You see, I don’t buy into the whole cockamamie idea that more so-called “gun control” results in less
crime. Just look at Europe. New York. California. New Jersey. These are states that have some of the
most “progressive” gun control laws, yet shootouts, gang violence and murder is daily content for their
evening news.

And then take a look at Vermont, Alaska, Montana, South Dakota and others. These states have some of
the most lax gun laws in the country, and per capita, they have lower amount of crime than any others
in the country.

Why? It’s because a violent criminal knows that if he is going to commit a crime, chances are much
greater that a potential “victim” won’t act very much like a victim. Simply put, a violent criminal
(read rapist or murderer) doesn’t wanna run the risk that his “victim” pull out a .38 special and put
five bullets in his chest and kills him!

My view of “gun control” is making sure you hit what you’re aiming at.

“Gun Control” advocates/liberals know good and well that they advocate against common sense and for
criminals. They say that they want to reduce the number of guns on the street in order to bring down
the crime levels, but what they fail to acknowledge (but DO fully understand) is that the only people you
restrict by laying on layer after layer of “gun control” are honest, law abiding citizens.

Make no mistake about it. These folks know that what they do increases crime, takes away your freedoms,
and prevents you from protecting your family. Their end-game is the complete disarmament of America.

Take for example these liberal whacko created so-called “gun free zones.” They’re better named “helpless
victim zones” because criminals know that fewer people (read law abiding citizens) in these areas go armed
and thus make a much better target/victim for their criminal intent. Gun-control liberals know darn well
that when a criminal wants to commit a violent crime that he doesn’t give a rip whether or not there’s a
stupid sign on the door saying “no guns allowed.” If he’s willing to commit murder, chances that he’d
rethink his whole “I’m gonna kill so and so” because “I might get convicted of the misdemeanor of carrying
a firearm into a gun free zone” are pretty stinkin slim.

So who is punished in these “gun free zones?” The honest, law abiding citizen. Like you. Like me. Like
your wife and kids. The criminal gets a free pass at these victims, because he doesn’t have to operate
under the same conditions we do. Honest, law-abiding citizens pay the penalty of the “gun control” crowd’s
evil intent and stupidity.

Enter the case of Jay R. Lewis. Lewis is an IRS call center employee that recently made headlines for

his case in Polk county. Lewis was going home one evening and passed a slow moving vehicle. The drivers
of the slow moving vehicle didn’t like this and sped up and smashed into his vehicle when Lewis was
trying to turn into his apartment complex.

Immediately the assailant (a convicted felon with more than 35 total convictions on his rap sheet!) and
his henchman jumped out of his vehicle, ran up to Lewis’ car and started beating on the windows. Lewis, a
former law enforcement officer, border patrol agent and security guard pulled a pistol from his pocket and
told them to back off. The assailants continued beating on his vehicle and shouting racial slurs at Lewis,
and Lewis pulled forward 200 yards to wait for the police to arrive.

Lewis got out of his car to survey the damage done to his vehicle, but didn’t want to leave the scene of
an accident knowing that police were on their way. The assailants, knowing that he was armed with a firearm,
closed the distance to him and circled around him, continuing their racial slurs and cursing.

Lewis shouted at them over a dozen times to either get on the ground or get back and that he had a firearm
and felt threatened for his safety and that he would shoot, and when his attackers continued to close in on
him to within only a few feet, Lewis took the steps necessary to defend himself and shot one of the attackers
in the chest.

Now, if you ask me, the burden of proof should be on the assailants and attackers, right? Lewis was on his
own apartment property at the point where he had to shoot the attacker, he had a permit to carry and yet when
it was all over, the police hauled HIM to jail!

At one point, Lewis’ cash surety requirement was 225,000 dollars, and being unable to afford bail, Lewis
spent over 100 days in jail. To add insult to injury, his landlord, knowing that he was in jail, put an
eviction notice on his door and ended up selling off his TV, his clothes, his books, his gun collection and
everything he owned.

In short, by defending his God given right to life, Lewis had his rights, his Constitutionally protected
rights, taken away from him. He was detained against his will. I don’t know about you, but I imagine that
something like that would be an unforgettable and major assault on someone’s liberty. I don’t know how to
convey what I’m trying to say in writing, but to take away someone’s constitutional right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness is a gravely serious thing to do.

