Timothy Utz appointed to the C. H. Charter Commission.

12/22/10 Press release # 1 Appointment to Charter Commission On December 13th 2010, Timothy R. Bloomquist, Chief Judge Tenth Judicial District appointed Timothy Utz to the Columbia Heights Charter Commission. The four year appointment expires on December 13, 2014. According the Columbia Heights website the Commission under the state constitution "...is charged with keeping the charter current under procedures authorized by state statutes..." As the commission is in review of the city charter in coming months, Tim looks forward to having an impact on city government holding fidelity to our Constitution and restoring our Republic. Meetings are open to the public and Tim hopes citizens attend meetings, become informed on local government activities. Swearing in ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday December 28, 2010 1:00pm at Columbia Heights City offices. Citizens and the press are invited to attend the event.

Here We Go Again...

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Thanks Tim for sharing.

Folks,

I could not state better than Emma, My 9 year old granddaughter on the value, purpose and meaning of Christmas. In a society bent on “holiday greetings” over “Christmas” season her insight at 9 gives hope to our great country that the future generations may restore our Republic if we hold onto our history and purpose in life.

Tim Utz

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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:38 PM Subject: Here we go again

Christmas is a lot of fun,but we can't forget what Christmas is really about.It's fun getting presents,spending time with family,caroling,sledding,getting Christmas cards,decorating,and even wearing a smile!But,we should ware a smile about Jesus and his birth.Many people don't know Jesus so,e-mail this to any body family,friends, or even people you just got to know.

Here we go again!! YAY!!! It's Christmas!! Jesus is born!!Ya know lets not buy anything this year or the next,or the next!!

Now do we here that at all? Well I never heard it in my life! Have you?Ya know as I said before a lot of people don't know Jesus,how he loves you,how he died for you,how he teaches us in ways we don't know,and how he waits for you up in heaven.I you want to know how you can go to heaven,and learn about Jesus,look for a church,and talk to the pastor. We need a lot of people to understand that Jesus is waiting for them in heaven. Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!

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Tim Utz Appointment

12/22/10 Press release # 1 Appointment to Charter Commission On December 13th 2010, Timothy R. Bloomquist, Chief Judge Tenth Judicial District appointed Timothy Utz to the Columbia Heights Charter Commission. The four year appointment expires on December 13, 2014. According the Columbia Heights website the Commission under the state constitution "...is charged with keeping the charter current under procedures authorized by state statutes..." As the commission is in review of the city charter in coming months, Tim looks forward to having an impact on city government holding fidelity to our Constitution and restoring our Republic. Meetings are open to the public and Tim hopes citizens attend meetings, become informed on local government activities. Swearing in ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday December 28, 2010 1:00pm at Columbia Heights City offices. Citizens and the press are invited to attend the event. Timothy David Utz Fidelity to the Constitution, Restoring the Republic 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people which..... This communication is private and not for consumption by any third party or governmental authority. The 4th amendment privacy rights under our Federal Constitution are fully invoked with this communication as specified in the original context and meaning of December 15, 1791.

From SAF

SAF, ANJRPC ASK FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN NEW JERSEY LAWSUIT

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs have filed a motion for summary judgment in their federal lawsuit that challenges New Jersey handgun carry laws. SAF and ANJRPC filed the lawsuit last month in federal district court in New Jersey. If this motion is granted, there could be action on the case early in 2011. "We're challenging New Jersey's unconscionable law that forces citizens to demonstrate some absurd justifiable need' in order to exercise a constitutional right to keep and bear arms," said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. "The way Garden State officials consistently abuse their authority to deny handgun licenses under existing statute is simply unconstitutional, and our case will prove that." "Our papers represent a superb piece of legal work and establish a rock solid foundation for restoring sanity to the way New Jersey treats the fundamental right of self defense," added ANJRPC President Scott Bach. "The right to defend yourself with a firearm outside the home has long been denied in the Garden State, and we intend to change that." The legal brief filed as part of Monday's summary judgment motion details the legal reasons for overturning New Jersey's carry laws. "Our partners in New Jersey anticipate opposition from the state Attorney General," Gottlieb said. "We expect a motion for dismissal to be filed by the Attorney General sometime next month." Since its historic Second Amendment victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago, SAF is also pursuing challenges to similar gun permit law abuses in New York, California, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and has also filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's Emergency Powers statute, along with several other important Second Amendment cases.

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

from League of American Voters

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TO OBAMA: WIMPS DON’T WIN

By Dick Morris

Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension — the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of his extreme far-left positions, the president looks like a wimp, abandoning his long-held views in the face of electoral defeats, adverse court rulings, recalcitrant Democrats and strong, united Republican opposition.

And wimps don’t win.

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When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-96, he agreed to a balanced-budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. But it was his deal, along his lines, on his principles. When he signed a welfare reform bill, he did so after beating back and vetoing two Republican bills that coupled reform with harsh cuts to Medicaid. After he got a bill on his own terms, he signed it.

