Featured Blog Posts - First Coast Tea Party2024-03-19T13:45:48Zhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?promoted=1&xn_auth=noRYAN NICHOLS - Hardened Criminal?? Seriously??tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2022-08-14:4150782:BlogPost:3501422022-08-14T13:44:09.000ZBabs Jordanhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/BJ
<p>If you're not already aware. This is what's going on in DC while dangerous criminals are allowed back out on the streets. It's horrifying that this is happening to our citizens and veterans for protesting the hijacking of our election process. This is still happening! They are STILL being tortured and treated like full on terrorists. </p>
<p>You may not be aware of the typical things they're forced to go through...…</p>
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<p>If you're not already aware. This is what's going on in DC while dangerous criminals are allowed back out on the streets. It's horrifying that this is happening to our citizens and veterans for protesting the hijacking of our election process. This is still happening! They are STILL being tortured and treated like full on terrorists. </p>
<p>You may not be aware of the typical things they're forced to go through...</p>
<p><a href="https://americangulag.org/j6-defendant-ryan-nichols-speaks-with-greg-kelly-from-dc-gitmo-prisoners-are-beaten-denied-calls-denied-communion-locked-up-indefinitely-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://americangulag.org/j6-defendant-ryan-nichols-speaks-with-greg-kelly-from-dc-gitmo-prisoners-are-beaten-denied-calls-denied-communion-locked-up-indefinitely-video/</a></p>
<p>PLEASE CONTINUE TO CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!!!</p>ALL HANDS ON DECK ALERT!! August 12th 2022tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2022-08-12:4150782:BlogPost:3500472022-08-12T13:00:00.000ZBabs Jordanhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/BJ
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please see attached message from congresswoman Kat Cammack about the vote today If four, only four democrats will vote against this, it can’t pass. Hear her plea for people to make calls. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please see attached message from congresswoman Kat Cammack about the vote today If four, only four democrats will vote against this, it can’t pass. Hear her plea for people to make calls. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://fb.watch/eS24LSd9kn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://fb.watch/eS24LSd9kn/</a></span></p>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>FROM KAT'S PAGE:</em></span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s in this bill and HOW YOU can help stop it! We only need four NO votes to stop it. Here’s how:</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. Share everywhere you can</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. Call and get friends to call!</span></div>
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<div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. Call the switchboard.</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. Give them your zip code</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. Once connected to your Representative’s D.C. office, tell them to vote NO on the “Inflation Reduction Act.”</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. Give them a way to connect you back and your name.</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5. Ask for a response to your message (this makes the congressional office input your message in their system differently).</span></div>
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<p></p>WITHOUT GA WE MAY LOSE CONTROL OF THE SENATE!tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2020-11-14:4150782:BlogPost:2875292020-11-14T11:30:00.000ZBabs Jordanhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/BJ
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-full-hand-recount-ordered-in-georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FULL HAND RECOUNT UNDERWAY IN GA</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-full-hand-recount-ordered-in-georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FULL HAND RECOUNT UNDERWAY IN GA</a></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://gopgeorgiarunoff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8159773068?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>DANNY BECTON / CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ELECTIONtag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2020-05-25:4150782:BlogPost:2586202020-05-25T19:04:38.000ZBabs Jordanhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/BJ
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Should Mayor Curry be endorsing a Liberal over a Conservative for City Council President? If you're a conservative, you know Hazouri is NOT the right choice for this city, yet if City Council doesn't hear from us he will likely be the next City Council President and control the direction for his tenure! Our Republican Mayor continually cozies up to the Liberal candidates. Hard to imagine?…</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Should Mayor Curry be endorsing a Liberal over a Conservative for City Council President? If you're a conservative, you know Hazouri is NOT the right choice for this city, yet if City Council doesn't hear from us he will likely be the next City Council President and control the direction for his tenure! Our Republican Mayor continually cozies up to the Liberal candidates. Hard to imagine? Picture link below to our current Mayor's remarks and more. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>We NEED Conservative Danny Becton to lead our City Council and and represent the majority who have steered the ship for NE Florida back to RED.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>See below for a list of City Council Representatives that need to hear from us! WE NEED TO MAKE THESE CALLS NOW!! ELECTION IS TUESDAY 5/26.</strong></span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">* Tell them WE ARE WATCHING & to cast their vote for DANNY BECTON!</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">* By email - Subject "Vote Danny Becton"</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">* By Phone ‐ Tell them "Vote Danny Becton" </span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">* If you have their cell phone numbers, use them also.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">* Keep your message short & to the point.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">* Please act fast!</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Remember, the Vote is THIS TUESDAY, MAY 26TH @ 3 PM.</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>District 3</strong> <strong>Aaron</strong><strong> Bowman <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5203</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">ABowman@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>District 4 Scott Wilson <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5204</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">SWilson@coj.net</a></strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>District 5 Leanna Cumber <br/> Phone: (904) 255-5205<br/> Email: </strong></a><strong><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">LCumber@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>District</strong><strong> 6 Micheal Boylan <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5206</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">MBoylan@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>District 12 Randy White<br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5212</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">RandyWhite@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>District 14 Randy Defoor <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5214</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">RDeFoor@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>At Large Group 1 Terrence Freeman <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5215</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">TFreeman@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>At Large Group 2 Ronald Salem <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5216</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">RSalem@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>At Large Group 4 Matt Carlucci <br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5218</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">MCarlucci@coj.net</a> </strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>At Large Group 5 Sam Newby<br/> Phone: <a rel="nofollow" style="color: #007c89; cursor: default; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">(904) 255-5219</a><br/> Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">SNewby@coj.net</a> <br/> <br/> <br/> And THANK YOU to Councilmen Al Ferraro & Rory Diamond who have ALREADY pledged their votes to Danny Becton!<br/> <br/> District 2 Al Ferraro </strong></span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Phone: (904) 255-5202</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Email: <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net" title="Click to email Council Member Al Ferraro, District 2" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Ferraro@coj.net</a> </span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">District 13 Rory Diamond </span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Phone: (904) 255-5213</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Email: <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="mailto:RDiamond@coj.net" title="Click to email Council Member Rory Diamond, District 13" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">RDiamond@coj.net</a> </span></h1>JACKSONVILLE ACTION ALERT:Duval Public Library to Host Local Adult Entertainer for a Drag Queen Story Hour Type Event for Teenage Children this Fridaytag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2019-06-25:4150782:BlogPost:2567292019-06-25T22:55:23.000ZVicky Kinghttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/VickyKing
<p><span><strong>JACKSONVILLE ACTION ALERT:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Duval Public Library to Host </strong></span><span><strong>Local </strong><strong>Adult </strong></span><span><strong>Entertainer </strong><strong>for a </strong></span><span><strong>Drag Queen </strong><strong>Story Hour </strong></span><strong><span>Type </span></strong><strong><span>Event </span></strong><strong><span>for Teenage Children this Friday<br></br></span></strong></p>
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<p><span><strong>JACKSONVILLE ACTION ALERT:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Duval Public Library to Host </strong></span><span><strong>Local </strong><strong>Adult </strong></span><span><strong>Entertainer </strong><strong>for a </strong></span><span><strong>Drag Queen </strong><strong>Story Hour </strong></span><strong><span>Type </span></strong><strong><span>Event </span></strong><strong><span>for Teenage Children this Friday<br/></span></strong></p>
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<p><span>(WARNING: Potentially offensive photos below)</span></p>
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<p><span>THE SITUATION:</span></p>
<p><span>Jacksonville’s “BeBe Deluxe,” is a gay-identified male adult entertainer who dresses as a woman in provocative sexualized clothes and performs at local strip clubs like the *Metro Entertainment Complex. BeBe’s real name is Alex Palmer and he is being allowed to have access to teenage children in a “Drag Queen Story Hour” type event hosted in Duval County taxpayer funded Willow Branch library this Friday. Please immediately contact Jacksonville officials below and respectfully tell them to shut this down.</span></p>
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<p><span>THE MESSAGE:</span></p>
<p><strong><span>“Shut down this totally inappropriate & outrageous </span></strong><strong><span>event inviting children to be exposed to an adult </span></strong><strong><span>entertainer who performs at strip clubs...”</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span><img src="https://virtuous-email.s3.amazonaws.com/Email/org_868/bebe%203.jpg" title="Image" alt="Image"/></span></strong></p>
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<p><span>TAKE ACTION:</span></p>
<p><span>6 Ways to Take Action Now:</span></p>
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<p><span>1. CONTACT THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY and tell them to cancel this event. Call Jacksonville Public Library System Director Tim Rogers at 904-630-2665. <strong> Tim Rogers</strong> has the power to shut this down. Also email Chairman of the Library Board <strong>Ronnie King</strong> through this portal: <a href="https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/contact-us/library-administration">https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/contact-us/library-administration</a></span></p>
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<p><span>2. CONTACT MAYOR LENNY CURRY today to express your disapproval and request Emergency Action at this Tuesday's (6/25/2019) meeting to cancel this event at our public library. Mayor <strong>Lenny Curry</strong> also has the influence to see this shut down. Call Mayor Curry’s office at (904) 255-5000 and Email him at MayorLennyCurry@coj.net</span></p>
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<p><span>3. CONTACT YOUR JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS on Monday to express your disapproval and request Emergency Action at this Tuesday's (6/25/2019) meeting to</span><span> cancel this event at our public library. Call Jacksonville City Council members offices at <a href="http://www.coj.net/city-council.aspx">http://www.coj.net/city-council.aspx</a> (904) 630-1377.</span></p>
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<p><span>4. SPEAK AGAINST THIS AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING this Tuesday, June 25th beginning @ 5pm during the Public Comments time. NOTE: Just fill-out a blue Speaker's Card. When called during the public comment time, express your concerns in a respectful manner. Max speaking time is 3 minutes. Jacksonville City Hall is located at 117 W Duval St, Jacksonville, FL 32202</span></p>
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<p><span>5. ATTEND PROTEST PRAYER RALLY Friday, June 28: 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the Willow Branch Library. If Mayor Curry and/or the Jacksonville City fails to cancel this event, plan to attend a peaceful protest outside of the Willow Branch Library located @ 2875 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32205 on Friday, June 28 @ 6:30pm - 8:30pm.</span></p>
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<p><span>6. SHARE THIS ALERT with other friends and family who live in Duval County and ask them to take action. </span></p>
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<p><span>Other Information and Documentation:</span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Details on the Pride Prom Event</strong>: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-storybook-pride-prom-at-willowbranch-library-tickets-62937939070">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-storybook-pride-prom-at-willowbranch-library-tickets-62937939070</a></span></p>
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<p><span>*<strong>The Metro Entertainment Complex</strong> contains the Broiler Room which its website describes it as “Metro's down and dirty bar where the clothes are skimpy, the men are dancing on the bar and bringing you to the boiling point.” The complex also has “Shappo's” which features “a full bar with lighted dance poles, all female art, and Sappho’s Girls.” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/metroentertainmentcomplex/photos/?tab=album&album_id=163957494896&ref=page_internal">https://www.facebook.com/pg/metroentertainmentcomplex/photos/?tab=album&album_id=163957494896&ref=page_internal</a></span></p>
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<p><strong><span>Profile on BeBe Deluxe</span></strong></p>
<p><span><a href="http://folioweekly.com/stoAries/all-hail-the-queen,19183">http://folioweekly.com/stoAries/all-hail-the-queen,19183</a></span> </p>
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<p><strong><span>Florida Family Action</span></strong></p>
<p><span>4853 S. Orange Ave, Suite C, </span><span>Orlando, FL 32806</span></p>
<p><span>Info@FloridaFamilyAction.org * </span><span>Phone: 407-418-0250.</span></p>
<p><span> </span><span> </span></p>ACTION ITEM: Florida Legislature: Florida Sanctuary City VOTE..tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2019-04-15:4150782:BlogPost:2565122019-04-15T16:35:08.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Folks,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The next 2 days are critical for protecting the rule of law in our state!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please urge everyone to contact the below lawmakers NOW (no, we cannot wait) about the FL Legislature 2019 FL Sanctuary City Law. It prohibits cities in Florida from declaring sanctuary status for illegal aliens and requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Folks,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The next 2 days are critical for protecting the rule of law in our state!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please urge everyone to contact the below lawmakers NOW (no, we cannot wait) about the FL Legislature 2019 FL Sanctuary City Law. It prohibits cities in Florida from declaring sanctuary status for illegal aliens and requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are winning. Thanks to your hard work, this bill has made it closer to passage than any previous legislative session! Please keep fighting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><strong>Each of the FL House bills – HB 527 AND the FL Senate bill – SB – 168 – only have 1 more committee to pass before they can be voted on by the full House and full Senate.</strong></em> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline;">FL Senate SB 168, Federal Immigration Enforcement @FLSenate</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Will be heard by FL Senate Rules committee at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, 4/17/2019</strong></span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have everyone <span style="font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">email, call and social media EVERY Rules committee member and simply ask them to support FL Senate SB 168, Federal Immigration Enforcement</span></span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Need to convince Sen. Anitere Flores to vote FOR this! Also Senator Manny Diaz, Jr.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>FL Senate Rules Committee Members:</strong></span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto (R) Benacquisto.Lizbeth@flsenate.gov 850 487-5027 @lizbethkb</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Rob Bradley (R) Bradley.Rob@flsenate.gov 850 487-5005 @Rob_Bradley</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Jeff Brandes (R) Brandes.Jeff@flsenate.gov 850 487-5024 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Anitere Flores (R) Flores.Anitere@flsenate.gov 850 487-5039 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Travis Hutson (R) Hutson.Travis@flsenate.gov 850 487-5007 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Tom Lee (R) Lee.Tom@flsenate.gov 850 487-5020 @TomLeeFL</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Kathleen Passidomo (R) Passidomo.Kathleen@flsenate.gov 850 487-5028 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator David Simmons (R) Simmons.David@flsenate.gov 850 487-5009 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Wilton Simpson (R) Simpson.Wilton@flsenate.gov 850 487-5010 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Kelli Stargel (R) Stargel.Kelli@flsenate.gov 850 487-5022 ?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">And</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. Diaz.Manny@flsenate.gov 850 487-5036 ?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>FL House HB-527, Federal Immigration Enforcement</strong></span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaker of the House: Speaker Jose R. Oliva</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">HB 527 sponsor: Cord Byrd (R) Cord.Byrd@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5011</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Will be heard by FL House Judiciary Committee at 1:30PM, Tuesday, 4/16/2019</span>.</strong> Have everyone <span style="font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">email, call and social media EVERY Judiciary committee member and simply ask them to support FL House Bill 527, Federal Immigration Enforcement</span></span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>FL House Judiciary Committee:</strong></span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chair: Renner, Paul [R] Paul.Renner@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5024</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vice Chair: Rommel, Bob [R] Bob.Rommel@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5106</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beltran, Mike [R] Mike.Beltran@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5057</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Brannan III, Robert Charles "Chuck" [R] Chuck.Brannan@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5010</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fernandez-Barquin, Juan Alfonso [R] Juan.Barquin@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5119</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fitzenhagen, Heather [R] Heather.Fitzenhagen@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5078</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Grant, James "J.W." [R] JW.Grant@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5064</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gregory, Tommy [R] Tommy.Gregory@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5073</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hill, Mike [R] Mike.Hill@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5001</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Killebrew, Sam H. [R] Sam.Killebrew@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5041</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">LaMarca, Chip [R] Chip.LaMarca@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5093</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sirois, Tyler I. [R] Tyler.Sirois@myfloridahouse.gov 850 717-5051</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is our message to these lawmakers:</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">My name is Lane Watkins from Columbia County, Florida. Thank you for allowing me to speak. We are speaking out because we live in fear of lawlessness that results when lawbreakers – those in our country illegally - are incentivized by sanctuary policies and law enforcement non-cooperation with ICE. Make no mistake – We support legal immigration! Citizens throughout Florida support HB-527 and SB 168 and urge you to approve this bill and reject efforts to weaken its enforcement provisions. Floridians urgently need action now at the state level before government officials begin rejecting the rule of law as we have seen in other states.</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here are some poor souls who can’t testify before you because they were murdered by illegal aliens as a result of local law enforcement lack of cooperation with ICE:</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Denver Colorado first-degree murder; Oregon Wife murdered by husband released despite detainer; 3 people from 2 Missouri families murdered; San Jose, CA March 2019, woman brutally stabbed.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">What do you say to the families who have to bury their dead family members about the rule of law? This is an urgent public safety matter. Will I or my family be next to die? Will those that have testified against this bill be the next victim?</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please vote for HB-527 and SB 168 and protect the citizens of Florida.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pat and Lane Watkins, Lake City, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Lacquey, Branford, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Karen Jaroch, Tampa, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carolyn Land, Mayo, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carol Manning, Naples, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ed Harris, Lake City, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alice and Terry Beutien, Palatka, FL</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">John Nelson, Sebring, FL</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Good Luck!</span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lane Watkins</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conservative Grass Roots Organizer</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">"This is a call to action. Don't leave it to someone else. That someone is you. Work to get new folks engaged."</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cell: 904 673 0788</span></p>Celebrating 10 Years with the Tea Party Movementtag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2019-04-09:4150782:BlogPost:2566012019-04-09T20:46:36.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Celebrating 10 Years with the Tea Party Movement</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patriots will come together this coming week-end as the Dartmouth will be “anchored” at the main entrance of the Castillo de San Marcos. Tourists going to…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Celebrating 10 Years with the Tea Party Movement</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patriots will come together this coming week-end as the Dartmouth will be “anchored” at the main entrance of the Castillo de San Marcos. Tourists going to the Fort will pass the main sidewalk going to the ticket sales area. Trolley trains dispatched passes directly in front of where the Dartmouth will be on display.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patriots from the St. Augustine Tea Party will set up early morning and the boat will be on display until 7 PM. This will go on for both Saturday April 13th and Sunday, April 14th. Patriots from the St. Augustine Tea Party and the First Coast Tea Party will be on hand periodically, both days. Town Criers will be present in period dress to promote the Tea Party.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some may recall the First Coast Tea Party’s christening of the Dartmouth during the early days of the tea party movement. The St. Augustine Tea Party and the First Coast Tea Party have shared in the caring for this vessel.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tourists and passers-by will be able to have their pictures taken with the Dartmouth. A full size photo of Donald Trump will be available for photos with our current President.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Organizers anticipate crowds gathering this weekend as patriots around the USA recognize the 10th anniversary of Americans standing up for the principles established by America’s forefathers along with reminding elected officials that “we the people” are T.E.A. We are blessed to have the Dartmouth and the opportunity to celebrate with patriots this coming week-end in Florida’s historic district of St. Augustine with the two NE Florida tea party groups. Come join us!</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1841153524?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></p>An update for me personally.tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2018-11-09:4150782:BlogPost:2539752018-11-09T22:11:57.000ZH W Schroeder AXCS(AW) USNREThttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/HWSchroeder
<p>Babs,</p>
<p>Late last June, had a fall and dislocated my right shoulder. Four days later, my son kidnapped me (sic) and relocated me to North Carolina and established the followup medical requirements including Physical Therapy. I sold my home in Jacksonville and bought a home here. My son is a retired Marine. Obviously, I've been among the missing at FCTP meetings and events, but my heart is still with all. I did cast my last vote in Florida for Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis and held my…</p>
<p>Babs,</p>
<p>Late last June, had a fall and dislocated my right shoulder. Four days later, my son kidnapped me (sic) and relocated me to North Carolina and established the followup medical requirements including Physical Therapy. I sold my home in Jacksonville and bought a home here. My son is a retired Marine. Obviously, I've been among the missing at FCTP meetings and events, but my heart is still with all. I did cast my last vote in Florida for Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis and held my breath all day Monday & Tuesday. I was ecstatic Wednesday especially when I read the results of the Senate Race there. I remember the protests at Nelson's office wanting him to ignore Obamacare. I talked to Billie Tucker and we shared our satisfaction they he will (hopefully) be sent home. I'm confident the recount will be positive for Scott. I'd like to stay in touch with the First Coast Tea Party and I'd like to share this note with all: If you think Florida Politics is dirty, come to North Carolina. Bill Schroeder.</p>Does the Soil & Water Position Matter?tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2018-10-21:4150782:BlogPost:2538102018-10-21T13:30:00.000ZBabs Jordanhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/BJ
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seems like it won't matter at that level? Well, it starts at this level of government where folks start their political career and affect our lives in ways we may not see. Here's one of the candidates sounding off:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seems like it won't matter at that level? Well, it starts at this level of government where folks start their political career and affect our lives in ways we may not see. Here's one of the candidates sounding off:</span></p>
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<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT">genuine CAUSE FOR CONCERN</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">Recently, Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee stated that President Donald Trump “concerns” him.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">Trump also concerns me because:</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">• He continues to attempt to remove millions of U.S. citizens from their health insurance.</span></p>
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<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">• He intends to repeal the Clean Power Plan endangering many of us with respiratory challenges.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">• His inadequate leadership continues to endanger millions of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">• His lack of diplomacy and threatening words to North Korea may lead us into a devastating nuclear war.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">We should all be concerned about the president.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">And we should all hope and pray that he is legally removed from office and replaced.</span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr">ASAP!</span></p>
<div><p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr"><strong>Robert M. Abene</strong>, Jacksonville</span></p>
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<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr"><a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/letters-readers/2017-10-13/sunday-letters-we-don-t-need-return-prayer-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/letters-readers/2017-10-13/sunday-letters-we-don-t-need-return-prayer-schools</a></span></p>
<p><span class="yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT yiv2421270118ydp24ecace5yiv2595996184ydpb1a7382eneFMT_Body_rr" style="font-size: 14pt;">Yeah, that's what I said. Do we really want someone like this with the ability to affect our community? Vote James Cook who appears to have been simply trying to help Jacksonville and not getting in the limelight with uneducated comments and ill intentions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The last day to purchase at the Early Bird prices ends tomorrow!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The last day to purchase at the Early Bird prices ends tomorrow!</span></p>
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<p>You can access Ron Libby's "Daminatio Memoriae: Erasing the Memory of the Trump Tea Party" at <a href="http://www.twelvetabllespublishers.com">www.twelvetabllespublishers.com</a></p>
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<p></p>Your Monday Morning Tea: A COUNTER GOVERNMENT AT WORK - THE WHISTLE BLOWER - DEVIN NUNES - MUST HEAR FROM US..tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-03-26:4150782:BlogPost:2480972017-03-26T21:30:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<div class="copy-paste-block"><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Last Monday, I delivered to Chairman Devin Nunes and all the members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence a letter urging them to investigate widespread illegal surveillance, not just of President Donald J. Trump and his team both before and after his inauguration but also of hundreds of millions of other innocent Americans by the intelligence agencies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Key to this investigation is a whistleblower by name of Dennis Montgomery, who as a former National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor left the spy agencies with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information, much of which was classified, and came forward, under grant of immunity, to FBI Director James Comey. This information, according to Montgomery, shows that the intelligence agencies, particularly under former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Obama CIA Director John Brennan and their minions, spied illegally and unconstitutionally on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other SCOTUS justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen like Donald Trump and even yours truly. Indeed, in addition to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, these spy agencies, during the Obama administration, spied on “anyone who was anyone” in terms of their perceived status in society. The presumed and logical likely purpose of this spying? The potential for extortion and blackmail by the Obama administration.</span></p>
<div class="copy-paste-block" style="text-align: center;"><p><span class="font-size-3">However, despite Montgomery coming forward about two years ago, Director Comey, his general counsel and Special Agents James Baker, Walter Giardina and William Barnett, have sat on this scandalous information for this time period. As a result, I felt a duty to the American people to contact Chairman Nunes and the other members of the House Intelligence Committee about this apparent cover-up and bring Montgomery to Congress to testify and produce proof of this “Orwellian Big Brother” violation of the constitutional rights of not just President Trump, but of all of us. The letter, which I penned and had delivered, is <a href="http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/freedom-watch-march-21-letter-to-chairman-nunes-and-other-me">here on the Freedom Watch website.</a> A video I put out explaining the reasons behind my actions on behalf of the American people is viewable at the end of this column.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Friday, March 24, 2017, is the deadline I gave Chairman Nunes and his committee members, both Republican and Democrat, to respond to my request to have Montgomery interviewed and then investigate in an appropriate, secure way what he had provided to Director Comey. Chairman Nunes has even asked whistleblowers like Montgomery to come forward. Indeed, all of Montgomery’s classified information is currently in the possession of the FBI, as well as a video of his three-hour interview before Special Agents Giardina and Barnett, where he was put under oath in a secure soundproof room at FBI Field Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Notably, regrettably and predictably it seems, Comey failed to disclose this to the House Intelligence Committee when he himself testified in open session Monday, the same day I delivered my letter to Chairman Nunes. However, thanks to my letter and perhaps other whistleblowers who have apparently come forward, Nunes announced Friday morning that Comey is being hauled back in closed committee session this Tuesday, I would hope to account for his omissions and apparently misleading testimony on Monday. Before that occurs, I hope and plan to meet in person with Chairman Nunes and have him speak with Montgomery.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The stakes in what Montgomery revealed to Director Comey and his general counsel and special agents could not be higher. How can this nation function and the citizenry live in freedom if they are subjected to what is in effect and in practice a police state, forecast by George Orwell in his famous book “1984”? How can I talk with my clients as a lawyer, and preserve our attorney-client and work product privileges, when our communications are subject to surveillance, and how can the president and his team carry out the affairs of state if they are under the gun of corrupt and dishonest intelligence agency czars like Clapper and Brennan, who wield the power to destroy them, as they did with Gen. Michael Flynn most recently? Of course, we cannot!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">I have said many times that if King George III had access to the powers of Obama DIA Clapper and Obama CIA Director Brennan, our Founding Fathers would have never made it to Philadelphia to debate and then sign the Declaration of Independence; they would have been spied upon, their plans uncovered by the British crown, and they then would surely have been arrested, imprisoned and finally executed before they could declare a free and new nation on or about July 4, 1776.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">These are the high stakes we find ourselves confronting today, not just in court, as I have successfully litigated in the District of Columbia that these crimes violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. As I explained in my letter to Chairman Nunes and the Committee, the future of United States hangs in the balance.. In addition to my efforts at <a href="http://www.freedomwatchusa.org">Freedom Watch</a>, it is time for good men in the Trump administration and the few in Congress, hopefully like Chairman Nunes, to clean house of the “cockroaches” that infest our body politic and threaten to bring the nation down.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">You have my pledge to play a major role in this crucial mission, along with brave souls like whistleblower Montgomery, who is risking his life and liberty in coming forward to expose this continuing threat to the republic. Montgomery may not live much longer in any event, as he suffers from a potentially fatal brain aneurism. And, that is why Chairman Nunes and the House Intelligence Committee must move quickly, unlike the apparently compromised FBI Director James Comey, to get to the truth. And, when all of this truth comes out, from Montgomery and other sources, the criminally minded, like former Obama DNI Director Clapper and former Obama CIA Director John Brennan and their pro-Obama minions still embedded in the intelligence agencies, and perhaps even former President Obama himself, must be indicted, prosecuted and ultimately convicted of high crimes against not just President Trump and his team, but also against all Americans.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">In short, the time has finally come for the corrupt political and government elite to be held to account before the non-discriminatory blind bar of “Lady Justice,” to prevent this tyranny from ever occurring again! If we do not succeed in this quest, all of our freedoms will be forever lost!</span></p>
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<p>The Report Card</p>
<p>Florida Citizens Alliance</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org/w/2017/03/florida-citizens-alliance-new-objectionable-materials-report/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Florida Citizens Alliance New Objectionable Materials Report">Florida Citizens Alliance New Objectionable Materials Report…</a></span></p>
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<p>Credits:</p>
<p>The Report Card</p>
<p>Florida Citizens Alliance</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a title="Permanent Link to Florida Citizens Alliance New Objectionable Materials Report" href="http://education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org/w/2017/03/florida-citizens-alliance-new-objectionable-materials-report/" rel="bookmark">Florida Citizens Alliance New Objectionable Materials Report</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> By Bill Korach <a href="http://www.thereportcard.org">www.thereportcard.org</a> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This morning I spoke with Keith Flaugh of Florida Citizens Alliance who is supporting House bill HB 989 and its companion in the Senate SB 1210 are now working their way through the legislative process. <strong><em>The Florida Citizens’ Alliance (FLCA)</em></strong> is a coalition of citizens and grassroots groups working together through education, outreach and community involvement to advance the <strong>ideals and principles of liberty.</strong> They believe these include but are not limited to individual rights, free markets, and limited government. Mr. Flaugh said his group is very concerned about school materials that indoctrinate students against American principals and support leftist thought. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">These bills support local control of curriculum materials and include a detailed report of objectionable materials.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">In 2014 SB 864 (FS 1006.283) was the K-12 Curriculum Bill signed into law by Governor Scott in July of 2014. Its purpose was to:</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Assign each school board the constitutional responsibility to select and provide adequate instructional materials.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Require each district to create a transparent review policy/process allowing parents to review instructional materials and raise objections if the material was not accurate or was objectionable.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Allow School districts to implement their own selection and acquisition programs as an alternative to buying from the State approved lists.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">However, Mr. Flaugh stated that virtually every school district ignored the law and parents remain mostly in the dark about materials that are indoctrinating their children. As a result, HB 989 and SB 1210 are drafted to force school districts to close the loop holes.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">According to Mr. Flaugh the bill will:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> <strong> </strong> – Require that each District School Board <em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><u>shall implement</u></span></em> a transparent Policy/Process within their</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District whether they acquire from the State list or create their individual acquisition program.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Provide a <u>definition of quality materials</u> and require all materials <u>meet Florida existing laws</u></span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">– <u>Tighten the definition</u> of instructional materials to include “on-line” materials.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Give each District School Board greater flexibility to use instructional materials <u>that meet<br/></u> <u>or exceed current Florida Standards.<br/></u> – Expand a parent’s right to object to include the rights of taxpayers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bottom Line: This law will empower parents and community taxpayers a meaningful seat at the table to significantly improve the quality of instructional materials in public schools.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><u>Definition of quality materials spelled out in SB 1210 and HB 989<br/></u></strong> When passed into law, these Instructional Materials companion bills will restore local control of curriculum to each school district, give a meaningful voice to parents and the local community in the selection process for instructional materials, and require instructional materials used in the classroom meet the following criteria:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">a. Be research-based, and be proven to be effective in supporting student learning</span></p>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Provide a non-inflammatory, objective, and balanced viewpoint on issues</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Be appropriate to the students’ ages and varying levels of learning</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Be accurate and factual</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Be of acceptable technical quality</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Shall strictly adhere to the requirements of Florida Statute 1003.42(2) US Constitutional Founding values and principles</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Not contain pornography or sexually explicit content as is otherwise prohibited by Florida Statute 847.012(3).</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">For Mr. Korach's full article</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org/w/2017/03/key-florida-curriculum-legislation-bill-deserves-senate-support/">http://education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org/w/2017/03/key-florida-curriculum-legislation-bill-deserves-senate-support/</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> The Florida Citizens Alliance (FCA)has been in the forefront of combating Common Core and objectionable materials that plague the classroom like an unstoppable virus. FCA have issued a new report that every family should read titled the <strong>Florida Curriculum Assessment.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The 11 page report describes six categories of objectionable materials:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<div style="left: 84px; top: 543.656px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.05716); text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">The 6 categories are:</span></strong></div>
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<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 620.456px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08069); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">1. English Language Arts</span></div>
<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 658.656px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08498); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">2. Pornography</span></div>
<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 697.09px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08082); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">3. Reconstructed History and</span></div>
<div style="left: 575.117px; top: 735.49px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.12375); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Advanced Placement US History</span></div>
<div style="left: 635.917px; top: 735.49px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01431); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">(APUSH)</span></div>
<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 773.69px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09885); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">4. Religious Indoctrination</span></div>
<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 812.09px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.10633); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">5. Political Indoctrination</span></div>
<div style="left: 104.44px; top: 850.49px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06437); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">6. Common Core Math Methodologies</span></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Rep. Lee is sponsoring HB 989 that will</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">require</span></span> <strong>all county school districts to make materials available for families to review. The bill in being considered in this current legislative session and just in time because there are some materials in place that should not be in schools. Here are just a few quotes:</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">1. English Language Arts:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> “English 3 :Florida Collections– by Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt Published-2013, is a collection of short stories. The overwhelming content of these types of stories and victimization, racism and bigotry are not teaching our children to be good citizens, but victims of an oppressive culture and with moral values that “anything goes”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">2. Pornography</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> These materials are available beginning with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">6<sup>th</sup> graders</span></strong></span>:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> “One Example: Title: Beautiful Bastard, Author: Christina Lauren</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">ATTENTION: CONTENT ALERT.. </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">I have XXX'd out words.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“He leaned close enough to bite my shoulder, whispering, ‘You XXXXXXX tease.” Unable to get close enough, I quickened my pace on his zipper, shoving his pants and his boxers to the floor. .. etc. etc. etc. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">I am sorry, I could not make myself add the rest of this item.</span></strong></span><br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">3. Revisionist History</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> “Modern World History, 9th Grade Teacher Edition Year: 2013</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Author: Holt McDougal Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The most objectionable portions of the book were the sections on the American Revolution and Founding Principles. In the discussion of the Articles of Confederation, the commentary distorts the extensive back and forth between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">-no mention of the 13 colonies declaring their independence as 13 independent Nation States, each with powers of the other nations states of Britain, France, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">-no mention of the US Constitution being a legal document that created the federal government</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">-No mention that the federal government was a product of this legal compact and not a signer or ratifier of the compact. -No mention that this legal compact delegated only 18 well-defined and very limited powers in Article 1, sec 8</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Minimal mention of the extensive debates that led to the Bill of Rights and particularly why we have a 9th and 10thamendment.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">– Grossly miss-represented the Federalist position/Stating “colonial leaders eventually recognized the need for a strong national government” –Not true- our Constitution was carefully crafted to limit federal government powers!”</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> I have added the following four (4) categories with introduction highlights</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">4. Religious Indoctrination</span></strong></span></p>
<div style="left: 158.64px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.999096); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The 25 Books with unacceptable Islamic religious indoctrination were found in 64 of the 67 Florida Counties.These other books have been validated in Collier, Lee and Marion County so far. Similar reviews in other counties are in process. The likelihood is very high they exist through-out many of the districts because they all buy from the same sources.</span></div>
<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="left: 84px; top: 698.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.99611); text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Citizens For National Security was successful at getting several books taken out or revised by the publisher in Palm Beach County back in 2012. But this effort did not extend to the other counties.</span></div>
<div style="left: 343.083px; top: 698.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif;"></div>
<br style="left: 844.567px; top: 1218.76px; font-size: 18.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.838791);"/><div style="left: 289.883px; top: 150.597px; font-size: 33.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09258);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">5. Political Indoctrination in US History</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="left: 114.04px; top: 216.933px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00282);"><span class="font-size-3">These books validated in Collier, Lee and Marion County so far. Similar</span></div>
<div style="left: 750.167px; top: 216.933px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00051);"><span class="font-size-3">reviews in other</span></div>
<div style="left: 114.04px; top: 262.933px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.999245);"><span class="font-size-3">counties are in process. The likelihood is very high they exist through-out many of the districts because they all buy from the same sources.</span></div>
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<span class="font-size-3">Two of many examples:</span></div>
<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br/><div style="left: 298.883px; top: 414.305px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07522);"><span class="font-size-3">What is it to be an American?</span></div>
<div style="left: 298.883px; top: 414.305px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07522);"></div>
<div style="left: 393.483px; top: 416.433px; font-size: 18.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.886968);"><span class="font-size-3">Collier 8th Grade Classroom Exercise</span></div>
<div style="left: 144.04px; top: 455.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.99706);"><span class="font-size-3">Collier 8</span></div>
<div style="left: 144.04px; top: 475.951px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.995649);"><span class="font-size-3">The grade classroom exercise. It highlights the statement that ‘anyone who wants to be an American already is.’ This is clearly a one world globalist bias.</span></div>
<div style="left: 182.233px; top: 497.355px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.984609);"><span class="font-size-3">Here is the link to the 2 pages in the book.</span></div>
<div style="left: 191.833px; top: 499.483px; font-size: 18.4px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.967919);"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://goo.gl/oTx1rT">http://goo.gl/oTx1rT</a></span></div>
<div style="left: 359.683px; top: 497.355px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00256);"><span class="font-size-3">And</span></div>
<div style="left: 613.517px; top: 497.355px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00044);"><span class="font-size-3">the link to the video, minute mark 1.58.</span></div>
<div style="left: 144.04px; top: 518.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.998917);"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcyy1kJtwZo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcyy1kJtwZo</a></span></div>
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<div style="left: 144.04px; top: 579.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08078);"><span class="font-size-3">Capitalism vs Socialism</span></div>
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<div style="left: 436.883px; top: 579.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.996345);"><span class="font-size-3">2 page very biased comparison toward Socialism</span></div>
<span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://goo.gl/ce5X">http://goo.gl/ce5X</a></span></div>
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<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">6. Common Core Math</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By Its Designer ( Jason Zimba) And By Dr James</span><div style="left: 84px; top: 233.208px; font-size: 25px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06383);"><span class="font-size-3">Milgram (Math Standards Expert)</span></div>
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<div style="left: 84px; top: 307.534px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07108);"><span class="font-size-3">Jason Zimba Interacts With Dr. Sandra Stotsky: Zimba readily admits</span></div>
<div style="left: 84px; top: 307.534px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07108);"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;">Common Core Math doesn’t prepare a student for STEM, in fact only for a 2 year college.</span></div>
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<div style="left: 84px; top: 307.534px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07108);"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZY4mh2rt8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZY4mh2rt8</a></span><br style="left: 161.24px; top: 477.584px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06934);"/><br style="left: 84px; top: 577.555px; font-size: 17.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.998736);"/></div>
<div style="left: 84px; top: 307.534px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07108);"><span class="font-size-3">Two Videos With James Milgram Talking About The Effects Of Common Core:</span></div>
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<div style="left: 84px; top: 307.534px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07108);"><span class="font-size-3">The US Is Already Ranked In The Mid-Twenties Internally</span><div style="left: 229.033px; top: 498.384px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06209);"><span class="font-size-3">With The Average Student At An 8th Grade Level. In Florida, The FL DOE</span></div>
<div style="left: 195.033px; top: 518.584px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06101);"><span class="font-size-3">Just Released A Report That Only 26% Of Our 8th Grade Students</span></div>
<div style="left: 195.033px; top: 518.584px; font-size: 15.8px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06101);"><span class="font-size-3">Are Proficient At An 8th Grade Level.</span></div>
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<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The <em><strong>Florida Citizen’s Alliance</strong></em> is working with parents and other community groups to establish minimum quality standards for instructional materials used in our Florida public schools. Virtually every other industry has minimum quality standards, but textbook publishers have essentially none, and are improperly profiting off the damaging of America’s youth. Instructional Materials bills SB 1210 and HB 989 are intended to change this. We have made progress on moving these bills forward, and have previously asked you to take some action to continue the momentum. Your actions are having an effect, but we must continue the push.</span></div>
<div style="left: 766.767px; top: 346.533px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p><span class="font-size-3">When passed, these companion bills will empower parents and other taxpayers to review all textbooks and on-line materials, and <em><strong>effectively</strong></em> challenge factually inaccurate instructional materials (materials that do not present balanced viewpoints on issues), as well as other instructional materials that contain age-inappropriate sexually explicit material that violates existing Florida Laws.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Most importantly, HB 989 and SB 1210 will restore local control of curriculum to each school district, give a meaningful voice to parents and the local community in the selection process for instructional materials.</span></p>
<span class="font-size-3">Currently, instructional materials are riddled with political and religious indoctrination, revisionist history, and age-inappropriate pornography. Purchased at taxpayer expense, these materials teach our children that European Socialism is better than free markets and that the government is the answer to every problem. They make use of sexually explicit material which tears down family values.</span></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Use the following link to send your message to your legislative members.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">― <a class="authorOrTitle" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3974816.Llewellyn_H_Rockwell_Jr_">Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.</a></span></p>Your Monday Morning Tea: THE RESISTANCE IS HERE - WE MUST NEVER RESTtag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-03-20:4150782:BlogPost:2483812017-03-20T14:46:23.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p>Michael Savage: "Trumps War" - His Battle For America</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"……</span></span></p>
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<p>Disobedient Media</p>
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<p>Michael Savage: "Trumps War" - His Battle For America</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">" You may not realize how bad it was, because the lying media didn't call any of this rioting. No, these Brownshirt street thugs were ""Protesters""." Michael Savage</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <strong><span class="font-size-4">"Let's not forget these aren't spontaneous, grassroots uprisings by honestly concerned liberals. These are organized criminal mobs, funded by George Soros to wreak chaos on American cities." Michael Savage</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">In his book Michael Savage has identified 188 different groups/organizations that are funded by Soros. The ACLU is one of them.</span></strong></span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong>FALMOUTH</strong> — In an effort to attract and energize volunteers, the American Civil Liberties Union livestreamed a resistance training video Saturday evening to thousands of groups across the country, showing people how to get involved in fighting the policies and rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump’s office.</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The training was also the launch of People Power, a grass-roots effort by the national civil rights group aiming to engage volunteers to “take the fight against Donald Trump’s policies not just into the courts, but into the streets,” according to the ACLU’s website.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“We have seen a huge groundswell of support for the ACLU,” said Matt Allen, a field director at ACLU of Massachusetts.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The event informed people about their rights when protesting or when stopped by the police. “It’s the first step in building longer-term campaigns,” Allen said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Jonathan Polloni, a Falmouth-based real estate lawyer, organized a viewing of the training session at the Falmouth Public Library. It was one of the handful of People Power events held Saturday on the Cape and Islands.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Polloni said he donated money to the ACLU after the election, and the organization reached out to him to host the event.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“My wife kind of got me to take action,” Polloni said. Policies that have come out of the Trump administration have shocked the attorney and inspired him to get involved. “The genesis really was the Muslim ban.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">More than 50 people gathered in a meeting room in the bottom floor of the library and listened as Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, opened the event, which was broadcast from Miami.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“These last four months have been certainly challenging for the ACLU,” Romero said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The group plans to continue fighting Trump in court on his travel ban affecting six majority-Muslim countries and lead the fight to protect civil, First Amendment, LGBT, and reproductive rights, but they need ordinary citizens to also resist, he said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Faiz Shakir, the national political director of the ACLU, called on the people to set up meetings with their town’s police departments to talk about their policies regarding the local enforcement of federal immigration laws.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">One way to fight Trump’s threats against so-called “sanctuary cities” is to make sure local law enforcement are not involved in enforcing federal immigration laws, he said. The ACLU provided a model policy for how state and local police departments should handle immigration laws, and Polloni is planning on reaching out to Falmouth Police Chief Edward Dunne to talk about the issue. Attendees also suggested bringing up the topic at the upcoming “Coffee with a Cop” event.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Other speakers during the training touched on protesters’ rights, what to do if ICE comes to a neighbor’s home, and the importance of contacting federal legislators. Shakir also asked that people write to the ACLU to give them ideas on how to resist Trump’s policies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Karen Bacigalupi, of Mashpee, said she went to the training because she wanted to see how she could get involved.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“Every single group that Trump has gone after, I have friends in these communities,” she said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Glenn Rowland, who attended the training with his wife, Marilyn, said he was driven to attend the session after seeing Trump’s actions since he was elected.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“I was really spurred on by what is going on after the election on the national level,” said Rowland, a Falmouth resident. The new administration has created an anti-immigrant and anti-rights atmosphere, he said, and the training provided him with ideas to get publicly active.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“We realized our rights certainly can get trampled on,” he said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The group plans to meet again on April 8 at the library to continue the momentum of events like the Women’s March and other protests around the country.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">AND WHO IS FINANCING THIS?</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">___<span style="color: #ff0000;">S</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">oros Gave The ACLU $35 Million To Train Anti-Government Protesters</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://needtoknow.news/2017/03/" target="_blank">March 8, 2017</a> <a href="http://disobedientmedia.com/aclu-actively-assisting-with-soros-driven-protest-organization-after-accepting-funds-from-the-open-society-institute/" target="_blank">William Craddick, Disobedient Media</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>The American Civil Liberties Union is moving away from legal advocacy to organizing and training revolutionary protest groups called People Power.</b> Soros’ Open Society Institute has given the ACLU over $35 million and millions more to other leftist organizations to file lawsuits against the policies of President Trump. This is part of Soros’ strategy to “reshape the American justice system” which includes funding leftist district attorneys in political races across the country. -GEG</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Startling developments have revealed that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has moved beyond their original charter as a legal advocate for individual rights under the Constitution to actively taking a hand in training and organizing protest groups throughout the country. Their shift in focus came just over a month after reports emerged that George Soros was sinking tens of millions into the group through his affiliated organizations. Articles prominently featured by the ACLU announcing the shift towards actively organizing anti-government protests are authored by a former employee of Soros-funded groups. The startling shift indicates <span style="color: #ff0000;">that the ACLU has decided to participate in Soros driven protest movements with the goal of subverting American democracy and driving regime change in the United States.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>I. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The ACLU Has Actively Begun To Assist In Protest Organization</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The ACLU’s shift from their traditional mandate of legal advocacy appears to have occurred sometime in <span style="color: #ff0000;">February 2017</span>, with the announcement of <a href="https://archive.fo/kQ0er" target="_blank"><b>People Power</b></a>, a campaign consisting of what they described as <span style="color: #ff0000;">“Resistance Training”</span> to “take the fight against Donald Trump’s policies not just into the courts, but into the streets.” The <span style="color: #ff0000;">training sessions are to be broadcast nationally via livestream.</span> The shift appears to have been announced on February 24, 2017 in an <a href="https://archive.fo/jGKiJ" target="_blank"><b>article</b></a> authored by the ACLU’s National Political Director, Faiz Shakir. Shakir apparently also runs the ACLU’s Reddit account, using it for an <a href="https://archive.fo/PlnGI" target="_blank"><b>AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit</b></a> to announce the rollout of People Power. In the session, Mr. Shakir explained that the campaign would consist of more than <span style="color: #ff0000;">1,500 events, to organize a “volunteer army to fight back” in what he described as “the fight of our lives.”</span> Announcements of the campaign are also being <a href="https://archive.fo/QPfzo" target="_blank"><b>astroturfed</b></a> to multiple left leaning subreddits in an attempt to garner support.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>II. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Faiz Shakir Is A Former Employee Of Soros-Controlled Organizations, People Power Was Launched After Major Funding From George Soros</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Preliminary investigation has uncovered facts which call into question the incentives behind the ACLU’s decision to become involved with political protest. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="https://archive.fo/wivSY" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><b>Faiz Shakir</b></span></a>, the author of the ACLU’s announcement of People Power, spent seven years working at the Center for American Progress and was a founding member and editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress.org.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The <a href="https://archive.fo/zflYY" target="_blank">Center for American Progress</a> (CAP) was a project spearheaded by John Podesta</strong></span> with heavy funding from George Soros. <a href="https://archive.fo/ihwA6" target="_blank"><b>ThinkProgress</b></a> was founded by the CAP to serve as its blog and news outlet, alongside <strong>David Brock’s propaganda outlet</strong> <a href="https://archive.fo/EHpWJ" target="_blank"><b>Media Matters</b></a>. Brock has recently come under fire amid <a href="http://disobedientmedia.com/democrat-propaganda-group-shareblue-has-ties-to-chinese-government-host-of-foreign-special-interests/" target="_blank"><b>revelations</b></a> that his new organization, Shareblue, has improper ties to the Chinese government, organizations in the City of London, Mexico, Israel and multiple Middle Eastern states. <strong>Shakir also served as a senior advisor to Senator Harry Reid and as a senior adviser and director of digital media for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.</strong> His past associations with Soros-funded groups and prominent Democrat political figures raise questions about his apparent role spearheading the ACLU’s drive to become involved in training and equipping protestors.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The ACLU itself has received massive amounts of funding from George Soros. A February 6th, 2017 article from <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-06/george-soros-key-funding-source-behind-muslim-ban-lawsuits" target="_blank">Zerohedge</a> cited research from <a href="http://archive.is/eUhCe" target="_blank">LifeZette and the Capital Research Center</a> indicating that Soros’s Open Society Institute has sunk over $35 million into the ACLU alone and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>millions more to other liberal organizations directly involved in filing lawsuits against various policies of Donald Trump all around the country. The massive donation drive is part of <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-30/soros-seeks-reshape-american-justice-system-pouring-funds-powerful-district-attorney" target="_blank">Soros’ overall effort</a> to “reshape the American justice system” by buying district attorneys in races across the country.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>III. The ACLU’s Sudden Drive To Assist With Protest Organization Appears To Be Part Of A Wider Attempt By George Soros To Implement Regime Change In The United States</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The presence of Soros and Democrat-aligned individuals who are closely involved with the ACLU’s sudden drive to assist with protest efforts and the major funding Soros has given to the ACLU seriously calls into question the ACLU’s People Power movement. Given <a href="http://archive.is/JSxWi" target="_blank">Soros’ major support</a> for other protest movements across the U.S. in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s defeat of his supported candidate <a href="http://archive.is/3hdLS" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a> in the 2016 US presidential election, the funds sunk into the ACLU appear to be part of a wider effort to effect regime change in the United States. Soros and his affiliated organizations have already faced <a href="http://disobedientmedia.com/george-soros-faces-backlash-in-eastern-europe-and-balkans/" target="_blank">backlash</a> over the past year in multiple Eastern European countries amid accusations that he was meddling in their political processes and improperly seeking to influence public opinion. The People Power movement, in light of the involvement of Mr. Shakir and the major funding given to the ACLU by Soros serves in effect to further his overall goals of political control in the United States, irregardless of the purported good intentions behind it</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">The following are quotes from the book, "Trumps War - The Battle For America'</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">"This is the man who gave $33 Million to Black Lives Matter and who funds MoveOn.org and the rest of his so called Open Society Foundations."</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">" George Soros is the Napoleon of American socialism. The sheer number of subversive organizations that have received funding from this man is staggering."</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><span class="font-size-3">Breitbart Article on Another huge anti-Trump organization and event.</span></span><span class="font-size-4"><br/></span></strong></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hundreds of thousands of service workers are planning an anti-Trump labor strike for May 1, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/hundreds-of-thousands-of-workers-will-strike-may-1?bftwnews&utm_term=.cjR3J9BZB5#.vcQkobzDzq" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">BuzzFeed</a> reported Saturday.</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Nearly 350,000 workers plan to strike President Trump’s agenda on International Workers’ Day on May 1.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">More than 300,000 food chain workers and 40,000 unionized service workers will walk off the job that day, according to a coalition of groups leading the strike.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Multiple thousands of employees from the Service Employees International Union and United Service Workers West, led by David Huerta, will strike.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“We understand that there’s risk involved in that,” Huerta told BuzzFeed News, “but we’re willing to take that risk in order to be able to move forward in this moment, while the most marginalized are in the crosshairs of this administration.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">A <a href="https://bsolid.org/cause/MayDayGeneralStrike/dashboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">statement</a> announcing the strike says that participants will be rejecting Trump’s policies on immigration and what they say is his “agenda of hate and greed.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">“We need to show this Administration, Congress and large corporate interests that our human and economic worth is more powerful than their agenda of hate and greed,” the statement reads. “Opposing Trump is not enough. We must stop him.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The last time there was a major strike of this magnitude was when the first <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/02/usa.topstories3" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Day Without Immigrants</a> took place in 2006</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">"As Trump said himself during his speech, "This is your day..This is your celebration. And this, the United States of American, is your country." That means this is our fight and requires our leadership as much as his. Blind worship will not help him or us." Michael Savage<br/></span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">"Remember, it was God's will that this underdog, Donald Trump, defeated the vast armies of the New World Order. We must pray for him and for our nation while standing strong again the global forces of collectivism" Michael Savage</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"…</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"…</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">On January 12th, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) introduced HR 490 - the "Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017" - to prohibit abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected. He stated, "My legislation will require all physicians, before conducting an abortion, to detect the heartbeat of the unborn child. If a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected." King added, "I believe our most important responsibility that God has bestowed upon us is to protect innocent human life, and I will continue to dedicate my life to that responsibility."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please call these U.S. House Judiciary Committee Members and ask them to Co-sponsor Rep. King's Heartbeat Bill:</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">1. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (VA) (202) 225-5431</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">2. Andy Biggs (AZ) (202) 225-2635 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">3. Ken Buck (CO) (202) 225-4676</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">4. Jim Jordan (OH) (202) 225-2676</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">5. Steve Chabot (OH) (202) 225-2216</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">6. Jason Chaffetz (UT) (202) 225-7751</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">7. Doug Collins (GA) (202) 225-9893</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">8. Ron DeSantis (FL) (202) 225-2706</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">9. Blake Farenthold (TX) (202) 225-7742</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">10. Matt Gaetz (FL) (202) 225-4136</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">11. Trey Gowdy (SC) (202) 225-6030</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">12. Darrell Issa (CA) (202) 225-3906</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">13. Mike Johnson (LA) (202) 225-2777</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">14. Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. (WI) (202) 225-5101</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">15. Raul Labrador (ID) (202) 225-6611 </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">16. Tom Marino (PA) (202) 225-3731</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">17. Ted Poe (TX) (202) 225-6565</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">18. John Ratcliffe (TX) (202) 225-6673</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">19. Martha Roby (AL) (202) 225-2901</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">20. Lamar Smith (TX) (202) 225-4236</span><br clear="all"/><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://pseagles.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=409f6ee3997dee9626a2d3d42&id=024748e388&e=f63db7c106" target="_blank"><strong>Click below to watch Rep. King introduce the Heartbeat Bill HR 490 on the House floor. </strong></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4657752/heartbeat-bill-hr490&utm_source=Video%3A+Heartbeat+from+the+House&utm_campaign=Video+Heartbeat+from+US+House&utm_medium=email">https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4657752/heartbeat-bill-hr490&utm_source=Video%3A+Heartbeat+from+the+House&utm_campaign=Video+Heartbeat+from+US+House&utm_medium=email</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Latest Status:</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>It is sitting there.</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>We need to encourage our Representatives to get this bill moving.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr490">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr490</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>The 4 page bill:</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr490/text">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr490/text</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>To date 1,814 bills have been referred to committee's - The one to protect the life of the unborn just sits.. It is time to get it moving.</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Dr. Mildred Jefferson</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Good Morning: Please share this and encourage all in your network to subscribe to…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Good Morning: Please share this and encourage all in your network to subscribe to <a href="http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/join-our-mailing-list/">http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/join-our-mailing-list/</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> There is no membership fee and we will be doing action alerts as these bills move thru the process. The louder our collective voice the better our chances for success.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font-size-3"> Press Release— Feb 27<sup>th</sup>, 2017</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Status: 3/7/17 was filed and will be headed to committee.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>For Immediate</b> <b>Release:</b> 2017 Instructional Materials companion bills filed in the Florida House and Senate.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>WHAT</b>: SB 1210 and HB 989 companion bills were filed last week by Sen. Tom Lee and Rep. Byron Donalds. These are “fixit” companion bills to a very “well-intentioned” Senate Bill passed into law in 2014, but not implemented by a single school district. The original intent was to establish each school board to be constitutionally responsible for the instruction materials used in their respective districts and to establish an open, transparent process for reviewing, raising objections to and approving instructional materials used with K-12 students.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/wp-content/uploads/2017-Executive-Summary-Instructional-materials-bill-SB1210_HB989.pdf">Executive Summary</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/1210/BillText/Filed/PDF">Bill text ( SB1210)</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">When passed this fixit bill will:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>- Require that each school district <u>shall implement</u> a transparent Policy/Process within their District whether they acquire from the State list or create their individual acquisition program.<br/> - Provide a <u>definition of quality materials</u> and requirement for providers to<br/> <u>meet Florida existing laws</u>.<br/> - <u>Tighten the definition</u> of instructional materials to include “on-line” materials.<br/> - Give each District School Board greater flexibility to use instructional materials <u>that meets or exceed current Florida Standards.<br/></u> - Expand a parent’s right to object to include the rights of all taxpayers.</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>ACTION ITEM:</b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please call the following members and ask that they support this bill.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> FOR THE CHILDREN</strong></span> <br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="font-size-3"><strong> Education Committee</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><b> <u>Chair:</u></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S14">Senator Dorothy L. Hukill (R) -</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(386) 304-7630 or (850) 487-5014</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><u>Vice Chair:</u></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S17">Senator Debbie Mayfield (R)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(321) 409-2025 or (850) 487-5017</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S34">Senator Gary M. Farmer, Jr. (D)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(954) 467-4227 or (850) 487-5034</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S21">Senator Bill Galvano (R)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(941) 741-3401 or (850) 487-5021</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S20">Senator Tom Lee (R)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(813) 653-7061</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S9">Senator David Simmons (R)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(407) 262-7578 or (850) 487-5009</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S10">Senator Wilton Simpson (R)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(352) 540-6074 or (850) 487-5010</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S13">Senator Linda Stewart (D)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(407) 893-2422 or (850) 487-5013</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/S33">Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr. (D)</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(954) 321-2705 or (850) 487-5033</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><b> <span class="font-size-3">"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things."</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="font-size-3">Jean Piaget</span><br/> <br/></b></p>ACTION ITEM: Post Cards to Trumptag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-03-08:4150782:BlogPost:2481912017-03-08T23:23:03.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">Let's Just</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">DO IT...</span>.…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">DO IT...</span>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Each of us — every American from every working class, each congress calling citizen, every boy-cotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — if each of us writes even a single postcard and we <span style="color: #ff0000;">put them all in the mail on the same day, March 16th</span>, well: you do the math.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">No media deception or disingenuous leftist politician will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of faith. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a 1.5 million pieces in a day, ringing with nice things to say.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and see if your sincerest well-wishes can pierce the media’s famously thin skin.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Prepare for March 16th, 2017, a day hereafter to be known as “the call of patriots” !!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Then, on March 16th, mail your messages to:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">President Donald J. Trump</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The White House</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Washington, DC 20500</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">It might just be enough to drown out the awful, despicable, display we see in these protests ! The media just might take notice !!!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Copy, paste, and share widely !</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The next few weeks can be a big opportunity for gun rights here in Florida, but despite having a Republican governor, and a Republican-controlled legislature, it is going to require your help! Starting this week, a series of gun rights bills will be making their way through the…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The next few weeks can be a big opportunity for gun rights here in Florida, but despite having a Republican governor, and a Republican-controlled legislature, it is going to require your help! Starting this week, a series of gun rights bills will be making their way through the legislature, and FLCA is going to keep a <em>Score Card</em>, tracking which of our senators and representatives are going to vote for or <em>against</em> your rights!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">We will be keeping you briefed on the bills that are coming up for committee consideration or votes, and will update you on which of your elected representatives have voted against your right to self-defense! We also will help you let those elected representatives know how you feel about that! This coming week, the following bills are scheduled to be reviewed by the Senate Judiciary committee:</span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3">SB 616 – Concealed Weapons or firearms</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">SB 646 – Weapons & Firearms</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">SJR 910 – Exempting Law Enforcement Officers from the Waiting Period for Handgun Purchases</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">SB 912 – Exceptions to Requirements for the Purchase and Sale of Firearms</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">ACTION ITEM 1</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">FLCA supports passage of all four of these bills. Use either of the the links below to send an email to the nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, letting them know you want them to support each of these bills as well!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/2017-second-amendment-score-card-round-1/">http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/2017-second-amendment-score-card-round-1/</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Or us the link below.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=80746f1f4cc55d530b7523630&id=99d885a075&e=">http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=80746f1f4cc55d530b7523630&id=99d885a075&e=</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">ACTION ITEM 2</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Specific Action on Vote TODAY</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">FLORIDA CARRY</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>SB 616 - Courthouse Carry and SB 646 - Open Carrying to be heard by Senate Judiciary Committee</b></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Contact Legislators NOW!</strong></span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Yd-it-RiSRj9_Pkfi5ZkUd94KKcnyxN465lp4JIJ8Ajxeu1C5OVzOv-TXKU-d9GRW8544cgZKMkwGXU_iAx_O6PpXofRKxXObnbd8HnwRU-EpmMfaht8FYVmY-67TN51IOwSRExoeh-Ql_MtPZ0-56bNgwr7wZTlsjZbmVFqM9QDqgWyeYNm8os2MdS3mjfNGbjiFN2Q_u9vRxBMwPdrXg==&c=XQILhzIAzSX2msg8hf55UvhfZNRDmrTl0Zl7FB6QS2xa5xjb0MC2Jg==&ch=igH-8XRLNYgspV3zKqGyBO1uqr_08luJeLqaWYx8cUb-eVBlgFQlbQ==" target="_blank" shape="rect">SB 616 - Courthouse carry</a></strong>, <strong>does NOT authorize carry in courthouses</strong>. This good bill <strong>authorizes courthouses to temporarily store</strong> those firearms carried lawfully while licensees are conducting business at courthouses.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">On occasion, licensees must visit a prohibited place like a courthouse. Whether it be for jury duty or as a result of a summons or subpoena, these <strong>visits are often mandatory</strong>. This leaves the licensee with a dilemma - <strong>leave the firearm at home</strong> and be unarmed during the entire period, or <strong>leave the firearm in one's vehicle</strong> and risk it being stolen. <strong>Neither is acceptable</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The bill simply provides that <strong>a courthouse is still a prohibited place</strong> for carry, however <strong>a licensee may present his firearm to courthouse security personnel for temporary storage</strong> during the carrier's visit. Upon completion of the visit, <strong>the firearm is to be returned to the licensee</strong>.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>FLORIDA CARRY ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTS THIS GOOD BILL!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Yd-it-RiSRj9_Pkfi5ZkUd94KKcnyxN465lp4JIJ8Ajxeu1C5OVzOv-TXKU-d9GRH3pkRLJOWDItI64XRkWrAw152Hpe6wQizcc8WHc-fGjNUpxxDWJtEBIQqEtXPDYCTQnYNBZoEwutJrxCwbXFuMg9wN-qktX0lPLV5VGIbtn1IQfzj185DAEtsAaQ5-RDKWonfRukoQn3UVHaG4atrnOFERfBjAanAGwzfdSW5yXLG1TTA06mxQ==&c=XQILhzIAzSX2msg8hf55UvhfZNRDmrTl0Zl7FB6QS2xa5xjb0MC2Jg==&ch=igH-8XRLNYgspV3zKqGyBO1uqr_08luJeLqaWYx8cUb-eVBlgFQlbQ==" target="_blank" shape="rect">SB 646 - Open carrying</a>, <strong>decriminalizes temporarily exposing one's firearm</strong></b> for licensees, and <strong>prohibits law enforcement from arresting licensed individuals</strong> who are lawfully carrying concealed and whose firearm becomes temporarily visible.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">A serious problem since the 2011 gutting of SB 234, the original open carry bill, this bill <strong>also removes the ambiguous "brief exposure" language</strong> and <strong>replaces it with "temporarily and openly displayed"</strong>. Coupled with the <strong>decriminalization and prohibiting arrest of licensees</strong>, the bill is a positive despite open carry remaining prohibited.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please, take a few moments to ask the committee members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to support SB 616 and SB 646.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Remember that whether you contact the committee members either by email or by phone, to be courteous and respectful above all else. Be sure to keep your message brief, and thank them for their time.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">In the subject line put: SUPPORT SB-646 & SB-616 in Senate Judiciary Committee</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">(Copy and Paste All email addresses into the "Send To" box)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:steube.greg@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">steube.greg@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:bracy.randolph@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">bracy.randolph@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:flores.anitere@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">flores.anitere@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:garcia.rene@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">garcia.rene@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:gibson.audrey@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">gibson.audrey@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:mayfield.debbie@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">mayfield.debbie@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:powell.bobby@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">powell.bobby@flsenate.gov</a>;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:thurston.perry@flsenate.gov" target="_blank" shape="rect">thurston.perry@flsenate.gov</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Sample Body:</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">Dear Senator,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Far too often when considering firearm related bills, opponents fail to recognize that licensees are a distinct demographic from felons/criminals. Between 1987 and 2012, over two million carry licenses were issued by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Licensing Division. During that period, only 6/1000ths of 1 percent (168) licenses were revoked for a crime involving a firearm.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> The Legislature placed its trust and faith in the licensing system, and in the Florida citizens who choose to lawfully carry. Licensees have not only met, but far exceeded those expectations. It is well beyond time the Legislature recognizes that statistically documented fact, and relieves unnecessary burdens on the licensee.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> Please support both SB 616 and 646.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> Respectfully,</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><em>“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.</em>”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">― Mahatma Gandhi</span></p>Your Monday Morning Tea: FAKE TEA PARTIES MEET THE REAL TEA PARTIEStag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-03-06:4150782:BlogPost:2480632017-03-06T13:30:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p>St Augustine Tea Party</p>
<p>Lance Thate: Chairman St. Augustine Tea Party.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"……</span></span></p>
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<p>Credits:</p>
<p>St Augustine Tea Party</p>
<p>Lance Thate: Chairman St. Augustine Tea Party.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"…</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2996860726?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2996860726?profile=original" width="439"/></a></p>
<p>March 1, 2017</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001028858?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001028858?profile=original" class="align-right" width="450"/></a></p>
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<p class="Normal-_Web_"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Fake Tea Party Meets the Real Tea Party</span></strong></p>
<p class="Normal-_Web_"><span class="C-24"><span class="font-size-3">On February 27, 2017, it seem<img alt="" src="http://saintaugustineteaparty.org/wpimages/wp38c79ae9_05_06.jpg" id="pic_173" style="float: left; margin: 7px; width: 470px; height: 264px;" name="pic_173"/>ed that the perfect political protest storm was about to disrupt the peaceful Historic District of St. Augustine, Florida. There was a "Spirit of America" Pro-Trump Rally scheduled at the Castillo de San</span> <span class="font-size-3">Marcos. At about the same time, the Communist Left’s newly organized group, ”The Indivisible’s”, were assembling on the Davis Shores side of the Bridge of Lions. To add fuel to the fire, the feisty St. Augustine Tea Party decided to deploy their largely ceremonial Dartmouth as a 'Battleship' to preserve the peace. All the ingredients for the potentially political battle were in perfect place.</span></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-24"><span class="font-size-3">Imbedded Town Crier Tells All<img alt="" src="http://saintaugustineteaparty.org/wpimages/wp9c59e15f_05_06.jpg" id="pic_174" style="float: right; margin: 7px; width: 475px; height: 240px;" name="pic_174"/></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19"><span class="C-24"><span class="font-size-3">The Town Crier, Chairman, Lance Thate, in his Saul Alinsky disguise, pictured in the center of the collage right, embedded himself with the Indivisibles. He then proceeded to cross the Bridge of Lions with about 45 anti-Trump protesters. The Town Crier Chairman has extensive experience in the Historic District, evaluating the public’s reaction and acceptance of political issues. His experience goes all the way back to 2011, and the Tea Party’s challenge of the 'Occupy St. Augustine' group. The 'Occupy St. Augustine' group and the Indivisible’s have common organizers. Although the demonstrators were carrying signs encouraging automobile traffic to honk, only one car actually did blow their horn and several cars slowed down to suggest that the protesters “Get a job.” “If our Town Criers had marched across this bridge, we would’ve gotten far better acceptance. The Indivisible’s clearly lacked widespread support,”</span> <span class="font-size-3">Thate explained. As the group got to the end of the</span> <span class="font-size-3">bridge</span><img alt="" src="http://saintaugustineteaparty.org/wpimages/wpe31485d8_05_06.jpg" id="pic_175" style="float: left; margin: 7px; width: 427px; height: 239px;" name="pic_175"/> <span class="font-size-3">passage, the embedded Town Crier Chairman called for the Dartmouth, which was lying in wait in Davis Shores, to advance. The execution was perfect as the Dartmouth intercepted the Indivisibles just as they were turning on to the Bayfront. The Dartmouth is 35 feet long, 55 feet long including the towing vehicle, which effectively blocked the protester’s access to the public. Mr. Thate reports that, “When the Dartmouth arrived there was complete disbelief and shock at what they were seeing. The Dartmouth, complete with a full-sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump, anti-Indivisible signs and Gadsden flags flying was a site to behold. Rapid-fire comments were blasting from the Dartmouth’s sound system. As the shock wore off and the Indivisibles realized that the real Tea Party had arrived, they began chanting,” Dump Trump, Dump Trump, Dump Trump……” Mr. Thate reports that this was not terribly effective because it sounded more like "Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump…" Frustrated, they did not walk alongside the boat. The Indivisibles choose the seawall instead where they continued on to the Castillo de San Marcos. The Dartmouth effectively blocked their demonstration from the public view. In the pictures shown above, the upper left and lower right, are Indivisibles. They are so far removed from public view that they could easily have been mistaken for Pro Trump demonstrators. The rest of the people in the photograph are Pro Trump.</span></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="C-24"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Jacksonville, Florida</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="C-24"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001029422?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001029422?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Spirit of America Rally</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>On March 4th 2016 Citizens of Duval and surrounding counties joined together for the Spirit of America Rally at the Jacksonville Landing.</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>The spirit of America was felt in the hearts of all who attended as the patriotic music of "Let Freedom Sing" surrounded the venue.</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>The words of Representative John Rutherford seeped into the minds and hearts of all in attendance as he shared his newly learned experiences in Washington.</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>The words of Representative Jay Fant as he shared news from the halls of the legislature in Tallahassee.</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Others who shared their experiences and gave us all a feeling of pride and encouraged each person to stay involved in local, state and federal government. To hold our elected officials accountable and to continue to fight for this great country called America.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Patriots Arrive</span></strong></p>
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<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030105?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030105?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030215?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030215?profile=original" class="align-full" width="720"/></a></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>"LET FREEDOM SING"</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030240?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030240?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Representative John Rutherford</span></strong></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030362?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030362?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a><strong>Representative Jay Fant</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030590?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030590?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></span><span class="font-size-4"><strong>The Lone "Indivisible."</strong></span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030927?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001030927?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001031681?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001031681?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001032187?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001032187?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001038365?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001038365?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">What makes us strong -united -and determined to never ever quit.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">OUR VISION</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">A strong America that preserves and protects opportunities for future generations.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">OUR MISSION</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">To effectively impact our local communities, to include the selection and actions of our elected and appointed officials.</span><br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff;">* Individual Freedom</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff;">* Free Enterprise</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff;">* Better/Smaller Government</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #0000ff;">* Balanced Budgets</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>OUR VALUES</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in Individual Freedom and Personal Responsibility.</strong>..Our founding fathers understood that personal freedom came with a price known as personal responsibility and you could not have one without the other.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in Liberty...</strong>Inspired by our patriotic, intellectual and moral obligations; we resolve to carry forward to the next generation the mantle of liberty, for which so many have already sacrificed so much.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in Godly Principles...</strong>Our nation was founded on Godly principles and wherever men have sought to worship government as their god, that god has failed them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in Free Markets...</strong>The government should allow free market capitalism to flourish while not micro managing any industry the government knows nothing about.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in the Constitution...</strong>It is our duty to defend The Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, know that if we fail, we will be responsible for losing our freedom and destroying ourselves.</span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;" class="font-size-4"><strong>We Believe in American Exceptionalism</strong>...That the United States is a uniquely free nation based on personal liberty, individual rights, and decentralization. We believe that the foundation and development of the United States has been fundamentally unique in the history of nations. And because of this, we see that America has a unique place and role in human history.</span></p>
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<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;">"We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail."</span></p>
<p class="Normal P-19" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;">George W. Bush</span></p>ACTION ITEM AND INFORMATION: The Human Rights issue moves to Tallahassee 9 BILLStag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-28:4150782:BlogPost:2481262017-02-28T15:30:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Florida Politics</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">First Coast News</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Freedom For all Americans</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Florida.gov</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By all appearances the HRO has passed Jacksonville City Council and Mayor Curry will remain firm in his decision to stand silent.…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Florida Politics</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">First Coast News</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Freedom For all Americans</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Florida.gov</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By all appearances the HRO has passed Jacksonville City Council and Mayor Curry will remain firm in his decision to stand silent.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Have you heard of HB17 currently working it's way through the process in Tallahassee? While researching this bill I stumbled upon eight other related bills and will attempt to document them for you and provide you with information from a group called Freedom For All Americans.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Most all of us have known for a long time that this "Human Rights" issue was not a local issue or even a state issue.. It is a National movement.. One could ask why? and What for?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Who is/What is "FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS"?</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Their website: <a href="http://www.freedomforallamericans.org/about/">http://www.freedomforallamericans.org/about/</a></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Their FaceBook page: </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FreedomForAllAmericans/">https://www.facebook.com/FreedomForAllAmericans/</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Just one of several groups working to pass legislation at the state level.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="font-size-3">"Freedom for All Americans is the bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people nationwide. Our work brings together Republicans and Democrats, businesses large and small, people of faith, and allies from all walks of life to make the case for comprehensive non-discrimination protections that ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">With the ultimate goal of securing <a href="http://www.freedomforallamericans.org/equalityact/">federal statutory protections</a> for LGBT Americans, Freedom for All Americans works at the federal, state, and local level to <strong><span class="font-size-4">advance measures and laws protecting from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression – without allowing overly broad and harmful religious exemptions that will encourage employers, business owners or others to choose to disregard those protections.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Opponents of non-discrimination laws are currently pursuing strategies to chip away at protections for the LGBT community and undermine the movement’s gains. We will push against these attempts to codify discrimination. However, it is not enough to merely take a defensive posture – <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we must take the fight on the offensive, with a multi-year initiative that seizes on our best opportunities to advance local and state-level victories.</span> Throughout all of this work, we must also pursue a broad, ambitious initiative to educate Americans about who LGBT people are and why non-discrimination protections are so critical.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">By building momentum across the country with state-level victories and comprehensive public education campaigns, we will create pressure nationally for the United States Congress to pass full federal protections for all LGBT people."</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.freedomforallamericans.org/about/">http://www.freedomforallamericans.org/about/</a><br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">You will notice that their work is divided by state with detailed information related to plans and legislative agendas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">We focus on Florida.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026465?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026465?profile=original" class="align-full" width="625"/></a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Current</span></strong></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Municipalities with Non-Discrimination Protections:</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The following municipalities protect people from discrimination on the basis of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>their sexual orientation and gender identity/expression:</strong></span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Atlantic Beach</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Dunedin</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Gainesville</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Gulfport</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Juno Beach</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Key West</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City Of Lake Worth</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Largo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Leesburg</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Miami</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Miami Beach</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Oakland Park</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Orlando</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Sarasota</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of St. Augustine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Tampa</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Venice</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of West Palm Beach</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Wilton Manors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Village of Tequesta</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alachua County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Broward County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hillsborough County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leon County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miami Dade County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monroe County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Orange County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Osceola County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Palm Beach County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pinellas County</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Volusia County</span></li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The following municipalities protect people from discrimination on the basis of their <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>sexual orientation:</strong></span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of St. Petersburg</span></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Non-Discrimination Protections:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="font-size-3"><span style="color: #ff0000;">There are currently no explicit, comprehensive statewide non-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people in Florida.</span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The Campaign:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Launched in December of 2014,</span> <a href="http://flcompetes.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Florida Competes</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a grassroots coalition working to pass the Florida Competitive Workforce Act, which would amend existing non-discrimination protections in Florida to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Florida Competes is the grassroots arm of</span> <a href="http://flcompetitiveworkforce.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a coalition of more than 20 of the state’s largest employers working to update Florida’s non-discrimination laws.</span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The Latest:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="font-size-3">In the 2015 legislative session, the Florida Competitive Workforce Act was sponsored by State Rep. Holly Raschein (R – Key Largo) and State Senator Joe Abruzzo (D – Boynton Beach) and attracted a bipartisan group of co-sponsors. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of thousands of Floridians and the support of hundreds of Florida businesses, the bill was not voted on by the legislature in 2015.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="font-size-3">Now, Florida Competes is preparing for the 2016 legislative session by continuing to build grassroots support for this commonsense measure that will prevent discrimination and help Florida’s economy. The coalition is larger and stronger than ever and will be working around the clock in 2016 to make the Florida Competitive Workforce Act the law of the land.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="font-size-3">Competitive Workforce Act (SB 120), a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to any existing state nondiscrimination laws.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0120">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0120</a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="font-size-3">On February 11th of 2016 the bill was abandoned/tabled in the Judiciary Committee</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"> They are back in 2017</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The nine (9) related bills with a brief note of what they contain, where they are in the process and links to their actual text are provided below.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">We will need to track their movement and amendments added/deleted if we are to communicate in a timely manner with our respective Congressmen and women.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">Florida House Bill 17</span></span></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Currently this bill is supported by those who identify as being part of the Anti-HRO movement.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">From Florida.gov</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Currently: (2/23) pending review in committee</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0017/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0017/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"This bill targets local nondiscrimination protections for all Floridians, including LGBT people, by not only banning municipal governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, but by overturning any protections currently in place on January 1, 2020. It was introduced by Rep. Fine."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">Florida House Bill 273</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Inclusive Conversion Therapy Ban</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Status:</b> To House Health Quality Subcommittee</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">From Florida.gov</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Conversion Therapy; Defines term "conversion therapy"; prohibits persons who are licensed to provide professional counseling & various health practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy with person who is younger than specified age."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Last Action: 1/25/2017 House - Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0273/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0273/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill prohibits persons who are licensed to provide professional counseling & various health practitioners from engaging in so-called “conversion therapy” (any practice or treatment that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.) On a minor.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">HB/319 and SB/410 (RELATED BILLS)</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">From Florida.gov</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">319: <br/></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Discrimination in Labor and Employment</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Discrimination in Labor and Employment; Creates "Helen Gordon Davis Fair Pay Protection Act"; revises provisions prohibiting discrimination on basis of sex to include discrimination on basis of gender identity; prohibits employer from providing less favorable employment opportunities to employees based on sex or gender identity; provides exceptions; specifies civil penalties; revises applicability; prohibits employer from taking certain employment actions against employees; prohibits employer from engaging in certain activities relating to employee wages & benefits or requiring employee to sign certain waivers."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0319/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0319/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Last Action: 2/6/2017 House - Referred to Careers and Competition Subcommittee; Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee; Commerce Committee<br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill (identical to SB410) protects Florida’s transgender employees by revising provisions prohibiting wage discrimination on basis of sex to include discrimination on basis of gender identity. It also prohibits employers from providing less favorable employment opportunities to employees based on sex or gender identity."</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">410:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>SB 410: Employment Discrimination</b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Employment Discrimination; Revising provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity; prohibiting an employer from providing less favorable employment opportunities to employees based on their sex or gender identity; creating the “Helen Gordon Davis Fair Pay Protection Act”, etc."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0410/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0410/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">Last Action: 2/1/2017 Senate - Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules<br/></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill (identical to HB319) protects Florida’s transgender employees by revising provisions prohibiting wage discrimination on basis of sex to include discrimination on basis of gender identity. It also prohibits employers from providing less favorable employment opportunities to employees based on sex or gender identity."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Florida Senate Bill</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">SB 742: Housing Discrimination</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">From Florida.gov</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">"Housing Discrimination; Removing housing discrimination as a cause of action for certain relief and damages stemming from violations of the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; defining the terms “gender identity” and “sexual orientation”; removing certain conditions for an aggrieved person to commence a civil action for a discriminatory housing practice under the Fair Housing Act, etc."</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Bill Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0742/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0742/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Last Action: 2/16/2017 Senate - Referred to Judiciary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill will update existing state law to ensure that all Florida residents are protected from housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">There are four (4) Additional bills that are all related (To SB742) which speak to housing discrimination and deal with prohibiting discrimination.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">HB659, HB623, SB268 and SB666</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span class="font-size-3">For ease of understanding I will provide only the short into to each of the four and the link to the actual bill. These are usually combined into one bill as they move through the process.</span></strong></span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">1. HB 659 Housing Discrimination</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Florida.gov</strong></span><br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Housing Discrimination; Removes housing discrimination as cause of action for certain relief & damages resulting from violations of Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; revises provisions of the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation & gender identity; revises conditions under which aggrieved person may commence civil action against specified respondent; prohibits aggrieved person from commencing specified civil action if such person has consented to conciliation agreement, with exception, or if administrative law judge has commenced hearing on record on allegation."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">TEXT: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0659/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0659/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill will update Florida law to ensure that all Florida residents are protected from housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">2. HB623 Housing Discrimination</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Florida.gov</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Prohibited Discrimination; Provides that sexual orientation & gender identity are impermissible grounds for discrimination in public lodging establishments & public food service establishments; revises provisions of Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 and Fair Housing Act to include sexual orientation & gender identity, provides exception for constitutionally protected free exercise of religion."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Text <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0623/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0623/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill will update existing state law to ensure that LGBT Floridians are protected from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">3. SB268 Housing Discrimination</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Florida.gov</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Housing Discrimination; Removing housing discrimination as a cause of action for certain relief and damages stemming from violations of the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; revising the conditions under which an aggrieved person may commence a civil action in any appropriate court against a specified respondent to enforce specified rights; providing that the aggrieved person does not need to take specified actions before bringing a civil action, etc".</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0268/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0268/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"NOT ON THEIR RADAR"</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">4. SB666 Prohibited Discrimination</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Florida.gov</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Prohibited Discrimination; Citing this act as the “Florida Competitive Workforce Act;”adding sexual orientation and gender identity as impermissible grounds for discrimination in public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; defining the terms “gender identity” and “sexual orientation”; adding sexual orientation and gender identity as impermissible grounds for discrimination with respect to the sale or rental of housing, provision of brokerage services, financing of housing or in residential real estate transactions, and land use decisions and in permitting of development, respectively, etc."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Text: <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0666/BillText/Filed/PDF">http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0666/BillText/Filed/PDF</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The following comment is from Freedom For All Americans:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"This bill, known as the “Florida Competitive Workforce Act,” will update existing state law to ensure that LGBT Floridians are protected from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">News article from February 9th, 2017</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Always follow the money.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">On Thursday, Tallahassee tech entrepreneur and philanthropist <strong>Rick Kearney</strong> gave $100,000 to <strong><a href="http://flcompetes.org/">Florida Competes</a></strong>, the coalition of businesses working to pass the Florida Competitive Workforce Act.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Both bills (<span class="font-size-3">HB623 and SB666)</span> seek to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992, which bars such discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex national origin, age, handicap, pregnancy or marital status. Supporters of the Workforce Act say it will make the state more competitive both nationally and globally by attracting the best workers through statewide anti-discrimination protections."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://m.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0623/BillText/__/PDF">"House Bill 623</a>/<a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0666">Senate Bill 666</a> </strong>prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The FCWA would amend Ch. 760 of the Florida State Statutes (“<strong><a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0760/0760PARTIContentsIndex.html">The Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992</a></strong>“), which bars such discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, pregnancy, or marital status.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The bill has been filed for multiple years now.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Its first filing was in 2009, and it has slowly but surely gotten traction since."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://floridapolitics.com/archives/tag/florida-competitive-workforce-act">http://floridapolitics.com/archives/tag/florida-competitive-workforce-act</a></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">From the ADOCATE</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">2/16/17</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">"In fact, Jacksonville City Council members just Tuesday <a href="http://jacksonville.com/news/2017-02-14/historic-moment-jacksonville-lgbt-discrimination-protections-now-law-land" target="_blank">passed an ordinance</a> that prohibits businesses in that city from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In Jacksonville, the state's largest city, similar legislation had failed in <a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/08/16/jacksonville-fails-its-lgbt-citizens-rejecting-work-protections" target="_blank">2012</a> and <a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/2/14/jacksonville-lgbt-rights-bill-be-withdrawn" target="_blank">2016.</a>"</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/2/16/could-florida-finally-pass-lgbt-inclusive-nondiscrimination-law">http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/2/16/could-florida-finally-pass-lgbt-inclusive-nondiscrimination-law</a></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>ACTION ITEM</u></b></span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>Call your Florida Representatives and let them know where you stand on this bill.</u></b></span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">I JUST SAW THIS TODAY. (28TH)</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/lgbt-activists-say-hb-17-targets-recent-gains/415697056">http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/lgbt-activists-say-hb-17-targets-recent-gains/415697056</a></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">"A bill that would limit the ability of Florida cities to regulate local businesses is before the Florida Legislature.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">House Bill 17, and a companion bill introduced Thursday in the Senate, would prohibit cities from passing a local regulation unless state law expressly allows it.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The House version is just two pages, and short on details. Lobbyists for Florida cities have expressed concern it would handcuff local officials, limiting their ability to approve minimum wage ordinances, even prohibit them from restricting the location of strip clubs.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">But local LGBT activists believe a chief target of the original bill is the city’s recently expanded Human Rights Ordinance.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Celebrations following the City Council's approval of an expanded HRO were barely underway when local activists began raising concerns about the bill’s impact. Sponsored by newly elected Republican Rep. Randy Fine, the bill included some unusual retroactive language. Any bill passed before January would be phased out in 2020.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Any bill passed since the start of 2017 – like Jacksonville’s HRO -- would become void immediately upon passage of HB 17.