Challenger to Tom Cole, a 19yr Veteran— who has been activated for the Afghanistan Surge – RJ Harris, has issued the following response to Cole’s call for Steele’s resignation and Cole’s support for Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy.
“We should not be surprised when Tom Cole, one of the Democrat's staunchest allies in the Congress, comes to Obama's aid as the President's inability to perform as Commander-in-Chief is called into question by GOP Chair Michael Steele. Clearly, the Chairman's comments have been taken out of context by the Left and its liberal/progressive allies in the GOP, to deflect from their collective lack of foreign policy leadership over the last decade. Putting conventional forces directly in harm’s way and making them easy targets for terrorists, who can now walk-to-work rather than expose themselves, has NOT made the Republic safer and has in-fact stretched the military, and the Republic's, limited resources past the breaking point. In all things, elected officials need to be good stewards of the people's resources; Chairman Steele was right to point out that what is going on in Afghanistan today is a giant example of Obama's waste of our blood and treasure due to political inexperience and lack of effective leadership. Of course, having voted for bailouts, stimulus and funding for Planned Parenthood, Tom Cole would know a thing or ‘three’ about government waste.”
RJ Harris has written extensively on constitutional foreign policy, the War on Terror, and the Battle in Afghanistan. Harris’s blog “What Would General George Washington do in Afghanistan; Lose the Battle, Win the War?” more fully addresses this issue and was published well before this current grandstanding attempt by Tom Cole. You can read this blog here http://www.rjharris2010.com/whatwouldwashingtondo.asp.
Monday, July 5, 2010
"Republican" Tom Cole Attacks Steele and Defends Obama's War in Afghanistan?
Monday, June 28, 2010
RJ HARRIS' JAM-PACKED SATERDAY A HUGE SUCCESS
On Saturday, June 26, 2010, RJ Harris attended four events: the Sooner Republican Assembly Meeting, the State GOP’s “Spotlight on the Candidates”, the Glen Beck Block Party put on by the Sooner Tea Party, and the Cleveland County Republican Women’s Club “Ice Cream Social”. Harris was received with great enthusiasm at all four events on Saturday. Harris said “I was enthused and humbled to see so many patriotic citizens show up to the events this past Saturday. Our fight to take back our country has never looked so promising.”
The Sooner Republican Assembly made their endorsements for state wide Republican candidates. RJ Harris received the endorsement with over 80% of the vote. You can view these results and the Sooner Republican Assembly’s summary of the meetings activities here http://soonergop.blogspot.com. In addition to winning the groups endorsement, “two resolutions were proposed, both of which passed unanimously. The first condemned the recent decision to ban 4th District Congressional candidate R.J. Harris from future Cleveland County Republican Party events. The second was a motion of no confidence in the county's GOP chair and vice chair.” - Sooner Republican Assembly (http://soonergop.blogspot.com/)
One of the highlights of the day’s activities occurred when, Wanda, a lovely lady and GOP activist attending the State GOP “Spotlight on the Candidates” event, asked RJ the most important question a candidate can answer: “why are you running against our incumbent republican?”
Harris responded stating: “this particular incumbent republican [Cole] has voted for bailouts, voted for the Nancy Pelosi Stimulus Package, and he voted to fund Planned Parenthood. No republican that has ever voted for these things should be sent back to Washington to represent the conservative constituents of Oklahoma. This is why you shouldn’t vote for my opponent, but the reason you should vote for me is because I will fight for our individual liberty and our state’s sovereignty. I would never vote for the dozens of liberal and unconstitutional pieces of legislation that my opponent has.”
You may view the speech that Harris gave at the “Spotlight on the Candidates” event on his YouTube channel located here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqn1NDX59VI
Thursday, June 24, 2010
OK CD04 CANDIDATE RJ HARRIS LOOKS FORWARD TO A JAM-PACKED SATURDAY
Congressional Candidate RJ Harris’ schedule this Saturday includes a variety of events likely to build upon the growing momentum of his campaign. Since the June 9 candidate filing deadline and increased focus of voters on the election, the campaign calendar has begun to fill.
“Voters recognize my name when announced at events,” notes Harris, “And their reactions are notably positive.” Campaign staff report a steady increase in the number of campaign volunteers in the past few weeks.
