Dear Supporters,

My life has been a whirlwind. Not complaining, just saying. I know almost everyone’s life is a whirlwind.

The meeting in Washington D.C. was jampacked, and I came home for only a day or two and left for a week of vacation with my wife. So, in some ways the D.C. meeting seems like a long time ago.

There is much to report.

The Key Takeaways and Accomplishments:

Outreach to the President. It has become more and more clear that we need the President to issue a tweet in support of the idea of the States suing the Congress to bring about a Constitutional Amendment.

It’s also more and more clear that Joe Penland has pretty close access to the President through Speaker Mike Johnson. Joe has accepted the responsibility of personally endeavoring to approach the President, hopefully before September, to request such a tweet.

We identified 3 key goals:

Need for a Statutory Commission. We prioritized formation of a statutory commission on fiscal sustainability, similar to the BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission) employed to make meaningful changes and base closures, in spite of the political challenges to address inefficiency in our military.

Composition of the Constitutional Amendments we seek:

1) An Amendment to limit deficits to 3% of GDP.

2) An Amendment implementing the No Budget No Pay Act.

I considered that a huge success.

A Celebrity Personality.

We also had a very interesting conversation about defining our message and finding a celebrity personality to carry our message to the masses. In conversation, the best I could do is that maybe (and it’s a big maybe) I could maybe get a message to Blake Shelton, but there were more powerful players in the room. David Walker thought he could get a word to Tom Hanks, and Joe Penland thought he could get a word to Dolly Parton. We’ll see where that all leads.

I will certainly see what I can do to approach Blake.

Of course there is much work to do. I had such high hopes, based on his own word, that by now we would have an answer from A. G. Gentner Drummond. I’m currently frustrated that his promise of an answer by May 1 still isn’t met. We don’t quit and I am still working on getting a second meeting with him to ask him to carry the ball on the Constitutional lawsuit.

David Walker is working very hard on trying to get the statutory commission legislation attached to a must-pass budget bill sometime this year.

Les Rubin with his organization and myself with the power of our organization are both working on defining a message that a celebrity personality would be willing to carry. We had a productive start on that this week. We will meet again next week.

I could go on, but it is not good for these letters to get too long.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

For our Common Good,

R. Brian Walter

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