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Fine has previously said the LGBT community is not the target of his bill, and that he just wants to reduce the regulatory burden on business.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">A committee amendment removed the retroactivity provisions, but it's not clear what version of the bill -- if any -- might pass. Local activist and attorney Rusty Mead says the LGBT community should consider the bill a warning.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">“It’s dangerous," he says. "We know it’s targeted to LGBT ordinances. And I think it is going somewhere. We need not to be just sitting on our laurels and think it’s not going to pass and just make assumptions. Making assumption is the dangerous field of human rights work. We should not assume anything except they are going to try to discriminate against us.”</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The bill has one more committee stop this week before heading the House floor."</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">See Video:</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/lgbt-activists-say-hb-17-targets-recent-gains/415697056">http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/lgbt-activists-say-hb-17-targets-recent-gains/415697056</a></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">William Howard Taft</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">I do apologize for the length and details of this communication.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Due to the level of interest on the issue detailed information was prepared.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">We will continue to track all bills and communicate when action is needed.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p>8 Years Ago Today - THE REAL TEA PARTY MOVEMENT BEGAN & Now, The Communist Left Creating a New Tea Partytag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-27:4150782:BlogPost:2483402017-02-27T13:01:32.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Carole McManus - Chair of the First Coast Tea Party<br></br></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Lance Thate - Chairman of the St. Augustine Tea Party<br></br></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><b>TRUE GRASSROOTS</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>8 years later…</b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Carole McManus - Chair of the First Coast Tea Party<br/></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Lance Thate - Chairman of the St. Augustine Tea Party<br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><b>TRUE GRASSROOTS</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>8 years later</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The inspiration started on February 19, 2009 when Rick Santelli ranted (in part) on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; “Our government is promoting bad behavior! Are we going to reward people “carrying the water or those that are drinking the water?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By February 26<sup>th</sup> of that year, word was out that groups were going to rally in cities around the U.S. on February 27<sup>th</sup>. While big cities were doing their planning, a “spark” had ignited here in NE Florida. Within 24 hours our greater community (a committee of 3, local businesses, a videographer and patriots of all ages) came together. Ordinary people showed up at the Jacksonville Landing to share in this historical response to the rant that “shook the county.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">At “High Noon” on February 27<sup>th</sup>, 79 people from all walks of life came together at the Jacksonville Landing for what would be the birth of the tea party movement in NE Florida. Dr. James Nealis was the speaker for this historical occasion as patriots saw the opportunity to stand together and initiate what has come to be known as the grassroots movement of the tea party here on the First Coast.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Here we are 8 years later……………patriots have taken up the causes that mean the most to them and realize that they have a voice that can and should be heard by our elected leaders. They joined forces as an outgrowth of that initial rally on February 27<sup>th</sup> with the formation of the First Coast Tea Party. These tea party patriots are all volunteers. They are not privately funded by a group, they don’t operate from a “playbook/manual,” they are everyday Americans that continue to work towards “reclaiming America.” They participate in the effort to promote a strong America that protects and preserves opportunities for future generations. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">GRASSROOTS AT ITS FINEST!</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">AND NOW</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">The Communist Left Creating a New Tea Party</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"> </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The Communist Left is ever evolving from one form to another, from one cause to another. The latest of these Communist organized groups to emerge in St. Augustine, Florida, is the “Indivisible St Johns. The Indivisible St. Johns organization claims that it is following a pattern the Tea Party used in 2009 and is using a publication entitled “Indivisible Guide” to aid their members. <a href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web">https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">The publication makes some assumptions about the Tea Party that are absurd. The guide claims that the Tea Party stopped Obama by influencing members of Congress. The Tea Party got some people elected, but they did not stop Obama. The Congress continued to provide the funds for his agenda up to and including Obama’s last day in the White House. And, this was with the GOP’s cooperation. According to the guide the Tea Parties promoted their activities by threatening anyone they considered an enemy, physically assaulted and spat on staff, shouted obscenities and burned people in effigy. These will be future behavioral tactics for the Indivisible. The Communist Left always projects themselves on their enemies. Perhaps it justifies their behavior as seen in the anti Trump riots and the Black Lives Matter riots across the country.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">On January 21, 2017, the Indivisibles staged a successful march in the historic district of St. Augustine, Florida. About 1500 participated in the march. Covering the event, The St. Augustine Record was in rapture with the so-called grassroots organization that marched under the banner, “Unity of Community”. The stories that appeared after President Trump’s inauguration were almost identical to the stories that appeared regarding the “Occupy St. Augustine” movement. The Record’s coverage in November 2011 was nearly identical in tone and description. They were overwhelmed by the grassroots organization being formed by Flagler College students, members of their faculty and others. In both 2011 and 2017, The Record reported that the grassroots organizations were organized by Terry Buckenmeyer. Terry Buckenmeyer and friends have a history of organizing left-wing protests and demonstrations in the St. Augustine area.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Photos by TCCR Staff</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The St. Augustine Tea Party’s Town Crier Committee took on the Occupiers for a three month period. They did not relent until the Occupiers were vanquished. The Town Criers were threatened with violence in 2011. In 2017, Doug Russo, a Tea Party member was assaulted at the recent Indivisible march. The police gave assistance to Mr. Russo and a report was filed. The Record’s articles painted a tolerant, loving, embracing event. Witnesses report otherwise.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Communist Links</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026376?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026376?profile=original" width="99"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The intentional misrepresentation of the nature of the event is still further distorted by the failure of The Record to disclose Terry Buckenmeyer’s background. Mr. Buckenmeyer has been activist for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) for over 40 years. Terry Buckenmeyer, is pictured on the left. The IWW has a record of Communist activity since 1905. The union closely associates with other Communist identities. The Record failed to report the radical associations in 2011. The Town Crier Committee Report (TCCR) produced full disclosure of Buckenmeyer’s background in 2011. [See TCCR Vol 1 No 2 at Photos by TCCR Staff [<a href="http://www.staugtea.com">www.staugtea.com</a>] . The St. Augustine Record’s failure to disclose Terry Buckenmeyer’s background in 2017, continues to be a major distortion designed to confuse.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">The Local Print Media are engaging in Community Organizing Activities</span></strong><br/> <strong><span class="font-size-4">The Times Union and the St. Augustine Record are Involved</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026381?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026381?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="750"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">An Indivisible meeting was held on the February 10th at One News Place, St. Augustine, Florida. The featured speaker was Tia Mitchell.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Ms. Mitchell is the State House Bureau Chief for the Florida Times Union. The purpose was to train Indivisible members to be more politically expedient.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Tia Mitchell Times Union Photo</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026421?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026421?profile=original" class="align-full" width="309"/></a><br/> <span class="font-size-3">In the early days of the real Tea Party, “Americans for Prosperity”, conducted seminars on political activism. The Indivisible people are doing the same thing. What is interesting in St. Augustine, is that the local print media is engaging in Community Organizing activities. The meeting was conducted at The Record’s headquarters building. The speaker was an employee of the Florida Times Union. The Florida Times Union and the St. Augustine Record are controlled by the same corporate identity, Morris Communications.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The question is: Can objective journalism exist in a Community Organizing environment? Can you write an article, pretending to be objective and at the same time be training the very people that you’re writing about for political activism? Clearly, The St. Augustine Record and the Times Union have a serious journalistic ethics problem. They aided the Occupiers in St. Augustine in 2011 and, now, they are 'schooling' the Indivisible group in their own office building. And, they hide from their readers the fact that the “Indivisible” group is just another Communist front organization.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The Record has promoted an event, organized by Marxists activists, and then served it to the public in the fashion of the progressive’s proverbial “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">One can only wonder how far up the chain of command in the Morris Communications organization this Community Organizing activity goes.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026428?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026428?profile=original" width="336"/></a><br/> <span class="font-size-3">FB Photos</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"I think what the <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Tea Party</span></strong> movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Luke Scott<br/> <br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>Your Monday Morning Tea: A Shadow Government? Indivisable Groups? RESISTANCE.tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-20:4150782:BlogPost:2482212017-02-20T14:34:27.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p style="text-align: left;">Credits: FRONTPAGE MAG</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"………</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Credits: FRONTPAGE MAG</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">INTRODUCING MORNING TEA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"When you look at the world today,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-3">What is your point of view?"……</span></span></p>
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<h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="text-align: center;">Obama’s Shadow Presidency</h1>
<h3 class="field-subhead" style="text-align: center;">Well-funded Organizing for Action promises to crack conservative skulls to halt the Trump agenda.</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Former President Obama is waging war against the Trump administration through his generously funded agitation outfit, Organizing for Action, to defend his monumentally destructive record of failure and violent polarization.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">It is a chilling reminder that the increasingly aggressive, in-your-face Left in this country is on the march.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Acclaimed author Paul Sperry writes in the <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/"><em>New York Post</em></a>:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span class="font-size-3">Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">What is Organizing for Action? It is a less violent version of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts, or of the government-supported goon squads that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Castro brothers used to harass and intimidate their domestic opponents.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">OfA isn't, strictly speaking, a new group. After the 2008 election, the group, then known as Organizing for America, was a phony grassroots campaign run by the Democratic National Committee that sought to replicate the community organizing techniques Obama learned from the teachings of his fellow Chicagoan, Saul Alinsky. OfA was created in large part because the White House could not legally use the 13 million e-mail addresses that the Obama campaign compiled in 2008.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Former U.S. Rep. Bob Edgar (D-Penn.), sounded the alarm about OfA in 2013, suggesting the group was dangerous to democracy. "If President Obama is serious about his often-expressed desire to rein in big money in politics, he should shut down Organizing for Action and disavow any plan to schedule regular meetings with its major donors," he said as president of the left-wing group Common Cause. "Access to the President should never be for sale."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"With its reported promise of quarterly presidential meetings for donors and 'bundlers' who raise $500,000, Organizing For Action apparently intends to extend and deepen the pay-to-play Washington culture that Barack Obama came to prominence pledging to end," Edgar said. "The White House's suggestion this week that this group will somehow be independent is laughable."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">But Edgar’s admonitions were ignored and since then Organizing for Action has thrived and grown rich, just like the Obamas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265429/farewell-radical-chief-matthew-vadum"><em>FrontPage</em></a> previously reported, Obama has rented a $5.3 million, 8,200-square-foot, walled mansion in Washington’s Embassy Row that he is using to command his community organizing cadres. Michelle Obama will join the former president there as will the Obama Foundation. To stay on track, Obama wants his former labor secretary, Tom Perez, to win the chairmanship of the DNC in a party election later this month. “It’s time to organize and fight, said Perez <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265725/perez-gains-ellison-dnc-race-matthew-vadum">who appears to be gaining</a> on frontrunner and jihadist Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). “We must stand up to protect President Obama’s accomplishments,” adding, “We’re going to build the strongest grassroots organizing force this country has ever seen.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">No ex-president has ever done this before, sticking around the nation’s capital to vex and undermine his successor. Of course, Obama is unlike any president the United States has ever had. Even failed, self-righteous presidents like Jimmy Carter, who has occasionally taken shots at his successors, didn’t stay behind in Washington to obstruct and disrupt the new administration.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Organizing for Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors, is at the head of Obama’s network of left-wing nonprofit groups. OfA, Sperry warns, has “a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">On its website, the group claims that there are “5 million Americans who’ve taken action” with OfA, and that those individuals “are part of a long line of people who stand up and take on the big fights for social justice, basic fairness, equal rights, and expanding opportunity.” Among its key issues are “turning up the heat on climate change deniers,” comprehensive immigration reform (which includes mass amnesty), “telling the stories of the millions who are seeing the life-saving benefits of Obamacare,” fighting for “a woman’s health care” which is “a basic right,” and redistributing wealth from those who earned it to those who didn’t.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">OfA communications director Jesse Lehrich told <a href="http://wreg.com/2017/02/14/is-someone-organizing-and-paying-for-dems-to-show-up-at-town-halls/">Memphis-based WREG</a> that the “grassroots energy that’s out there right now is palpable.” The group is “constantly hearing from volunteers who are excited to report about events they’re organizing around and all of the new people that want to get involved.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Organizing for Action is drowning in money, by nonprofit standards.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By the end of 2014, OfA, which was formally incorporated only the year before, had taken in $40.4 million, $26 million of which was raised in 2014, according to the organization’s IRS filings. OfA’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/06/organizing-for-action-whos-giving-to-obama-linked-nonprofit/">big donors</a> are members of the George Soros-founded Democracy Alliance, a donors’ consortium for left-wing billionaires devoted to radical political change. Among the DA members donating to OfA are: Ryan Smith ($476,260); Marcy Carsey ($250,000); Jon Stryker ($200,000); Paul Boskind ($105,000); Paul Egerman ($100,000); and Nick Hanauer ($50,000).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">OfA also runs a project called the Community Organizing Institute (COI) which it says partners “with progressive groups and organizations to educate, engage, and collaborate.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Organizing for Action describes COI in almost lyrical terms:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span class="font-size-3">Building upon the rich history of community organizing in Chicago, the COI is a place to share stories, best practices, and innovations in order to build our community and empower individuals in the fight for change. It is a shared space for organizers, policy makers, advocates, and change-agents to come together for workshops, panel discussions, presentations, trainings, film screenings, and social gatherings—building a strong foundation for partnerships.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Translation: at COI you can learn how to spark riots, get arrested to make a political statement, organize lynch mobs and voter fraud on a massive scale, intimidate and shake down corporations, blackmail lenders, race-bait public officials and businesses into submission, smear and terrorize your opponents, shield illegal aliens from law enforcement, lead squatters to invade foreclosed homes, encourage welfare fraud, and use tax dollars to promote cockamamie social-engineering schemes.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Obama is “intimately involved” in OfA’s operations and issues tweets from the group’s account, Sperry writes. “In fact, he gave marching orders to OFA foot soldiers following Trump’s upset victory.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“It is fine for everybody to feel stressed, sad, discouraged,” Obama said in a post-election conference call from the White House. “But get over it.” Progressives have to “move forward to protect what we’ve accomplished.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“Now is the time for some organizing,” he said. “So don’t mope.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Organizing for Action has been doing anything but moping.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">In recent weeks its activists organized marches across the country. Some became riots. After President Trump issued Executive Order 13769 temporarily banning visitors from seven terrorism-plagued Muslim countries, OfA organized “spontaneous” demonstrations at airports.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Obama praised the airport rabble-rousers, saying through a spokesman he was "heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by the elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Reinforcements are coming to beef up Organizing for Action’s position, Sperry adds.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">OfA will be soon aided by “the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched last month by Obama pal Eric Holder to end what he and Obama call GOP ‘gerrymandering’ of congressional districts.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">And more unruly protests, rioting, and violent attacks on Trump supporters will follow.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">WE HAVE RECENTLY STARTED HEARING ABOUT "<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Indivisible Groups"</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">After a little research the following links shed some light on what these groups are.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">From: <strong>POLITICO</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/protest-movement-republicans-234863">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/protest-movement-republicans-234863</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">From: <strong>TOWNHALL</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/02/13/indivisible-the-liberal-group-putting-pressure-on-republicans-in-order-to-destroy-trumps-agenda-n2284442">https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/02/13/indivisible-the-liberal-group-putting-pressure-on-republicans-in-order-to-destroy-trumps-agenda-n2284442</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">From: <strong>The CUT</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">The <span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Indivisible</span> Guide</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/resistance-surviving-trump-indivisible-guide.html">http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/resistance-surviving-trump-indivisible-guide.html</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Download the Guide here:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/">https://www.indivisibleguide.com/</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">The following link is most interesting and disturbing. Simply key in your zip code and read about the events in your area.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/groups-nav">https://www.indivisibleguide.com/groups-nav</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">SIMPLY GOOGLE "RESISTANCE" IT IS RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Steven Pressfield</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This article appeared this morning from the Times Union.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"They are here"</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Credits: Lane Watkins</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please don’t take these folks lightly. Make sure you encourage everyone to stop by a US House Rep and Senators district office to thank them, be respectful and drop off a letter urging them to take action on our issues. Keep up the calls, emails and tweets.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please see a lengthy article from the left leaning Jacksonville Times Union about the protests. <a href="http://jacksonville.com/news/2017-02-19/month-trump-presidency-local-opposition-takes-root-conservative-northeast-florida?utm_source=SayfieReview&utm_medium=SayfieReviewWeb&utm_campaign=sayfiereview">http://jacksonville.com/news/2017-02-19/month-trump-presidency-local-opposition-takes-root-conservative-northeast-florida?utm_source=SayfieReview&utm_medium=SayfieReviewWeb&utm_campaign=sayfiereview</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please also urge everyone on twitter to:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Tweet to House members and Senators to immediately repeal Obamacare then replace. Use the hash tag #fullrepeal . Make sure to search twitter for #fullrepeal and retweet all the tweets to lawmakers telling them to repeal Obamacare. This RT takes seconds and really multiplies the power of the tweet. Let’s see if we can get 10 RTs for each tweet.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Tweet Senators telling them to confirm Judge Gorsuch. Use the hash tag #confirmgorsuch. Make sure to search twitter for #confirmgorsuch and retweet all the tweets to Senators telling them to confirm the judge. This RT takes seconds and really multiplies the power of the tweet. Let’s see if we can get 10 RTs for each tweet.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Thanks!</span></p>Your Monday Action Item: HRO Last Stand. DEMAND A REFERENDUM !!tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-13:4150782:BlogPost:2483052017-02-13T15:00:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p>Defend Jax Families</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">NO TIME FOR TEA TODAY.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">"The Last Stand"…</span></strong></span></p>
<p>Credits: </p>
<p>Defend Jax Families</p>
<p>Sunshine State News - <span class="font-size-3"><em>Nancy Peek McGowan</em></span></p>
<p>Family For Life</p>
<p>CROSSOVER Jacksonville</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">NO TIME FOR TEA TODAY.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">"The Last Stand"</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">TIME TO GET TO WORK.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">Action</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">DO 3 THINGS</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">1. Send the one step e-mail</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">2. Make your calls</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">3. SHOW UP</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">A Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) -- a City Council proposal that would expand anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community for housing, employment, and public accommodations -- is not, by nature, based on an accurate understanding of human rights violations.</span></strong></p>
