Poll: Justin Amash Trails Primary Challenger by Double Digits After Impeachment Call

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Poll: Justin Amash Trails Primary Challenger by Double Digits After Impeachment Call

Justin Amash

By Joshua Caplan

June 12, 2019

BREITBART

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), the first Republican on Capitol Hill to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, trails primary challenger State Rep. Jim Lower by a sizeable margin, according to a poll released Tuesday.

A Practical Political Consulting/MIRS poll shows Amash (33 percent) behind Lower (49 percent) by 16 percent. The poll was conducted between June 5th-9th and served 360 likely Republican voters. Amash’s other primary challenger, Army National Guardsman Tim Norton, was not included in the poll.

2020 #MI03 Republican Primary:
Jim Lower 49% (+16)
Justin Amash 33%

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The poll comes amid a Politico report stating President Trump has discussed the possibility of backing an Amash primary challenger with Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), and Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. However, no firm decision has been made on the matter.

The Michigan Republican shocked the Beltway when he accused President Trump of committing “impeachable” offenses stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report and claimed Attorney General William Barr misrepresented the special counsel’s key findings. Team Mueller found no criminal conspiracy occurred between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and shortly after, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that the president did not commit obstruction of justice during the sweeping investigation.

President Trump and top Republicans blasted Amash over his remarks, accusing him of being an attention-seeker with an unimpressive legislative track record to show for his four terms in Congress. “Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy,” the president tweeted last month. “If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, ‘composed’ by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump, he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION.”

“Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents [sic] hands!” he concluded.

On Monday evening, Amash resigned from the House Freedom Caucus, the conservative congressional group he helped start in 2015, after 30 of his now-former peers voted to condemn his remarks on impeachment.

“I have the highest regard for them and they’re my close friends,” he told CNN of the decision to leave. “I didn’t want to be a further distraction for the group.”

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Get on Board to END Warrantless Searches

John R. Houk

© October 31, 2013

Remember independent contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) Ed Snowden? He is the guy that made it public knowledge that the NSA was spying on ALL Americans not just foreigners - domestic and abroad – for National Security reasons to protect Americans from Islamic Terrorists (OR as the Dems would have you believe – Enemy Combatants).

I initially viewed Snowden as an American hero Whistleblower. Then the dude absconded with his NSA data to Hong Kong (cough – Communist China) and then on to Russia (Former Communist Nation [USSR] and current emerging USA rival). I then viewed Snowden as a potential espionage traitor feeding Classified secrets to American enemies. Snowden went from hero to zero.

Even though Snowden is a zero, he did enlighten the public that the NSA is operating beyond its mandate to track foreign enemies at home and abroad. Frankly this was the final straw in my support of the Patriot Act as it is now currently written. The Patriot Act is utilizing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts set up by FISA in nefarious ways against American citizens. I have to believe an insignificant Right Wing Counterjihad blogger as myself has to be worried that my Free Speech is being violated either by an unserved FISA Warrant or worse a Warrantless search of anything I touch that utilizes electronic data. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!

Conservative Action Alerts has sent an email to support the USA Freedom Act which would place the Patriot Act back on track for its original mandate of sniffing foreign Islamic Terrorists and their supporters and ENDING Warrantless searches by such agencies as the NSA. Below is that Conservative Action Alerts email.

JRH 10/31/13

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Lawmakers introduce bill to rein in NSA - Take Action!

By Conservative Action Alerts

Sent: 10/31/2013 1:46 PM

"The days of unfettered spying on the American people are numbered..." - Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI)

ALERT: A coalition of lawmakers introduce bill to end NSA's broad, warrantless surveillance! Fax Congress - Tell them sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act!

American Conservative,

If it weren't for Nancy Pelosi's pro-snooping lobbying efforts, the House would've succeeded in placing the National Security Agency in a straightjacket back in July.

Sadly, lawmakers like Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein are more interested in defending the NSA and their unconstitutional surveillance programs than they are our privacy.

The good news is the scales are starting to tip.

Since the summer effort to rein in the NSA failed on a razor-thin line - 217 to 205 - more and more legislators on both sides of the aisle are seeing that we desperately need to restrain the federal government and its ability to spy on anyone using the internet or a cell phone literally anywhere in the world.

This week Representatives Justin Amash, John Conyers, and Jim Sensenbrenner introduced a comprehensive bill that would start to shackle the overgrown NSA and restrict them from spying on innocent Americans.

It is essential that we urge every U.S. Representative and Senator to get behind this piece of legislation right now - the Fourth Amendment restrictions on government must be applied to the digital world!

Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!

** Sign the petition and tell Lawmakers to rein in the NSA! Add your name here.

Reforming FISA and the Patriot Act

On Tuesday, Patriot Act author Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced new legislation to limit the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance powers. 



 
The USA FREEDOM Act - or, Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-Collection and Online Monitoring Act - aims to defend Americans' privacy by reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act.

"The NSA has gone far beyond the intent of the Patriot Act, particularly in the accumulation and storage of metadata," the Act's sponsor told National Journal. "Had Congress known that the Patriot Act has been used to collect metadata, the bill would have never been passed."