Barack Obama’s “compromise” with the Republicans over the Bush tax cuts is no more of a compromise than was the deal Emperor Hirohito cut with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of the battleship Missouri after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surrender, not a compromise. It was submission, not triangulation.

Obama is checkmated as long as Republicans hold firm, challenge him on solid grounds anchored in public opinion and remain united. He can either lose the election of 2012 because he is an obstinate ideologue who won’t compromise and won’t abandon his socialist principles or he can lose it because he does surrender and is too weak to be president.

He does not have a third option — winning the budget fights and winning reelection — as long as the Republicans properly mount their challenge, because public opinion, the essential element for victory, is not with him.

• Americans want spending cuts, not tax increases
• Americans believe that cutting spending is more important even than cutting the deficit (see Rasmussen)
• Americans oppose ObamaCare
• Americans are against letting the Environmental Protection Agency impose carbon dioxide restrictions without consulting Congress.
• Americans are against unilateral National Labor Relations Board action to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections.
• Americans oppose earmarks
• Americans do not want the Federal Communications Commission to limit or censor talk radio.

These are the grounds for our battles in 2011-2012. It is on this turf that the Republican House majority must fight. The fearful “moderate” Democratic senators will cave in. And then Obama will be forced to surrender because the Force — public opinion — is not with him. You can govern by ignoring what Americans think if you have a majority. But not if you don’t.

And with each surrender — over his desire to raise the debt limit without mandated spending cuts, over his support for bailing out states in trouble, and over his demand to raise taxes in the 2012 budget — Obama will get weaker and weaker.

His inability to fight and win the war on terror and his choice to become mired in Afghanistan with no real plan for winning will contribute to the image of weakness.

In 2012, he will face America denuded of all the programs he passed in 2009-2010, with an economy only slightly improved but with at least 7-8 percent unemployment, and with a manifest inability to measure up to the job of president.

Most presidents face a challenge of weakness. With Eisenhower, it was his refusal to stand up to Joe McCarthy. With Kennedy, it was his inability to pass legislation. With Nixon, it was his inability to get ahead of the Watergate scandal. With Ford, it was his helplessness in the face of inflation. With Carter, it was the hostage crisis. With Reagan, it was his failure to control the Iran-Contra affair. With Bush-41, it was his passivity on the economy. With Clinton, it was the flip-flopping early in h is presidency. With Obama, it will be his retreat in the face of the Republican counterattack of 2011.

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From GOPUSA re FCC Take over of Internet

Fellow American Patriot, Barack Obama has a "Christmas surprise" for the American people. It's based upon the FCC's self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules. Via the FCC, Mr. Obama wants to take control of the Internet---YOUR Internet---your ability to contact your friends, your relatives, and your elected representatives in government. This "stealth" use of new rules and regulations will sneak up on us just before Christmas. Quite frankly, not too many people know about this; or really take the notion seriously, because, after all, we have the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to protect us. Right? Wrong! The FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. The Obama Administration wants to take control of the Internet. BEFORE CHRISTMAS! (even though the regulations won't "officially" go into effect until after the holidays. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement---I call it a bald face lie---reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy. Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Here's the underlying problem for Barack Obama. Internet journalists tend to report the news without coloring it with the brush of "political correctness." They challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth. Please, CLICK HERE to send a FAX to every single Member of Congress TODAY, and tell them that they need to exercise their Constitutional authority and oversight over the FCC, by insisting that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet. Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives. AND, please be sure to send a sizeable DONATION to the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) as we keep this Internet freedom issue before the eyes of every Member of Congress. We must not let the federal government continue to whittle away at our Constitutional freedoms!

From GO

Fellow American Patriot, Barack Obama has a "Christmas surprise" for the American people. It's based upon the FCC's self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules. Via the FCC, Mr. Obama wants to take control of the Internet---YOUR Internet---your ability to contact your friends, your relatives, and your elected representatives in government. This "stealth" use of new rules and regulations will sneak up on us just before Christmas. Quite frankly, not too many people know about this; or really take the notion seriously, because, after all, we have the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to protect us. Right? Wrong! The FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. The Obama Administration wants to take control of the Internet. BEFORE CHRISTMAS! (even though the regulations won't "officially" go into effect until after the holidays. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement---I call it a bald face lie---reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy. Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Here's the underlying problem for Barack Obama. Internet journalists tend to report the news without coloring it with the brush of "political correctness." They challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth. Please, CLICK HERE to send a FAX to every single Member of Congress TODAY, and tell them that they need to exercise their Constitutional authority and oversight over the FCC, by insisting that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet. Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives. AND, please be sure to send a sizeable DONATION to the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) as we keep this Internet freedom issue before the eyes of every Member of Congress. We must not let the federal government continue to whittle away at our Constitutional freedoms!

From the Minnesota Majority re Dream Act

STOP THE DREAM ACT

The next 24 hours will be the most important opportunity for grassroots activists to STOP the DREAM Act amnesty from passing in Congress.

