Jessee Ring, Candidate for the nomination for the Ninth District Congressional seat, will be speaking at the following events on Saturday, March 13:
Montgomery County Republican Committee Meeting
Sat., Mar. 13,10:00 a.m.
Montgomery County Government Center
755 Roanoke Street, Christiansburg, VA
Radford City Republican Committee Meeting
Radford City Court House
Sat., Mar. 13, 12:00 Noon
Lee County Lincoln - Reagan Dinner
Sat., Mar. 13, 6:00 p.m.
Thomas Walker High School
Ewing, VA
Friday, March 12, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Gary Stratton Joins Jessee Ring's Campaign
Gary Stratton Joins Jessee Ring’s Campaign As Finance Chair
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Wise, VA, Mar.3, 2010
Jessee Ring, candidate for the Republican nomination for the Ninth Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representative, today announced that Gary Stratton has joined his campaign as finance chair. Mr. Stratton is an Associate Professor of Economics at UVA Wise, and is President of Our Street Funds, an Abingdon investment management firm.
“ I am pleased and proud to have someone of Mr. Stratton’s stature and capability on my campaign team. The finance chairman is a very important position, and it’s a comfort to me to know that Gary will be handling that,” said Ring. “
“The election in November is a battle for the future of the country. It is a battle over liberty,” said Ring. I look forward to working with Gary Stratton as we move forward in this important campaign“, he added.
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Wise, VA, Mar.3, 2010
Jessee Ring, candidate for the Republican nomination for the Ninth Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representative, today announced that Gary Stratton has joined his campaign as finance chair. Mr. Stratton is an Associate Professor of Economics at UVA Wise, and is President of Our Street Funds, an Abingdon investment management firm.
“ I am pleased and proud to have someone of Mr. Stratton’s stature and capability on my campaign team. The finance chairman is a very important position, and it’s a comfort to me to know that Gary will be handling that,” said Ring. “
“The election in November is a battle for the future of the country. It is a battle over liberty,” said Ring. I look forward to working with Gary Stratton as we move forward in this important campaign“, he added.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Traditional American Values
America is the greatest country in the world and the greatest force for good the world has ever seen. America is what it is because of traditional American values: self reliance and hard work; low taxes so people keep more of what they earn; a recognition that economic prosperity comes through free enterprise, not government programs; individual liberty to live our lives the way we see fit; jobs so people can provide for themselves instead of relying on the government; families. We need policies coming from Washington that tap into and support these traditional American values.
Jessee Ring Mar. 3, 2010
Jessee Ring Mar. 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Getting Around
Last week, I visited Carroll, Wythe, Montgomery, Pulaski, and Dickenson Counties to speak to their local committee. The reception was very good! Tonight, I will be at Grayson County and I will have representatives at Wise and Craig Counties.
Jessee Ring Mar. 2, 2010
Jessee Ring Mar. 2, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Statement From Jessee Ring – Candidate for the Ninth District Nomination
Feb. 25, 2010
On January 31 when I decided to seek the nomination to run for the Ninth Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, I made a commitment to spend the time and effort needed to secure the nomination and to then campaign until the November election.
Since that time, I have been traveling all around the Ninth District to attend county committee meetings and other events. This experience has been very heartening. It has been a real pleasure to get to know so many more of the good, hard working, patriotic people of the “Fightin’ Ninth”.
People are fed up with big government and all that is going on in Washington.
People are concerned about jobs, but they see the government pushing a job-killing “cap and tax” scheme. People are concerned about having access to good, high quality, readily available health care, and they see the government pushing a massive take-over that would put bureaucrats in charge. They are concerned about taxes, and they see the government getting ready to raise everyone’s taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts expire.
I am proud of my deep, Ninth District Southwest Virginia roots. My high tech career took me across the country and around the world. A few years ago, I returned home to Southwest Virginia, and I will be here for the rest of my life.
I look forward to working hard for the good people of my home - the Ninth District. I ask for your support at the Ninth District Convention on May 22.
Jessee Ring
Feb. 25, 2010
Feb. 25, 2010
On January 31 when I decided to seek the nomination to run for the Ninth Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, I made a commitment to spend the time and effort needed to secure the nomination and to then campaign until the November election.
