Keep Moving On
by Bob McDowell, Contributing Author: Now that we have finished our annual pause to thank GOD, our creator of everything that is, we move into the Christmas shopping season already in full swing. In fact, it seems that some merchants and customers have been involved since Labor Day.
It has been quite a change and more comforting to me to observe, and hear reported, the aggressive way in which President-Elect Donald J. Trump has plunged into the rather extensive effort to fill his future staff. It appears to me that we have elected a man who will act like the leader that he proven to be in his non-government efforts. It appears we will actually begin to receive our ‘money’s worth’ from the massive cost of having a President. He is impressive in the energy and stamina which he applies especially for a man in the seventh decade. I thought I was good at that age, but he certainly exceeds anything I hoped to perform then.
However, it will also not be smart to let our guard down at any time during the next four, or maybe eight, years. For example, presently reports keep surfacing of attempts by Democrat activists, probably of the ‘C/S’ persuasion, using a large number of tactics in attempts to induce Republican Presidential Electors to change their vote on December 20, 2016 when the electoral college gathers in most state capitols to cast the "official" ballots. After that is done, the various ‘Secretarys of State’ will attest the results and send them to Congress. After convening the next Session, the certified elector ballots will be tabulated and the election will then be certified as official.
Having been an Elector in the 2000 election, my clearly recall the procedures, I also recall the harassment from the day after the general election until then Electoral College met. Calls, and one letter, came in at all hours from around the Nation and World attempting to induce me to change my vote. My middle son, living in Colorado, advised that their electors were receiving death threats if they would not change their vote to Al Gore.
One such caller, from Washington D.C., claiming to be a reporter, was more demanding, but backed off when informed that Oklahoma was one of the states with a law prohibiting an Elector from voting for other than the candidate(s) for whom the name appeared on the ballot. Also, I received a rather threatening letter from a man in Brooklyn NY, but nothing further from him. The Bush/Cheney campaign reserved rooms in the same hotel on Sunday, the night before, for the eight electors and alternates (believing that there was a real personal threat to each of us) and held a dinner for all of us, including companions, that evening hosted by Governor Frank Keating. I surmised they wanted to keep us from being out on the town separately looking for eating places and thus being in personal danger. However, all went down the next day without problems.
The above illustrates the lengths to which activists of the other party will go to be certain that their candidate will win and thus thwart the will of the people. The quest and lust for power is what drives them. There are some who will do anything, legal or not, to secure and preserve the power over all the rest that they crave. In my opinion, that sort of attitude is what has placed our Nation in the problematic situation we now find it. It also highlights the attempt of others to reverse by the votes, the people we have cast.
Already there has been an uproar to begin the process of Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College. This would complete the destruction of the REPUBLIC we were delivered in 1788 by ratification of the Constitution by 9 States. It seems there has been a continual and strong effort to accomplish that since the administration of Woodward Wilson early in the last century, reportedly at the instigation of a Col. House, his Chief of Staff.
My God protect the those who will assemble this year to to their duty as Electoral College delegates. My our Nation as established by our forefathers "Keep Moving On!"
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Robert "Bob" McDowell, Jr. is a retired Professional Engineer and Geologist with over 50 years experience in creating drilling prospects, supervising drilling, well completion, production operation, and pipeline design for oil and gas including repair of problem wells. McDowell is a conservative activist and member of the Oklahoma Republican Assembly. He Contributes opinion and commentary articles to the ARRA News Service.
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It has been quite a change and more comforting to me to observe, and hear reported, the aggressive way in which President-Elect Donald J. Trump has plunged into the rather extensive effort to fill his future staff. It appears to me that we have elected a man who will act like the leader that he proven to be in his non-government efforts. It appears we will actually begin to receive our ‘money’s worth’ from the massive cost of having a President. He is impressive in the energy and stamina which he applies especially for a man in the seventh decade. I thought I was good at that age, but he certainly exceeds anything I hoped to perform then.
However, it will also not be smart to let our guard down at any time during the next four, or maybe eight, years. For example, presently reports keep surfacing of attempts by Democrat activists, probably of the ‘C/S’ persuasion, using a large number of tactics in attempts to induce Republican Presidential Electors to change their vote on December 20, 2016 when the electoral college gathers in most state capitols to cast the "official" ballots. After that is done, the various ‘Secretarys of State’ will attest the results and send them to Congress. After convening the next Session, the certified elector ballots will be tabulated and the election will then be certified as official.
Having been an Elector in the 2000 election, my clearly recall the procedures, I also recall the harassment from the day after the general election until then Electoral College met. Calls, and one letter, came in at all hours from around the Nation and World attempting to induce me to change my vote. My middle son, living in Colorado, advised that their electors were receiving death threats if they would not change their vote to Al Gore.
One such caller, from Washington D.C., claiming to be a reporter, was more demanding, but backed off when informed that Oklahoma was one of the states with a law prohibiting an Elector from voting for other than the candidate(s) for whom the name appeared on the ballot. Also, I received a rather threatening letter from a man in Brooklyn NY, but nothing further from him. The Bush/Cheney campaign reserved rooms in the same hotel on Sunday, the night before, for the eight electors and alternates (believing that there was a real personal threat to each of us) and held a dinner for all of us, including companions, that evening hosted by Governor Frank Keating. I surmised they wanted to keep us from being out on the town separately looking for eating places and thus being in personal danger. However, all went down the next day without problems.
The above illustrates the lengths to which activists of the other party will go to be certain that their candidate will win and thus thwart the will of the people. The quest and lust for power is what drives them. There are some who will do anything, legal or not, to secure and preserve the power over all the rest that they crave. In my opinion, that sort of attitude is what has placed our Nation in the problematic situation we now find it. It also highlights the attempt of others to reverse by the votes, the people we have cast.
Already there has been an uproar to begin the process of Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College. This would complete the destruction of the REPUBLIC we were delivered in 1788 by ratification of the Constitution by 9 States. It seems there has been a continual and strong effort to accomplish that since the administration of Woodward Wilson early in the last century, reportedly at the instigation of a Col. House, his Chief of Staff.
My God protect the those who will assemble this year to to their duty as Electoral College delegates. My our Nation as established by our forefathers "Keep Moving On!"
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Robert "Bob" McDowell, Jr. is a retired Professional Engineer and Geologist with over 50 years experience in creating drilling prospects, supervising drilling, well completion, production operation, and pipeline design for oil and gas including repair of problem wells. McDowell is a conservative activist and member of the Oklahoma Republican Assembly. He Contributes opinion and commentary articles to the ARRA News Service.
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