Fitzpatrick Brings Message of Constitution to Ellijay

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Among the Ninth District Candidates, Roger Fitzpatrick comes across as the strongest Constitutionalist in the group. He rarely answers a question without grounding his response in Constitutional Principles or a talk of the Founding Fathers. Speaking to the Gilmer County Republican Party this week, Fitzpatrick continued to remind citizens and voters of the Founding Document’s importance, while seeking their votes for the July Election.

At Harrison Hall, he told a room of voters the Republic cannot survive with the way things currently stand, emphasizing that the country must return to the Constitution.

“If you look at the original intent of our Founding Fathers, they said that…the powers of the Federal Government were very specific and very limited,”

he said. Here, Fitzpatrick returned to this theme, that the Constitution is a limiting document, where its limitation of government is the liberation of the people.

He said the Federal Government has moved away from the idea of limited powers, saying it has made a series power grabs recently.

“We’ve got a judiciary,”

he noted,

“that is out of control; they have decided that they are the all-knowing ones…We have an Executive Branch legislating…acting like a tyrant.”

He said that we have to get the Executive Branch

“so he actually functions within the powers specified to him,”

adding also that we need a Congress with a backbone. Congress is inept, he asserted, and refuses to comply with its Constitutional Duties.

Like the other candidates, Fitzpatrick gave his list of Federal Agencies and Departments he would eliminate, reiterating they are not specified in the Constitution. Included in his list are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Department of Education. But, here, his most compelling idea dealt with the Federal Reserve, which he also called unconstitutional.

“Our Founding Fathers felt like we did not need a central bank and that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve established,”

he said. Further, he noted that the 99 year agreement is up for renewal this year and

“Congress needs to not agree to another 99 years of the Federal Reserve.”

When he gets to Washington, Fitzpatrick says he will vote “no” on anything he has not read or does not understand. He also said he will weigh legislation by its Constitutionality, assessing whether it’s one of the enumerated powers of the Federal Government by the Constitution.

So, what sets Mr. Fitzpatrick apart from his opponents? He says it’s his “deep foundational belief that the Constitution, and adhering to the Constitution, to the spirit and letter, is the answer.”

Fitzpatrick’s opponents, Martha Zoller and Rep. Doug Collins, surpass Fitzpatrick in campaign funds. But, he says money will not win this race. For Fitzpatrick, bringing the Constitutional message to enough people will win him the Ninth District Congressional seat, not money.

Last week, Zoller and Collins, also paid a visit to Gilmer in an effort to pick up votes left behind by former candidate Hunter Bicknell, who had a strong presence in Gilmer. Some notables who had endorsed Bicknell moved their support to either Zoller or Collins. Fitzpatrick, however, also feels that he picked up some Bicknell supporters following the GOP event Tuesday night. He also feels that his strong focus on the Constitution has won him the support of local Tea Party groups, although no official endorsements from these groups, since many local Tea Party organizations do not endorse candidates.

Despite his challenges, competing against candidates with strong name recognition and campaigns with deep coffers, Fitzpatrick is optimistic.

“I fully expect to win this,”

he said as he continues his campaign, carrying the cause of the Constitution through out the Ninth District.

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