This is what our rally in Richmond is all about.  We will be offering bus trips to the Richmond rally on January 18th. The cost will be about $25 a person. Email me at purplerapture06@yahoo.com if you are interested.

I’m excited to report to you Delegate Bob Marshall is advancing state sovereignty with both the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act (HB 10) and the Virginia Health Care Freedom Amendment to Virginia’s Constitution (HJR 7).

The language of both is identical:

“No law shall restrict a person’s natural right and power of contract to secure the blessings of liberty to choose private health care systems or private plans. No law shall interfere with the right of a person or entity to pay for lawful medical services to preserve life or health, nor shall any law impose a penalty, tax, fee, or fine, of any type, to decline or to contract for health care coverage or to participate in any particular health care system or plan, except as required by a court where an individual or entity is a named party in a judicial dispute. Nothing herein shall be construed to expand, limit or otherwise modify any determination of law regarding what constitutes lawful medical services within the Commonwealth.”

If we can pass this, we can stop Obama’ s radical government takeover of health care in Virginia, no matter what Congress says.

With a solid Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli now on our side, we can set up a monumental fight for state sovereignty and defend the rights of Virginians.

Under General Assembly rules, the Health Care Constitutional Amendment (HJR 7) can not be considered by the House Privileges and Elections Committee during the regular session of the General Assembly. They cannot consider constitutional amendments for technical and procedural reasons.

That means for this session, HB10 is our only chance to stop Obama’s scheme to make all Americans dependent on government for basic medical care — and to punish and even jail Americans who object.

You may link to Del Marshall’s HB10 here.

I heard Delegate Marshall give an explanation for his measures recently. In my judgment and that of others,the language of Del. Marshall’s bill is on sound constitutional footing.

HB10 likely won’t be assigned to a committee until some time in January. (The 2010 session runs from January 13 to March 12.) Del. Marshall tells me that Insurance bills normally go to the Commerce and Labor Committee. New members have to be added because of the election but I strongly urge you to contact the members currently on the committee to seek their support to get these bills moved to the floor for a vote. Support in the committees is vitally important to getting the bills to the floor for a vote. You can find the list and contact info here.

Suggested script:

Dear Delegate________________,

Our current administration is intent on a complete health care take-over that will drastically transform the health care system, cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars, and will result in the greatest power grab to threaten individual liberty and the free market in the history of this nation.

Delegate Bob Marshall has introduced HB10, Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act (VHFA). I ask that you please support this important legislation to protect our state’s rights and our freedom of choice over our own health care, our right to choose whether or not to carry health care coverage, and the type of coverage we choose to carry.

Sincerely,
(Your name)

Senator Jill Vogel recently confirmed that she will introducing  a companion bill in the Senate. The language of her bill will mirror that of Del. Marshall’s bill.

Senator Vogel will carry a Virginia Firearms Freedom Act (VFFA) like that of Montana in the Senate, as well.

Click here to reserve your seat today! If you have questions email me at chip@roanoketeaparty.com

Please contact your local representative. There is information on the first link for your Delegate and Senator. Since both of  our US Senators voted for the health care reform bill during Monday mornings vote, we are going to have to depend on our state to fight this monstrosity. Warner and Webb aren’t up for election till 2012…but we won’t forget this.

Here is a copy of the email I sent to each local delegate. I also sent a similar letter to our State Senators. I’ll keep you posted on the results.

I am a board member of the Roanoke Tea Party. I would like to solicit your support in regards to a piece of legislation that will be considered in January.

The Federal government is intent on a complete health care take-over that will drastically transform the health care system, cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars, and will result in the greatest power grab to threaten individual liberty and the free market in the history of this nation.

Delegate Bob Marshall has introduced HB10, Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act (VHFA). I ask that you please support this important legislation to protect our state’s rights and our freedom of choice over our own health care, our right to choose whether to carry health care coverage and the type of coverage we choose to carry.

Many of our members will be attending the January 18 rally in Richmond in support of HB10 and other legislation that support Virginia’s rights under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution.

