tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224194192024-03-05T06:33:44.307-06:00Life is PoliticalBecause we have ideas in our heads, we experience politics. We can't hide.Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-81201184686848578402013-04-16T15:42:00.001-05:002013-04-16T15:42:24.857-05:00Rand Paul Coming to St. Louis - May 1, 2013<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0f5XV-9QOwEPVI5lJvvzqpZOTpesZxmr_D7W9-N2LLzIiM8ZqsAZVDIvHLygY6aWhC8cfq0nkpk7KDurDajm9ouSAZJnxhuep_xx9EGru3gyXxHP46hK5ZPv9xFJZnpbpGxOig/s1600/reagan_invite-744858.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0f5XV-9QOwEPVI5lJvvzqpZOTpesZxmr_D7W9-N2LLzIiM8ZqsAZVDIvHLygY6aWhC8cfq0nkpk7KDurDajm9ouSAZJnxhuep_xx9EGru3gyXxHP46hK5ZPv9xFJZnpbpGxOig/s320/reagan_invite-744858.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5867547861020857858" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br type="attribution"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><a 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class="MsoNormal"><b>Capitol Office</b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">State Capitol<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Room 206A<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">201 West Capitol Avenue<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jefferson City, MO 65101-6806<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tele: <span><a href="tel:573.751.4285" value="+15737514285" target="_blank">573.751.4285</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Legislative Assistant </b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ryan.clearwater@house.mo.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ryan Clearwater</span></a><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>District Office</b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">2602 E. Main, Bethany, MO 64424<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:casey.guernsey@house.mo.gov" target="_blank"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt">casey.guernsey@house.mo.gov</span></a><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Committees</b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=003" target="_blank">Agri-Business</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=011" target="_blank">Budget</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=174" target="_blank">Rules</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=616&year=2013&code=R" target="_blank">Health Insurance</a><br> <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=955&year=2013&code=R" target="_blank">Joint Committee on Life Sciences</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The following links provide quick and easy access to your state government: <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Missouri House of Representatives</span></a><br> <a href="http://www.moga.state.mo.us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Missouri General Assembly</span></a><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Missouri Senate</span></a><br> <a href="http://www.mo.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Missouri State Government</span></a><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><a href="http://maps.modot.mo.gov/travelerinformation/" target="_blank"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTYWpS5HMj69EzZvK-6PY6ehTb3Y_BRAV0B8a1lqxCh54pKApCA47eTkFQPkuxoKLSUEGt-0VdoclGlSztklakR1FwWZWx0NONzk_rAumGPh_CGiecEsToxv_4hyQenFdpZqo0A/s1600/image003-708705.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTYWpS5HMj69EzZvK-6PY6ehTb3Y_BRAV0B8a1lqxCh54pKApCA47eTkFQPkuxoKLSUEGt-0VdoclGlSztklakR1FwWZWx0NONzk_rAumGPh_CGiecEsToxv_4hyQenFdpZqo0A/s320/image003-708705.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5867110477945226370" /></a></a><u></u><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> </td> <td colspan="2" style="width:520.75pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="694"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">What's Going on at the Department of Revenue?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Over the course of the last month it has been brought to the attention of the legislature the Dept. of Revenue has been collecting personal data of Missourians from our drivers licenses and concealed carry permits. This action is blatantly illegal and even after we in the General Assembly subpoenaed the department to investigate the matter, they have been evading our attempts to garner as much information as possible about their actions. To add insult to injury, we discovered today the Nixon administration has been coordinating with the federal government thru the Dept. of Public Safety to hand over lists of CCW permit holders! This action is also illegal based on laws we passed in Missouri back in 2009. Here is a brief history of the issue and our actions in the legislature to protect Missouri's private information, so you know what's actually going on.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In 2005 the federal Real ID Act was passed by Congress under the premise of enhancing security and safety for Americans. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Many states, after reviewing the language felt the law was too intrusive and put individual citizens' privacy at risk. In response a majority of states passed laws prohibiting their own departments from complying with the federal law. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/transport/real-id-act-of-2005.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/transport/real-id-act-of-2005.aspx</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In 2009 Missouri passed HB361, adding them to the list of states that were not going to comply the Real ID Act. By passing this legislation, we effectively decided as a state to protect our citizens privacy and prohibit the federal government from gaining access to our state's files. This prevents the federal government from building databases to include our citizenry. I was proud to support this legislation in 2009 and voted to pass this into law.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/HB361.htm" target="_blank">http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/HB361.htm</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Despite the legislature passing the law and it going into effect, the Nixon administration decided to adopt various rule changes and collaborate with the federal government anyway! Because of these changes within the department last year, MO Dept. of Revenue issued this letter indicating they were going to be making changes to the renewal process that are very much like the procedures used in Real ID. They also issued this sample ID which looks very similar to other IDs that are compliant with Real ID. After the individual license offices began scanning our personal documents, it didn't take long for us to put "two and two" together to figure out what has taken place. In effect, the Nixon administration decided to ignore our 2009 law and hand over Missourian's information to the federal government anyway!<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.dor.mo.gov/pdf/CentralIssuanceLetter.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dor.mo.gov/pdf/CentralIssuanceLetter.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.dor.mo.gov/pdf/newlicense.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dor.mo.gov/pdf/newlicense.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Early in 2013 a man in Stoddard County MO refused to comply with the renewal process of handing over his source documents to be copied and sent to the fee office contractor's remote location in Georgia for verification. As a result, Eric Griffin, the Plaintiff was denied a license and subsequently filed an injunction against the fee office and Dept. of Revenue. If you read the article below the Dept. of Revenue maintains this transition has nothing to do with Real ID, however a number of other questions arise.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.semissourian.com/story/1949667.html" target="_blank">http://www.semissourian.com/story/1949667.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In March 2013 my colleagues and I began receiving contacts from our constituents regarding the license renewal process and questioned the Dept. of Revenue at a legislative hearing. After getting unsatisfactory and then conflicting answers from the Dept. Sen. Schaeffer from Columbia then had a subpoena issued for all the documents from the Dept. of Revenue regarding the issue. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://cocomovoice.com/articles/2013/04/01/news/doc51533da40660b432183862.txt" target="_blank">http://cocomovoice.com/articles/2013/04/01/news/doc51533da40660b432183862.txt</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Currently, we in the legislature are in the midst of going through these documents to see what they reveal. However, based on what we have heard from Jefferson City so far there is definitely reason to be concerned. Here are a couple of the issues that have risen off the top of my head:<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1) A number of state agencies are potentially involved in this scheme as federal money was transferred through them to the Dept. of Revenue to pay for some of the new license implementation process.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2) Based on the testimony from a number of individuals with first-hand knowledge of what the department is up to, the process for document collection has not been explained to people as they apply.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3) The Department itself has not acknowledged destruction of any documents being sent to the remote location by the vendor other than a phone call. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">4) There are other state laws that may be in violation as they relate to equipment purchasing and destruction that would involve the vendor, whether it be hole punches or video cameras. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">5) There is some cause for concern over identity theft because the people actually handling these documents are not government employees, but private vendors. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am committed to protecting your privacy and preventing the Governor's administration from further participating in a nationwide database. Considering the many issues at hand relating to gun control efforts by President Obama and Congress, the gravity of the situation cannot be overstated. The U.S. Attorney General himself admitted this week that a national gun registry is the goal of President Obama. Considering how well these executive orders dovetail with 'Obamacare' we are witnessing what has obviously been a strategic plan for gun control in America. As long as I'm in office, I pledge to fight any and all efforts to place restrictions on gun ownership and prevent the federal government from gaining access to my constituents personal information. These are concerning times, but with bi-partisan support shown in the legislature this week on these issues I am encouraged we will ultimately meet success in protecting Missouri's citizens. Please call or write me anytime with thoughts or suggestions on this or any other matter.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As always if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call my office at <a href="tel:573-751-4285" value="+15737514285" target="_blank">573-751-4285</a>, or email me at <a href="mailto:Casey.Guernsey@house.mo.gov" target="_blank">Casey.Guernsey@house.mo.gov</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5J-zaQVfztNcUPk1b9kaDC79P4movAqOd1knHArKgVqnEguC014tgBIPfN8S0xBYHlCq4Px2YO-vC8kmi6Ev7Oq9Pf1EMQSjcSQoApNiLhZYX6cYDEdHRqKLUOM22rtMAj3BRg/s1600/image004-710673.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5J-zaQVfztNcUPk1b9kaDC79P4movAqOd1knHArKgVqnEguC014tgBIPfN8S0xBYHlCq4Px2YO-vC8kmi6Ev7Oq9Pf1EMQSjcSQoApNiLhZYX6cYDEdHRqKLUOM22rtMAj3BRg/s320/image004-710673.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5867110485558462482" /></a><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Representative Casey Guernsey</b><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Proudly Serving the 3<sup>rd</sup> House District<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, and Harrison Counties<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Missouri House of Representatives<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><a href="tel:573.751.4285" value="+15737514285" target="_blank">573.751.4285</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><a href="tel:660.425.8984" value="+16604258984" target="_blank">660.425.8984</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:183.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="244"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> </td> <td style="width:416.4pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="555"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> </td> <td style="width:104.35pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="139"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style><br></span></p></div></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-23157902704708911582013-04-08T12:18:00.000-05:002013-04-08T12:19:11.402-05:00BLUNT gets $60,000 from Monsanto, gives Monsanto immunity from federal courts when it comes to their GMO crops<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Monsanto Protection Act — a legislative 'rider' that grants biotech juggernaut <span style="background:yellow">Monsanto immunity from federal courts when it comes to their GMO crops</span>. Although 'written' by Senator Roy Blunt, who actually gave Monsanto the ability to write their own Monsanto Protection Act and has <a href="http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">received over</span></a> $60,000 from Monsanto, Mikulski has taken serious flak for the passing of the rider</span><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b><div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://naturalsociety.com/top-senator-apologizes-for-monsanto-protection-act/" title="Permanent Link to Top Senator Apologizes for Monsanto Protection Act" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Top Senator Apologizes for Monsanto Protection Act</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><image001.png></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">by</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/author/anthony/" title="Posts by Anthony Gucciardi" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Anthony Gucciardi</span></a> <br> <i>April 2nd, 2013</i> <br>Updated 04/03/2013 at 4:48 am <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://naturalsociety.com/top-senator-apologizes-for-monsanto-protection-act/?utm_source=Natural+Society&utm_campaign=d327f57bc9-Email+129%3A+4%2F4%2F2013&utm_medium=email#idc-container" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">59</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://naturalsociety.com/top-senator-apologizes-for-monsanto-protection-act/?utm_source=Natural+Society&utm_campaign=d327f57bc9-Email+129%3A+4%2F4%2F2013&utm_medium=email#comments" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;background:#0480f9">comment</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http://naturalsociety.com/top-senator-apologizes-for-monsanto-protection-act/&description=Top%20Senator%20Apologizes%20for%20Monsanto%20Protection%20Act" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">1</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><image002.png></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland has released a <a href="http://www.mikulski.senate.gov/media/pressrelease/3-28-2013.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">public statement</span></a> apologizing to the public for the passing of the <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/obama-signs-monsanto-protection-act-into-law-after-promising-gmo-labeling-in-2007/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Monsanto Protection Act</span></a>, stating that the legislation was buried deep within a government spending bill that was required to 'prevent a government shutdown'.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mikulski is the <a href="http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/about-chairman.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Senate Appropriations</span></a> Committee Chairwoman, one who was ultimately responsible for passing the bill that contained the notorious Monsanto Protection Act — a legislative 'rider' that grants biotech juggernaut Monsanto immunity from federal courts when it comes to their GMO crops. Although 'written' by Senator Roy Blunt, who actually gave Monsanto the ability to write their own Monsanto Protection Act and has <a href="http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">received over</span></a> $60,000 from Monsanto, Mikulski has taken serious flak for the passing of the rider.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A rider that Monsanto thought they could slip through the Senate without much of a fight, only to find that the <b>alternative news has made it a mainstream media topic by force</b> (despite GMO lovers saying that it never even happened).<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Massive Activism Leads to Apologies<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In a release from Senator Mikulski's office, Mikulski states that she actually sides with frustrated activists who are against the Monsanto Protection Act and had no other choice but to pass the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/obama-monsanto-protection-video_n_2995228.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">spending bill to</span></a> prevent 'government shutdown'. And she's not the only one. Senator Tester <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/30/obama-signs-bill-that-protects-makers-genetically-engineered-crops-from-federal/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">reportedly told</span></a> Politico that the rider serves no one but major biotech corporations, and many others have begun to speak out following the outcry.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Mikulski office press release written by a staffer and summarizing the stance of Mikulski, reads:<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"She didn't put the language in the bill and doesn't support it either. As Chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Mikulski's first responsibility was to prevent a government shutdown. That meant she had to compromise on many of her own priorities to get a bill through the Senate that the House would pass. She will continue to fight for a regular and timely Appropriations process and other valuable priorities, including food safety."<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Now the question is whether or not she is being sincere or simply performing PR damage control following the fact that the public is finding out about the severity if the issue. Instead of arguing the reality behind the politics of the bill and whether or not it would lead to 'government shutdown' as she says, let's look at her fruits regarding the GMO issue. First of all, my question is why did she not say anything before the issue got super hot in the media? Why did she not warn her citizens and the US at large about what was happening before she was a target?