I hope you will be able to attend at least one of the 4^th of July events of celebration in your area.    If you have time, please read the Declaration of Independence to your children.  They need to hear it.

Marie A Cole

The home of the convention will be the Loew’s New Orleans Hotel.  The hotel is located at 300 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.  Check-in policies and hotel information can be found here.  The main hotel phone number is 504-636-3300 .

Room Cost is $126/night for single or double occupancy.  This special rate includes taxes and state fees.  Please make your reservation directly with the Hotel Reservations department by calling 866-563-9792.  Be sure to mention “Conservative Party USA” when you call to assure this special rate. Naturally, a standard credit card required and rooms are subject to availability.

For convention activities, the Registration Fee is $175 per convention attendee.  Be an early bird and register for only $150 per attendee if paid by June 15, 2010.  This fee will entitle you to all the convention activities including the reception on Thursday night, July 22, the banquet on Saturday night (evening wear required), July 24, and the business meetings held during each day (casual dress) of the convention.  Please make checks payable to the “Conservative Party USA” and mail to:

11814 Coursey Blvd #530

Baton Rouge, LA, 70816

Attn: 2010 Convention.

On the assumption that most people will be flying, the most economical transportation from the airport to the hotel is the New Orleans Airport Shuttle.  The rate is $38 round trip or $20 one way per passenger.  This will provide ample savings over the normal $30 one way per person taxi fare.  Please contact the shuttle service to reserve by calling 504-522-3500 or visit their website linked above.

If you plan to drive to the convention, be aware that the hotel provides valet parking with a convention discount of $20.00 per night.

Part of the business of the convention will be the debating of Party Planks.  As a member in good standing of the Conservative Party USA, you are eligible and invited to submit suggestions for consideration to be included in the Party Planks.  The National Site of the Conservative Party USA offers the abstract form for you to make your suggestion.  You will also find on this site the method that will be used for approval of planks submitted by the membership.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Marie A Cole

By my count, 74 Governors, Senators and Congressmen will not be part of the November General Elections, the “mid-terms.”  Some of the Governors are stopped by term limits, some Senators and Congressmen are retiring (wonder why?), one has been denied the nomination of his Party for reelection, Bob Bennett of Utah, two have been kicked out in the Primary, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Alan Mollohan of West Virginia,.  Two have resigned due to scandal, Mark Souder from Indiana and Eric Massa from New York.  Several others are running for another national or state office.

Unfortunately, we will not really know until November whether we have taken a major step toward returning our America to what it was and should be.  Until then there is an issue we must address.  The sooner we do so the better equipped we will be to handle the tide of swelling Socialism in the United States.

Everyone knows that the major problem is the liberals/Socialists in Washington, DC.  We must continue trying to get rid of as many liberal elected officials as we possibly can, but I have to tell you – it does not look too good from where I sit.

Incumbents whether Democrat or Republican are being elected in their primaries in overwhelming numbers.  Folks, we simply cannot march in our TEA Parties, stand on the steps of the Capitol or continue sending letters, emails and making phone calls telling our elected officials that they do not represent us, and that we will remember this in November if we keep reelecting them in the primaries.

It is true that some of the Democrats are getting a little worried about their jobs and trying to give the appearance of moving more centrist than left, but that is merely an act on their part.  You know that as well as I do.

In all fairness, I think some of the Republicans are getting our message as well, but it is much too little and much too late.

The Republican Party is being infiltrated by a group who want to change the Republican Platform and planks to a more socially liberal stance.  These are the Libertarians.  For years, they have had their own party.  The problem is, they have not been able to succeed in gaining much support from American voters – until now.  Their party is losing money and going bankrupt.  The party leadership are not even trying to rebuild their party – they are going to take over the Republican Party because of the established track record and the money issues.

The problem is, they do not want to maintain and grow the Republican Party.  Their one goal is to remake the Republican Party into the Libertarian Party while keeping the Republican Party brand.  Is this what Republicans really want?  Do the Liberty Republicans have any intention whatsoever of keeping the Republican Platform in tact?  Not for one second.

They have succeeded in gaining footholds in many of our primaries forcing some die-hard Republicans to consider voting for Democrats in November.  I do not blame them.  At least with a Democrat, you know what you are getting.

Libertarians are hiding in the Republican Party as Liberty Republicans.  They receive endorsements from Liberty Candidates.  All the while, this is still the Ron Paul Libertarian Party with all of its socially liberal viewpoints.  Ron Paul and his son, Rand Paul in Kentucky, have made bold speeches saying out-right that they want to “re-form” the Republican Party.

Michael Steele is not doing anything that I can see to avoid this takeover.  In fact, he is looking only for candidates “who can win the election.”  Such was the case with Dede Scozzafava in NY-23 last year.  What was the result of that fiasco?  She withdrew her candidacy and threw her support to the Democrat who eventually won the election.

If our elected officials are not willing or not aware of the situation to help stop this takeover, and if the leader of the Republican Party is not willing to stop it, what are we to do as voters in the Republican Party who are not willing to accept the platform changes the Libertarians will bring with them?  Make no mistake about it – it WILL happen.

I have a suggestion for all of us.  Tell the Republican Party to kiss your foot.  Stop sending money to them.  But if you do that, for whom will you vote?  What do you look for to get the conservative issues you demand and the representation you deserve?

The Conservative Party USA is waiting to welcome you home. Come to the place where only conservative issues are held and uplifted.  Support the party in your state.  If they haven’t established the Conservative Party in your state, why not be the one to get it started?  Candidates?  They are everywhere – living right next door to you.  Maybe even you.

It takes a lot of work to get a major political movement going and growing in the right direction.  Be part of the solution for America – not the problem.  Join the Conservative Party and show Americans what REAL Conservatism is and what it can do.  Get involved.  If we all work together, there may still be time to field our own Party Candidates in November.  Why not give it a try?

Who knows – you just might succeed.

Marie A Cole

Today is the Primary Election in your state.  The time for talk and thinking is over.   Today you must excercise the most important reflection of your First Amendment rights of free speech – your vote!

I have recently experienced the effects of finding out you can’t trust a person.  So when you vote today, don’t vote merely your trust in a person – vote for the issues you hold dear.  The principles you agree with.  The election is in your hands.  You have the right to say what is and isn’t best for Illinois.

I heard a speech by Dr. Alan Keyes this past weekend.  He discussed the need to stop lying to ourselves and our nation by voting for the lesser of the evils.  He suggests that instead of voting for a candidate you can agree with only 20% of the time that we choose a candidate we agree with 100% percent of the time.

Read the issues of the candidate you have decided to support in this all-important election.  If you do not agree with them on the issues you are most convicted of, it isn’t too late to change your mind – or your vote!

Follow your conservative principles.  Vote for the candidate you know in your heart is as conservative as you are.

I will be pulling for you, Illinois!

Guess Who’s Joining the Tea Party Movement?

By Robert Stacy McCain on 1.28.10 @ 11:58AM

Lech Walesa, the Polish Cold War hero who is coming to Illinois to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski, will join Andrzejewski tomorrow afternoon at a Tea Party rally at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago.

It was in Chicago, of course, that the Tea Party movement began last February when CNBC’s Rick Santelli delivered “The Rant Heard Round the World.” No word yet on whether Santelli will be at Friday’s event.

One of seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination is Kirk Dillard.  According to a poll released on January 26, Public Policy Polling shows Dillard at 19%.  Adam Andrzejewski is at 11% with a bullet.  This bullet may well be the endorsement and campaign efforts of a world leader such as Mr. Walesa.

Mr. McCain writes, “Dillard, a state senator, has been hammered by fellow Republicans for  appearing in a 2008 campaign ad supporting Barack Obama.  Tuesday, Erick Erickson of the influential conservative Red State blog said of Dillard: ‘We must oppose this guy.’ Andrzejewski also got a boost yesterday when he appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Fox Business Network program.”

I know how much conservative Illinois citizens would enjoy seeing political corruption ended in their state.  I believe your vote for Adam Andrzejewski will put into motion the bus that corruption can be “thrown under.”

Marie A Cole

Adam Andrzejewski has some solid solutions about reducing the deficit in Illinois.  I thought you might be interested to know what those solutions are.

Marie A Cole

1. Do you agree with Barack Obama and the Democrats that taxes should be raised for the sake of “fairness,” regardless of the negative impact it is likely to have on the economy?
2. Do you believe the federal government has gone too far in bailing out failing banks, insurance companies and the auto industry?
3. Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?
4. Should English be the official language of the United States?
5. Are you in favor of granting retroactive Social Security eligibility to illegal immigrants who gain U.S. citizenship through an amnesty program?
6. Are you in favor of the expanded welfare benefits and unlimited eligibility (no time, education or work requirements) that Democrats in Congress are pushing to pass?
7. Do you believe that Barack Obama’s nominees for federal courts should be immediately and unquestionably approved for their lifetime appointments by the U.S. Senate?
8. Do you believe that the best way to increase the quality and effectiveness of public education in the U.S. is to rapidly expand federal funding while eliminating performance standards and accountability?
9. Do you support the creation of a national health insurance plan that would be administered by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.?
10. Do you believe that the quality and availability of health care will increase if the federal government dictates pricing to doctors and hospitals?
11. Are you confident that new medicines and medical treatments will continue to be developed if the federal government controls prescription drug prices and sets profit margins for research and pharmaceutical companies?
12. Are you in favor of creating a government-funded “Citizen Volunteer Corps” that would pay young people to do work now done by churches and charities, earning Corps Members the same pay and benefits given to military veterans?
13. Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?
14. Do you believe that the federal government should allow the unionization of Department of Homeland Security employees who serve in positions critical to the safety and security of our nation?
15. Do you support Democrats’ drive to eliminate workers’ right to a private ballot when considering unionization of their place of employment?

Over half a legal-sized page remained filled with ways for me to send $500 (obviously the preferred amount since it is listed first), $250, $100, $50, $30, Other amount.  Don’t you just know that’s going to happen??!!

Well, I have filled out their little questionnaire, and when I mail it back tomorrow, it will also include this little hand-written letter from me.

The Republican Party will get not one red cent from me!

You have abandoned “our” conservative values and ideals as much as or more than the Obamacrats!

The only reason I will vote for even one Republican is because the Conservative Party has not yet met all the requirements for fielding candidates of our own.

You blew it with me when you failed to speak up for Sarah Palin and allowed the McCain campaign to throw her under the bus.

You lost my support when you said we need to move to the center of right.

You lost my respect when you abandoned a truly conservative candidate in NY-23, Doug Hoffman, in favor of a candidate who is anything but conservative.

You gave up any chance you had of earning my respect back by saying that we have to support the candidates that can win.

No!  No more!  Not one red cent from me!

Here is the address is you would like to join me in my determination to see to it that the Republican Party actually HEARS the conservative voices of America:

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

310 FIRST STREET S.E.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20003

Marie A Cole

Schillerstrom was running as a pro-choice moderate Republican.  It seems clear to me as an outsider that Illinois voters didn’t appreciate that viewpoint.  Due to his expected forthcoming endorsement for Jim Ryan, perhaps the voters should more closely question Mr. Ryan as to his own willingness to accept the leaning-liberal endorsement of Mr. Schillerstrom.

The Sun-Times report states, “Schillerstrom ran on his executive experience and tried several innovative ‘Hail Mary’ passes in his campaign. He promised to be a one-term governor so he would not be afraid to anger the special interests to make big changes in Springfield. He released a television commercial in which fans confused his name with an off-color word that sounded like a ‘s—storm is coming to Springfield.’”

You can read Mr. Schillerstrom’s own words regarding his decision to cease his campaign.

I had questioned his desire to serve only one term – was his reason because he knew he would not be able to win reelction?  At this point, I think it is rather a good idea that Illinois citizens will not have to find out.

Marie A Cole

Senator Patrick O’Malley was a member of the Illinois State Senate from the 18^th district serving five two-year terms.  He and four other conservative Republican Senators, Peter Fitzgerald, Dave Syverson, Steve Rauschenberger, and Chris Lauzen, were called “The Fab Five” because of their efforts to challenge the Illinois Republican Party.

He served as Chairman of the Senate Financial Institutions Committee; Vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee; member of the Senate Insurance and Pensions Committee; and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Senator Patrick O’Malley ran for governor in 2002 basing his candidacy on a conservative platform.  Describing himself as a “Pro-life Catholic”, and “Reagan conservative”, O’Malley’s self described political philosophy was, “to take the principles of the Republican Party as I see them, limited government, low taxes, individual freedoms, and keeping free enterprise vibrant and strong.” Senator O’Malley came in second in the Republican primary with 253,217 votes, losing to Attorney General Jim Ryan.

In 2001 Senator O’Malley introduced SB1095. “This legislation was about preventing conduct that allowed infanticide to take place in the state of Illinois,” O’Malley said.  The lone Senator to speak against the bill on the floor of the Illinois Senate saying, “The testimony during the committee indicated that one of the key concerns was — is that there was a method of abortion, an induced abortion, where the — the fetus or child, as — as some might describe it, is still temporarily alive outside the womb…  And one of the concerns that came out in the testimony was the fact that they were not being properly cared for during that brief period of time that they were still living,” was Senator Barack Obama.  He concluded by saying, “… whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or other elements of the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — a child, a nine-month-old — child that was delivered to term.  It would essentially bar abortions because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute.”

This interaction between Senator O’Malley and Obama has been problematic for Obama since that time.

An interesting side note to this endorsement is that another of the Republican candidates, Dan Proft, served as Senator O’Malley’s communications director.  Even more reason to appreciate Senator O’Malley’s endorsement for Andrzejewski.

Marie A Cole

Last week, I watched the Illinois Republican candidate debate.  I heard many interesting things – including a professed pro-abortion Republican.  Bob Schillerstrom has been endorsed by Personal PAC – a bi-partisan organization dedicated to electing pro-choice state and local candidates in Illinois.  He also says he only wants to serve one-term.  Wonder why?  Could it be that he knows he will be so unpopular that he would be unable to win a second election?

Probably one of the most unbelievable candidates must be a comedian in his spare time – a talent that requires much more development.  Dan Proft classifies himself as a political consultant and conservative activist.  In response to the question the candidates were asked about what they have done in the last ten years to prepare themselves for the challenges the governorship offers, Mr. Proft responded, “Yeah, like everybody else, I was born a poor black child too….” Don’t believe me?  His answer starts at 1:53 on this video.  That joke worked in the 1979 movie “The Jerk” starring Steve Martin, but it doesn’t work in 2010 in the political arena.

For other humorous remarks from him, the entire six-part video series of the debate can be accessed here.

Proft’s major slam to his fellow candidates is that they have been “up to their elbows in Illinois politics.”  I submit that as a political consultant who proudly states that he has helped to run political campaigns for the last 15 years, he has been up to his own elbows.  Less high profile perhaps but no doubt more profitable.

One example is that Dan Proft was instrumental in helping the Cicero town president win a close election in 2008.  Afterward, his firm, Urquhart Media, was rewarded with a $578,000 yearly contract to serve as a spokesman for the town as well as two local school districts.  Was his bid the lowest offered?  Who knows.  Bids were not solicited.

Mr. Proft is pro-amnesty.  He also supports issuing driver’s licenses for illegals.

How conservative is he in the end?  Mr. Proft led the campaign to elect Beth Coulson (R-Glenview) to the Illinois General Assembly.  Asked in 2009 at a meeting of the Republican Assembly of Lake County, Proft was asked if he would be willing to help elect another pro-abortion candidate, he answered, “Yes.”

Illinois voters will be familiar with the name Judy Baar Topinka.  She was a Republican candidate for Governor challenging Governor Rod Blagojevich in 2006.  There was much dissension in the Republican Party thinking that her pro-choice and positive gay-rights positions would divide Republicans and completely alienate the conservative wing of the Illinois Republican Party.  Why is Ms Topinka a player in this?  Interestingly, Dan Proft was on her payroll.  He admitted as much on Tom Roeser’s  WLS AM 890 Chicago radio program.

It doesn’t appear that Mr. Proft has much respect for the Tea Party movement.  He manipulated Juliana Johnson, an employee of Mr. Proft’s firm and a media consultant for Chicago’s Tax Day Tea party, to secure the headliner position on the original list of speakers.  Once the organizers of the event learned that Mr. Proft planned to use the platform to launch his campaign for governor, both he and Ms. Johnson were removed from participation in the Tea Party.

Even though he was not allowed to speak at the April 15 Tax Day Tea Party in Chicago, Dan Proft told the people assembled for the Homer Tea Party on November 4, 2009 that he did speak.  You can hear his incorrect verbiage ( aka outright lie) at the 26-minute mark of this video.  Oh wait… I forgot something.  I have heard a rumor that he did in fact speak at the Chicago Tea Party – through a bullhorn from the crowd.

Perhaps Mr. Proft should stick to his joke-telling but outside the Illinois Governor’s office.

Marie A Cole