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In a significant development for Arizona conservatives, the Coalition for a Conservative Majority (CCM),
the national, Washington, D.C.-based conservative organization founded
by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and chaired by former Ohio
Secretary of State Ken Blackwell opened its Phoenix-area chapter
earlier this year. Earlier this month, the organization also announced
the election of seasoned conservative leader and writer Michael Johns
as its Phoenix-area chapter President, an early indication that the
organization is taking its efforts in the nation’s fifth largest city
very seriously.

Conservative leader Michael Johns

Michael Johns brings to CCM over 20 years of industry, public
policy, and government experience. One of the nation’s most prominent
conservative policy advocates and writers, Johns has served as a White
House speechwriter to former President George H. W. Bush, a senior aide
to former New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean,
a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s foremost
conservative public policy research institute, and an editor of Policy Review, one of the nation’s leading conservative journals.

Johns has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, National Review,
and many other publications. He appears regularly on PBS, CNBC, C-SPAN,
Fox Morning News, Sirius Satellite, and other networks as a
spokesperson for conservative policy positions. Johns is also the
author of a widely-read conservative blog.

Over the past two decades, Johns has been at the forefront of many
of the nation’s highest profile public policy debates, providing an
articulate and consistent defense of conservative positions on national
security, foreign policy, health care, energy, fiscal and other issues
confronting the nation.

In addition to his extensive public policy and governmental
experience, Johns has significant private sector experience, serving
for over a decade as a health care executive with several global
companies in the pharmaceutical, home health, medical device and
medical supply industries. Born in Pennsylvania, Johns holds a
Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Miami,
where he majored in economics and graduated with honors.

Sorona Alliance spoke with Johns on June 21 in Phoenix about his
assessment of the current state of modern conservatism, policy issues
facing the nation and Arizona, and the role that he envisions CCM
playing in supporting and defending conservative policy initiatives.

SA: Congratulations on your leadership role with
CCM. A first question: A lot of political observers are increasingly
viewing Arizona and Phoenix as a growing center of American
conservative political advocacy. Do you see it this way?

Johns: I do. It’s not necessarily a new phenomenon.
Goldwater was born here in the early 1900s. That whole Goldwater
revolution, which really gave birth to modern conservatism, didn’t
start with his 1964 challenge of Lyndon Johnson. It really began with
the things he did as a city councilman here. His election to the Senate
here in 1958 was key. It paved the way for 1964 and Conscious of a Conservative.
It’s impossible to look at modern conservatism and not see the
groundswell of support for Goldwater’s efforts and ideas as the bridge
that got us here. Those ideas worked on a city level in the late 1940s
and 1950s here, then they worked on a state level in 1958, and they
gave birth to a national movement in 1964. And without that 1964 race,
there never would have been a 1980, in my view. The Reagan revolution
wasn’t born in California. It matured there, but it was born right here
in Arizona with Goldwater. In my view, that makes Arizona the
birthplace of modern American conservatism.

SA: As you know and have said yourself, there is a
lot of concern that this Reagan era of conservatism is waning and that
the movement is losing its appeal. Do you agree with that?

Johns: No, you need to separate the current angst
over major challenges facing this nation from the proposed conservative
remedies to those challenges. I believe that this moment is almost
proving the opposite conclusion: That conservatism is alive and vibrant
and relevant in 2008. It is the most influential political ideology of
modern times. And it doesn’t matter what the issue is because when I
look at this hugely critical conflict against the forces of global
terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, when I see our solutions
to this energy crisis in the “drill now” campaign, when I see the
market-based solutions emerging for solutions to the crises we face in
health care and the devaluation of the dollar, all of the intellectual
energy and solutions are coming from conservatism.

Anyone can preach about income redistribution schemes as some class
warfare response to our ills. There is no historical evidence—none—of
those sorts of solutions ever working for this or any other nation.
They won’t work now either. And in this war against global terrorism,
I’m concerned that the stakes are being underestimated. There is no
solution to this threat short of victory. We will win or we will lose.
You can’t say “we will fight al-Qaeda here, but not here.” If you make
Iraq what we made Cambodia or Laos during the Vietnam War, and say we
will not engage them there, or we just need to get out of there, the
signal is sent that there are prices we will not pay in defense of this
nation. In a war against barbarism, we then have one foot in our grave.
The good news is that the conservative position on this war is proving
right. We saw in Basra that this Iraqi military will fight for this
cause too. We once had an enemy—a very serious enemy of democracy,
human rights, and regional stability—in Saddam. I truly believe we have
an ally in Prime Minister Maliki.

