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Donna Schmitt for City Council

Tuesday, November 2, we have a right and duty to exercise our right to vote.  It is important that we educate ourselves with how our candidates stand.  But even beyond that, we need to realize that we are responsible for our representatives and their actions.  If they make good decisions we need to praise them, if they make poor decisions, we need to hold them accountable.  We cannot elect our representatives and think they can read our minds and that they will represent us in every decision.  We need to keep them accountable at all times.  If they ignore us, we need to ignore them at the poll by voting for their opponent.
The October 20th edition of the Northeaster has probably one of the best comprehensive voter’s guide for our area but unfortunately it is not available online.  Dig it out of the recycle bin and check it out.
The polls are open from 7:00 a.m until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Donna Schmitt

To inspire you, here are some quotes from our forefathers:

“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…
If the next centennial does not find us a great nation, it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States

John Hancock, whose signature dominates the Declaration of Independence said…
“I urge you, by all that is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that ye pray but that ye act!”

Daniel Webster, the great Statesman of the early 19th century said…
“Our destruction if it come at all, will be from…the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
–Ronald Reagan; 40th President of the United States

Donna Schmitt For City Council

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TrainingManual.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The following is a link to the Election Integrity Watch Training Manual. Democrats WILL cheat on Tuesday. It is what they were created to do. It is our responsibility to keep our eyes open and make sure we catch them in the act when ever possible! This manual will help you stay out of trouble by doing it properly. This doesn't mean they won't come after you anyway, but you can beat them at their intimidating coercive slave mongering game by following a few simple rules. Go Get Them when they cheat! And lets take our country back! And put the evil Govt Genie back in the bottle where it should be. No, not all Democrats are cheaters. There are plenty of Democrats out there that are haplessly and unfortunately ignorant of whose bed they climbed into. They have always voted Democrat, it is all they know. Their parents and grandparents voted Democrat so they do. And have been so indoctrinated they have no clue what they are doing. And will just continue to vote the way they always have. Which doesn't bode well for the country, but that is the way it is. At least until they finally wake up. Many of these people are just like you and I, in fact have far more in common with Republicans than they do with those Dems that will cheat. This isn't some kind of personal attack. The greatest majority of Democrats are good, honest, God fearing people who just want to do the right thing and many of them are now Tea Party members. It is not these people we have to be concerned about. And it is not these people I refer to. So take a stresstab, and go vote Liberty this year. Your Country needs you! TrainingManual.pdf (application/pdf Object)

'Vote Sloat' Rally

with special guests

Tim Utz and the Big Green Bus

Saturday, October 30th, 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Kordiak Park Parking Lot
1845 49th Ave NE
Columbia Heights, MN 55421

It's time to show our enthusiasm for
Greg Sloat and Tim Utz

Gina Bauman has been invited

Come make a local presence, hear some good news, cheer and....

if you like, caravan to the Emmer Rally at the Anoka County Airport

to greet Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey!!  

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Council Work Session 10/18/2010 - Donna Schmitt For City Council

http://district50ablog.blogspot.com/ "Monday night there was discussion about the surcharge that the city is paying to the MET Council for non-sewage flow in the the sewage system in district 2 of the city. This ends up at 37th and 5th street collection. This is an area between 5th Street and Jefferson and 42nd to 37th. This surcharge is $81,900 a year. This surcharge can be offset by doing such things as the sump pump disconnect program which removed some clear water from the sewage system. The City of Columbia Heights participated in this program and it seemed to be quite successful." To read more click link below. Council Work Session 10/18/2010 - Donna Schmitt For City Council http://district50ablog.blogspot.com/

Heads up re: Tax Payer Funded School, from Act For America

Katherine Kersten: TiZA vs. the search for truth

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/105067899.html?page=3&c=y

The battle over the role of Islam in a Minnesota public school is heating up again in a federal courtroom in St. Paul. The conflict began in January 2009, when the ACLU of Minnesota sued Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy -- a K-8 charter school with campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine -- for violating constitutional prohibitions against government endorsement of religion.

TiZA since has fought tooth and nail -- erecting procedural barriers to prevent the ACLU from investigating what goes on behind its doors. The school's tactics have gone far beyond the usual rough-and-tumble of lawyers in our adversary system. Its chief tool has been attempted intimidation of all who would draw back the curtain on its secrets.

One of TiZA's first targets was the ACLU itself. A few months after the suit began, the school filed a $100,000-plus defamation claim, citing ACLU executive director Chuck Samuelson's simple statement that "[TiZA is] a theocratic school ... as plain as the substantial nose on my face." The court dismissed the claim.

In January 2010, the ACLU was back in court to seek a protective order, on grounds that intimidation by TiZA was discouraging potential witnesses from appearing. The ACLU filed affidavits by a former TiZA parent and a former TiZA staff member, who described what they interpreted as threats of violence against them. In her affidavit, the female staff member said that Asad Zaman -- TiZA's executive director -- had suggested after she displeased him: "We could just kill you, yeah tell your husband we'll do his job for him." (Zaman has no recollection of making such a statement, he said in an affidavit.) The court barred witness harassment or intimidation by either party.

In June 2010, the ACLU returned to court to quash what it described as yet another TiZA attempt to intimidate current and former employees from speaking about what they had seen at the public school. TiZA's "Staff Handbooks include a secrecy clause, and related threat of legal action for violating it," according to the ACLU's court filings. TiZA "wields [these provisions] as a sledgehammer to keep former employees quiet about what they saw at the school." As a result, "former TiZA employees have expressed fear about speaking to the ACLU."

According to the ACLU, TiZA's refusal to agree not to enforce the secrecy clause "sends the ominous signal that current and former employees who talk to the ACLU may be forced to defend themselves against a baseless, expensive lawsuit."

On Oct. 1, Judge Donovan Frank agreed -- affirming an order the ACLU had earlier won barring TiZA from enforcing the confidentiality clause in the context of this litigation.

The court's order and memorandum spoke volumes: "It appears that information related to TiZA's business, finances, operations and office procedures is public data and cannot be kept secret." "The relevant question ... is why TiZA, a public charter school, does not want to allow its former and current employees to participate in the informal discovery process to ascertain the truth about how TiZA operates."

The court's strong language in response to TiZA's actions was unusual: "[I]ntimidation and threats will not sit well with a fact-finder such as a jury." As a result of the school's actions, "[T]he Court may be required to draw adverse inferences about how TiZA operates as a result of TiZA's efforts to keep information about its operations secret. ... [TiZA's] behavior during the discovery process thus far ... has not been consistent with a good faith search for the truth."

The ACLU has characterized TiZA's recent actions regarding the secrecy clause as "only the last in a long line of intimidation efforts." Not quite. Last month, an attack was launched from a different front.

Several organizations that are not even parties to the lawsuit went to court in an attempt to disqualify the ACLU's lawyers -- Dorsey & Whitney -- from representing the ACLU on grounds that Dorsey personnel had previously communicated with Zaman about entities involved in the litigation. The organizations include the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MAS-MN), MAS-MN Property Holding Corporation and the Minnesota Education Trust (MET).

What might they fear? Perhaps that Dorsey lawyers are in a position to prove that the scandal thus far -- and Zaman's role in it -- is just the tip of the iceberg. Dorsey lawyers had this to say in a Sept. 10 letter filed with the court:

"The ACLU believes Mr. Zaman's testimony relating to control of virtually every significant event at TiZA, MAS-MN, MET and MET's subsidiaries, coupled with his efforts to hide such control, constitute powerful evidence against TiZA's denials that it is a Muslim school and that it funnels state and federal money to other Muslim organizations."

Every time we read about this lawsuit, we have to pinch ourselves and say: We're talking about a public, taxpayer-funded school.

Katherine Kersten is a Twin Cities writer and speaker.

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Gina Bauman will be holding Townhall Meetings- come on down and meet her

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Gina Bauman for MN State Senate

Gina will be holding two Town Hall style meetings
this week on Thursday evening 10/21 and Saturday morning
10/23.

 

The Thursday event will be at the New
Brighton Family Service Center, 400 10th Street NW, Room 424 at 6:30
PM.

 

On Saturday, the meeting will be at the Anoka
County Fridley Branch located at 410 Mississippi St NE and will begin at 10:30
AM.

 

Invite your friends and neighbors to one or
both of these informal question and answer sessions where Gina will address your
questions and concerns.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Hope to see you
there.


Gina Bauman for MN State Senate


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From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

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Thanks for Sharing Gman and Thanks to Dr. Hamid for saying what needs to be said as a first step toward changing Islam. Now lets see what happens!

date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 10:20 AM

 

"For evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing."
                                                                 Edmund Burke

I am a Muslim by faith.... a Christian by spirit....a Jew by heart....and above all I am a human being."  Dr. Tawfik Hamid. Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author    From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

 

I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.

After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of  the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations. 

I  have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions. 

We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.

What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys".. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate? 

I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them. 

We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old. 

I am sad to say that many,  if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.  

Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause.  Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam. 

Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. 

It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts.  We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East . 

We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights.  I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel . 

It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel , its 'enemy'. If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening. 

We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind.  Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia,slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on  non-Muslims to spread Islam.

Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to Change'.  
  
Tawfik Hamid    

 

 

Dr. Tawfik Hamid is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization Jamaa Islamiya with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who later became the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Some twenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamid recognized the threat of radical Islam and the need for a reformation based upon modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts. Dr. Hamid provided a fresh and theologically valid interpretation for the Quran to counterbalance the radical teaching.

As the Daily Express (UK) mentioned, "Dr. Hamid has predicted the attacks on the twin towers, Madrid and London." After September 11, Dr. Hamid decided to speak out through western broadcast and print media. He has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News, and his articles and Op-Ed pieces have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's exceptional knowledge of the jihadi mindset has caused him to be invited as a guest speaker at private and governmental fora around the world. Dr. Hamid has a unique insight into the minds of radical terrorists and wants to share ways in which he can positively influence their way of thinking and end their violent actions.

Dr. Hamid, who is also known as Tarek Abdelhamid, has a medical degree in internal medicine and a Master's degree in cognitive psychology and educational techniques. Currently Dr. Hamid is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and President of the Global Movement Against Radical Islam. Dr. Hamid is also the author of Inside Jihad.

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Tim Utz, Gina Bauman, Russ Bertsch in debate

"After watching the video of the event it doesn't appear that anything terribly exciting happened. All of the GOPers (Gina Bauman for SD50 Senate, Tim Utz for HD50A House, and Russ Bertsch for HD50B House) presented their Conservative case well in spite of the shallowness of the softball questions while the libs showed their true socialist leanings. Hopefully those who generally don’t follow politics will watch one of the many replays or the internet feed and conclude that all of the DFLers need to be denied election or re-election to office as they all showed they are clueless when it comes to what the people want or need."

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Boots On: District 50 North Metro Mayors Forum - Dull, but revealing

Minnesotans for Personal Choice and Competition in Health Care Endorse Tim Utz

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Press Release #60
10-5-10 Endorsement
From Minnesotans for Personal Choice and Competition in Health Care
Tim Utz for House received the endorsement of Minnesotans for Personal
Choice and Competition in Health Care. The group promotes Constitutional
responsible private solutions to providing Americans health care and chose
Tim for his stand on Constitutional principles of government and liberty to
provide health insurance. Click below for a link to the organizations
website and endorsement.

http://www.myminnesotahealthcare.com/

Timothy Utz
Endorsed Candidate for Minnesota House 50-A in 2010
BPOU Delegate
CD-5 Delegate
Republican Party State Delegate
Republican State Central Delegate
Campaign Committee for Constitutional Republicans
www.timutzforhouse.com
This communication is considered private and not transmittable or
reproduced without written authorization from the candidate.


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Understanding Obamacare.

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Another great great submission from the Gman, neither one of us said this. I believe it is a posting from "Marilyn" Apologies to whoever wrote it, It is good so I am posting it.



"Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, already signed by a president who also  smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.

What the hell could possibly go wrong?"



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