Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) has joined the Convention of States as a senior adviser, a press release announces.
“I’ve finally realized the most important truth of our time: Washington, D.C. will never fix itself,” DeMint said in a statement. “Convention of States is the only solution.”
“His extensive experience in Washington gives him first-hand knowledge of the near-impossible task of making significant changes from within the federal government,” states the Convention about DeMint.
DeMint, the former president of the Heritage Foundation, added:
I tried to rein in Washington from inside the House and Senate, then by starting the Senate Conservatives Fund to elect good conservatives, and finally as President of the Heritage Foundation, creating and promoting good, conservative policy. But once I realized that Washington will never willingly return decision-making power back to the American people and the states, I began to search for another way to restrain the federal government. I am excited to get outside the beltway and work with the grassroots of the Convention of States Project to continue the fight I started almost two decades ago.
“The time is now for bold action to save America, and Jim DeMint knows how to fight the opposition to do what is best for Nation and the People,” said Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Convention of States Project. “He is a principled legislative leader and a friend of the grassroots, which makes his addition to the Convention of States Project a natural fit.”
DeMint joins former Sen. Tom Coburn, who is also a senior advisor with the Convention of States Project.
“The Founders’ vision was never to surrender sovereignty, yet the people have been willing for more than half a century to hand over their liberty for the carrots of big government, said Meckler. “The slow-creep of waste, fraud, abuse and selfish interests, along with unfathomable debt, has made citizens frustrated with all branches and departments of the federal government. The Convention of States is the constitutional, viable solution the Founders gave us for exactly this moment.”
The Convention of States project is organized in all 50 states. Twelve states have passed the project’s resolution calling for limited federal government and term limits on federal officials, such as judges: Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, North Dakota, Missouri and Texas.
Virginia hosted a Simulated Article V Convention of States in the fall of 2016. The 2017 legislative session has included 32 states considering the Convention of States resolution, reports the project.
Other endorsers of the Convention of States include conservative author and host Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, American economist Thomas Sowell, Sheriff David Clarke, Lt. Bill Cowan, historian David Barton, Ben Carson, M.D., Ken Cuccinelli, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ron Johnson, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan, former Gov. Jeb Bush, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. John Kasich, former Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Greg Abbot, and Col. Allen West.