SA: Tell us about the Coalition for a Conservative Majority. Where do you see CCM going?

Johns: My own view is that it’s going to be huge.
We are tapping into a lot of policy-driven energy and resources. People
are galvanizing around conservatism and this moment of time. Any
thinking American knows this nation is at the crossroads in nearly
every way. So I see CCM taking a lead in helping define, defend, and
advance constructive policy solutions to this nation’s challenges. We
will lead in authentic ways, offering real solutions to 21st century
challenges, and we will prevail. I would not lend my time or energy to
any effort that I did not see, at this point, as being central to
placing this nation on a constructive course. I see that with CCM. I
admire the national leadership of this organization, and I feel this
dynamism among the conservative movement in Phoenix. I mentioned
Goldwater earlier because I feel that his efforts here in the 1950s
gave birth to modern conservatism. Sixty years later, there is still
this electricity here. I think we are going to show that modern
conservatism wasn’t just born here; I think we are going to show that
it was reinvigorated here.

I think it’s also important to realize that, like any membership
organization, it’s the CCM members that define the priorities and
direction of the organization. I have some very formulated views that
I’ve developed over the years, and they by and large reflect
traditional conservative policy thinking. But I’ve also learned that
leadership is about trusting the people, and the great thing is that we
have members whose views and input is very seasoned, and I think that’s
something that will only grow further, so my trust goes deep.

And then it’s also important to remember that we are a legitimate
coalition. We are looking for any and all allies who share some or all
of our conservative agenda. We want to work with people, not against
them, and I’m encouraged that, as part of this, there are number of
great conservative institutions here with which I hope we can work. I
look at the Goldwater Institute as one of the most successful state
think tanks in the nation. Americans for Prosperity and Arizona
Federation of Taxpayers do an excellent job on the fiscal issues
confronting the state. I think Arizona’s PAChyderm holds great
potential and has some wonderful members. The Center of Arizona Policy
and Arizona Right to Life have done some fantastic work in helping
defend unborn life. I hope we can work closely with them on those
issues. And the Citizens Defense League has done a wonderful job
protecting the Second Amendment rights in this state at a time when
those rights are being eroded in many other states. We see value in all
of these organizations, and I expect that we will find important areas
of collaboration. And then there’s the entire Congressional delegation.
I expect to meet with each member before Labor Day and hopefully sooner
to express our policy priorities and forge collaborative working
relationships.

SA: CCM was founded by former House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay. What are your views on DeLay’s role as House Majority Leader
and the charges brought against him?

Johns: I think he is a man who proved so effectual
in his advancement of the conservative cause that he was subjected to
incredible and possibly unprecedented scrutiny and ultimately a very
politicized prosecution process. On the whole, he advanced the
conservative agenda during his service in the House, and I know he
loves this country deeply.

As for the charges against him, and these, I suppose, are my
personal views, but I think Ronnie Earle is a partisan liberal and, by
any sense of justice, Tom DeLay should not be facing charges. On the
macro level, it exposes real flaws in the American legal system, where
partisan prosecutors were permitted to go to six different grand juries
in various jurisdictions until they obtained the indictment they
sought. And they did all of this as partisans, knowing full well that
House Republican rules would force DeLay to step down from his position
with an indictment, and I think that was their end goal, and they
achieved it. Earle shopped these charges around until he finally found
a grand jury who agreed with him. That isn’t justice. That’s judicial
abuse, and it ill-serves any decent sense of American justice. I
believe the charges are going nowhere and the Majority Leader will be
fully cleared. In fact, it’s my best sense that the charges will be
dropped. I just ask myself why, in America, we can allow an abusive,
partisan prosecutorial system to pursue such tactics. To be truly
honest, it also troubles me that so many Republicans and conservatives
ran for the tall grass when they should have been rallying behind him.
All Americans should be outraged because, at the end of the day, no
American is immune from such undemocratic witch hunts. I hope it points
to the urgent need to curtail the boundless powers afforded prosecutors
and run away grand juries.

SA: You recently had Ward Connerly here to speak on
the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative. I assume that is a CCM priority?
What issues do you see being most important to CCM?

