Conservative leader Jim DeMint joins Convention of States Project

(crossposted from Capital Research Center, parent organization of Bombthrowers) The Convention of States Project (COS) has added a prominent conservative voice to its staff: retired South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, who recently left his post as head of the Heritage Foundation, will be a paid senior advisor for COS, which is leading the effort to have the states call for a new constitutional convention that would produce amendments which, if passed, would restrain the powers of the federal government. DeMint played a key role in the Tea Party movement that helped Republicans regain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. “I tried to rein in Washington from inside the House and Senate,” DeMint said. “But once I realized that Washington will never willingly return decision-making power back to the American people and the states, I began to search for another way to restrain the federal government.”

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