<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Admittedly, and as her release states, she has supported the labeling of genetically <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/21/fda-salmon-nature/1784933/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">modified fish</span></a> — something that the <a href="http://www.fda.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">FDA</span></a> should do anyway without political pressure (but they won't) through legislation. But what about the fight against Monsanto's immunity? The reality is that multiple Senators are now being forced to answer for their actions thanks to serious outrage from the public and readers like you that genuinely just want to eat real food and prevent destructive corporations like Monsanto from receiving immunity against the law.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even if some of the Senators are just covering their rear ends, the fact is that we do have a voice and we are forcing those responsible for passing corrupt legislation accountable.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-70283633249553045602013-04-08T10:35:00.000-05:002013-04-08T10:36:03.960-05:0010 Questions For The Gang Of Eight<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">April 8, 2013</span><div class="gmail_quote"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">For Immediate Release</span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45.0pt;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Contact: Stephen Miller, <a href="tel:202.224.4124" value="+12022244124" target="_blank">202.224.4124</a></span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d;letter-spacing:2.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red;letter-spacing:.6pt">CRITICAL ALERT<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">10 Questions For The Gang Of Eight<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:small-caps">Some Of The Many Questions That Must Be Answered Before Legislation Is Produced<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the enormous complexity of immigration reform and the profound consequences for American workers, taxpayers, and society at large, many have advocated for a step-by-step approach rather than a comprehensive one. The last attempt at comprehensive legislation was riddled with flaws and loopholes that made it unworkable—serving the special interests but not the national interest. Dozens of crucial questions remain for the Gang of Eight that must be resolved before any proposal can properly be called comprehensive. The American people have a right to know the answer to each of them—and to express their views during a thorough period of public hearing and review. The public must know exactly what's in any far-reaching proposal before anyone votes on it. With that in mind, here are 10 questions for the Gang of Eight:<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1. Is this bill enforcement first or legalization first?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the last attempt at comprehensive legislation was rejected by the public in 2007, a national consensus emerged that any successful reform of our immigration system begins with securing the border and achieving enforcement of current federal law first—before creating any new legal status or amnesty. When the Gang of Eight first emerged, "enforcement first" was a publicly stated principle. Yet, on the March 31st edition of <i>Meet the Press</i>, Gang of Eight member Senator Chuck Schumer said: "We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they'll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I'm not going to get into what they are…" Following that statement, ICE officer and National ICE Council president Chris Crane explained that "the plan of the Gang of 8 appears to be legalization or amnesty first and then enforcement. That's the big problem for us… Here's my promise to America, if we don't take care of the enforcement part of this first it will never happen. The only thing that will happen is that 11 million illegal aliens will be legalized."<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2. What are the concrete metrics used to measure border security?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Since 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been required to maintain "operational control" the border, <i>i.e.</i>, the Department must be able to detect, identify, classify, and then respond to and resolve illegal entries along our U.S. borders. According to a 2011 GAO <a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/130/125500.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>, the federal government has only 6.5 percent operational control of the southwest border. The stunning revelation that this administration had left the border highly vulnerable caused DHS to abandon that metric. Recently, Administration officials admitted that they have no standard by which to measure border security and have no plan to establish one, apparently because the Administration is concerned that it will discourage Congress from passing a large-scale amnesty. Meanwhile, Secretary Napolitano publicly dismissed the Gang of Eight's idea of a border security "trigger" as "not the way to go." According to recent news reports, the Gang of Eight is contemplating a trigger that simply asks DHS to <i>submit a plan</i> "to achieve within a decade 90 percent apprehension and 100 percent real-time surveillance." Once that plan is simply submitted, illegal immigrants would be offered amnesty and, like 1986, there will be no way to guarantee that the enforcement will ever take place. Even the rejected 2007 legislation included a stricter trigger, requiring DHS to certify 100 percent operational control of the border. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">3. Does the bill complete the border fence and secure all ports of entry?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In 2006, Congress mandated 700 miles of physical double-layer border fencing. <i>To date, only 36.3 miles of that fencing have been completed</i>. Additionally, DHS has failed to comply with Congress' nearly 20-year-old mandate that the government implement a biometric exit system to track visa overstays, which account for an estimated 40 percent of the illegal population in the country today. After the attacks of September 11th, the 9/11 Commission identified the absence of such a system as a national security threat. Importantly, GAO has specifically stated that without a <i>biometric</i> exit system, "DHS cannot ensure the integrity of the immigration system by identifying and removing those people who have overstayed their original period of admission." Any comprehensive immigration reform must adhere to Congress' mandate that a biometric exit system be implemented at all ports of entry—air, land, and sea. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">4. Who gets amnesty and how many?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The rhetoric of comprehensive reform often emphasizes that those illegal immigrants who have made lives for themselves in this country should be given amnesty. But no one knows who is actually eligible for amnesty under this bill and how many will be legalized. Questions include: the age of those eligible for amnesty; how long they have been in the country and how recently they illegally entered; whether they can petition to bring their family members from abroad; how many people will be legalized in total once all future family migration is taken into account; and how verification of identities, date of arrival, employment, and other information will occur. News reports have indicated that some people will have an accelerated path to citizenship, but precisely who and how many is unknown. Reports further indicate that the plan will grant citizenship to 300,000 people in the country with <i>temporary </i>protected status. Also at issue is what happens to those who do not apply for the so-called probationary legal status (or those who apply and fail to meet the criteria) and whether they will be identified and deported (and within a time certain) or will not be deemed an administrative "priority." <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">5. How will the bill impact American workers and wages?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In 2007, the last time a comprehensive bill was considered and rejected, the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent. Today it is nearly 8 percent, and the labor force participation is at a 30-year low. Economic growth remains tepid. Youth unemployment is 25 percent. A record number of Americans are on welfare. A large-scale amnesty combined with a dramatic increase in the future flow of immigration—including chain migration—will certainly have a negative impact on the wages and employment of American citizens. Already, the U.S. allows approximately 700,000 guest workers to enter the country each year. It has been roughly estimated that this bill will increase that number to over a million per year—and that increase in guest workers would be in addition to the increase in the future flow of immigration generally and the legalization of those now unlawfully present. As <i>The Weekly Standard </i>editor Bill Kristol recently pointed out, "at the end of the day simple economics say: if there is an extra supply of a couple hundred thousand low-income workers, that probably doesn't help the job prospects. Especially for those Americans who have been hurt the most over the past 20-30 years: which is lower-middle working class, not college educated workers." Imagine the real-world consequences of immediately introducing into the workforce millions of newly legalized workers—both to compete with out-of-work Americans and to continue holding jobs that would otherwise be available to citizens and to legal immigrants who waited years for the opportunity to seek work in the United States. Another area of concern for American workers is whether the bill will require that all employers use E-Verify within one year and re-verify current employees within three years, resume worksite inspections, and create and enforce sufficient penalties for the continued hiring of illegal labor.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">6. Is the guest worker program truly temporary?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the AFL-CIO (one of the primary parties to the Gang of Eight negotiations), guest workers can petition for green cards within one year, which means the program is yet another pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and accompanying chain migration. A true guest worker program is just that: it requires that a participant's stay in the country is limited, precludes them from bringing family, and requires that they return to their home countries each year for a defined period of time.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">7.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <b> Does the bill put a stop to sanctuary cities and resume cooperation with local law enforcement?</b><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dangerous sanctuary city policies—which this administration has ignored while suing states that are trying to support federal law enforcement—require local law enforcement to disregard requests by federal authorities to detain criminal aliens for a short time until they arrive and release them back into the community where they commit more crimes against citizens and immigrants alike. In addition, despite initially touting its effectiveness and success, the Obama Administration has dismantled the 287(g) program, a force multiplier through which federal law enforcement train state and local law enforcement in federal immigration law. To be effective, any comprehensive reform must specifically prohibit sanctuary city policies and reinstate and enhance programs like 287(g). <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">8. How does the bill guarantee that the Administration will not ignore future laws as it has with the laws already on the books?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">With the stroke of a pen, the Obama Administration has unilaterally waived entire portions of federal immigration law through a so-called deferred action policy and the unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial discretion. ICE officers—the ones responsible for enforcement of federal immigration law in the interior of the country—have been left with no choice but to sue the Administration to protest these actions as unlawful and unconstitutional. Any attempt at comprehensive reform must end this abuse of executive power, address these constitutional concerns, and explain how promises of future enforcement will be met when the Administration refuses to enforce current law.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">9. How does the bill ensure that federal public charge law is enforced and that illegal immigrants do not access the welfare state through the granting of green cards and citizenship? <u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Federal law explicitly bars entry to those likely to rely on federal assistance. Yet an estimated one in three immigrants currently receive some form of federal welfare. An inquiry from the Ranking Members of Senate Budget, Finance, Judiciary, and Agriculture Committees revealed that federal public charge law is currently unenforced and is, in fact, actively undermined by the federal government. The president of the ICE Council said of this statutory protection for taxpayers: "We are not permitted to enforce that statute. Period." DHS confirmed it was unable to identify a single public charge within the United States in 2012 (having checked records through August). With respect to those illegal immigrants who would receive amnesty under the bill, sponsors have likened their initial probationary legal status to non-immigrant visas. Under a faithful reading of current law, no legal applicant would be eligible for a non-immigrant visa if they are likely to live off public assistance at any future point. Yet the Gang of Eight's framework does not mention a public charge screening process (which is different from a work requirement) for illegal aliens seeking legal status—effectively establishing a lower threshold for illegal immigrants than for legal immigrants. Additionally, current green card holders are eligible for a vast array of federal benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, and cash welfare, indicating that today's low-income illegal population will become eligible for these benefits once they attain green cards as the proposal outlines.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">10. What is the long-term cost of the bill?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The true cost of the bill will occur outside the 10-year budgetary window, as illegal immigrants become eligible for green cards and ultimately citizenship. Once they become eligible for green cards, they will also be eligible for myriad public assistance, welfare, and entitlement programs. Tellingly, the four Democrat members of the Gang of Eight voted against restrictions on illegal immigrants' access to Medicaid and Obamacare. The long-term cost, on net, for Obamacare alone is likely to be around $2 trillion, with Medicare and Social Security expected to account for another $2.5 trillion. These are net costs—in other words, the amount paid in to the U.S. Treasury by the newly amnestied population is expected to be dramatically less than the amount paid out. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">[NOTE: To view this document as a PDF, please click <a href="http://sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Files.View&FileStore_id=c52eb644-6d9a-41ed-a620-ffc630610381" target="_blank"> here</a>]<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) serves on four Senate committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Environment and Public Works, and as Ranking Member of the Budget </span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Committee. Visit Sessions online at his </span></i><a href="http://sessions.senate.gov/public/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">website</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> or via </span></i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorSessions" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">YouTube</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">, </span></i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeff-Sessions/23444159584?ref=search" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Facebook</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">, and </span></i><a href="http://twitter.com/SenatorSessions" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Twitter</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">. Note: Please do not reply to this email. For further information, contact Sen. 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Can you explain why some tax cuts (Bush's second term, Obama's proposed) do absolutely nothing to stimulate the economy, while others (Reagan's, Bush's first term) provide a great stimulus?<br><br>2. Were you taught in High School that the federal government needs to protect consumers from corporate monopolies that would otherwise be able to charge whatever they wanted?<br><br>3. Were you taught that Roosevelt's New Deal saved the country by intervening in the economy and "stimulating" demand?<br> <br>4. Did you know that the biggest problem with American healthcare (one that is financially hurting us all) is that there is far too much insurance coverage?<br><br>5. Would you be surprised to learn that the economic theories espoused by the current administration and congressional leaders were conclusively disproved more than 100 years ago?<br> <br>The seminar is given over two evenings and divided into four parts:<br><br>· Intellectual and Historical Roots of Socialism: Understanding its broad appeal.<br><br>· The Intellectual and Historical Roots of Capitalism: Why we'll starve without it.<br> <br>· The Source of Value: Two contrasting views and their implications.<br><br>· Applying the Principles of Freedom to the Problems of Today: Taxes, Education, Health Care, Protectionism and Outsourcing, Population, Natural Resources and many more.<br><br>This is a great opportunity for High School Students to get the real scoop on America's Free Market Principles. Bring your teenagers!<br> <br>April 29th and 30th at the Family Vision Library – 6:30 to 10:00 pm<br><br>2020 Parkway Drive<br><br>St. Peters, Missouri 63376<br><br><a href="tel:636-447-6900" value="+16364476900" target="_blank">636-447-6900</a><br> <br><a style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.facebook.com/l/tAQFw70fH/www.thefamilyvision.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thefamilyvision.org/</a><br><br>The event is free to the public, but offerings to the Family Vision Library and Loren Spivack are appreciated.<br> <br>Contact Lisa Payne-Naeger at <a href="mailto:Lisa.Naeger@mac.com" target="_blank">Lisa.Naeger@mac.com</a> or the Family Vision Library <a style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.facebook.com/l/OAQFAsrFo/www.thefamilyvision.