Please let me know, on behalf of our membership, if you intend on supporting this legislation. If you support HB10, we would love it if you joined us at the rally being held at the Capital Bell Tower from 10 – 11AM on January 18. Tea Party members from your district (and across the state) will attend and would appreciate your support of this critical piece of legislation.

Sincerely,
-
Chip Tarbutton
Roanoke Tea Party

We all feel the same. If it hadn’t been for us, it would have passed a long time ago. That’s small consolation now, but the fight is not over. The best thing we can do now is fight this in the state, under the grounds the bill violates the US Constitution. HB 10, which will be up for consideration this session in Richmond, would do just that.

We are looking to put together one final protest at the Senator’s offices here in town.  We hope we get a good angry crowd. We will solicit people at this rally to come to Richmond with us to help us ensure this bill gets passed.

Information on the Jan 18th rally is here.

More info soon on a final rally at the Senator’s office. They need to know that we won’t forget this in 2012 when Warner and Webb are up for reelection.

We are working to better coordinate our actions with other tea party groups in the state. To that end…

On January 6th, Tea Party Groups from as far away as Staunton, Rockbridge and Lynchburg have been working with us to put together one last protest to ensure that Senator Webb and Warner know what we think about their vote for the Health Care “reform” bill.

January 6th from noon – 2PM, we will gather outside of Senator Webb’s office at

3140 Chaparral Drive
Building C, Suite 101
Roanoke, VA 24018

This is a large office park and there is a lot of parking around the area. We want to focus our resources in one area, plus Warner’s office has lousy parking and is not in a high traffic area like Webb’s office. Warner/Webb and the media should  get the message that we will not stand for this unconstitutional legislative monstrosity.

If the office is open (which is doubtful since Webb’s offices consistently close their doors to avoid having to defend Webb’s indefensible support of the health care reform bill) we will enter and demand to know how they can support a bill that will make the current problems with health care worse, not better. For an outstanding analysis of the Senate bill, read this…

This doesn’t even address the core issue that the Federal Government requiring citizens to carry health care insurance is patently unconstitutional.

In between trying to chat with Webb’s people, we will march. Bring signs as this is a highly visible area. Here are some sign ideas. We will be sending out a press release so we hope to garner some press coverage. We will be using this protest to get the word out about our January 18th Rally in Richmond.

Webb admits the bill isn’t “perfect.” But feels that these “improvements” made the bill necessary. Really?!?Voting for a bill this broken just to say you did something is why our country is in the mess it is in.

See you there…any questions? Please email me at chip@roanoketeaparty.com

Here’s a Google map.

Directions to Webb’s office for those outside of Roanoke

Get on I-581 (the main exit for Roanoke off of I-81)

Continue for 9.7 miles to VA-419 N/US-220 BUS/Franklin Rd

Take immediate right on to Electric Rd/VA-419 N

Continue .8 miles and turn left on Starkey Rd

Take the 1st right onto Penn Forest Blvd. Destination will be on the right

12/29/09- “Mr. Tarbutton: In response to your e-mail regarding HB10, I intend to support the legislation and, if possible, I will attend the rally on January 18, 2010.” Delegate Lacey E. Putney

This is good news. Please take the opportunity to thank Delegate Putney for his support of this bill. DelLPutney@house.virginia.gov.

Contact information for our other delegates is below. Getting these guys on board to support HB 10 will really help us fight back against the oppressive health care reform bill.

8th District: Griffith Morgan

11th District: Onzlee Ware

17th District: William Fralin

Also don’t forget about the January 6th protest at Senator Webb’s office. This is really a protest/recruiting meeting to get people who are angry with our Senators to redirect their energy to getting HB1o passed.  If we hit our local delegates as hard as we’ve hit Warner and Webb, I think a majority of them will support HB10.  More on HB1o here.

Virginia can take the lead in fighting our oppressive Federal Government. We can make this happen in our state if we can really get behind this effort.