I think it’s sad that it had to cost someone so much just to be able to put a public face on such
a basic issue, but it certainly did raise public awareness of this issue.

So, I’m takin this fight to tin-horn dictator Mike Gronstal. From the floor of the Senate just yesterday, I
introduced Lewis to the body of the Senate and at the same time introduced a “discharge petition.” A dis-
charge petition, when signed by a majority of the senators, allows a bill to bypass the need to pass
through a committee and puts it right on the debate calendar.

Problem is, rabidly anti-freedom dictator senate majority leader Mike Gronstal (Liberal-Council Bluffs)
is notorious for his stance against freedom, the second amendment and your right to defend you and your
kids from violent criminals. He believes in gun control in it’s purest form, which is disarming the entire
population and making law abiding citizens into victims.

Gronstal already said yesterday that he “wouldn’t answer hypothetical questions on things that haven’t
happened yet.” Being the grand maestro of the puppet strings that he is, what Gronstaller is really saying
is that his little puppet in the Judiciary Committee, Chairman Gene Fraise (Liberal-Fort Madison), is going
to do as he’s told and kill the bill using the committee process. Then, even if we get enough pro-gun senators
to sign the discharge petition, Gronstal will point to the Judiciary committee and say “I’m not going to
call up that bill because it failed to pass through the committee process, and I’m choosing to honor the
time honored process and not call up that bill.”

What he’s really going to be saying is that he knows that the purpose of the discharge petition it to
circumvent the committee process for a need that must be addressed because of its importance. His public
allegiance to the “committee process” will give him the protection he needs in his district, and it’ll
protect the little puppets on his strings from being forced to be held accountable for standing up for
the lives and freedoms of honest, law abiding potential victims.

It’s a shame, really. A shame to the constituents he serves, the constituents his puppets serve, and a
shame to law abiding citizens like Jay Lewis.

 But I’m not one to back down from a fight. Iowa gun owners across the state need to demand that their
Senator comes on over to my desk and signs the discharge petition. To date, all 24 Republican Senators have
signed the petition, and now we only need 2 Democrat pro-gun senators to sign it to be able to demand that
our Dictator Gronstal bring up the Stand Your Ground bill for an up or down vote.

To be able to stay here and continue fighting for you, I need to be able to fund my campaign. My campaign
needs resources to be able to contact and identify as many voters in my district as possible, because guys
like me are always targeted by big labor, tax and spend, pro-abort and anti-second Amendment thugs.

Please rush me your most generous donation of $35, $50, $100, $250 or even $500. With your support, I’ll
be able to start now in making sure that we don’t lose conservative seats in the Iowa Senate. With Gronstal
and his radical liberals going all out in this election to make sure that their Obama-topped election ticket
doesn’t come to a grinding halt in the upcoming elections, you can be sure that they’ll be looking forward
to the next set of elections for revenge, and staunch, vocal conservatives like me who say it like it is
will be at the top of their list.

Like the ole’ verse goes, “Our Motto Is Resistance to the Tyrants Never Yield.” You can rest assured that
I’ll never yield to tyranny. I hope I can count on you for your most generous contribution today.

Sincerely,

State Senator Kent Sorenson
Serving Warren, Madison and SE Dallas Counties

P.S. Honest, law-abiding people like Ray Lewis shouldn’t have to bear the burden of proof when it comes to
their God given right to life and the defense of it. It’s truly a shame that events like this are needed to
shed light on a legitimate problem with our laws.

I support the Stand Your Ground legislation that was passed in the Iowa House, and I know that Democrats
like Gronstal will do everything in their power to kill this legislation to make sure that honest, peaceful
folks like you and me are put in harm’s way. Please contact your State Senator TODAY and tell them to sign
my discharge petition.

It takes guys like me on the inside to continue holding the liberals’ feet to the fire, and in order to do
that I need to have your support. Please donate $35, $50, $100, $250, $500 or whatever you can afford to my
campaign today! 

someone, and having a specific day for it really helps some folks (like me) to remember to do just that. If it
weren’t for my wife and kids, I’m sure I’d be a wholly different person, and I’m thankful for my loved ones.

