April 30th Letter to Wyomingites

 Dear Wyomingites,
 
I am writing to you in regard to the calling of a special session to pass The Healthcare Freedom Act amendment to
the Wyoming constitution and to join the federal lawsuit against the unconstitutional Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (Obamacare) - to protect the rights of the citizens of Wyoming and the sovereignty of the state of Wyoming.
 
Unfortunately there is an expansive disconnect between the people of Wyoming and Governor Freudenthal, Attorney
General Salzburg, Senate President Hines and House Speaker Simpson. All four men oppose the calling of a special session,
in spite of the fact that they are being inundated with phone calls and emails calling for just that.
 
Wyoming’s legislators are our last line of defense. The Governor and the House and Senate leadership are not going to call
a special session. Now it is up to our legislators to fill the leadership void.
 
For a mere 37 cents per Wyoming citizen a 5 day special session can be called. Both chambers, the senate and the house,
can call a special session. 35 % of the House and Senate must be in favor of calling for a vote (21 in the House and 11 in the Senate).
If 35% are in favor a vote to hold a special session is held requiring 50 % for passage.
 
Contact your legislators and demand a special session to:
 
          1. Pass the Healthcare Freedom Act amendment to the Wyoming

              Constitution
          2. Place the Healthcare Freedom Act on the Ballot this November.
        3. Pass legislation to compel the AG and/or appoint a special attorney to
            join the federal lawsuit against the

            unconstitutional mandate and  associated fines
            codified in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Healthcare Freedom Act "preserves the right of all persons to make their own health care decisions" expressly protecting the
citizens of Wyoming from mandated health care and any associated fines. The federal lawsuit states that "the Constitution nowhere
authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying
healthcare coverage". (Amendments to the Wyoming Constitution can only be placed on the ballot during a general election, in other
words if we do not pass it this year - we will not have another opportunity until 2012.

Our founding fathers wrote extensively on the topics of state sovereignty, responsibility of state legislators, the concerted effort of
 states to resist usurpation and relative size and power of the general government and state governments.

Thirty eight states have taken up the torch to illuminate, detect, and defeat the "ambitious encroachments of the federal government,
on the authority of the State governments." The unconstitutional mandates and fines imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act has not "excite(d) the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only". The encroachments of the federal government has
"signal(ed) a general alarm". And James Madison continues in Federalist Papers 44 "Every (state) government (has) espouse(d) the common
cause".  And as he firmly believed "A correspondence (has been) opened (among the states). Plans of resistance (have been) concerted.
And most importantly "One spirit... animate(s)... the conduct (of) the whole".

In Federalist Paper 55, James Madison wrote that he" was unable to conceive that the State legislatures, which must feel so many motives
to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting, the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy
of the latter against the liberties of their common constituents."

Now it is up to Wyoming's legislators. Will they choose to act in accordance with the spirit that is animating the actions of the whole and
join in action with the other 38 states or will they act in a manner which Madison was unable to conceive and "fail either to detect or to
defeat a conspiracy of the (federal legislature) against the liberties of their common constituents."

Let there be no doubt a vast majority of Wyoming citizens demand action which strongly reflects the "spirit of the whole". Wyoming citizens
have identified the "common cause" we share with all other states and our duty to pull our own weight.

Our legislators are our last line of defense – please contact your legislators and demand a special session to protect
Wyoming’s sovereignty and the rights of her citizenry.

Sincerely,

Patricia F. Roess

For more information please visit www.wyospecialsession.com