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thefamilyvision.org/</a></div> <div style="padding:10px 0px;font-size:13px"> <table style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding-right:10px;font-size:0px" valign="top"><a style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.facebook.com/l/GAQHsEXn5AQEw0nIcL6Jg9PRMFZc1RRRi2mNwq649RQWL_A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZhiF6z2sg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1" style="width: 130px;" alt="" width="130"></a></td> <td style="width:100%" valign="top"><a style="color:rgb(59,89,152);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.facebook.com/l/uAQGsDt-sAQEyocxQk4Q4ZJBfdqvrxgFL0Y6SB7rN61rooQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZhiF6z2sg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Free Market Warrior" Loren Spivack at Tea Party in South Boston</a><a style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.facebook.com/l/uAQGsDt-sAQEyocxQk4Q4ZJBfdqvrxgFL0Y6SB7rN61rooQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZhiF6z2sg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-bottom:10px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:11px;font-weight:bold">www.youtube.com</td></tr></tbody></table></a> <div>At Fort Independence Tea Party in South Boston, Aug. 22, 2010. "Free Market Warrior" Loren Spivack g...</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; width: 1px; min-height: 1px;"></span><br> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:10px 5px 15px 10px;line-height:18px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12px;border-top:1px solid rgb(233,233,233)" colspan="2"><a href="http://www.thefamilyvision.org/family-vision-events/details/332-loren-spivacks-economic-literacy-seminar.html">http://www.thefamilyvision.org/family-vision-events/details/332-loren-spivacks-economic-literacy-seminar.html</a><br> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><br></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-42100415737393602882013-04-02T10:07:00.001-05:002013-04-02T10:07:43.055-05:00Special Prayer Event at the Capitol - Hosted by Missouri Family Network<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">~ See attached Word document for details ~<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Show Me Your Glory Lord<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Forty Days of<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%"> Prayer & Fasting<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">PRAYER FOR MISSOURI'S BUDGET PROCESS<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt">April 2, 2013 - May 11, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Please Join With Hundreds of <u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Concerned Christians<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Responding to Our Budget Crisis <u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Tuesday, April 2,<sup> </sup>2013<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">5 pm, 1<sup>st</sup> Floor Rotunda<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i>Sponsored by:</i><i><u></u><u></u></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">National Day of Prayer and multiple <u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Christian Ministries and Denominations</span></b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Churches and ministries from all across Missouri will <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">gather in the capitol rotunda from 5 pm - 6:30 pm<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">for a prayer assembly to kick off a special called<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">forty day prayer and fasting emphasis over our <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">State's budget needs.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Participants are NOT advocating any issues or positions related to <u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt">the many controversial topics associated with the State's budget.<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Leaders of the prayer assembly will acknowledge elected officials <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">who are present but will not publicly highlight individuals by name, <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">positions or party affiliation. Throughout this forty days of prayer <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">and fasting Christians and Churches will be encouraged to focus on <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">prayer for their elected officials with an understanding of the difficult <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">decisions legislators must make on the budget.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Prayer Principles<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Unity - Motives - Wisdom - Patience - Humility - Solutions<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%">Show Me Your Glory Lord<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i>Calling on the Lord to show Missouri His glory</i></b><b><i><span style="line-height:115%"><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><b><i>as we demonstrate our dependence upon Him.<u></u><u></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">In all your prayers remember your lawmakers, staff, and families!<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%" align="center"><i><span style="line-height:115%"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></u></b></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Protocol for Prayer Walking the Capital<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Our assignment</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">: Pray at the Capitol, inside and outside the building and for all the people who work here.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Our focus</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">: To intercede in prayer for legislators, staff and families, that the <i>Divine Will of God</i> be achieved. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Please be respectful, polite and aware that there are many activities going on in the Capitol. We do not want to be a distraction in any way. Therefore we ask that you respectfully honor the following:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Please prayer walk in common areas of the building and grounds only. Do not enter into individual offices or approach individual people while you are praying. We do recommend that you go to your Representative and Senator's office and thank them for their public service and let them know you are praying for them personally, for their staff, and their families. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">As you pray remain humble, sensitive and courteous. When praying or worshiping, do so quietly.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Prayer walk in groups of two or more. It is not recommended to exceed groups of 10-12. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">It is easy to get distracted and opinionated when praying for the government and public officials. Stay focused on the assignment. Do not engage in political conversations or express your personal opinion on the issues. We are here on this day to pray only. Please deal with issues another time. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">We are servants of the Lord and are here to serve our public servants and bless them as we journey on our prayer walk. We have been invited to come by them and we are their guests. We want to be a sweet smelling savor to God and our legislators. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Do not be emotional, pray loudly, or manifest in any physical manner that would draw attention to your group or yourselves. Please pray for the attached Budget Breakdown and Prayer Principles. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Where to Prayer Walk – Who to Pray For<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Throughout the Capitol are legislative offices for elected officials, staff and support personnel.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Each of these people serve Missouri. They are interconnected by staff. They all have families.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i>Wherever you pray remember to include all support staff and families.</i></b><b><i><u></u><u></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <table style="margin-left:246.2pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:95.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b>Basement</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b>First Floor</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b>Second Floor</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b>Third Floor</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> </td> <td style="width:95.8pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b>Fourth Floor</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:95.75pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Appropriations Staff<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Research Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senate Computer Information Systems<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">& Printing Services <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House & Senate <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Bill Rooms<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House Hearing Rooms<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">State Museum Off.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Maintenance Staff<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">State Auditor<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Information Services<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rotunda – Museums<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Legislative Research<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senate Hearing Rooms<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Representatives'<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Offices <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Office of Administration<u></u><u></u></span></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Office of the Governor<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Office of the Lieutenant Governor<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Secretary of State<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">State Treasurer <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senators' Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Representatives' Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Security Personnel <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">(Throughout Building)<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> </td> <td style="width:95.75pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House & Senate Chambers<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senate Lounge <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senators' Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Legislative Library<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House Lounge<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Representatives' Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House & Senate Staff Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> </td> <td style="width:95.8pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="128"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">House Visitors' Galleries<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senate Visitors' Galleries<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Press Gallery<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Press Corps Offices are located on the First Floor</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Senators' Offices<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Representatives' Offices <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">5<sup>th</sup> Floor Staff not public<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></p></div></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-71448046365891479432013-04-01T14:22:00.001-05:002013-04-01T14:22:39.453-05:00A Few School Board Endorsements<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Tomorrow is a day that we have to make a difference in our community. I am sending out a list of our conservatives friends that are running for school board. In Mehlville and Parkway we only have one good candidate but we are told to vote for two candidates. I would urge you not to do that in the Mehlville and Parkway race. Please vote for one and only one in that race. By voting for two candidates, in the end your might be giving the opponent more votes to win over the candidate we would like to see win. The conservative candidates are as follows:</div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Lori Trakas-Mehlville</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Garrett Meiss-Hancock</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Amy Russell-Kirkwood</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Eric Peterson-Kirkwood</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Jennifer Clifton-Parkway</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Thanks for making your voice heard.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> God Bless,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Lisa Pannett<br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-23192485622170657682013-04-01T12:00:00.000-05:002013-04-01T12:01:18.998-05:00Fwd: Anti-Agenda 21 Rally (Property Rights) in Jefferson City on April 4, 8:00 a.m. Please be there!<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br> <div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,153)" color="#ac193d" size="5">Capitol Rotunda (First Floor) </font></b></font></font></div> <div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p align="center"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,153)" color="#ac193d" size="5">Thursday, April 4</font></b></font></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><font style="font-size:12pt" color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,153)" color="#ac193d" size="5">8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.</font></b></font></font><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><font style="font-size:12pt" color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"></font></font></p> <div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica"> <blockquote><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><div><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><font style="background-color:transparent"></font></font></div> <div> </div> <div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica"><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><font style="background-color:transparent"> </font></font> <div><font color="black" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="3"><font style="background-color:transparent"> <div> <input value="79709" type="hidden"><input value="2483856" type="hidden"><input value="105" type="hidden"> <div>Subject: U.N. AGENDA 21</div><div><div><blockquote> <div>Dear Missouri Patriot,</div> <div>WE NEED YOUR HELP!</div> <div>Many of of us are familiar with the term Agenda 21. Some of you much more so than the rest, but each of us feel this movement is encroaching into every aspect of our lives. Agenda 21 threatens to keep individuals from holding private property, it affects our children's education, water resources, energy availability,etc and it is already infringing upon our liberties daily here in Missouri. To prevent this happening, we have to have a wide grassroot movement to address Agenda 21. We need a plan to meet the issues of the Agenda threatening us as American citizens.</div> <div>Ike Skelton is a grassroots activist who, along with other grassroots organizers from across the State, have been tirelessly working to stop Agenda 21 from taking over our State. From these efforts a group called "Missourians Against Agenda 21″ (<a href="http://www.eyesona21.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.eyesona21.org/</a>) has emerged. There are three prongs to this organization: 1. Communication 2. Education 3. Legislation.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>We are sending you information in regard to the Legislative arm. You would think with Missouri's Senate and House both having a Republican Majority, the task of getting such bills passed would be very simple. WRONG! The House Bill was held up from a floor vote by the Republican Leadership, but thanks to our grassroot efforts and our new champions of the Republican Party, Ed Martin and Shane Schoeller, Lyle Rowland's House Bill 42 will be voted on April 8th. The Senate Bill has been voted out of committee.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>For more information on the bills go here:</div> <div>HB42: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://legiscan.com/MO/text/HB42/id/671594" target="_blank">http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://legiscan.com/MO/text/HB42/id/671594</a></div> <div>SB265: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://legiscan.com/MO/research/SB265/2013" target="_blank">http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://legiscan.com/MO/research/SB265/2013</a></div> <div>.</div> <div>Here are ways each of YOU can help…</div> <div>Please see the attachment with bullet points from Missourians Against Agenda 21. We are asking each of you to use these in calling your State Rep and Senator to:</div> <ol><li>Ask OUR leadership to put these bills on the floor for discussion in both the House and Senate with an up or down vote.</li><li>Urge YOUR legislator to vote YES on these bills.</li><li>On April the 4th there will be an Agenda 21 Rally in the Capitol Rotunda from 8:00 AM-10: AM with speakers and informational tables from grassroot activists across the State of Missouri. Please urge YOUR legislator to drop by the rally and tables. This would be a good opportunity for constituents to pay their legislators a visit.</li> <li>Invite YOUR legislators to an Education Night at the Capitol on 4/3/2013 in Hearing room 3 starting at 7 PM and ending promptly at 9 PM with expert speakers on A21 including:<ul><li>Mindy Patterson, from The Cavalry Group, St. Louis, MO (<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://alturl.com/4gof6" target="_blank">http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://alturl.com/4gof6</a>)</li> <li>Thelma Taormina, a national speaker on Agenda 21 who appeared with Glenn Beck</li><li>Ray Cunio,a grassroots activist in Missouri who has worked with Agenda 21 issues for over 30 years here in our state.</li><li>Jennie Burlsworth, President and Founder of Secure the Republic</li><li>Stacy Shore, activist and expert on private property rights</li></ul> </li></ol> <div>This will be an opportunity for our legislators to receive educational information, ask questions about this issue, have discussion and give their commitments.