Valentines Day is named after St. Valentinus. There were several of them, as a matter of fact, and they were
from different areas in Europe and Africa, but the common theme amongst them was that they were martyred for
their faith in God. I hope and pray that we never lose our religious freedom on this side of the pond because
we let our guards down and let tyranny raise his ugly head.

And speaking of martyrdom, like ole’ Benjamin Franklin said, there’s two things for sure in this world, and
that’s death and taxes. But here in the Iowa Senate, they tend to want to use the one till you get the other,
if you know what I mean. And simply being dead doesn’t get you a free pass anymore, either!

The issue sitting on the hot button seems to be this whole proposed gas tax increase. Some folks seem to think
that our roads and highways are in utter disrepair, and that the way to deal with these “critical needs” is to
raise taxes on the gas that you put in your car by the paltry sum of ten cents per gallon.

Now, as a state senator who campaigned and won his election by promising no new taxes, the thought of trying
to justify to you why I have to break my promise is about as appealing to me as getting a root canal. And my
next thought is how someone can justify INCREASING taxes when our economy is in the condition it is? My thought
is that something like this would be detrimental to a recovering economy, wouldn’t you? Should we raise our taxes
on fuel by ten cents a gallon? How about eight? Should conservatives be raising taxes period? Should we pursue
other solutions, such as trimming the fat in the existing budget and use our existing revenue? Has anything changed
since the 2010 elections? Is the economy recovered so much that we can certainly afford such an increase in taxes
right now? Send me an email and tell me what you think!

On the surface, I’d say not. And when you stop to think about it, who would bear the brunt of this increased
tax? The way I figure, it’ll hurt the lower income families the most. If a guy makes $500 a week and has to pay
an additional two or three bucks a week to fill up his pickup, that adds up to a couple hundred bucks in new
taxes every year. NEW, INCREASED TAXES.

I don’t know about you, but with times the way they are, a couple hundred bucks can mean a heck of a lot to a
housewife trying to make ends meet with less than she needs. Or a couple hundred bucks could mean a nice getaway
with your honey over Valentines Day.

Personally, I think the idea should be hauled out with the rest of the trash from the cafeteria at the capitol, and
certainly NOT put in the recycling bin. 

There’s a couple of other issues that the Senate is facing right now as well. Let’s say you owned a company
which manufactured agricultural equipment that you sold through a sales team. And let’s say your business is
growing and that you’ve decided that your sales team needs to be able to market and sell your equipment to pork
producers, and to do that you need to hire a salesperson for that position.

In order to sell more pieces of equipment to pork producers, you decided that you would like a prospective
salesperson to have a good work ethic, previous pork producing experience and of course, salesmanship. It’s ideal,
right?

Now, we all know that there are some lines that can’t be crossed when hiring employees such as race, religion,
national origin, age, etc. But you will have standards, and probably wouldn’t get all excited about someone who
got fired a year ago from their job selling baby clothes at a store in the mall, right? You’re looking for just
the right person!

Never fear, Senate Democrats are here to help! In what would likely result in an explosion of lawsuits in Iowa,
Senate Democrats are trying to equate the failure to hire an unemployed person with racial discrimination. Eleven
Democratic senators have introduced a bill, Senate File 2028, which prohibits employment discrimination based on
an individual’s status as unemployed, meaning someone without a job, available for work, and searching.

This bill would specifically prevent an employer from advertising for positions but stating that the unemployed
are disqualified from applying, failing or refusing to consider someone for a job because the person is unemployed,
or directing an employment agency to do any of the above. The bill allows for actual damages, court costs,
attorney fees, and fines for violations of the advertising prohibitions. In addition, the bill calls for the Iowa
Civil Rights Commission to administer the law, which could turn into nightmare in caseload work for the Commission.

This is what it boils down to. Democrat leadership practiced unsustainable spending policies for years. Through
the bully pulpit of their senate and former house and governor’s office majorities, they increased spending,
restricted small business’ ability to make their own decisions, increased regulation and jacked up taxes.

Now they think it’s a good idea to further restrict a job creator’s ability to hire whom he thinks is the best
person to get the job done and successfully grow his or her business!