The 118-page bill would:

o   modify section 215 of the Patriot Act to end mass unwarranted surveillance;

o   require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to provide lawmakers with court opinions and policies, thereby ending "secret" laws;

o   allow internet and telecommunications companies to make public the number of NSA requests they have received;

o   establish an office for a "privacy advocate" to represent the interests of Americans and their privacy before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and

o   close domestic and foreign loopholes by modifying Title IV and section 702 (b) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

With the NSA's misinterpretation (abuse) of law - providing them "allowance" to spy on anyone anywhere - it is clear that the USA FREEDOM Act is essential to start ending government's ugly, unconstitutional surveillance programs.

We need to rally lawmakers right away and demand that they get behind this needed legislation in defense of our privacy.

Privacy for the people; Transparency for government!

Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!

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End the Witch Hunt

Dianne Feinstein has defended the NSA tooth-and-nail - even claiming that the intelligence agency's expansive surveillance is "not surveillance."

Feinstein, Pelosi, et. al. are dedicated to defending Obama's Surveillance State and are doing their very best to once again shut their opposition down. But we can't let them succeed -- we've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.

We can't let this happen. We've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.

Judge Andrew Napolitano has it right; he says:

"What will become of us if the feds can watch our every move and hear our every conversation and learn our every expenditure and read our every email and find out what we eat and whom we love and how we live? ... History teaches that a government on a witch hunt, unconstrained by law or Constitution, will not stop until it can brand someone as a witch. And an unbridled inquisition will not stop until it finds a heretic. The Constitution simply never entrusted the people who run the government with this awesome power. Rather, in the Fourth Amendment, it prohibited it."

With the federal government regularly surveilling our phone metadata, emails, and other forms of digital communication, it's time for U.S. lawmakers to stand up, defend our privacy, and end the NSA's unconstitutional spying.

Since whistleblower Ed Snowden first revealed the magnitude of the federal government's spying programs, the catalogue of evidence proving the government's lawless activities has only grown. This is why we've got to take action now.

It's time for We the People to demand the NSA's lawbreaking be put to an end!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!

For America,

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P.S. Sign our petition to rein in the National Security Agency! Sign and send a no-cost message to your U.S. Representative and Senators! Add your name here.


 
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!

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© October 31, 2013

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House Republicans ousted from key committees demand explanation from Boehner

Since the Republicans failed to oust President Obama from Office in November 2012 election cycle I have been calling for Conservatives to leave the GOP and unite under a new political banner. The Republican Establishment overruled Conservatives in finding a Conservative nominee. This forced Conservatives into an ‘anybody but Obama’ scenario to try to get Center Left Romney elected. We Conservatives were then force-fed the illusion that Romney had repented of past Left leanings concerning Social Conservatism.

In saying all this about the Republicans it is become evident that House Speaker John Boehner is punishing Conservatives for criticizing Boehner willingness to sell out too much to compromise a budget with our secret Marxist President.

Read what Boehner has done!

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 House Republicans ousted from key committees demand explanation from Boehner

By FoxNews.com

Published December 08, 2012

WASHINGTON – In a gutsy move, three House Republicans who were removed from plum committee posts are demanding an explanation from House Speaker John Boehner -- escalating the war of words that started earlier this week.

The letter is the latest salvo in the dispute between Boehner and conservative groups and lawmakers who have challenged some of his post-election decisions. Perhaps most controversial was the decision to yank four conservative House members off key committees, a move the lawmakers claimed was retaliation for their voting records.

Three of them fired off the letter to Boehner on Friday, demanding an explanation by Monday.

“We write to request a full and complete written explanation of the rationale for removing us from our current committee assignments, including any ‘scorecards’ presented to the Steering Committee to justify our removals,” they wrote. The letter was signed by Reps. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.; Justin Amash, R-Mich.; and David Schweikert, R-Ariz.

Huelskamp was yanked off the budget and agriculture committees; Schweikert was pulled from the financial services panel; and Amash was also booted from the budget committee. A fourth, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., lost his seat on financial services.

The three who wrote the letter lamented that they were never “officially informed” and never got a “formal explanation.” But they claimed to have found out a “scorecard” of past votes was presented to make the case for removing them.

“Through this past term, we were not aware that any such scorecard existed, nor that the scores would cause us to be removed from committee assignments,” they wrote. “We believe this would be valuable information for the entire Republican Conference to know, so that each Member can make a full and complete decision when casting votes in the future. It would also allow us to communicate to our constituents which votes caused us to be removed.”

On top of the complaints about the committee changes, Boehner has also faced criticism from conservative groups and members for putting revenue on the table as part of fiscal talks with the White House, with some going so far as to say Boehner could be risking his speakership.

The group American Majority Action has launched the #fireboehner hashtag on Twitter, calling the so-called "purge" of conservatives "the nail in the coffin."

Thanks to the logistics of speakership elections, though, Boehner could still have a firm hold on power. The full House -- not just the Republican wing of the House -- would vote for the next speaker. Whoever wins the majority of all votes cast would win the post.

That means Republicans would want to be united enough to ensure that a Democratic candidate -- most likely, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- does not win. With one vacancy in the House, the breakdown of the new Congress will be 234 Republicans and 200 Democrats. A few dozen Republicans abstaining could deprive Boehner of the votes he needs, but could also hand the gavel to the minority party.

Asked on Fox News whether there was any movement in the Republican caucus toward challenging Boehner, Amash did not say. But he said Boehner had stirred "unrest" in the House.

"The speaker may have miscalculated here, thinking there's just going to be a few of us that are concerned about it, but it's clear he made a threat to the rest of the conference and people aren't taking it very well," Amash said.

"I think this is going to backfire on Speaker Boehner, and people who run a conference like this have to be very careful."

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