April 21, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Gov. Spencer Cox (R-Utah) and the Utah Congressional delegation for demanding that S&P withdraw Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) consideration in issuing state bond ratings:

“We praise Utah Governor Spencer Cox and the Utah Congressional delegation for standing up against the political weaponization of state and municipal bond ratings from S&P and other credit rating agencies. A political calculation of a state’s bond rating based on arbitrary Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors has nothing to do with a state’s ability to service its debt. Every governor across the nation should join Governor Cox  in demanding that S&P Global end the political weaponization of the bond rating process. Additionally, every state and municipality should withdraw any public employee pension investments or other state investments that are primarily rated based upon their ESG ratings.”

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April 7, 2022, Fairfax—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next Supreme Court Justice by a 53 to 47 vote:

“We are disappointed that the U.S. Senate chose to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next Supreme Court Justice. Jackson will join the Court upon the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer at the beginning of July. It is disturbing that the Senate did not compel the Biden administration to provide tens of thousands of relevant records prior to confirmation given there was zero time pressure to act.

“Notably Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia joined Republican Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski in voting for a nominee who has been characterized as the most radical nominee in American history and who Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said “the Biden Administration let the radicals run the show” in choosing. For the sake of America, I hope the radical left is ultimately as disappointed in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as conservatives are with Chief Justice John Roberts.”

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April 5, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s call for federal gun control after a shooting in Sacramento, California left six dead:

“President Joe Biden’s predictable call for gun control in the wake of the murder of six people in Sacramento, California demonstrates that the President does not have any actual functioning tools in his anti-crime toolbox. California has amongst the most restrictive requirements regulating the individual ownership of firearms in the nation, and to try to mirror those laws on a national level in response to their failure in the Golden State is beyond absurd. Perhaps the President should reevaluate the turnkey criminal justice system advocated by himself and his political allies that puts police on trial rather than criminals in order to get to the root of the dramatic increase in homicides and gang activity since he took office and to reestablish the rule of law in America.”

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April 4, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement calling on Congress to reject any reauthorization of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund:

“Congress needs to stop Covid spending now. The crisis is over and additional spending to bail out restaurants again will only accelerate inflation, which is already eating a hole through American paychecks.

“Americans for Limited Government supported the original small business forgivable loans program in 2020 when government policies shut down those companies with no other recourse for them to survive, but 2022 is a different time. The economy is open. Many restaurants are still struggling, but it is largely because the business model and the restaurant industry have changed after Covid, including experiencing labor shortages. Consumers have become used to food delivered to their homes. Some remain uncomfortable eating in a restaurant setting, and these factors may become permanent.

“Unfortunately, those restaurants unable to adapt to consumer expectations in 2022 may fail. However, the resulting damage to the economy from more spending and the inflation it creates impacts every business and every American, and the time to end it is now. If Congress wants to do something to stop inflation now, they need to stop spending on frivolous special interest bailouts. That will do more to help restaurants and other small businesses to survive than another D.C. helicopter money program.”

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April 1, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) for opposing radical attempts to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas over protected speech by his wife, Ginni Thomas:

“All legislators should join U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney in strenuously opposing efforts by the fringe elements of the Democratic Party like U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas over legal personal contacts between Thomas’ wife, Ginni, and members of the Trump White House and other administration and elected officials. Mooney is right that holding judges or elected officials to account for First Amendment protected speech by their spouses would set a dangerous precedent.

“House Democrats continue to attempt to water down the seriousness of the Constitution’s impeachment process. It is absurd to even consider or mention impeachment of a public official over the legal exercise of their spouse’s rights, and anyone who does not want the politics of personal invective to even further infest Washington, D.C. must now decry these vicious attacks on Clarence and Ginni Thomas.”

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March 30, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a Federal Election Commission ruling fining the Hillary Clinton campaign $8,000 and the Democratic National Committee $105,000 for concealing payments to Fusion GPS and other actors who perpetrated the Russia collusion hoax, falsely accusing former President Donald Trump of being a Russian agent, which resulted in a years-long top secret investigation and the appointment of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller who ultimately found “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”:

“The Federal Election Commission’s decision to fine the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for illegally hiding the origin of the more than one million dollars spent by the two entities to fund the development and release of the Russian Collusion hoax against candidate and then-president Donald J. Trump.

“The Clinton campaign was fined $8,000 and the Democratic National Committee was fined $105,000 for failing to properly report the expenditures that resulted in hiring Fusion GPS and other actors who created the false accusations against Trump that bedeviled much of his first term.

“When measured against the damage done to our nation by the Clinton campaign and their minions at the DNC through this outright lie which they foisted upon the public, just as Al Capone eventually got convicted of tax fraud, America may have to be content with the fact that Hillary Clinton got an $8,000 fine for a paperwork violation.

“The one piece of positive news is that the Clinton’s can no longer claim that no one found them guilty of anything for fulminating the lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars to prove was false. The Russian collusion lie was a political dirty trick, which was used during the Trump presidency to undermine the legitimacy of his term in office.  Ironic given that today, any mention of the current president’s unlikely election victory is deemed to be almost treasonous due its undermining of his authority.

“One can hope that special counsel John Durham will bring to justice more of the participants in the Clinton-DNC Russia fraud, but at the very least Hillary got a parking ticket from the FEC.”

Attachments:

“FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax,” by Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, March 30, 2022:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fec-fines-dnc-clinton-for-trump-dossier-hoax

“Hillary Clinton’s spygate against Trump campaign in 2016 establishing false Trump-Russia links has brought us to the brink of World War III,” By Robert Romano, Vice President of Public Policy, Americans for Limited Government Foundation, Feb. 14, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/02/hillary-clintons-spygate-against-trump-campaign-in-2016-establishing-false-trump-russia-links-has-brought-us-to-the-brink-of-world-war-iii/

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March 21, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement announcing the WheresWasden.com advocacy campaign for Idahoans to urge Idaho Attorney General Lawrence to fight for Idaho against federal government encroachment:

“When Idaho needed Attorney General Lawrence Wasden to defend Idaho’s values, he was nowhere to be found. Every Monday, I appear on the Zeb Bell at the Ranch radio show in southern Idaho, and a continuing theme for Idahoans is to strongly urge their ostensibly conservative elected representatives to step up their game. Towards that end, Americans for Limited Government has launched an issue advocacy campaign at WheresWasden.com urging Idahoans to contact Idaho Attorney General Wasden and urge him to get into the legal fight for America. State attorneys general from across the nation have led the effort to push back against federal government overreach time and time again, yet Attorney General Wasden has been missing in action and it is important that the people of Idaho ask him why.”

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March 18, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to follow the terms of the No Surprises Act law after a federal judge struck the down the law’s implementation:

“Secretary Becerra and the Biden administration sided with big insurance companies by using the rulemaking process to turn the bipartisan No Surprises Act into government price controls by another name. Thanks to Becerra’s incompetence, a federal court threw out those rules and told HHS to go back to the drawing board to implement the law the way Congress intended. Any lawmaker who supported the No Surprises Act should be furious that Becerra tried to turn it into a giveaway to insurers by adopting price controls that would shut down rural hospitals and make it harder for patients to see a doctor when they need one.”

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