Worse, the so called “plaintiff” only needs to do to get a few general “facts” established, like the fact that
they are unemployed and are looking for work and were rejected by so and so, and all of a sudden the burden of
proof is on the “employer.” We’re talking retaining legal counsel, additional costs and headache and possible
damages and fines!

You know, I couldn’t dream this stuff up if I was paid to do it. But more important that the surface ridicule,
it begs the question of whether or not status of employment is an immutable characteristic like race, religion or
nationality!

Hardly! With all the rules and regulations these folks want to cram down our throats, you’d almost have to be
insane to TRY to grow your business and create jobs. And from what I’ve heard in talking with business owners and
job creators, it can truly be a nightmare.

It’s regulatory and litigation burdens just like these that make Iowa’s economy suffer. Just last week I heard
about a company called Bel Brands USA. Bel Brands USA had narrowed its search for the placement of a new $100
million dollar cheese factory down to Iowa and South Dakota. They were expected to employ 400 people and have an
annual $500 million economic impact on their state of choosing, and they chose South Dakota!

So why did Iowa lose out on such a great opportunity? You don’t have to guess, folks. In announcing their
decision to locate the new facility in South Dakota, Bel Brands USA stated the state’s “pro-business” environment
as one of the major reasons. With no corporate income tax, it’s hard to argue against their decision.

You and I know that two of the key components in a company’s decision-making process are what a state’s
long-term tax and regulatory implications will be on the business. Problem is, the only idea liberal bully puppet
masters like Mike Gronstal can come up with to turn our economy around is just more of the same ole’ “tax and
spend” and “lets grow the size of government even more” ideas that got us where we are today!

Sincerely,

State Senator Kent Sorenson
Serving Warren, Madison and SE Dallas Counties

You’ve all heard what comes next. The words of our freedom
loving Founding Father Patrick Henry’s famous speech are
etched into the hearts and minds of every school child.

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!”

Sounds good, doesn’t it? It sure makes a guy feel
patriotic. Heck, when I think about it, I like to fancy I’d
be right there with him, fearlessly laying my life on the
line to throw off the tyranny of the king.

Because that’s exactly what they were doing. When Patrick
Henry said those words, he wasn’t just giving a feel-good
speech at a rally on the statehouse steps. The very words
he uttered had extremely real consequences, ones that would
endanger the lives of his friends, family and loved ones.

Guys like him and the rest of the signers of the Declaration
all knew this. They knew the line they crossed couldn’t be
reversed and that it might cost them their lives.

But they did it anyway.

They did it because they looked into the future and knew if
they didn’t stake their ground that they, their kids, their
grandkids, even you and I, would lose it all.

So would we do the same? I’d like to think so. But it’s lucky
for folks like you and me that we aren’t there yet. Our
“kings” aren’t openly marching troops in the streets
enforcing their tyrannical laws.

Yet.

But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have tyranny. To borrow
a line from one of my favorite movies, we’ve simply traded
one tyrant 3 thousand miles away for thousands of tyrants
one mile away.

Here in Iowa, the leader of our own little tyrant brigade
is found in the liberal democrat senate majority leader Mike
Gronstal.

Nationally, we’ve got government gone wild with their “big
brother” mentality. Cyber monitoring. Attempts to regulate
the Internet. Automated traffic enforcement. Electronic
eavesdropping. Groping stations at airports. The list of
things we need to be “safe” in this country gets bigger and
bigger every day.

And you don’t have to go visit a big city out east or west
anymore to get treated like a criminal, either. It’s happening
right now to Iowans, folks just like you and me.

A friend of mine told me just the other day that she and her
teenage daughter had gone through a nightmare when she
refused to be treated like a criminal and let the TSA thugs
run her and her daughter through their x-ray scanners.

You probably have heard about the scanners I’m talking about.

You know, the ones that provide naked pictures of the victims
to the TSA agents working the counter? The ones that clearly
violate the fourth amendment to the Constitution, which
states “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.”

Not only that, but a constituent of mine from Earlham, IA,
had the same experience where she was treated like a criminal
for refusing to be treated like one! Deciding to do a little
digging, I tragically found out that being groped and molested
isn’t a very uncommon thing anymore when it comes to traveling.

