Vote in the Uniform Municipal Elections on March 9th!
The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections has posted the sample ballots for the towns that will be having Municipal Elections on March 9th. Click HERE to see if your municipality is having an election, do your research and vote!
Glenn Beck at CPAC 2010
Local Heros at CPAC-2010
South Florida is well represented this year at CPAC. Marco Rubio gave the keynote address, Ed Lynch spoke at a panel on illegal immigration, and Allen West had both a panel on Jihad as well as a 15 minute address on Saturday afternoon. Watch their speeches here.
(NOTE: You can watch the CPAC Finale with Glenn Beck HERE)
Also, check out the Post on Politics stories on Allen West and Edward Lynch.
Marco Rubio
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Edward Lynch
Lt. Colonel Allen West
Rubio/Crist to debate on Fox News Sunday on March 28th
Marco Rubio promised Fox News Sunday the first debate. Charlie Crist is trying to force him to go onto Meet the Press at an earlier date, however Rubio is holding fast to his promise. See Rubio/Crist debates.
A good essay on the people, teaparties and progressivism
There are more similarities between the Boston Teaparty and the current grassroots teaparties than most acknowledge. The Progressive Movement, beginning with President Wilson, has made the government less accountable to the people. This has only increased since then. The author explains why in Party Like It’s 1773.
Ed Lynch Volunteers Needed for Lake Worth and Boynton Beach Area
This is from Kathy Robbins of the Ed Lynch Campaign
We are creating a team to get out the vote for Ed Lynch in the Lake Worth, Boynton Beach area. We are looking for people who live in area gated communities (or know anyone who does!) as well as those willing to distribute Ed’s literature to small businesses. We have several projects going and our needs are varied so there is a place for everyone willing to give some time (even a couple of hours) to this important election in the next 57 days. But please sign up now so we can get organized! Also, anyone you know who may be willing to help is welcome! Just contact me at kathy@electlynch.com
Looking forward to working with you!
Kathy Robbins
After you hear Elizabeth’s story – join her in making a statement!
Elizabeth Andrijauskas stands up for America Monday through Saturday every day rain or shine. The South Florida 912 group had a rally for Elizabeth in January, surprising her on the corner of 441 and Okeechobee. They’ve decided to make it a monthly meetup.
Details can be found here.
RNC Chief Courts Grass Roots Leaders
According to the Washington Post, about 50 leaders of grass roots groups are meeting with RNC Chairman Michael Steele and top party “operatives” tomorrow in Washington. Karin Hoffman, the South Florida leader of DC Works for US is quoted in the story:
Karin Hoffman, founder of DC Works For Us, a South Florida tea party group, said she initiated the meeting by approaching Steele last month and asking him to sit down with a range of tea party organizers.
She said her goal is to open a civil dialogue with the GOP leadership, but she dismissed any suggestion that tea party groups would merge with the Republican Party. “From the get-go, the grass-roots movement emerged from people desiring to be heard and not feeling like their voices are being heard in Washington,” Hoffman said in an interview. “This is the beginning of a formal discussion with the political establishment.”
Read the full story HERE, and the local update in Post on Politics HERE, and the Politico take on it HERE.
Two Great Programs – Wednesday, February 24. RSVP Today!
Bring a FRIEND…
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
“America, Wake Up!”
Lunch – Bear Lakes Country Club
EDWARD J. “ED” LYNCH
Winner of FL District 19 Republican Primary
and
ELIZABETH ANDRIJAUSKAS
From Ukraine / sign holder at 441 and Okeechobee
11:30am Meet & Greet 12:00 Program Begins
$20 Members $25 Guests
No Jeans/ Cell Phones
Evening – DUFFY’s on VILLAGE
Wednesday is the RIGHT NIGHT for Republican Camaraderie.
Keep the fire burning. Take back our country.
5:30 to 7 p.m.
$5 Members and Guests
RSVP by noon Mon Feb 22 (561) 697-4911—BA Starkey
or e-mail: info@gopclubpb.com
RENEW your membership or JOIN Today!
Register on our NEW WEBSITE: gopclubpb.org
The Blue Model
So much of the news and opinion that is offered today on cable news and blog sites has an agenda. Right or left, it seeks to persuade, to ridicule, to bend the facts and the authors observations to fit the “narrative”. Because of this, it takes a lot of searching to find cogent analysis that is both objective and compelling, from sources of the opposite persuasion than your own. When I find such, it is always with delight.
Walter Russell Mead is unabashedly a liberal thinker. The Henry Kissinger senior fellow for US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and both a graduate and professor at Yale, he has been a lifelong democrat. In recent days, writing in the American Interest Online blog, he has published two pieces on what he calls “The Blue Model” – a name for the social and economic organization of the US since Franklin Roosevelt, characterized by stable employment, government regulation of business, and ever increasing standard of living. In the 70’s of course, the “Blue Model” started its descent into chaos and political polarization. His articles explore the reasons for this and hint at what is to come.
In the first, American Challenges: The Blue Model Breaks Down, he explains the model and the reasons for its decline, and then in Feeding the Blue Beast, he explores the dangers this poses to the democratic party, and what could be in our future.
He concludes:
What we really need in this country is a new generation of post-blue wonks who can think intelligently and creatively about how to dismantle the old structures and replace them with something that works. The political party that can figure this out and build a constituency for the massive and, inevitably, sometimes painful and disruptive restructuring this requires owns the future.
Highly recommended reading.