Since that time, I have been traveling all around the Ninth District to attend county committee meetings and other events. This experience has been very heartening. It has been a real pleasure to get to know so many more of the good, hard working, patriotic people of the “Fightin’ Ninth”.
People are fed up with big government and all that is going on in Washington.
People are concerned about jobs, but they see the government pushing a job-killing “cap and tax” scheme. People are concerned about having access to good, high quality, readily available health care, and they see the government pushing a massive take-over that would put bureaucrats in charge. They are concerned about taxes, and they see the government getting ready to raise everyone’s taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts expire.
I am proud of my deep, Ninth District Southwest Virginia roots. My high tech career took me across the country and around the world. A few years ago, I returned home to Southwest Virginia, and I will be here for the rest of my life.
I look forward to working hard for the good people of my home - the Ninth District. I ask for your support at the Ninth District Convention on May 22.
Jessee Ring
Feb. 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
JESSEE RING SUPPORTS THE COAL INDUSTRY
Opposed to The Cap and Trade Scheme
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Cedar Bluff, VA, Feb. 22, 2010 – Mr. Jessee Bane Ring, candidate for the nomination to run for Congress in November, attended the cap and trade town hall meeting at Southwest Virginia Community College today.
“I am totally opposed to the cap and trade bill because it is specifically designed to bankrupt the coal industry and to cause electricity rates to skyrocket,” said Ring. “This destructive bill is in response to the global warming scare, which we now know is based upon junk science”, Ring added.
At the meeting, Congressman Rick Boucher acknowledged that the cap and trade bill that passed in the House of Representatives was not a good bill, but said that he voted for it in order to help the coal industry. “I had to vote for this bill to help coal”, said Boucher. He said that if he had voted against the bill, then he would have been out of the discussion and would not have been able to “soften” the impact of the bill.
“Our goal should not be to ‘soften’ this destructive bill, our goal should be to stop it,” said Ring after the meeting. “When I go to Congress, I’ll fight for the interests of the Ninth District; I will not go along to get along.”
During the discussions at the meeting, it was noted that the cap and trade bill sets up CO2 emission allowances, which initially will be given away by the Federal Government, but which will have to be purchased starting in 2020. This will drive up the price of coal-generated electricity at that time, unless some as-yet-undeveloped technology becomes available by then. The bill also provides for “offsets” whereby industries can pay another company to plant trees, for example, to offset that industry’s CO2 emissions. The cost of these offsets will also push up the price of coal-fired electricity, as well as for any industry that has CO2 emissions.
Bob Blue, Vice President for External Affairs at Dominion Power and Jim McGlothlin, President of United Coal Company, said at the meeting that they endorsed the cap and trade bill because it was “the lesser of two evils”, the other evil being regulation from the EPA. Hal Quinn, President of the National Mining Association, the leading organization that speaks for the coal industry in the U.S., said that his group did not endorse the bill.
When the panel was asked how much electricity rates will go up if cap and trade is passed, they said that rates will go up, but it is not known by how much.
One meeting attendee noted that the Wall Street Journal has said that cap and trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
Jessee Ring
Feb.22, 2010
Opposed to The Cap and Trade Scheme
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Cedar Bluff, VA, Feb. 22, 2010 – Mr. Jessee Bane Ring, candidate for the nomination to run for Congress in November, attended the cap and trade town hall meeting at Southwest Virginia Community College today.
“I am totally opposed to the cap and trade bill because it is specifically designed to bankrupt the coal industry and to cause electricity rates to skyrocket,” said Ring. “This destructive bill is in response to the global warming scare, which we now know is based upon junk science”, Ring added.
At the meeting, Congressman Rick Boucher acknowledged that the cap and trade bill that passed in the House of Representatives was not a good bill, but said that he voted for it in order to help the coal industry. “I had to vote for this bill to help coal”, said Boucher. He said that if he had voted against the bill, then he would have been out of the discussion and would not have been able to “soften” the impact of the bill.
“Our goal should not be to ‘soften’ this destructive bill, our goal should be to stop it,” said Ring after the meeting. “When I go to Congress, I’ll fight for the interests of the Ninth District; I will not go along to get along.”
