I hope you will be able to attend at least one of the 4th 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 Convention Will Come to Order
I hope your plans are made to attend the Conservative Party USA Convention to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 22-24, 2010. This will be a unique opportunity for members of the Conservative Party USA to get together to discuss Party activities, goals and ideals and to celebrate the successes to date.
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
Looking For a Real Home?
I have been closely following the Primary Elections in the various states to this point. There have been twelve so far in addition to three Special Elections with Hawai’i having a Special Election on May 22.
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
Primary
I define the word PRIMARY as a beginning; a starting point; the focus of the entire point of discussion or issue.
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!
Nobel Prize Winner to Attend TEA Party
I share many of the opinions of writer R.S. McCain. Support for Adam Andrzejewski is one of those. Mr. McCain has written an interesting tidbit for The American Spectator that I thought you might find interesting. I know I did.
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
Time Marches On
Your Republican Primary is only a few days away now. Have you decided how you are going to vote?
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
My Own Definition of Fiscal Responsibility
I got the strangest thing in my mail today. It’s a questionnaire from the Republican National Party. They want me to fill it out giving them my feelings about issues facing Americans. Read the rest of this entry »
One Less Candidate for Governor
Bob Schillerstrom has dropped his bid for Governor in the Republican Primary. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that according to spokesman Brad Hahn Schillerstrom is now expected to endorse Jim Ryan.
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Senator Patrick O’Malley Endorses Adam Andrzejewski’s Gubernatorial Campaign
At a press conference to be held on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, it will be announced that Senator Patrick O’Malley is endorsing Republican Adam Andrzejewski for Governor of Illinois. Read the rest of this entry »
“Did You Hear the One About…”
As you know, my goal is to provide as much information as I possibly can so that you, the Illinois voter, will be able to make your decision regarding choosing your candidate for Governor of Illinois based on facts.
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? Read the rest of this entry »