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<div class="body"><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The language in the proposed bill was specifically chosen to market a controversial issue and also attempt to obscure the real motive for it. (<em>Have a look at the proposed bill in the attachment at the end of this column.)</em></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">The goal of the national human rights movement is to have cities like Jacksonville legally place a societal imprimatur on behavior which is against Natural Law as understood by human reason. This is objectionable to a majority of people, including those with deeply held religious convictions.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The proposed ordinance effectively creates special rights when discrimination laws already exist in Jacksonville.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">If the ordinance passes, it would financially harm numerous businesses opening them up to frivolous lawsuits, as well as irresponsibly placing women and children at risk for assault in bathrooms, showers and locker rooms.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Putting human rights violations in perspective, we can look to history.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were ruthless dictators whose regimes violated human rights. They mercilessly starved and killed millions of Jewish men, women and children solely because of their faith.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">In America, slavery was the central issue at stake fighting the Civil War. Northerners fought southerners to free slaves from the brutal, inhumane practice of ownership of black Americans in the U. S. Southerners wanted to continue slavery for their economic profit by harnessing free labor. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">It was so bad that in a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857, blacks were not even considered citizens. </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Slavery was a grave moral injustice and finally eradicated by President Abraham Lincoln. The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 14th Amendment.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">The Civil Rights movement in 1960s peacefully sought to eradicate unjust laws against blacks in education, seating at restaurants, use of hotels or water fountains, seating in transportation, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Those are examples of authentic human rights violations. </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">The proposed Jacksonville HRO is egregious and illegal. Under the specious argument of "discrimination," the law would strip business owners and citizens of Jacksonville of the rights guaranteed to them under the U.S. Constitution, specifically the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights as it pertains to religious freedoms: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">The liberties guaranteed in the First Amendment are exactly why many pilgrims came to America: to escape the established government religion of the Church of England. Americans sought freedom to worship God according to their beliefs.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">When Jacksonville City Councilmen take their oath of office, they place their hand on a Bible and solemnly swear to “uphold, honor and defend the Constitution of the United States and its laws,” and end their investiture by stating, “so help me God.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Whoever votes affirmatively for this bill does not possess a clear understanding of the Constitution. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">More important, a yes vote would violate his/her professed oath of office as an elected representative of the people of Jacksonville.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">The HRO is a solution to a problem that does not exist. In the past 10 years, only seven incidents in Jacksonville occurred which were resolved out of court.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Forbes Magazine, as well as The Wall Street Journal, currently rank Jacksonville as the No. 2 city in the country to live in, and its economy is thriving without this ordinance.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">It can also be argued that some in the Jacksonville Council, whether knowingly or not, are "establishing a religion" with a totalitarian world-view called by many names, including secular atheism and cultural Marxism, where God is not acknowledged.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">If the HRO bears merit at becoming a law, the decision should be put in front of the voters on a citywide referendum. The open-ended language in the legislation (Section 8) giving the General Counsel’s Office permission to further add to this deeply flawed bill after its passage is reason enough for its defeat. That wording is a blank check with unknown outcomes that no conscientious member should vote for.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Nineteen people on the Jacksonville City Council do not possess the authority to strip the Constitutional rights of the citizens of their community guaranteed by the laws of our country. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Mayor Lenny Curry should let the City Council know, in no uncertain terms, that if they pass the HRO, he will veto it and allow the people of Jacksonville to decide.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><em>Nancy Peek McGowan is president of the Conservative Republican Forum of Jacksonville. She is also a finance builder for conservative Republican candidates statewide and on the national level.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3"><em>One Page Analysis Of The 2017 Ordinance</em></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><em><a href="http://floridafamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/The-2017-Jacksonville-HRO.pdf">http://floridafamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/The-2017-Jacksonville-HRO.pdf</a></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3"><em>Full Text:</em></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><em><a href="http://floridafamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ordinance-2017-15-Jacksonville-HRO.pdf">http://floridafamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ordinance-2017-15-Jacksonville-HRO.pdf</a></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><em>ACTION ITEM 1:</em></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font-size-3"> Don’t spend much time on the letter itself (a few sentences or paragraph will do) – Send the emails, and get to the Council meeting.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span></p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="429"><p><span class="font-size-3">District 1: Joyce Morgan, <a href="mailto:JoyceMorgan@coj.net">JoyceMorgan@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 2: Al Ferraro, <a href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net">Ferraro@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 3: Aaron L. Bowman, <a href="mailto:ABowman@coj.net">ABowman@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 4: Scott Wilson, <a href="mailto:SWilson@coj.net">SWilson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 5: Lori N. Boyer, <a href="mailto:LBoyer@coj.net">LBoyer@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 6: Matt Schellenberg, <a href="mailto:MattS@coj.net">MattS@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 7: Reggie Gaffney, <a href="mailto:RGaffney@coj.net">RGaffney@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 8: Katrina Brown, <a href="mailto:KBrown@coj.net">KBrown@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 9: Garrett L. Dennis, <a href="mailto:GarrettD@coj.net">GarrettD@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 10: Reginald L. Brown, <a href="mailto:RBrown@coj.net">RBrown@coj.net</a></span></p>
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<td width="429"><p><span class="font-size-3">District 11: Danny Becton, <a href="mailto:DBecton@coj.net">DBecton@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 12: Doyle Carter, <a href="mailto:DoyleC@coj.net">DoyleC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 13: Bill Gulliford, <a href="mailto:Gulliford@coj.net">Gulliford@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 14: Jim Love, <a href="mailto:JimLove@coj.net">JimLove@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">At Large 1: Anna Brosche, <a href="mailto:ABrosche@coj.net">ABrosche@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">At Large 2: John R. Crescimbeni, <a href="mailto:JRC@coj.net">JRC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">At Large 3: Tommy Hazouri, <a href="mailto:THazouri@coj.net">THazouri@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">At Large 4: Greg Anderson, <a href="mailto:GAnderson@coj.net">GAnderson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">At Large 5: Samuel Newby, <a href="mailto:SNewby@coj.net">SNewby@coj.net</a></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" width="858"><p><span class="font-size-3">Or, to send one email to all<strong>, just copy & paste the following onto your email BCC line:</strong></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" width="858"><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:JoyceMorgan@coj.net">JoyceMorgan@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net">Ferraro@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:ABowman@coj.net">ABowman@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:SWilson@coj.net">SWilson@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:LBoyer@coj.net">LBoyer@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:MattS@coj.net">MattS@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:RGaffney@coj.net">RGaffney@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:KBrown@coj.net">KBrown@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:GarrettD@coj.net">GarrettD@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:RBrown@coj.net">RBrown@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:DBecton@coj.net">DBecton@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:DoyleC@coj.net">DoyleC@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:Gulliford@coj.net">Gulliford@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:JimLove@coj.net">JimLove@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:ABrosche@coj.net">ABrosche@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:JRC@coj.net">JRC@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:THazouri@coj.net">THazouri@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:GAnderson@coj.net">GAnderson@coj.net</a>; <a href="mailto:SNewby@coj.net">SNewby@coj.net</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">ACTION ITEM 2:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">MAKE YOU CALLS</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>District Council Members</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 1: Joyce Morgan<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1389<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:JoyceMorgan@coj.net">JoyceMorgan@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 2: Al FerraroPhone:</p>
<p align="center">(904) 630-1392<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net">Ferraro@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 3: Aaron L. Bowman<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1386<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:ABowman@coj.net">ABowman@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 4: Scott Wilson<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1394<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:SWilson@coj.net">SWilson@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 5: Lori N. Boyer<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1382<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:LBoyer@coj.net">LBoyer@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 6: Matt Schellenberg<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1388<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:MattS@coj.net">MattS@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 7: Reggie Gaffney<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1384<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:RGaffney@coj.net">RGaffney@coj.net</a><br/> Assistant: Sirretta Williams</p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 8: Katrina Brown<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1385<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:KBrown@coj.net">KBrown@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 9: Garrett L. Dennis<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1395<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:GarrettD@coj.net">GarrettD@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 10: Reginald L. Brown<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1684<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:RBrown@coj.net">RBrown@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 11: Danny Becton<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1383<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:DBecton@coj.net">DBecton@coj.net</a><br/></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 12: Doyle Carter<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1380<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:DoyleC@coj.net">DoyleC@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 13: Bill Gulliford<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1397<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:Gulliford@coj.net">Gulliford@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> District 14: Jim Love<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1390<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:JimLove@coj.net">JimLove@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>At-Large Council Members</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> Group 1: Anna Lopez Brosche<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1393<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:ABrosche@coj.net">ABrosche@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> Group 2: John R. Crescimbeni<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1381<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:JRC@coj.net">JRC@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> Group 3: Tommy Hazouri<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1396<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:THazouri@coj.net">THazouri@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> Group 4: Greg Anderson<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1398<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:GAnderson@coj.net">GAnderson@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><br/> Group 5: Samuel Newby<br/> Phone: (904) 630-1387<br/> Email: <a href="mailto:SNewby@coj.net">SNewby@coj.net</a></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">ACTION ITEM 3:</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">SHOW UP</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Tuesday, February 14, 5pm, Council chambers, City Hall, Downtown at Hemming Park.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> If our turnout is small, we lose, because the LGBTs will pack the room.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> The bill can be defeated ONLY if certain Council members fear your future vote. Only your attendance will convince them.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Please do the following:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Get to the meeting. Arrive at least 45 minutes early, to assure a seat. The LGBTs intend to pack the room. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">And</span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3">Please stay for the entire meeting, 3-5 hours. Council views early departure as lack of commitment. The LGBTs won’t leave till the end; we shouldn’t either.</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">There is FREE PARKING in the parking garage on the northwest corner of Duval and Main. Enter near Enterprise car rental. Validate your ticket: City Hall, 1st floor.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Take the 1-question survey</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/pulse/poll/should-jacksonville-pass-the-hro/20968559?ana=e_ae_pulse&s=article_du&ed=2017-01-28&u=%2Bp6WEDbSCxRpkAx27Dq3jA0d33acc6&t=1486999165&j=77217151">http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/pulse/poll/should-jacksonville-pass-the-hro/20968559?ana=e_ae_pulse&s=article_du&ed=2017-01-28&u=%2Bp6WEDbSCxRpkAx27Dq3jA0d33acc6&t=1486999165&j=77217151</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Take a moment and watch the following video</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Charlene Cothran - Gay Activist Finds Christ</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Charlene Cothran - former gay activist and publisher of Venus Magazine, (a magazine for black lesbians), shares her testimony of being a leader in the world of gay publishing and how Jesus Christ set her free from the bondage and the deception of homosexual confusion.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uQGA-n4JyOY?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Menace to <span class="font-size-3">Business, Family & Liberty:</span></strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The law’s threats are summarized <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=3f2dde8c5d&e=2a7e023b58">here</a>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">But, the best info is here: <em>“The <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=a9f172fa6c&e=2a7e023b58">Great HRO Debate</a>”</em>, WBOB audio, February 6.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Also, the Special <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=1795971dd5&e=2a7e023b58">Gulliford Hearing</a>, Council video, February 2.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">And, <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=a60e85eb67&e=2a7e023b58">HRO Forum</a>, WJCT audio, February 8.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">And, <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=39ae985344&e=2a7e023b58">Interview with Liberty Counsel</a> Roger K Gannam, audio.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The pamphlets: HRO, <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=b886c6d769&e=2a7e023b58">Threat to Small Business</a> & HRO, <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=c5ef809e7e&e=2a7e023b58">Threat to Liberty</a>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">And, the Florida Times-Union columns <a href="http://altervista.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a1f781806aa304b3d8b4e9731&id=e38fa29d07&e=2a7e023b58">here</a>.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Blake Shelton<br/></span></p>ACTION ITEM.. PETITION...Sen. Tom Cotton unveils 'RAISE Act' to end Chain Migration & Visa Lotterytag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-08:4150782:BlogPost:2480072017-02-08T14:36:20.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p style="text-align: center;">The BREAK THE CHAINS campaign has begun!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This morning, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) announced that he will introduce legislation next week that would <strong>end ALL…</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The BREAK THE CHAINS campaign has begun!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This morning, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) announced that he will introduce legislation next week that would <strong>end ALL categories of Chain Migration -- and the Visa Lottery, too</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Chain Migration is the main reason that American workers have had to compete for wages and jobs with tens of millions of new immigrants who have been given lifetime work permits the last several decades.</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">40% IMMEDIATE REDUCTION IN ANNUAL IMMIGRATION</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton says his bill would reduce the number of lifetime work permits given to foreign citizens by around 40% the first year -- and by around 50% in the tenth year after passage.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Ending Chain Migration is the primary way the bill would achieve that goal.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">For several decades, <strong>immigrants no longer have been limited to bringing in a spouse and minor children</strong>. Chain Migration categories allow each immigrant (once a citizen) to petition for adult brothers and sisters, for adult sons and daughters, and for parents. Each of them can in turn do the same along with bringing their own spouses who can start whole new chains in their own families, and so forth in a never-ending pattern.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton would stop all of that immigration which adds millions of workers each decade without any regard to their skills or how they would affect Americans competing in the same occupations. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">By limiting family immigration to a spouse and minor children -- including overseas adoptions and marriages by U.S. citizens -- <strong>Sen. Cotton says the bill would . . .</strong></span></p>
<blockquote class="blockquote"><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>" . . . restore historical levels of immigration in order to give working Americans a fair shot at wealth creation."</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">At around one million a year since 1990, overall annual legal <strong>immigration has been some THREE times higher than the historical average</strong> before then. </span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">A RARE OPPORTUNITY</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton's bill will be the <strong>first since 1996 to challenge the Senate</strong> to eliminate future Chain Migration.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">It was in 1996 that we started NumbersUSA with our Number One legislative goal being to end Chain Migration, as recommended by the bi-partisan federal commission chaired by the Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton has boldly indicated today that he will assume the leadership to advance that vision of an immigration policy that first serves the interests of our national community's workers, especially its most vulnerable. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This year represents a rare opportunity. It is the <strong>first time in nearly a hundred years</strong> that there is a President in the White House who has declared his intention to reduce the overall numerical level of immigration.</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">THE PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton is titling his bill the <strong>Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Its initials spell RAISE. <strong>It's the RAISE bill</strong>. Sen. Cotton wants to give hard-pressed American workers a raise by allowing labor markets to begin to tighten.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton described the problem his bill is attempting to address: </span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3">For over a quarter century, the United States has accepted an average of 1 million immigrants annually—the equivalent of adding the entire state of Montana each year.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">When only 1 out of every 15 immigrants arrives in the United States on a skills-based visa, the majority of the remaining immigrants are either low-skill or unskilled.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">This generation-long influx of low-skilled labor has been a major factor in the downward pressure on the wages of working Americans, with the wages of recent immigrants hardest hit.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"> </span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Wages for Americans with only high school diplomas have declined by 2 percent since the late 1970s, and for those who didn’t finish high school, they have declined by nearly 20 percent. This collapse in wages threatens to create a near permanent underclass for whom the American Dream is always just out of reach. </span></li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">THE 'RAISE' SOLUTION</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> </span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Sen. Cotton describes the key elements of his bill like this:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Eliminate Outdated Diversity Visa Lottery</strong>: The Lottery is plagued with fraud, it advances no economic or humanitarian interest, and it does not even deliver the diversity of its namesake. The RAISE Act would eliminate the 50,000 visas arbitrarily allocated to this lottery. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Place Responsible Limit on Permanent Residency for Refugees</strong>: The RAISE Act would limit refugees offered permanent residency to 50,000 per year, in line with a 13-year average. (This is the same annual refugee cap in Pres. Trump's executive order. It is also the cap recommended in the 1980 Refugee Act, which is current law but which Presidents have routinely exceeded.)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Prioritize Immediate Family Households</strong>. The RAISE Act would retain immigration preferences for the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Eliminated would be green card categories for foreign citizens who are:</span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3">Adult parents of U.S. citizens</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Adult brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Unmarried adult sons & daughters of U.S. citizens </span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Married adult sons & daughters of U.S. citizens </span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Unmarried adult sons & daughters of legal permanent residents </span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Create Temporary Visa for Parents in Need of Caretaking</strong>: For U.S. citizens who wish to bring elderly parents in need of care-taking to the United States, the RAISE Act creates a renewable temporary visa on the condition that the parents are not permitted to work, cannot access public benefits, and must be guaranteed support and health insurance by their sponsoring children. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The difference in this being a wonderful <strong>bill</strong> and it being an incredibly helpful <strong>law</strong> is likely to be the degree to which the 8 million members of NumbersUSA's online grassroots army make it clear to their Members of Congress and to Pres. Trump that this is a <strong>TRUE PRIORITY</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><em><strong>by ROY BECK, NumbersUSA Founder & President</strong></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">We've posted new faxes on your Action Board with different messages for Democratic and Republican Senators. If your Senators are from different parties, please be sure to send both faxes.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Click below to send your message.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p>FCTP: HRO REFERENDUM is the way forward. PLEASE READ - Continue the calls/emails and a reminder.tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-02-03:4150782:BlogPost:2480042017-02-03T14:30:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p>Credits: First Coast Tea Party</p>
