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Dear Friends,
A regular meeting of the Saginaw County Republicans will be held on October 12th, 2011 at 7:00pm. It will be held at the Thomas Township Public Safty Building, 8215 Shields Dr, Saginaw. As a special guest, we will have a labor attorney from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy coming to speak. Please e-mail saginawgop@yahoo.com if you cannot attend.
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Ron Paul Campaign Volunteer Meeting
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If you want to help with the Ron Paul campaign for President, volunteers will be meeting at 6:00pm on Saturday, October 1st, at Samuel Macino's Italian Eatery, 1144 Cleaver Rd, Caro.
This will be a meet and greet opportunity for fellow supporters and campaign volunteers to share ideas, go over campaign strategy, and coordinate efforts for the Tuscola County area. There should also be a good stash of signs and other campaign supplies to distribute. If you have any questions, friend Jeff Phillips on Facebook, e-mail him at itsjeffery@gmail.com, or call 989-683-2989 and ask for Jeff. Jeff is the Ron Paul 2012 Regional Campaign Coordinator for Tuscola County.
(Samuel Mancino's is located on M-24 right along the back entrance behind Wal-Mart. You don't need to buy anything to participate, but if you come hungry, they have really tasty awesome grinder sandwiches)
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Keeping Government (and Unions) Out of Your Wallet
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 The Michigan House recently voted to ban automatic dues deductions for school unions. This would require union members in school systems to pay their dues by check or cash, instead of forcing the school system to deduct them from paychecks. Sounds good: why should our tax dollars be used by the school systems to help unions collect their dues? Why can't they just bill the members directly? Unfortunately, some Republicans voted against this bill, including our own Ken Horn. Our take is that your employer should pay you the full paycheck, and all deductions and payments to any third party should be your responsibility. That means there should also be no withholding tax. You earned the money, you get the money, you spend the money: keep other people's fingers out. Automatic deductions without the money ever hitting your hand give too much power to other entities, whether its a union or government. If we all had to pay all our taxes by check, we think our taxes would be a lot lower. |
Stop Spam!
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We all get them: chain e-mails with some dire message of political apocalypse. The kind that scare you with a message of some new law taking effect next (week, month, year) that will ruin your life and the country irreparably. Unfortunately, with the current administration and Democrat Senate, some are true and all are believable! How do you tell truth from fiction?
Here's a couple of sources where you can look up information on any Congressional bill. Congress.org is a privately run, non-partisan site that tracks bills from beginning to end. And after you find out about a bill, they have software built into the site that makes it easy for citizens to write their elected officials. You can search by bill name, subject, number, which house it's in, what's in the news, and more.
Another source is the horse's mouth itself, the US Congress. The official site is maintained by the Library of Congress. Again, you can search multiple ways and discover just what's going on with any bill. You can even hunt back through old Congresses. Check these sites next time you get something that scares you...it may be spam.
Some recently passed bills are:
Cumulative Regulatory Analysis (H.R. 2401) - Vote Passed (249-169, 15 Not Voting) -
The House passed this bill that would delay the EPA's implementation of two air pollution regulations. The bill also requires the president to establish a commission to report on the cost of certain EPA regulations. Representative Dale Kildee (D) voted NO, and Representative Dave Camp (R) voted YES. The Senate is considered unlikely to take up the bill.
The House Judiciary Committee passed Mandatory E-Verify legislation, entitled the "Legal Workforce Act" (H.R. 2885). This would require all employers to use the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program, and it makes several important changes to current laws, including limiting the number of documents employers may accept to verify employment eligibility and increasing the penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens or fail to use E-Verify. You can read an article about this law at Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
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Everybody's Right At Least Once?
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This may be the Quote of the Decade:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backsof our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006!
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The Republican mission seeks to maintain a strong defense, encourage individual achievement and liberty through the free enterprise system, and strengthen families. If you would like to help us move the area and the country towards these goals, please consider donating to the Saginaw County Republican Committee. Every donation, no matter how large or small, will help ensure that we can find and elect people to work for those goals. You can do so by mail to PO BOX 6653, Saginaw, MI 48608 or on the web at www.saginawcountygop.com.
Sincerely,
Helene Wiltse, Chair, Saginaw County Republican Party
Donald Dale Milne, newsletter editor |
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Helene Wiltse, Chair
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