{"id":2319,"date":"2017-04-05T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2017-04-05T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:10:39","slug":"9-not-exciting-things-know-convention-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/04\/9-not-exciting-things-know-convention-states\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Not-So-Exciting Things to Know About Convention of States"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/653\/2017\/04\/bald-eagles-44243_640-e1491397190785.jpg\" alt=\"bald-eagles-44243_640\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p>I get a lot of questions about how the Convention of States Project operates, especially since we are a national movement with a growing presence in the grassroots, the media, and state capitols around the country. What follows are answers to some of the questions our detractors fantasize will expose and damage the Convention of States Project. Though this information has always been available to everyone, here are the answers to some issues about which people are sometimes curious. (Plus, I threw in some bonus material I thought folks might like to know.)<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Corporate Headquarters.<\/strong> We don\u2019t really have one. We neither need nor want a fancy corporate office. The majority of us work from our homes, hotels when we\u2019re on the road, or wherever we happen to find ourselves with a computer and a cellphone at the moment. I work from home when I\u2019m not traveling and hanging out with grassroots folks all over the country. My Executive Vice President and his assistant share an office space with another small business. Fancy, huh? Sometimes we get some mail there. For other matters, our mail comes to post office boxes. We\u2019re frugal and fiscally conservative. We don\u2019t believe a non-profit should spend excessively on overhead. Donors work hard for their money, and when you\u2019re largely run on donor funds from regular folks who are giving $5, $10 and $20 donations, it\u2019s important that you operate in a way that shows you understand that. We never forget.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/55907615\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 62.457912% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/55907615?et=pfMWunlbR69LGDymunCZ1w&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=8wqcFWF1GioDq_o5ueymoAFw6FJMsAiZXn9_VohiX8s=\" width=\"594\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2. <strong>Our Employees.<\/strong> Since we don\u2019t have a corporate office per se, our employees are spread across the country from coast to coast. They range from administrative staff, support staff for our volunteers, and Regional Directors, to our General Counsel and our National Legislative Director. They are from all walks of life, and many of them weren\u2019t involved in politics or the non-profit world before. Some of them were interns for us or students we hired straight out of school. We have a couple of grads from Patrick Henry College because my co-founder Michael Farris is the founder of the college and has access to some of the brightest young adults in the world. The one thing they all have in common is a desire to serve their fellow citizens in the restoration of liberty.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 508px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/599897720\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.732283% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/599897720?et=gZ8nOhV_Sap5CFfiSPnDTw&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=1yI6eDWW5V5c5fs4bAbeISQ8kbQSPPIDkoeJhH5Er4g=\" width=\"508\" height=\"339\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3. <strong>Prayer.<\/strong> Many of us pray\u2026regularly. I know, it\u2019s kind of funny to say this, but I get asked about it sometimes because the fact is that in many states the grassroots have set up \u201cPrayer Warrior\u201d teams. These are folks who regularly pray for legislators, and who pray for fellow activists in need of prayer. It\u2019s a wonderful, spontaneous thing. We are an organization that accepts everyone, including folks who want to pray for other people. It\u2019s pretty cool and I\u2019m really proud of it.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 509px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/646217900\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.601179% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/646217900?et=Z-6TszTzTf1ztIAl55XqCw&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=XN_x-hvXKWU6uz4YFsXQT1yjXC6-XNAd52lDBv_QQww=\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>4. <strong>Grassroots Lobbying.<\/strong> The government regulates the activity of delivering signed petitions and asking grassroots to call or email their own legislator as \u201cgrassroots lobbying.\u201d We at COS deliver your signed petitions to state legislators, and we urge citizens to contact their state legislators, so we are constantly engaged in \u201cgrassroots lobbying.