With this Saturday’s slate of events, Harris will have the opportunity to get his name and message in front of even more Fourth District voters. The day starts with an 8:00am speech at the Sooner Republican Assembly’s Endorsing Convention in Moore. This event is followed by the Oklahoma State GOP “Spotlight on the Candidates” event in Oklahoma City (speaking times to be determined).
Sooner Tea Party and Oklahoma Conservative Alliance have invited a number of candidates who they’re supporting to speak at the “Take Back America Block Party” event in front of the Ford Center. The list of speakers includes Gubernatorial Candidate State Senator Randy Brogdon and State Representative Charles Key. RJ Harris is scheduled to speak at this event at 1:03pm. Harris’ day concludes in his hometown of Norman at an Ice Cream Social at 5:00pm in Brookhaven Park.
Each event’s details are available on the “Events” page of the candidate’s website and on his Facebook page.
About RJ Harris
RJ Harris is a currently serving nineteen-year Oklahoma Army National Guard Officer, two-time Iraq War Veteran and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District. RJ has been activated for the Afghanistan surge but will be able to continue his congressional campaign. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate in Philosophy and a third year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. RJ is a Constitutional Conservative Republican and a prominent leader in the nation-wide grassroots Liberty Candidate movement. He has appeared on Fox News' Freedom Watch twice with Judge Andrew Napolitano, before numerous Tea Party candidate panels and been the featured guest on conservative/libertarian talk-radio programs across the country.
www.rjharris2010.com
Harris Vs. Cole
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
RJ Harris Picks up Big Endorsements – Rand Paul, OCPAC, and the RLC
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RJ Harris Picks up Big Endorsements – Rand Paul, OCPAC, and the RLC
Oklahoma- April 21, 2010
RJ Harris, U.S. Congressional candidate for Oklahoma’s 4th district, has picked up several big endorsements for his 2010 candidacy.
Rand Paul, a Republican U.S. Senate Candidate from Kentucky, endorsed by Sarah Palin and incumbent KY Senator Jim Bunning, endorsed RJ Harris this past summer saying:
I am pleased to enthusiastically endorse RJ Harris for Congress. I believe we stand on the precipice of a disaster. Our country is drowning in a sea of debt. Without significant change our country’s future is threatened. Bankruptcy comes in many forms. None of them pretty. Please do whatever you can to support RJ Harris for Congress. – Dr. Rand Paul
This extraordinary endorsement came early on in the Harris 2010 campaign. According to RJ:
Rand is one of the brightest rising stars in the Liberty Candidate movement and the GOP. With this endorsement he demonstrated his leadership and commitment to taking on the establishment backed bailout voters by supporting and endorsing up-and-coming Liberty Candidates that would be able to help him restore the Republic and the Constitution once elected. It is my high honor to be called to service beside Rand in Congress and to finally be able to return the endorsement having emerged as my incumbent opponent's most serious threat since 2002. His recent endorsements from Sarah Palin and Senator Bunning are further proof that Rand has the principles, judgment and integrity necessary to fight for our individual liberty and state sovereignty from the U.S. Senate. – RJ Harris
The Oklahoma Conservative PAC also endorsed RJ Harris just a few weeks ago after Harris received 90% of the straw poll held at their March meeting. Charlie Meadows, chair of OCPAC, stated the following:
R.J. Harris has become an impressive candidate, improved much in his communication skills and understanding of how Washington should work rather than how it does work. If you want to vote for someone who will work to make a conservative difference, a true reformer, then vote for R.J. Harris. If you want a slick talking Republican that is the poster boy for, “go along to get along”, then vote for Tom Cole. – Charlie Meadows
In November of 2009, the Republican Liberty Caucus also endorsed RJ Harris stating:
The RLC Board of Directors selected Mr. Harris as one of its first endorsed candidates for the 2010 primary season because of his issue stances in support of individual rights, limited government, and free enterprise. We believe Mr. Harris will be a strong defender of liberty as a member of Congress and an outstanding representative for the people of Oklahoma.
