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Sign the Open Letter to Leader Boehner
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| Name | City | Date | Comments |
| Robert Vander Hart | Worcester, MA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Alice Atkinson | Lake City, MN | January 17, 2008 | Please put Flake in for the committee! I know there are lots of things out there that are frivolous things and we do not need! |
| Theodore LaPorte | Hernando, FL | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Brandon Brower | Deleon Springs, FL | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Ronald Sutcliffe | Addison, TX | January 17, 2008 | I was one of the many Republicans disappointed by the fiscal irresponsibility of the 109th Congress. Our party desparately needs representatives like Congressman Flake in positions of responsibility. |
| Debbie Ramos | Marysville, WA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Gregory Shatney | Media, PA | January 17, 2008 | How are earmarks constitutional. Whatever happened to representative government. When you become a US Representative or US Senator you are not free to do whatever you think is right. It's not right to give big contributors earmarks as a favour. This subverts the process. |
| Eric Weimers | Chicago, IL | January 17, 2008 | Rep. Flake has consistently supported pro-growth,lower spending policies and would be an outstanding member of the Appropriations Committee. |
| John Welch | Shelton, WA | January 17, 2008 | We need more people like them in congress. Like George Allen, Rick Santorum, and Rep. Jeff Flake. We need these conservatives in leadership positions. Here, here We people in their to tighten the belt on spending. |
| Mary Joy Bell | Salem, OR | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Kenneth Hearn | Huntsville, AL | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Clark Fultz | Fairbanks, AK | January 17, 2008 | We have lost a large part of the American Spirit that made us a great nation. It will take many people like Rep. Flake to recapture limited federal government, restore liberties lost in wake of 9-11, bring balance to the so called entitlement programs, and pride in being an American. Rep Flake is a start. |
| John and Betty Hawkins | Wheatland, MO | January 17, 2008 | x |
| David Hiles | Lorain, OH | January 17, 2008 | Please help this country to slow down or stop the rapid spiralling of the national debt as well and the increased taxes that ALL American pay by appointing Jeff Flake, a limited government and finacial conservative to the House Appropriations Committee. |
| Richard Osborne | Bluefield, WV | January 17, 2008 | Who are we going to borrow money from to juice the economy. A balanced budget with surplus to pay off the foreign countries we have borrowed from would do more for the economy than anything. We need someone who will stand up for this country and stop the waste. Anytime my income has a shortfall I have to reduce spending. I do not know why the govt. thinks it can do otherwise. |
| Brian Shelley | League City, TX | January 17, 2008 | The demand for free money will never go away. Bills like McCain Feingold are a waist of time. We have to cut the supply. If gut earmarks, you eliminate the supply. No supply, no demand. Lobbyists go away. |
| Robert Bowman | WI, WI | January 17, 2008 | Since 2005, I have stopped my contributions to national GOP organizations because of the congressional GOP's profligate spending. Appointing Rep. Jeff Flake to the appropriations committee would be a major step in curtailing earmarks and bringing conservatives like me back to the fold. |
| Harrell Wise | Conroe, TX | January 17, 2008 | Spending money you don't have, on things you don't need, "just because you can," is what my children used to do. They grew up. It's high time for the children in "the people's House" to grow up and begin acting like responsible adults. I urge you to appoint members to the House Appropriations Committee who will recognize that they are merely stewards of our money, not the owners of it. A good first step in this direction is to appoint Jeff Flake to the Committee, and I urge you to use this opportunity to let it be known that the adults are ready to take charge again. |
| Robert Lloyd | Mesa, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Dear Mr. Boehner, Jeff Flake is the obvious and correct choice for the open position on the Apprpriations Committee. I know Jeff personally and can vouch for his honesty and integrity. He is a fiscal conservative and represents my family and the people in his district and state well. I speak with Jeff often and know his heart. He is the right choice for our government going forward. Respectfully, Bob Lloyd |
| John MacEntyre Allen | Jamestown, NC | January 17, 2008 | Things have gotten way out of control. Jeff Flake is one of few who are doing something about it, instead of contributing to the problem. |
| Karen DeLong | Fort Wayne, IN | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Robert West | Dallas, TX | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Anne SKORUPSKI | Bristol, CT | January 17, 2008 | Show you mean business - go with Flake! |
| Steve Cortez | Brentwood, CA | January 17, 2008 | This is not about saving the Republican party so much to me but saving this country from spending itself into bancruptcy. Rep. Jeff Flake has my support. |
| William Casey | Ellison Bay, WI | January 17, 2008 | We absolutely must become the fiscally responsible party. Earmarks have to go or at least be related to the bill to which they are attached. |
