For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 
Contact: Tom Zawistowski, TomZ@WethePeopleConvention.org
 
 

We the People Convention Endorses
Jim Renacci for Ohio Governor

 
Akron, OH: Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention (WTPC) and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, announced that his organization is endorsing Jim Renacci for Ohio Governor in the Republican Primary Election and Joe Knopp as his Lt. Governor.
 
Zawistowski said, "I will be voting for Jim Renacci and Joe Knopp personally and I ask all conservative Republican voters in the Primary to vote for them as well. Mike DeWine does not deserve to be re-elected. DeWine illegally delayed our primary election in 2020. DeWine picked winners and losers during the China virus pandemic and ordered thousands of small businesses to close down by declaring that they were "nonessential" while promoting big box stores as "essential". His thuggish running mate, Jon Husted, brazenly came on our TV's and said that he "would shut off your electricity and natural gas" if your business did not comply with his tyrannical commands to close your business immediately. DeWine and Husted grossly mismanaged the Ohio unemployment system that they knew was broken, and promised to fix, but instead their pathetic efforts delayed critical checks from getting to Ohio families for weeks and months in a time of need while they sent millions of dollars to people who were not eligible. He misused "emergency" powers to violate our Constitutional rights. He sided with the teachers unions over the best interests of our children. DeWine sided with big Pharma and the Ohio Hospital Association and restricted our access to prophylactic treatment to protect against Covid and pushed vaccinations and totally ineffective mask rules. No conservative, no real Republican, certainly no one who supports President Trump's MAGA agenda, can vote for Mike DeWine."
 
Zawistowski continued, "Many people forget that Jim Renacci was the mayor of Wadsworth, Ohio which gives him important executive experience other candidates don't have. Plus, he is a very successful businessman, so he knows how to run large organizations and work with other businesses. Another critical skill for a Governor. Finally he was a U.S. Congressman and so he knows how Washington, DC works, or doesn't. Which also is critical knowledge for anyone who is the governor of a state because so much of the money, too much, comes from Washington, DC to the states - with strings attached. These life experiences make Jim Renacci eminently and uniquely qualified to be Ohio's next Governor and why he is deserving of your vote. We gladly endorse him and Joe Knopp in the upcoming Republican Primary."
 

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 9, 2018

OHIO TEA PARTY GROUPS PARTNER WITH NRA-PVF FOR 2018 MIDTERMS

Akron, OH: Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the Ohio TEA Party affiliated We the People Convention, announced that Ohio TEA Party Groups would be once again partnering with the National Rifle Association (NRA) Political Victory Fund to help elect Ohio Republican federal candidates in the 2018 mid-term elections this November. The two groups successfully worked together in 2016 to help President Donald Trump win the state of Ohio.

In making the announcement, Zawistowski said "Our relationship with the NRA in 2018 will be the same as it was in 2016. We supply the people, they supply the resources we need to contact voters and persuade them to get out and vote for conservative candidates. Our goals this year are clear. We will work to elect Jim Renacci to replace Brown as Ohio's U.S. Senator, we will work to re-elect the 10 incumbent Ohio Republican Congressmen, and we will work to elect the two Republican Congressmen running to fill open seats in Republican Districts. Our people will work with the NRA-PVF first to make calls in Ohio and later to knock on doors as the election draws near. All citizens, and particularly those who believe in protecting their second amendment rights, can join our efforts by signing up at nragrassroots.ivolunteer.com."

Zawistowski continued, "For the TEA Party in Ohio this election is real simple. President Trump is carrying out the agenda we elected him to implement. This November we will make sure that we act to protect his Presidency, and our own best interests, by retaining Republican control of the U.S. House and adding to the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Conservatives want to make the tax cuts permanent, build the border wall, reform immigration law, support law enforcement at all levels, replace Obamacare with a competitive and efficient private sector health care system, reform our education system, reform our courts and prison system, re-establish "equal justice for all", reduce the size and regulation of government, retain our national sovereignty and Constitution, and restore regular order in Congress. The Democrats want to take back our tax cuts, re-impose government controlled health care, eliminate our borders and let millions more illegals take jobs from Americans and drain government resources, eliminate law enforcement agencies like ICE, re-regulate all businesses, take away our guns and our Religious Freedom, undermine our Constitution by moving increasingly toward socialism and then communism, and then try to impeach President Donald Trump. We are confident that the majority of Americans, who are benefiting greatly from the President's policies, will come out and support him by electing Republicans in the November election and we will do all we can to make sure that happens."