RJ believes that these three endorsements help demonstrate for the voters of the 4th district that he has the principles, message, personality and articulation ability equal to the task of defeating the establishment-backed bailout-voting incumbent; (R) Tom Cole.
About RJ Harris:
RJ Harris is a currently serving nineteen-year Oklahoma Army National Guard Officer, two-time Iraq War Veteran and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate in Philosophy and a second year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. RJ is a Constitutional Conservative Republican and a prominent leader in the nation-wide grassroots Liberty Candidate movement. He has appeared on Fox News twice with Judge Andrew Napolitano, before numerous Tea Party candidate panels and been the featured guest on conservative/libertarian talk-radio programs across the country. www.rjharris2010.com
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Contact:
Jonathan Gibbons
RJ Harris 2010
405-881-0951
contact@rjharris2010.com
RJ Harris Picks up Big Endorsements – Rand Paul, OCPAC, and the RLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RJ Harris Picks up Big Endorsements – Rand Paul, OCPAC, and the RLC
Oklahoma- April 21, 2010
RJ Harris, U.S. Congressional candidate for Oklahoma’s 4th district, has picked up several big endorsements for his 2010 candidacy.
Rand Paul, a Republican U.S. Senate Candidate from Kentucky, endorsed by Sarah Palin and incumbent KY Senator Jim Bunning, endorsed RJ Harris this past summer saying:
I am pleased to enthusiastically endorse RJ Harris for Congress. I believe we stand on the precipice of a disaster. Our country is drowning in a sea of debt. Without significant change our country’s future is threatened. Bankruptcy comes in many forms. None of them pretty. Please do whatever you can to support RJ Harris for Congress. – Dr. Rand Paul
This extraordinary endorsement came early on in the Harris 2010 campaign. According to RJ:
Rand is one of the brightest rising stars in the Liberty Candidate movement and the GOP. With this endorsement he demonstrated his leadership and commitment to taking on the establishment backed bailout voters by supporting and endorsing up-and-coming Liberty Candidates that would be able to help him restore the Republic and the Constitution once elected. It is my high honor to be called to service beside Rand in Congress and to finally be able to return the endorsement having emerged as my incumbent opponent's most serious threat since 2002. His recent endorsements from Sarah Palin and Senator Bunning are further proof that Rand has the principles, judgment and integrity necessary to fight for our individual liberty and state sovereignty from the U.S. Senate. – RJ Harris
The Oklahoma Conservative PAC also endorsed RJ Harris just a few weeks ago after Harris received 90% of the straw poll held at their March meeting. Charlie Meadows, chair of OCPAC, stated the following:
R.J. Harris has become an impressive candidate, improved much in his communication skills and understanding of how Washington should work rather than how it does work. If you want to vote for someone who will work to make a conservative difference, a true reformer, then vote for R.J. Harris. If you want a slick talking Republican that is the poster boy for, “go along to get along”, then vote for Tom Cole. – Charlie Meadows
In November of 2009, the Republican Liberty Caucus also endorsed RJ Harris stating:
The RLC Board of Directors selected Mr. Harris as one of its first endorsed candidates for the 2010 primary season because of his issue stances in support of individual rights, limited government, and free enterprise. We believe Mr. Harris will be a strong defender of liberty as a member of Congress and an outstanding representative for the people of Oklahoma.
RJ believes that these three endorsements help demonstrate for the voters of the 4th district that he has the principles, message, personality and articulation ability equal to the task of defeating the establishment-backed bailout-voting incumbent; (R) Tom Cole.
About RJ Harris:
RJ Harris is a currently serving nineteen-year Oklahoma Army National Guard Officer, two-time Iraq War Veteran and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate in Philosophy and a second year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. RJ is a Constitutional Conservative Republican and a prominent leader in the nation-wide grassroots Liberty Candidate movement. He has appeared on Fox News twice with Judge Andrew Napolitano, before numerous Tea Party candidate panels and been the featured guest on conservative/libertarian talk-radio programs across the country. www.rjharris2010.com
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Contact:
Jonathan Gibbons
RJ Harris 2010
405-881-0951
contact@rjharris2010.com
Monday, April 12, 2010
U.S. Congressional Candidate Alerted for the Afghanistan Surge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Congressional Candidate Alerted for the Afghanistan Surge
Oklahoma- April 12, 2010
RJ Harris, Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th U.S. Congressional District, and 19 year veteran of the Army National Guard, has been alerted as part of the surge forces bound for Afghanistan sometime this summer. This will be CW2 Harris' third combat tour having previously served in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. RJ announced his candidacy in January of 2009 initially responding to his opponent's then recent vote for the Bailout. While the timing of this alert is unfortunate, Harris will remain in the race under the protections provided candidates activated for military service by 51 Okl. St. S 3.1 and 26 Okl. St. S 12-101.
