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Rep. Matthew Hill Lies: About The Prospects For A Tennessee State Income Tax

During the last week of so leading up to the November 7 election, Rep. Matthew Hill was citing within his many campaign ads of his "Great Pumpkin" belief in a supposedly impending legislative movement toward legislation for a Tennessee state income tax --- and Hill was actually sounding more like a rabid spokesman for the Tennesseans For Fair Taxation rather than a straight-talking member of the Tennessee General Assembly.

A recent article "Income tax can fly, says group - Analysis: Support not politically fatal; experts scoff" by Brad Schrade and featured within the Tennessean quotes a Middle Tennessee State Univeristy political science professor (demonstrating a recognized expertise within the field of Tennessee politics) who thinks differently than both Rep. Matthew Hill and his cronies within the Tennesseans For Fair Taxation pro-income taxgroup on the income tax matter:

[...]

The [Tennesseans For Fair Taxation] group's political read on the issue [Tennessee state income tax] based on the recent elections seems skewed, said Mark Byrnes, a Middle Tennessee State University political science professor who has written about state politics.

Byrnes said he saw no evidence in last week's results to suggest any momentum for supporting an income tax. Bredesen's stated opposition almost certainly takes it off the table for the next four years, he said.

"I think [that most] everyone seems to agree the state income tax is a dead issue," Byrnes said. "The only time it got mentioned was to try to kill it more.

"Many of the legislators are on record opposing it. I think it will take some major financial calamity to make it a viable option.

"Even then it wouldn't be easy."

[...]

What is purhaps more revealing about this newspaper article is that Tennesseans For Fair Taxation Executive Director Brian Miller is citing a MTSU study showing that public support for a Tennessee state income tax is enhanced when coupled with lowering the state sales taxes on food --- and Rep. Matthew Hill has frequently positioned himself as being the leading House member to champion a removal (not reduction) on the grocery sales tax in Tennessee:

[...]

Miller counters that part of the problem with the income tax is that it is too often discussed in a vacuum. He said MTSU's polls in recent years have shown support trends toward 60 percent for an income tax as long as cuts to the sales tax, especially sales taxes on food, are part of the proposal.

He said the talk from many candidates about cuts in the sales tax on food during this year's legislative session and during the election cycle shows the public is ready for some of the key elements of a tax system change.

[...]

Wow ---- Rep. Matthew Hill's bumbling legislative efforts to eliminate the Tennessee state sales tax on groceries are actually giving signifcant political traction to the advancement of the Tennessee Pro-Income Tax movement! Who knew???

Rep. Matthew Hill Lies: About Cutting Grocery Taxes

I would not have much of a problem with Rep. Matthew Hill's recent radio campaign advertising with regard to "cutting grocery taxes" if narrator and Leitner Pharmaceutical lobbyist Jim Holcomb had only used the phrase "cutting Tennessee state sales taxes on groceries" --- you see, Rep. Matthew Hill is attempting to pull a Frank Burns here and not tell you the full story of how Rep. Hill, his brother Timothy Hill and Rep. David Davis) are all advocates of the so-called "Fair Tax" scheme that, according to a Wikipedia article, would place a 30% federal sales tax on grocery items:

[...]

The FairTax legislation would apply a 23% federal retail sales tax [actually 30%; see following] on the total transaction value of new retail goods and services purchases; in other words, consumers pay to the government 23 cents of every dollar spent (sometimes called tax-inclusive — as income taxes are calculated). The assessed tax rate is 30% if the FairTax is added to the pre-tax price of a good like traditional sales taxes (sometimes called tax-exclusive). The FairTax legislation uses total transaction value (tax-inclusive) in presenting the rate; with an item purchased for $100, the retailer receives $77 and the remaining is collected for the federal government. However, American sales taxes have historically been expressed as a percentage of the original sale price (tax-exclusive); items priced at $100 pre-tax cost $130 with the tax added. The use of the tax-inclusive number in presenting the rate has been criticized as deceptive by the plan's opponents.Proponents argue that the 23% number represents a better comparison to income tax rates, which are presented as inclusive rates.