Johns: Well, this is an exciting year for Arizona
ballot initiatives. And I think that when you see so many
conservative-focused ballot initiatives, it suggests what I said
earlier that conservatism is energized. So, yes, the Arizona Civil
Rights Initiative is a priority. I think it sets aside the rhetoric of
a post-racial America and says: ‘Let’s make this a reality.’ Whatever
your historical views on affirmative action, I think we can say that,
in 2008 and beyond, there is no logic in favoring one race or gender
over another in governmental hiring or university admissions. And there
is plenty of harm that is done by it.

I think the Civil Rights Initiative will get the signatures it needs
by July 3 to get on this ballot, and we will make the case as to why it
is sensible, constructive public policy for voters to adapt it this
November. And I know we will face, and are facing, some opposition from
small, radical elements like BAMN (Coalition to Defend Affirmative
Action, Integration, & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By
Any Means Necessary). They represent the racial divides of the past,
and I think the vast majority of Arizonans—and Americans—of all races
want to move beyond it. And it’s not surprising to me to learn that the
FBI has been assessing BAMN. It would be more surprising to me to learn
that they did not have concern with an organization that seems so prone
to violent and illegal acts in pursuit of its goals.

And the Civil Rights Initiative is not the only intriguing ballot
initiative. We obviously need to do more to protect and expand quality
health care coverage in this nation, so another ballot initiative here
will do exactly that, affording Arizonans the right to choose their own
coverage, including out-of-state coverage, if that is their choice. It
is a constructive step forward. And in the immigration area, which I
think is certainly among the top issues confronting the nation, there
are two initiatives that we support fully. One will empower local law
enforcement to enforce immigration laws, and a second will make
trespassing laws apply to illegals. At this juncture, we really need to
be showing our seriousness in enforcing this nation’s immigration laws,
and I think there is a national and statewide consensus that is calling
us and demanding us to do just this.

SA: Especially here in Arizona, don’t you think?

Johns: Absolutely. I see no reason that Arizona
cannot lead this nation in its seriousness on the issue. After all, if
we cannot protect this southern border and preclude without exception
illegals from racing across it, I cannot see how we can say we are
truly serious about homeland security. We have TSA agents searching
90-year-old grandmothers at Des Moines International Airport, but we
permit just about any illegal to enter this country across the Rio
Grande and our southern border? I think, at least I hope, that we can
all agree that such a course is outrageous. It’s unacceptable, and it
needs to change now.

That’s why I think President Bush made a very wise decision in
properly moving USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services) under the Department of Homeland Security. To be serious
about homeland security, there is no option but to defend our borders.
And I do not think anyone can look at this current approach and call it
a serious one when we have 20 million or more illegals in this nation
that we cannot account for and a porous border that anyone with a
little determination can cross today. We have 500,000 or so illegals
every year entering this nation, and this government cannot even answer
with any certainty the very basic question of how many illegals are in
this nation. That seems to me inexcusable and intolerable. There is a
lot of anger around this nation about this government’s obvious
unwillingness to protect its borders, even while it imposes greater
burdens on our own people in the name of national security. It’s a deep
and great anger, and I do not think Washington will be able to dodge
responsibility on it much longer.

I also see other prices we are paying with this open border policy.
We have sanctuary cities established and others emerging. We have
burdens being placed on our hospitals, schools, and other public
service systems. We have enhanced crime and traffic. And in an era of
5.5 percent and rising unemployment, we are offering jobs to illegals
that might otherwise go to Americans. And I do not subscribe to the
thesis that Americans do not want these jobs. Let’s give them the
opportunity. If we have labor shortages, then, ok, let’s go do
something like a labor equivalent to the H-1B or O-1 visa programs, and
give foreigners an opportunity to come and have these jobs. But let’s
make it an orderly process where immigrants are screened for criminal
histories, communicable diseases, etc. And maybe preference should go
to English-speaking applicants because I think we deserve the right to
preserve this as an English-speaking nation. That cannot and will not
happen if this current immigration policy, which is really a lack of a
policy, continues unabated. To operate as if we have no control over
the fabric and composition of this nation is dangerous and illogical.
So we also will support these two ballot initiatives to empower law
enforcement to enforce immigration laws in their work and to make the
criminal trespass laws applicable to illegals.

SA: With your significant experience in health care
management, what do you see as the conservative solution to our
nation’s health care challenges?

Johns: I think I start with the premise that this
conventional wisdom that liberals can solve our crisis through
government is quite possibly the most dangerous policy assumption we’ve
encountered in a long time. If you go back to the 4th Century B.C., you
can find in Hippocrates’ writing the most sensible foundation of
medicinal logic. He wrote something to the effect that: “I will neither
give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a
suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an
abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my
art.”