During the discussions at the meeting, it was noted that the cap and trade bill sets up CO2 emission allowances, which initially will be given away by the Federal Government, but which will have to be purchased starting in 2020. This will drive up the price of coal-generated electricity at that time, unless some as-yet-undeveloped technology becomes available by then. The bill also provides for “offsets” whereby industries can pay another company to plant trees, for example, to offset that industry’s CO2 emissions. The cost of these offsets will also push up the price of coal-fired electricity, as well as for any industry that has CO2 emissions.
Bob Blue, Vice President for External Affairs at Dominion Power and Jim McGlothlin, President of United Coal Company, said at the meeting that they endorsed the cap and trade bill because it was “the lesser of two evils”, the other evil being regulation from the EPA. Hal Quinn, President of the National Mining Association, the leading organization that speaks for the coal industry in the U.S., said that his group did not endorse the bill.
When the panel was asked how much electricity rates will go up if cap and trade is passed, they said that rates will go up, but it is not known by how much.
One meeting attendee noted that the Wall Street Journal has said that cap and trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
Jessee Ring
Feb.22, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Here Come The Federal Tax Increases
It was all so predictable. In fact, I did predict it several months back.
For the past year, Congress has been on a spending binge of unprecedented proportions: Massive bailouts for Wall Street, Detroit, banks, people who can’t or won’t pay their mortgage; billions thrown at people who want to buy a new car; a trillion thrown at social welfare programs under the guise of a “stimulus”; TARP, ------ and the list goes on.
Then we get the President’s new Federal budget for next year, which has a $1.5 trillion deficit. And Congress has now raised the national debt ceiling to $14 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the national debt will grow to $17.1 trillion by 2019.
Here a trillion, there a trillion, everywhere a trillion, trillion. My head is spinning.
Does anyone know how much a trillion is? Mathematically, the number is 1,000,000,000,000. In scientific notation, it is 1.0x10exp12. That much money will buy 10,000,000 ordinarily priced houses. Fourteen trillion - ?
To say that Congress is spending money like a bunch of drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. At least drunken sailors are spending their own money, not ours like Congress does, and when the money is gone, drunken sailors have to stop spending. Congress doesn’t even have that much discipline.
This is all money that Congress has willingly, even gleefully, spent by their own decisions. The President cannot spend Federal money on his own; only Congress can authorize the spending of money.
And now, we hear Congress talking about the budget deficit.
A deficit occurs when one spends more money than they have. It is done with borrowed money, a loan, which must eventually, of course, be paid back. It is done consciously; it requires action on the part of the borrower. It doesn’t just happen.
The situation is that Congress has been blithely spending trillion after trillion for the past year, and now they are shocked, truly shocked, to discover that there is a huge Federal deficit. To hear them talk about it, you would think that the deficit appeared spontaneously of it’s own accord, that it was somehow sprung on them, that it popped through a space-time warp from a parallel universe, or that it somehow just wandered in off the street. “Oh my, we have a huge deficit inflicted upon us, poor us, what will we do?”
The solution that Congress wants to put in place to address the deficit is, of course, tax increases. This was their plan all along, as I predicted several months ago:
Step 1 (already accomplished): Scare the public with hysterical braying about the financial apocalypse now; that if we don’t take drastic action today (remember that), the economy as we know it will cease to exist; etc., etc., etc.
Step 2 (already accomplished): Now that you have succeeded in putting the public into a state of panic, push through massive Federal spending programs on every liberal wish list item of the last fifty years. In the process, achieve the added benefit of having the Federal government take over big chunks of the auto and banking industry, for future use.
Step 3 (in process): Decry the huge budget deficit that you have thus created, only be sure to blame someone else.
Step 4 (next): Massively raise taxes to solve the deficit problem.
We are now at step three of this strategy. Step four, raise taxes, is next, but Congress does have one problem with that. They can’t just propose raising taxes, because people won’t like it, and they may actually see through the whole scheme. Congress needs to find a way to get the tax increases in place but also provide cover to themselves in the process.
Here’s how they will do this. Congress will appoint a “bi-partisan” commission to address the deficit problem. They will pack this commission with liberals who want to raise taxes, they will throw in a couple of so-called “moderates” for cover, and they will rig the rules so that the commission’s recommendations can’t be modified. The commission will dutifully recommend big tax hikes plus a couple of minor spending cuts to make it appear objective. Congress will then implement the commission’s recommendations, saying that they are just doing what the experts have said must be done.