I decided that I will no longer stand idly by. I’m going to do
everything I can to see that these attacks on our rights are
ended.

I’m drafting legislation immediately that will outright ban
these actions that infringe upon our constitutional rights and
decency.

The bill is still in drafting, and it’s got a ways to go
before I would consider it able to be effective, but I’m here
to tell you that I’m going to be introducing the bill THIS
SESSION, and I’ll be fighting tooth and nail to get these
knuckleheads up here to pass this legislation.

Sure, some of you might think that these “safety measures”
are necessary for this day and age, but I disagree. If we have
to be treated like criminals to ensure our own safety, we’ve
lost the right to call this a free country, and I for one am
not willing to do that.

Right now, you and I have the chance to avoid what our
Founding Fathers had to sacrifice. We can still hold our
elected officials responsible because they ARE elected, and
we can still kick them out through peaceful means.

The Founding Fathers had come to a point where efforts at
diplomacy and politeness had failed. We aren’t at that
point. There are a few things we can do to take this country
back.

First, I’d like every single one of you to call or email your
elected legislators and demand that they support this good
legislation. Tell them that when this bill gets introduced that
they should co-sponsor it and do everything they can to bring it
to the floor for a clean vote. Tell them that you’ll be more
than happy to vote against them in the next election.

Next, please click here to chip in $50, $35, $20 or whatever
you can afford to my campaign. When it comes to fighting
for our rights, there’s a shortage of folks here in Des Moines
who are willing to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk.

With your generous support, I’ll be able to support fighters like
me who want to run for the state legislature. There’s a few of
them out there, believe it or not, and with the help of folks like
you we’ll be ready, willing and able to stand against the
onslaught of those who wield “chains and slavery.”

Sincerely,

State Senator Kent Sorenson
Serving Warren, Madison and SE Dallas Counties

P.S. The Founding Fathers knew that life, liberty and peace are
jeopardized when we trade them for “safety.”

Our “big brother government” has gotten out of hand. Their
assault on our liberties in the name of keeping us “safe” has
gone too far, and the TSA’s naked scanners and invasive personal
pat downs are a prime example of that.

I’m drafting a bill that I’ll introduce this year that forces
the TSA to keep their hands and eyes to themselves. Click here to
find out who your legislators are, and call or email them TODAY
and demand that they support my bill that stops this assault on
our rights.

And please chip in $50, 35, $20 or whatever you can afford to my
Senate campaign so that I can help elect fellow liberty minded
candidates to the Iowa Legislature. With your generous support,
we’ll have a united front that’s ready, willing and able to fight
back when they come after us with guns blazing.

Sorensen said today, “It is an honor to serve the people of Iowa and I believe I can be a better represent the people of Senate District 37 than the current senator. In the past two years I have listened to voters and worked to provide solutions to problems in state government. The majority party did not like the budget saving solutions offered for taxpayers and today we are in a budget crunch after passing the largest budget in Iowa history. We must work to reduce the over taxation, over regulation, and protect the freedoms of the people before the wants of government.”

Kent Sorenson and his wife Shawnee reside in Indianola with their six children. Kent is a small business owner, soccer coach, and past volunteer firefighter. Small businesses create over 60% of all new jobs in Iowa. In order for these businesses to grow government must cut, not increase, taxes and regulations. Education is of tremendous importance for the Sorenson family, growing up with parents as employees in the Indianola Community School system, Kent understands the best education for students is achieved with parental involvement.

Paul McKinley, Senate Republican Leader, said, “We need leaders like Kent Sorenson because Iowa cannot afford to continue to pursue the same big government agenda and policies advocated by liberal senators like Staci Appel. This race will truly offer a sharp contrast between two different directions for Iowa: If you want more government, more debt and zero action on creating jobs for Iowans – you may want to stick with the status quo.”

Sorenson continued, “It is my job to listen to the voter’s concerns. If you have questions for me all of my contact information is on my website at www.kentsorenson.com. I am here to work for you.”

Rep. Jodi Tymeson was also in attendance at the press conference to endorse Sorenson’s bid for the Iowa Senate.

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