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March 15, 2026, In the Year of Our Lord
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KENTUCKY Gives DeSantis Platform to Push BBA. Your Help Is Needed to Push Back!!!
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who claims he's not running for President, showed up on Feb. 18 to testify at a suddenly arranged, "discussion only" HEARING held especially for the celebrity governor. DeSantis has been touring states that are considering Article V applications. In Kentucky, he testified for HCR 45 with Loren Enns, who leads the national campaign for a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA).
DeSantis appeared well-versed in all the usual "conservative" groups' deceptive talking points and brought up one whopper we hadn't heard before. He insisted there is no special interest money behind the push for the Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA)—because the special interests seek handouts from Congress & State Governments—something which would be curtailed by balancing the federal budget.
Gov. DeSantis is confused by his own false narrative! HCR 45 only pretends to be about balancing the budget. The purpose of the millions upon millions of dollars in globalist money pouring into the coffers of the CON Lobby over the past decade, is to get their hands on our Constitution—that's the prize! The idea of "balancing the federal budget" is merely an enticement to get legislators to pass applications that can trigger a convention, where our Constitution is at risk.
Also pending in the same Kentucky committee is a Convention of States (COS) application and a feckless Delegate bill which serves only to falsely assure state legislators that the convention can't runaway. We'll be blasting the COS application separately. Please educate all Kentucky House members on the dangers of an Article V Convention and the real purpose of delegate bills.
Let's stop the CON Lobby in its tracks!
The Legislation
Here is the legislation we oppose in the Kentucky House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee:
HCR 45 (BBA). Pending in the House Elections . . . Committee since Feb. 3. A suddenly arranged "discussion only" hearing for Gov. DeSantis was held Feb. 18. Can be heard again or voted on as soon as Thurs., March 19 @ 10:00 am (EDT). The committee usually meets on random Thursdays with no notice.
HB 775 (Delegate bill). Pending in the House Elections . . . Committee since March 5. Can be heard or voted on as soon as Thurs., March 19 @ 10:00 am (EDT). The committee usually meets on random Thursdays with no notice.
HCR 51 (COS). Pending in the House Elections . . . Committee since Feb. 9. Can be heard or voted on as soon as Thurs. March 19 @ 10:00 am (EDT). The committee usually meets on random Thursdays with no notice. This application will be blasted separately.
Your House Letter
Talking Points and suggested short messages are at the end of this blast. Either will work for letters. Mention all 3 bill numbers at the end of your letter.
Please write all 100 members of the Kentucky House, and tell them why they should VOTE NO on HCR 45, HB 775, & HCR 51.
Copy the addresses below as a block into “BCC,” and copy your own address into the “To” box; and place the bill# and description on the subject line. Something simple like "VOTE NO on HCR 45 & HB 775 (Article V convention)" will work.
House Addresses
Republican Representatives (80)—Dear Representative: (If you're a Republican or conservative, tell them so!)
Shane.Baker@kylegislature.gov, kim.banta@kylegislature.gov, jared.bauman@kylegislature.gov
Daniel.Fister@kylegislature.
Matthew.Koch@kylegislature.gov
marianne.proctor@
Democrat Representatives (20)—Dear Representative:
chad.aull@kylegislature.gov, Tina.Bojanowski@kylegislature.
Written Testimony
The Committee doesn't notify the public of hearings until the day before or as late as the morning of the hearing. It is up to the Committee Chair as to whether he'll accept your testimony.
So since we don't know when a meeting might be scheduled, please send an email (cover letter) to Rep. Johnson, Committee Chair, with a subject line similar to "Request to submit written testimony against HCR 45 & HB 775." Tell him you're requesting him to submit your written testimony for distribution to the members of the House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, along with the meeting materials, whenever the bills are scheduled. Attach your testimony.
In the attachment, address your testimony to Rep. Johnson, Chair; Rep. Hodgson, Vice Chair; and Members of the House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee:
And send your email (cover letter) with the attachment to the following address: Dear Rep. Johnson:
DJ.Johnson@Kylegislature.gov
Thank you for defending our Constitution!
Talking Points—for Either Party
Choose just one or write your own. Or paste/modify a short message at the end of this blast.
