Bacallao for US Senate

Republican Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao running for US Senate

Mary Kay is a Constitutional Conservative from Fayetteville in Fayette County GA.  I first met Mary Kay during her campaign for GA State School Superintendent.  She led the charge against Common Core at the Gold Dome.  She is highly regarded by all of my Tea Party Coalition Colleagues   across Georgia. – Norb Leahy

What would Mary Kay do in the Senate ?

Pass Constitutional Laws

Pass just laws to secure liberty for all Georgia and U.S. citizens. That starts with READING the laws.  I will not vote for a law that I haven't read.  Any law I vote for will be in line with the powers of the federal government as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.  I will not vote for any law that violates of the Bill of Rights.

Repeal Unjust Laws

Work to repeal all unjust laws.  Many unjust laws have been passed in the last 10-15 years, so this will be my top priority.

Checks and Balances

Keep the U.S. President in check - Congress is charged with ensuring that the President does not expand the executive branch beyond the powers outlined in the U.S. Constitution.  This has been and continues to be a problem.  We have to be prepared for any outcome in the presidential race.  I am ready to take action and protect the people of Georgia from executive orders and the failure of the president to enforce the laws passed by Congress, such as immigration laws.

Debt

Get the United States out of debt.  I am proud to live in Georgia where our Georgia State Constitution prohibits public debt. We should be leaving an inheritance for our children, not debt. This is a very large problem, so I will address it right away.  Spending bills originate in the U.S. House of Representatives, but all spending must also be voted on by the U.S. Senate.  I will not vote for any spending that is going to increase the debt.  We need to get serious about paying off the debt.  One place to start could be selling off the federal property in western states to American citizens.  There is no constitutional basis for federal ownership of land outside of Washington D.C. anyway.  The federal Bureau of Land Management needs to be eliminated and all the holdings sold to American citizens.        

Taxes

As my father always said, "The power to tax is the power to destroy."  The U.S. tax code is very complicated.  That is because it seeks to control citizens and businesses through incentives and de-incentives in the way taxes are calculated.  The founders envisioned a free people with limited government.  Work is its own incentive, but the tax code interferes with the connection between productivity and wealth.  That needs to change.  A reasonable and low proportional tax for citizens and businesses would solve many of the problems created by the IRS and a complicated tax system.

The Supreme Court

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Congress.  In recent years, activist justices have attempted to "legislate from the bench," usurp the legislative role of Congress, and disregard the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.  Since these individuals are not elected and serve for life, it is important that the President work with the Congress to select judges who will rule according to the supreme law of the land, as written in the U.S Constitution.  If the President selects inappropriate appointees, Congress must stop the appointment.  It is a solemn responsibility and I will vote no on any Supreme Court Justice who thinks that the Constitution can be reinterpreted. 

Mary Kay on the Issues

US Military 

I am grateful for the people who serve in the United States armed forces.  They have sacrificed time with their families and personal comfort, putting themselves in harm’s way to protect us from our enemies.  We need to continue the American tradition of a strong military, one focused on freedom.  America should continue to be a beacon of light in the world, a country that can boldly defend liberty, a country that refuses to plunder other nations.  We need to ensure that America honors and cares for those who have risked all in service to our country.  That means top notch medical care for our troops, honor, and the respect that comes from heartfelt gratitude.  We need to make sure that our troops are only deployed from a position of strength, where the objective is to defend and protect the people of the United States.  

 

We should not take the use of our military force lightly, it should be our last resort, with diplomacy being first.  We have so many who have sacrificed their health, we should strive to improve their medical care, commensurate with the service they have so freely given to this nation. Every day it is like you are putting your life on the line, even when you are training. The military is the hardest profession.  Sometimes people take it for granted that it will always be there. With the upsides and the downsides of politics, we still have the strongest military on the planet, and that is a beautiful thing.

What about gun control?

