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On Thursday I posted a link to a new website sponsored by the Club for Growth that offered a pledge to lawmakers, candidates and citizens to help repeal ObamaCare should it pass the Congress this year.

Since the launch of Repeal It, 5,203 citizens (likely to be more by the time you read this) have given their pledge to support candidates for federal office that will work to repeal the legislation being falsely promoted as “health care reform.”

Twenty-nine lawmakers, members of the House and Senate, have signed the pledge for their respective chambers promising their states and districts that they will repeal ObamaCare.

And 58 candidates for either the House or Senate have also taken the pledge to “to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”

Three signers of the candidate pledge are candidates we’ve been following here at United Liberty because of their extraordinary stances on issues of economic and personal liberty: Adam Kokesh (R-NM-3), Rand Paul (R-KY-Senate) and Peter Schiff (R-CT-Senate).

Other notable candidates that have signed the pledge are:

The folks over at the Club for Growth have launched Repeal It, a new website aimed for citzens, candidates and lawmakers to repeal ObamaCare should it pass in 2010.

Members of Congress, candidates, and citizens have the opportunity to sign the pledge supporting repeal of ObamaCare. The reason for doing this before passage is an effort to define the movement. Even if Democrats buy enough votes to pass this (see Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and a host of others), it’s not over.

Head over to Repeal It and sign the pledge.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a candidate for the state’s open Senate seat, is the target of a new ad from the Club for Growth on his support for the “stimulus” bill:

Crist is trying to fool Florida voters by running ads about his grade from the Cato Institute on fiscal policy for his first two years in office. Cato recently hit back at Crist, pointing out that his actions since that grade are not the actions of a fiscal conservative.

Not to make this entire day about the race in NY-23, bu the Club for Growth is out with a poll showing Doug Hoffman in the lead:

A poll released today by the Club for Growth shows Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district to replace John McHugh, the former congressman who recently became Secretary of the Army.

The poll of 300 likely voters, conducted October 24-25, 2009, shows Conservative Doug Hoffman at 31.3%, Democrat Bill Owens at 27.0%, Republican Dede Scozzafava at 19.7%, and 22% undecided. The poll’s margin of error is +/- 5.66%. No information was provided about any of the candidates prior to the ballot question.

I’m not trying to take away from the poll, but the margin of error is high, however, other polls have showed Hoffman surging.

Given the group’s involvement in this race, I’ll be talking to Andy Roth, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Club for Growth, tomorrow for a podcast.

How do you know Republicans aren’t serious about pushing a less government, pro-taxpayer and pro-free market agenda? Because the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) has endorsed Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special election, which will be decided on November 3rd.

While she holds some views that libertarians find attractive on social issues, she is dangerous on economic issues. This is not meant to cast those views aside, however, the economic and policies that will advocate free markets are much more pressing due to the economy.

Via the Club for Growth:

Thanks to you, the federal government is going to dole out $615,175 to help digitize the Grateful Dead’s archive.

Good band, but really?

The Club for Growth is tracking video of taxpayer protests around the country over ObamaCare. So far they’ve posted video from 13 states.

You can watch them here.