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Michael Quinn Sullivan is president and CEO of Empower Texans, and its premier project, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. He also serves as treasurer of the Empower Texans PAC.
July 8, 2008
To: All Members of the House Republican Conference
Re: Support for unilateral, self-imposed moratorium on earmarks
Dear Member of the House Republican Conference,
We, the undersigned chairpersons of the nation’s Center-Right coalition meetings, write to
urge you to support a self-imposed unilateral earmark moratorium.
Our coalition representing the grassroots of the center-right movement—taxpayers, home
schoolers, family groups, Second Amendment groups, business groups and individual
businessmen and women, and other members of what comprises our country’s center-right—is
concerned that the brand of the party of Ronald Reagan, and fiscal conservatism, has been
severely damaged.
Despite Democrat campaign promises to end the era of earmarks, spending bills for FY 2008
contain about $20 billion in pork projects. While that may only be the tip of the iceberg in
terms of total spending figures, earmarks have become the broken windows of the federal
budget. The opaque earmarking process paired with a series of examples of corruption and selfaggrandizement
has left taxpayers frustrated.
In the wake of bridges to nowhere and indoor-rainforests, the grassroots are looking to the
Republican Conference to reclaim the party brand. America cannot wait for the Democrats to
get on board with meaningful earmark reform. A self-imposed party-wide ban on earmarks for
the remainder of the 110th Congress would send a strong message to disenfranchised constituents
around the country that fiscal discipline has returned to Washington, and would provide an
opportunity to study and review the appropriations process to devise a process that allows for
greater transparency, accountability and legitimacy.
We urge you to support the Republican Study Committee’s efforts to impose a unilateral
party-wide earmark moratorium.
Sincerely,
Michael Quinn Sullivan
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Texas
Richard Falknor,
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Maryland
Brandon Dutcher
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Oklahoma
Chip Faulkner
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Massachusetts
July 8, 2008
To: All Members of the House Republican Conference
Re: Support for unilateral, self-imposed moratorium on earmarks
Dear Member of the House Republican Conference,
We, the undersigned chairpersons of the nation’s Center-Right coalition meetings, write to
urge you to support a self-imposed unilateral earmark moratorium.
Our coalition representing the grassroots of the center-right movement—taxpayers, home
schoolers, family groups, Second Amendment groups, business groups and individual
businessmen and women, and other members of what comprises our country’s center-right—is
concerned that the brand of the party of Ronald Reagan, and fiscal conservatism, has been
severely damaged.
Despite Democrat campaign promises to end the era of earmarks, spending bills for FY 2008
contain about $20 billion in pork projects. While that may only be the tip of the iceberg in
terms of total spending figures, earmarks have become the broken windows of the federal
budget. The opaque earmarking process paired with a series of examples of corruption and selfaggrandizement
has left taxpayers frustrated.
In the wake of bridges to nowhere and indoor-rainforests, the grassroots are looking to the
Republican Conference to reclaim the party brand. America cannot wait for the Democrats to
get on board with meaningful earmark reform. A self-imposed party-wide ban on earmarks for
the remainder of the 110th Congress would send a strong message to disenfranchised constituents
around the country that fiscal discipline has returned to Washington, and would provide an
opportunity to study and review the appropriations process to devise a process that allows for
greater transparency, accountability and legitimacy.
We urge you to support the Republican Study Committee’s efforts to impose a unilateral
party-wide earmark moratorium.
Sincerely,
Michael Quinn Sullivan
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Texas
Richard Falknor,
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Maryland
Brandon Dutcher
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Oklahoma
Chip Faulkner
Chair, Center-Right coalition
Massachusetts
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