Article V Suicide Failing

Wins for our side as of May 12, 2018: by Publius Hulda

Idaho HCR 32 (COSP): dead!  2/9/18

New Hampshire HCR10 (COSP); HCR12 (Term Limits); HB1268 (Delegate); HB1524 (Wolf PAC); HJR 4 (laws apply equally to Congress): all dead!  2/8/18 (HB1268; 3/6/18 (HJR4); 3/6/18 (HCR 10); 3/15/18 (HCR12);

South Dakota SJR3 (COSP): dead!  2/14/18

Virginia HJ49 & SJ31 (COSP's model delegate bill) postponed until 2019; SJ11 & SJ26 (BBA): dead! 2/8/18 and 2/9/18

Wyoming HJ 10 (COSP); HJ3 (one subject): all dead! 2/19/18

Utah - Session closed & the "protected" COSP application was never numbered and introduced! dead! 3/8/18 protected bill "abandoned" on sine die.

Kansas - SCR 1611 (COSP): dead!  3/8/18

West Virginia: HB 2114 (COSP DEL); HCR57 (COSP); SB95 (DEL); SCR9 (COSP); SCR10 (WP). This is a State that almost passed COSP in 2017: all dead! 3/10/18

Mississippi: HC 56 (COSP) is dead!  3/23/18; Others died at sine die 3/28/18: HC31 (BBA); SC509(TML); SCR511 (1 subject); SCR510 (BBA); SCR 548 (COSP).

Kentucky: HB 282 (COSP Delegate); HJR8, HJR12, HJR 47, & HJR 81 (COSP); & HJR119 (BBA): all dead! HJR12 & HJR47 were withdrawn 4/11/18; HJR8 was withdrawn 1/18/18; HJR119, HB282; & HJR81 died at sine die 4/14/18.

Nebraska: LB 1058 (COSP's delegate bill) & LR 6 (COSP) are dead! LB1058 did not advance 4/5/17; LR6 was not prioritized and died at sine die 4/18/18.

Maryland:  SJ 8 & HJR 6 (COSP); HJ 11 & SJ 7 (Wolf PAC); HJ 4 (Term Limits):all dead at sine die 4/10/18.

Tennessee:  COSP's HB 1973 (SB 2452) model bill to create secretly elected super powerful "Convention of States Joint Committee" is dead! Adjourned sine die 4/25/18; fiscal note killed these.

Washington State:  HJM 4006 & SJM 8003 (COSP); HJM 4017 (BBA); HJM 4003 & SJM 8000 (Wolf PAC):  all dead!  Sine die 3/8/18.

Maine HP1252 (BBA); HP1232 (Term Limits); and SP667 (Wolf PAC) application: all dead! HP1252 and HP1232 failed 3/22/18; WP died 2/13/18 - couldn't agree what committee to send it to.

Hawaii: HCR 5, HCR 88, HR 7, HR 72, SR 16, SCR 33 (COSP); and HCR 207, HR 177, SCR 76, SR 45 (Wolf PAC):  all dead at 5/3/18 sine die!

New Mexico:  HJR 11 (Wolf PAC) dead! Postponed indefinitely 2/5/18

Colorado: HJR18-1015, SJM18-005 (Wolf PAC):  Dead! 4/25/18 indefinitely

postponed.

Iowa:  HJR 11, HJR 12, SSB 1110, SJR 8 (COSP); and HJR8 & SJR5 (Wolf PAC): all dead at sine die 5/5/18!  

South Carolina: H.3233, S.0086, S.0878 (COSP); H.3473 & S.0547 (BBA); H.4174 & S.0571 (Wolf PAC); S.0545 (Term Limits): all dead at sine die 5/10/18!   

Vermont:  J.R.H. 3 (COSP) & J.R.H. 11 (term limits) both dead at sine die 5/12/18!

Other states are still pending

COSP hasn't won ANY States so far this year.  Neither has the BBA gang.  Or Wolf PAC.  Term Limits has won 1 or 2 States, but since they had already passed the COSP or BBA (or both) applications, it didn't matter. 

Source: Email from Chris Owen, Eagle Forum

Comments

Publius Hulda is an Attorney from Tennessee and is the Constitutional Scholar who initiated the resistance to calling for an Article V Convention.

Eagle Forum was founded by Conservative Leader, Phyllis Schlafly Chris Owen has led the fight in State by State votes to defeat this petition and has kept us informed via email.

From 2014 to 2017, 12 States have voted to petition Congress to authorize the “Article V Convention including Alaska, Arizona, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

22 States have rejected the Article V Convention of States as of 5/12/18.  A total of 34 States have voted so far.  A total of 18 States have not yet voted on this petition. If all 18 remaining States vote to petition Congress, the total would be 30 States and that already falls short of the 34 States or 2/3s of States required.  It looks like this bad idea will not pass, but these petitions have “eternal life” and State legislatures could resurrect the beast.

The 5000 independent Tea Party organizations and hundreds of Constitutional organizations throughout the US have sided against the Article V petitions, because it puts the US Constitution in danger of being replaced by delegates who would be appointed by the State Legislatures.

Amendments need to be initiated by Congress and ratified by the States to avoid a “bum’s rush” to tyranny. This Article V scam would have authorized a real Constitutional Convention with “new founders” who cannot be trusted.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader