FW: Governor Race

The American Café,

I just received this from one of our field informantsJ Please let this motivate you to place a call to Taking Back America on behalf of Victory in Colorado. I am sure that Tancredo arranged this long before he left the Party and became a competitor against victory of the conservative in November.

Please call.

Peter Robberson

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All,

I was reading World Net Daily, they are hosting a “Taking Back America” Conference Sep 16-18. Guess who one of their guest speakers is…Tom Tancredo. I called them at 1-877-768-2784 ext. 105. I asked them if they were aware that Tom Tancredo is running for governor in the state of Colorado. By doing so he is handing the governorship to the Democrats-by splitting the Republican/Conservative vote.

I went on to explain that Tom decided to get into the race 2 weeks before the Primary on August 10^th. If Tom had wanted to be the governor he should have made the decision a year ago.

Tom is a one trick pony-immigration.

We have a strong candidate DAN MAES who did it the right way through our Caucus, State Assembly and Primary and won each. He can beat the Democrat John Hickenlooper.

-He is a successful businessman

-he plans to reduce the size of government

-he plans to bring energy jobs back to Colorado

-he is strong on immigration, by enforcing the law already on the books and working with ICE

-he is strong on education through competition between public, homeschooling and charter schools

Tom Tancredo needs to get out of this race or you should drop him from your Taking Back America Conference.

Maybe if a few of us call with this message, WND will take some action. See attached flyer.

Beth R

The DISCLOSE ACT is back...Take Action!

-from "Tea Party Patriots"
Remember the DISCLOSE Act? Or, as we like to call it, the DISGRACE Act; the one in which the Reid-Pelosi-Obama team attempted to silence small, grassroots groups during elections, including the ones this November. Though it failed to pass in the Senate last month, Harry Reid has decided that he is going to try again. The only thing that stopped it before were the three usual suspects: Senators' Snowe, Collins, and Brown. Reid and Obama are pressuring them hard to change their votes to Yes. We must pressure them harder to continue voting NO.


Here is a refresher course on the DISCLOSE Act:

From our friends at Freedom Action about this speech violating bill-

Even if somehow the speech restrictions in this bill were constitutional, their uneven application would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection under the law. Even the left-leaning Sierra Club has labeled the DISCLOSE Act a two-tiered system that is "unfair and undemocratic" and that smaller grass-roots organizations would be disadvantaged because they lack the resources to cope with "the additional disclosure burdens." The unions and the big non-profit groups get to keep their free speech given to them in the January Supreme Court decision, but the corporations and small non-profits lose theirs under DISCLOSE.

Also, President Obama and some Democrats are dishonestly stating that the Court's decision would "open the floodgates for special interest, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections." However, current federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations already ban foreign corporations from participating directly or indirectly in American elections. (see 2 U.S.C. § 441e and 2 U.S.C. 437g).


An example of how this bill could affect your tea party group:

Exampleville, Ohio has two people running for U.S. Congress-Mr. A and Mr. B-in what promises to be a close race. Exampleville's local Tea Party believes in Mr. B. The Tea Party wants to run ads highlighting Mr. B's stance on cap and trade, federal spending, increased taxation, etc, but they don't have enough money to fulfill the new highly complex reporting requirements from DISCLOSE. And DISCLOSE would force them to list their top donors, even if they are not necessarily the specific donors to the ads, in their ads. Besides, the disclaimers required could take up to 14 of a 30 second ad. The Tea Party gives up trying to run ads to support Mr. Republican.

In contrast, Mr. A has some well-funded unions who want to see Exampleville's factories unionized, so the unions run ads against Mr. B and ads for Mr. A. Also, the Sierra Club and the ACLU (groups actually opposed to DISCLOSE) want Mr. A to support their issues, so they also run ads for Mr. A. None of these ads are subject to DISCLOSE's requirements.

Guess who wins?
(For those interested, here's a good link with information on the actual language and problems with the DISCLOSE bill, click here: http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/2/hr5175)

Remind them that the DISCLOSE Act exempts unions and very large special interest groups!! And the little guy is left without a voice.

We must start putting pressure on these three Senators, and tell them to vote NO.

This is SO important as the Left is running scared and are trying to minimize our efforts and impact this November. Please call the following Senators:

Scott Brown (R-MA)
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme
Washington DC: (T) (202) 224-4543, (F) (202) 228-2646

Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email
Washington DC: (T) (202) 224-5344, Toll free (800) 432-1599, (F) (202) 224-1946

Susan Collins (R-ME)
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.EmailIssue&CFID=42880122&CFTOKEN=39747274
Washington DC: (T) (202) 224-2523, (F) (202) 224-2693

The Home Depot says AFA is lying - Here's proof we're not

Guys,

 

If you have missed this we have switched to Lowes. We are not interested in using profit for our purchases used to Advocate against our Values for a fringe, minority and horribly destructive lifestyle-trying to Mainstream it.

 

Pete

 

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From: AFA Action Alert [mailto:contact@afa.net]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:26 AM
To: homeinspections@pcisys.net
Subject: The Home Depot says AFA is lying - Here's proof we're not

 

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The Home Depot says AFA is lying - Here's proof we're not August 23, 2010 Dear Peter, In responding to those who are calling The Home Depot, company representatives are telling AFA supporters that AFA is lying. Here is proof we are telling the truth AND the facts accurately. Clicking the thumbnail picture will take you to the larger, online version of the photo. The Home Depot says AFA is lying. The Home Depot is telling people it is neutral in the homosexual culture war. This picture was taken inside an Ohio Home Depot store in June 2010. Promoting the homosexual lifestyle with corporate-produced signs is far from neutral. It is actvism. The Home Depot says AFA is lying about its button and apron policy. They say a policy change in April prohibits employees from wearing any buttons or wearing company aprons outside of the store without company approval. This picture was taken at a gay pride parade in Boston in June 2010, three months after the "policy change." The apron is has emblems from the Human Rights Campaign and other homosexual activist organizations. Notice the company name has been rainbow colored. The Home Depot says AFA is lying about it passing out company-logo items at gay pride parades. These photos shows Home Depot shopping carts filled with foam can coolers, cups, bags and other items bearing The Home Depot logo. These items were handed out along the Chicago Gay Pride Parade route by Home Depot employees. The Home Depot says AFA is lying because the company doesn't sponsor or support gay pride events. This picture clearly shows The Home Depot is an officially recognized sponsor, only one of many the AFA has documentation for. TAKE ACTION 1. Sign the Boycott Pledge at BoycottTheHomeDepot.com. 2. Call your local store manager. Let the manager know that you will not be shopping at The Home Depot until the company stops supporting the homosexual agenda. You can find the number here. (click "Store Finder"). 3. Print the paper petition and distribute it at Sunday School and church. It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members. Sincerely, Tim Wildmon, President American Family Association Help us Financially Donate Online to AFA One-Time Monthly   Text the letters "AFA" to 20222 to give $10 Standard messaging rates may apply.   2011 Holy Land Tour with Tim Wildmon Join Tim and walk where Jesus walked. Tour dates are March 11-19. Direct from Atlanta. twholyland.com

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American Cafe Group Fall Kick-Off

The American Café and Tax Day Tea Partiers,

 

Well we hope you have all had a good summer. For many of us it was not the break we’d hoped for with the run-up to the Primaries. I trust you were each involved with your time, talents and money; giving, walking and working the phone banks for the Candidate you believed would stand firm for our Constitutional values of Individual Freedom, Limited Government and the Free Market. We worked hard for Ken Buck and for Dan Maes (although not as an official American Café endorsement.)

 

This Thursday, August 26^th at 6:30 we’ll have a Meet-n-Greet at our house. At this time we will not be running our Liberty Kids Program. We have fabulous curriculum and a wonderful momentum but have been unable so far to find a person to volunteer to teach for us. We’ll keep you posted on that.

 

Please bring a snack to share with the group. We will be going over some orientation items and bringing some Encouraging news to the group. (There is never a shortage of frustrating developments in the political realm.) We will have weekly sign-ups for snacks and will have a baby-sitting “puppy” (vs a “Kitty”) to cover the cost of an eventual baby-sitter. (I am pretty down on cats right now.)

 

Anyway this is your invitation! If you would like to be a part of our Prayer and Political Action weekly home group this Fall please come. Just getting engaged makes a HUGE difference to beat back the feeling of helplessness that creeps over us Christians when thinking of Politics.

 

Also:

 

Our group has been invited by the Focus on the Family Bookstore to hand out Constitutions at the store for their September 11^th and 12^th patriotic remembrance of our fallen, fellow Americans. We will want quite a few of you to help out if you can make the time. Please RSVP to me to let me know how much you can be there.

