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HD50A  Workers and Dreamers--pass this on please within your precincts;

Walt Disney had a dream and drew MULTITUDES of flowers for a long time.  He was rejected as a journalist and he was NOT given immediate acclaim by any means BY ANYONE!  A Disney critic said flowers don't have faces.  Walt eventually drew an animated mouse scampering across a cartoon page--with an expressive face--and we've been paying hard earned cash to a 'rodent' based industry ever since.  Faces get our attention and our cash!  Do your dreams have faces in them?
 
Let's remember the face we each put on the Republican Party, and be willing to continue  establishing our base here in 50A.  Look into the faces of the citizens here and give them a hand--serve here, from the bottom if we can't be elected to a top office at this time.  Nothing and no one will stop us from serving each other right here, right now.

If we can't make a name for ourselves let's be able to know the names of our neighbors  right here, and listen to the dreams in the hearts of our neighbors---and look out for their God-given LIVES, right NOW.  Yes, our U.S. Constitution is important--but so is our neighbor whose face expresses Constitutional rights to a LIFE LIVED BY CITIZEN CHOICE.  Right now the citizens have chosen life DFL style.  Let's not stop serving the neighbors in little ways that speak volumes.  Be the 'mouse in the house'...make smiles happen and people will pay attention to our agenda of service to others.

Praise God that a dream is worth resurrecting--and sometimes it takes awhile.  Sometimes failure seems to predominate until a mouse with a face ignites the imagination of a world audience.  Who is our local audience and how do we engage this audience? What can we do to bring more life to our 'audience' here in HD50A?  Will it take laughter?  Advocacy?   Relationships?  Healers?  Helpers?  Enemies--who assault us and our dream?

We can stand for what's right and good and we can help others become winners--we must urge others to dream little and dream big.  We can focus on our neighbor's dreams--for these dreams are as important as ours and often the same as ours.

 Dreams are not detrimental to the health of our house district.  Ideals become ideas.  We make lists of our ideals and ideas--but do these IDEAS HAVE  FACES?  Let's put our neighbors faces into our ideals and ideas....because JESUS DID THAT.  This is one nation under God.  God carved our faces on His hands and gave HIS LIFE.  Dreams will cost us, and they will be resurrected when they have faces on them...not just our own face.

It's time to evaluate our local focus for service to others with the help of Ted and Adam, Donna and Rich, Tim and Nadine, along with the other CD5 campaigners--like Barb Davis White in her hard fought campaign for Congress in the 5th.  Let's look at Michelle Bachman's campaign as well, and be willing to come forward to assist in the vote re-count for Norm--now we have time not being taken by three active campaigns.

  WE in 50A ARE NOT ALONE IN HAVING A TOUGH TIME OF IT.   IN THIS PART OF TOWN  WE could BEGIN TO THINK NONE OF US ARE ELECTABLE.  Not true.  One  of us was elected.  Was it the piles of money that Ted had? Was it Adam's experience with running races?!  Was it a better education?  Was it the fact he'd been on the board before?  What does it take to get elected----or stay UNSELECTED?  We may think we've had too much experience with the latter!!!

 It does take courage to even  start to 'RACE' here!  We can dare to share what didn't work, and what ALMOST worked--and what worked.  Let's believe in these human beings who vote, and look at them as individuals WITH FACES, and continue to believe they could choose to vote for another one or two or three of US next time.

"WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES...."  can just be the people and let our neighborhood know that the REPUBLICAN PARTY HERE is the party that is eager and willing to help, to serve and seize every day....and let's seize EVERY DAY BETWEEN ELECTIONS to show what Republicans can do with our neighbors.

Is it wrong to disagree about issues--see things differently?  No.  This is our human right in America--and it is our right to assemble and agree on some issues as well!!!. We do debate and win some and lose some debates. But stop--is it right to call each other names?  I will state here that when and if anyone is being vulgar--using profanity against any other person I will adamantly say STOP--and I will ask that any one on our executive committee or in our full committee also say STOP when this sort of demeaning behavior occurs---promptly. This mindlessness against any of us hurts all of us.

While the GOP may seem to choose to over analyze at times and think things over and over and over until we get analysis paralysis--still, we are not the party of profanity and vulgarity. We are willing to serve others with whom we disagree. For this I am thankful.

