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A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a Colorado state representative of the Continental Congress 2009 asking that our group, the Northern Colorado Liberty Group, nominate somebody to run to be one of three delegates from Colorado. The election is October 10th and Continental Congress is November 9th – 22nd. At our last meeting Jerry Patterson of Fort Collins was selected as our group’s nomination.

I met Jerry during Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign. He was an important asset to our group as he helped teach many of us learn Robert’s Rules of Order as well as share his knowledge he had gained from being at other state conventions. He has a good knowledge of history and a deep understanding of the Constitution. He is logical, fair, and has a sense of humor; he would be an asset to the Continental Congress and I strongly support his candidacy.

See a video of Jerry telling us why he wants to be one of our state’s delegates:

Visit Colorado’s state page to read more about Jerry Patterson and the other nominees by clicking HERE.

Jerry Patterson wrote the following after his nomination:

I would be honored to serve Colorado as one of the delegates to the 2009 Continental Congress. My love for our republic and my heartbreak over its slow and painful destruction continues to grow and grow. As a young boy, watching things like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Congressional proceedings on C-SPAN (I never said I was normal) coupled with my knowledge of our history, our hard-fought independence, our brilliantly structured government and Constitution and our rare liberties stirred something deep inside me. I still tear up every time I hear and sing those beautiful words penned by Francis Scott Key while he awaited the desperate fate of his fellow patriots, seeing our beautiful flag still flying high after a fierce battle. It reminds me of the precious gift and sacred trust we have in our country and Constitution that was won with much of our fellow patriots’ blood.

I have waited and hoped that, as the pendulum “always” swings that we would see a peaceable and natural correction back toward our founding principles. I have been found wanting of this “correction” my whole life and now see the light at the end of the tunnel dimming and no swinging back as the current empowered jackals have decided to run our blessed nation squarely off a cliff, entangling us in the affairs of foreign powers and submitting us into their servitude, destroying the American franchise, ruining healthy businesses and turning around and blaming the free market, destroying the value of our currency, meddling in and destroying the lives of every day people for little good reason, taxing our wealth *as individuals* beyond any possible toleration and unfairly punishing the successful, further using this tax code as way to manipulate and dictate our lives, and “solving” the problem of poverty by creating more of it and forcing others to foot the bill. I love our country, our government, and our freedoms that cannot compare to any understanding of history, even the freedoms we still enjoy today – but without intervention we will go the way of Rome, create an empire, because that’s all we’ll have left to do (in fact, we’ve already started – both militarily and via the push towards a North American Union and One World Government) and vote ourselves bread and circuses (called welfare, food stamps, Medicare and soon ObamaCare) and then fall hard, becoming one millionth of what we once were and taking the world with us – at best into a second dark age…or at worst into slavery to a powerful, crushing, worldwide dictatorship.

This Congress is an important step to reverse this ever-darkening trend. It is an assertion of us, THE PEOPLE, that WE WILL have a representative and Constitutional republic and WE WILL NOT be ignored.

I have made it my life goal to work to make the places I live better for my family, my neighbors, Northern Coloradoans, and all my fellow countrymen. I have always looked for ways to solve problems, bring peace, and positive change in ways that promote honesty and integrity in our institutions, encourages good will and good faith actions by all parties involved, and balances liberty and justice. In high school, I took a lower mark in composition for basically calling the Supreme Court treasonous for working harder to find ways around the Constitution than forcing the government to work within its constraints; I was called irreverent. In college, at Iowa State University, I participated in our residence hall legislature. For the simple act of holding an ineffective multicultural awareness group accountable by suggesting we cut their funding; I was called a racist. I have been elected delegate to several State Republican Conventions in Iowa and Colorado through their caucus/convention systems and have served on two central committees for the Larimer County Republican Party as a precinct chair – I dedicated myself to vote for candidates, leaders, and platforms that supported our Constitution, our liberties, and the reduction of the scope and size of government – including standing up for Ron Paul at the last Colorado State Republican Convention. I was appointed to the Commission on Disability in Fort Collins where I worked to find ways to improve access to services provided by taxpayers for all our citizens. I was also on the executive committee of a non profit that raised *private* donations to build a beautiful playground where all Northern Colorado children can come and play, Inspiration Playground. I even went toe to toe in my kids’ school (a parent run charter school) with the Board of Directors in a public meeting whose purpose was to throw out two Directors simply for attempting to call the board to accountability and transparency. I am a member of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty and am like-minded with a great number of other liberty-minded organizations. I am not afraid to stand up for what is right and to keep standing, even if I am the only one.

Outside of the political arena, I have worked to sustain and further build our community by volunteering to coach soccer teams, to help in my kids’ school, and lead technical and nursery ministries at churches I’ve attended over the years – serving today’s generation and building up the next, and learning a lot about practical, effective, and the difference between “lording” versus “servant” leadership.

Of course, I didn’t do any of this so that I could some day tout my life accomplishments or to further some political career, but rather because I want to live in and secure for my children, my grandchildren, and generations thereafter the country Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and so many others desired to establish here on this Continent, whatever part I can play, large or small, in that work.

As your representative to the Continental Congress, it will be my solemn pledge to stand for the restoration of our God-given rights and our great republic, working diligently to chart the course for how to peaceably and swiftly bring about the restoration.

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