</div> <div>PLEASE TAKE NOTE! We are requesting each of YOU to make your call(s) on 3/25/2013 using at least one but not more than three, of these bullet points. We realize many more points could be used which may be better than what we have provided. However, we are asking all grassroot organizations come together and carry the SAME message from all over the state. When OUR legislators hear the same message coming from all across OUR state this will have a greater impact showing we are united in our efforts. (*Note: We have received word that the bills will be voted on on April 8, so if you cannot make your call on 3/25, you can still make them up until April 7.)</div> <div>To find your legislators' contact information go to these links:</div> <ul><li><a>•http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.senate.mo.gov/LegisLookup/Leg_Lookup.aspx/leg_lookup.aspx</a></li><li><a>•http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.house.mo.gov/legislatorlookup.aspx</a></li></ul> <div>We appreciate your assistance in this effort. Should any of you have questions or concerns please email me at: <a href="mailto:kgraves3@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kgraves3<font color="black"><font size="3"> [at] </font></font>hotmail.com</a> or Judy Sofka <a href="mailto:jsofka@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jsofka<font color="black"><font size="3"> <font size="3">[</font>at] </font></font>yahoo.com</a></div> <div>Thank you….</div> <div>Karladine Graves</div> <div>.</div> <div>Note: If you are unfamiliar with U.N. Agenda 21…go here..</div> <ul><li><a>•http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?</a><a>url=http://soldierforliberty.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-crown-jewel-of-understanding-agenda-21-and-the-club-of-rome/</a></li><li><a>•http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.eyesona21.org</a></li> <li><a>•http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/</a></li></ul> <div>(Note: This is a nonpartisan issue, so please have include all your contacts in this effort, no matter their party affiliation)</div> <div>Click <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://capecountyteaparty.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/agenda-21-bullet-points-20130324-01.doc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for the bullet points on which to speak to your legislators.</div> </blockquote></div> </div> </div> </font> <div> <div></div> <div><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="3"><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="3"><font color="black" face="arial"> </font></font></font></div> <font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="3"><font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="3"><font color="black" face="arial"> <div style="clear:both"> <div> <div> </div></div></div></font></font></font></div></font></div></div></font></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-25543205138326894452013-03-25T12:09:00.001-05:002013-03-25T12:09:26.823-05:00Free summer economic training by FEE for high school students at SLU<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The Foundation for Economic Education, a free-market think tank and publishers of Bastiat's "The Law," is bringing a high school seminar to St. Louis this summer (July 12-15). Application deadline is March 31st. As far as I know, these seminars are still free to liberty-minded students.</div> <div><br></div><div>(College seminar "True Costs of War" is also coming to StL - <a href="http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/the-true-costs-of-war#axzz2OO70LlAm" target="_blank">http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/the-true-costs-of-war#axzz2OO70LlAm</a>)</div> <div><br></div><div>Perhaps you know students who should attend? Highly recommended!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/free-the-world#axzz2OO70LlAm">http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/free-the-world#axzz2OO70LlAm</a></div> <a href="http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/free-the-world#axzz2OO70LlAm" target="_blank"></a><div> <br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(88,87,90);font-family:myriad_proregular;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><h1 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:3px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:20px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:droid_serifregular;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"> Free the World</h1><p style="margin-top:14px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <img alt="" src="http://www.fee.org/files/imglib/20121203_picgiant091912C.jpg" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;min-height:350px"></p> <h2 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:17px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:droid_serifregular;color:rgb(88,87,90);line-height:20px"> July 12-15: St. Louis, MO - St. Louis University</h2><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </div><p style="margin-top:14px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> Are you a high school student who loves freedom? Do you wonder if America really is the land of the free? Do you want to learn about what makes some countries freer than others and what that freedom means for the people living there? Then come to "Free the World," July 12-15, 2013, at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri!</p> <h3 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:15px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:myriad_pro_condbold;color:rgb(147,149,152);line-height:18px"> Schedule:</h3><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <u style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">July 12</b></u></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">3:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 4:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Opening<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Remarks</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">4:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 5:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Introduction<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>to<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Economic<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Ideas<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Anne Bradley)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">5:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 6:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dinner<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">7:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 8:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Hey,<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>What's<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Your<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Number?<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Matthew Mitchell) </div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold"><u style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">July 13</u></b></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">7:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 8:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Breakfast<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">8:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 9:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Size<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>of<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Government<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Patrick McLaughlin)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">10:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 11:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Property<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Rights<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Brennan Brown)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">11:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 12:20<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Activity<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">12:20<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 2:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">2:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 3:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Rule<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>of<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Law<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Anne Bradley)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">3:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 4:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Regulation<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Patrick McLaughlin)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">5:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 6:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dinner<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">6:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 7:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Sound<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Money<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Anne Bradley)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <u style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">July 14</b></u></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">7:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 8:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Breakfast<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">8:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 9:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Trade (Brennan Brown)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">10:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 11:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Activity</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">11:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 12:20<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Choice:<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Good, The<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Bad,<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>and<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Public<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(Matthew Mitchell)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">12:20<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 2:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">2:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 3:15<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Case<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Study- Regulation (Matthew Mitchell) </div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">3:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 4:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Case Study- Free<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Trade (Brennan Brown)</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">5:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 6:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dinner<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">6:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 7:45<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>pm:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Faculty<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Q&A</div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <u style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">July 15</b></u></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">7:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 8:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Breakfast<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:bold">7:00<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>– 11:30<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>am:</b><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Students<span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Depart</div> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> <br></div><div 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city<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt">Home School Rally<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Parental Rights & Home Education<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Missouri State Capitol<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Jefferson City<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Tuesday, March 26<sup>th</sup>, 2013 - 2:30 pm<u></u><u></u></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Sponsored by:<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Families for Home Education<u></u><u></u></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">In our generation Parental Right have come under attack like never before in America and Missouri!<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Various levels of the federal government and even many influential activists in State government<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">have been working to label you and I as suspect, even a threat to national security, <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">just because we home school our children!<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Just as the Missouri Department of Revenue has (secretly) begun compiling a massive <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">database of citizens and your source documents, the Department of Elementary and <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Secondary Education has conspired to begin a massive data collection on children and <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">families through local schools. By adopting the Common Core Standards initiative <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">DESE has demonstrated the plan for Missouri to join with other States to provide <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">as much detailed information as possible with the federal government. <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">How long do you think home schoolers can stay free? <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Home Education is a foundational rights that stems from the natural rights of the Family!<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Those who seek to undermine this right also work to fracture Parental Rights. Here in <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">our Great State of Missouri the fundamental principles of Parental Rights are not <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">recognized even in State Statutes, much less in the Constitution! It's no wonder <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">everyone lives in the fear of government coming to take away your children.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Worst of all, the vast majority of child abuse accusations are treated under the law as "civil"<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">violations rather than "criminal". As a result parents have NO Constitutional Rights that would<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">help protect against false accusations. Under most child protections accused parents are NOT<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">assumed innocent until the government prove that you are guilty. Instead, you are assumed<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">to be guilty until YOU prove that you are innocent. The State Children's Division treats all<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">such cases without affording you the basic rights respected of outright criminals!<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Parental Rights are too important to leave unprotected. Please come to the Missouri State Capitol<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">for this important rally. With almost half of the 163 House members being new to the Legislature,<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">and the remaining members serving only a few years (thanks to the impact of "term limits") <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">they must see and hear from you! Of the 34 Senators and House members (197 in all) only <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">a small fraction have ever seen a large organized group of Home Schoolers. <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">In 2009 3,000 home schoolers packed out the Capitol, <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">but since then 80% of the General Assembly has <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">been replaced and only a few have seen more than <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">a tenth of these numbers at any given time.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Go to:<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HB0513I.htm" target="_blank">http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HB0513I.htm</a><u></u><u></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">and check out HB 513, Sponsored by Representative Kurt Bahr, and<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HJR0026I.htm" target="_blank">http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HJR0026I.htm</a><u></u><u></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">to see HJR 26, Sponsored by Representative Todd Richardson<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Come thank these men and the many co-sponsors of these important bills.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Come and visit with your Representative and Senator to ask for their support also!<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">Without your involvement Parental Rights will continue to be eroded until your grandchildren<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center">and great-grandchildren will no longer have the home schooling rights you enjoy today.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div></div></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-56786329356896261282013-03-14T09:24:00.000-05:002013-03-14T09:27:30.512-05:00Senate Budget Committee Minority Summary Of Murray Budget Proposal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
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Sen. Brian Nieves’ legislation, SB265, will be heard in committee today
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Missouri, including…and most especially…property rights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Specifically, this legislation bars the takeover of private property without due process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">This legislation would
protect the citizens of Missouri from the encroachment of their rights by international institutions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">This
legislation provides a level of protection for local governments so
they do not get drawn into Agenda 21 policy through Federal funding or a
contractual arrangement with governmental and/or NGO (nongovernmental)
organizations that are federally funded and indoctrinated to promote
Agenda 21, which would ultimately compromise the autonomy of the
political subdivisions of the State of Missouri.
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Passage
of this vital legislation is necessary as a sovereignty-preserving
measure for the State of Missouri and its citizens against the intended
globalization and loss of local control embodied in Agenda 21, as well
as protect the sovereignty and integrity of the political subdivisions
of the State of Missouri against loss of autonomy to globalization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">In conclusion…passage of this legislation would protect Missourians’ liberty and way of life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">MOST IMPORTANTLY…passage of this law would put Missouri and U.S. Constitutional Law above International Law. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta; color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PLEASE COMPLETE THE WITNESS FORM at the link below…the greater the number of forms, the greater the impact!</span><h3 style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 5.55pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in;">
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<i><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">(Note:
We would recommend you add your own note/comments when forwarding in
order to cut down on spam/deletions. If too many with the same subject
line goes through, it may mark it as “spam”.)</span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">EDUCATE
YOURSELF on U.N. Agenda 21. Visit our website at </span><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://eyesona21.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eyesona21.org/</a></span><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><i><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">Also…just google Agenda 21, sustainable development, ICLEI…do your own homework!</span></i></h3>
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what’s going on in your community...attend your city hall, chamber of
commerce, regional meetings, etc. Agenda 21 is implemented, oftentimes
“under the radar” via governmental and nongovernmental agencies. </span><i><span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;"></span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">TOGETHER WE </span><i><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CAN</span></u></i><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #56555f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Witness Form for "Senate Bill No. 265"</span></h3>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 8.0pt;">To
make the biggest impact possible, “Missourians Against Agenda 21” is
collecting Witness Appearance forms from liberty-loving activists all
across Missouri. We will print and hand deliver each and every form to
the committee!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 6.5pt;">How to complete the form:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 6.5pt;">--Simply fill in the boxes marked in red</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 6.5pt;">--Enter your comments in favor of SB 265 in the box marked “testimony”</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 6.5pt;">Note: This step is not required, but is desirable)</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background: white;">After you've completed your witness form, please <b>forward this email</b> and encourage others to fill out the form also!</span><br />
<br /><span style="background: white;">Defending freedom!</span><br /><span style="background: white;">Missourians Against Agenda 21 </span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">The full text of the resolution is below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 10pt;">FIRST REGULAR SESSION</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 30pt;">SENATE BILL NO. 265</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 7pt;">INTRODUCED BY SENATOR NIEVES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 7pt;">Read 1st time February 6, 2013, and ordered printed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 7pt;">TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 7pt;">1330S.01I</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">AN ACT</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to prohibition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">on certain policies that infringe on private property rights.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Section A. Chapter 1, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">2 section, to be known as section 1.370, to read as follows:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.370. 1. As used in this section, "political subdivision" means any</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">2 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">state, county, incorporated city, unincorporated city, public local</span></b></div>
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</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">entity, public-private partnership, and any other public entity of the</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">4 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">state, a county, or city.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">5 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Neither the state of Missouri nor any political subdivision</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">6 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">shall adopt or implement policy recommendations that
deliberately or</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">7 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">8 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">9 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">or traceable to Agenda 21, adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">10 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Conference on Environment and Development or any other</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">11 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">12 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Constitution of the United States or the Missouri Constitution.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">13 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Since the United Nations has accredited and enlisted</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">14 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">numerous nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations to</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">15 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">assist in the implementation of its policies relative to Agenda 21 around</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">16 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the world, the state of Missouri and all political subdivisions
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">17 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">prohibited from entering into any agreement with, expending any sum</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">18 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of money for, receiving funds from, contracting services from, or giving</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">19 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">financial aid to those nongovernmental and intergovernmental</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturySchoolbook,serif; font-size: 11pt;">20 </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">organizations as defined in Agenda 21.</span></b></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-70565332306746578552013-02-26T22:30:00.000-06:002013-02-26T22:30:01.030-06:00St. Louis City = "Beta City" for STAR Community Index software platform<div dir="ltr">
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I'm starting to connect the dots from this <a href="http://www.slu.edu/nl-sustainability-star-partnership-1020">SLU Press Release</a> - Oct. 22, 2011 to the <a href="http://www.ewgateway.org/rpsd/">regional meetings </a>being held for the last year to the plan developed at the United Nations called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21">Agenda 21</a>." Until this release, I had not found the "<b>International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives</b>" (ICLEI) mentioned; but now it's clear that these regional meetings are part of Agenda 21 because the "data portal" is being mentioned at these regional meetings (see <a href="http://www.ruthcarlson.blogspot.com/2013/02/report-form-sustainable-development.html">notes from Pevely, MO meeting</a>).<br />
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With our deficit growing by billions of dollars
every day, why are HUD, DOT and the EPA spending money
the nation does not have, on programs that our nation does not need,
that will impose government-mandated restrictions on property and behavior that most
people do not want? <br />
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SLU's Center for Sustainability Partners with City of St. Louis</div>
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<tr> <td><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"> From left, Catherine Werner, sustainability director for the City of St. Louis, John Sondag, president of ATT Missouri, Tim Keane, executive director of the Center for Sustainability, Mayor Francis Slay and Paul Dickinson, executive chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project, announced a research project to test a new sustainability software platform designed to help the city develop a comprehensive sustainability plan. <i>Submitted photo</i> </span></td> </tr>
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Thanks in large part to support from the Center for Sustainability at Saint Louis University, the City of St. Louis was chosen as one of <b>only ten cities nationally to participate in the development of the STAR Community Index software platform,</b> a tool that local governments across the globe will use to help create the sustainable cities of the future.<br />
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The developing organization, ICLEI, was founded in 1990 as the "<b>International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives</b>" at the United Nations' first "World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future." Since then, ICLEI has grown to represent more than 1,200 local governments across 70 countries in sustainable development initiatives like the creation of the STAR Community Index software.<br />
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The city's participation in the STAR Community Index project is being supported by the Center for Sustainability at SLU with seed funding, as well as hands-on research through the "REAL Partners" program, an initiative that provides research support from the Center's graduate students. The STAR Community Index software will help the city's sustainability efforts through the measuring and tracking of local sustainability assets and barriers, with the goal of integrating the data into a long-term sustainable development plan for the region.<br />
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According to Tim Keane, Ph.D., executive director the Center, this initiative fits perfectly with their mission and strategic objectives.<br />
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"The Center for Sustainability is seeking collaborations with sustainability thought leaders, both inside SLU and externally, that recognize we are a society in crisis. Tools like the STAR Community Index help quantify the urgency, and support actions to replenish, not deplete, our ecosystem resources," Keane said.<br />
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As part of the initiative, the City of St. Louis released the results of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory back to 2005 as a baseline to benchmark progress in reducing its carbon footprint and show how the city is utilizing technology to minimize its impact on the environment.<br />
"It is important that we know our impact on the environment so we can measure our progress, focus where we can make the most improvement, and know which initiatives are working and which are not," said Mayor Francis Slay.<br />
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The Center for Sustainability offers a master of sustainability degree and supports inter-disciplinary research that has the potential to solve sustainability-related issues in society.<br />
For more information about the Center's degree options or research collaboration opportunities, please visit <a href="http://sustainability.slu.edu/">sustainability.slu.edu</a> or call 314-977-3608.<br />
The Center for Sustainability was launched through the generous support of its founding donor, the Alberici Foundation.</div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-51744727344731931982013-02-25T22:30:00.000-06:002013-02-25T22:30:01.762-06:00(AGENDA 21) SLU Hosts: How to Make America's Urban Core Sustainable in the Twenty-first Century<span style="font-size: small;">I'm always wearied by conspiracy theorists that mistake of believing a "master plan" is behind the natural results of progressive ideas. Yet it's important for liberty-loving individuals to start following how there are a lot of people working to get "sustainable development" (Agenda 21) implemented in our area --and they are trying to get funding through Prop P on the April ballot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">First off, I got a tip about a "Regional Sustainable Communities" meeting at Pevely City Hall last week from a concerned citizen who later attended the meeting, which are sponsored by the <a href="http://www.ewgateway.org/rpsd/">Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD)</a>. You can <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=22419419#editor/target=post;postID=1565923518718921498">read his report here</a>. One of his observations include<span style="font-size: small;">d</span> how
a <u>data portal</u> is being developed that will hold all information as the
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<span style="font-size: small;">Turns out, this Friday there will be a <i>a<u> free and open to the public</u><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i>Saint Louis University Public Law Review Symposium<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>called on <b>Saving the Cities: How to Make America's Urban Core Sustainable in the Twenty-first Century. </b>Will the data portal be mentioned??<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Friday, March 1, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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<span style="font-size: small;">Saint Louis University School of Law</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/news-and-events/events/public-law-review-symposia/public-law-review-symposium-2013/register">Register</a></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/news-and-events/events/public-law-review-symposia/public-law-review-symposium-2013/presenters">Presenters</a></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/news-and-events/events/public-law-review-symposia/public-law-review-symposium-2013/schedule"> </a></span><a href="https://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/news-and-events/events/public-law-review-symposia/public-law-review-symposium-2013/schedule">Schedule</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It would be great for concerned citizens to attend this symposium to learn more. I've also heard there will be another "Regional Sustainable Communities" meeting is scheduled for March 7, 2013 at the Madison Fire Station (Illinois) starting at 6:30 p.m. <a href="http://www.ewgateway.org/rpsd/RPSD-CPAInfo/CommMtgflyers-Round3.pdf">Updated Meeting Flyer</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What is concerning, however, is that the <a href="http://www.ewgateway.org/rpsd/">Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD)</a> is suppose to be "funded through a partnership among the federal agencies of HUD, DOT and EPA." But I question that. I googled "<a href="http://www.grgstl.org/">Great Rivers Greenway,</a>" which is getting a percentage of the taxes raised through Prop. P, and I found the Regional Plan for Sustainable Development meetings listed<b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">on the <span style="font-size: small;">Great <span style="font-size: small;">Rivers Greenway website.</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">RPSD and Great Rivers Greenway are part of a partnership. <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>his is all c<span style="font-size: small;">onnected. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are inter<span style="font-size: small;">ested in being <span style="font-size: small;">part of team of concerned citizens tracking what <span style="font-size: small;">all of this is about. Contact me.</span></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>These are notes submitted by a concerned citizen regarding a </b>"Regional Sustainable Communities" meeting at Pevely City
Hall last week. The meeting was part of a series of meetings sponsored by the <a href="http://www.ewgateway.org/rpsd/">Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD)</a> to get citizen feedback on "sustainable development" plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Meeting
was run by members of East/West Gateway. There were around 7 of there
members present. Mark Fogol (MC), Marielle Brown (Our table leader),
and Kevin Triggs (note taker at our table).</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There
were 18 at-large attendees from Pevely, Festus, Herculaneum, and
Crystal City. Also included in this number were 2 ladies (Lisa &
Teresa) from St. Louis County area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There
have been 2 previous meetings on this topic at different locations
and a 4<sup>th</sup>
meeting will be held in 2 weeks on Tuesday night in Madison, IL. <b>[was <span style="font-size: small;">rescheduled</span> for Thur., </b>March 7, 2013 at the Madison Fire Station<b> at 6:30 p.m.)</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
team of 7, especially Mark Fogol, has given over 30 of these types of
informational meetings all across the St. Louis area in the last few
months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some
of the locations were; Wentzville and Lake St. Louis, Ferguson and
evirons, and east metro area. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A
data portal is being developed that will hold all information as the
Sustainable Development process unfolds and it will be hosted by St.