 

Lastly,

 

Please RSVP to let us know your interest in being a part of the Fall, home-group. We will adjust as needed to accommodate the needs of the most people. In addition if you would like to host this meeting at your home or have use help you start your own we’d love to have you.

 

Happy Birthday to The American Café-1 Year Old!

 

Peter and Adrienne Robberson

The American Café

Prayer and Action Home Groups

719-573-2193

 

*PS. You are on this mailing list because you have asked to be. If you wish to be removed please send an email reply and I will remove you immediately.

 

Obama’s Growing Problem

Barack Obama has a growing problem on his hands, and it’s not Iran. It’s much closer to home, but it’s not unemployment either. It’s more personal – a matter of faith to be precise.

A new poll by the respected Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that after 19 months on the job, more Americans now think Obama is a Muslim. That’s a big problem – one that suggests the president is grossly disconnected from the American people.

If this disconnect -- or as one commentator suggested, this sense that Obama’s “default setting is in opposition to the general sensibilities of the American people” -- is allowed to grow, it risks undermining the president’s legitimacy much like the Left’s claim that “Bush lied” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq undermined the previous administration.

But what amazes me is the media’s astonishment that many Americans would question the president’s professed faith. The talking heads denounce this as an example of bigoted and extremist fringe thinking. But it is a much bigger problem than they care to admit.

How bad is this problem? Here’s a clue: a plurality of Americans don’t know what the president’s faith is! According to the Pew poll, 18% of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in 2009; just 34% believe he is a Christian, down from 48%; while 43% have no idea what Barack Obama believes.

This comes in spite of all the fawning and sympathetic press Obama received over the past several years. Why is this problem getting worse, rather than better, the longer we are exposed to Barack Obama? It is a problem entirely of Obama’s making. For example:


Obama gave his first television interview as president not to an American network, but to an Arab language satellite network, Al-Arabiya. In that interview, Obama said he felt his “job” was to communicate “to the Muslim world … that the Americans are not your enemy.”


He has apologized for America’s “arrogance,” repeatedly reached out to the Muslim world, including the Holocaust-denying regime in Iran, and even pressed NASA into his Islamic outreach mission.


He bowed to the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia, but made the Dali Lama exit the White House through the back door.


He wrote fondly about his Muslim cultural background in his two autobiographies. In a 2007 New York Times interview, he “recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. …Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’”


Yes, Barack Obama says he is a Christian, but he attended a church whose pastor routinely condemned America, gave Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan an award and permitted the distribution of Hamas propaganda.


He condemned the construction of homes for Jews in Jerusalem but endorsed the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero.


His administration dismissed charges against the Muslim New Black Panthers, but it prosecutes the state of Arizona.


He cancelled National Day of Prayer events at the White House but hosted an Iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan.

Given all this and more during the past 19 months, the average American could be forgiven for thinking that Obama is at least deferential, if not predisposed, toward Islam.

So while the media elites may see the Pew poll as evidence of right-wing bigotry, it should be more worrying to them that not even a majority of the president’s staunchest supporters -- Democrats (46%) or blacks (43%) -- could say that Obama is a Christian.

For its part, however, the White House seemingly recognizes the problem and felt compelled to issue a statement reaffirming the president’s Christian faith. Here is an excerpt:


“President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily life. He prays every day, he seeks a small circle of Christian pastors to give him spiritual advice and counseling, he even receives a daily devotional that he uses each morning. The President's Christian faith is a part of who he is, but not a part of what the public or the media is focused on everyday.”-Gary Bauer

American Values-Gary Bauer-MOSQUE MONEY

Perhaps the most important unanswered question about the Ground Zero mosque just got answered. ABC News reported yesterday that Oz Sultan, a spokesman for the Ground Zero mosque, refused to rule out funding from Saudi Arabia or Iran to build the planned $100 million mega-mosque. That ought to raise red flags – even for those who support the mosque.

As I have outlined in this daily report, there is a lot of concern about just how moderate Imam Feisal Rauf truly is. He refuses to condemn the terrorist group Hamas. He blamed America for the 9/11 attacks, saying, “Osama bin Laden is made in the U.S.A.” And there’s more.

The New York Post reported this week that Rauf’s late father, Mohammed Rauf, raised millions of dollars from “individuals and governments in 46 nations” to build New York’s first mosque. What was taught in that mosque? Consider this from the Post’s report:


“In October 2001, the mosque’s imam, Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, blamed the 9/11 attacks on Jews. He then immediately resigned and returned to his native Egypt. The next month, his replacement, Imam Omar Saleem Abu-Namous, said he needed proof that Islamic extremists were behind the attack.”