Attached is a letter from Donna Holt, head of the Virginia 10th Amendment group who is helping to organize the January 18th rally in Richmond.  We still have room on our bus for this trip. Please take the time to either come with us or join in Richmond on Janaury 18th. More information  can be found here. Now we can fight for our 2nd Amendment rights as well on MLK day! Read on. It’s good to see our state legislators stepping up and reacting to the growing tyranny of our Federal government.

 Dear Friends of Liberty,

Recently, according to an NRA news release, Hilary Clinton mentioned the Obama administration’s intention to negotiate a new small arms treaty with the UN. In late October of this year, the U.S. joined a nearly unanimous 153-1 U.N. vote to adopt a resolution setting out a timetable on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, including a U.N. conference to produce a final accord in 2012.

The proposed Small Arms Treaty will make it more difficult for Americans to legally buy firearms. The Treaty will do that by creating higher financial costs and complicated bureaucratic licensing processes. The Treaty will also create an international gun registry scheme that will eventually ban guns nationwide.

If Obama meets UN expectations to adopt the Small Arms Treaty for domestic and international considerations, Obama will be violating our Second Amendment rights. The UN Treaty requires that the US government confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans—something Obama wants.

That is extremely wrong since the Second Amendment is justified by our natural right of self-defense. Since guns help us implement that right, the second amendment is just and must not be violated—not by our government nor by the UN.

Furthermore, the Founding Fathers viewed our Bill of Rights as representing “natural rights.” That is, rights we have by nature which exist prior to, or independently of, the existence of government. Therefore, a government can not justifiably “give” or “take away” our rights, including our Second Amendment right. If the Obama administration signs the Small Arms Treaty and submits to UN rule, the second amendment stipulation becomes wrongfully nullified.

Moreover, our Founding Fathers fought to make us Independent from rule by a foreign power. Whereas it was King George’s dictatorship during the 1700s, it is now the UN. America’s current administration must respect this tradition of Independence and keep America free from unconstitutional influence –let alone conquest—by foreign institutions and nations.

Delegate Bill Carrico has taken a stand against this unconstitutional confiscation of our guns with HB69, the Virginia Firearms Freedom Act, to challenge the powers of the federal government under the commerce clause to regulate (or seize) any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and kept in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Montana and Tennessee have already passed a similar law and there are 24 other states following their lead with a FFA either already introduced or intended to be introduced in their next legislative session. 

As a suggested script to your legislators, you may copy and paste the body of this email and address it to your representatives along with the added paragraph below.

I ask that you  please support and cosponsor Delegate Bill Carrico’s HB69  to preserve our second amendment rights in Virginia and reassert our sovereignty under the 10th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Yours in liberty,

Donna Holt

Administrator

VA 10th Amendment Revolution

www.va10thamendment.org

Please join us on the 6th from noon to 2:00 p.m. with signs and banners – and a warm beverage! Tea Party groups from Franklin County, Staunton, Rockbridge and Lynchburg will be traveling to Roanoke for this rally, so we should have a strong showing of Virginia Patriots.

Senator Webb’s office is located near the corner of Electric Road (Rt. 419) and Chaparral Drive. If the office is open, anyone who would like to speak with his staff can enter the office and do so, but our goal is not to disrupt their operation or block access to the building.

We want to demonstrate our opposition to the health care bills, not just to the Senator and his staff, but to our fellow citizens as well. To that end, we will congregate along the intersection of Route 419 and Chaparral Drive. This is a busy time on a busy road, and we will be encouraging the local media to take note of our protest.

We had a great reception on 419 for our Halloween health care protest and we expect the same next Wednesday as well. Public support for the health care bills continues to drop and we don’t want our Senators to forget it!

Senator Webb’s office3140 Chaparral Drive Building C, Suite 101 Roanoke, VA 24018

Keep in mind that The Roanoke Tea Party is not opposed to health care reform. In fact, we are in favor of many reforms in this area, but we do not support the sort of top down, government run system that has been approved by the House and Senate.

What we would like to see is reform along these lines:

• Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines
• Allow the sale of ‘no frills’ catastrophic coverage policies
• Expand the use of Health Savings Accounts
• Tort reform to limit malpractice liability abuse
• Allow taxpayers to deduct individual premium costs without itemized deductions
• Allow individuals, small business and states to form voluntary pools to negotaite insurance rates
• Use refundable and advanceable tax credits to allow low income workers to purchase health insurance

Don’t forget the 10th Amendment Rally in Richmond January 18! The Roanoke Tea Party is organizing a bus trip for our members (and any interested Roanoke Valley residents) to attend this important event at the State Capitol.

Citizens from all over the state will converge on Richmond to lobby their delegates, and congregate in a giant rally at the Capitol Bell Tower. Keynote addresses will be delivered by our new Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and Virginia Delegates Bill Carrico and Bob Marshall.

This day is a holiday for many people, but the General Assembly will be in session. Won’t you spend this day off with fellow Roanoke-area Patriots and stand up for our 10th Amendment Rights? Numerous states are moving to stand up to Federal government on there take over of the Health Care system. More info on that here.

Please accept our best wishes for the New Year – may it be filled with joy, happiness, prosperity and Liberty!

The January 18th 10th Amendment Rally in Richmond is shaping up to be a more organized and more constructive rally then any others we have been involved in. 

We have bills that we can support that will help protect our freedoms.

 We will have a friendlier reception from state legislators.

And we can help set up Virginia to be a leader in fighting the oppressive policies of the Federal government. Click here for additional information on HB 10 and how to contact your local delegate or Senator and enlist their support.

Our bus will leave from Tanglewood Mall at 6AM for Richmond. 

We will be leaving Richmond around 2:30 PM. For those interested, additional activities will occur that evening. We should be back at Tanglewood Mall around 6PM.

Click here to register and pay for the trip on line. We will arrive in Richmond for quite a full schedule. Logistical information is below. Ride or drive….just be in Richmond on January 18th.

PARKING 

 There is no parking available on Capitol grounds.

A) BUS Parking: Three or four spaces are presently available on Bank Street between 10th and 12th Streets for motor coaches to unload. Buses should not stay on Bank Street longer than 2 hours.

B) Park N’ Ride: Shuttle service will be provided from the Parker Field Annex (Map) to 9th Street at the Bell Tower from 8:00am – 2PM.

Leaving Parker Field Annex for Capitol at 8:00am, 8:25am, 8:50am, 9:15am, 9:40am.

Leaving Capitol for Parker Field Annex beginning 12:20pm, 12:45pm, 1:10pm, 1:35pm, 2:00pm.

$5 per car will be collected at the parking lot.

C) FREE Valet Parking (Attendant Tipping recommended) at The Tobacco Company Restaurant, 1201 East Cary Street; Starting at 9:00 a.m. until Reception ends. Complimentary Limo Service between the Bell Tower (Capitol Grounds) & TC Restaurant (Driver Tipping recommended)

D) Parking Meters are FREE in the city on state holidays.

MAIN EVENTS 

LOBBYING WITH LEGISLATORS –

BEGINS AT 9:00 A.M.

We will be visiting our local delegates to enlist their support on some key bills. Their are several key bills but HB 10 is the most immediate. More information on HB 10 (Virginia’s key to derailing Obamacare) available at this link. We will be providing more information closer to the rally. There is also a key gun rights bill (HB 69) that we will be supporting.

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Patriot Tailgate Party @ Capitol Bell Tower

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS

Maps, directories, or join up with Patriot Guides across from the Bell Tower @ 9th and Franklin

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Virginia 10^th Amendment Revolution

Rally at the Bell Tower

10 – 11 A.M.

Sign up for 10th Amendment Revolution Lobby Day/Rally: http://www.va10thamendment.org

(Sponsored by Campaign for Liberty)

Emceed by Mike McHugh – dressed in period costume; will give famous Patrick Henry speech.