Louis University.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">After
the last meeting (#4) drafting of the plan will begin and laid out by
June of 2013. Then there will be some Sustainable Development
workshops then presented during the rest of the summer and early Fall
to local city and town officials to look at and talk about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Happy
Welch was present at our table and he is the Pevely Commissioner
hired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">East
/ West Gateway hold the purse strings of money (from HUD &<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>EPA)
that will finance this endeavor. They said that they are not pushing
any agenda and the choices will be made by local authority, board of
alderman, or commissioner of each of the 4 towns being targeted;
Festus, Crystal City, Pevely, and Herculaneum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I
would think that during the next 3-4 months a campaign to inform
these local leaders about Agenda 21 would be paramount, otherwise the
local leaders will be glad to take the funds from the 2 federal
agencies and sign on and what the future would hold would not be
good.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>At
our table during the discussion period that brought up the fact that she was aware that this process is
from Agenda 21, ICLEI, and the United Nations. It was denied</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>....</b></span>There
was a couple at the table that got up and left after the Agenda 21
discussion. They were stopped by some team members and talked with in
more of a private session at the rear of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please contact me if you <span style="font-size: small;">want to be part of team of concerned citizens <span style="font-size: small;">learning more about "sustainable development<span style="font-size: small;">" (Agenda 21) plans being developed for our area. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-63617558253814667552013-02-25T10:49:00.000-06:002013-02-25T10:50:15.178-06:00Get to know Candidates on April Ballot - Chesterfield Township<div dir="ltr"><b>Candidates for the April election will speak Thursday, February 28, at 7 p.m. at St. Louis County Community College at 2645 Generations Drive in Wildwood. Room 225.<br><br> Already confirmed are former State Senator Jane Cunningham for Monarch Fire Board, Jeff Morrell for Rockwood School District, Matt Segal for Chesterfield mayor, Bob Nation for Chesterfield mayor, and Marc Perez for Wildwood Ward 3. Others are expected to be present and speak. We know these local positions are critical in our fight to defend our liberties. This is our chance to really get to know the people stepping forward to be our leaders. <br> <br><br> <br> <br><br></b></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-90933029322173586382013-02-11T11:33:00.001-06:002013-02-11T12:12:06.481-06:00Senate Hearing on Right to Work: Make your voice hear in Jefferson City; Fill Out Hearing Form<table border="1" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" rules="NONE" style="width: 800px;"><tbody>
<tr><td width="63%"><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The right to either join a union or refrain from joining a union is a basi<span style="font-size: small;">c freedom. <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>B 7<span style="font-size: small;">6 and SB 134 </span>defend that freedom. Hearing is <span style="font-size: small;">Tuesday</span>, Feb. 126th<span style="font-size: small;">. (<span style="font-size: small;">My first <span style="font-size: small;">post was concerning the House committee hearings. This is a different witness for<span style="font-size: small;">m.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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Last week the hearing for HB 77 was held in the Missouri House of
Representatives. This week two companion bills will receive public
hearings on the other side of the Capitol.<br />
It's always best if you can attend the hearings and visit with
legislators in person, but if you can't make it, please click on the
links, below, to<span style="background-color: yellow;"> fill out an online witness form</span>. Not only will we deliver your printed witness form, but we will also email a link to our new <b>Constituent's Voice</b> page to each committee member.<br />
The comments you fill out in the testimony section of the witness
form will be displayed in an easy to access table. If you checked the
boxes to give approval, your phone number and email will be displayed
with your comments, so the senator or rep can contact you.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><b>Your help is needed! </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Please either attend this hearing or, if you can't make it, fill out an online witness form</span> which will be presented with hundreds of others at the hearing. Include your own comments on the form.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Witness Form Links</span> for <a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13Info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillPrefix=SB&BillSuffix=76" target="_blank">SB 76</a> & <a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13Info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillPrefix=SB&BillSuffix=134" target="_blank">SB 134</a> (Right to Work in Missouri)</b></div>
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Please fill this form out now and pass this email on to as many friends as you can!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Did you know that the Missouri has "Right to Work" in the state Constitution?</span></b><br />
That's right, <a href="http://www.moga.mo.gov/const/A01029.HTM" target="_blank">Article I, Section 29</a> says, <i>"That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives <u>of their own choosing</u>."</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Learn More About The Bills:</b></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13Info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillPrefix=SB&BillSuffix=76" target="_blank">SB 76</a> (<a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/Brown" target="_blank">Dan Brown</a>) and <a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/13Info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillPrefix=SB&BillSuffix=134" target="_blank">SB 134</a> (<a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/Sater" target="_blank">David Sater</a>) Establishes Right to Work in Missouri, thus codifying Art. I Sec. 29 in the statutes. Protects freedom of association.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Missouri First <i>Principled Policy</i> paper on right to work:</b></span></span></span><br />
This <a href="http://www.mofirst.org/policy/Missouri-First-Policy-Right-to-Work.pdf" target="_blank">policy paper</a>
tells the history of the Wagner Act, particularly wily FDR's use of the
"Court Packing Plan" to coerce the Supreme Court into accepting this
unconstitutional federal edict.<br />
It also provides a principled answer to legitimate liberty-based concerns about Right to Work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>More Interesting Resources</b></span></span></span><br />
<b>Historian Tom Woods:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.mofirst.org/issues/economic-freedom/RTW/Tom-Woods-Labor-History.pdf" target="_blank">Forgotten Facts of American Labor History</a><br />
<b>Labor Law Timeline:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.mofirst.org/issues/economic-freedom/RTW/Labor-law-timeline.pdf" target="_blank">Brief History of American Labor Law</a></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-40560927188889303732013-02-06T22:00:00.000-06:002013-02-06T22:00:04.480-06:00(video) Army admits standards will be lowered to help women "succeed"<div dir="ltr">
Phyllis Schlafly wrote a great column on "<a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/panettas-cowardly-decision.html">Panetta's Cowardly Decision</a>" in which she asks: "Do you believe the U.S. Army will require women to meet the same physical standards as the men?"<br />
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Phyllis got an answer. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that if "a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain...why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?" Since the stated goal is "set women up for success," the answer will be "No."<br />
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Even more, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC), a mostly-civilian commission that lobbies the Congress and the Pentagon, says: "<u><b>it is not about treating everyone the same.</b></u> This can be a difficult concept to grasp, especially for leaders who grew up with the EO-inspired mandate to be both color and gender blind." (p. 18) So women in the military isn't about equality. <br />
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Learn More: The Center for Military Readiness: <a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/36488/seven_reasons_why_women_in_combat_diversity_will_degrade_tough_training_standards">http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/36488/seven_reasons_why_women_in_combat_diversity_will_degrade_tough_training_standards</a></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-81509624746420840122013-02-06T14:12:00.000-06:002013-02-06T14:13:19.781-06:00Online Poll - Do you support Right to Work?<div dir="ltr"><div>The hearing this morning for Rep. Eric Burlison's HB 77 (Right to Work) was standing room only -- unfortunately, mostly with union supporters. The the hearing will continue Wednesday afternoon, at which time your witness form, along with hundreds of others, wil be handed the committee. <div class="gmail_quote"><p> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">In the mean time, please help with an online poll. </span> You don't have to leave your email address or any personal information, just click yes or no. Go to: <a href="http://themissouritimes.com/" target="_blank">http://themissouritimes.com/</a></p> </div><br></div>-Report from Ron Calzone<br></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-8849167875493232112013-02-05T20:00:00.000-06:002013-02-05T20:00:03.042-06:00Should be rewritten to be gender neutral: "Violence Against Women Act"This is a great point! <b>VAWA should be renamed The
Sexual And Domestic Violence Act and rewritten so that it
is gender neutral.</b><br />
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Here's a great op-ed piece that was sent to Pelosi....</div>
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Protect our
vulnerable boys! Rename and rewrite VAWA so it is
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<i>This is an
open letter to Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelosi, who
strongly supports reinstating the gender-biased Violence
Against Women Act (VAWA). For the past 18 years, VAWA has
been renewed without public debate. VAWA fails to support
boys and men who are victims of sexual and domestic
violence. It also fails to acknowledge that women
perpetrate sexual and domestic violence against children
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<i>I mailed a
hard copy of this letter to Nancy Pelosi, along with a
list of studies and reports supporting my statements. I
sent a similar letter to Governor Maggie Hassan of NH, who
also supports VAWA. For this post, I included a partial
listing of the resources. I also redacted my address and
information personal to my family.</i></div>
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<i>As a child
advocate, I feel it is my duty as a professional to demand
equality, compassion and fairness in laws that have the
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I am a Licensed
Mental Health Counselor, a children’s rights advocate and
former social worker. I have worked with children of all
ages and families in various roles for 20 years. I am a
registered Democrat, a strong humanitarian and community
activist. <b>I am requesting that VAWA be renamed The
Sexual And Domestic Violence Act and rewritten so that it
is gender neutral.</b></div>
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I am writing to
express my dismay at how politics have infected the fields
of human services in the past several years, to the point
where I am seeing a chronic lack of compassion and a
dangerous apathy towards the suffering of male victims of
sexual and domestic violence. I have worked hard over the
years to protect all people from suffering. Sexual and
domestic violence are the tragic consequences of people who
grew up with severe childhood trauma, whose needs have not
been met to such a degree that they act-out in violence as a
means to cope. I have always worked to try to heal children
and families to prevent the cycles of violence from
spreading. However, in my work with youth and families, over
and over I come across unspoken and unwritten rules that
seem to suggest that it is politically incorrect and even
profane for Democrats, humanitarians and social justice
advocates to speak on behalf of the rights and needs of boys
and men, or to bring attention to and hold women accountable
for their violent and sexually aggressive behavior towards
children and adults of both sexes.</div>
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I have worked
with countless boys of all ages who have suffered rape and
sexual assaults by perpetrators of both sexes. Far more boys
than girls are severely abused by their parents. Many of the
men in the families I have worked with are victims of
domestic and sexual violence. The difference between these
boys and men who are victims and their female peers who are
victims, is how they are treated by society, the mental
health system, community crisis centers, the child
protective/social service system, the legal system, the
justice system and the media: While the girls and women I
work with have been focused on, protected, believed,
supported and empowered by these systems, the boys and men I
have worked with, as a whole, have suffered systematic
discrimination, sexism, mockery, disbelief and neglect by
these systems. Despite the already over-abundant outreach
efforts, programs, policies and services for women, there
are still no serious outreach attempts to educate, protect,
empower, focus on and support boys and men who suffer date
rape, rape, sexual assault, genital mutilation, child abuse,
domestic violence and psychological battery in their
families, relationships and in society.</div>
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I don’t know
where to turn with these concerns. As an author and writer,
I have reached out to progressive magazines, human rights
organizations, feminist organizations and other politicians.