A good would be considered used and not taxable if a consumer already owns it before the FairTax takes effect or if the FairTax has already been paid on the good. The FairTax would tax all services provided at the retail level. Personal services such as health care, legal services, haircuts and auto repairs would all be subject to the FairTax, as would renting apartments and other real property. State sales taxes do not generally tax such services. Education, training, saving and financial investing would be considered an investment (rather than final consumption) and therefore would not be taxed.

While Rep. Hill has previously introduced house bills seeking to eliminate the Tennessee state sales taxes on bread and milk, I am waiting for Marc Bernier to nail Hill for the "cutting the grocery taxes" misinformation that his campaign staff of monkeys is busily spewing out over the public airwaves.

Rep. Matthew Hill: Neoconservative Backed by HOE Money (well, indirectly)

Subsequent to the creation of Aventis, the merger of Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc, on December 15, 1999, the organizational role and purpose of Hoechst AG changed. Hoechst AG is now an intermediate holding company that operates as an affiliate of Aventis under the Aventis logo. Around 97% of the shares of Hoechst AG are held by Aventis, Strasbourg, France. The remaining 3% are held by different private and institutional shareholders. Hoechst AG is still listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol HOE.

The former Hoechst Web site is still available as a digital archive. However, a lot of the information could be outdated and should not be used for commercial purposes.
[ www.archive.hoechst.com ]

Forget the www.archive.hoechst.com link as it is now a password protected site...I'll keep searching for the cache.

John & Joan Gregory: Generous Donation To Tennessee Right To Life For Political Intervention

Today's online edition of the Kingsport Times-News is posting the news article "John Gregory uses checkbook to promote conservative causes" by Hank Haynes detailing how John M. Gregory and his wife Joan have donated $75,000 to the Tennessee Right To Life anti-choice group, along with pledging to provide an additional $75,000 matching donation to TRTL. The Haynes article quoted TRL President Brian Harris saying that "...one church responded with a $50,000 gift.", although Haynes article did not indentify the location (Bristol, perhaps?) of the generous church.

This Kingsport Times-News article pertaining to the Gregory generosity toward the TRTL organization failed to disclose some other important background information concerning "Gregory's spokesman, former state Sen. Jim Holcomb":

"This is the first time a donor has ever stepped forward in such a significant fashion and offered to use his generous gift as a tool to encourage others to give," Harris said of the Gregorys.

Gregory's spokesman, former state Sen. Jim Holcomb, said Gregory has given about $600,000 to political advocacy groups and an estimated $1 million to political campaigns and political action committees over the past five years. Gregory is now managing partner of his own Bristol-based investment firm and has served as president of the King Benevolent Fund, an international ministry.[ I seem to recall that Gregory's stint as KBF president was prior to the King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. haggling with the federal courts over the pricing of King pharmaceutical drugs sold to Medicare; also there is no mention here of the Gregory owned Leitner Pharmaceutcials,Inc.]

"Much credit for the shift in Tennessee's political landscape relating to pro-life efforts is due to the enormous vision, commitment and generosity of John and Joan Gregory..." TRL said in an e-mailed news release. "In particular, the Gregorys have made it possible to place field representatives in critical regions of the state allowing for more effective chapter development and the strengthening of relationships and profile of the Right to Life movement. Simply put, strong local chapters translate into legislation passed, elections won and lives saved."

Holcomb also happens to be the current campaign chairman for State Rep. David Davis. Davis won the 2006 Republican Primary election in August and will be facing Democratic Primary winner Rick Trent of Morristown during the November general election in his second attempt to be elected as U.S. Representative from the Tennessee 1st Congressional District.

Brian Harris is president of the 501(c)(4) Tennesssee Right To Life, Inc, (EIN 62-1009171), president of the 501(c)(3) Tennessee Volunteers for Life Education Fund, Inc. (EIN 58-1544801), and president of the 501(c)(3) New Life Resources (EIN 62-1604218) all headquartered at the 4802 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37209 address. Harris drew $25,804 in annual compensation from New Life Resources during 2004.

An artice "About Tennessee Right To Life & Brian Harris" posted by Harris within the Christain Activites web site cites that he is also a "...a director on the board of the National Right to Life Committee in Washington, D.C.", although the information is not readily verified through a review of the IRS Form 990s or related paper filed by the National Right To Life Committee, Inc., the National Right To Life Educatonal Trust Fund, or National Right To Life Conventions, Inc.