"Knowing the high probability of deployments, patriotic civilian employers routinely hire, train and retain Guard Soldiers and I have complete faith that the voters in my district will show that same fidelity once convinced of my absolute commitment to the restoration of the Constitution, the Republic, their individual Liberty and Oklahoma's sovereignty."
Once on active duty, the RJ Harris 2010 Campaign will continue through the rigorous activities of the staff and through personal appearances around the district by allied Liberty Candidates and Tea Party activists willing to speak on RJ's behalf. When asked about the unfortunate fact that his district would have no vote during the short months he is away RJ responded, "right now having no vote for a few months would be better than having more votes from Cole for bailouts, Pelosi's 08 stimulus, the ACORN backed Housing Extension Act, Obama's GIVE Act, funds for Planned Parenthood, or foreign aid to Africa when our own debt is pushing $12 Trillion."
For additional information please contact Jonathan Gibbons, the Campaign Manager, at 405 881 0951 or rjharris2010@hotmail.com
About RJ Harris:
RJ Harris is a currently serving nineteen-year Oklahoma Army National Guard Officer, two-time Iraq War Veteran and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate in Philosophy and a second year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. RJ is a Constitutional Conservative Republican and a prominent leader in the nation-wide grassroots Liberty Candidate movement. He has appeared on Fox News twice with Judge Andrew Napolitano, before numerous Tea Party candidate panels and been the featured guest on conservative/libertarian talk-radio programs across the country. www.rjharris2010.com
"The Oklahoma National Guard in no way endorses this message nor has it offered any opinions concerning the legitimacy of [Mr. Harris'] statements other than the fact [he and his unit are] about to deploy." LTC Max Moss; OKNG Public Affairs Officer
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Contact:
Jonathan Gibbons
RJ Harris 2010
405-881-0951
contact@rjharris2010.com
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Declaration of Nullification
The following is a sample Declaration of Nullification for you to share with your state legislatures and to ask them to support your state sovereignty. This is not an actual piece of legislation from ANY state...yet.
We the People of the great state of OKLAHOMA hold these truths to be evident from our constitutional contract with the United States of America that the states of that union are as sovereign as foreign states and that they give up only so much of their sovereignty so as to allow for the execution of those powers enumerated and assigned to the federal government in the Constitution. Further, we hold that the United States Constitution represents our people's consent to be governed in any measure beyond that which is contained in our own constitution and the consent of the several states to allow the United States to act for them on the issues of national defense, foreign policy, foreign trade and interstate commerce. Moreover, we hold that when these consents are breached, as they have been by all three branches of the federal government, that each breach is an act of tyranny upon We the People and breach of contract upon the several states. These abuses stretch back to the beginning of the previous century and are evidence of the federal government's long-standing design to reduce the federalist system, consented to in the Constitution, to one of despotic central government rule. Such a government was not envisioned by the founders or by the states that ratified the Constitution or by the states that joined the union since, and such a government is wholly detrimental to the people's liberty and to the sovereignty of states.
To prove these assertions of the federal government's intent towards despotism, let the following facts be submitted to a candid world.
It has often refused to allow the states to govern themselves as necessary for the local public good.
It has passed legislation designed specifically to bribe, blackmail, and coerce the states into compliance with its unfunded mandates.
It has refused to pass legislation to provide for the common defense along the borders of the Republic while forbidding the border state governors from defending their states from a flood of illegal immigration, and it has required those states to bear a disproportionate burden of the financial expenses which inevitably accompany the migration of an entire population.
It has refused to pass reasonable and proportionate immigration legislation to accommodate both those wishing to migrate to the United States and the states that need that productive immigration to sustain their population.