Note: Often links, their associated paragraphs, and/or suggested short messages within each blast have been updated and are appropriate for that particular blast only. So make sure any suggestions you copy for the purpose of this blast, are from the section below— and not from a former blast:
This 14-minute CLIP from the House floor debate is a must for every Representative to listen to before voting on Kentucky's HCR 45. Rep. Ilana Rubel (D) and Rep. Judy Boyle (R) hit it out of the ballpark in presenting bipartisan opposition to the same legislation in another state last month. They refute the false arguments that the convention lobby has been inundating legislators with for a decade, along with the latter's new narrative—that despite the language of the application, your vote will serve only to scare Congress into proposing the Amendment itself! [https://x.com/casey_whalen/
Balanced Budget Amendment lobbyists testify that there will never be a convention, and they don't want a convention. They claim history proves that Congress always proposes its own Amendment when 33 states pass applications asking them to call a convention. Thus, their lobbyists assure you that there will never be a runaway convention! “Threatening Congress with Article V Applications” demolishes their argument. State Legislators who vote to apply to Congress for a convention, while trusting that Congress will never call a convention, are playing with fire.
U.S. Representatives have already introduced proposed constitutional Amendments for a balanced budget. See H.J.Res. 10; H.J.Res. 2; H.J.Res. 3; H.J.Res. 6; H.J.Res. 11; H.J.Res. 17; This would eliminate the need for Legislatures to risk a constitutional convention by applying to Congress for one. With congressional amendments already on the table, a resolution backing them makes far more sense than applications that could inadvertently lead to a runaway convention.
"State Legislatures cannot dictate Amendments to be considered at an Art. V Convention" shows that lobbyists' assurances that Congress can't call a Convention until they receive applications from 34 states asking for the same Amendment are false. A proposed Congressional "call," H.CON.RES. 15 (2025-2026), proves that Congress might combine all applications together—including centuries-old, obsolete, and rescinded applications—to reach the 34-State threshold! This contradicts what convention lobbyists have been telling State Legislators for years, to falsely assure them that a convention can't run away.
"State Legislatures have no power to select & control Delegates" shows that Congress decides the number and selection process for Delegates. Furthermore, Delegates have the "self-evident" Right "to alter or to abolish” our existing "Form of Government," as recognized by the Declaration of Independence, 2nd para. So, no one has power over Delegates! But lobbyists falsely assure state legislators that State Legislatures would control the convention—so they'll vote for applications that could trigger a convention.
The “Brilliant Men” flyer shows that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, four US Supreme Court Justices, and other jurists and scholars warned that Delegates to an Article V convention can't be controlled.
"What the Convention Lobby Isn't Telling You About the Declaration of Independence” shows why Delegates to an Article V convention have the power to throw off the Constitution we have and set up a new one, with a new and easier mode of ratification. The only power State Legislatures are granted under Article V is to ask Congress to call a Convention.
For Democrats Only:
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is required to hold a constitutional convention if two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) call for one. But here’s the catch: there are absolutely no rules for an Article V Convention outlined in the Constitution. That means the group of people convening to rewrite our Constitution could be totally unelected and unaccountable. There is nothing that could limit the convention to a single issue, so the delegates could write amendments that revoke any of our most cherished rights . . . In short, an Article V Convention would be a disaster.
Or:
You might quote from Chief Justice Warren Burger's LETTER to Phyllis Schlafly dated June 22, 1988:
“...[T]here is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda...After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda…”
Suggestions for Very Short Letters
Use Talking Points above; or select a message, modify it, or write your own:
1. The Convention Lobby presents no evidence to support their claim that Congress blinks and proposes their own Amendment when 33 States threaten them with applications.
2. Congress—not the States—determine how the Delegates are selected, and no one knows who the Delegates will be or what will happen at a convention.
3. State Legislatures have no power to control Delegates to an Art. V Convention.
4. There's no such thing as a limited convention.
5. Delegates to a convention called by Congress under Art. V would have more power than state legislators and Congress put together. They could rewrite our Constitution with an easier ratification process—like they did in 1787.
6. Don't believe the high-powered lobbyists who tell you that there will never be a convention—but that you should vote for the application in order to scare Congress into passing the Amendment itself. That's playing with fire!
7. The lobbyists are telling you what you want to hear, in order to get your vote. Because of legislators' concerns about a runaway convention, the lobbyists are falsely assuring you that there will never be a convention and that they don't want a convention!
8. One-State/One-Vote and limiting the scope of the convention are empty promises by high-powered lobbyists. According to the Constitution, the only Art. V power granted to State Legislatures is the power to ask Congress to call a convention, period.
9. The subject of the application doesn't matter. The subject is only bait to get your vote—since conventions can't be limited to the subject of the application.
10. This is not the political environment to be having a convention and opening up our Constitution.
11. The Constitution isn't the problem! So amending it isn't the solution.
12. Congress can balance the budget without an Amendment. The budget isn't balanced, because Congress doesn't follow our current Constitution.
13. If Congress isn't following the Constitution now, how would amending it change anything?
14. No Amendment is worth losing our Constitution and our Form of Government over!