If we have learned anything from the past and the way tyrannical governments work, the first step has always been to disarm the people.  That is the first thing the British sought to do during the American Revolution. We saw that same process in Cuba, Nazi Germany, and China. American cities with strict gun control laws have higher crime and murder rates.  If we want to remain free and safe, the American people need to be able to protect themselves. The only thing gun control laws do is take guns away from law abiding citizens.  Criminals do not follow the law and will obtain guns to commit crimes.  I support our right to keep and bear arms. We need the criminals to fear the well armed law-abiding citizens to deter them from committing crimes. The 2nd Amendment to our Constitution states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

About Healthcare

We need to take our healthcare back from the federal government.  Our healthcare freedom was under attack as wonderful charity hospitals such as Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist hospitals were targeted for closure.  If the government was to control medicine, they couldn't have privately run charity hospitals in existence.  Next came the federal government mandate to purchase healthcare in the passage of "The Affordable Care Act."  We had all hoped that the Supreme Court would declare the act unconstitutional, as they should have.  Instead they defined it as a tax. Since when did the federal government have the authority to mandate the purchase of health insurance?  The federal government has clearly crossed the line.  The next step is to go to a single payer system, namely the federal government.  This new system has over 60,000 government healthcare "codes" and payment schedules.  We are losing our best and brightest doctors and nurses, who are fed up with the government micromanagement.  The doctors and the nurses are the ones that went to school to learn how to care for their patients.  They have the experience. 

How can we reverse course?

The U.S. Congress can repeal the Affordable Care Act. When that happens, we need to be ready to re-institute charity hospitals and charity healthcare services for those in need.  When there is government money involved, there is government control, and along with that a loss of productivity and effectiveness as regulations rule instead of reason. We cannot expect the government to do something that we should be doing for ourselves, especially in an area as important as our health. The Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed in its entirety and doctors and nurses need to be put back in charge.  

Immigration

It is the constitutional duty of Congress to set uniform rules of naturalization.  It is NOT the duty of Congress to fund certain immigrants, thereby playing "favorites" as they have done with the Refugee Resettlement program.  This is an example of an unjust and unconstitutional program that needs to be repealed.  Unchecked immigration and amnesty can destroy our nation. Amnesty would allow individuals from other countries to disrespect our boarders and our uniform rules for naturalization.  We cannot allow that to happen. We must keep our commitment to defend and uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Why is Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao running for U.S. Senate?

It all began with a simple desire to be involved in our local schools.  Why?  Because I wanted our schools to be the best, so the students in our community would be able to fulfill their destiny.  Four years after first running and three elections later, I began serving on the Fayette County School Board, only to find out that there was nothing I could do to stem the tide of the federal takeover of local schools.  Every standard, school rating, assessment, incentive, initiative, school board training, and teacher training was being controlled by the federal government.  State laws were passed to ensure that local school board members would fall in line with the government program.  Because of the School Board Gag Law of 2010 (SB 84), I could not even speak about why I kept voting NO without being accused of an “ethics violation” after the vote.

 

Then I began to see that education was not the only aspect of our lives that was being directed by an out of control federal government; taxes, healthcare, business productivity, trade, energy, private property, religious freedom, the workforce, so many “private sector” constitutional liberties, were also under attack.

 

I was told that the Governor and the State School Superintendent were to blame for sacrificing our educational liberty, so I ran for State School Superintendent.  I attended meetings all over the state of Georgia and gave presentations on how the education laws were destroying our schools.  I also listened to speakers on other topics such as taxes, healthcare, national defense, trade, law enforcement, the 2^nd amendment, immigration and much more.  I began to see that all of the attacks on our liberty were following the same pattern.

 

In my quest to stop the federal takeover of education, I realized that becoming the State School Superintendent was not the answer.  It was the legislation, both state and federal, that needed to be addressed.  I attended multiple “listening sessions” all over the Georgia where state legislators met with local school board members.  I sincerely believed that if only the legislators knew the truth about the laws, they would work to change them.  I begged and pleaded with them, but they continued to pass harmful legislation, year after year. 

