Tea Party Grassroots Training on Saturday, April 21st
Hello Friends and Fellow Patriots,
One of our Alliance Partners in our efforts to be successful in November 2012 is an organization called American Majority. This organization is a 501C3 whose objective is training and educating grassroots organizations across the United States.
Hot on the heels of President Obama’s campaign trip to Palm Beach and Broward Counties, American Majority Florida has announced that they will be training Conservatives to be advocates. We hope that as many Palm Beach County Tea Party members and friends can attend as possible. Here are the details of the two training opportunities:
Boca Raton
April 21, from 10am-2pm
Stonegate Bank Building
301 Yamato Road, Suite 1240
Boca Raton, FL 33431
AND
Fort Lauderdale
April 26, from 6:30-9:30pm
American Legion
1620 W. State Rd 84 #2
Fort Lauderdale
The Grassroots Activist Training Seminar includes:
• Interactive presentations from American Majority staff
• The opportunity to network with other liberty-minded people
• A complimentary resource guidebook full of material designed to further assist trainees
Topics to be covered:
• Community Organizers for Freedom: Finding New Leaders, Increasing Transparency, & Finding the Votes
• Patriots 2.0 – understanding New Media – Facebook, Twitter
• Hardwiring Your Precinct – how to strategically target door knocking in your community
• Instant Activism: Everything You Need to Know to Get Involved at the Local Level
Upon completion of the seminar, attendees will receive continuing education materials, access to podcasts and other presentations, communications curriculum, and suggestions to help them utilize think-tank resources.
Cost: $15 per trainee
To register Now for the Boca Raton training on April 21st, click here
To register Now for the Fort Lauderdale on April 26th, click here
Directions to training in Boca Raton
The Boca Conference & Executive Center is located inside the Stonegate Bank Building at 301 Yamato Road, Suite 1240, Boca Raton, FL 33431 and the center cannot be reached using GPS, Google of Mapquest. You may want to relay to anyone attending that the center is easily accessible off of I95 at the Yamato Road exit and is just two blocks “East” of I95 on the Northeast corner of Dixie Highway and Yamato Road.
Directions to training in Fort Lauderdale:
From I95, take exit 25 for FL-84. Go East for ½ mile. Take the first right on to SW 15th Ave and right again on to SW 27th Ct. The American Legion parking lot is on the right.
Questions can be directed to Dena Espenscheid at Dena@AmericanMajority.org or 561-465-2945.
Wellington Chapter’s April Meeting Focused on Voter Fraud
We had an outstanding meeting of the Wellington Chapter on the 9th of April, as well as a delicious buffet. The speaker, Mark Hoch, has 16 years of experience as Political Director with the Republican Party of Palm Beach County. His subject matter was on “VOTER FRAUD” and after speaking on the topic for approximately 25 minutes, we opened up for Q & A . This was an extraordinarily informative talk. Not only did we leave later than normal; small groups of 3,4,and 5 continued the discussion after the meeting was over.. This indeed was a passionate meeting for all that were there.
And thanks for attending.
Joe
Tax Day Tea Party Rocks Wellington
On a bright sunny afternoon in the beautiful Wellington Amphitheatre, an exuberant crowd sat on the astroturf and took in the sounds of LEVEL, and the stirring words of Allen West, Dick Morris, Anita MonCrief and many others.
The Tea Party is alive and well and ready to engage in – as some would say, “.. the most important election of our lifetime…”
The event drew a good size crowd, from tea party and 912 “regulars” to members of the “other side” who lined the back of the field with posters critical of some of the speakers and themes. The protest was peaceful though and even these folks seemed to enjoy themselves.
A lot of local candidates, from Congress down to School Board were in the audience, their teams fanning out to collect hundreds of signed nominating petitions, and most with whom we spoke thought the event was very productive for them.
The speakers covered the bases, some with some new food for thought. MC Brian Mudd from WJNO gave one of the most unusual but highly positive introductions of Congressman Colonel Allen West I have heard, alluding to his national appeal. The Congressman laid out the dangers of another four years of Barack Obama, and assured him (are you listening Mr. President?) that he would most assuredly be voting against the “Buffet Rule” this week.