I find in that a strong endorsement for preventive medicine. We need
to do more to promote exercise and nutrition as foundations for public
health. We need to expand access to quality primary care physicians,
and probably expand the number of primary care physicians themselves. I
think you can also see in this Hippocrates statement the strong
suggestion that it is unethical for physicians to be engaged in any
process of aborting pregnancies or facilitating euthanasia. Is there
not a more glaring example of big government run amok than when we
permit other mortal men to intervene and end the process of innocent
life? I’d like to see strong measures taken to embody the Hippocrates
theme of “first do no harm” into public policy. To me, that means
getting physicians out of the practice of ending life, whether it be
embryonic life or end-stage life. There are over 40 million unborn
children being aborted each year. That’s the sign of a crisis that cuts
right to the center of our culture. A society that cannot protect the
most innocent among us cannot be counted on to protect much else. It
speaks to everything we are as a nation and a people.

Health care becomes complex because there are some incredibly
positive things happening that we do not want to disrupt, and there are
some other things that really cannot afford to stand. We want and need
to encourage health care innovation. Anything that can be done to
encourage private sector remedies to disease prevention or cures needs
to be encouraged. Right now, the vast majority of heath care
expenditures are incurred in the last several years of life, usually as
a result of complex chronic disease. I think it is reasonable to think
that we can expand the average duration of life while also minimizing
our health care costs if we are able to enhance disease prevention and
cures to heart disease, the various cancers and other ailments that
kill millions. Government should provide incentives, and probably
significant ones, to any companies or individual scientists who can
contribute measurably to these ends. One of those best incentives might
not be any direct financial award, but simply expanding some of the
intellectual property rights on these life-saving therapies.

We also need a better functionality of market mechanisms in health
care, and that means affording consumers greater choice so that both
insurers and providers feel some pressure to compete. That rarely
happens in a typical governmental health insurer like Medicaid, and it
rarely happens in traditional private plans. So ultimately we are
talking about revolutionary changes, including probably separating
health insurance from a person’s respective employer and affording
Americans the opportunity to purchase their own plans directly, as
opposed to purchasing them indirectly through employers. Under such a
system, Americans can behave more like traditional consumers, comparing
the various pluses and minuses of various plans and choosing the sort
of plans that meet their own expected health care needs. We can do all
of this, while expanding coverage to the current 45 million or so
Americans currently uncovered, and do it all in a way that better
focuses health providers on health outcomes and takes the bureaucratic
expense out of health insurance. But to move in the direction of some
national solution that does not afford choice and is paid for and run
by government would be to make a huge and possibly unprecedented
mistake that will not serve any goal and certainly will not enhance our
overall goal of wellness. Sure, today’s preachers of universal health
care tell us there will be no deterioration in the quality or cost of
care. Didn’t they also tell us in the 1930s that Social Security income
would never be taxable?

That’s why I look at this Arizona ballot initiative to expand
consumer choice for Arizonans, and I see it as something that, if it
passes, could set off a revolutionary tidal wave of choice-focused,
state-based initiatives, and that would be a great step forward in
enhancing the quality of American health care and Americans’ access to
it.

SA: What is your view on how things stand right now in Arizona?

Johns: Here in Arizona, I truly believe that
conservative ideas and policies will own the future, but there is work
to be done. We need to complete building the bridge from here to there.
We have a Governor, for instance, who preaches her advocacy for
immigration reform. Yet, she has not offered even one single piece of
comprehensive reform and has vetoed nearly every piece of immigration
legislation that has reached her desk. That’s not an immigration
reformer; that’s someone who has become part of the problem. And,
understandably, there is mounting outrage over this lack of leadership.

It’s the same thing on fiscal reform. This is a state that wants low
taxes. In a recessionary climate like this, we need tax relief. It’s
part of the path out of this. But here and again, in our Gubernatorial
leadership, there is no grasp of that fact and no apparent sense of
urgency in stimulating growth. None. It just seems that some liberals
cannot bring themselves to see the damage that they are inflicting with
their tax and spend agendas or sacrifice their ideologies for the sake
of people’s betterment. Right now, we urgently need to be enhancing
liquidity and discretionary spending power, and here you have a
Governor who just cannot seem to bring herself to utter the two words
“tax relief,” except as some epithet. Meanwhile, unemployment has gone
up for the first time since 1991. But there is absolutely no
Gubernatorial leadership here either. Construction jobs are down 30,000
jobs or so since this time a year ago. Want to turn this around? We
need tax relief right now.