| Fred Walker | Ames, IA | January 17, 2008 | When Republican Party principles are abandoned we become a minority, and rightly so. Republican in name only is not acceptable to either the public or longtime party members. |
| tim lawler | atlanta, GA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Mark Palmisano | Williamsville, NY | January 17, 2008 | Stop talking about eliminating pork and begin the process of doing it. I fully support the appointment of Rep. Flake to the Appropriations Committee. |
| Barbara Ketchum | New Bern, NC | January 17, 2008 | The Republican Party seems to have forgotten its original theme as the party for small federal government and fiscal responsibility. It's time to return to those principles. I’ve been watching and listening to Rep. Flake for some time and I’m very impressed with his consistent, principled stand against congressional overspending in general and earmarks specifically. As Republicans, it's what we should have been doing for the last eight years. We haven't, however, that has made us hypocrites when we complain about Democratic largesse. We need to clean up our act, and Rep. Flake is a great start. |
| Reid Hutchison | Arlington Heights, IL | January 17, 2008 | We need to stop spending like Democrats and get back to the conservative fiscal policies that Americans want. Rep. Jeff Flake is the man for the job and he has my full support to be in the Appropriations Committee. |
| Neil Palash | Wauwatosa, WI | January 17, 2008 | Never before in our history has congress been more irresponsible with regard to domestic spending and the President has not vetoed one of your bad bills. Republicans are as bad if not worse than the democrats. The recent energy bill madating floresent lightbulbs and ethanol gasoline are just two of the horrible pieces of 'feel good' legislation that accomplishes nothing except to cost taxpayers more money and regulate us to death. Meanwhile Rome is burning!!! Appoint Jeff Flake and go back to sound fiscal policies including opening up Anwar to oil digging and getting us off of foreign dependence. Stop the "earmarks"! Listen to taxpayers, NOT special interest groups who bribe you! |
| Frank Zwick | Yerington, NV | January 17, 2008 | ENOUGH EARMARKS! Start paying off our debt to China before they also quietly buy our Government, this includes you, and the rest of our Representives! Rep. Flake is a good start to show the USA your sincerity! If not - GOOD BY in the next election. |
| Jill Jeffer | Atlanta, GA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Bill Phillips | Orange, TX | January 17, 2008 | Unless and until REpublicans return to conservatism in their political operatins, they will be the minority party. Placing real conservatives is the only option to gaining the support of conservatives in the ranks of the republican party. |
| Scott Cummins | Maricopa, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Rep. Jeff Flake has shown he is not afarid of His Highness King Murtha as people approach his throne for their share of our hard earned money to give away to the undeserving. We need Jeff on that committee. No wif we can get rid of Rep Grijalva from my district I would feel so much better |
| Wayne Alberda | Ontario, CA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Jo Balkey | Pittsburgh, PA | January 17, 2008 | Traditional Republican platforms have, and should still, value the prospect of LESS GOVERNMENT. This will, or at least 'should', cause less government SPENDING. DUH!!!! Elect Jeff Flake to the Appropriations Committee to bring his common sense fiscal responsibility to the situation. END EARMARKS!!! |
| Charles Wilder | Fort White, FL | January 17, 2008 | If Congress truly were interested in "cleaning up" their act, they would pass legislation which clearly limits amendments to only those pertaining specifically to the bill they are seking to amend. If an issue cannot stand on its own merit, it has no business being passed through deception! (NO PORK--EVER)!! |
| John Shick | Virginia Beach, VA | January 17, 2008 | Republicans in Congress need to get serious with respect to reigning in fiscal excesses. Collectively, conservatives have been extremely disappointed in its performance over the past 6 years with respect to its prolific and cavalier spending. Appointing Rep. Flake to the House Appropriations Committee would be an important signal to conservatives that Congress was beginning to get as serious about this issue as are its constitutents. |
| Mark Braun | Hutchinson, MN | January 17, 2008 | It's time to end the practice of Republican Party (as well as Democrat Party)Pork. Make it happen by adding Rep. Jeff Flake to the House Appropriations Committee at the Earliest Opportunity Possible...NOW!!! |
| Stanley Meigs | Winter Haven, FL | January 17, 2008 | Please help save the Republican party by ending pork spending and returning to Reagan conservatism! This is an election year and more important than ever to keep the White House and build a Republican congress. |
| Ruth Cunningham | San Antonio, TX | January 17, 2008 | It is about time. Rep. Jeff Flake has my support. |
| Thomas Serleth | Larkspur, CA | January 17, 2008 | Rep. Flake is the right person for this committee. The 2006 losses were largely due to the deviation from fiscal responsibility by Republicans in Congress. Let's reverse that. |
| Carol Davis | Chicago, IL | January 17, 2008 | Put Flake in there and let's get back to our conservative roots, or we don't stand a chance! |