Anita Montcrief told her tale of finding corruption at the highest levels of ACORN, and then laid out the more current conspiracy between that organization in its new form and the Justice Department to overturn voter ID laws across the country.
Dick Morris, a recent passenger on the Romney train, speculated that Mitt Romney would be one of the best Presidents in history. He asked for a show of hands for “who is more conservative now after 3 years of Obama?” and after seeing an overwhelming yes, tried to convince us that Mitt is too. He also told of the dangers of another Obama term, but suggested that his re-election was definitely not assured.
All in all, a pleasant and stirring day and a good kickoff to the 2012 electoral season.
Some pictures of the event: CLICK HERE to see all the photos at once.
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Obama machine working on voter registration
Today I came across 3 people in Jupiter Walmart’s parking lot asking people to register to vote. They were nice, polite and at first I had no clue they came from the Obama machine (Acorn maybe). Then I saw the famous Obama symbol on sign that I could see through one of their see through bags.
I am making this comment because I would like to see “us” do same. Place people everywhere to get people to register to vote and at the same time pass out important comparisons between Obama and Romney.
I just had surgery, so I am not much useful and will head back north in 2 weeks from where I will work the election.
thanks for listening to me.
May 1st Boca Raton Chapter Meeting with Blaise Ingoglia!
Republican Party of Florida Vice Chairman Blaise Ingoglia will address the Boca Chapter on May 1st. Ingoglia is a Hernando County entrepreneur and rising star in local and state Republican Party politics. He is behind Government Gone Wild, a series of Web videos, seminars and blogs. The approach, says Ingoglia, shows people how bad the issue really is. A recent video Ingoglia produced through Government Gone Wild — “Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?” — is a YouTube hit. The video has now surpassed 5.14 million views. “The reason why this resonates with people is it melds satire and motivational speaking in a political atmosphere,” says Ingoglia. “The problem when politicians start talking about budgets and finance is people’s eyes start to roll to the back of their heads in boredom.” He emphasizes the debt problem is bipartisan. He also weaves satire into the presentations. “The government,” Ingoglia told the Sarasota crowd last year, “has turned into that person who is always asking you for money.”
Blaise Ingoglia aims to break down the federal government’s massive debt problems into easily understandable chunks in his videos and seminars.
Ingoglia says he researches and verifies all of his data from online sources, mostly government data websites. Here are some of Ingoglia’s eye-popping nuggets when it comes to debt and spending abuse:
• The federal government will pay $1.9 million per minute of debt for the next 10 years.
• At the current pace, by 2046 every dime collected by the government in taxes will go to pay off debt.
• The federal government has spent $8 trillion in interest payments on its debt since 1988. “A lot of that is going to other countries,” says Ingoglia, “making them prosperous, not us.”
• The government spent $1.5 million of federal stimulus money to spruce up apartments. Problem is, those apartments were scheduled for demolition.
• The U.S. Department of Energy could save $2.2 million if it turned off lights and used more efficient energy sources, says Ingoglia, citing a U.S. Government Accountability Office study.
• The government spent $712,000 of federal stimulus money on joke-telling software. “Why do we need joke-telling software,” asks Ingoglia on a Government Gone Wild video, “when we already have Congress?”
| DATE: | Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 |
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| TIME: | Doors open 5:30pm. Buffet at 6pm. Meeting starts at 7pm, $15 per person (tax and gratuity included) |
| PLACE: | Boca Greens Country Club, 19642 Trophy Drive, Boca Raton, FL 33498, Click HERE for Map |
Demonstration at President’s Appearances Tomorrow
Please join the FAU College Republicans (CRs) as they protest President Obama’s Economic speech at FAU tomorrow April 10.
The CRs will be meeting at lot 17 at 12:00 noon tomorrow before heading to the bracketing location.
Please bring a sign but remember to keep the content focused on policy issues and not personal attacks.
If you take the Glades Rd. exit off I-95, go east. Turn left into the first FAU entrance, lot 17 will be the first parking lot on your left.
If you live in North County, there is another opportunity:
Some of us will be extending that warm welcome first, at 11:30 am, at Frenchmen’s Reserve, Palm Beach Gardens.
