0;">“<b>There is more to this story</b>”</span>. The scope of that report was about Walberg’s contradictions, more than the story of his immigrant family. <b>Now, in order to fully analyze Walberg’s response, this report will present their story in more detail than before. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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First, we will see <b>Walberg’s full, unabridged response </b>from Monday. Then, I will <b>analyze his response </b>and present more public records about <b>the story of Walberg’s immigrant family</b>. As always, this report is entirely sourced from the public record, which I encourage readers to go and check for themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16pt;">The Full, Unabridged Exchange</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0;">Constituent from Lima Township: </span></b>“Sir? So, last week President Trump said that his father was born in Germany, which is not true. And in the past, you have said that your relatives, your grandparents and father have come from Sweden. The public records show that your father was born in the U.S., in Illinois.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #fbe4d5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #383368;">Walberg:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383368;"> </span></b>“And <b>you can thank <i>Steven Meyers </i></b><span style="color: #7030a0;">(sic) </span><b>for doing that research</b>. And some day, I’ll be able to thank him, because my statement was made on the fact that <b>that’s what I believed</b>, that’s what I had stated in front of my mother who never disabused me of that belief. And I never did the research like <i>Steven Meyers </i><span style="color: #7030a0;">(sic) </span>who spends his time, uh, checking on every word I say, and went back to 1920 Census, and now I have that information. So, I need to thank him and say, I know more about my family’s history than I ever knew before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0;">Constituent from Lima Township: </span></b>“Good.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0;">Constituent from Lima Township: </span></b>“Good. So, we have -” <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Interruption</i>]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0;">Other Constituent 1: </span></b>“We’re all in the same boat. I don’t know anything about my family.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So I can still say the main truth that I was putting out is I’m an immigrant! - The result of immigration. I understand that. But my ancestors came over legally, <b>through Ellis Island. They signed the guest book. They came over with a trade that they could add to our country</b>. They increased the impact of positive on our country, by them coming. That was the emphasis. It wasn’t the issue of whether my father, uh, just because he was either born here after my grandmother and grandfather came, or was born before. <b>That doesn’t make any difference. </b>The family came over legally.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So, if an individual wants to continue stalking every word that I say, and trying to find where there might be a, uh, something he would call a lie, let him do it. But that wasn’t a lie. That was based upon <b>the truth </b>that I understood. And Mother, a mother who had taught me not to lie, who sat in rooms multiple times and heard me say that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>This analysis mostly follows Walberg’s statements in the order that he made them. Walberg’s quotes are shown throughout in <b><span style="color: #c00000;">burgundy text</span></b>. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“thank <i>Steven Meyers </i>for doing that research”</span></b>. - I, <i>Steven Meyer</i>, did not do that ancestry research. I wrote the report, but another constituent did the research on their own initiative, over several trips to a public library in our District, using ancestry services, and then shared those findings with me. There were a lot of records, so we spent weeks interpreting, and discussing them. I only showed two of the records in my report. I wanted to give credit to that constituent for their work, but they didn’t want credit for it. For this report, that constituent still wishes to not be identified.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“And some day, I’ll be able to thank him”</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"></span>– <i>Some day? </i>Why not last month in Dexter? Walberg stood right next to me for that whole Coffee Hour. He didn’t make any motions akin to gratitude toward me then.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg now claims that his <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“statement” </span></b>about his father’s citizenship was based on his own belief, and that his mother <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“never disabused” </span></b>him of it. It was not a <b>single statement </b>though. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg has told years of contradictory statements about his father’s citizenship</span></b>. His contradictions are what initially sparked our suspicion to start looking into it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most chilling part of Walberg’s response on Monday, was when he said, <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“that was what my family had led me to believe.” </span></b>– Tim Walberg turned 68 years old this past week. He is a sitting US Congress member, and rather than accept responsibility for his own actions, he chooses to place the blame on his family. To now allege that it was his parents who put that idea into his mind, is a <b>chilling accusation</b>. His parents would have known better. So, what motive would his father have, as a native-born U.S. citizen, to lie to his son, and claim to be an immigrant? Even if his parents did mislead him, once Walberg grew into adulthood with responsibilities, he should have developed the cognitive capacity to puzzle through those contradictions and realize that his parents’ stories were wrong, then make amends, and not spread the falsehoods any further. So, I maintain that <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg is continuing to lie, and refuses to accept any responsibility for his own actions as both a grown adult and United States Representative</span></b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg claimed that he <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“never did the research” </span></b>on this, but that too contradicts an older statement of his, describing a trip he took to Ellis Island for the purpose of researching into his immigrant grandparents.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, Walberg should have easily found on that trip to Ellis Island that his grandmother was only 13 years old when she arrived in <b>1889</b>, which was 18 years before his father was born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“my grandmother came over from Sweden… in 1889, uh, with my grandfather” </span></b>When Tim Walberg did that research at Ellis Island, he would have seen on the manifests that his <b>grandfather’s name was not there with his grandmother’s name</b>. Cook County records, in Illinois show that she did not marry Walberg’s grandfather until in 1901, 12 years after she arrived. My fellow constituent and I have not found any record of Walberg’s grandfather arriving through Ellis Island. I still do not know where, when, or how Walberg’s grandfather, Carl A. Walberg arrived to the United States.<o:p></o:p></div>
