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Jennifer Brunner is at it again!

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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln

 

 

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Brunner Disqualifies

Christopher

 

Late Friday Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office leaked to the press the story that Tea Party organizer and Attorney General candidate Steve Christopher is disqualified from running for Attorney General because only 638 signatures on his petitions were valid.  State law requires 1000 valid signatures for AG.  A worksheet obtained over the weekend indicates that the 638 valid signatures were among 788 submitted by the candidate, a validity rate of over 80%.  There's one problem.  Steve Christopher has a receipt from the Secretary of State's office for 2,750 signatures.  So what did Jennifer Brunner do with the 1,962 signatures her office didn't check?

 

Stay tuned.


Global Warming Increases!

 

Believe it or not, that is on the Progress Ohio website. 

 

These leftists just have their brains wired differently.  No matter how they calculate it, the answer is always the same.

3 = 4+5

3 = 7+2

3 = 2+2

 

The answer is always a bigger and more powerful

government ... with

them in charge.


 

Oh, Just Pass It

 

Last summer we circulated petitions demanding that our legislators Read the Bill before they voted.  In the winter we objected to the Senate voting for a "Health Care" bill that hadn't even been written before the Senate voted on itNow we have the Obama health care bill that is so vague that the CBO can't even provide a cost estimate as required by law before the vote begins.  So our legislators are supposed to vote on a bill that can't even be described?

 

Who elected these clowns, anyway?


Washington Expose!

 

The White House is "Stuck on Stupid".  Thanks to the dereliction of duty of the Liberal Media, a lot of Americans were still clueless about what is really going on in Washington; backroom deals, payoffs, the House and Senate violating their own rules, disregard of the Constitution and partisan politics to such a level that elected representatives were effecively muzzled and locked out of legislative proceedings.

 

With the televising of the Health Care Summit on C-SPAN, millions saw for themselves what has been going on.

 

Infighting among the radical left has reached a new fever pitch in the aftermath of this "Summit" (charade).  The only thing that George Soros, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid agree on is that Obama is inept.  Thank God.

 


Al Gore still missing

 

Ever since a record breaking snow dumped on the Copenhagen Summit on Global Warming weeks ago, Al Gore has been mysteriously missing.  Perhaps he is enjoying Global Warming on a beach somewhere contemplating the millions he has made perpetrating this hoax.


ORP vs Patriots

Patriots take 2nd round

 

In a shocking display of not the message of the election in Massachusetts, the Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine played "politics as usual" to get David Yost to drop his campaign against RINO Mike DeWine, and instead run for Auditor.  Seth Morgan, a CPA and Tea Partier, had already tossed his hat into the ring when Mary Taylor agreed to run as John Kasich's running mate (Ohio law requires him to have one).  Conservatives across the state were mortified by David Yost's decision (which resulted in a massive influx of contributions to his campaign from currently unknown sources), and to have the detested DeWine running unopposed for AG.

Round one for the ORP "good old boys".

 

Steve Christopher, a fellow patriot, would not let that stand.  An attorney with 26 years experience, an NRA life member and Tea Party speaker tossed his hat into the ring, with almost no time left to obtain the necessary signatures to get him on the ballot.  The word went out to conservative grassroots organizations to help Steve get those signatures.   Patriots across the state scrambled for signatures all weekend and right up until the deadline.

 

Yesterday Steve made his run for Attorney General official by turning in the maximum legal number of 3000 signatures.  Seth Morgan also filed for State Auditor with over 2200 signatures.  David Yost was helped by ORP staffers and worked the Lincoln Day dinners, to collect less than 2000 signatures.  Mike DeWine will have opposition in the primary.  Whether or not Seth Morgan has primary opposition in the primary remains to be seen.

Round two for patriots. 

 

Our thanks to all of those who signed the petitions, and especially to those who spent the time to collect them and the expense of delivering  them to the candidates.


Attitude Check

 

Kent Moore, chairman of the party in Belmont County (on the West Virginia border) said last week, “I’ll be happy to explain to Seth (Morgan) that the reason he will not receive the support of this chairman at this time is ... because he needs to learn to respect the GOP and its elected leaders, before he can expect to earn our support.”

 

Hearing of that, Martin Gottlieb quipped "Given the standing of the GOP with the public, opposition like that could put Morgan over the top."


 Maersk Alabama

Attacked by Pirates Again!

 

The Maersk Alabama whose captain was held hostage by Somali Pirates until they were killed by a U.S. Seal Team's snipers, has been attacked by Somali pirates again.  The pirates were unaware that since the first hijacking, the owner's of the Maersk Alabama have changed their policy requiring that crew members be unarmed, and the crew quickly repulsed the pirates. 

 

The incident escaped the notice of the Mainstream news Media but not the United Nations.  The UN's Maritime Safety Committee was outraged by the incident, and immediately issued a harshly worded letter discouraging the use of firearms for personal protection or for the protection of a ship. 

 

The UN is still working on a letter to the Somali Pirates who currently hold 11 ships and 254 crewmembers captive.

 


Gibbs vs Palin

 

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tried to ridicule Sarah Palin's having 4 words written on the palm of her hand, to stay organized for her 45 minute speech in Nashville.

 

This coming from the Press Secretary of a President who uses teleprompters when he talks to elementary school kids, and needs an upgraded teleprompter which will also pronounce the words for him.

 

"Robert Gibbs gives clowns a bad name" - Ronald McDonald. 


Stimulus at Work

 

“… I see that, according to USA Today, when the economic downturn began, the Department of Transportation had just one employee making over $170,000. A year and a half later, it has 1,690.”

 

Mark Steyn, in Investors Business Daily


Obama to America:

 

"I don't quit".  The Tea Party's never happened.  We will continue making your decisions for you, behind closed doors in back room deals, and you can like it or lump it."

 


Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine

to the People of Ohio:

 

"It is still 2006.  The Tea Party's never happened.  We will continue making your decisions for you, behind closed doors in back room deals, and you can like it or lump it."

 


Here We Go Again!

 

Dave Yost, starved for campaign donations, abandoned his run for Attorney General leaving Mike DeWine, an unrepentant RINO who was angrily rejected in 2006 by the conservative base for his role in "tarnishing the brand", with an uncontested primary. 

 

Yost instead decided to run against Seth Morgan for State Auditor, and Yost is bragging that since his decision $100,000 has flooded into his campaign.

 

So where did all that money come from?

 

Republicans?  Or the Re-Elect Attorney General Cordray (D)

campaign?


Ohio Democratic Party votes to recognize ORP Chairman Kevin DeWine

 

Most Valuable Player

for 2010

 

 for alienating the conservative grassroots and dividing his own party

 

Kevin DeWine immediately called a meeting of the GOP State Central Committee to suspend its own rules and endorse David Yost for Auditor, rewarding him for dropping out of the Attorney General in opposition to Mike DeWine. 

 


Question

 

Can the Ohio Republican Party find a candidate for Attorney General who meets the two basic qualifications?

 

1.  Law degree

2.  Integrity

 


Helping Haiti

 

Muslim countries?   No.

Christian countries?  Yes.

Socialist countries?  No.

Capitalist countries?  Yes.

People's Paradises?     No.

Republics?                         Yes.

 

Ye Shall Know Them

By Their Works


Stark County

Chamber of Commerce hosted a breakfast with Congressman Boccieri on Monday, Jan 11.  Attended by approximately 200 local businessmen, they were polite but clear.  Their message to Congress - "Back Off!"

 

It is good to see business leaders taking a stand.


Sheriff's Set record straight

 

Sheriff's at the 2nd Amendment Forum at the 356th Fighter Group forum made it clear that regardless of Obama's changes to Executive Order 12045, Interpol cannot search houses or arrest people without a warrant signed by a judge and served by the Sheriff's department.  

 

If Interpol makes were to make any such attempt without said warrant, Americans have the right to defend themselves. 

 

Anyone needing help defending themselves should call for 911 for assistance.

 

Our Oathkeepers understand the clause "from all enemies, foreign or domestic" in their oath to uphold the Constitution.

And they will do just that.

 

The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) also requires any serviceman receiving an unlawful command from his/her commanding officer to relieve that commanding officer of their command and to place them under arrest.

 

 

 


MCFAN requests bid

On tar and feathers


Democrat changes parties

Democrats announce retirement

Pelosi calls Obama a lying politician

Obama calls Pelosi a witch

C-Span says they're both right


Global Warming!

Headlines from Drudge Report ...-

 

Winter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA...
CHILL MAP...
3 Deaths Due To Cold in Memphis...
Elderly burn books for warmth?
Vermont sets 'all-time record for one snowstorm'...
Iowa temps 'a solid 30 degrees below normal'...
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years...
Historic ice build-up shuts down NJ nuclear power
Midwest Sees Near-Record Lows, Snow By The Foot...
Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade...

 

Owl Gore please call your office!


Obama - It's Too Cold!

 

President Obama is reportedly angry that he could not stay in Hawaii for at least a few more weeks.  Although he is totally committed to passage of Cap & Trade and the surrender of American sovereignty to combat global warming, Obama grew up in balmy Hawaii and sultry southeast Asia, and does not like the cold of Copenhagen, Washington D.C., or just about anywhere else east of Hawaii.


 Meet the Candidates

 

Ohio Congressional Candidates

 


White House says

that both the Fort Hood shooting rampage and the nearly successful bombing of a Delta flight arriving in Detroit were "isolated incidents" of criminal activity, in spite of both people being muslim extremists who were working with the same Al Qaeda organizer in Yemen.  The administration continues to work to release all remaining prisoners in Guantanamo Bay to unnamed "community organizers" in Yemen.


Homeland Security Chief 

 

Said that "the system worked" when a radical islamist terrorist's effort to blow up an international flight arriving in Detroit was foiled by his own ineptitude and the heroics of passengers.  Asked later to justify her startling evaluation of the security breach, she said she was not referring to the terrorist attack itself, but to the conduct of the two  reviews

the President finally ordered to determine the cause of the security failure.

 

Perhaps one or both of those reviews will determine that Janet Napolitano is wholly incompetent and should be replaced as Homeland Security Chief by someone who views muslim extremists as more of a threat to national security than servicemen, veterans and Tea Party participants.

 


Obama is Angry

 

That another one of his "living large" vacations, this time to Hawaii, has been interrupted by the demand that he impersonate a President.  He is still trying to thaw out from his trip to pick up his Nobel Prize and failed trip to negotiate away American sovereignty at Copenhagen's record cold summit on global warming, and then his return to DC for 2-3 days of "work" snowed in at the White House by a fierce blizzard.

 


What's wrong with this picture?

 

The radical left's solution to prevent future incidents like the near disaster in Detroit is to strip search all passengers.  Only muslims will be exempted from the strip searches; it is against their religion and would therefore be a violation of their civil rights.


State Sovereignty

PCCOH is submitting 1750 signatures to the Ohio Attorney General for the State Sovereignty Constitutional Amendment.

 



 

It's tough to be a Senator

 

... especially when you've never even seen the bill you're debating!

 


 

House passes

Wall Street "Reform" bill 

in the dark of night ... Friday night.

Congressman Boccieri reverts to form - Pelosi pulls his strings and Boccieri votes in favor of bill.  His vote against Nationalized Health Care and the bouquets he threw to the NRA were apparently just an act.  See the roll call vote here.

 

This bill was shaped by the same people who insisted banks lend money to people who couldn't pay for a mortgage, telling them there was "no risk"; it was guaranteed by the government.  So now what is our government dictating to the financial industry, that the taxpayers will have to bail out?  Did they learn nothing from TARP and Stimulus?  Obviously not.

 


 

EPA wants to enforce

"Cap" part of

"Cap and Trade"

by regulatory fiat; it hasn't been passed by Congress yet.

 

How do you spell "unconstitutional"?

 


Democratic Party continues to sacrifice its "moderate" democrats as expendable "cannon fodder" in order to enact radical agenda.

 


White House

excludes businessmen from "Jobs Summit".

 

The Obama administration invited people to share ideas with the White House about how to create jobs - but purposely excluded The Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Businessmen and National Association of Manufacturers were specifically left off the invitations because the White House doesn't like what they say.  So was Fox News.  The White House doesn't like their reporting the news, either.  Only 10% of the participants of this jobs-creation "summit" have any private sector experience.

 


Fourteen Days and Counting

 

Everyobody has heard about the scandal called "Climate-Gate", the intentional fraud being perpetrated by the scientific think tank upon whose scholarly "findings" the Global Warming hoax has been based.  Oddly enough, after 14 days of rocking the scientific and political communities throughout the world, America's Mainstream Media has still not reported this information to their viewers.

 

Friends don't let friends watch ABC, CBC, CNN, MSNBC or NBC.  Make sure the people you know are getting the news, and not being kept in the dark by people with a political agenda.

 


 

Waterboard Obama ...

 

Find out if he knows anything.

 


Stimulus is credited with creating jobs in Ohio Congressional districts that don't exist. 

Click here

 


 

No Hasty Conclusions?

 

About a radical muslim extremist being educated for eight years at taxpayer expense and then committing the first act of domestic terrorism since 2001 as our government falls all over itself to ignore the warning signs in the pursuit of political correctness and "diversity"?

 

There is a difference between "politically correct" and "national suicide", but our intelligence agencies have been instructed to not have an opinion.

 


 

Commander-In-Chief

is MIA

 

Even as our troops continue to fight, their Commander-in-Chief is too busy with matters that are evidently more important to attend to General McChrystal's request for additional troops last August.  Wonder what he's doing that's so important? 

 


 


U.S., Chamber of Commerce

finally finds courage, speaks out

 

Insurance Companies

finally finds courage, speak out

  

 

 

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These are all public meetings,

 

worth attending and deserving of your support

 

  

 

             

3/09 - 16th Congressional District Candidates 1st Debate

 

Glen Oak High School, 7:30-9 PM

 

 

3/13 - Sheriff Mack "No Sheriff Left Behind"

 

Green High School, High Noon

 

 

3/25 - 16th Congressional District Candidates 2nd Debate

 

Wooster High School, 7:30-9 PM

 

 

 

Click on Announcements tab on the left to see details, more announcements!

 

 


 

 

 


 

Candidates Take Tea Party Pledge (Click Here)

 

(note - Steve Christopher running for Attorney General is one of the last)

 


 

 

 

 

 

Sarah Palin reads crib notes off her hand during the Q&A after her speech  at the

 

Tea Party Convention  in Tennessee.  The words "Energy," "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits"

 

are clearly visible on her hand, as well as "Budget cuts" with Budget crossed out.

 

 

Obama reads from teleprompter in elementary school

 

It is unclear whether he is discussing "all 57 states" where he campaigned,

 

or explaining why "corpsman" can be pronounced "corpse-man" by Him and Him alone.


 

Needed:  A teleprompter with a pronunciation guide

 

 

for the "Commander-In-Chief" who doesn't have a clue

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

What an amusing way to call

 

Obama a lying politician

 

 

 

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
 
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such
 
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic
 
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally
 
important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for
 
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth
 
is the greatest enemy of the State.”
 
- Joseph Goebbels

 


 

The White House controls both the House and the Senate

 

so why hasn't Nationalized Health Care yet passed into law?

 

 

Here is a quote from one of Obama's recent appeals to

 

Organizing for America, Obamas' "army" of "volunteers":

 

 

"OFA supporters have made 849,856 calls to Congress

 

in support of health reform since August".

 

 

 

Is that all? 

 

In the same period that patriots have made 2,000,000 trips to Washington?

 

And probably made a hundred tiimes that many calls, faxes and emails?

 

 

 No wonder we're winning!

 

 

 Have you contacted your Senators and Congressman this week?


 

 

Newt has a plan for federal judges!

 


 

Obama bombs in Copenhagen

 

President turned into bobblehead by absence of teleprompter

 

 

Obama foiled - China refuses to surrender its sovereignty

 


 

Our compliments to David Hedrick

 

 on his decision to run against Congressman Baird in Washington state.

 

 

 


 Hedrick speaks at Portland, Oregon Tea Party

 

 

We're sure his relatives in Akron are very proud of him!

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

Begin Now

 

 

1.  Commit time each day to getting and staying informed.  Start with an hour per day.

 

2.  Stop being polite when a liberal starts advocating in an inappropriate place.  Speak up!

 

3.  Speaking out is not merely a right, it is a responsibility for a citizen in a republic

 

4.  You may need to get out of your comfort zone.  We all did. 

 

5.  Do what you fear, and the fear will go away.

 

6.  The only thing necessary for intimidation to succeed is for people to let themselves be

 

      intimidated.  The only thing necessary for intimidation to fail is for people to refuse to

  

      be intimidated.

 



 

Patriots pay "House Call" to Congress, 11/05/09

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

It's 2009. 

 

What political label is the most popular according to a

 

recent Rasmussen poll?

 

 

Obama? Not quite.  Liberal? Conservative?  Try again.

 

Progressive? Moderate? Uh, no.

 

"Reaganism" is back (click here) for story.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

Few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger.

This is that moment, and you are that generation.                                                          (Judge Napolitano)

 

Medina County Friends And Neighbors

 

 

 (MCFAN)

 

 

 

Public Forum & Buffet Breakfast

 

  the 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month

     

 

 

         March 13 - Double-Header

 

Frederick Adams, for Medina County Commissioner

Lance Reid, for State Representative 41st District      

              

 

              Golden Corral Restaurant  4913 Grande Blvd., Medina

                                        Cost is $8, discounts for seniors & kids. 

                                    Call 330-241-5226 or email lisawoods@mcfan.org for info.

                                         Map at:  http://mcfan.org/goldencorralmap.aspx

 

Take Action!

 

 

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Precinct Voter Lists are Available

 

Contact us for yours.

 

These lists are the primary tool for the most effective way devised by mankind to educate the public and win elections.  Each personal contact produces as many votes as dozens of phone calls and pieces of mail.


Support Primary Candidates

 

Your dollars and your hours have a much greater effect during the primary than they do during the general election.  With the ORP's bias toward candidates who are "self-financing" 

professional politcians, it is vital that patriots support their own with small contributions.  $5 or $10 per month can make a big difference!


 

Top Priority

  

Precinct Activism!

 

The success we have had this year is attributable to the perceived "threat" of all those Tea Partyers and 9.12ers showing up at the polls in 2010 and voting the bums out.  It is time to deliver on that threat.

 

Contact your Board of Elections for a "walking list" of your precinct, with phone numbers if available, and a precinct map.  It is time to get to know ALL of your neighbors; to educate them if needed, and by November to Get Out The Vote (GOTV).  See our Take Action! section for more info and tips.  


Support your Group

 

Continue to support your local conservative grassroots organization, and invite your friends to attend with you!  See our Links - County pages to find a group near you.  If there isn't a group, create one and we'll help you get started.   


Commit 30 minutes

each day to

preserving your freedom

by phone, fax, email!

 


Call your Senators

 

Insist that they vote "no" on any bill that they have not read in its final legal form, and in its entirety.

 

Insist that they vote "no" on cloture, preventing filibuster of Nationalized Health Care.

 

Insist that they vote "no" on any bill that hasn't even been written!

 


What friend or neighbor have you talked to today?

 


 

To your friends and neighbors, you are the most credible source of news and commentary on current events. 

 

If you don't speak out,

who will?


 

Call your Senator Again!

 

Demand a Senate investigation into how Kevin Jennings, a strident advocate of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) can be appointed the "Safe Schools Czar" when he is the kind of

person that we want our schools to be safe from!

  


 

And Again!

 

Demand that the Senate reassert its Constitutional obligation to review and confirm Presidential appointments.

 


 

Kudos to Speedway

 

 

We are informed that Speedway gas stations are distributing literature opposing Cap & Trade.  If you stop at a Speedway let them know you appreciate their taking a stand. 

 


 

Kudos to Humana

 

For risking the wrath of the White House by informing their customers of how Nationalized Health Care will affect them.  The White House is trying to suppress their 1st Amendment rights, and prevent Humana from passing on to its customers the impact analyses produced by ... the US Government!

 


 

Crack the Nut!

 

When it rains it pours!

 

Now Bank of America is cutting its ties to ACORN.  BOA was a steady source of revenue to ACORN, wherever strong-arm tactics can be used to get mortgages extended to people who can't pay for them, and to prevent foreclosures after people don't pay.  If it sounds to you like BOA paying off the "mob" for "protection", then you understand it perfectly.

 


Today the IRS says it is severing ties with ACORN  after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp.

 

The IRS said it would no longer include ACORN in its volunteer tax assistance program. The program offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring.  Many of those 3 million did not involve support for prostitution of under-aged children and

illegal aliens.


ACORN has been denied federal funds by a Senate vote.  ACORN has beeen denied funds by a House vote.  ACORN may have funds blocked by an IG investigation, and probably others.

 


DO NOT CONSIDER this battle over until it's over!  Until the denial of funds is blocked by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, until ACORN ceases to exist, it is still a threat to our liberty and prosperity.

 

Keep contacting your Senators and the Inspectors' General on a weekly basis to inquire about their progress against ACORN!

 

Email to IG is:

igwebmanager@hud.gov

 


 Does your Precinct have a Central Committeeman?

 

If not, see

Party Power 

 


 

The Media

 

Glenn Beck can talk all he wants about the Apollo Alliance of the labor unions, community organizers (ACORN) and environmental extremists ... but the Mainstream Media is the most powerful and loyal element of the radical alliance, just as Josef Goebels' propaganda machine was the most powerful and loyal ally of the Third Reich.

 

We need to wean our Friends And Neighbors away from ABC, CBS and NBC news, certainly away from MSNBC and CNN, and toward Fox and local media.

 

Absolutely and positively we need to boycott products sponsoring these radical left media outlets, and let them know we're doing it and why.

 

And most of all, we need to boycott General Electric, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC, and dictates their bias to them in order to sell billions of dollars worth of windmills as a result of Cap & Trade legislation.  That will never happen, because the same environmental extremists who obstruct all other energy sources will obstruct wind farms too, if they ever approach viability.  Because it is not about the environment at all.  It is about political power, and power over the lives of other people.

 

 Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE, makes the American businessmen who sold machine guns to Germany during World War I and oil to Japan during World War II, look like patriots.  He is right up there with Ted Kennedy on our contempt list.