He will be arriving at the airport at noon compliments of our tax payer dollar and be entertaining himself with $20,000 shrimp at 471 Savoie Drive in Frenchman’s Reserve.
Please join us at Hood Road and A-1-A at 11:30 to extend our sincerest wishes .
The Publix Center on Hood can be used for parking.
Don’t Miss the Great Music at our Tax Day Tea Party on April 15th
You can’t miss our 2012 Tax Day Tea Party on Sunday, April 15th at the Wellington Amphitheater starting at 1:30pm. Our keynote speakers will be Congressman Allen West, Dick Morris from Fox News, Anita MonCrief from ACORN fame, Dan Mangru from Fox Business, and local talk radio hosts Joyce Kaufman and Craig Henne. Our MC will be Brian Mudd from WJNO AM1290. We have a host of other speakers listed here.
In addition, we will have activities for children, excellent food concession from the Tuxedo Gourmet, drawings with great prizes, and much more!
If that weren’t enough, we will have opera-trained Lou Galterio sing the National Anthem, and a young up & coming singer, Brie Goldsobel singing patriotic songs.
An extra special treat will be the music of LeVeL, a West Palm Beach-based band (area code 561) best known for edgy, acoustic rock. Their unique and predominantly original music is a direct reflection of the band members’ extensive and varied experiences, and contains elements of classic rock, punk, funk, jazz, acoustic rock, dance music and heavy metal. Their music is uplifting, inspiring and will touch the hearts of people of all ages.
To hear them now click here
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What Liberals Think of the Tea Party
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National Taxpayers Union Rating of Congress is Finalized!
The long awaited 2011 NTU Rating of Congress is finally here! Those unable to contain their excitement can head to the website right now to check it out.
Our thanks to Keli Carender at the Tea Party Patriots for the following summary.
For those who can, here are some cool things from this year’s, last year’s rating:
- NTU evaluated 337 roll call votes in the House and 234 in the Senate on everything from taxes to burdensome regulations, to budgets, to spending and everything limited government in between to come up with this very robust appraisal of Congress.
- There were some minor improvements – the average House scored jumped eight points to 50%, the average Senate score rose one point to 46%
- Fewer Members secured “A” grades and NTU’s “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” – only 53 in the House and Senate down from 79 last year
- Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) snagged the top Senate spot with a 96%
- Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) topped the House at 93% ending the unprecedented 8-year reign of Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) as top scorer (though his drop was not a long one to 7th overall).
- A full list of “Taxpayers’ Friend Award” winners can be found below.
House Taxpayers’ Friend Award Winners (Name, Grade, Score, Rank)
| Duncan (TN) | A |
93% |
1 |
| Royce | A |
92% |
2 |
| Paul * | A |
92% |
3 |
| Campbell | A |
92% |
4 |
| Graves (GA) | A |
91% |
5 |
| Amash | A |
91% |
6 |
| Flake | A |
91% |
7 |
| Mulvaney | A |
90% |
8 |
| Walsh | A |
90% |
9 |
| Chaffetz | A |
90% |
10 |
| Labrador | A |
89% |
11 |
| McClintock | A |
89% |
12 |
| Stutzman | A |
88% |
13 |
| Schweikert | A |
88% |
14 |
| Duncan (SC) | A |
88% |
15 |
| Stearns | A |
88% |
16 |
| Huizenga | A |
88% |
17 |
| Garrett | A |
87% |
18 |
| Jordan | A |
87% |
19 |
| Gowdy | A |
87% |
20 |
| Rokita | A |
87% |
21 |
| Broun | A |
87% |
22 |
| Sensenbrenner | A |
86% |
23 |
| Quayle | A |
86% |
24 |
| Chabot | A |
85% |
25 |
| Rohrabacher | A |
85% |
26 |
| Ribble | A |
85% |
27 |
| Goodlatte | A |
85% |
28 |
| Landry | A |
85% |
29 |
| Southerland | A |
85% |
30 |
| Poe | A |
85% |
31 |
| Franks | A |
85% |
32 |
| Lamborn | A |
85% |
33 |
| Burton | A |
85% |
34 |
| Huelskamp | A |
85% |
35 |
| Lummis | A |
85% |
36 |
| Mack | A |
85% |
37 |
House Taxpayers’ Friend Award Winners (Name, Grade, Score, Rank)
Senate Taxpayers’ Friend Award Winners (Name, Grade, Score, Rank)
| Coburn |
A |
96% |
1 |
| Johnson (WI) |
A |
95% |
2 |
| DeMint |
A |
93% |
3 |
| Toomey |
A |
93% |