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More credit is owed to the two trusting constituents at the Manchester Coffee Hour who both said, <b><span style="color: #0070c0;">“we’re all in the same boat”</span></b>, about not knowing their family’s history. They deserve more credit than Walberg does because they are open and honest about the fact. Their honesty stands in contrast our Representative’s. Walberg’s boat is full of splinters and holes. Those two constituents deserve a better boat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“now I know my mother – my grandmother came over from Sweden, which I didn’t lie about that.”</span></b>– <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>Oh, what a Prince!</i>] </span>Walberg was proud to say that he didn’t lie about something that nobody ever said that he lied about. Walberg did make unsupported claims about his grandmother’s citizenship though, by referring to his father many times as an <b>“anchor baby”</b>. That pejorative implies that his grandmother had borne two children in the United States when she was not a citizen. <b>While Walberg has never provided support of his claim of that, <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I have also not seen any evidence to rule out the possibility of that being the true version of Walberg’s family’s story</span></b>. Walberg’s father and uncle might have actually been, according to Walberg’s claim: <b>“anchor babies”</b><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“But my ancestors came over legally, through Ellis Island. They signed the guest book.” </span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I never determined the legality of how Walberg’s grandparents came over, but there are a lot of the problems with the way that they signed <span style="color: #c00000;">“the guest book”</span></span></b>. One of the reasons I only showed the 1920 Census in the last report, was because it is the only Census that matches the Ellis Island manifest. Over time, the census ledgers show a seven-year span between the years that Walberg’s grandmother, <b>Alma </b>arrived: <b>1889 – 1895</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 1920 ledger says that she became a naturalized citizen in <b>1901</b>, but in <b>1910</b>, she did not declare being a naturalized citizen yet. We have not found any naturalization records for her. I have not drawn any conclusions about that particular discrepancy yet. However, these multitude of discrepancies across the <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“guest book(s)” </span></b>might be proof that she was not being lawful. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If Walberg’s grandmother knowingly gave false information to the U.S. Census then that in itself was illegal, and the census is evidence of it.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white;">It </span>would make her, in another pejorative term that Walberg uses frequently: <b>“an illegal”</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Walberg has frequently claimed that his immigrant ancestors arrived with ready trade skills, <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“They came over with a trade”</span></b>. The 1900 census ledgers show that Walberg’s grandmother’s occupation was, <b><span style="color: #0070c0;">“Servant”</span></b>. Domestic service is a common job fulfilled by migrants to our country today <span style="color: #7030a0;">[<i>And Trump’s homes and resorts</i>]</span>. Walberg’s grandmother was a 13-year old child when she sought entry to the U.S. port. Walberg keeps attempting to distinguish the way his family migrated to the United States from the way other migrants arrive here. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It is false for Walberg to make his family sound more elite, and more skilled than today’s migrant families who also seek entry at U.S. ports.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The iconic photo from last November, shows asylum seekers fleeing from tear gas fired at them by U.S. border agents at the Otay Mesa port of entry. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">One of the girls running from the tear gas with her mother was</span></b><b><span style="background-color: yellow;">13-years old, the same age that Walberg’s grandmother was when she too sought entry at a U.S. port.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>Since that incident in November, U.S. border agents have continued to launch tear gas at migrants across the border, in 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“It wasn’t the issue of whether my father, uh, just because he was either born here after my grandmother and grandfather came, or was born before. That doesn’t make any difference.”</span></b>- <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">That doesn’t make any difference?!!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>Then why has Walberg refused to support a pathway to citizenship for <b>Dreamers </b>and people with <b>DACA </b>statuses? In 2018, Walberg even referred to his father as <b>“a DACA kid”</b>, during an interview on The Guy Gordon radio show. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Since it doesn’t make any difference to Walberg about his father, then it wouldn’t make any difference where the children of any other migrants were born.</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“So, if an individual wants to continue stalking every word that I say, and trying to find where there might be a, uh, something he would call a lie, let him do it.”</span></b>- If Walberg believes having the <b>public’s attention </b>on his <b>public work </b>is <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“stalking”</span></b>, then he is unsuited for the work of <b>public office</b>. Walberg’s attitude about me took quite a turn from earlier when he said, <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“some day, I’ll be able to thank him”</span></b>. I suspected that Walberg’s gratitude was disingenuous.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">“But that wasn’t a lie. That was based upon the truth that I understood.” </span></b>What kind of logic is that? How can an <b>untruth </b>result from a <b>truth </b>that is <b>understood</b>? Walberg agrees now that his father was not an immigrant. So, we can at least conclude that part was an <b>untruth</b>. So, what does Walberg mean with the proposition that there was: a) an inherent “<b>truth</b>”; b) that he “<b>understood</b>”; but his spoken outcome was c) an <b>untruth</b>? If an understanding follows the truth, then it should remain truthful when spoken aloud. Otherwise, the signals got mixed up somewhere between Walberg’s mind and his mouth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0;">Revised Syllogism: </span></b><span style="color: #0070c0;">if there was a) <b>the truth</b>; <b></b>and Walberg <b></b>b) <b>understood the truth</b>; and <b></b>he <b></b>c) <b>repeatedly spoke untruths</b>;<b></b>– then <b></b>d) <b>Walberg lied.</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This report considered and addressed all of Walberg’s stated excuses. I considered how all of the information from the records might fit together, and possibly show that Walberg was being honest. However, none of Walberg’s excuses fit with the known facts. As Walberg said, when I find, <b><span style="color: #c00000;">“something he would call a lie, let him do it” </span></b>- Okay, I will do it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope you have enjoyed reading all of the somethings today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the <b>19<sup>th </sup>occurrence </b>that I have found of Walberg claiming his father was an immigrant. I found this incident after writing the summary report for 2018. So, this is the first formal report showing this incident, with the link to the source for it, and a graph of the total occurrences that I’ve found so far.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The reports earlier this month about Trump lying about his father being an immigrant, had so many similarities to Walberg’s actions that it could not be ignored. So I put together this exhibit on Twitter: @TakeCareTim<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-34212752028556556602019-02-03T12:04:00.001-05:002019-02-03T12:04:18.116-05:00Take Care, Tim: 2018 SummaryLink to nicely formatted pdf of this report: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vw7-nTPq9qO49NUlPA-N6Uqt6fbCz4Wn/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vw7-nTPq9qO49NUlPA-N6Uqt6fbCz4Wn/view?usp=sharing</a><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A - The Three Investigations</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>(<i>3.5 reports</i>)</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #c5e0b3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">B - Walberg Misrepresents Constituents</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>(<i>3 reports</i>)</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #b4c6e7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">C - Walberg Misrepresents Himself</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>(<i>5 reports</i>)</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #dfb7f4; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">D - Walberg Misrepresents Other People</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>(<i>4 reports</i>)</div>
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<li><b style="background-color: yellow;">This is a condensed list of findings from the reports that I published in 2018 about U.S. Congressman, Tim Walberg’s violations of the public trust in five areas.</b></li>
