Saturday, April 27, 2013

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Greetings Fellow Patriots!

 

There will be a special meeting of the Richmond Tea Party on Thursday, May 2nd at 7 p.m. 

 

This is an important meeting, and you are strongly encouraged to attend! The main purpose of the meeting is to inform our supporters of the results from the recent "candidate vetting weekend," sponsored by the Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation and the Middle Resolution PAC.

 

Hundreds of Tea Party members from all over the Commonwealth spent two days listening to each candidate answer an identical list of questions involving issues and principles held dear by all true patriots. The participants considered the answers carefully, and then gave each response a score. These scores were then combined and used to rank the 7 candidates for Lt. Governor and the 2 candidates for Attorney General. The results of that ranking will be made available at the meeting.

 

If you are a delegate to the GOP Convention in May, these rankings will be of great benefit in deciding how to cast your vote! Remember, there is bound to be more than one round of balloting. You need to have more than one candidate in mind, in case your "favorite" doesn't make it to the final round! We recommend you have a "top 3." This meeting will help you identify those 3 candidates. Even if you are not a delegate, you will find this information informative and useful for the election in November. This is a tremendous opportunity for Tea Party supporters to have a major impact on the election of true, liberty-minded conservatives! We're taking the Country back! Don't miss out!

 

Also, we will take the opportunity to begin filling positions in our new "Action Teams." You can begin "making a difference" by joining a team that fits your interest and talents. Our teams cover such areas as public relations, marketing, outreach, writing, research, IT support, government affairs, activism, and more! The best cure for frustration is action! You'll be put to work right away in manageable, but meaningful assignments. Come and see where you can "plug in" to make a real difference!

 

The location of the meeting is Grace Alive Outreach Church, 4912 E. Millridge Pkwy. Midlothian, VA 23112. The Church is in the Market Square shopping center, near the intersection of Old Hundred Rd. and Hull St. (Rte. 360). The Church is at the southern end of the shopping area.

 

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

 

For Liberty!

 

Your Richmond Tea Party Staff

 

 

 

 

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Friday, April 26, 2013

some exciting news this week

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Robert - 

This will be a historic Republican convention in Richmond on May 18th – and we are just 22 days away. I wanted to share some exciting news about Mark’s campaign for Attorney General.

On Wednesday, a conservative blogger, Willie Deutsch, released the results of his two-week long online straw poll of over 800 RPV convention delegates – and it offers some fascinating insights into Mark’s strong statewide support among grassroots conservatives:

Among the 845 RPV Convention delegates surveyed, Mark Obenshain is favored more than two-to-one by those who have settled on a candidate.

While favored by all age groups, Mark Obenshain is strongest among delegates aged 18-29 years old, 63% - 27%, with 10% undecided—with Mark carrying a full 70% of 18-29 year olds who have made up their minds.

And Mark Obenshain is leading among those who have settled on a candidate in delegate-rich areas like Northern Virginia, where he leads 62% to 38%, and Tidewater, where those who have chosen a candidate favor him 70% to 30%.

Mark’s strong showing in this online straw poll follows closely on the heels of other important developments:

At the recent YRFV convention in Arlington this past Saturday, over 300 Young Republicans attended to elect their leadership, and in a straw poll during balloting, Mark won with a stunning 86%!

A wide range of conservative leaders across the Commonwealth have endorsed Mark’s campaign, from Shaun Kenney in Fluvanna County, to Del. Ben Cline in Rockbridge County, and from Chairman Charles Hokanson in Arlington to 9th District GOP Chairman Jack Morgan, among many others.

At a recent spring jamboree, Mark won a Loudoun County straw poll nearly two-to-one, 72-40!

These encouraging signs are a result of Mark’s relentless efforts to spread his conservative message to every unit across Virginia. But most importantly, they show that the hard work of hundreds of activists across the Commonwealth, who have volunteered as “Team Obenshain” leaders for the convention, is truly paying off!

Will you join these hardworking conservatives in fighting for Mark at the convention by joining Team Obenshain today?

