Earlier this month the Marion County Republican Central Committee sent letters to Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks expressing their frustration with the GOP members of Congress.
Miller-Meeks and Ernst both received letters from the central committee due to their votes in support of the DisRespect for Marriage Act.
Both letters, which are addressed to the citizens of Iowa, start by saying:
The Marion County Republican Central Committee seeks to make it known that in her support of the Respect for Marriage Act, Senator Joni Ernst (Rep. Miller-Meeks is listed here in the letter sent regarding her) has violated the Marion County Iowa Republican Party Platform, the Republican Party of Iowa District 1 Platform, the Republican Party of Iowa Platform, the National Republican Platform, and what our founders refer to as “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”.
It also shares the following sections from the GOP platforms:
2022 Iowa Republican Platform, Liberty Section, Item #13, states:
“We believe that traditional, two parent (one male (XY) and one female (XX)), marriage-based families are the foundation of a stable, enduring, and healthy civilization. We encourage the repeal of any laws allowing any marriage that is not between one natural man and one natural woman.”
2016 Republican National Platform, Page 11, Defending Marriage Against an Activist Judiciary, states:
“Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values.”
2016 Republican National Platform, Page 31, Marriage, Family, and Society, states:
“Foremost among those institutions is the American family. It is the foundation of civil society, and the cornerstone of the family is natural marriage, the union of one man and one woman. Its daily lessons — cooperation, patience, mutual respect, responsibility, self-reliance — are fundamental to the order and progress of our Republic. Strong families, depending upon God and one another, advance the cause of liberty by lessening the need for government in their daily lives. Conversely, as we have learned over the last five decades, the loss of faith and family life leads to greater dependence upon government. That is why Republicans formulate public policy, from taxation to education, from healthcare to welfare, with attention to the needs and strengths of the family.”
The group said it is “further disturbed” by Ernst’s response to individual emails hiding behind a “strawman” claiming the bill recognizes the validity of “same-sex and interracial marriages.”
“Knowing full well that states have no issues recognizing interracial marriages,” the letter states. “This dishonesty and deception are abhorrent, completely unacceptable and confirms that she is disconnected from the values of her constituents.”
The Marion County GOP Central Committee said they wanted to voice their “extreme dissatisfaction” with the behavior of Ernst.
“And highly recommend that if she wishes to remain a representative of this state that she listens very carefully to the voice of the people who elected her,” it states.
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The central committee expressed similar discontent with Miller-Meeks, noting that she too hides behind the strawman equating same-sex marriage to interracial marriages.
“During a recent visit to one of our central committee meetings, we appreciated the Congresswoman willingly acknowledging her offense against our values and platform but were baffled that she seemed more concerned about appeasing the opposition than representing the ones who elected her,” the letter states.
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Ernst has been formally condemned or censured by at least 17 Iowa county Republican central committees over her vote in favor of the DisRespect for Marriage Act.
The Marion County GOP Central Committee also sent a letter regarding Ernst’s vote in favor of the Safer Communities Act of 2022. The letter states the bill violated the Republican Party of Iowa platform and oath of office to the U.S. Constitution.
Our State Platform, Platform Principles, section 3, states:
The Oath of Office for all civil servants, elected and employed, should guide their actions.
As Citizens, we demand that our elected officials take their office and it’s duties and responsibilities to us, our country and our Constitution seriously, and act accordingly with their individual oaths of office.
Our State platform, Legislative Priorities, Liberty, section 4, states:
We strongly believe in the constitutionally protected natural right of individuals to keep and bear arms, as recognized, and protected by the Second Amendment, and we support the repeal of existing laws that infringe upon those rights. We support the addition of “castle doctrine” provisions to Iowa law.
The United States Constitution has three amendments germane to this legislation.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution:
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.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
The group said it is “saddened, dismayed and angered” that these “basic freedoms” were so “cavalierly disregarded and indeed infringed upon” by Ernst.
The letter goes on to say:
“The provisions of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” allow for the creation and implementation of so called “red flag” laws. States are given taxpayer dollars to do so. While it is up to each state to decide whether to do so, many most certainly will. It would be foolish to believe your own state won’t implement such laws, due to the current political make up of your state, when that situation can change in one election cycle. Regardless, senator Ernst has infringed on the Rights of American Citizens in other states that are all too happy to implement red flag laws. When you swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, you swear that oath and protection to all American Citizens.
Red flag laws violate the terms of the Second, Fourth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution, by allowing the seizure of a Citizens firearms (2nd, 4th) at the behest of an anonymous party, (6th) (hearsay testimony) on the “authority” of a judge in an ex parte hearing, where the Citizen is not represented and is not allowed to face his accuser. (4th and 6th.) Indeed, these violations occur without any crime having been alleged or committed.
The violated Citizen will have their weapons removed and be unable to own or replace them until their trial, which can take up to a year or more, and must waste countless hours of time and thousands of dollars of their own money to prove they are not a threat. This flies in the face of our system of Justice, where a Citizen is presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty! All based on hearsay “evidence” that would never be enough to generate a normal criminal search warrant. In the meanwhile, their means to protect themselves, their families, and their community will be stripped from them.
These laws are ripe for abuse by activist anti-gun judges, prosecutors, politicians, spurned ex-lovers, angry relatives, hostile neighbors or just people that don’t like guns-or you.
Our Bill of Rights was written to protect the Rights of the Individual Citizen from the tyranny of their own government. When you swear to uphold and protect those Rights – but don’t – and actively participate in their demise, you become part of the tyranny that our Founding Fathers wisely tried to protect us from with the Bill of Rights.
Considering these serious and obvious violations of her Oath of Office, the Marion County Central Committee, representing the voters of our county, wishes to voice our extreme dissatisfaction with Senator Ernst, condemn her behavior and vote as a betrayal of her oath and mandate, and call for her resignation.”
Ernst letter on Safer Communities Act
I AGREE! I have called her office SEVERAL times and treated with disregard and I believe she should resign as well. In my opinion she DOES NOT respect our opinions as Republicans. Thank you. BYE SENATOR!!!!
I am grateful that to these counties demanding that Senator Ernst either resigns or will be fired for her disregard of her constituents and oath to uphold our constitutional rights . Her own desire to be included into the ranks of elitists and McConnell apostles has betrayed the trust and confidence of the citizens that elected her. We must put aside the fear of losing elections to Democrats and voting for faux Republicans that have betrayed us just to retain the seat of an incumbent . An enemy hiding in the shadows is more the dangerous than an enemy in the open. Senator Ernst has now been exposed.
I am looking for a replacement for r senator ernst. State senator amy sinclair said no. State senator brad zaun did not say yes or no. I need a candidate.