 

I realized that the source of the problem was the U.S. Congress. After studying the proposed federal education legislation in March of 2015, I contacted the incumbent U.S. Senator in response to a feedback card I received in the mail.  I told him that if he voted to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), I would run against him.  In July of 2015, I called his office multiple times about the federal education bill and left messages.  Instead of responding to my calls, he voted for the bill.  That was no surprise because he also voted for the original No Child Left Behind and was a co-sponsor of the 2013 version of ESEA that did not go anywhere.  In December, I contacted his office once more, before the final vote.  He had several staffers answering the phone with false talking points.  I referred to the language in the legislation by page number that contradicted their talking points.  They said they would look it up and call me back, but they never did. 

 

Meanwhile, each and every day, Georgia students are being taught with dumbed down standards.  The potential of the future generation is being wasted and as every year passes it is getting harder and harder to reverse the damage that is being done.  As I write this, it is Monday of qualifying week.  Few are stepping up to run against the incumbent.  For some unknown reason, he is being given a pass.  He has millions of dollars in his campaign fund, but that will not deter me because as much as we want to stop the government from taking our money and our time through the crushing burden of taxes and regulations, we will not allow the government to take our children.  No amount of money can stop the truth from being told, and that is what I plan to do.  I will tell the truth about the laws, because I read them, and I will work each day to change them. 

 

The desire to be free is deep within each of us, and as that desire for freedom awakens, we will work together to restore the liberty that has been legislated away.  I know that I cannot fight this battle alone, and I am glad that I don’t have to.  I have met so many wonderful people who understand what is happening and feel the same way I do about this state and this country.  There are many fine men and women who are running for office and working behind the scenes to support freedom at every level.  I hope that you will join us, join me.  I am not going to ask for your money, but I will ask for something else, something more important.  I will ask for your vote, and I will ask you to tell others about me and about our plan to pass just laws, repeal unjust laws, confirm Supreme Court justices that will not try to reinterpret the U.S. Constitution, and keep the President in check, whoever that may be, as “We the People” get our country back on track.  

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About Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao

Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao has been a professor at a university in Georgia since 2003, teaching courses in Math, Science, and Technology for teachers in Douglasville, Henry County, Atlanta, and Newnan.  She has been married since 1989 to Aldo Bacallao and they have four children. 

Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao was elected to serve on the Fayette County School Board in 2012 where she studied state and federal legislation related to education.  What she noticed caused her to seek solutions.  She began working with other school board members and education activists to find ways to stop the federal takeover of local schools.  This group became known as the Educational Freedom Coalition.  As part of this group of concerned citizens, she reads and analyzes standards and legislation. She informs citizens in an effort to return authority to parents, students and teachers in public and private settings.   www.EducationalFreedomCoalition.com 

Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao spent 5 years teaching education courses at St. Thomas University in Miami where she wrote and ran a Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  She taught elementary school in Broward and Miami-Dade from 1988 until 1997. 

Her master’s, specialist, and doctorate degrees in education are from Florida Atlantic University, where she taught for one year as a visiting assistant professor of Science and Math Education. Her undergraduate degree is from Miami Christian College where she majored in Elementary Education and Bible.  She graduated high school as the salutatorian from Madonna Academy in Hollywood, Florida where she was awarded the highest achievement in Math Award and the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award.  At that time, her name was Mary Kay Fanning.

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Comments

Mary Kay’s views are considerably different from Johnny Isakson’s views.

Johnny served as President of Northside Realty for 22 years. He served in the GA House from 1977 to 1991 and served in the GA Senate from 1993 to 1997. He served 3 years in the US House from 1999 to 2005 and served in the US Senate from 2006 to 2016. He Chairs the Senate Veterans and Ethics Committees. His score on Conservative Review Scorecard is an abysmal 38%. That means he usually votes to pass unconstitutional bills.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader