E E E M M M P P P O O O W W W E E E R R R M M M I I I S S S S S S O O O U U U R R R I I I ! ! ! T T H H E E M M O O P P P P E E - - N N E E W WS S M M A A G G A A Z Z I I N N E E * * * * b b y y M M i i s s s s o o u u r r i i a a n n s s f f o o r r M M i i s s s s o o u u r r i i a a n n s s * * * * Dateline: APRIL 2015 MISSOURI PRECINCT PROJECT (MOPP) Sign up for our email list at: www.moprecinctproject.org [email protected](AND…Join us on Facebook and Twitter for regular real time updates) Dear MOPP Subscriber/Supporter… We’re baaaack!...it’s been awhile since we last published our MOPP E-News Magazine, but we are reviving this format as we “ramp up” in anticipation of November 2016! And our Magazine has a new name…”Empower Missouri…by Missourians for Missourians!” There is much information to share and we expect that this will continue to increase as we move into Election Year 2016…so our new timetable will be to publish our “E-News Magazine” on a quarterly basis and to continue to send out our shorter “email blasts/alerts” on an as needed/timely basis Each edition with contain ACTION ITEMS, TIPS, NOTES and RESOURCES we hope you find helpful. As always…we are hopeful that you will find the information contained in our “forwards” to be useful in keeping you informed on a variety of relevant topics and provide you with ways in which you can help…as we all unite to work together to become involved, not only on a local and State level in our own self-governance…but to take our country back and… LET’S ‘EM UP IN ‘16! GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION DAY TOMORROW…TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015
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Dear MOPP Subscriber/Supporter…
We’re baaaack!...it’s been awhile since we last published our MOPP E-News Magazine, but we are reviving this format as we “ramp up” in anticipation of November 2016! And our Magazine has a new name…”Empower Missouri…by Missourians for Missourians!” There is much information to share and we expect that this will continue to increase as we move into Election Year 2016…so our new timetable will be to publish our “E-News Magazine” on a quarterly basis and to continue to send out our shorter “email blasts/alerts” on
an as needed/timely basis Each edition with contain ACTION ITEMS, TIPS, NOTES and RESOURCES we hope you find helpful.
As always…we are hopeful that you will find the information contained in our “forwards” to be useful in keeping you informed on a variety of relevant topics and provide you with ways in which you can help…as we all unite to work together to become involved, not only on a local and State level in our own self-governance…but to take our country back and…
As mentioned on our cover page…General Municipal Elections will be held in Missouri TOMORROW…
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015.
…AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME!
"You can't change Washington until you change your own backyard”… quote credited to Laura
Ingraham
R E M E M B E R….. Your vote is your voice as an American citizen. It's your opportunity to be heard, to hold elected officials accountable for their decisions and to have a say in important issues that affect your community.
On Election Day, EVERY vote matters!
TIPS:
VOTING INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT THE MISSOURI SECRETARY OF STATE WEBSITE HERE: http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/
To find your polling place go here: http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/ To see the complete 2015 Election Calendar go here: http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/calendar/default.asp?id=2015
On the next few pages you will find articles that substantiate the impact and importance of central committee positions.