Voila! Congress will then have accomplished the liberal socialist’s dream of dramatically increasing social welfare spending by the Federal government, nationalizing major industries, and massively increasing taxes to pay for it all.
It has long been philosophized that the greatest threat to the American experiment would not come from foreign soil, but from within. This Congress and President are proving that to be true.
Jessee Ring
Feb. 9, 2010
For the past year, Congress has been on a spending binge of unprecedented proportions: Massive bailouts for Wall Street, Detroit, banks, people who can’t or won’t pay their mortgage; billions thrown at people who want to buy a new car; a trillion thrown at social welfare programs under the guise of a “stimulus”; TARP, ------ and the list goes on.
Then we get the President’s new Federal budget for next year, which has a $1.5 trillion deficit. And Congress has now raised the national debt ceiling to $14 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the national debt will grow to $17.1 trillion by 2019.
Here a trillion, there a trillion, everywhere a trillion, trillion. My head is spinning.
Does anyone know how much a trillion is? Mathematically, the number is 1,000,000,000,000. In scientific notation, it is 1.0x10exp12. That much money will buy 10,000,000 ordinarily priced houses. Fourteen trillion - ?
To say that Congress is spending money like a bunch of drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. At least drunken sailors are spending their own money, not ours like Congress does, and when the money is gone, drunken sailors have to stop spending. Congress doesn’t even have that much discipline.
This is all money that Congress has willingly, even gleefully, spent by their own decisions. The President cannot spend Federal money on his own; only Congress can authorize the spending of money.
And now, we hear Congress talking about the budget deficit.
A deficit occurs when one spends more money than they have. It is done with borrowed money, a loan, which must eventually, of course, be paid back. It is done consciously; it requires action on the part of the borrower. It doesn’t just happen.
The situation is that Congress has been blithely spending trillion after trillion for the past year, and now they are shocked, truly shocked, to discover that there is a huge Federal deficit. To hear them talk about it, you would think that the deficit appeared spontaneously of it’s own accord, that it was somehow sprung on them, that it popped through a space-time warp from a parallel universe, or that it somehow just wandered in off the street. “Oh my, we have a huge deficit inflicted upon us, poor us, what will we do?”
The solution that Congress wants to put in place to address the deficit is, of course, tax increases. This was their plan all along, as I predicted several months ago:
Step 1 (already accomplished): Scare the public with hysterical braying about the financial apocalypse now; that if we don’t take drastic action today (remember that), the economy as we know it will cease to exist; etc., etc., etc.
Step 2 (already accomplished): Now that you have succeeded in putting the public into a state of panic, push through massive Federal spending programs on every liberal wish list item of the last fifty years. In the process, achieve the added benefit of having the Federal government take over big chunks of the auto and banking industry, for future use.
Step 3 (in process): Decry the huge budget deficit that you have thus created, only be sure to blame someone else.
Step 4 (next): Massively raise taxes to solve the deficit problem.
We are now at step three of this strategy. Step four, raise taxes, is next, but Congress does have one problem with that. They can’t just propose raising taxes, because people won’t like it, and they may actually see through the whole scheme. Congress needs to find a way to get the tax increases in place but also provide cover to themselves in the process.
Here’s how they will do this. Congress will appoint a “bi-partisan” commission to address the deficit problem. They will pack this commission with liberals who want to raise taxes, they will throw in a couple of so-called “moderates” for cover, and they will rig the rules so that the commission’s recommendations can’t be modified. The commission will dutifully recommend big tax hikes plus a couple of minor spending cuts to make it appear objective. Congress will then implement the commission’s recommendations, saying that they are just doing what the experts have said must be done.
Voila! Congress will then have accomplished the liberal socialist’s dream of dramatically increasing social welfare spending by the Federal government, nationalizing major industries, and massively increasing taxes to pay for it all.
It has long been philosophized that the greatest threat to the American experiment would not come from foreign soil, but from within. This Congress and President are proving that to be true.
Jessee Ring
Feb. 9, 2010
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