A Tea Party Democrat

[Steinhauer]

Newsmax - First Tea-Party Democrat to Run for Congress

"I'm not running as a member of a tea party group," Curtis told Newsmax in the exclusive interview "I'm running as a Democrat, I'm running as a constitutional Democrat. What I see is a shredding of the Constitution. And it's been done by Republicans and it's being done by Democrats now. I'm just not going to stand by idly any longer and watch it happen."

"I'd hoped there would be enough representation in Washington to uphold the Constitution," Curtis tells Newsmax. "And Sunday evening showed me that's not the case."

Curtis describes the federal requirement that citizens purchase healthcare insurance as "unconstitutional."

"The one area that the Congress cites for their authority to impose this individual mandate is the Commerce Clause," Curtis says. "There are regulations in place now that proscribe, that prohibit, the selling of insurance across state lines. Well, that's specifically what our Founding Fathers didn't want to have happen. That's why they wrote in the Commerce Clause. So they're using the constitutional basis, citing as their constitutional basis, the antithesis to what it was intended to be."

"There are those within the tea party/9-12 movement who will be skeptical, and untrusting, that anyone with a D behind their name could actually subscribe to and support and defend, the Founding Fathers' views and principles of the Constitution. And then there will be those from the other side, from my own party, who will be skeptical. But worse than that, they'll deny that I'm even a real Democrat."

 

[netrox]

he isnt getting my vote.

 

[Foxrac]

he isnt getting my vote.

Second here but there is several conservative democrats are much like Tea Party like they voted against on health care reform on last Sunday.