| Andrew Garrett | Coralville, IA | January 17, 2008 | Make fiscal responsibility a priority. |
| Jean Allen | Centennial, CO | January 17, 2008 | Please help save the Republican party by ending pork spending and returning to Reagan conservatism! This is an election year and more important than ever to keep the White House and build a Republican congress. |
| Rebecca & Anton van Tilburg | Round Rock, TX | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Patsy Darichuk | Yuma, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Jeff Flake for House Appropriations Committee. Help stop the PORK. |
| Dave Gregory | Fountain Hills, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Jeff Flake needs to be appointed to the Appropriations Committee, to show the base of the Republican party that Republicans in Washington are serious about cutting spending, especially earmarks. You are losing us and our support. How can I support the Republican National Committee, if I do not feel that I am being adequately represented? It is time you took us serious. Don't make me pull rank and make you "go to your room!" How many times and by how many people do you have to be told? |
| H Juengst | Topock, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Flake is the right choice for this position. |
| Michael Terpin | Buffalo, NY | January 17, 2008 | A smart move. Can the house handle it? |
| Ronald Bruce | Universtiy Place, WA | January 17, 2008 | Money for bridges to nowhere, or money for veterans' care? Money for another building bearing a congressman's name, or making sure that we don't have another catastrophic bridge collapse? Please pick Flake! Don't waste money that could be put to better use. Republican love from Iraq. |
| Jamie Extract | Valley Village, CA | January 17, 2008 | Republicans' fiscal irresponsibility is driving many like me from the party and is the primary reason why many of us give to groups like the Club for Growth instead of the GOP. People like Jeff Flake represent the true soul of the party and are the last chance before the party goes the way of the Whigs. |
| Kimberley Anderson | El Cajon, CA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Mary Mylenki | Edgewater, NJ | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Braeded Johnson | N. Newton, KS | January 17, 2008 | End earmark spending now! |
| Geraldine McCarthy | Westlake Village, CA | January 17, 2008 | It is more important than EVER for the GOP to be a morally and fiscally responsible party. Let's begin this task and bring it to fruition. |
| Dawn Anderson | Prospect Heights, IL | January 17, 2008 | The economic well-being of our country depends on fiscal responsibility in Congress. We need to appoint to the Appropriations Committee individuals who have the courage to cut the frivolous spending and help America regain her status as the economic powerhouse of the world. |
| Dick Koberg | Panora, IA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Alan West | Woodland, CA | January 17, 2008 | We need to put an immediate stop to these pork barrel projects that costs the taxpayer millions of dollars! |
| martha erwin | Houston, TX | January 17, 2008 | please put a stop to ear marks. |
| Barbara Blackmore | Van Wert, OH | January 17, 2008 | It is time our governing body puts an end to "earmark" spending. The American people are constantly being taxed and hit with higher prices all around, while our government continues to spend billions of our tax dollars on earmark projects. It is time for Republicans put a stop to big government and get rid of all earmarks! |
| Gene Cunningham | Ukiah, OR | January 17, 2008 | I've been a republican for most of my life but I can't stand what they are helping to do to our country,I think when pork is snuck in all congressman should take a cut in pay to pay for it.. If Jeff Flake can help cut the pork get him now. Then we need another McCarthy to help clean out those wearing red underware!!! |
| Allen Parker | Mary Esther, FL | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Brad Maines | Amherst, VA | January 17, 2008 | Please spend our (taxpayers) money like it was yours! |
| DONALD BARTOLINI | STEGER, IL | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Richard Woodcock | Garland, TX | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Mary Swofford | Temple, GA | January 17, 2008 | Please lets make sure that excess spending and pork is cut out totally. We need to make sure that "programs" are for everyone in the US not some special project that buys more votes. WE WANT TRUE FISCAL CONSERVATIVES..... it was NOT the "war" that got the Republicans voted out last time it was the SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Daniel Williams | Oswego, NY | January 17, 2008 | The national debt is already so high that anyone who can do simple math can see that there is serious danger that the federal government will default. When/if that happens, what happens to the economy? Why should the federal government be building bike paths and local museums in this situation? For that matter, why should the federal government have been doing it in the first place? |
| Amy Gyorgy | New Orleans, LA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Kerry Durham | McDonough, GA | January 17, 2008 | Take a real step towards fiscal responsibility, a platform cornerstone that the Republican party needs to build upon. |
| Ray Hatfield | Ellenton, FL | January 17, 2008 | WE DESPERATELY NEED FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CONGRESS. "NO MORE BRIDGES TO NOWHERE" |
