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Command-and-control communists, marginally less radical nanny staters, and the plaintiffs' lawyers who tactically fund their respective propaganda operations would, presumably, prefer to have state lawmakers influenced only by the Natural Resources Defense Council, SEIU, AFSCME, AAJ and other outfits that support continued expansion of government and civil liability.

Well, tough luck, comrades. Because the First Amendment empowers Americans all along the political spectrum to freely associate and petition their government for redress of grievances. And one of the biggest grievances of those of us who prefer free markets and personal responsibility to crony capitalism and an all-powerful regulatory state is the extortionate transfer of wealth from productive businesses to parasitic personal injury lawyers and law firms.

So we're going to use any constitutional means necessary to pursue civil justice reforms at state and federal levels, just as the far left relentlessly pursues its anti-growth, anti-jobs and anti-U.S. competitiveness agenda. Whine and cry all you want, folks, and pretend that what we tort reformers do is somehow different than what the environmental radicals, thieving union bosses, and lying trial lawyers do every day. But you won’t persuade anyone who isn’t already a fellow traveler to join your cause, no matter how sinister you try to make the exercise of First Amendment rights sound.

Darren McKinney
Director of Communications
American Tort Reform Association