The good news is that I know there are many members of the
legislature here who understand the urgency for enhancing discretionary
income through tax relief—people like Ron Gould, Jack Harper, Sam
Crump, Russell Pearce, Judy Burgess, Rick Murphy, and many others. It
really is my hope that they will win even more converts and that we can
get the tax relief that is so desperately needed. I think a big part of
the effort here is to ensure that the generally conservative views of
Arizonans are reflected in the leadership of this state.

I feel better about the Congressional leadership. I first met Jeff
Flake in Windhoek, Namibia in 1989 when he was serving as a Mormon
missionary there. What a great job he has done in highlighting the
Congressional abuses of the earmark system. I’d be hard pressed to name
anyone so similarly effective in drawing attention to wasteful
spending. I hope he will work closely with us on some other matters. In
the Senate, of course, Jon Kyl has one of the best American
Conservative Union rankings of any sitting Senator. As with Congressman
Flake, it’s my hope he will see the urgency in addressing this illegal
immigration crisis. I think they will. I intend to work closely with
them. And I think conservatives have two great friends in Trent Franks
and John Shadegg. I hope we can work closely with them, and I’m sure we
will. And then there is sort of the rest of the delegation, and most of
them cannot be called conservative or even moderate, but I hope that we
can establish some working relationship on one or more issues.

SA: You have a lot of positive feelings about Arizona, though, it seems?

Johns: Like I said earlier, I think there is—and
probably always has been—something unique in the political outlook of
people here. They have views that closely resemble those of our
founding fathers, and they seem as determined as any Americans I have
encountered to involve themselves in defense of our liberty. I haven’t
seen much like it, and I’ve lived in half a dozen states or so. Plus,
there are a lot of people here I respect. I love radio, for instance,
and only here, as far as I know, can you hear a great conservative
radio show like J. D. Hayworth in the late afternoon on KFYI and have
the luxury of three conservative talk radio stations in town from which
to choose. Maybe even four, actually, because I’ve been an Alice Cooper
fan forever—“I’m 18” is one of the best rock songs ever written—and I
listen to him on KDKB and just get the sense he’s probably no liberal.

SA: What’s your opinion about the future of conservatism on a national level?

Most of what we know how to do well as conservatives we learned from
Reagan, and I think Reagan’s ultimate predominant belief was that this
movement and this nation have great days ahead of it. I feel that way.
But to be honest, as I get around the nation and speak to groups or
take calls on radio shows and what not, I sense a lot of anger among
many Americans, including conservatives. It’s an intense anger, and
it’s ok because I want to hear it and I want to understand it. But I
think it’s also a deflected anger because conservatives feel frustrated
that our message is not getting through. And I have to agree: Our
message is not getting through. If it were, you would not see this
nation so susceptible and seemingly open minded to this newly packaged
set of old liberal ideas that is at the core of a national political
campaign and most of modern liberalism. The greatness of this nation
lies in its people, not its government, and I think we need a healthy
reminder of government’s limitations and maybe an equally healthy
reminder of our people’s potential to right our path outside of
government.

And we need to keep a laser-like focus on victory in this war on
terrorism. I hope it is not going to take the decimation of a major
American city for us to wake up to the fact that retreat in the global
war on terror is not an option. War fatigue is inevitable, especially
in an open society, and President Bush correctly warned us following
September 11 that this threat did not develop overnight and it will not
be eradicated overnight. But it is being eradicated. Before it even
started, liberals said the surge would fail. The surge has succeeded.
Liberals said you cannot fight for peace. We have fought, we have made
great progress, and—in so doing—we have kept this nation safe for
nearly seven years. In a complex global war against an enemy with
significant international military resources and a willingness to die
to inflict pain on us in any place at any moment, that is not
insignificant. If this President can leave office in January 2009 able
to say that he defended this nation without exception in the post-9/11
world, then it’s difficult not to contend that this President succeeded
in his most mammoth, Constitutionally-charged responsibility, and did
it despite great odds.

But I look forward and see great threats to this nation. There is no
foregone conclusion, no final chapter written, that ensures America’s
survival. That challenge falls to us. Like a lot of conservatives,
though, I draw a lot of inspiration from this moment in time, knowing
that we carry a heavy weight of responsibility. It isn’t that people
expect us to succeed. They take it for granted that we will. That may
seem presumptuous, but we conservatives led the Cold War victory
against a liberal movement here at home that preached accommodation not
victory. We conservatives have led vibrant economic policies that have
created the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, and we did
this despite those who sought to hamper us at every turn.

