We must
help remove Speaker Ryan, his stunning ignorance will cost us our country
One thing Orlando (and Trump’s response to it) has done is force our
so-called leaders to, as we say in rural America, show themselves.
Although we already had ample evidence that Speaker Paul Ryan was doing
everything in his power to undermine the Republican nominee for President of
the United States, his rebuke of Trump yesterday sends a clear message about
where the man stands.
He
would prefer Hillary as President, or he wouldn’t have said what he did.
We have all known for a long time that Ryan is for open borders and can
only presume that is because he must suck up to the donor class (most of whom
are millionaires and billionaires who need cheap immigrant labor). Why he is
also pandering to Muslims in the wake of Orlando is a mystery.
Also, Ryan has not lifted a finger to rein-in the UN/US State Department
Refugee Admissions Program. Is he under the thumb of the US Conference of
Catholic Bishops which takes in millions each year to resettle Muslim refugees
to your towns?
But, Ryan’s clear
ignorance about Islamic supremacism and Islam’s goals for the world should be
enough to make everyone reading this willing to, at minimum, open your wallets
and send his primary competitor Paul Nehlen a contribution.
The Republican primary
election date is August 9th (just 8 weeks away!). Maybe you have a little time to share
with his campaign as well.
For more, visit Matthew Boyle’s good piece on Ryan’s response to Orlando, here. And, watch Ryan yesterday in response to Trump’s excellent
speech from New Hampshire where he reiterated his call for a ban on Muslim
migration to America until we can figure out what is going on.
And, just a reminder, when you hear Ryan’s blather about “moderate” Muslims
remember Act for America‘s Brigitte Gabriel‘s line (I’m paraphrasing):
Moderate
(peaceful) Muslims are irrelevant!
Why? Because for many reasons they remain silent (with occasional
perfunctory verbiage as they did in the wake of the Orlando massacre) as their
fellow Muslims commit atrocities in the name of Allah. All devout Muslims know that Mohammed’s
prescription is for Islam to dominate the world. Again, go here to ABC News and watch Ryan yesterday.
Why is he still so ignorant? Surely you have an extra $25 or so to send to
Nehlen. Go here and send Ryan a message!
Endnote: Newt Gingrich has called for Congress to investigate ‘Islamic Supremacism.’
What are the odds that Ryan would ever go along with such a sensible idea?
MEET PAUL NEHLEN, THE
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE AIMING TO KNOCK OFF PAUL RYAN, by Nate Madden, March 31, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-WI) primary challenger for Wisconsin’s
1st congressional district says he’s sick and tired of the Speaker’s beltway
cronyism and he’s not going to take it anymore.
The man is Paul
Nehlen, a former Paul
Ryan supporter who says that the incumbent
Speaker of the House has left both him and members of his district feeling betrayed.
“It really comes down
to three priorities,” Nehlen said of his campaign. “Reclaiming the seat for
Wisconsin’s 1st district and ‘we the people,’ stopping Paul Ryan’s cronyism
& corruption, and securing the border while enforcing existing immigration
law.”
[Paul Ryan]
literally shook my hand and looked me in the eye and said ‘get people out to
vote and we we’ll push back against Obama’s illegal immigration,” fumed Nehlen.
“I bought his book. I sent his book as gifts to friends. That’s how invested in
this I was. That’s the level of betrayal.”
“If you look at where Paul
Ryan’s campaign cash is
coming from and going into his coffers, 85 percent of it came from outside his
district, and about 65 percent of it came from D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia.”
“If you look at Paul
Ryan’s votes, they don’t line up with
the interests of this district,”
said Nehlen, who added that he especially took issue with the Speaker’s recent
support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and fast track Trade
Promotion Authority, which he said “was a knife in the heart.”
“You know NAFTA
specifies that 65 percent [of a product] has to be made in the United States to
be stamped with ‘Made in the USA,’ but with TPP it’s only 45 percent.”
For Nehlen, the
personally-felt betrayal runs very deep.
“I worked behind the
scenes for Paul Ryan, and that’s where this [motivation to run] all came from…a
little bit of my part-time job was making sure that I did what it was that Paul
Ryan was looking for, which was getting everybody out to vote so that we had
the house and the senate. We had everything we needed to push back on
Obamacare, to push back on Obama’s illegal immigration.”
“He literally said that to me. He literally
shook my hand and looked me in the eye and said ‘get people out to vote and we
we’ll push back against Obama’s illegal immigration,” fumed Nehlen. “I bought
his book. I sent his book as gifts to friends. That’s how invested in this I
was. That’s the level of betrayal.”
“I pounded signs for
Paul Ryan,” he recalled. “I’ve made phone calls, I’ve worked to get people out
to vote for what Paul Ryan said was his priority, and that was getting
Wisconsin working again. And he absolutely let us down, and that’s where the
betrayal is. Paul Ryan’s the one who put the gas in my gas tank.”
Despite running in a
congressional district that is closer to Canada than Mexico, Nehlen believes
that securing America’s southern border is a national issue, as well as one
that affects his prospective constituents.
“It’s a huge issue for
the nation overall, but it’s also an issue for me and for this district because
Milwaukee is a sanctuary city. Chicago [just under 45 minutes away] is a
sanctuary city,” he explained to CR in a phone interview on Thursday.
“Shouldn’t we know who’s coming across our borders?”
“Paul Ryan believes in walls. He’s got a fence
around his house. His estate is walled-off. We’ve had funds appropriated since
2006. Paul Ryan has funded all of Obama’s DREAM Act, all of his immigration
policies, he’s funded all the refugee resettlement efforts. We can’t vet these
people. The CIA and FBI have both said that we can’t vet these people and
they’re coming from countries where they don’t have any papers. Shouldn’t we
know who’s coming across our borders? That’s the question I have.”
Nehlen’s interest in
politics began early and has carried throughout his professional career in the
private sector. He grew up in Ohio and moved to Delaware in his teens. It was
in the First State that Nehlen says he was inspired by a civics teacher who
encouraged him to get involved in the political process. “I hand-billed in
Wilmington, Delaware in high school. Every two years I worked behind the scenes
for somebody.”
Nehlen's professional
resume reads like an all-American private sector success story. He began his
professional career as a maintenance mechanic in a factory before getting a
degree in engineering and working his way up to eventually run the business.
"And then I ran businesses around the country before I started my own
business," he said, also recalling how he earned his MBA at night while
working full-time.
Eventually he found
his way into the private equity sector. “I was the guy with Fortune 500
corporations who would buy a broken or damaged bicycle [referring to a failing
corporation] and they would say, ‘fix this while you’re riding it,’” he
remembered. “And it was great, I loved it.”
Nehlen even recalled a
situation where he was able to use his private sector influence to bring jobs
back to the United States. “I remember at the first private equity company that
I came to work for one of our businesses was in Monterey, Mexico and we were
making the shipping companies rich so I brought those Jobs back to Tallapoosa,
Georgia [a town near the Georgia-Alabama Border on Interstate 20]…we closed most
of that business and brought most of those jobs back.”
While Nehlen said that
it’s “a little premature” to discuss his campaign fundraising projections, he’s
confident that he’ll be able to put up the resources to take on the Speaker in
the coming primary.
“I’ve got a great
network here in the state, here in southeast Wisconsin. I’ve got a lot of
friends. I’ve brought in a great team. I’m going to put money in,” he explained
when asked about how he plans to go up against Ryan’s estimated $5 million
campaign war chest. “I believe that this is something that needs to be done and
I’m going to take my own money and put it in.”
Additionally, Nehlen
cited a long list of nonprofits he has worked for saying, “I know how to twist
people’s arms to get money. I know how to raise money. I know how to invigorate
people and say, ‘look, we need to do this.’”
“I’m not going to be
shy about going to people and saying that we need to take Wisconsin’s 1st
District back,” Nehlen added in the phone interview with CR. “Paul Ryan’s got
$5 million, they’ll probably give him another $5 million. There’s no shame in
saying, look you need to support me because Paul Ryan is going to be supported
by by those crooks [inside the D.C. beltway].”
Despite some media
reports to the contrary and the fact that he will be self-funding part of his
campaign, Nehlen affirmed in the interview that he is not a ‘wealthy
businessman.’
“I’ve worked hard…and
I’ve put a lot of people to work in this country. They pay their mortgage, they
pay their car payment, they pay for their kids going to school. They put
clothes on their back and food in their mouths,” he said. “And I do the same
thing; I pay my mortgage out of my paycheck.”
In recent months, Speaker
Ryan has come under fire from movement
conservatives due to the $2 Trillion Omnibus budget bill, which he defended by saying “In divided government you don’t get
everything you want. So, we fought for as much as we could get. We advanced our
priorities and principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them.”
While the Wisconsin
presidential primary is this coming Tuesday, its state level primaries will
take place on August 9th, according to uselections.com.
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