February 11, 2012 Newsletter - Benton County Republicans
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Last Chance to register for the Linn/Benton Presidents' Day Gala and Benefit Auction for 2012 (our Lincoln Day Dinner), Saturday, February 18th at Teen Challenge, Willamette Valley Men’s Center, 31700 Fayetteville Dr., Shedd, OR. Register by Monday, February 13th for best price!
- See This Weeks' Headlines
Benton County Lincoln Day Dinner 2012
Last Chance to get discounted tickets!
This year's Lincoln Day Dinner features two very special speakers with a message that every American should hear! Reverend Wayne Perryman, inner-city community activist, corporate consultant and author of “Unveiling the Truth” and “Blacks, Whites & Racist Democrats” will share political history and current views based on his fact-finding research. Ms. Anita MonCrief, national spokesperson for American Majority and editor of Emerging Corruption, will address her experiences as whistleblower to ACORN Project Vote and combating voter fraud. Dinner Location: TeenChallenge, Willamette Valley Men’s Center, 31700 Fayetteville Dr., Shedd, OR. Tickets: $60. Need to be ordered by Monday, February 13. $75 at the door. To order, go to www.lincolndaydinner.net. A map is posted on this site. The Dinner provides funds for many “Caring for America” projects: - All 4th graders in public, private, charters schools and students who are home schooled receive Student Dictionaries with information about America, its founding documents and hits history. 1,000 dictionaries were given away this school year.
- Organizing Constitution Day events
- Preparing Library displays for President’s Day and Constitution Week
- Maintaining our float to keep the Republican Party visible, including appearances in the Albany Veterans Day Parade, the Philomath Frolic and the Corvallis 4th of July Parade.
- Making 2,000 buttons with positive slogans to give to our Veterans along the parade route on November 11.
- Holding a flag rally outside the Corvallis National Guard Armory on Armed Forces Day.
- Helping the Republican Party prepare mailings, walk precincts and get out the vote.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES
(From The Heritage Foundation, 2/10/2012)
(Steve Buckstein, Cascade Policy Institute, 2/9/2012)
The twenty-two states that have not required workers to join a union and pay union dues have enjoyed, as a group, more rapid employment and income growth, better job preservation, and faster recoveries from recession. Oregon is not one of those states, yet. Right-to-work laws provide job seekers and current employees the right to work for a company whether or not they choose to join a union. It is unconscionable that workers are denied the right to earn a living simply because they decline to join a union. Basic principles of liberty and justice demand that we defend everyone’s right to work without third party interference. The right to work is, therefore, a moral as well as an economic imperative. Read more at Cascade Policy Institute...
(By Dick Morris, Published on TheHill.com on 2/7/2012)
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are entering negotiations over -- or seeking ratification of -- five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty and the reach of our democratic institutions. Particularly scary is that the treaties, once signed and ratified, have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered or eclipsed by Congress or state legislatures. And their provisions must be enforced by U.S. courts. Those who wish to preserve our sovereignty and democratic control over our future must rally to block these treaties, either by pressing Obama and Clinton not to sign them or by blocking their ratification.
(Speaker Boehner's Press Office, 4/2/2-12)
In the coming weeks the House will vote on the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R.7), a pro-growth bill that removes barriers to new American energy production to create more than a million new jobs, and cuts red tape to speed up improvements to our roads and bridges (without the earmarks, wasteful spending, and taxpayer bailouts of the past). Watch Speaker Boehner talk about the pro-growth aspects of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, which uses revenue from new energy production to help pay for repairs to highways and bridges. It...
- Removes barriers to job growth by approving the Keystone pipeline rejected by President Obama, lifting the president’s offshore drilling ban, opening a small portion of ANWR, and more;
- Eliminates wasteful spending and earmarks,
- Eliminates nearly 70 duplicative federal transportation programs,
- Ensures taxpayer dollars are spent on highways – not ‘beautification’ projects and other non-highway activities;
- Cuts the permitting time in half by speeding up bureaucratic approvals,
- Delegates more decision-making authority to where it belongs: individual states, not Washington; and more.
Learn How to Get Involved in Oregon’s Legislative Process
Americans for Prosperity
With the start of legislative session on February 1st, we are embroiled in a battle for the next 35 days to protect our liberty and freedoms. Please take the time to join us in room 350 (war room) at the Oregon Capitol on February 15th, 22nd and the 27th through the end of session. The room will be open from 8 a.m. until the legislature concludes for the day. We will be informing folks on the bills and hearings taking place that week and using the Oregon citizen lobby analysis to craft testimony that can be used to talk to legislators either for or against priority legislation. Come prepared to learn the legislative process and advocate for economic freedom and prosperity in Oregon! Your time and presence is more important than ever. If you would like more information about the war room please contact Ted Campbell, AFP Polk County Chair at TEDCSM@aol.com.
Get Partisan Politics Out of Our Initiatives!
Preserve Oregon's initiative process by signing and helping to circulate these petitions: My Signature Counts Amendment and the Ballot Access Act (About).
Click here to download the My Signature Counts petition.
Click here to download the Ballot Access Act petition.
Please pass this email on to your friends and family that are registered voters in Oregon. Ask them to sign the petitions and gather signatures. The My Signature Counts Amendment puts into law that when you sign an initiative or referendum petition, your signature will be counted. This initiative preserves all valid registered voters’ signatures and prevents the Secretary of State or Attorney General from throwing out valid signatures with a statistical error due to format issues, marks on the initiative sheet, etc. All initiative petitions go through a process of drafting a ballot title. The ballot title and its drafting process have become roadblocks for successful initiative petition campaigns in two ways:
- Opponents of an initiative petition use the ballot title process to delay the circulation of a petition,
- Most ballot titles are biased and inaccurate.
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