 We have seen how President Bush has been treated over the past 8 years.  I was pleased to hear one of our Republican leaders say they would not be part of reciprocating and treating Pres Elect Obama that way--instead we Republicans can show a better way, and take the lead in discussing the deeper issues, bringing out disagreements yes along with  solutions--not settling for smoke and mirrors.

 I am one of the people here in 50A--and I have dreams, too, dreams that have your face on them.  I have one vote, but I have chosen to expand my influence beyond the voting booth and to invest time in my own neighborhood ad a member of the Republican Party, because we are still the party with answers and solutions that express smaller government of the people.  How do we bring these answers and solutions to the people right beside us? I think they will eventually vote for us when voting for us is voting for THEIR DREAMS.
We must put our neighbors faces into our dreams for today and tomorrow.

  I will defend our Party even though I may disagree with the way Republican values are being expressed or forgotten by individuals within and outside the party.

I will not dump our dreams of bringing "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..." to our population right here in HD50A. WE  JUST HAVE TO DO THIS BETTER--- face to face.

GOD GIVES DREAMS....I have a dream of electing more excellent Republican candidates right here--but the dream won't scamper across the ballots until we have our citizen's faces etched into our own dreams.

After evaluating the effects of our hard work and our campaigns, we need to realize the poorest person among us is the one with no personal dreams and no vision--who denigrates others and becomes the local representative for bully tactics, repeatedly.  Some union leaders have been noted for this.  THESE TACTICS ARE NOT EFFECTIVE REPUBLICAN TOOLS.

 Helen Keller was asked what could be worse than being born deaf and sightless.  Ms Keller said, "There is a worse place to be in--being sighted and having NO VISION.

Dreams and vision bring hope and reform.   Now dare to think and get beyond the "I thought it..." stage.   There are more stages of making dreams come true like...."I sought it....I caught it....I bought into it..."   The latter stage is the struggle stage-- researching, paying the price!  Then NEXT COMES THE "I GOT IT..." STAGE! 

 Some dreams nearly die after each election...look for a spark of life in your dreams of bringing reform to our area--and don't forget to look into faces who may not yet dare to dream enough to acknowledge the God-given value in every citizen's life.  Start living for the faces in our dreams...our citizen's faces.

There was a recent report on Hubert Humphrey...it was 1935...in Washington, DC.  He wrote to his wife that he had a dream of living in Washington DC some day. And we now know he became Senator and Vice President....but the dream began with him sitting in a hotel room in Washington DC, writing home to his wife as he was looking out at the monuments that meant service to our country.  He often remembered the cost of serving others--the toll it had taken on the lives of others to live this life of service.  Everytime I took my Mom's wheelchair up a curbside that had a wheelchair mini-ramp I would think of Hubert's idea for wheel chair access on every little corner of the USA. He started something.   Later on, as Hubert was found to have cancer and was considered terminal, a reporter stopped him at the airport and asked him about his plans.  Hubert responded, "I might just start something...."  

Starting something on every corner-- with you....
Rae Hart Anderson
Chair  HD50A
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--- On Sat, 11/15/08, Carleton Crawford <carleton.crawford@att.net> wrote:
 

    All,
   

    The 5th CD’s next Full Committee meeting will be Tuesday, December 9th, 7:00 at Kenwood Park in Minneapolis . The agenda will include discussion of revenue and expenditures at the end of the campaign, a discussion of the campaign itself, and presumably an update on the U.S. Senate recount.

    

    We will also have a preliminary discussion on the rights and wrongs of 5th CD 2008 campaign activities (we will have a more in depth discussion of this at our January planning session (normally done the last Saturday of January—location T.B.D.).

    
    One accomplishment that may come up for discussion is the newest endorsed Republican office holder within the 5th CD. Ted Landwehr won a seat on the Columbia Heights School Board. Congratulations to Ted and to the HD 50A Republicans!

      
    As you know, the Senate recount begins on Wednesday. Volunteers are needed at the following cities and dates (days are divided into morning and afternoon shifts):

    

    Bloomington— 1800 W. Old Shakopee Road (11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Brooklyn Center— 6301 Shingle Creek Pkwy (11/24 AM, 11/25 AM, 11/26 AM)

    Brooklyn Park— 5600 85th Ave N (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/22, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Crystal—4141 Douglas Dr. N (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Edina— 4801 W 50th St (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Eden Prairie— 8080 Mitchell Rd (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Golden Valley— 7800 Golden Valley Rd (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Hopkins— 1010 1st St. S (11/19 PM, 11/20 PM, 11/21 PM, 11/24 PM, 11/25 PM, 11/26 PM)

    Maple Grove— 12800 Arbor Lakes Pkwy (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/22, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Minneapolis—732A Harding St NE (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Minnetonka— 14600 Minnetonka Blvd (11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Plymouth— 3400 Plymouth Blvd (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Richfield— 6700 Portland Ave S (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Robbinsdale— 4100 Lakeview Ave N (11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    St. Anthony— 3301 Silver Lake Rd (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    St. Louis Park— 5005 Minnetonka Blvd (11/19, 11/20, 11/21, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

    Shorewood— 5735 Country Club Rd (11/19, 11/25)
  
    If you know of people that want to take shifts, please have them contact me or the Coleman campaign (Patrick Bottini at 651-233-0290 or Tony Post at 651-303-4029).

        Thank you,
   
    Carleton



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Election Analysis:
Gun Rights in Peril

Barack Obama in the White House;
many pro-gunners out of Congress

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

By Larry Pratt


Wisconsin Gun Owners.org

Based on his voting record in the Illinois state senate and in the U.S. Senate, President-elect Barack Obama will be the most anti-Second Amendment president in the history of America.

In January, the new President will govern alongside congressional leadership, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who are also extremely hostile to gun rights and who now enjoy greatly expanded majorities.

There can be little doubt about the direction in which gun rights are headed. The questions are how far will the anti-gunners go and how fast will they move?

Many comparisons have been made to the first two years of the first Clinton Administration, in which one party controlled both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Almost all experts agree that it was Clinton's overreaching on issues like gun control that cost his party control of Congress. Barack Obama will start out governing with even larger majorities than did Clinton.

Obama ran a campaign high on rhetoric and short on specifics. The President-elect claims he will govern from the middle, but the question for gun owners is which Obama will show up at the White House -- the "centrist" from the campaign trail, or the radical anti-Second Amendment extremist who supports gun bans, waiting periods for firearm purchases, one gun a month restrictions, and more?

His party's large gains in the Congress give the incoming President more room to maneuver with a radical agenda.

An equally important question is the outlook for gun rights in the new Congress. That Obama will sign any anti-gun bill that gets to his desk is a certainty. But what can gun owners expect from the new Congress?

Hopes of Congressional restraint on gun issues dimmed with each election return as Pelosi's and Reid's majorities grew to historic proportions.

While there are many moderately pro-gun Democrats in Congress, they're not the ones calling the shots. The leadership is completely in the anti-gun camp, so expanding their majority would have a negative impact on gun rights regardless of who filled those seats.

Unfortunately, though, many seats that flipped parties also went from strong pro-gun to strong anti-gun. Gun owners suffered heavy losses in the Senate. Here's a look at five Senate seats that switched parties (all switches went from Republican to Democrat).

Colorado -- The retirement of A-rated Senator Wayne Allard set up a battle between anti-gun Rep. Mark Udall and pro-gun former Rep. Bob Schaffer. This is one of three senate seats that flipped from "A" to "F."

New Hampshire -- Pro-gun Senator John Sununu was defeated by F-rated former governor Jeanne Shaheen, another "A" to "F" shift.

New Mexico -- Long-time Senator Pete Domenici, who was D-rated and usually voted against gun owners, was replaced by F-rated Congressman Tom Udall. Udall defeated A-rated Representative Steve Pearce, making this a big loss for gun owners.

North Carolina -- Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole ran as a pro-gun control candidate for president in 2000. Since being elected to the Senate from the Tar Heel state, however, Mrs. Dole compiled a good pro-gun record. Dole's defeat at the hands of F-rated anti-gunner Kay Hagan is a dramatic flip for gun rights.

Virginia -- F-rated Republican John Warner retired. Former governor Mark Warner (no relation) trounced "A" rated Jim Gilmore, also a former governor. Either of the candidates would have been an improvement over the retiring Senator, but Mark Warner refused to answer the GOA survey and has a mixed record on gun issues.

