Dan Parnell for U.S. House of Representatives

On Guns and Liberty

Submitted by Dan Parnell on Wed, 2011-09-28 15:05

Did you know that there has been a massive protest going on in New York city for over a week now? It's called "Occupy Wall Street" and it's an organic grass-roots movement of regular middle-class Americans who are angry at the decades of exploitation—both financial and political—by Wall Street elites. Until this week, it's hardly been covered by the national media at all. While the Tea Potty abominations have been getting 24/7 coverage of their sparsely attended crazy-rallies, real Americans who have dared to stand up to entrenched wealthy interests haven't received any coverage.

At least not until an NYPD commander walked up to a group of trapped women and maced them with absolutely no provocation whatsoever. Two days ago, Lawrence O'Donnell covered it in his excellent Rewrite segment on his 8PM MSNBC show:

There is an epidemic of police brutality and misconduct in America that has gone largely ignored by the national media. Until now.

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Stick a Fork in it — DADT is Done

Submitted by Dan Parnell on Tue, 2011-09-20 21:03

At midnight this morning, the final repeal of the hateful "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that kicked more than 14,000 qualified and talented service members out of the military just because of who they were went into effect. This harmful policy made hundreds of thousands of dedicated men and women in uniform live in fear each day that they would be outed and lose their career. It forced our military members to lie, and it allowed malefactors to blackmail soldiers with the truth about their sexual orientation. It flushed millions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet as well-trained and well-qualified people were terminated based only on whom they love.

Despite screeching regressive Republican objections, President Obama made this repeal happen, and today we can see the real human impact of this kind of progress. Watch below as one airman finally is able to tell his father who he is, and see the relief as the horrible burden of DADT is lifted from his shoulders:

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Your rights. You're right. Dan Parnell for Congress.

Welcome to the Dan Parnell for Congress website. It is my hope that this website will give you an idea of who I am, why I am running, and why you should care.

I was born in Western New York in 1986, and moved to Melbourne in 2004 to attend the Florida Institute of Technology, where I have remained. I studied Aviation Management with Flight at the Bachelor of Science level at the Florida Institute of Technology, and earned several FAA certificates, ratings, and endorsements while in flight training at FIT Aviation. I have seen and experienced Florida from high above, and enjoy a perspective shared by few.

Since the historic election of Barack Obama to the Presidency and the subsequent takeover of the House of Representatives by Republicans in 2010, Florida’s 15th District has seen what happens when promises are made and left unfulfilled. Congressman Bill Posey has served as our representative since the 2008 election season, and despite Barack Obama’s wide-sweeping and forward-thinking agenda, obstructionism from our congressional representative has resulted in unimpressive returns here in the 15th District.

In July of 2009, Mr. Posey went so far as to introduce a congressional bill challenging the citizenship of the President, catering to the extreme right-wing “birther” crowd. Then, in January of 2011, Mr. Posey voted in favor of re-defining rape as part of a coordinated effort by neo-conservative groups to restrict a woman's access to emergency contraceptive health care. These token votes, nods to far-right social conservative fringe elements, waste both our time and tax money and provide no useful benefit for our district.

We deserve better. If we want the opportunities that have reached the rest of the nation to be made available to us here in Melbourne, Vero Beach, Cocoa, and Kissimmee, we need honest representation that has the 15th District as the foremost priority. I offer the fresh start that is exactly what this 15th District needs: someone who is a true Washington outsider, someone with no hegemony to protect, someone who genuinely believes in the United States of America.

I will bring jobs and opportunity back to the 15th District. I will strive to uphold the ideals of the Constitution: freedom and equality for all, and a federal government mindful of all constitutional amendments, especially Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 14. See how fresh ideas from a fresh face can benefit you in Congress by voting Parnell in November 2012. Together, we will renew the viability of Florida’s 15th as a sector of business development, opportunity, education, and freedom.

The Parnell campaign is committed to a bold progressive agenda for Florida's 15th District, bringing jobs, liberty, and equality to all Space Coast citizens with a focus on reform, modernization, and efficiency. Become part of the Parnell campaign today, and help usher in a bright new future for both our state and our country.

If you have any questions, whether personal or policy, I’d love to hear from you.