Feisal Rauf, who leads a mosque 12 blocks away from Ground Zero, has served on the board of his father’s mosque for years. His spokesman won’t categorically reject money from the extremists in Saudi Arabia or the Holocaust-denying regime in Iran.

The Left insists this debate is about tolerance and religious freedom. But should America’s freedom of religion tolerate a foreign power building religious sites at places of honor? For most Americans, the instinctive answer is “NO!”


The Bi-Partisan Opposition Grows

Speaker Nancy Pelosi can add two more names to her list of mosque critics to investigate. Yesterday, Governor Pat Quinn (D-IL) was asked about the Ground Zero mosque. He said:


“I’ve been to Pearl Harbor. I laid a wreath at Pearl Harbor. I’ve been to Auschwitz. I laid a wreath at Auschwitz. I’ve been to Ground Zero, and I laid a wreath there. I do believe that there are special places on Earth that should have a zone of solemnity around them. I would strongly urge those who are thinking of putting a mosque within that zone to rethink their position.”

Quinn was joined in his opposition by former Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who told WABC Radio, “We have to understand that [the mosque] is a real affront to people who lost [loved ones]… I think another site would be a better idea.”

ObamaCare - A Serious Health Risk for Seniors

Dear Policy Patriots - Medicare Chief Accountant Reports ObamaCare Costs More Than Advertized. Richard Foster, a man you've probably never heard of, has made history. We're proud of Mr. Foster and you should be, too. Here's why: Richard Foster, Chief Actuary of Medicare. As the nation's number one accountant for the federal government's largest unfunded entitlement, Foster's job is to estimate future costs for a government program that literally saves lives every day. He's been in the position for the past 15 years, studying the issue of health costs and reporting on Medicare's solvency. Trustees' Report. Foster recently published the Medicare Trustees Report, just as he has since the mid-1990s. Required to evaluate the law as written, he provided legislators with the conclusions they wanted. Based on Foster's report, the White House claimed that the trustee report showed the Affordable Care Act would make Medicare stronger. But that's not why you should know Richard Foster! The Unsigned Report. At the end of the report, where you'd customarily see Foster's signature, the Medicare's Chief Actuary instead inserted a statement dismissing the entire report as "unreasonable" and "implausible" and encouraged everyone to view the alternative report instead. Foster's Appendix. What ObamaCare's creators didn't foresee is that Foster is a civil servant unwilling to play the part of the fool. In an unprecedented repudiation of the Trustee's report, Foster constructed an "alternative scenario" - that's bureaucratic jargon for "the truth" - in which ObamaCare not only doesn't bend the cost curve down, it will likely bend it up and allow health care costs to consume even more of the nation's GDP. According to Mr. Foster, ObamaCare will increase Medicare's share of the economy by 60% between now and 2040 - almost twice the administration's claim of 35%. ObamaCare Makes Medicare Weaker. The dollars-and-cents reality of ObamaCare's effect on Medicare is that, as Mr. Foster states, ObamaCare will cause: Cuts in Medicare spending of $575 billion over the next decade. 7.5 million Medicare Advantage enrollees to lose their coverage and cause another 7.5 million to face higher premiums and benefit cuts. Push 1 out of 7 American health care facilities - hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health care agencies, and hospices - into the red. Medicare physician fees to be reduced by 30% over the next three years. Many doctors to quit seeing Medicare patients entirely. Spread the Word! It shouldn't take Mr. Foster's defiance to prompt an honest debate about the future of Medicare. Help us fight for a better future for seniors by forwarding this email to your friends and encourage them to sign up for the Policy Patriot Weekly Letter! The NCPA Needs Your Help! The NCPA is a non-profit that relies solely on contributions from people like you. We don't accept government funds. Please consider supporting our work by donating online or mailing a check to:   National Center for Policy Analysis P.O. Box 650098 Dallas, Texas 75265-0098 Thanks for your support! Warm regards, Jeanette Nordstrom National Center for Policy Analysis www.ncpa.org Forward this to a Friend Click here to support the National Center for Policy Analysis. Sign up for the Daily Policy Digest - a free online daily newsletter. Subscribe to this newsletter. Click here to view the privacy statement Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. Manage Subscription: You can change your email address here.