SPEAKERS:

Philip Van Cleave (VCDL); David Alan Carmichael (Freedom Ministries), Josh Eboch (FreedomWorks), Jamie Radtke (Virginia Tea Party Patriots), Ben Marchi (Americans for Prosperity), John Taylor (Tertium Quids), Donna Holt (Virginia Campaign for Liberty), Patrick McSweeney (Constitutional Lawyer).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Attorney General Elect Ken Cuccinelli; Delegate Charles (Bill) Carrico; Delegate Robert (Bob) Marshall; Senator Jill Vogel

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Special Note: No flag poles or sign posts are permitted on Capitol grounds.

LUNCH & RELAXATION 

Patriot’s Hospitality Room 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The Tobacco Company Restaurant, 1201 East Cary Street

Meet up, Rest, Relax, Talk to lobbying and legislation experts on hand.

Patriot’s Tax-Free Lunch 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

The Tobacco Company Restaurant, 1201 East Cary Street

3^rd Floor Garden Room

Lunch Reservations Required; Call Rebecca (804) 782-9555 (ext. 520)

Patriot Lunch Special – $7.95 Special Sandwiches & Soups Board

Sam Miller’s Restaurant, 1210 East Cary Street; (804) 644-5465

We will be leaving around 2:30 PM. For those interested, additional activities will occur that evening. We should be back at Tanglewood Mall around 6PM.

For sign up information, please click here. Please join us. This is the most important rally in the brief history of the Tea Prty movement in Va. Instead of yelling at career DC politicians who often just tune us out, we can actually start affecting legislation and talk to local representatives that we have a lot of access to…If we can show up in Richmond en masse, we can send a strong message and we can help get real helpful legislation passed.

In addition:

Click here for more information on our successful protest at Senator Webb’s office. We will be having a members meeting on Feb 4th. More to come on that soon. We have a game plan to be ready for 2010. We need your support to make it happen.

Remember the Doug Hoffman/Dede Scozofava fiasco in NY in November? We have our own version of this happening right here in the 5th District where we desperately need to get rid of Tom Periello in November. More here. The Tea Party movement will not compromise our principles, unlike the GOP establishment in the 5th District. Trouble is brewing. Politics as usual, for both parties, is over.

Also a press release has gone out to every major media outlet in Va. announcing the official unveiling of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation. The Roanoke Tea Party is a proud member of this group. Together we can make a difference. Our recent rally included members from Staunton and other areas due to our participation in this group. Working with the other members we hope to turn out thousands of Virginia Patriots on January 18th.

The Tea Party movement is gathering momentum as we move into this critical mid term election cycle. Help us save America!

Any questions? Contact me at chip@roanoketeaparty.com

Follow this link if you wold like information on the January 18th event

Follow this link if you would like to sign up for our bus trip to Richmond. It’s only $25. You can pay and register on line here.

I will be on Freedom and Prosperity radio at 8 PM Sunday evening on 960 WFIR. Here is there site. The host, Brian Gottstein will play several clips from the Webb visit and talk about January 18th with me.

With no further ado, here are the clips. Thanks for all of you support.

Chip Tarbutton

Information is power. Learn about these great bills below.

HB 10:  The VA Health Care Freedom Act

“No law shall restrict a person’s natural right and power of contract to secure the blessings of liberty to choose private health care systems or private plans. No law shall interfere with the right of a person or entity to pay for lawful medical services to preserve life or health, nor shall any law impose a penalty, tax, fee, or fine, of any type, to decline or to contract for health care coverage or to participate in any particular health care system or plan, except as required by a court where an individual or entity is a named party in a judicial dispute. Nothing herein shall be construed to expand, limit or otherwise modify any determination of law regarding what constitutes lawful medical services within the Commonwealth.”

Full text of  HB10

Q & A Challenge to Obamacare

Reasons to Vote For HB10

HB 69: VA Firearms Freedom Act

An Act exempting from federal regulation under the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition manufactured and retained in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Reasons to Vote For HB69

Questions? Contact me at chip@roanoketeaparty.com