Hoechst RU-486: Hoechst Altace: Gregory: King Pharmaceuticals Altace Timeline

If you listen to the self-described "conservative" Tennessee republican politicians who say that they are also "pro-life" while accepting campaign contributions from Tennessee Conservative PAC President and former King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO John M. Gregory, you should take that election year FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) propaganda with a grain of salt. Check out the Hilly Boy blog for a rather rough Hoechst RU-486: Hoechst Altace: Gregory: King Pharmaceuticals Altace time line running from pre-World War II to the 2004 Tennessee state elections.

In the United States, there have been many calls for boycotting the European pharmaceutical companies responsible for the development and market introduction of the RU-486 abortion drug since the drug came about in France during 1986 to 1988. The U.S. based National Right To Life Committee spearheaded a July 1994 boycott RU-486 of all Hoechst AG and U.S. subsidiary Hoechst Marion Roussell (HMR Kansas City, Missouri) pharmaceutical products including Altace.

By September 1994, the anti-abortion group Pharmacists for Life International specifically identified Altace as a boycott target having the most negative financial impact on Hoechst:

Having exhausted all reasonable and long-delayed avenues of solution, Pharmacists For Life International (PFLI) joined the numerous other pro-life groups in the international boycott against the parent company of the maker of the French abortion pill, RU-486. On Sept. 17th, the board of PFLI announced that it was joining the boycott against the American subsidiary of Hoechst, AG Hoechst-Roussel, Hoechst-Celanese, its generic subsidiary Coply Pharmaceuticals and the agricultural Hoechst subsidiary.

While other groups are focusing on the consumer side of the Hoechst boycott, PFLI will concentrate on a targeted, segmented approach to pressure Hoechst to rescind the RU-486 license it issued to the U.S. pro-abortion organization the Population Council. PFLI will also seek to convince Hoechst to halt the testing of the "Human Pesticide" in the U.S., currently happening at least 12 known sites, six of which are Planned Parenthood facilities. PFLI will concentrate on seeking support in the profession through institutional practices, wholesale/distributors, and community pharmacies (including independents and chains with latitude), It also is asking groups to *focus* on key Hoechst drugs which have the most economic impact rather than taking an across-the-board shotgun approach.

The drugs with the most potential for having an economic impact on Hoechst include: DiaBeta (glyburide); Altace (ramipril); Lasix (furosmide) and Topicort (desoximetsome). Glyburide is made by Hoechst under the trade name DiaBeta as well as being made by its Copley subsidiary. For a free wallet card or more information write: PLFI, P.O. Box 1281 Powell, OH 43065-1281.

Altace was bringing in less than $90 million per year by 1995 for Hoechst and in 1995 --- in large part due to the ongoing U.S. boycott of Hoechst by the National Right To Life Committee and other U.S. anti-abortion groups --- a corporate decision was made by Hoechst to stop promoting Altace.


King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. President Jefferson "Jeff" Gregory (brother of one-time King Pharmaceuticals CEO John M. Gregory) began negotiations with Hoechst HMR during June 1995 to acquire U.S. distribution rights to Altace for the King Pharma subsidiary Monarch Pharmaceuticals.

Meanwhile in late 1998, Hoechst announced it would merge with Rhone-Poulenc to create Aventis (cleaning up --- if not sanitizing --- the widely perceived corporate image associated with Hoechst and RU-486 was one benefit realized by this merger) and the King Pharmaceuticals-Hoechst negotiations for the U.S. distribution and marketing rights to Altace for $363 million were finalized late in December 1998.

Also on the Tennessee home front on or about September 24 1998, Federal Election Commission records note that King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. President Jefferson (Jeff) Gregory contributed $1,000.00 to the Holcomb for Congress-98 election campaign. Former Tennessee State Senator (and at that time) King Pharmaceuticals employee/lobbyist since 1997) James "Jim" L. Holcomb sought to represent the Tennessee 1st House District of Northeast Tennessee as a conservative, "pro-life" republican within the U.S. Congress, and after failing with his 1998 republican primary bid for Congress, Holcomb refunded $797.00 of his remaining campaign treasury funds to his boss at King Pharmaceuticals, President Jefferson "Jeff" Gregory (actually, Holcomb refunded all of his campaign contributors in proportional amounts --- including that of both his own and his wife's campaign contributions to his election campaign).