<li>I am Steven Meyer, a constituent of Walberg’s. I am not a journalist, nor a political operative. I am not “a tracker”, as Walberg has called me (April 7, 2018).</li>
<li>All of the reports are my own work. I was not paid or guided by anyone to research, write, or publish them.</li>
<li>I relied entirely on public sources and public channels for this research.</li>
<li>Complete citations and audio/video time stamps are provided in the original reports.</li>
<li>I encourage people to check, follow-up, and share these findings.</li>
<li>I am still researching and writing. I will publish more reports in 2019.</li>
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<b>1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Walberg lies to us about his sources</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->During a House Committee hearing on September 29, 2015, Walberg read an anti-Planned Parenthood list produced by a <b>SPLC hate group, Alliance Defending Freedom</b>, and claimed that he got the information from the two sources cited at the bottom of the list, yet neither source contained such a list.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->S<i>ee the following report on the health care chart</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>1 a) Walberg Lied to Us Where a Health Care Chart was Produced<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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July 25, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 Pages<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/07/walberg-lied-to-us-where-health-care.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/07/walberg-lied-to-us-where-health-care.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Walberg Lies to Us about his College Credentials<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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August 5, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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60 Pages<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/investigation-walberg-lies-to-us-about.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Western Illinois University<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sept. 4, 1969 –<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 6, 1970<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>None<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Moody Bible Institute<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Aug. 1, 1970 –<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 25, 1973<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Christian Education<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Diploma Earned: June 25, 1973<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sept. 3, 1973 –<o:p></o:p></div>
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May 11, 1975<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bachelor of Science<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Wheaton College<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sept. 7, 1977 – August 31, 1978<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Communications: </b>in <b>Cross-Cultural Ministries</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Master of Arts, with Honors<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>3)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Red Flagging Walberg’s Ridiculous Stalin Quote<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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September 12, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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38 Pages<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->At least six times, over three years, <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg pushed <b>urgency on a ridiculous Stalin meme</b>; and now, Walberg pushes <b>ridicule on the urgent threat of Russia’s attacks </b>on United States elections.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This section is about the ways Walberg misrepresents constituents in the District</i></span><br /><br /> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody>
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<b>Discrepancies in Walberg’s Constituent Stories<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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October 2, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Walberg Lying that Constituents don’t Mention Russia to Him<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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July 22, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Walberg Compares Constituent Questions to Domestic Violence<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/walberg-compares-constituent-questions.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/walberg-compares-constituent-questions.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Tim Walberg has Lied About His Father and Grandmother’s Citizenship Statuses for Years<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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October 28, 2018 (<i>Earlier drafts: August 13, 2018 & July 20, 2018</i>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Why Has Character Stopped Being First for Walberg?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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September 18, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Tim Walberg Lied to Us about a Committee Hearing with Betsy DeVos<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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September 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Flip Flop: Walberg on Trump’s Wiretapping Allegations<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/flip-flop-walberg-on-trumps-wiretapping.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/08/flip-flop-walberg-on-trumps-wiretapping.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Walberg’s Smear of Eric Holder<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Asked Holder to compare himself to <b>Joe Paterno </b>(from Penn State scandal)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Accused Holder of setting up ATF’s Fast & Furious operation as a <b>conspiracy against the Second Amendment</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Asked why did Holder, <b><i>“consistently fail to read extremely important papers”</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Walberg falsely claimed, <b>“I didn’t get any answers” from Holder</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Walberg Misrepresents American Luminaries<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Walberg Misrepresenting History to a Room Full of Academics<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Quickie: Walberg’s Bogus Voltaire / Gutenberg Bible Remarks<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="background-color: #ffafaf; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">E - Walberg Misrepresents Other Things</span><o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>Walberg’s Plagiarism from a House Floor Speech<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Walberg said U.S. Military Jets Rely on Coal Fuel from Saudi Arabia<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #d9d9d9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Reflection</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->As a constituent, I originally presented many of these findings to Tim Walberg’s offices, asking for explanations, and have not received responses to any of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I plan to follow-up on several of the reports from 2018 with additional findings<o:p></o:p></div>
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I became much more civically involved after the 2016 elections. Prior to that, I had never called, written to, or attended a town hall with a member of congress before. I sought assurances that Walberg would be a wise, steady check on Trump’s lies and offensive impulses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I did not set out to focus on Walberg. I only expected to check in and learn that he had matters under control, and once content with that, I would look into other things. It quickly became evident that along with excusing Trump’s lies and impulses, that Walberg was full of problems of his own. So, I have kept my attention on those problems of Walberg’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope these reports convey that my criticisms are not directed at Walberg’s party or at his personal values. The main focus of my criticisms relate to <b>truthfulness and accountability</b>. In 2019, if Walberg begins to uphold those qualities, then I will be happy to close out this effort and direct my attention elsewhere, content in the knowledge that Michigan’s 7<sup>th </sup>District is in being <b><i><span style="color: #1f3864;">taken care </span></i></b>of and represented well by Tim Walberg.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>APPENDIX:</u> </b>– <i>Here is new Information from the summary report, that had not been cited, or sourced in any of my published reports until now.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>APPENDIX - Walberg Compares Constituent Questions to Domestic Violence<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Walberg’s Staffer Convicted of Domestic Violence while working on 2006 Campaign</b></div>