| Leonard Veid | Daniels, WV | January 17, 2008 | Earmarks not only are fiscal nonsense, they are fundamentally unconstitutional in that they are neither debated nor even seen by most representatives. Rep. Flake seems to be just the right sort of "flakey" Republican to make a small step toward legitimate government. As a bonus, he would make the earmarkers cringe by exposing their mendacity. |
| Ann Ekis | Overland Park, KS | January 17, 2008 | Please appoint Jeff Flake. |
| Anthony Hester | Niagara Falls, NY | January 17, 2008 | It is high time that Congressmen and women begin to act on what is best for America and not what is best to keep themselves in office. Please appoint Representative Flake to the House Appropriations Committee. |
| Betty Malone | St. Charles, IL | January 17, 2008 | Republicans should be the fiscally responsible party, if only to offer voters a choice, and therefore a reasson to vote for Republicans. |
| Lisa Clarke | West New York, NJ | January 17, 2008 | We are in a recession. Earmarks, and thusly raising taxes to pay for them, are not the way to help this country. Reducing the deficit is what will make this country stronger, and this continous spending spree congress has been on for the past 7 years with the insane amounts of earmarks has made that deficit almost unmanagable. Please support Rep. Jeff Flake, who will help to reduce that deficit by cutting out earmarks, and strengthen our country. |
| Jim Woodside | Portage, MI | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Martin Fenerty, FSC, PhD | Lafayette, LA | January 17, 2008 | Although I switched from the Republican Party to become an Independant because of so many "R.I.N.O.'s" ("Republicans In Name Only") I am tempted to switch back when I hear of a "True Republican" like Jeff Flake... (What happened to our formerly "Grand-Old-Party"???!!!) |
| Glenn Fisher | Bridgeton, NJ | January 17, 2008 | x |
| William McNeill | Fayetteville, NC | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Teri McNett | Boring, OR | January 17, 2008 | Please appoint Flake! |
| Laura Patterson | Big Cove, AL | January 17, 2008 | Please appoint Jeff Flake! We need him. |
| Stewart Guthrie | Roseville, CA | January 17, 2008 | I have been watching and listening to Rep. Flake for some time and I am very impressed with his consistent, principled stand against congressional overspending in general and earmarks specifically. As Republicans, it's what we should have been doing for the last eight years. We haven't, however, that has made us hypocrites when we complain about Democratic largesse. We need to clean up our act, and Rep. Flake is a great start. |
| John Cooley | Aspen, CO | January 17, 2008 | The Republican party has completely lost it's way. Stop earmarks now. Please put Jeff Flake in this key position. |
| Renie Smith | Rapid City, SD | January 17, 2008 | If the spending isn't brought under control everything else will crumble. |
| Tom Stanks | North Las Vegas, NV | January 17, 2008 | x |
| TIM MCBRIDE | MENTOR, OH | January 17, 2008 | THIS PRACTICE HAS TO STOP. THEN WE CAN TRY TO STOP THE PRACTICE OF SNEAKING IN LAWS ON BILLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER. |
| Lance W. Cameron | Luling, TX | January 17, 2008 | Spending control is an economic necessity... |
| Patricia Matthews | Longs, SC | January 17, 2008 | Thank you. We desperately need line item veto also. |
| Walter Savell | Murrieta, CA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Melanie Schonier | Dallas, TX | January 17, 2008 | Republicans squandered their positions of power in the House and Senate, as a result of profligrate spending. It cost majorities in both houses, and justifiably so. It's high time difinitive measures are taken by Republicans to STOP the wasteful practices, which have become "business as usual" in Washington. I support the appointment of Rep. Flake to the Appropriations Committee. It will be a step in the right direction. |
| Gayle Biehn | Scottsdale, AZ | January 17, 2008 | We absolutely need, need, need Jeff Flake. He is committed to his conservative principles. |
| John Owens | Phila., PA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Bart King Sr. | Kansas City, MO | January 17, 2008 | Curb the spending on pet projects and get back to what we elected you all for, THE PEOPLE NEED A VOICE !!!! |
| Jeffrey Hill | Eagle, ID | January 17, 2008 | Yes, this country needs fiscal conservation of Rep. Jeff Flake. We whole heartedly support his views. |
| David L. Smith | Oceanside, CA | January 17, 2008 | Unless the Republican leadership wants to continue to look like a bunch of Cronies, no better than the Democrats, they need to appoint Congressman Flake (or someone as dedicated to controling spending) to the recent vacancy on the House Appropriations Committee. Please demonstrate a shift in direction from the corruption as usual mode of operation we are regularly seeing from our own party in Washington. |
| Clarence Engel | Bay village, OH | January 17, 2008 | A very annoying fact is that so much money is misapproiated to local projects that have been sold to the public that most of the funds will be provided by the federal govt. "It will cost us practically nothing, Washington will pay for it". So we pay for their pet projects. |
| Billie Powell | Kent, WA | January 17, 2008 | x |
| Bernard Dawson | mesa, AZ | January 17, 2008 | Make it Flake!!! and defend our Constitution!!!! The founding fathers design the government to have enumerated powers. End the spending and restore our faith! Say yes to conservatism!!! Make it Flake!!! |
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