During August (1999) King Pharmaceuticals lobbyist Holcomb organized a legislative airlift to Nashville aboard a King Pharmaceuticals corporate aircraft, transporting several republican Northeast Tennessee members of the Tennessee General Assembly (State Senator Ron Ramsey; State Rep. Jason Mumpower. State Rep. David Davis, and; State Rep. Steve Godsey) to lobby the then TennCare Director Brian Lapps for the approval of Altace on the TennCare PDL (Preferred Drug List) and by September of 1999 Altace is placed on the TennCare PDL and Director Lapps resigns from TennCare (Senator Ramsey would later claim in the press that "he organized" the Altace lobbying for King Pharmaceuticals).

Holcomb is currently employed as a governmental relations manager at the John Gregory owned Leitner Pharmaceuticals located in Bristol, Tennessee and is the treasurer of Gregory's Tennessee Conservative PAC.

More at the Hilly Boy's Deception blog...

Tennessee Right To Life & Rep. Matthew Hill: Silent But Deadly On RU-486

Back during the last part of June, I sent email to Brian Harris of Tennessee Right To Life asking Harris to post the Defend The Plate hyperlink (above image) pertaining to the Hoechst RU-486 - Gregory - Altace business connection at the TRLT web site only to receive this response:

Thanks but no thanks.

Brian Harris, President
Tennessee Right to Life
615/298-5433
bharris@tnrtl.org

Help Defend the Plate…

AECC Sells WHGG & WABN To Kenneth C. Hill's ICC For $250,000: Only $1,000 Cash Down!

Broadcasting & Cable
Changing Hands
By BIA Financial Networks -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/26/2004
WABN(AM) Abingdon (Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol), Va.
PRICE: $50,000
BUYER: Appalachian Educational Communication Corp. (Kenneth C. Hill, president);
owns five other stations, including WHGG(AM), WPWT(AM) and WHCB-FM Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, Tenn.
SELLER: Abingdon Church of the Nazarene (Dickie Kegley, director)
FACILITIES: 1230 kHz, 1 kW
FORMAT: Oldies/AC

Broadcasting & Cable
Deals
By BIA Financial Networks -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/9/2006
WHGG(AM) Kingsport, Tenn., and WABN(AM) Abingdon, Va.
PRICE: $250,000
BUYER: Information Communications Corp. (Kenneth Hill, president/general manager); owns one other station, WPWT(AM) Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, Tenn.
SELLER: Appalachian Educational Communication Corp. (Kenneth C. Hill, president/general manager)
FACILITIES: WHGG(AM): 1090 kHz, 10 kW; WABN(AM): 1230 kHz, 1 kW
FORMAT: WHGG(AM): Christian Contemporary; WABN(AM): Oldies
COMMENT: ICC will have the right to rent studio and transmitter/antenna space for WHGG and WABN from AECC at, respectively, $500 and $1,500 per month. AECC is 49% owner and Kenneth Hill 51% owner of ICC.

Broadcasting & Cable
Deals
By BIA Financial Networks -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/3/2006
WHGG(AM) Kingsport, Tenn., WABN(AM) Abingdon, Va.
PRICE: $250,000
BUYER: Information Communications Corp. (Kenneth Hill, president/general manager);
owns one other station, WPWT(AM) Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol
SELLER: Appalachian Educational Communication Corp. (Kenneth C. Hill, president/gm)
FACILITIES: WHGG(AM): 1090 kHz, 10 kW; WABN(AM): 1230 kHz, 1 kW
FORMAT: WHGG(AM): Christian Contemporary; WABN(AM): Oldies

Radio Business Report
Volume 22, Issue 210,
Monday October 26th, 2005
Transactions
250K WHGG-AM & WABN-AM Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport (Kingsport TN, Abingdon VA) from Appalachian Educational Communication Corporation (Guy Tilley, VP) to Information Communications Corporation (Kenneth C. Hill, pres). 1K deposit, 249K note. Buyer and seller are noncommercial. [File date 9/28/05.]

Secret Life of War Protester and Neoconservative Rep. Matthew Hill

More about the International Action Center and young Matthew Hill protesting U.S. military troops in Kosovo at the http://www.impeachmatthewhill.blogspot.com blog site.