4 |
| Lee |
A |
93% |
5 |
| Paul |
A |
92% |
6 |
| Ayotte |
A |
91% |
7 |
| McConnell |
A |
91% |
8 |
| Rubio |
A |
91% |
9 |
| Inhofe |
A |
91% |
10 |
| Hatch |
A |
90% |
11 |
| Crapo |
A |
90% |
12 |
| Risch |
A |
90% |
13 |
| Corker |
A |
90% |
14 |
| McCain |
A |
90% |
15 |
| Vitter |
A |
90% |
16 |
The 912 Super Seniors are Fighting for Limited Government and Religious Freedom
by Barbara Samuells, 912 Super Seniors
This was Barbara’s proposal to her Long Island, NY group and so far they have met with tremendous success. She highly recommends that groups across the US tackle a similar project. If you are interested in taking a lead on this in our area, please email pam@palmbeachcountyteaparty.org
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, disciplines or exercises.”
Thomas Jefferson
Hello fellow Patriots,
This is a proposal that we work as a group of patriot Long Islanders to initiate in each parish a free standing group working to preserve freedom of religion.
We can start from Tom Hackert’s spreadsheets of parishes in CD 1 and 3. They give us a wonderful tool to begin by listing those Long Island parishes. More to follow.
The end goal is to have every faith community working toward restoring our 1st amendment rights by voting for the candidates who will do that.
However, if we come to the churches with a political party or candidate…or as a tea party or 912 we will lose some or all of the support immediately. If churches develop their own freedom of religion groups they will end up concluding whom they should vote for. I expect we should be able to find our members already involved in every church.
But we who are trying to initiate this must have in our minds and in our hearts that our goal in these inter parish groups is not party nor candidate driven. Our goals, our speech and our actions must be true to the preservation of our Freedom of Religion rights under attack. In that way our experience and determination can set these groups on their own path to informing others and acting to preserve the 1st amendment. We are not there to push even our patriot groups. People who want that will know who we are and will come to us.
How active we may be in these groups is up to each situation. However, initiating the groups NOW and IN GREAT NUMBER is imperative to bring many more Americans to the defense of our Constitution.
This is the process:
#1 Identify leaders from our patriot groups who are already active in each parish. If we can only find members who are not active but willing to work, so be it.
#2 Encourage them to approach their pastor about having an exploratory meeting to form a parish group, as per Cardinal Dolan’s suggestion. The purpose of the group would be the preservation of our religious freedoms.
#3 Facilitate the group’s formation and functioning as needed.
Once a parish group is established that group will decide:
How to educate and inform themselves and their parish.
Whether and how to reach out for support to other faith groups in their communities.
Whether and how to work with parishes in and outside the diocese.
What actions will accomplish their goals.
Which public figures will or will not preserve religious freedom.
We can then add your name to the master spreadsheet so we can know which parishes will be contacted. If you would like to discuss how to approach your pastor we would be happy to help.
Cardinal Dolan said it is unwise to yield to the temptation to be frustrated by politics and leave it to others, because that leaves a vacuum that will be filled by “the religion called secularism.” Secularism has a creed, dogma, adherents and a strong belief that “our religion should not be involved in the public square,” he said. “They’ll be happy to take over for us and we can’t let that happen.”
He said the bishops’ role is to preach principles, but the laity’s charism is to be involved in politics and bring a religiously informed conscience to the public square.
“We can be political without being partisan. We ought to bring values and convictions to politics. We will not be misled by people who say we shouldn’t be involved,” he said.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1200904.htm
Barbara Samuells
Co Founder www.912SuperSeniors.org
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Ronald Reagan