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<b>APPENDIX - Walberg Lied About His Father & Grandmother’s Citizenship for Years</b></div>
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-36151515909892430472018-12-14T22:26:00.001-05:002018-12-14T22:26:46.146-05:00Quickie: Walberg's Bogus Voltaire / Gutenberg Bible RemarksI suppose this is my first post-midterms post here. It is awful that Walberg got re-elected, but I've got lots of new findings and reports on the way. In the meantime, here's a quick observation from Walberg's floor speech from the House of Representatives last month:<br />
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Nothing in Voltaire's record supports anything that Walberg said there. There are lots of modern devotional newsletters that mention similar things, but none of them cite any of Voltaire's actual writings. Lastly, The Gutenberg Bible thing... Walberg went to three different bible colleges, he should know better than to have said such a falsehood.</div>
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This is going to be a long two years.</div>
Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-80955682918247761392018-10-29T12:40:00.000-04:002018-10-29T12:40:32.220-04:00Walberg's Smear of Eric HolderLink to formatted, printable pdf of this report: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yGmwGAOkNw-BN6dsu6S5KsaPj4Nzg5y_/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yGmwGAOkNw-BN6dsu6S5KsaPj4Nzg5y_/view?usp=sharing</a><div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">House Oversight & Gov’t Reform Committee<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Official Transcript from U.S. GPO </span><span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[With added markups and Highlights]</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tuesday, October 2, 2012</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small; text-align: start;"></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Call-In to NRA News</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small; text-align: start;"></span></div>
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Walberg: “They need to know, and it’s not just the <b>NRA </b>membership. It’s not just <b>those of us who take the Second Amendment as not an opinion, but as a true amendment to the Constitution</b>. It ought to be on the minds and hearts of all people, because - <i>heh, heh</i>, the impact is for everyone.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“When I questioned the Attorney General, during the hearings in front of our committee, and <b><span style="color: red;">I didn’t get any answers</span></b>, and I finally said, <b><i>‘Well, if you’re not going to answer me, I need to make a statement that my concern is that some of the conjecture that this was done to inhibit, or attack the Second Amendment.’</i></b>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Before I got the full statement out, he responded to me by saying, <b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">‘Mr. Congressman, I’m the Attorney General of the United States! How dare you question?!’</span></i></b>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“And I said, <b><i>‘Wait a second, I understand you’re the Attorney General, and with all due respect, I am the Congressman. I’m asking the questions. You’re the witness under testimony. If you won’t answer my questions, you’re gonna have to listen to my assertions.’ </i></b>And that’s what the American people are concerned about, that we are not getting answers. And this could have been dealt with long before.”</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: #3d2321; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: yellow;"> REFLECTION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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That NRA interview contained one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever heard Walberg say : <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">“<i>those of us who take the Second Amendment as not an opinion, but as a true amendment to the Constitution</i>”.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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When it comes to <b>true Amendments to the Constitution</b>, Walberg is on record frequently calling to, <b>“Do away with the 16<sup>th </sup>Amendment” </b>in order to implement the “<b>Fair Tax</b>”. <span style="color: red;">Walberg, at the Coffee Hour in Tecumseh on October 16, 2017 specifically referred to both the <b>16<sup>th </sup>and 17<sup>th </sup>Amendments as “mistakes”</b></span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those Amendments have remained in place for over 100 years now, and served as the basis for numerous Supreme Court rulings. Walberg has also raised doubts about how the <b>14<sup>th </sup>Amendment </b>applies to children of migrants, even though that specific matter was tried and ruled on by the Supreme Court in 1898, just thirty years after its ratification.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The House hearing was about the failures in the DOJ, regarding the ATF-led operation, <b>“Fast and Furious”</b>, which resulted in the killing of U.S. Border agent, <b>Brian Terry</b>. The following is an outline of the questions and prompts that Tim Walberg raised to Holder in the hearing:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1) Asked U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder to <b>compare himself to Joe Paterno</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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2) Accused Eric Holder of <b>setting up F&F as a conspiracy against the Second Amendment</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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3) After Holder twice disagreed with that accusation, <b>Walberg falsely asserted that is was Holder who originally brought it up</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4) Asked Eric Holder why did he <b>“<i>consistently fail to read extremely important papers</i>”</b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Note: </b>The GOP Chair of the Committee then ordered Walberg to suspend, and noted that Walberg’s question had <b>veered outside of the scope of the committee hearing</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eight months later, speaking on a broadcast by the NRA lobby, Walberg accused Holder of not answering his questions in that hearing. The only question that Holder did not answer was when Walberg inappropriately asked Holder to compare himself to <b>Joe Paterno</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg also lied that Holder interrupted him to puff out his chest, <b><i><span style="color: red;">‘Mr. Congressman, I’m the Attorney General of the United States! How dare you question?!’ </span></i></b>And then Walberg lied about another exchange, saying that he condescendingly explained to Holder how a committee hearing works. No such exchanges ever took place. <b>Walberg’s behavior in the hearing was bad on its own, but it was made so much worse by his later false account of it.</b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #3d2321; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: yellow;"> End Note:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: yellow;"> </span></b>This report was limited to those <b>two things</b>. I started this draft in July, with no intention of relating it to the events involving Eric Holder this past month [October 29, 2018].</div>