Hilly Boy's Deception: Reasons to Vote Against Rep. Matthew Hill on Tuesday

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Hilly Boy's Deception: Reasons to Vote Against Matthew Hill on Tuesday...then come back here!

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Rep. Matthew Hill's Campaign Ads: Radio Spot "Voice Overs" By Leitner (Gregory) Pharmaceuticals Lobbyist?

I began noticing this Monday morning (October 2, 2006) that Rep. Matthew Hill's 2006 re-election campaign radio advertising on WHFG 92.FM is featuring a narrator doing the "voice overs" and sounding amazingly similar to former Tennessee Senator and Leitner Pharmaceuticals lobbyist Jim Holcomb. Holcomb at one time happened a WPWT 870 AM guest co-host of the "Rightly Speaking" morning talk radio program.

Holcomb was previously hired by former King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO John M. Gregory as a lobbyist with King Pharmaceuticals, with the former Tennessee state senator's most noteable post-Tennessee General Assembly lobbying effort was that being his famed August 1999 King legislative "Airlift For Altace" of several legislators from Northeast Tennessee (including Senator Ron Ramsey and Representatives David Davis and Steve Godsey) to a Nashville meeting with the then TennCare Director Brian Lapps. Holcomb's 1999 Altace lobbying effort using King corporate aircraft secured Director Lapps' placement of Monarch Pharmaceuticals --- a King Pharmaceuticals subsidiary --- newly acquired and branded Altace cardiac prescription drug onto the TennCare Preferred Drug List (PDL).

Monarch Pharmaceuticals' branded Altace prescription drug was added to the TennCare PDL within approximately 30 days --- and very close to the date of Director Lapps' late September 1999 resignation as TennCare Director.

King Pharmaceuticals (d.b.a. Monarch Pharmaceuticals) had just previously acquired the U.S. distribution and marketing rights to Altace and other Hoechst products after completing late December 1998 negotiations with Hoechst AG of Germany and the Hoechst American subsidiary Hoechst Marrion Roussell (HMR of Kansas City, Missouri). Former King Pharmaceuticals President Jefferson "Jeff" Gregory (brother of then King Pharmaceuticals CEO John M. Gregory) started Altace acquisition negotiations with Hoechst/HMR during the summer of 1995.

Altace was among several HMR prescription drugs that were central among the economic boycott targets at Hoechst/HMR selected by various nationwide anti-RU86 abortion rights groups (such as Pharmacists For Life International) at the beginning of the 1994 National Right To Life Committee Boycott of Hoechst/MHR. A French pharmaceutcial subsidairy of Hoechst developed and sold the RU-486 abortion drug outsideof the United States.

The another effect of the Monarch acquistion of Altace by the Gregorys was that of allowing Hoechst/HMR to circumvent the U.S. market obstacles that Hoechst/HMR encountered while attempting to selling Altace and other Hoechst/HMR drugs to American puchasers during the National Right To Life Committee Boycott by forming an interdependent business relationship between Monarch and Hoechst/HMR.

Holcomb is also listed as the treasurer of John M. Gregory's Tennessee Conservative PAC.

JC Press: Former Rep. Bob Patton Warns Voters About Extremist Neo-Con Money Behind Rep. Matthew Hill

An excellent article, "Patton has his say - Ex-representative offers thoughts on party politics" written by Ben Ingram was featured in this morning's edition (September 17, 2006) of the Johnson City Press and provided some seemingly bottled-up insight by former State Rep. Bob Patton to the extreme right detour of Republican Party politics that has been underway here in Northeast Tennessee since late 2003. Patton was defeated by Matthew Hill following not a so-friendly and expensive media attack launched by the Hill Tribe during the 2004 primary election for the Tennessee 7th House District seat in Washington County:

Patton has his say - Ex-representative offers thoughts on party politics
By Ben Ingram
Press Staff Writer
bingram@johnsoncitypress.com

Former 7th District State Rep. Bob Patton isn’t letting this election year slip by without getting a word in. And that word seems to be coming at the expense of some in his own party.

Labeling himself a middle-of-the-road Republican, Patton said he wants voters in Northeast Tennessee to realize that far right Republicans are buying their way into office while leaving the real issues affecting this state behind.

