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Taking Our Country Back Newsletter
May 11, 2011                                         514 days and counting to Nobama
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June 14 monthly meeting
Fire District Town Hall Mtg
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When People Lead
 

Believing the truth stated on the sign in this picture 

 

When People Lead, Leaders Will Follow  

 

is a key motivation for involvement in our Taking Our Country Back group and the motivation for making our website a useful source of information.  To that end, I want to introduce you to some of the current updates and coming features in our website.  Please check the website regularly

 

Today's Front Page 

This is the page you come to first and is where we present some of the important news items of the day.

 

What we Believe 

We are often asked what are our key issues.  That question is answered in this link.

 

Letters to the Editor 

Our group has been successful in having their letters published in newspapers around our community.  In case you missed any, you can find some of them here with more added regularly.

 

Precinct Strategy 

In keeping with our Memorial Day commitment to increased and more effective activity, knowing your precinct number is a step in that direction.  

 

We are certainly open to suggestions about helpful links or content.  Soon we will have updates from each of our committees and will have a spotlight on politicians and candidates.  To make your suggestions, just e-mail Randy

 

 

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Quick Links

June 14 Monthly Meeting at 6:30PM 

  

Christ Lutheran location 

 

Remember that our June 14 meeting will be at a different location than typical.  Join us at Christ Lutheran Church.  We will have State Representative Ken Roberson with us. 

 

If you have a question you would like to have asked of Mr. Roberson, please e-mail the question to Randy at randy@takingourcountryback.net or stop by the Political Action table on Tuesday night and write your question on a card.  We will have the questions collected and will have the questions presented to Mr. Roberson by a few of our members.  We hope to maximize the our opportunity in this way.     

 

(Suncoast Worship Center is having Vacation Bible School at the time of our June meeting. We will return there in July.)

 

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Fire District town hall mtg 

Englewood Fire Chief Brian Gorski has scheduled a series of town hall meetings, two a month, between now and August, where he hopes to discuss with the public the fire district's revised assessment methodology  and any other issue on the peoples' minds.  The dates of the remaining town hall meetings are:

 

June 2, 9:00AM

June 16, 5:00PM

July 7, 9:00AM

July 21, 5:00PM

August 9, 9:00AM

August 16, 5:00PM

 

There have only been one or two at each meeting.  We thought it might be helpful if we aimed at one of the meetings to have a good group to attend.  We picked July 21 at 5:00 as our designated time.  We hope to see quite a few of us be able to attend.  Please e-mail Bob Jason or Randy to let them know if you plan to attend. 

 

The location of all the meetings will be in the activity room at the Englewood Sport's Complex, 1300 S. River Rd in Englewood.  For more information, call the fire district at 941-474-3311.

 

Chief Gorski is to be commended for making himself available to the public like this.  May his tribe increase among public servants.  Thank you Chief.

 

Precinct Information

 

As we organize for effectiveness, we believe that knowing each of our voting precincts is important. We have a couple of ways we will try to get that information from you.  At each meeting will have sign up pages for you to give us your precinct number.  If you don't know your precinct number, you can go to our website under the GET INVOLVED tab and go to either the Charlotte or Sarasota site to find it by address.  OR, we have changed our JOIN OUR MAILING LIST feature and when you sign up, it will ask for your precinct number.   If you have received this newsletter, then you are already on our mailing list. However, if you will sign up again, you will have an opportunity to give us the helpful info we need.  We will go through our list to make sure we don't send you duplicate e-mails.