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Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-68981714221166548122018-10-28T12:24:00.000-04:002018-10-28T12:24:36.220-04:00Update: Walberg Lied About his Father's Citizen Status for YearsLink to formatted, printable PDF: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7LUw7bydfEQWe5umFip2PN5PMOs7E5d/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7LUw7bydfEQWe5umFip2PN5PMOs7E5d/view?usp=sharing</a><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #7030a0; color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: #7030a0; color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;">INTRODUCTION:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For years in public office, Tim Walberg has claimed that his Father, John A. Walberg was either:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">An </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #4472c4;">“Anchor Baby”</span></b><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #c00000;">“DACA kid”</span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Or he </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #c00000;">immigrated to the U.S. from Sweden</span></b></li>
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Furthermore, Tim Walberg has also personally claimed multiple times to be a:</div>
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<li><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“first-generation American citizen”</b></li>
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<b>Public records show that all four of Walberg’s claims are false. </b>The U.S. Census shows Tim Walberg’s Grandmother, Alma Emelia Walberg <span style="color: #2e74b5;">[<i>maiden surname: Larson</i>] </span>did immigrate from Sweden in 1889, and became a US citizen in <b>1901</b>. Tim Walberg’s Father was born in Illinois in <b>1907</b>. Therefore, the terms “Anchor Baby” and “DACA” have no connection to their life stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walberg’s use of the terms <b>“Anchor Baby” </b>and <b>“DACA kid” </b>regarding his father, are both callous, and contradictory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The public entrusts Walberg to make appropriate, consequential decisions over the fate and well-being of migrants to the United States. In Congress, Tim Walberg has been lying for years about his own family’s migrant story, which betrays his role and trust as a Representative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>This report shows:</b><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #c00000;">14 occurrences </span></b>of Walberg saying his father was an <b><span style="color: #c00000;">Immigrant</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #4472c4;">5 occurrences </span></b>of Walberg saying his father was an <b><span style="color: #4472c4;">“Anchor Baby”</span></b></li>
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<b>“Anchor Baby”</b>: an insulting term for a child born to a non-citizen mother in a country that grants automatic citizenship to children born on its soil.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>DACA</b>: <b></b><span style="color: #2e74b5;">[Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]</span>, A contested immigration policy granting legal status to non-citizen applicants who were brought to the country undocumented as children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">First-Generation American Citizen</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: A person who has either been naturalized as an American citizen, or the child of that person.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1 - Tim Walberg Claiming his Father <b>Immigrated </b>to the U.S. like a “<b>DACA kid</b>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tim Walberg: “Goodlatte fully funds the wall. In the case of the wall, it says that there will be no legal status given to the <b>DACA </b>recipient until the wall is completed. And so that’s intended for five years. They have a six-year automatically renewable opportunity stay as that status. It also ends chain-migration. It ends diversity visas, goes to a merit-based visa like we used to have, and like every other country in the world basically has.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Guy Gordon: “Because we need these skills Congressman, I mean, we’ve got shortages of labor now- “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “And to enhance when we don’t have American citizens who are either trained, or willing to do the work, certainly immigrants can add to that. <b>And, you know, <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">being a first-generation American citizen myself, <u>with my Dad having been brought over</u>, I guess you coulda called him a <u>DACA kid</u> in the past, cause he came over, brought by parents through no plan of his own, but came legally, and they went through Ellis Island</span>, did everything right by the books back then, there was no illegality about it</b>, but that’s what we need here in this country, but it has to be done legally. And I believe both of the bills will do that.”</span></td></tr>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Official Death Certificate shows Tim Walberg’s Father <b><u>was born in the US, not “brought over”</u></b></span></i></i><br />
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<span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1 - Tim Walberg referring to his Father as an “<b>Anchor Baby</b>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “A Russian lady last night over in Coldwater, who attended one of our town hall meetings, who has a green card. She’s married to an American husband, and she says, <i>‘All I ask is that everybody goes through the same process I’m going through. I want to be an American citizen now, but I know the process means I’ve got to be here four more years. And I’m willing to take that, but everybody ought to go through the same thing.’</i>That’s all we’re saying. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My father was an ‘<u>anchor baby’</u>. No, he wasn’t. They would call him an ‘anchor baby’ today</span>, but when Grandma and Grandpa came over, they came over, as Grandma said to me many times</b>, cause she lived with us, ‘<i>Ve’re Americans. Ve no longer Svedes. God bless America.</i>’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“And she didn’t talk Swedish unless she was arguing - arguing with her Sister over theology. And she cleaned toilets and sewed dresses for rich ladies on the north shore of Chicago, but she was glad to do that, ‘cause her two Sons now had the opportunity, if they chose, to go to Northwestern University, or go to New Trier high school – never made it to Northwestern when the Depression hit, but they did achieve, and I’m thankful that they gave me a start in a free country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The 1920 U.S. Census <span style="color: #2e74b5;">[<i>above</i>]</span>, shows Tim Walberg’s Grandmother arrived in <b>1889 </b>from Sweden, attained US Citizenship in <b>1901</b>. His father was born in Illinois in 1907. So, the terms, <b>DACA </b>and <b>“Anchor Baby” </b>have no bearing on their actual citizenship statuses.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #015cab; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: #015cab; color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">About </span><b><span style="background-color: #015cab; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="background-color: #015cab; color: white; font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">U.S. ENGLISH</span><span style="background-color: #015cab; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tim Walberg participated in this lobby group’s video campaign with only white Congress members, including Steve King (IA-05), Dana Rohrabacher (CA-46), Jim Jordan (OH-04), Bob Goodlatte (VA-06), and former Congress member Tom Price (GA-06). The idea of federally mandating English raises a lot of questions. Walberg claims that his basic political platform is as a, “<i>Constitutional Conservative</i>”, particularly with the Bill of Rights. So, how would federally mandated English be anything but Congress putting <b>limits and regulations on our speech</b>? Would it not be a further assault toward the free speech of Native Americans?