“These far right candidates are mostly rich people who are brainwashing the general public because they have money,” said Patton, who wouldn’t disclose any particular legislators. “This is very dangerous, and these are dangerous people.

“The far right wants everyone to vote the same way — I felt that my votes should reflect what best benefits my constituents.”

Patton says some current Republican legislators are more about politics — voting the party line, not representing the voters that elected them.

“This nation was built on consensus, and they forget that,” he said. “We’re causing a gap between the rich and the poor if we don’t look at broader issues.

“God wants unity, not uniformity. The far right wants uniformity in the name of religion.”

Though Patton, who said he has no plans to run again, says Christians need to be in the political realm, they also need issues.

“I can’t just say I’m a Christian and run for office,” Patton said. “I tried to be a good Christian legislator with good issues.”

[...]

Patton added that a legislator should know more than the people he/she represents, therefore they should learn as much as possible.

According to Patton, other factors that led to him not being re-elected was his stance on a state income tax, which he said 48 percent of his constituency wanted; lies about him being pro-choice, which he says he’s not; the tremendous amount of money put into the [Matthew] Hill campaign and the fact Towne Acres, what Patton considered his best precinct, was taken out of his district.

“My own party did me in,” he said. “Democrats always laugh at Republicans because they say they eat their own, which I learned the hard way.

“At the end of the day, I know that I made good votes for 10 years and brought money home.”

Money, Patton says, is not coming back to Washington County and there have been no new roads for two years — since he lost his re-election bid.

“People have noticed,” he said. “And you must have the ability to work with people.

“The only reason we got the pharmacy school was because the governor was convinced that this was a good place for it — not because of anything the far right did.”

[...]

I think that Patton should have been a little more descriptive and used the pharse "shadowy special interest PAC groups representing a group of individuals tied particular pharmaceutical/investment company in Bristol, Tennessee" somewhere within his interview with Ingram.

2003: Total Property Value of Jonesborough Residence Plunges $24,000 Before Matthew Hill Closes

I really don't know what to make of this online information found at the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Real Estate Assessment Data web site pertaining to Rep. Matthew Hill's 216 Mockingbird Place property in Jonesborough --- six months before Hill closes (January 30, 2003) the real estate is carried on the Washington County property tax rolls at a $131,000 total value and at the July 30, 2003 recording of his property deed the total value falls to $106,900.

If you a Washington County landowner, you might take some comfort in knowing that Rep. Hill's Jonesborough property was also caught up within the 2004 Washington County real estate reassessments, when Hill's place zoomed up from $106,900 on July 30, 2003 to $107,900 (and current as of July 1, 2006) --- for a 0.935% increase of total value!
MatthewListens.com

Hilarious But Accurate: www.matthewlistens.com "Accomplishments" Page Doesn't List Any

Saturday November 4, 2006 1805EST:

I just again surfed through Rep. Matthew Hill's official 2006 campaign web site and clicked on the Home > News > Accomplishments link only to learn that Rep. Matthew Hill's campaign team is now conceding that Rep. Matthew Hill has not accomplished anything during the 2005-2006 legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly! Whatta slacker!

Nada! Zip! Nothing! Check it out for yourself!

100th Blog Article Posted: Email Addresses For Some Of The AECC Board of Directors

For the 100th article post here at the Tennessee RU-486 Representative Matthew Hill, I thought that it would be helpful to several of more easily found email addresses linking to current Appalachian Educational Communication Corporation BofD members --- after all, you certainly will not find this contact information posted at the WHCB 91.5FM web site...

Noah Hutchings
info@swrc.com

Frank Waldo [Jr.?]
frank@tele-optics.com

Pastor Jack Hilton
bibleemc@juno.com

Guy Tilley
guytilley@bancroftbiblecamp.org

Dr. W.A. Johnson
dr_johnson@agapeglobalmissions.org

Rep. Matthew Hill: Hates Gay [Unions]; Legislatively O.K. With "Traditional" Adulterous Unions

I found the following new Rep. Matthew Hill FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) Issue regarding at the Issues: Pro-Traditional Marriage section posted to Hill's 2006 campaign web site:

Issues
Pro-Traditional Marriage
Matthew firmly believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. He supports amending Tennessee's Constitution to recognize marriage as only the union of one man and one woman.