It has called for legislation to be debated and voted upon during inconvenient times so as to require the perpetual stationing of the states representatives to the national capital and to limit the public's awareness of its activities.
It has obstructed the administration of justice by allowing its judiciary to grant itself the extra-constitutional power to judicially construct that which was clearly and unequivocally left to the states under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.
It has erected a multitude of new offices and bureaucracies to which legislative authority has been delegated, in direct violation of Article I Section 1 of the Constitution, the effect of which has been the harassment of the people, the depletion of the public monies and the wholesale infringement upon individual liberty and state sovereignty as the people and the states attempt to comply with more rules and regulations that can known by the common person.
It has given monies from the treasury, intended for the general Welfare of the Federal Government, not for the individual welfare of its citizens or foreign states, both to foreign governments--to curry favor and engage in entangling alliances--and to individual citizens and special interests groups to buy votes as well as ill-gotten political influence.
It has kept at our expense, and to the detriment of full provision of our own National Guard, in times when war was not declared, standing armies, and delegated to the executive the power to declare war through aggressive foreign policy actions committed in direct violation of Article I Section 8.
It has combined with foreign states to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving its assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For placing our armed forces under the command of foreign officers; subject to foreign military jurisdictions not in accordance with the Constitution or the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
For quartering and training large bodies of foreign troops in our states and territories at the expense of our treasury under the guise of foreign aid.
For granting law enforcement jurisdiction to foreign police authorities for the purpose of arrest and detention of our citizens, thereby making the people subject to the judicial powers of foreign states and entities rather than of their own states and of their own constitutions and the Constitution of the United States.
For cutting off our trade, under its sole discretion, to all parts of the world.
For preventing the free market growth of commerce, trade or industry, to the detriment of our state's economy under the guise of radical environmentalism, and for the purpose of controlling our prosperity and production rather than merely making it regular among the several states.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments.
For declaring in themselves the power to legislate for us in direct contrivance to the 10th Amendment.
It has waged a de facto war upon our prosperity and that of our posterity by levying direct taxation upon the labor of our citizens and empowering its bureaucracies to harass and imprison those unwilling to comply with the legalized theft levied against them or to incriminate themselves in direct violation of the 5th Amendment.
It has stolen the wealth of the entire population by seizing our gold and silver and replacing the same with a worthless paper currency that is manipulated at the whim of private bankers not accountable to the people in the manner that Congress alone is accountable under Article I Section 8.
In so doing, It has turned our states into criminal enterprises by making them unable to comply with the directives of Article I Section 10, which require that all state transactions be conducted in only gold or silver currency and that states make only gold and silver a legal tender in payment of debts.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress through the political process, only to have those petitions answered by the repeated injury of the tyranny of the majority inconsistent with the republican government promised to all states in Article IV section 4 of the Constitution. A central government, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define tyranny, is unfit to govern a free republic.
We, therefore, the duly elected legislators of the State of Oklahoma, sitting in general assembly and on behalf of the people of Oklahoma under the eyes of God, declare our sovereign right to nullify any and all federal legislation which breaches our contract with the United States. This authority to act in defense of our citizens and our sovereignty extends to the Governor of Oklahoma and to the Sheriffs of each county to use any and all appropriate means to protect our citizens from the legislative enforcement efforts of the federal government henceforth deemed by this body to be in contradiction to the Constitution of the United States.
The above is provided for your use to debate and discuss the issue of nullification and hopefully institute some form thereof in our/your state. This declaration was modeled on the Declaration of Independence and the author of this declaration, RJ Harris, acknowledges credit to the authors of the Declaration of Independence and that so much of what they had to say permeates this declaration that individual citations would be tiresome and redundant to the readers.
About RJ Harris:
RJ Harris is a currently serving nineteen-year Oklahoma Army National Guard Officer, two-time Iraq War Veteran and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate in Philosophy and a second year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. RJ is a Constitutional Conservative Republican and Liberty Candidate. He has appeared on Fox News' Freedom Watch twice with Judge Andrew Napolitano and been the featured guest on conservative/libertarian talk-radio programs across the country. www.rjharris2010.com