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg’s description of the <b>Swedish famine </b>was false, and conflicts with the time that his ancestors arrived. The famine in Sweden and Finland occurred in <b>1866-1868</b>, and affected a lot of crops in addition to <b>potatoes</b>. It was about 20 years after the major famine in Ireland. The famine in Sweden was the last major famine in Europe, and caused a migration surge to the U.S. and other countries. As the Census shows, <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walberg’s Grandmother immigrated a generation </span><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">later </span></b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b>in </b><b>1889</b></span>. Furthermore, she was <b>born about </b><b>ten years after the famine in Sweden</b>. Walberg’s Father and Uncle were <b>born about 40 years after the famine in Sweden</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Walberg plunged into <b><span style="color: black;">nativist extremist territory </span></b><span style="color: black;"></span>when he said: “…<b><span style="color: black;">get special groups who will then vote for them, and take over America – change it from what it has been</span></b><span style="color: black;">…”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Walberg has plunged into that territory before. At almost every 2010 campaign stop, Walberg mentioned a <b><span style="color: red;">“replacement voters” </span></b>conspiracy theory about Democrats. The premise of his conspiracy was that Obama wanted to pass the <b>Dream Act </b>to give migrants a path the citizenship. Walberg said that Dems were pushing it, not for practical or humane reasons, but rather to replenish the party’s shrinking base of voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"> Links to Walberg talking about his <b>“Replacement Voters”</b>Conspiracy:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “I would concur that we are a nation of immigrants, unless you are a Native American, we’ve all come here. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My Father came here, came here for the American dream, came here through the right processes, signed the guest book as it were, but by the laws.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>And I think that’s what we need to promote again. <b>I think we need a <span style="color: #7030a0;">cooling-off period</span>, some of this anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric that’s out there. </b>I think we need to understand that there are laws in place right now, and red-tape in place in our immigration process, that need to be fixed. They are frustrating. They cause too much time to lapse between a person coming in having the opportunity to participate in the American idea, but <b>our people also feel very fearful </b>at a time of terrorist activity, we need to make sure that our borders are secure.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“And so, I think that there’s a comprehensive plan that’s needed. Starting with making sure that our people understand and believe that we’ve secured the borders. Secondly, working with the red-tape that keeps people from experiencing what they want. I think in turn we need to understand that without immigrants, we don’t have the resources for the jobs that are here. They’re in agricultural industry, and construction industry, in high-tech industry. There are people that could add to this melting pot in very positive ways. And so, it’s about time that we work on it, and in this “better way” plan, we have that, a comprehensive plan that goes with national security as well. <b>Just given the opportunity for a President who would sign it</b>, I think we could move it forward and benefit all.”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: purple; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> On Walberg’s <b>“Cooling-off period” </b>remark:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Video (-27:25 mark): </span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/anne.c.savage/videos/10211888798282774/?hc_location=ufi">https://www.facebook.com/anne.c.savage/videos/10211888798282774/?hc_location=ufi</a></span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: small; text-align: start;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> On Walberg’s <b>“enhance the gene pool”</b>remark:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I have heard the expression used in <b>business as a metaphor for expanding creative resources</b>. Getting more ideas to work on a problem from a variety of professional sectors to, in effect, <b>“enhance the gene pool” </b>of ideas for problem-solving from all different angles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> I was in attendance when Walberg said this. People gasped when Walberg said, “enhance the gene pool” in the context of <b>immigration and building a wall, while allowing for his white, Swedish father come through to, “enhance the gene pool”</b>. Whatever Walberg’s intentions were, it was still an extremely poor use of the expression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “So I would say, I think for a fact, knowing my colleagues, knowing what it would take to get a so-called ‘<i>actual wall</i>’; knowing that there are certain places where you got 30-to-100-foot cliffs, you don’t need a wall; that we will do what’s necessary to make sure our borders are secure. And then secondly, to make sure that our immigration laws, number one: Are followed. And number two: Where we need to reform and make it more efficient in getting people who genuinely want to experience the American dream, <b>to live the American way, <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to come over here as my Father and Grandparents came</span>, and experience America because they want to be American</b>. To make sure those gates swing wide and free for <b><i>those kind of people</i></b>. And we don’t hold back the opportunity for people to experience what America is.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “I think each individual situation needs to be taken into consideration, which each country as well. I think one thing we oughta make sure is that <b>people that come to this country provide something for this country. That’s how it’s always been. <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When my family came from Sweden, they came with jobs that they would give to this country, with skills</span></b>. You just have to go to the Chicago skyline to see <b><span style="color: darkgreen;">Wrigley Building </span></b>and others, where <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">my ancestors came with stone masonry work</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>and added to that skyline in a very positive way</b>. So that needs to continue.”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Wrigley Building in Chicago began construction in 1920, and was completed in May 1924. The public records from that time clearly show that Walberg’s Grandmother, and his Grandfather, Carl Walberg were not in positions to work on that construction. For clarity’s sake, Walberg could say more about which of his immigrant ancestors helped construct that building. His two closest immigrant relatives definitely did not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Question via moderator: </span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Drew from Lansing: ‘I am opposed to sending illegals back to Mexico. This often breaks up families that end up needing social service assistance. <b>Can’t the law be changed to prevent the break-up of families?</b>’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “Is there a way that we can substantiate the fact that we are a nation of laws, but still deal with specific issues that might encourage us to keep certain people here, and not break up families? We have to do that. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And I know <u>that’s how my father came across from Sweden</u>. And I’m glad he did. And I’m glad he benefitted from America.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>But I’m also glad that my family put back into America once they came here as well. And we want to encourage that. <b>They spoke English</b>. I don’t speak Swedish, because my Grandmother used to say when I asked her, because I’d hear her debating theology with my Aunt in Swedish, and it sounded like a lot of fun as a little kid. I learned some Swedish pastries. I learned lutfisk, which I don’t understand why Swedes eat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “No. I’m being a human being, <b>answering a question</b>, and - <span style="color: red;">Have your own town hall meeting some time</span>. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But <u>my parents</u>, my people came across and <u>they spoke English</u>,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>and Grandma said, ‘<i>We’re Americans. We no longer Svedes. God bless America.</i>’ - <span style="color: red;">Smile folks! Come on! Smile!</span>”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “Where did we get to a point where we attack people who have succeeded? As opposed to saying, ‘<i>Let’s all be given a chance to succeed!