So if we muddle through all the codewords (e.g. "Traditional" inferring "Biblical" and "Pro" inferring that a voter can only be either for or against the issue) and follow Rep. Hill's desire to "adulterate" the Tennessee Constitution with an appeal to fear --- and more specially under the pretext of protecting heterosexual marriage --- one can reasonably conclude that a "Pro-Traditional Marriage Admendment" would logically recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman for the remainder of their lives.

Why does Hill's "Pro-Traditional Marriage Amendment" stance duck this important aspect of "traditional" (Biblical) marriage --- if the state has the power to prevent gays from forming civil unions, then the state under Hill's distorted version of reality also has the "pro-traditional marriage" authority to limit the legal recognition of divorced heterosexual individuals to legally marry and to also enjoy other benefits provided by such currently legally recognized marriages in Tennessee.

Taken to a more far right extreme, Hill's "Pro-Traditional" marriage attack on the Tennessee Constitution could go as far as not legally recognizing the children of a divorced and remarried parent(s) as being legitimate!

And with the possible exceptions for "Biblical" divorce allowed (e.g., divorce following by the act of adultry committed by a spouse) --- Hill's "pro-traditional marriage" attack on the Tennessee Constitution is rather nonsensical, after all, hetrosexual marriages in Tennessee are demonstratively more threatened by heterosexual adultry involving at least one of the traditional heterosexual marriage partners than would ever by directly threatened by the distant civil union between two gay partners.

So why is Rep. Matthew Hill seemingly O.K. with providing heterosexual adulterers in Tennessee a free pass within his concept of the propsed "Pro-Traditional Marriage" amendemnt to the Tennessee Constitution...???

Veterans For Kosovo War Protestor Rep. Matthew Hill

From a recent news release posted at the official re-election campaign web site for Rep. Matthew Hill

News Releases
Veterans for Rep. Matthew Hill
Rep. Matthew Hill (R-Jonesborough) announced today that local veterans have established the Veterans for Hill Committee supporting his candidacy for re-election to the Tennessee House of Representatives.

“We all believe in Matthew and his ability to get things done for the people of Washington County,” said George A. Morelock, chairman of the committee. “Matthew has worked nonstop during his two years in Nashville to make sure that he responds to the needs of the people he represents.”

“I am honored to have such a fine group of people standing behind me,” Rep. Hill said. “I have a deep respect for anyone who has served this country in the armed forces, and I am proud to have the chance to do what I can to serve these veterans as a legislator.”



Following are the members of the Veterans for Hill Committee:

1 James Beery
2 Terry L. Cloyd
3 D.E. “Rusty” Crowe
4 Carl Daniels
5 Clark Jarrett
6 Thomas R. Keplinger
7 George A. Morelock
8 Johnny W. Morelock
9 Robert L. Oliver
10 Timothy James Sansbury

Rep. Hill represents the 7th House District, which includes a portion of Washington County. He is a member of the House Republican Caucus Whip Leadership Team and sits on the House Committee on Children and Family Affairs and the House Transportation Committee. Rep. Hill resides in Jonesborough where he works in radio broadcasting.

Hill "working in Jonesborough where he works in radio broadcasting"??? For a shameless incumbent who questioned the honesty of his challenger Fred Phillips during a recent debate in Johnson City, I can only taunt "liar, liar, liar, pants on fire" or may better that should be "liars, liars, liars" if the Hill campaign team is behind distorting this election misinformation!

Hill Boy's Deception - "Matthew Hill's War Protest (Jane Fonda's Buddy)" posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005.

He Protesteth Too Much: Evangelical Pro-Family Amendment Leader Accused Of Gay Sex Resigns

Evangelical Leader Accused of Gay Affair Resigns
By CATHERINE TSAI, AP

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 3) - The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has given up his post while a church panel investigates allegations he paid a man for sex.

The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the past three years.

Haggard, a married father of five, denied the allegations, but also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member New Life Church pending an investigation.

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The allegations come as voters in Colorado and seven other states get ready to decide Tuesday on amendments banning gay marriage. Besides the proposed ban on the Colorado ballot, a separate measure would establish the legality of domestic partnerships providing same-sex couples with many of the rights of married couples.

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The accusations were made by Mike Jones, 49, of Denver, who said he decided to go public because of the political fight over the amendments.