It is important to remember that the term “precinct” is interchangeable with the terms “ward”, “township”, and “parish” depending on the State and/or County within each State
“We need to organize at the precinct, district, and state level so that you cannot win a Republican endorsement, caucus, or primary without being vetted
by activist Republicans, rather than a group of lobbyists in a hotel suite or Capitol office”. (reprinted from: http://tinyurl.com/lmjjj64
"New Direction for the GOP Begins at the Local Precinct Level – Conservatives Needed to Run for Office, Volunteer"
Reprinted from: http://tinyurl.com/lbu9tqg
New Direction for the GOP Begins at the Local Precinct Level – Conservatives
Needed to Run for Office, Volunteer
By: Candice Lanier (Diary) | March 6th, 2013 at 02:15 PM | 2 Anger and frustration continue to mount as Americans express alarm at the direction in which the country is headed. In order to turn the tide and boost mid-term and general election results, conservatives must significantly increase political activity at the local level—the precinct. As the precinct leader, the committee person (or captain) is the only party official directly elected by voters. An individual serving in this capacity is the primary contact between voters, candidates and elected officials; the precinct committee person votes directly for the leadership of the party. What are the responsibilities of a committee person? The following is a general checklist which may vary depending on the precinct: Elect a precinct captain to assume overall precinct leadership. Divide your precinct into geographical areas and assign portions of the precinct to each precinct committeeman. Recruit precinct volunteers and assign specific blocks (or areas) to them for door-to-door and telephone work. Have registration forms available in your precinct. Regularly check for newly moved-in Republicans and also for
families who will have members turning 18 years of age before the next election. Maintain up-to-date records of the current Republican residents of your precinct. Attend precinct meetings. These are called for updating records, planning strategy and other organizational purposes. Attend district and or county Republican meetings. These will be great places to share information and ideas. Assist your precinct captain in recruiting election board workers. Assist your precinct captain in establishing election day GET-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) committees and a Precinct
Election Headquarters. Distribute election information and candidate literature to the voters in your precinct.
How effective is this strategy? Well, Obama utilized it successfully against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries. According to The Precinct Project, Obama and his backers “came out of nowhere to defeat the complacent ‘powers that be’” in the Democrat Party. Many of the Republican Party precinct committee person slots, across the nation, are unfilled. Of the 400,000 slots nationwide approximately 200,000 are vacant. This represents a huge opportunity for conservatives. So, in summary, a precinct committee person is tasked with helping to grow the party and with delivering the maximum number of votes from their precinct, on Election Day. If you would like to volunteer at your neighborhood precinct or run for office, visit the following website for local information: American Hometowns – Cities, Counties, and Towns
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 by Madison Project Staff
For those that have missed the memo, we here at the Madison Project love being agitators for freedom.
We want to hold elected officials accountable even as we work to elect better and better Members of Congress. We work to advance
conservatism as frequently and as purely as possible, be it reducing taxes, ending abortion or working towards dismantling Obamacare.
So it is no surprise that over the past 10 years as Madison Project has brought to the public’s attention the voting record of Democrats and
Republicans, we have been attacked by both parties.
The usual GOP talking points against the Madison Project (and Senate Conservatives Fund, the Club for Growth and Heritage Action) is that
the Madison Project is “hurting the party” and forming “circular firing squads” that are “not helpful” to the GOP majority. By hurting the
party, what the GOP Establishment is saying is, “You’re hurting our chances to advance the issues important to corporations and their
lobbyists by calling us out and electing conservatives.” If our work is hurting this current iteration of the Republican Party, count us in.
As we have said in the past, it is we and our conservative allies who actually represent and work towards the principles and ideology which
the GOP claims to represent and advance. We are the free market conservatives who believe in liberty and reducing government, not
growing it and giving corporations a leg up on the backs of the American taxpayers.
Over the last few election cycles, it is the Madison Project that has helped add some of the most stalwart conservatives in both chambers of
Congress: Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, Congressman Jim Bridenstine, Mark Meadows, Ron DeSantis, Tim Huelskamp, Dave Brat, Jody
Hice and many others.
Conservative grassroots activists worked overtime last fall to elect a Republican majority on promises of rolling back Obamacare and
stopping illegal immigration. Now sitting under Republican majorities, these promises have not only been vacated but actually reversed
where we’ve seen Republican leaders working with Democrats to actually help to enact these dangerous policies.
For years we have warned that it’s not just about having a Republican majority in both chambers. It’s about having conservatives
eager to fight and advance the Republican Party platform. It’s not just a vote, it’s a voice.
The recently passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill is the perfect example. The House of Representatives passed a
good bill, replete with riders that stripped funding for Obama’s executive amnesty order and sent it to the Senate. The Senate, under
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “leadership” stripped the riders from the bill and sent it back to the House.
Here is where it should have been easy: Boehner and the House Republicans should have stripped the bad language out, put the conservative
language back in, and sent it back to McConnell. Instead, 100% of House Democrats and 75 Republicans, including the Speaker, and most of
“leadership” and members with all-important seniority, voted to fund executive amnesty behind the fig leaf of, “If we don’t, the Department
of Homeland Security will shut down and we will be totally exposed to terrorism.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.