So some might see the conflict as one between ideologies, but I see
it more as a conflict between our winning ideas and their opposition to
our winning ideas. There is no liberal plan to win the war on global
terror. There is no legitimate liberal plan for wealth creation. Their
plan is merely to stop us. And that is not a winning plan. So I see
conservatism as a rising star. I see us winning new hearts and minds
every day. I see us bringing constructive policy solutions to all of
these challenges—our peace and security, our economic growth and
prosperity, our health and wellness, our energy challenge, our need to
protect unborn life.

And we will do all of these things without leaving anyone behind
because it’s only America’s greatness and wealth that ultimately can
lift those who need to be lifted. Our government, when it doesn’t work,
is an institution that stands between those Americans who help and
those who need to be helped. Government’s value is transactional,
ultimately. It is not a value added one. And in that fact, I think,
lies the realization that the promises of liberalism are false ones,
and my own assumption that Americans are smart enough to recognize
that, with our nation on the line, it is our first responsibility to
reject liberal falsehoods.

That leaves me with this optimism that we are about to usher in
another American century of greatness, and it will be one rooted in the
historical and modern reaffirmations of conservative policies and
principles. And that isn’t meant to be disrespectful of liberals, most
of whom I believe want the best for this nation. But the jury is in,
and we know that it is conservative policies that marked an upward
surge of this nation in decades gone by. Ultimately, I have no doubt,
it is again conservative policies and principles, applied to our new
set of challenges, that offer us the best opportunity to protect
American greatness in this historic hour.

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3. Socialist Squirrel : www.socilaistsquirrel.com and Radio show www.blogtalkradio.com/socialistsquirrel
4. New! WGGRN.com our Music trip of unsighned artists from state to state! www.blogtalkradio.com/wggrn & blog http://wggrn.com
5. New! Clay Oxen the radio show where we talk about the life we surround ourselves with in our backyard! Blog www.chadeverson.com and radio show is www.blogtalkradio.com/clayoxen

The Grizzly Groundswell is growing and growing! We only need six states to all 50 states represented! So if you live in any of the following states, Start a Blog! If you know of a conservative blog in these states let them and the Grizzly Groundswell know their voice needs to be heard on the Grizzly Groundswell!

1. Conneticut
2. Delaware
3. North Carolina
4. Rhode Island
5. Utah
6. Vermont

These states need a voice in the Grizzly Groundswell!

Also our Radio and Video need representation from your state so if you are currently doing radio or video contact us! Also, if you always wanted to get into it! Contact us as well!

GrizzlyGroundswell@ChadEverson.com

Thanks and I look forward to getting back to together with you all Monday Night 7-9PM CST.

Also Wednesday 5-6PM CST on TheGGRNetwork www.blogtalkradio.com/TheGGRNetwork Cyber Pastor and Mrs. CP will be joining us to talk about their radio ministry “Do the right thing radio!” www.blogtalkradio.com/TheGGRNetwork Cyber Pastor and Mrs. CP will be joining us to talk about their radio ministry “Do the right thing radio!” www.blogtalkradio.com/cyberpastor

Friday from 1-2PM is WGGRN.com’s Grizzly Music: North Dakota! North Dakota bands will be highlighted from www.Garageband.com and played! Join in and listen to the great music at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wggrn

Friday from 2-3PM Clay Oxen Radio show is on where we celebrate the life we surround ourselves in our backyard God gifts us with. Michelle my beautiful wife will join me as we let you into our backyard of our homestead we call “Dream Fulfilled.” Join us here! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ClayOxen

Friday 10PM-Midnight we get a little squirrely at the Socialist Squirrel chasing them out of our beloved institutions and government! Eeevil Conservative from Atlanta Georgia http://www.eeevilconservative.com/ & her radio show by the same name: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/eeevil-conservative will join Teddy Bear of http://grizzlygroundswell.com and Doug from Eagan of http://politicalgravitas.com as we lay out the Socialist Squirrel tactics and I hope you can sleep that night when you find out how really close they truly are to defeating us from within! Join us here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/socialistsquirrel and join in the fun at our blog http://socialistsquirrel.com

As you can see the Grizzly Groundswell is truly Awakened, Standing UP, Stepping into Action and Changing Political Landscapes all across this Great Nation, and Inspiring Others to do the Same!

Join Us!

~Teddy Bear