</i>’ Let’s build that middle class which we’ve destroyed in the last eight years. The middle class is hurtin’. It’s gone away. I want more people to think beyond the minimum wage, and even the concept of a living wage, as to what I can achieve without people, especially the government, standing in my way and making choices for me that I’m not happy with. So, in America, we understand, even with our Pledge of Allegiance: equal justice and liberty for all – We ought’a espouse that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“So again, the taxes? There are taxes across the board. Should we leave the taxes of Obamacare on the rich, whatever figure that make it (<i>sic</i>)? 250,000, or more? A million, or more? Or, what do we do with that? Or, should we say, ‘<i>Let’s make it more opportunity for everybody to move up that ladder, and be in the wealthy.</i>’ And if not that, at least the middle class? That’s, I believe, is what I believe America is. <b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><u>That’s what my father, and parents came from Sweden for</u> </span><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">- for that opportunity. And they added to America.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>That’s my position.</b>”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “<b>Ronald Reagan </b>was known to say that, <b><i>‘The gates to the United States ought to swing </i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><u>wide</u> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and free for all who desire to experience the American dream, and participate in the American way, but they’ve got to sign the guest book.’ </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And when you have a secure border, then you can more easily make sure people sign the guest book. <b>Speak our language</b>. Love America. We ought to mandate that if you’re coming here, you come because you LOVE AMERICA, and the way America does things. If that’s not the case, why are you comin’ here? Now I don’t want to be as blunt as that. I don’t wanna be – I don’t wanna show any lack of compassion.<b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I’m here because of immigration of <u>my father</u> and grandparents.</span></b>They loved America to the point that Grandma never taught us Swedish. We asked her to teach us Swedish, - ‘<i>No, no, no. Ve’re Americans. God bless America.</i>’ That was her personal opinion. I wish she would’a taught me Swedish though. Heh, heh, heh, heh. And rather than eating lutfisk. I still don’t understand why Swedes like lutfisk, or say they do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Walberg: “Historically there were boatloads of people sent back because of sickness, because of no assurance that they had anything that they could give to America. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My family came over as stone masons and you can go along Michigan Avenue in Chicago right now, see the efforts, their labors, their results</span>. And they added to. </b>But we had people. You just have to go to Ellis Island, read the sad stories, families that were split apart because a certain member was sick with a disease that America couldn’t bring into their borders at that time, they didn’t believe that they should. And so, they were put on the boat and sent back – heart-wrenching stories that went that way. But it was done, at least perceived at that time for the best benefit of America. And that still should be the place, and it’s a difficult thing to do, but <b>we can’t just throw the borders <span style="color: red;"><u>wide</u> </span>open.</b>”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Link to report on <b>Walberg’s misquote of Ronald Reagan </b>and others: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/10/walberg-misrepresents-american.html">http://www.takecaretim.com/2018/10/walberg-misrepresents-american.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Note: There is an apparent contradiction here when Walberg says that his family came to the U.S. with <b>only a desire to be American</b>. The previous month, he claimed that they came <b>with stone masonry skills</b>, and that we need immigrants with ready skills to immediately benefit the country. Walberg had also claimed in 2013 that they fled Sweden, “<b>during the height of the potato famine”</b>, which didn’t cohere with the historical timeline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"> Other Times Walberg claimed that his Ancestors Immigrated with Skills:</span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "american typewriter" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “We have the <b>President of Mexico </b>come in - and make a <b>mockery of our country</b>, and letting our President allow him to make a mockery of our country, and make a mockery of a sovereign state of Arizona – even though it isn’t as good as Michigan – a sovereign state of Arizona, telling them that they’re wrong in saying, ‘<i>Doggonit, the Federal government is responsible for this, and yet they won’t carry out the law.</i>’ <b>Sonny Bono</b>, when he was asked - while he was alive of course, when he was in Congress, the question, ‘<i>What do you think of illegal immigration?</i>’ And his response was simply this, ‘<i>What’s that first word?</i>’ – ‘<i>Illegal.</i>’ – And he simply said, ‘<i>Carry out the law.</i>’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“That’s all the American people are asking for. Most of us, myself included, are immigrant-based. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My father was an ‘<i>Anchor baby</i>’, but no he wasn’t.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>My Grandmother came over, she came from ‘<i>Sveden</i>’ and she said, ‘<i>Ve’re no longer Svedes. Ve’re Americans. God bless America.</i>’ <b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And my Father was not an ‘<i>Anchor baby</i>’. He was there for the privileged opportunity.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>And my Grandmother was a domestic house servant in Winnetka and Glencoe, Illinois. And all too happy to clean toilets and sew things for these people because her two sons could go to New Trier High School, and could be in the shadow of Northwestern University, and could have and opportunity, but for The Depression that hit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“But even after that, they still knew in America you could still get up and go on even after failure. And we want, we want, as <b>Reagan </b>said, ‘<i>That the gates to freedom for people who desire and yearn to be free, to be Americans, to <b>speak our language</b>, to honor our flag, to honor our laws, that gate to swing wide and free.</i>’ but as I say, along with <b>Reagan</b>, ‘<i>Sign the guest book, and live by our law.</i>’ So, that has to come.”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“My Government does not favor the breaking of the rules. I fully respect the right of any country to enact and enforce its own laws … I want to recognize the hard work and leadership of many of you in the Senate and in the House, and of President Obama, who are determined to find responsible and objective answers to this issue. I am convinced that a comprehensive immigration reform is also crucial to securing our common border. However, I strongly disagree with your recently adopted law in Arizona. It is a law that not only ignores the reality that cannot be erased by decree, but also introduces a terrible idea: using <b>racial profiling </b>as a basis for law enforcement. And that is why I agree, I agree with President who said the new law carries a great amount of risk when core values that we all care about are breached.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg: “The Federal Government didn’t ride in on the great white horse. So ultimately <b>Governor Brewer </b>and the rest of the legislature said, ‘<i>Well we’re gonna have to do it.</i>’ Probably some of you’ve read that bill. Same language as in the Federal law, and they implemented it. Just by passing it, they’ve seen the problem start to decrease. They’ve seen people going back. And <b>Calderón </b>– <b>President Calderón </b>of Mexico, puts out memos to social service agencies there to get them ready for the influx of a large group of their people returning from Arizona. Who says it doesn’t work?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u>“Oh, they’re far more brutal than ours, aren’t they?</u> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">[</span><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Walberg smiled broadly while saying that.