<p> Vic Cirillo, PA</p>
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<p>Credits: First Coast Tea Party</p>
<p> Vic Cirillo, PA</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>City Councilman Gulliford held a public meeting yesterday. The link below takes you to the Florida Times Union story this morning.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://jacksonville.com/news/2017-02-01/referendum-or-legislation-council-members-debate-best-path-equal-rights-ordinance?utm_medium=social&utm_source=The_Florida_Times-Union">http://jacksonville.com/news/2017-02-01/referendum-or-legislation-council-members-debate-best-path-equal-rights-ordinance?utm_medium=social&utm_source=The_Florida_Times-Union</a></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Also, please continue to CALL and EMAIL the City Council members urging them to vote no on expanding the HRO.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"Let the citizens decide."</span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">District Council Members</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 1: Joyce Morgan</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1389</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JoyceMorgan@coj.net">JoyceMorgan@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Darren Mason</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 2: Al FerraroPhone:</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">(904) 630-1392</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net">Ferraro@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Connie Holt</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 3: Aaron L. Bowman</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1386</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:ABowman@coj.net">ABowman@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Terrance Freeman</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 4: Scott Wilson</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1394</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:SWilson@coj.net">SWilson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Jackie Lee</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 5: Lori N. Boyer</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1382</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:LBoyer@coj.net">LBoyer@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Nicole Spradley</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 6: Matt Schellenberg</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1388</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:MattS@coj.net">MattS@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Audrey Braman</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 7: Reggie Gaffney</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1384</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:RGaffney@coj.net">RGaffney@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Sirretta Williams</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 8: Katrina Brown</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1385</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:KBrown@coj.net">KBrown@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Dana Lewis</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 9: Garrett L. Dennis</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1395</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:GarrettD@coj.net">GarrettD@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Rupal Wells</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 10: Reginald L. Brown</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1684</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:RBrown@coj.net">RBrown@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Gerrie Ford-Hardin</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 11: Danny Becton</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1383</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:DBecton@coj.net">DBecton@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Dan Macdonald</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 12: Doyle Carter</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1380</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:DoyleC@coj.net">DoyleC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Rebekah Hagan</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 13: Bill Gulliford</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1397</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:Gulliford@coj.net">Gulliford@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Carol Harper</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 14: Jim Love</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1390</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JimLove@coj.net">JimLove@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Kevin Kuzel</span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">At-Large Council Members</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 1: Anna Lopez Brosche</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1393</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:ABrosche@coj.net">ABrosche@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Jeneen Sanders</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 2: John R. Crescimbeni</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1381</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JRC@coj.net">JRC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Nikki Evans</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 3: Tommy Hazouri</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1396</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:THazouri@coj.net">THazouri@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Haleigh Hutchison</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 4: Greg Anderson</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1398</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:GAnderson@coj.net">GAnderson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Leeann Krieg</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 5: Samuel Newby</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1387</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:SNewby@coj.net">SNewby@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Chiquita Moore</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Reminder:</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">"There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Henry Rollins</span></p>
<p></p>ACTION ITEMS: ON LINE POLL - IMPORTANT. and HRO MEETINGS (NEW)tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-01-30:4150782:BlogPost:2479692017-01-30T14:30:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits: Jacksonville Business Journal:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">TWO CLICKS AND YOU ARE DONE WITH THE POLL</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Jacksonville Business Journal online Poll re: HRO</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-3">Having responded to the following, it is requested that you immediately …</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Credits: Jacksonville Business Journal:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">TWO CLICKS AND YOU ARE DONE WITH THE POLL</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Jacksonville Business Journal online Poll re: HRO</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Having responded to the following, it is requested that you immediately <span class="font-size-3">do the same</span> and share with everyone you know. Please<br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Although this is just an online survey, it is just <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="font-size-4"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">another item that will be shown to the Jacksonville City Council to help influence it.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The Jacksonville Business Journal is conducting an online poll regarding</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">As of this this morning, <span style="color: #ff0000;">based on 2514 responses the results are showing nearly a 52% NO and 48% YES</span><br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Please go to the link below and vote NO. And, please send to everyone that you know who will also vote NO. It would be good to see the results change very quickly.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"> Please copy the link below and send to your friends and post to your FaceBook pages. Or simply copy the URL to this page and share.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Go to: <a href="http://c.bizjournals.com/ct/e/224960751/NzcyMTcxNTE6OjMzOTg2MDgy">http://c.bizjournals.com/ct/e/224960751/NzcyMTcxNTE6OjMzOTg2MDgy</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Also, please continue to CALL and EMAIL the City Council members urging them to vote no on expanding the HRO.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">District Council Members</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 1: Joyce Morgan</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1389</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JoyceMorgan@coj.net">JoyceMorgan@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Darren Mason</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 2: Al FerraroPhone:</span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">(904) 630-1392</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:Ferraro@coj.net">Ferraro@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Connie Holt</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 3: Aaron L. Bowman</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1386</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:ABowman@coj.net">ABowman@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Terrance Freeman</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 4: Scott Wilson</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1394</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:SWilson@coj.net">SWilson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Jackie Lee</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 5: Lori N. Boyer</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1382</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:LBoyer@coj.net">LBoyer@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Nicole Spradley</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 6: Matt Schellenberg</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1388</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:MattS@coj.net">MattS@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Audrey Braman</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 7: Reggie Gaffney</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1384</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:RGaffney@coj.net">RGaffney@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Sirretta Williams</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 8: Katrina Brown</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1385</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:KBrown@coj.net">KBrown@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Dana Lewis</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 9: Garrett L. Dennis</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1395</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:GarrettD@coj.net">GarrettD@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Rupal Wells</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 10: Reginald L. Brown</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1684</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:RBrown@coj.net">RBrown@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Gerrie Ford-Hardin</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 11: Danny Becton</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1383</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:DBecton@coj.net">DBecton@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Dan Macdonald</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 12: Doyle Carter</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1380</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:DoyleC@coj.net">DoyleC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Rebekah Hagan</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 13: Bill Gulliford</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1397</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:Gulliford@coj.net">Gulliford@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Carol Harper</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">District 14: Jim Love</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1390</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JimLove@coj.net">JimLove@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Kevin Kuzel</span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">At-Large Council Members</span></strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 1: Anna Lopez Brosche</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1393</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:ABrosche@coj.net">ABrosche@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Jeneen Sanders</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 2: John R. Crescimbeni</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1381</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:JRC@coj.net">JRC@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Nikki Evans</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 3: Tommy Hazouri</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1396</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:THazouri@coj.net">THazouri@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Haleigh Hutchison</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 4: Greg Anderson</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1398</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:GAnderson@coj.net">GAnderson@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Leeann Krieg</span></p>
<p align="center"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Group 5: Samuel Newby</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Phone: (904) 630-1387</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Email: <a href="mailto:SNewby@coj.net">SNewby@coj.net</a></span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Assistant: Chiquita Moore</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>MEETING UPDATE.</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><span style="color: #ff0000;">NEW !!!</span> From FLORIDA POLITICS</span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">T</span><span class="font-size-4">he public notice meeting on Feb. 2</span> <span class="font-size-4">is slated for 2:00 p.m. in the Lynwood Roberts Room.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">As in the movie “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSVeDx9fk60">Groundhog Day</a>,” in which a weatherman relives the same day until he gets it right, those following the Jacksonville City Council will notice a certain repetition this February 2.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Despite there being no committee meetings for the council that week, one council member decided to call a public notice meeting to discuss <a href="http://floridapolitics.com/archives/230918-hro-public-hearing-dominates-another-jacksonville-city-council-meeting">2017-15</a>, the latest attempt to expand the Human Rights Ordinance.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">That council member: <strong>Bill Gulliford</strong>, an opponent of expansion during previous tries in 2012 and 2016.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">In 2016, Gulliford filed a bill urging a referendum on the topic, a strategy that jibes with opponents, who believe they can drive supervoters to the polls to defeat the measure.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Expansion advocates want to include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression as categories in the current HRO, protecting people on those grounds from discrimination in the housing market, the workplace, and in terms of public accommodations, such as bathrooms and locker rooms.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The public accommodations condition has been the largest sticking point for opponents, many of whom advance fears about people born as biological males who, due to surgery or gender identification, may assert the right to use the women’s restroom.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Jacksonville City Council had so many speakers on the topic that the public hearing rolled over into Wednesday morning.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The public notice meeting on Feb. 2 is slated for 2:00 p.m. in the Lynwood Roberts Room.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Expect a full house.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">Just a reminder of the scheduled 4 HRO related committee meetings that remain in addition the full council meeting on the 14th.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="font-size-3">"The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.<br/></span></p>ATTENTION !! NOTE DATE OF HRO GREAT DEBATE - Monday the 6th!!!tag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-01-28:4150782:BlogPost:2476602017-01-28T14:51:48.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p>Credits: Blake Harper, Crossover Jacksonville</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Your Attendance is Requested</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This debate is intended to be a fair and balanced</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-3">debate. None of the hidden-agenda, pro-HRO</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-3">nonsense you see in all the local media. Yes....</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-3">ALL the local media.…</span></p>
<p>Credits: Blake Harper, Crossover Jacksonville</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Your Attendance is Requested</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This debate is intended to be a fair and balanced</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">debate. None of the hidden-agenda, pro-HRO</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">nonsense you see in all the local media. Yes....</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">ALL the local media.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The local media is controlled by out-of town</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">editorial boards and Big Money political hooligans.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">You will not see any neutral presentation of the</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">issues in any news broadcast, any special issue</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">presentation...nothing. Not the newspapers, not the</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">TV stations (not even the hometown station), not</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">the radio stations...........save one: WBOB.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">We are teaming up to give fair shots to each side.....</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Then, you make the decision.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Come on down, it will be free. We need a good</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">turn-out to show Jacksonville media how to be</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">responsible journalists.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">The previous flier did state the date, just Monday Night... Please note the correct date.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Monday, February 6th.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026458?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001026458?profile=original" width="517"/></a></span></p>Monday Evening: A Fair and Balanced Forum Discussing the Jacksonville City Council HROtag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-01-27:4150782:BlogPost:2479612017-01-27T14:48:01.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
<p style="text-align: left;">Credits: Blake Harper, Crossover Jacksonville</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Your Attendance is Requested</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This debate is intended to be a fair and balanced</span> <br></br> <span class="font-size-3">debate. None of the hidden-agenda, pro-HRO</span> <br></br> <span class="font-size-3">nonsense you see in all the…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Credits: Blake Harper, Crossover Jacksonville</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Your Attendance is Requested</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This debate is intended to be a fair and balanced</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">debate. None of the hidden-agenda, pro-HRO</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">nonsense you see in all the local media. Yes....</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">ALL the local media.</span></p>
<div class="text_exposed_show"><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">The local media is controlled by out-of town</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">editorial boards and Big Money political hooligans.</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">You will not see any neutral presentation of the</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">issues in any news broadcast, any special issue</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">presentation...nothing. Not the newspapers, not the</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">TV stations (not even the hometown station), not</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">the radio stations...........save one: WBOB.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">We are teaming up to give fair shots to each side.....</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">Then, you make the decision.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Come on down, it will be free. We need a good</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">turn-out to show Jacksonville media how to be</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">responsible journalists.</span></p>
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<h1 class="quoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; <span style="color: #ff0000;">but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.</span> Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-3">― <a class="authorOrTitle" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57639.Thomas_Paine">Thomas Paine</a>,</span></p>ACTION ITEM: Contact Your Federal Representatives - Abortion Funding Billtag:firstcoastteaparty.ning.com,2017-01-23:4150782:BlogPost:2476452017-01-23T22:00:00.000ZFCTPhttp://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/profile/FCTP
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<p style="text-align: center;">THEY MARCH, WE CALL AND EMAIL</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Congress voting soon to end federally funded abortions…</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">THEY MARCH, WE CALL AND EMAIL</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Congress voting soon to end federally funded abortions</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote soon, likely tomorrow, on a pro-life bill titled <u>No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017</u> (H.R. 7)</strong>. Text of the bill is available below:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">This is an easy read</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr7/BILLS-115hr7ih.pdf">https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr7/BILLS-115hr7ih.pdf</a></span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Take action now! Congress will likely vote on this bill tomorrow.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;">They need to vote YES on H.R.7</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://sv.afasv.net/t/ecgbb0LxQAIW9U-rEGoaC2GcIOBgaaaaZQDnBMIMX08a?o=7uBvA2DvA1~&Y=tith4wghmYrm_iisWgmz.hkn&r=Y&3="><strong>They need to hear from you now.</strong></a></span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">The bill seeks to do three things:</span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-3">Make the Hyde Amendment (federal funding of abortion) and other current abortion funding prohibitions <strong>permanent and government-wide</strong>; (The Hyde Amendment has historically been attached to appropriation bills in the past, but this bill will codify/write the Hyde Amendment into law. Democrats oppose the Hyde Amendment and want to use your tax dollars to fund abortion. This bill will help prevent that.)</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Ensure that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, <strong>faithfully conforms to the Hyde Amendment while Congress works to repeal and replace the ACA</strong>;</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-3">Ensure full disclosure, transparency, and the prominent display of the extent <strong>to which <u>any</u> health insurance plan on the healthcare exchange funds abortion</strong>.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://sv.afasv.net/t/ecgbb0LxQAIW9U-rEGoaC2GcIOBgaaaaZQDnBMIMX08a?o=7uBvA2DvA1~&Y=tith4wghmYrm_iisWgmz.hkn&r=Z&3="><strong>Send your representative an email now</strong></a> to vote <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4">FOR</span> <span class="font-size-4">H.R. 7, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act"</span></span> this week!</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Use the link below to find your Representatives information</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.afa.net/activism/contact-elected-officials/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f49342%2frespond">http://www.afa.net/activism/contact-elected-officials/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f49342%2frespond</a></span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">Abortion is not healthcare nor should government be subsidizing abortion. Your congressional representative in Washington needs to hear from you now!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson</span></p>
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