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Haggard, 50, was appointed president of the evangelicals association in March 2003. He has participated in conservative Christian leaders' conference calls with White House staffers and lobbied members of Congress last year on U.S. Supreme Court appointees after Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.

After Massachusetts legalized gay marriage in 2004, Haggard and others began organizing state-by-state opposition. Last year, Haggard and officials from the nearby Christian ministry Focus on the Family announced plans to push Colorado's gay marriage ban for the 2006 ballot.

At the time, Haggard said that he believed marriage is a union between a man and woman rooted in centuries of tradition, and that research shows it's the best family unit for children.

National Association of Evangelicals: Benefits of Membership: advancement of the conservative evangelical Christian agenda

Ted Haggard President

A quick check of the National Association of Evangelicals 1023 15TH ST NW STE500 WASHINGTON, DC 20005 at the GuideStar.org indicates that the NAE is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a "501(c)(3) public charity" and a "church".

National Association of Evangelicals - Office of Governmental Affairs

The Log Cabin Republicans Don't Hate Matthew: Rep. Matthew Hill's Very Own LCR Web Page

This may just be throwing another log on the fire, but the Log Cabin Republicans have a web page dedicated to Tennessee Representative Matthew Hill...at last check, Matthew's LCR web page wasn't sporting his official portrait from the Tennessee General Assembly web site, but you can find his smiling face at the following URL:

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/Pics/h7.jpg

Learn More About The LCR - Check Out Wikipedia: Log Cabin Republicans.

How To File A Broadcaster Complaint With The Federal Communications Commission

EB - BROADCAST COMPLAINTS

The Enforcement Bureau has two divisions responsible for handling broadcast complaints. The Investigations and Hearings Division is responsible for resolving complaints of non-technical broadcast violations such as complaints alleging broadcast of obscene, profane and/or indecent material, violations of the FCC's rules regarding broadcast of hoaxes, licensee-conducted contests, broadcast of telephone conversation, and public inspection file requirements.

The Spectrum Enforcement Division resolves complaints of technical violations such as unauthorized operation of a broadcast station, violation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules, antenna structure registration, marking and lighting rules, and operation with excessive power or at an unauthorized location.

EB - Investigations & Hearings Division

The Investigations & Hearings Division is responsible for resolution of complaints against broadcast stations and other Title III licensees on non-technical matters such as indecency, enhanced underwriting, unauthorized transfer of control and misrepresentation. In addition, with regard to wireless licensees, the Division is responsible for enforcement of rules regarding auction collusion and misrepresentation. The Division also investigates industry allegations of violations of Title II of the Communications Act, as amended, and FCC rules and policies pertaining to common carriers. In addition, the Division conducts, or assists in, various other investigations being conducted by the Bureau and serves as trial staff in formal Commission hearings.

Functions

Resolves complaints against broadcast and other Title III licensees.
Investigates and takes appropriate enforcement action against common carriers for violations of Title II and FCC rules based on industry allegations.
Serves as trial staff in formal hearings conducted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 556 regarding applications, revocation, forfeitures and other matters designated for hearing.
Handles common carrier auditing functions.
Investigates and takes appropriate enforcement action for violation of universal service requirements.

How to File a Complaint
Complaints may be filed via:

fccinfo@fcc.gov
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Electronic Complaint Form FCC Form 475B
Phone: 888-CALL-FCC (225-5322)
TTY: 888-TELL-FCC (835-5322)
Fax: 202-418-0232

You can help us resolve your complaint more quickly by providing as much of the following information as possible: (1) the date and time the material was aired; (2) the call sign, channel, or frequency of the station; (3) the city and state where the program was viewed; and (4) as many details as possible about the content of the broadcast to help the FCC determine whether the material was obscene, profane, or indecent. You may support your allegations by a full or partial tape or transcript, or by providing a significant excerpt, but these are not required. The key is to provide enough information for staff to determine both the specific content of the complained-of material and the context in which it was broadcast. It is also helpful to include your address, e-mail address, phone number and time zone.

If you choose to submit a recording, you should send the recording to Federal Communications Commission, Investigations & Hearings Division/Enforcement Bureau, 9300 East Hampton Drive, Capital Heights, MD 20743. Any documentation of the programming becomes part of the Commission's records and cannot be returned.