This Action Alert is based upon information from Immigration Action Report.

The DREAM Act is an amnesty for 2.1 million undocumented young adults in this country. Vote is set for 10am in the Senate on Saturday, December 18, 2010. We only have one chance to stop this!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has filed a cloture motion (to start/stop debate) on the House amendment to the Senate amendments to H.R. 5281, the DREAM Act, setting up a cloture vote on the measure for Saturday morning, December 18, 2010. There will be 2 possible votes, but the first vote is the most important!

60 votes are needed to pass first vote - then only 51 votes to pass second vote and if it wins, the DREAM Act will go to the President to become law.

STEP 1

Call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at (202) 224-2541. Explain your version of the following:

"I'm calling to tell Senator McConnell that every single Republican in the Senate had better vote NO ON CLOTURE for the Dream Amnesty. All 42 GOP must vote NO to stop this bill from advancing. I am going to hold Senator McConnell, as minority leader, personally responsible for keeping Republicans together in opposition to this terrible Dream Act AMNESTY bill that would allow Obama and Homeland Security to give Amnesty to any and all illegal aliens according to the 'waiver' on page 5 line 21. Please let Senator McConnell know that Americans are counting on him to assure all GOP Senators vote NO on DREAM Act AMNESTY CLOTURE."

STEP 2

Please select from our suggested talking points and then call your Minnesota US Senators.

• Senator Amy Klobuchar (202) 224-3244
• Senator Al Franken (202) 224-5641

Suggested messages:

• "Vote NO on Cloture for the DREAM Act. Please vote NO tomorrow on the DREAM Act."
• "Please ask Senator _______ to vote NO ON CLOTURE ON THE DREAM AMNESTY BILL and tell Harry Reid that America wants Congress to come home for Christmas and end the lame duck!"
• "Please ask Senator _____ to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE because HR5281 on page 5 line 21 allows Obama and Homeland Security to waive all requirements and grant amnesty to almost all illegal aliens in America."
• "Please vote NO ON CLOTURE FOR 5281 AMNESTY BILL because this bill will displace and replace millions of innocent American workers, students, and voters."

MN Supreme Court to Rule on DNA Use!

MN Supreme Court to Rule on DNA Use!

The Minnesota Supreme Court has announced that it will review the Baby DNA lawsuit filed March 11, 2009 against the Minnesota Department of Health for the State's collection, storage, use, and sharing of newborn DNA without parent knowledge or consent!

This is GREAT news!

As Randy Knutson, lead attorney for the nine families who filed the lawsuit, says: "The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted review of the case. This is rare, and important. It means that the [MN] Supreme Court has found it to be one of the few cases important enough for it to review and decide. We are confident that the Supreme Court will take a long, hard look at the DNA privacy rights of parents and children, as well as the conduct of the Minnesota Department of Health."

Mr. Knutson has requested our financial support. We need your help to raise $26,000 to underwrite key portions of preparing the case for the Supreme Court hearing.

A win for these nine families will be a win for every Minnesota family. Parents will be able to protect their children from becoming involuntary subjects of government genetic research. Parents will be able to preserve their child's DNA ownership rights. Parents will be empowered to say no to the government's DNA grab. A win will also help protect parent and child DNA and privacy rights nationwide.

Please donate $500, $250, $50 or more today! (Write "Baby DNA lawsuit" in the "Add a Designation" section, which is above where you add your credit card info). You can also mail your check to the CCHF address below.

Your DNA is your private property. Individual consent for storage, use, analysis and sharing must be obtained at all times, including at birth.

This lawsuit is critical. Your financial support is essential.

And...your gift is tax-deductible! Please give generously (click here)!

Twila

Twila Brase RN, PHN

President

Citizens' Council for Health Freedom

1954 University Ave. W, Ste. 8

St. Paul, MN 55104

www.healthcarefreedom.us 651-646-8935

Conlon Death

Conlon Death

It is with great distress that we must announce the death of

Tom Conlon,

Saint Paul's longest serving Republican

Tom Conlon a 5 term member of the Saint Paul School Board died Sunday from apparent natural causes.

Survived by his parents Tom Sr. and Odelia Conlon.

Funeral arrangements will be provided by O'Halloran and Murphy Funeral Directors and The Saint Louis King of France Catholic Church, Saint Paul, MN

More information will be provided as it becomes available.

log onto www.SaintPaulRepublicans.org for more information.

Conlon Irish Wake

Conlon Irish Wake

Invite you

to a traditional Irish Wake honoring Tom Conlon

Sunday, December 19th, from 4-8pm at O’Gara’s Bar & Grill, on the corner of Selby & Snelling Ave, Saint Paul, MN Irish music, laughter, reminiscing and sobbing provided Memorial Service to be held at 2pm, Monday, December 20th at The Saint Louis King of France Catholic Church, Saint Paul, MN