I have either received no response or an angry, dismissive
response. However, what I have witnessed in my own work as a
humanitarian is not isolated. I have been researching this
gender bias against male victims of sexual and domestic
violence and the ignoring of female perpetration of violence
for several years and my findings have been shocking. There
have been almost 300 quantitative random sample research
studies since the 70′s that have consistently shown that men
and women both report that men are the victims in 51% of
domestic violence incidents involving male-female couples.
There have been decades of studies showing the high
incidents of rape and sexual violence against boys and men
and of female-perpetrated sexual assaults. Murray Straus at
the Family Research Lab in NH has an unpublished study
showing that boys under 18 in the US suffer slightly more
sexual abuse than girls. Also, in several studies of
college-age youth, young men report being the victim of
coerced sex (date rape) more often than or equal to young
women! News reports of male victims of both sexes, but
especially boys and men tortured by women, boys raped by
mothers, boys raped by teachers, especially teenage boys
raped by grown women, are kept under the radar and receive
little attention other than mockery.</div>
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Yet,
quantitative, random sample studies and news reports are
ignored in favor of compiling crime statistics, or stats
from social service/crisis centers, which only tally who
actually reports abuse and crimes to law enforcement and
social service agencies. It is common knowledge in the human
services that boys and men are unlikely to report sexual and
domestic violence to law enforcement or to the mental health
system (especially when they are victimized by a woman),
therefore they are grossly under-represented in crime stats.
Additionally, the FBI didn’t even count male victims of rape
until 2012, so boys and men were not ever factored into rape
statistics compiled by the FBI. I have witnessed many times
that reports to Child Protective Services of boys being
sexually abused by women are not referred to the DA or to
law enforcement. When women are actually caught and
prosecuted for sexual and domestic violence, they receive
light sentences or none at all.</div>
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Another issue I
want to briefly mention is genital mutilation. Most
humanitarians agree that Female Genital Mutilation is an
egregious crime against girls. However, in our country,
millions of boys have suffered the sexual violation and
trauma of genital mutilation without any interest or concern
from human rights groups. Research and victim reports are
clear that Male Genital Mutilation (circumcision) causes
trauma, mother-son attachment disruption and sexual and
mental health problems, yet it continues without any outcry.</div>
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As a democrat,
a humanitarian, a mental health counselor, a children’s
rights activist, an aunt and a mother, I do not understand
why there is such an outpouring of support and protection
for girls and women but an indifferent, silent apathy which
ignores boys and men. It is an egregious violation of human
rights in my ethical opinion.</div>
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As my Leader, I
am asking you to <b>only support legislation that is gender
neutral, that protects ALL victims of sexual and domestic
violence and that holds ALL perpetrators equally
accountable</b> for sexual and domestic violence. I know
that VAWA has been a hot button for politicians; <b>I am
asking that you only endorse VAWA if the name and the
language in the act are gender-neutral. The act should be
renamed, The Sexual and Domestic Violence Act, and should
have equal provision for all victims, holding all
perpetrators equally accountable. </b>Law enforcement
must stop targeting men for punishment, and understand that
men are half of the victims and women are half of the
perpetrators. It is factually incorrect and even a public
safety threat to have an act like VAWA that is named to only
protect half the population and target half the
perpetrators.</div>
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I saw your
Tweet on 1/23/13 that “No woman should be forced to suffer
abuse in silence”. I don’t believe <b>ANY</b> person should
suffer abuse in silence, including men and children. I would
like your thoughts and your suggestions of how I can bring
more public awareness to this problem in order to protect my
clients and the people I serve. I hope that you will
consider supporting ALL victims who suffer the trauma and
pain of sexual and domestic violence in our country.</div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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Laurie A.
Couture<br />
Licensed Mental Health Counselor<br />
Author of Instead of Medicating and Punishing<br />
Parenting Coach and Speaker</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.laurieacouture.com/2013/01/vawa-must-be-renamed-and-made-gender-neutral/" target="_blank">http://www.laurieacouture.com/<wbr></wbr>2013/01/vawa-must-be-renamed-<wbr></wbr>and-made-gender-neutral/</a>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-89509852510166286062013-02-04T10:14:00.001-06:002013-02-04T10:17:20.327-06:00Witness form link - Right to Work Hearing WednesdayThe right to either join a union or refrain from joining a union is a basi<span style="font-size: small;">c freedom. HB 77 defends that freedom. Hearing is Wednesday, Feb. 6th<span style="font-size: small;">.</span>
Did you know that the Missouri has "Right to Work" in the state Constitution?</span><br />
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That's right, <a href="http://www.moga.mo.gov/const/A01029.HTM" target="_blank">Article I, Section 29</a> says, <i>"That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives <u>of their own choosing</u>."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><br />
Properly applied, that means even if 99% of the employees at a company choose to form the XYZ Union, the other 1% (or any individual) still has the right to choose someone else -- including themselves -- to represent them. The Constitution declares an individual's right to either join the union or refrain from joining the union a majority of his coworkers formed.</span><br />
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So why is Missouri not considered a "Right to Work" state?</span><br />
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It's because our state legislature has thus far failed to do their duty to protect the rights of Missouri workers from an <a href="http://www.mofirst.org/policy/Missouri-First-Policy-Right-to-Work.pdf" target="_blank">unconstitutional federal law</a> from 1935 (The National Labor Relations Act, aka "Wagner Act").</span><br />
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That will change if <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB77&year=2013&code=R" target="_blank">HB 77</a> (Rep. <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx?district=133&year=2013" target="_blank">Eric Burlison</a>) becomes law.</span><br />
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Commonly known as "Right to Work" or "Employment Freedom", this bill will have a <b>public hearing</b> in the Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 6th.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><b>Although polls indicate most union members don't think anyone should be forced to join a union, their leadership will fight this bill tooth and nail!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><b>Your help is needed! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Please either attend this hearing or, if you can't make it, fill out an online witness form</span> which will be presented with hundreds of others at the hearing. Include your own comments on the form.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Witness Form Links</span> for <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB77&year=2013&code=R" target="_blank">HB 77</a> (Right to Work in Missouri)</b></span></div>
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<b>Generic Witness Form: <a href="http://www.libertytools.org/LibertyTools/witness/witness2.php?template=12" target="_blank">Click for Witness Form</a></b></div>
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<tr> <td><b>Date:</b> Wednesday, Feb 6</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Time:</b> 8:00 a.m.</td> </tr>
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Please fill this form out now and pass this email on to as many friends as you can!<br />
For Liberty,<br />
Ron Calzone</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Learn More About The Bill:</b></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB77&year=2013&code=R" target="_blank">HB 77</a>
(Burlison) Establishes Right to Work in Missouri, thus codifying Art. I
Sec. 29 in the statutes. Protects freedom of association.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Missouri First <i>Principled Policy</i> paper on right to work:</b></span></span></span><br />
This <a href="http://www.mofirst.org/policy/Missouri-First-Policy-Right-to-Work.pdf" target="_blank">policy paper</a>
tells the history of the Wagner Act, particularly wily FDR's use of the
"Court Packing Plan" to coerce the Supreme Court into accepting this
unconstitutional federal edict.<br />
It also provides a principled answer to legitimate liberty-based concerns about Right to Work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>More Interesting Resources</b></span></span></span><br />
<b>Historian Tom Woods:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.mofirst.org/issues/economic-freedom/RTW/Tom-Woods-Labor-History.pdf" target="_blank">Forgotten Facts of American Labor History</a><br />
<b>Labor Law Timeline:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.mofirst.org/issues/economic-freedom/RTW/Labor-law-timeline.pdf" target="_blank">Brief History of American Labor Law</a></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-16506869641495360142013-02-01T09:57:00.001-06:002013-02-01T09:57:39.671-06:00WelcomeToUSA.gov promotes welfare benefits to newly arrived immigrants<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b>"Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal," </b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">said Sen. <span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Sessions.<br> </span></span><br><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.welcometousa.gov/Government_benefits/default.htm" target="_blank">WelcomeToUSA.gov</a>, that features a page promoting welfare benefits to newly arrived immigrants. </span><br> <br>....</span></span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>just 0.068 percent of visa applications were denied in 2011 on the grounds of being a welfare risk</b>.</span><div class="gmail_quote"> <br> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <p class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(54,95,145)"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9KMmv1nJWtrEDOAEfz3eE5cDxJBDxn0v7SBAl6nrV6at71PiLWLICmt-qPCbKhP0cLjC7fq6Yw4W70xjqyqTV5eetAHBehygIAvoamLZvnhG4oU1Rz2Y6jgTwzP8WNPvQkbxCA/s1600/image001-759673.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9KMmv1nJWtrEDOAEfz3eE5cDxJBDxn0v7SBAl6nrV6at71PiLWLICmt-qPCbKhP0cLjC7fq6Yw4W70xjqyqTV5eetAHBehygIAvoamLZvnhG4oU1Rz2Y6jgTwzP8WNPvQkbxCA/s320/image001-759673.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5840014177560749602" /></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">February 1, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">For Immediate Release<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="margin-left:45pt"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Contact:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:rgb(54,95,145)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Stephen Miller,<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="margin-left:45pt"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> Andrew Logan: <a href="tel:202.228.0575" value="+12022280575" target="_blank">202.228.0575</a><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-align:center" align="center"> <span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Immigration And The Welfare State<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How The Obama Administration Defies Federal Law<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is an explicit and unambiguous tenet in federal law that those granted entry into the U.S. must be able to support themselves financially. But the Obama Administration has aggressively defied this strict federal statute. <span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">What are new promises worth when existing law is unilaterally waived?