</span></i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "american typewriter" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">] </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">So, I mean – I think American citizens – I won’t ask for a raise of hands – but <b>I can tell ya’, <u><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">my Father was an ‘anchor baby’</span></u><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">, even though he wasn’t, <u>but he would’a been called an ‘anchor baby’</u>, when my Grandmother and Grandfather came over from Sweden. <u>John Walberg came shortly after</u></span>. </b>And Grandma Walberg said many times to her two Grandsons – my Brother and myself, ‘<i>Ve’re Americans. Ve no longer Svedes. God bless America.</i>’ That was when we were asking her to teach us some Swedish. Didn’t speak Swedish, unless she got into a theological discussion with her Sister, then a lot of Swedish! Other than that, it was American. May’a had a ‘<i>Svedish</i>’ accent, but it was American. She cleaned toilets and sewed for the rich people on the north shore of Chicago. And was happy to do it.”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Attendee’s question: </span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Do you think they will stop the, what do they call it, ‘<i>bucket babies</i>’ or somethin’, where they come across?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Walberg: “If the bucket’s full of concrete, and you throw it over the side of your boat! That’s a bucket! Well I think we have to stand up to the fact what the Constitution meant. The <b><span style="color: red;">14<sup>th</sup>Amendment</span></b>, that was for freeborn slaves. It wasn’t for - <b>You know <span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">my Dad, my Grandmother, Grandfather came over from ‘<i>Sveden</i>’. And my Dad was born shortly after that. <u>He was an ‘<i>anchor baby</i></u></span></b><u><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">’</span></u>. My Grandma Walberg came over, and said this many times to my twin brother and me, ‘<i>Ve’re Americans. Ve no longer Svedes. God bless America.</i>’ She wouldn’t talk Swedish. I’m glad she cooked Swedish, other than lutfisk. That’s terrible stuff.”</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I’m not sure what point Walberg was trying to make with the <b><span style="color: red;">14<sup>th</sup>Amendment </span></b>if not to suggest that the children of immigrants should not have the same constitutional rights as the children of slaves had. He never clarified that point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Walberg trailed off mid-sentence to start talking about his father as an “anchor baby”, and lutfisk.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> There is more to this story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Walberg’s Grandfather is perhaps notably absent from this report. There are public records on him, but as a personal practice, I only report on things that Walberg has publicly spoken about. Since Walberg has generally only talked about his Father and Grandmother, I limited this report to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> I am not concerned with the details of Walberg’s family past whatever is necessary to verify the truth of what Walberg had said to us on the public record.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> I am not concerned with trying to define whether or not Walberg was exactly lying, or joking about referring to his Father as an, <b>“anchor baby”</b>. It was certainly insulting though. Walberg tended to smile and provoke laughter whenever he said it. The point is that Walberg does not take seriously the extent that so many parents and children in our country <b>suffer in fear under the term “anchor baby”</b>. Those parents live under the constant threat of the U.S. Government taking them far away from their own kids. Their kids live with it too. As young U.S. citizens, their parents could be permanently taken away by our government. It happens in Michigan. Congress could fix that, if they took it seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> <b>The main point of this report </b>is about the <b>14-and-counting </b>times that Tim Walberg, as a member of U.S. Congress, has lied to us about his Father being an immigrant. <b>Walberg’s lies contradict with his other lies</b>. Walberg has told that lie at least three times this year, as recently as this summer. Such behavior from a national public office holder is insulting to all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Steven Meyer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sunday, October 28, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>This report was first published: <b>July 20, 2018</b>, and also updated: <b>August 13, 2018</b></i></span></div>
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</style>Steven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816759196418091421.post-14647528437167734572018-10-17T06:09:00.000-04:002018-10-17T06:09:20.813-04:00Video: NAACP Candidate Forum in Adrian Yesterday<b>Video link</b> to the full two-hour candidate forum yesterday: <a href="https://youtu.be/B9QRyxZHr9A">https://youtu.be/B9QRyxZHr9A</a><br />
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I think the NAACP event was formatted better than the event in Monroe last month. This event cycled the candidates for the opposing seats through in half-hour blocks, which kept up the energy and focus better.<br />
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I put time stamps in the description of the video, but here are those same <b><u>time stamps</u></b>:<br />
<br />(0:00:00) Introduction of event / Moderator, <b>Dale Gaertner</b> from WLEN / Description of format <br /><br />(0:02:00) Introduction of State Senate candidates / <b>Bill LaVoy</b> (Dem) / <b>Dale Zorn</b> (GOP Incumbent)<br /><br />(0:31:45) Candidate transition<br /><br />(0:33:20) Introduction U.S. Congress Candidates / <b>Gretchen Driskell</b> (Dem) / <b>Tim Walberg</b> (GOP Incumbent)<br /><br />(0:33:45) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q1: Qualifications for the Job?</span><br /><br />(0:36:00) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q2: Current administration’s performance regarding climate change?</span><br /><br />(0:37:20) Walberg: <span style="color: #b45f06;">“God created this great universe, and wants us to be stewards, good stewards of this universe.”</span><br /><br />(0:38:10) Walberg trashes the Paris Climate Agreement<br /><br />(0:38:25) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q3: Opinion of current immigration policies / protecting human rights?</span><br /><br />(0:41:20) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q4: Opinion of Social Security and Medicare / how to improve it?</span><br /><br />(0:42:55) People briefly boo Walberg’s response, and he asks time keeper to, <span style="color: #b45f06;">“keep my minutes in place.”</span><br /><br />(0:44:10) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q5: Voices of people in Lenawee County being heard / value of their input?</span><br /><br />(0:44:55) Walberg says he held town halls, <span style="color: #b45f06;">“until we were blacked out because of campaign requirements”</span> scattered laughter from crowd at this. <span style="background-color: yellow;">(Note to self: Check if that is an actual rule)</span><br /><br />(0:46:45) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q6: Mental health / opioid addiction treatments?</span><br /><br />(0:49:30) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q7: Puerto Rico hurricane recovery / statehood status?</span><br /><br />(0:52:10) <span style="color: #38761d;">Q8: How to improve race relations in America?</span><br /><br />(0:54:30) <span style="color: red;">Closing Remarks Gretchen Driskell</span><br /><br />(0:58:00) <span style="color: red;">Closing Remarks Tim Walberg</span> – holds up recent newspaper and says to Driskell, <span style="color: #b45f06;">"Great picture"</span> then turns and tells local reporter that he doesn't get the kind of favorable coverage Driskell gets. Later, holds up paper again, and tells reporter: <span style="color: #b45f06;">"I hope this next Sunday there will be another set of pictures of people that want a progress. That's where I want to be."</span> - So, Walberg wants to be a progressive?<br /><br />(1:01:30) Candidate transition<br /><br />(1:02:40) Introduction Probate Judges / <b>Catherine Sala</b> / <b>Gregg Iddings</b> (incumbent)<br /><br />(1:30:25) Candidate transition<br /><br />(1:32:25) Introduction State Congress candidates <b>Amber Pedersen</b> (Dem) / <b>Bronna Kahle</b> (GOP incumbent)<br /><br />(2:02:15) Conclusion of event / <b>Jeanette Henagan</b>, President of Lenawee County NAACPSteven in Monroehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140588721511205197noreply@blogger.com2