The simple workaround would have been to pass a continuing resolution that would have fully funded DHS while holding the line on
amnesty. It is now abundantly clear to everyone that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell never intended to fight amnesty. After all, their
friends on K Street and at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were pushing for it. If this doesn’t make it abundantly clear that it is time for new
leadership, we’re not sure what will.
An important note…Like many in the conservative movement, MOPP is unhappy with both parties in
representing the best interests of the Americans they represent…at this juncture MOPP believes that in order to win elections it must be done within the framework of the current two party system…for that reason, the Republican Party is the logical choice to focus on as it comes closest in its philosophy…as enumerated in its Party Platform…to the principles and values of most conservatives.
Where are you, country? Why can’t I find you? Why have you gone away?
Adapting Cindy Lou’s song about the loss of Christmas spirit in Whoville expresses the sadness for what as been lost in my country.
When I was a young boy in the small town of Piedmont, Missouri, the local physician, Doc Jones, would come to your house if you were sick.
People paid him in cash, or perhaps some other goods. No one imagined they had a “right” to have someone else pay Doc Jones. It was their
solemn duty, part of leading a responsible and moral life. People earned their living, to rely on charity a character stain to be avoided at all costs.
The personal responsibility of those days has become a distant memory. Now it is called “fair” for much of the population to live at the expense of
the rest. We are informed that some are “entitled” to have the wealth of others “redistributed” to them. Anyone daring to object to being a serf
of the statist elite is called “radical,” and accused of trying to “repeal” the 20th century. Sometimes, having gone down the wrong path, the only
way out is to turn back. If that is “repeal,” so be it.
The country’s current moral inversion is illustrated by two recent TV interviews. In the first, the individual talks about how her health insurance is
cheaper with an Obamacare subsidy, without a trace of embarrassment, as if the money, instead of being forced from someone else without their
consent, came from Barack’s private stash or flowed from some eternal mountain spring.
The individual in the second interview, who has been assigned by the IRS to man the money pumps on that mountain spring, agonizes over how to
pay the new bloated Obamacare premium. While this person is a real victim, there is no objection or hint of defiance. This individual, who
probably sent her children to anti-bullying classes, allows herself to be bullied by the government. This is notthe spirit of 1776. I cannot find much
of that spirit in my country.
My dad was assigned by the IRS to man one of the small money pumps. He had a barber shop right on Main Street. Every year he would carefully
figure how much he would send to the IRS, believing they had no right to take whatever they wanted. He was right. Government really shouldn’t
have that power. Many of us, like Dad, are victims of the IRS. At least in those days it didn’t go after the President’s enemies.
The groundwork for this travesty was laid when Dad was only five years old, with the ratification of the 16th amendment. The income tax erased
Constitutional protections of the last 130 years. A citizen’s property could now be taken without just compensation, without any justification of its
use, and without any consideration of equal treatment under the law. The income tax is incompatible with a free society. In a truly free society,
never would the lead-in to a local tax lawyer’s radio ad be, “If you aren’t afraid of the IRS, you should be.”
Our ancestors would be horrified to hear such an ad, and would be asking, “Where are you, country? Why can’t I find you?” Some of them
pledged their lives and sacred honor. We owe it to them to find the free country they knew, and we owe our children, so they may know and value
that same liberty.
We have little help finding the country. Most of the media aren’t interested. Except for Fox News, newscasts could be mistaken for Democrat
Party political ads, and might as well be preceded by; “The following message has been approved by the Propaganda Commissar.”
Congress is not looking for the country. They are more interested in getting re-elected or, in case of the Democrats, implementing a forced march
to that great utopia in the sky. Meanwhile, the Republicans relish their victory forcing the Democrats to start the forced march in the afternoon
rather than the morning. Neither have done anything to stop the lawlessness of the Attorney General and the President, who are badly in need of
a midnight visit from the ghost of liberty’s past.
