OBAMAPHONES MAKING MEGA-MILLIONS FOR HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS

Dear Conservative,
Remember our ad in 2012 featuring the Obama Phone lady?

We made her famous with our TV ad that showed her shouting “Obama gave us a phone.” She was referring to the government subsidized “Lifeline” program in which the government gave out millions of phones to welfare recipients.
The main beneficiary of the program is a company called TracFone that is controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. TracFone has launched a fierce lobbying effort to save the “ObamaPhone” program because they are making $9.25 a month per customer. That came out to almost 452 MILLION dollars last year in government subsidies.

Here’s the worst part—the company CEO, F.J. Pollak, hosted a fundraiser for Obama’s re-election campaign last year. Pollak’s wife is a MAJOR Obama fundraiser who raised over 1.5 million dollars for Obama in 2012. Now they’re getting a massive political kickback from the President. This has to stop, NOW.
That’s where Tea Party Victory Fund comes in. We’re fighting to kill the “ObamaPhone” program. We’re fighting for a bill that Sen. David Vitter has introduced that would end the ObamaPhone program forever. But we need your help right now.
Senator Vitter is a fierce critic of this wasteful program, aiming to kill the program through amendments in the Senate’s budget resolution and farm bill. He also has introduced separate legislation. We are backing him up everywhere we can, putting pressure on Senators to pass this bill. We are going to flood their offices with calls from constituents, and run TV ads in their states urging them to support Senator Vitter’s amendment.
“TracFone is upset because I’m fighting to end this program, which would also end their corporate welfare,” Vitter said. Lifeline, he said, has grown too bloated. “Now it’s an out-of-control, fraud-ridden entitlement program…”
He’s absolutely right. This is government waste, corruption and political cronyism, all rolled into one. It's a kickback for helping Obama get re-elected.
This issue is a microcosm of the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans want to create an environment where free people make their own choices and pursue their dreams. President Obama and the Democrats want to create a dependency on Government that ensures that Americans will continue to rely on Washington from cradle to grave.

The Obama record on entitlements is atrocious. Chew on these numbers for a second:

• The ObamaPhones are paid for by a charge on YOUR land line and cell phone line
• The FCC estimates that over 269,000 recipients of the program have more than one “ObamaPhone” which is ILLEGAL
• 1 in 7 Americans on food stamps today, the most ever! No wonder Obama has been called "The Food Stamp President."
• Obama has increased our debt to 16 TRILLION dollars! That's a legacy of debt and enslavement that our children will be forced to pay for generations to come. That's not just bad policy, it's immoral.

We have to fix the spending problem this country has. The most immediate way we can do that is to kill this ObamaPhone program RIGHT NOW.
TracFone has already spent over $600,000 on crooked lobbyists fighting for this program. We are fighting back, but we need your help to do it.
Senator Vitter is doing a great thing trying to kill the "ObamaPhone" program, but he needs our help. This is one place where we really can take a bite out of the welfare state, but we have to act now. Join us today, and let’s end the "ObamaPhone" program forever.
For America,
Ken Blackwell
Chairman, Tea Party Victory Fund