In the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives, gun owners also were hit hard.

Of the 18 incumbents who were defeated, 15 were pro-gun (only two were replaced by a pro-gunner). Of particular disappointment to gun owners were the losses of Republican representatives Marilyn Musgrave (CO-4), Tom Feeney (FL-24), Bill Sali (ID-1), and Tim Walberg (MI-7). These representatives were among the most ardent Second Amendment supporters.

In the 32 open House seats, the results were mixed. Thirteen seats went to A-rated candidates, while six went to F-rated anti-gunners. Nine new congressmen are "Not Rated," meaning they have no record and refused to fill out a GOA questionnaire. Four new members fall somewhere in the middle, leaning toward a pro-gun position but no guarantees. Note: a handful of close races across the country are obviously headed for recounts, but this is how things look at the moment.

The A-rated winners in open seat elections are: Tom McClintock (R-CA) (this race is still subject to change), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Bill Posey (R-FL), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Debbie Halvorson (D-IL), Aaron Schock (R-IL), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), Christopher Lee (R-NY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY). These representatives will have their work cut out for them, as the new Congress has moved decidedly in the anti-gun direction and many pro-gun leaders were defeated.

All in all, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can't help but be emboldened by their gains and there can be no denying that gun control legislation is on their agenda.

So what can gun owners and sportsmen do to help prevent a gun control tidal wave? Get involved and stay engaged!

Gun Owners of America will continue its efforts as Capitol Hill's no-compromise gun lobby. But GOA's effectiveness depends on your activism. Please continue to send the e-mails to your congressmen, and forward GOA Action Alerts to pro-gun friends.

If you are not a member of Gun Owners of America, please join today , so that you can start receiving our newsletters and other important gun rights information.

The entire Congress needs to know that we're watching, and if they attempt to ban even one firearm or expand unconstitutional gun control in any way they will pay at the polls in the next election.

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If you are a bitter clinger, Gun Owners of America has a T-shirt for you!

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ACTION ALERT ON PELOSI TO STOP WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT RAIDS BY ICE

House Speaker Pelosi has touched off a new round of fighting over whether the Homeland Security Department should continue to stage controversial raids of worksites around the country. That may foreshadow a dispute that could move front and center when the new Congress convenes in January. Pelosi indicated at a news conference Wednesday that she supports an end to worksite enforcement operations nationwide by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of the Homeland Security Department. She said the urgency of putting together comprehensive immigration reform legislation has been intensified by the raids. "How do we end the ICE raids, have a situation where we can end the ICE raids as we put together the comprehensive immigration reform?" she asked.

The only worksite raids that have taken place in the past year and a half are because they involved American identity theft. These are not just random worksites; they are sites where the Department of Justice knows American identity theft is taking place.

 A Pelosi spokesman said the speaker has long expressed concerns that the Raids are ineffective and "unnecessarily divide families at the expense of children."

 Well if that is the underlying reason;  Congress should not send soldiers off to war in Iraq , Afghanistan , or any area outside the United States because it   "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children." Congress should place a moratorium on enforcement and punishment on any criminal who has a family because it "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children."  Let’s not just give this benefit to illegal alien thieves.

 Millions of Americans are out of work in America. Nancy Pelosi should be calling for increased worksite enforcement in America . We need to make sure the few jobs left, are being done by American citizens and legal immigrants.

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should be protecting the tax payer’s jobs so we can continue to bail out Wall Street, Main Street , Auto Row and everyone else they put on the commercial welfare rolls.

 Nancy Pelosi should be doing everything to protect Americans from identity theft, and holding criminals accountable regardless of whether it "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children."

 This nonsense has gone on long enough! This Congress continues to decide policy that “unnecessarily divides Americans from their jobs and their hard earned dollars”, No more immunity for illegal aliens stealing jobs and identity.

 Call Nancy Pelosi today in her office in San Francisco (415) 556-4862 and tell her what you think about her proposal of stopping worksite enforcement raids! Tell her what you think of her upcoming proposal of amnesty. Make you voice heard!

Enough!

Susan Tully

National Field Director

5 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Suite 330

Washington D.C. 20001

www.fairus.org

Yours in Liberty,
Robert R. Galbreath Jr.

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