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Palazzo Violated His Pledge PDF Print E-mail
On March 15, 2010, during Steven Palazzo's campaign for Congress, he signed a CANDIDATE PLEDGE (see white document below). His votes to raise the debt ceiling TWICE violated #5 in the signed Candidate Pledge below: 'TO NEVER SUPPORT A BILL OR AMENDMENT WHICH INCREASES GOVERNMENT SPENDING'

On May 17, 2010, Palazzo signed a second pledge while running for Congress in 2010. PLEDGE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (see blue document below/2 pages), yet he voted for the Defense Authorization Act, an act which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists. So much for his pledge to uphold the Constitution! What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire project in the name of security.

His vote violates the entire pledge, but more specifically, his vote for this bill violated item #7 in his signed Pledge to Uphold the Constitution of the United States, "I WILL NOT VOTE FOR A BILL THAT TRADES LIBERTY FOR SECURITY."

So despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial, the Defense Authorization bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end.

His vote for this bill also violated item #9 in this pledge, "I WILL NOT EXPAND THE SIZE, SCOPE OR POWER OF GOVERNMENT."

Steven Palazzo does not represent you. He represents the deep pockets that have been supporting him and who are now funding his re-election campaign and apparently, a written pledge means as little to him as the pledge he took when he became a state Representative and again when he became a Congressman. His word means NOTHING!

If you expect accountability and someone to reduce the size and scope of government, in addition to protecting your freedoms, I urge you NOT to vote for Stephen Palazzo!

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Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2012 19:16
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Palazzo will have GOP opposition PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 December 2011 00:00
WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - The News for South MississippiPalazzo will have GOP opposition  
Posted: Dec 30, 2011 7:06 AM CST  
Primary Election 2012
BILOXI, MS (WLOX)

Qualifying for the 2012 congressional elections opens next week.  And a Hattiesburg man says he'll be on GOP ballots.

Hattiesburg tea party organizer Ron Vincent has announced he'll run for the fourth congressional district seat.  Steven Palazzo is the incumbent in that race, and he's expected to seek a second term on Capitol Hill.

Vincent is a 71-year-old retired engineer who sits on the Lamar County Republican executive committee.  He has never run for public office.

In announcing his decision to run for Congress, Vincent said Palazzo hadn't done enough to curb federal spending and cut the national debt.

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Why We Need to Fire Palazzo PDF Print E-mail

A message from Ron Vincent, candidate for U.S. Congress, Mississippi's 4th Congressional District:

The situation that we have in south Mississippi is typical of what we are facing across the country. For more than twenty years we had a congressional representative that represented the party and not the people. With Steven Palazzo the situation has gotten worse and not better.

  • Steven voted for the continuing resolutions to maintain spending levels. He voted twice to raise the debt ceiling.
  • He voted for the Defense Authorization act. He voted to extend the Patriot Act. He voted for the ‘Super Committee’.  He did this in the face of wide spread opposition from his constituents.
  • In spite of promising  not to do it, he voted for the budget knowing that it would fund Planned Parenthood. The people in south Mississippi are strongly opposed to Federal funding for abortion.
  • He ran on a platform to “Fire Nancy Pelosi”, but votes more like Nancy Pelosi than a conservative congressman. (Now we need to Fire Steven Palazzo!)
  • Even Bennie Thompson has a better voting record than Steven Palazzo. The people of Mississippi deserve better.

Further, Palazzo had been an embarrassment to Mississippi due to the mistakes and missteps he has made since taking office.

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Ron Vincent seeks US Rep. Palazzo's seat PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:00
SunHerald.com - Biloxi-Gulfport and South Mississippi
Posted on Thu, Dec. 29, 2011
by Jeff Amy, the Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo will face a challenge in the Republican primary from Hattiesburg tea party organizer Ron Vincent.

Vincent, a retired engineer, announced his bid for the 4th District Congressional District seat on Thursday, saying Palazzo hasn't done enough to curb federal spending and cut the national debt.

"The country is going downhill," Vincent said. "We're spending too much money and we're going into oblivion. Somebody's got to step up."

The 71-year-old Vincent, who sits on the Lamar County Republican Executive Committee and founded the Pine Belt Republican Club last year, has never run for public office. He said he chose to run after others with more experience turned down his entreaties to challenge Palazzo in the south Mississippi district. The freshman congressman defeated longtime Democratic incumbent Gene Taylor in 2010.

 

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