\u201d Additionally, when our legal or executive teams appear at state legislative committee hearings as expert witnesses on the topic of Conversation of States, we are required to register as lobbyists in order to enter those state legislatures. This is something we find distasteful to do, since \u201clobbyists\u201d are often part of the problem with what ails this nation. (And our parents didn\u2019t raise us to be \u201clobbyists.) However, since we follow the rule of law, we have to register. The good news is, we lobby to return power to the people, as in We the People. We want the government to be accountable to and work on behalf of regular people. Because it\u2019s best when decisions are made at home, we want decisions to be made by regular citizens or by entities closest to regular citizens\u2026 definitely not by bureaucrats in faraway Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 514px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/89418919\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 64.980545% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/89418919?et=vJHCwZ8uRGZKxNGDodnGbg&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=3BEVnHQYFmb9GUZc8OY6CcPXoR6D95ezrq_Y8zOy8cA=\" width=\"514\" height=\"334\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5. <strong>Volunteers.<\/strong> We\u2019ve got an army of them, and the truth is, they are the ones who make this movement tick. They are the blood, sweat, and tears. They are the patriots, the fighters for liberty, and the real heroes. Every day we thank God for the multitudes of grassroots volunteers in every state in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 509px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/503985780\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.601179% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/503985780?et=DTo0AjZJRXtupwpCbzv5VQ&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=FQvq7NHyVZ9xRvOnYlqkY3wxYoXX-4OnHSb-_W6Ympo=\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>6. T<strong>he rumors about the army we\u2019re building.<\/strong> Yeah\u2026we\u2019re forming an army\u2026an army of activists that is. And we\u2019re really proud of them. Many of our activists are veterans. And many of them are part of our Veterans for COS. Many of these veterans were leaders in their service branch, and they are continuing to honor their oath to defend the Constitution. But we don\u2019t just have veterans, the activists voluntarily gathering around COS represent a broad cross-section of America. We have volunteers from every state legislative district in America. We have had sixteen year olds testify as well as eighty year olds.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/480877279\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.161616% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/480877279?et=jO9rss5ZSYV3EJmJURGhZg&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=2qwfKjPbzn0B9c9icjIVaQ18BQqyTFPc9CkyhM9LJbE=\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>7. <strong>Self-governance.<\/strong> We want to practice as well as promote our American heritage of self-governance. That is the the thing that makes America an exception. It is the thing de Tocqueville noticed about America. We don\u2019t need an authority to tell us to do things, we figure it out on our own.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 522px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/470883082\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 63.409962% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/470883082?et=GIHhLhUQQsBVCkpOQ0n_0g&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=eyTibykFDuRoALK1vrkMAuc-BA7Xh2ve5rbsB6ElHy4=\" width=\"522\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>8. <strong>Zealotry.<\/strong> Yes, we are indeed zealots for the Convention of States cause. We get accused of this all the time, so I just want to put it in writing. It\u2019s true. We believe it\u2019s a binary choice. You either like the power in D.C., or you want it back home, in your state. If you support the idea of a Convention of States, then you want the power back home. If not\u2026well, we think it\u2019s weird, but apparently, you like the people living Washington, D.C.making your decisions for you.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/638088676\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.845118% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/638088676?et=sVh81vyOR99FEAGw41GXyg&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=W1H0BBoEcaeoFqilEsTHnzxKTVHBZYBiSmdDhZYyo08=\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>9. <strong>Simplicity.<\/strong> We\u2019re simple, and we like it that way. There is one single question that is addressed by the Convention of States Project. It\u2019s what we\u2019re all about. The question is, \u201cWho Decides?\u201d The answer is, just like the Founders, \u201cWe the People.\u201d It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that folks in the states should be deciding most issues for themselves, instead of ceding important decisions to disconnected elitists in Washington, DC, then welcome to the club, and welcome to the Convention of States Project family of patriots. On the other hand, if you believe that a ruling elite in DC should be deciding important issues for the rest of us\u2026well\u2026 you might not be happy with the growing momentum of self-governance that\u2019s taking this nation by storm.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movement is sweeping the nation.  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