</span><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Last year, the Ranking Members of Budget, Finance, Judiciary, and Agriculture Committees <a href="http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=1ca34204-a755-492d-9691-33603ab44301" target="_blank"> wrote an oversight letter</a> to Secretaries Napolitano and Clinton that said in part:<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="margin-right:0.25in;margin-left:0.25in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"> <i><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"The [Immigration and Nationality Act] specifically states: 'An alien who… is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible.' … We were thus shocked to discover that both the State Department and DHS exclude reliance on almost all governmental welfare programs when evaluating whether an alien is likely to become a public charge… Under your interpretation, an able-bodied immigrant of working age could receive the bulk of his or her income in the form of federal welfare and still not be deemed a 'public charge.'"<u></u><u></u></span></i></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">DHS even has a website, <a href="http://www.welcometousa.gov/Government_benefits/default.htm" target="_blank">WelcomeToUSA.gov</a>, that features a page promoting welfare benefits to newly arrived immigrants. (Some of these benefits, under law, should <b>automatically disqualify the applicants</b> from entry into the U.S. The page is also being updated to promote free coverage under the President's health law.) Yet DHS has completely <a href="http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=7ff581af-520c-4a05-ab6b-bff570f88c9e" target="_blank"> stonewalled</a> the Committees' oversight efforts—not replying to a single inquiry. Initial data from the State Department shows that <b>just 0.068 percent of visa applications were denied in 2011 on the grounds of being a welfare risk</b>. (The rate is even less—0.003 percent—when one takes into account those who are able to overcome public-charge denials in subsequent years.) In other words: Despite laws to the contrary, virtually no one is being turned away from the United States for being welfare-reliant.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Relatedly, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has stopped complying with efforts to learn more about his Department's efforts to enroll immigrants and non-citizens on 15 USDA-administered welfare programs. The Department has even produced and broadcast soap opera-like "radio novelas" featuring individuals who were pressured into accepting benefits <i>despite insisting that government assistance was not needed</i>. USDA has also entered into a partnership with Mexico to boost welfare enrollment among non-citizens. Thanks in part to such controversial tactics, food stamp usage among immigrants has quadrupled since 2001. Vilsack missed deadlines in <a href="http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=7e6dbe72-c2f9-431c-bea7-1a2ac7d8798f" target="_blank"> October</a> and <a href="http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=26272a7b-c377-4bfb-b6ec-c1111842bf62" target="_blank"> December</a> to answer questions about USDA's activities.<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Against this backdrop, it should come as no surprise that a recent Center for Immigration Services <a href="http://www.cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-population" target="_blank">study</a> found that 36 percent of immigrant-headed households received at least one welfare benefit in 2010 (including <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-01-01-public-housing_N.htm" target="_blank"> public housing</a>). The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector offered this <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221330/look-milton/robert-rector" target="_blank"> mathematical analysis</a> in 2007: "On average, low-skill immigrant families receive $30,160 per year in government benefits and services while paying $10,573 in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of $19,587 that has to be paid by higher-income taxpayers… It <span style>takes the entire net tax payments (taxes paid minus benefits received) of one college-educated family to pay for the net benefits received by one low-skill immigrant family."</span><u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As Ranking Member <span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Sessions has explained, <b>"Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal."</b></span></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">NOTE: To view this document as a 1-page PDF, please <a href="http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=0b62137e-fac5-4299-92bf-621ced762e21" target="_blank"> click here</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="" style="text-align:center" align="center"> <span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">###</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div> </div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-81673369158429852222013-01-31T13:47:00.001-06:002013-01-31T13:47:29.859-06:00Why are we sending F-16s to Egypt?!?<div dir="ltr">Alert from Rand Paul - <img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&shva=1" alt="RAND-PAC">Pentagon recently handed over 20 fighter jets - $213 million dollars worth - to a Muslim Brotherhood-led government determined to impose Sharia Law on Egypt. <div class="gmail_quote"><div><table width="600"><tbody><tr><td> <div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:18px"><br> Dear Ruth,<br> <br> While they burn our flags and murder our citizens, our President seems to think throwing more taxpayer money to our enemies overseas is the solution to our problems. <br> <br> In fact, the Pentagon recently handed over 20 fighter jets - $213 million dollars worth - to a Muslim Brotherhood-led government determined to impose Sharia Law on Egypt. <br> <br> Today, the U.S. Senate will vote on my Amendment to prohibit the sale of fighter jets to Egypt. <br> <br> <u><b>Please call your U.S. Senators at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20224-3121" value="+12022243121" target="_blank">(202) 224-3121</a> IMMEDIATELY and demand they support my Amendment at every opportunity</b></u>. <br> <br> Of course, these fighter jets are part of the BILLION dollars in taxpayer money our government hands out each year in the name of "foreign aid." <br> <br> The last thing we should be doing is handing F-16s to our enemies. <br> <br> <u>So please call your U.S. Senators IMMEDIATELY at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20224-3121" value="+12022243121" target="_blank">(202) 224-3121</a> and demand they support my Amendment to prohibit the sale of F-16's to Egypt</u>. <br> <br> You see, at the same time we're giving Israel 25 fighter jets, our government turns around and hands 20 of them to a nation that's leader wants to destroy Israel. <br> <br> Ruth, it's this type of insanity I'm going to try to put an end to today with my Amendment to prohibit the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Egypt! <br> <br> <u>Will you join me in standing up for American values and American taxpayers by calling your U.S. Senators and urging them to support my Amendment</u>? <br> <br> Will you help me stop the doling out of money our nation doesn't have to people who do not act like our allies? <br> <br> <b>You can reach your Senators at <a href="tel:%28202%29%20224-3121" value="+12022243121" target="_blank">(202) 224-3121</a>. Demand they vote for my Amendment to prohibit the sale of F-16's to Egypt</b>. <br> <br> Let them know you oppose doling out taxpayer dollars to anti-American nations overseas. <br> <br> The vote is expected to take place this afternoon, so please call your Senators IMMEDIATELY! <br> <br> In Liberty,<br> <img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&shva=1" alt="" width="200"><br> Senator Rand Paul <br> <br> P.S. <b><a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/11208651:14419581104:m:1:397501240:ECC53DBAB8E25299CE659F0EFC74CA82:r" target="_blank">Take a moment and watch the brief video I've put together about selling F-16's to Egypt, and please chip in $50, $25 or $10 to help RandPAC put an end to the madness</a></b>.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" width="600"> <tbody> <tr> <td><center> <br> <br> <table style="border:1px solid black" width="475"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> <br> © RandPAC, 2013. All Rights Reserved.<br> <br> Paid for by RandPAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions to RandPAC are not tax-deductible.<br> <br> <b><a style="color:rgb(204,0,0)" href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/11208652:14419581104:m:1:397501240:ECC53DBAB8E25299CE659F0EFC74CA82:r" target="_blank">www.RandPAC.com</a></b> <br> <br> </span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><br></center></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div></div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419419.post-3009962659206354602013-01-21T11:16:00.001-06:002013-01-21T11:16:46.005-06:00North County GOP Meeting Thursday & Info about "Lincoln Days"<div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:24pt">NORTH</span><span style="font-size:24pt"> ST. LOUIS COUNTY</span><span style="font-size:24pt"></span></font><span style="font-size:24pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>REPUBLICAN CLUB</font></span> <div class="gmail_quote"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt"><font face="Times New Roman">includes Lewis & Clark, Florissant, Spanish Lake, Ferguson,<span> </span>Norwood and St Ferdinand townships</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><span style="font-size:16pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><br></span><span></span>Our monthly meeting will be on<span> </span></font></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013</font></span></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>AT 7:30 PM</font></span></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:18pt"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size:16pt"><span> </span>AT<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:18pt">MR. YAC'S (YACOVELLI'S</span><span style="font-size:16pt">) (10 % discount)</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:18pt"><span> </span><span> </span>407 DUNN ROAD FLORISSANT, MO<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16pt"><span> </span></span><span><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size:14pt"><span> </span></span></font></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Our speaker will be David Stokes with the Show-me Institute.<span> </span>He is currently a committeeman, formerly an assistant to a county councilman and on weekly with radio station KZRG.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Attached is the notice about our Lincoln-Reagan Days.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Contact your committeeman or woman to reserve your seat. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Lewis & Clark:<span> </span>Dave Blanke <a href="tel:314-837-0484" value="+13148370484" target="_blank">314-837-0484</a> or June Schmidt <a href="tel:314-837-3239" value="+13148373239" target="_blank">314-837-3239</a></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14pt">Florissant</span><span style="font-size:14pt">:<span> </span>Bryan Koen <a href="tel:314-972-0846" value="+13149720846" target="_blank">314-972-0846</a>;<span> </span>Spanish Lake:<span> </span>Edna Ditto <a href="tel:314-837-8968" value="+13148378968" target="_blank">314-837-8968</a></span></font></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">St Ferdinand:<span> </span>Jim Rowe <a href="tel:314-868-1939" value="+13148681939" target="_blank">314-868-1939</a>;<span> </span>Norwood:<span> </span>Jennifer Krupp <a href="tel:314-662-0517" value="+13146620517" target="_blank">314-662-0517</a></font></span></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Ferguson:<span> </span>Tim Dreste <a href="tel:314-614-0741" value="+13146140741" target="_blank">314-614-0741</a> or Lisa Kaliski <a href="tel:314-412-8520" value="+13144128520" target="_blank">314-412-8520</a></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span> </span></span><span><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size:14pt"><span> </span>For information-contact Lou Hannibal at <a href="tel:314-831-6442" value="+13148316442" target="_blank">314-831-6442</a></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.northcountyrepublicans.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.northcountyrepublicans.org</font></a></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.stlcorepublicans.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.stlcorepublicans.org</font></a></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Membership is not required for attendance.<span> </span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">If interested in joining club, dues are $15 a person or $25 for family.<span> </span>Mail dues to Edna Ditto, 3580 Dwyer Ln.<span> </span>Florissant, Mo 63033 </font><a href="mailto:emd004@att.net" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">emd004@att.net</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Spanish Lake committeewoman </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">June Schmidt-secretary<span> </span><a href="tel:314-838-3239" value="+13148383239" target="_blank">314-838-3239</a><span> </span></font></font><a href="mailto:jjturtle@earthlink.net" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">jjturtle@earthlink.net</font></a></p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div> </div> Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12547064402298250403noreply@blogger.com0