The courts have unconditionally surrendered, telling us essentially, “Don’t believe your lying eyes when you read the Constitution.” This beautiful
document does not require a Harvard degree to understand. The degree is needed to pretend we are still following it. The Constitution grants the
federal government very limited powers. It does not allow for wealth redistribution, confirmed unequivocally by a 1795 Supreme Court ruling. Its
restriction on religion only applies to Congress. It doesn’t say that people have no voice in who can marry in their own states.
The Founders would be saying, “Where is our country?”
Those now asking, “Where are you, country?” are Americans like the Tea Party, Constitutionalists, and American Thinkers, who, like Cindy Lou, can
The Tea Party is named for an act of defiance, something we need more of these days, lest we sink deeper into the progressive swamp. Defiance
like the vets dumping the WWII memorial barriers in front of the White House, or Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You lie.” Defiance like the Austrian
crowd singingEdelweiss in The Sound of Music, or the patrons in Rick’s Café in Casablancachiming in with La Marseillaise, or the Grinch (?). How
about many of us Grinches refusing to participate in Obamacare?
The old saying could be reworded, “The wheel which doesn’t squeak will never get oiled.” Productive and responsible Americans have so far gone
along without a squeak, giving silent consent to be victims. Without someAtlas Shrugs acts of defiance, we will become further enslaved and never
find the country we love.
Symbolic acts of defiance are not enough where tyranny has already arrived, but may keep it from coming. The nation needs the loud and
continuous noise of defiance while the bums can still be voted out. Americans who hadn’t noticed may begin to wonder why all the uproar. Some
may begin to say, as in the classic hymn Amazing Grace, “I once was blind, but now I see.” Then, perhaps, elections will not be decided on some
unrealistic and undefined fantasy, or who has that Evita “little touch of star quality,” but on how to find the liberty that has been lost. If so, some
day our children can sing:
“I feel you country. I know I've found you.”
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The Missouri General Assembly is in full swing and the legislators are busy considering bills and holding hearings. The Legislature will be in session until mid-May. During that period MOPP may be forwarding more emails than usual in order to keep you updated on issues where you might have an opportunity to submit a witness form, testify at a hearing and/or weigh in with your legislators on a variety of issues. We are very sensitive to the fact that folks do not want to be inundated with unnecessary emails, so we will make every effort to be very judicious in what we forward.
There are many more bills and hearings in play than we will be forwarding...involving an almost overwhelming number of issues...so if you would like to investigate the full gamut of legislation being considered by the Legislature, and where it is in the process, you can go to the following links:
MISSOURI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Bill List: http://www.house.mo.gov/billlist.aspx
Bill Tracking: http://www.house.mo.gov/billcentral.aspx?pid=26
We would encourage everyone to become familiar with the websites for both the House and the Senate. You will find very
valuable information there that will make it easier to become more involved in your own self-governance. Below you will find
some more helpful links to keep at your fingertips:
MISSOURI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Find Your Representative: http://www.house.mo.gov/legislatorlookup.aspx House Leadership: http://www.house.mo.gov/houseleadership.aspx House Member Listing (alphabetical): http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx House Committees: http://www.house.mo.gov/ActiveCommittees.aspx Committee Assignments (to find out which committee your Representative is on): http://www.house.mo.gov/CommitteeList.aspx House Journal (a day by day accounting of House business including votes and votes cast): http://www.house.mo.gov/JournalList.aspx Bill Calendar: http://www.house.mo.gov/DailyCalendar.aspx MISSOURI SENATE: Find Your Senator: http://www.senate.mo.gov/LegisLookup/default.aspx Senate Leadership: http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/leaders.htm Senate Member Roster: http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/SenateRoster.htm Senate Standing Committees (click on each committee to see committee members): http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/com-standing.htm Senate Journal: http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/jrnlist/journals.aspx Senate Calendar: http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/pdf-cal/cal.htm Other features include: Live debate, create a bill tracking list (Senate), search for a bill by number, and more. We hope you will find the above information helpful in enabling you to better understand your State government and navigate the useful websites that are available to you in order to become a more engaged in the process. (NOTE: Feel free to make a copy/copies for your resource purposes and/or to share with others.) MISSOURI PRECINCT PROJECT/MOPP
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