We have a lot to be proud of in our candidate, like successful, conservative legislation passed this session and his clear and unwavering commitment to conservative principles.  But now is the time to get involved, so please reply to this email if you have any questions, will need a ride to the convention or would like to join us. Also, you may follow Mark’s campaign on Facebook by clicking here or on Twitter by clicking here.

Won’t you take a few moments to sign up to help grow our party and achieve a win at the convention for Mark by joining “Team Obenshain” today?

Sincerely,

Dan Letovsky
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Mark Obenshain for Attorney General

 

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Dear Friend,

Thank you for offering yourself as a delegate to the Republican Convention in Richmond on Saturday, May 18th. Your involvement is so important because of the necessity that we elect another Republican Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General to protect Virginia from the Obama Administration's assaults on our state sovereignty and individual liberties. And, without the Lieutenant Governor's office, we do not have control of the Senate or the legislature as a whole.

It's been my honor to serve Chesterfield County, Colonial Heights, Amelia County, and parts of Dinwiddie County in the General Assembly over the past 25 plus years. Throughout these years I have maintained a consistent conservative, limited government, individual liberty record - earning ratings of "A" or 100% from organizations such as the NRA, the Family Foundation, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the American Conservative Union, and other organizations that fight for constitutional liberty, free market economics, and traditional conservative values. As a matter of fact, the Virginia Chamber of Commerce has recognized me as a "Champion of Free Enterprise" for the last two years, and the American Conservative Union has named me "Defender of Liberty" for 2012 and 2013.

I'm running for Lieutenant Governor because we need to nominate a candidate with a strong, consistent conservative record, rather than one who offers promises without a record to back it up. You will never need to wonder where I stand or how I will conduct myself as Lieutenant Governor. And, in all my many chairmanships throughout the years - especially as Chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee - I have demonstrated an ability to work effectively to advance our shared values in an evenly divided Senate.

Please consider my record and background. I would be honored to have your support for Lieutenant Governor at the Convention. Friends like you have always been there to help me succeed, even when vastly outspent by my opponents. If you have any questions about my position on the issues of importance to you, you can contact me at (804) 363-6826 or steve@senatorstevemartin.com. Thank you again for your dedication to our party and our principles. 

I look forward to seeing you at the Convention.

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Morning Briefing: The Pressure Cooker


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Morning Briefing

For April 26, 2013



1.  Ted Cruz Will Be at the RedState Gathering. Will You?

We can now announce that Texas Senator Ted Cruz will be joining us as a speaker at the 2013 RedState Gathering, being held August 2-3 in New Orleans, LA.


Ted Cruz's election to the Senate in 2012 was truly a victory for the conservative grassroots. Since then, Senator Cruz has continued to garner a national following as he's played an important role in protecting 2nd Amendment rights, fighting Obamacare, securing our borders, and joining Rand Paul's marathon filibuster. He's also a longtime friend and supporter of RedState, and has been an attendee favorite at the past few Gatherings.


I'm also excited to announce that we'll be welcoming Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli back to the RedState Gathering. He was with us at the very first Gathering in Atlanta and returned again last year with an especially invigorating speech in Jacksonville.


With these new announcements, we've decided to extend our Early Bird pricing. You'll now be able to receive our 20% discount off the registration price through the end of April — Tuesday, April 30. Just make sure you enter promo code EARLYBIRD on the registration page.


More speaker announcements to come soon!


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2.  From Melting Pot to Pressure Cooker

There is a battle of funny headlines playing out across America.


According to the Wall Street Journal, "Suspects Roused by Jihadist Thought."


Surprisingly, the New York Times headline was "Boston Suspect Cites Islamic Extremist Beliefs as Motive". Unsurprisingly, they changed it to "Boston Suspects Are Seen as Self-Taught and Fueled by Web". Note that now, instead of fueled by religious zeal, it's the series of tubes known as the internet that did it.


The Washington Post, of course, has to take all the religion out of it and blame America."Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say," reads the Washington Post headline.


Credit where it is due, the Washington Post does a masterful job of blaming America. "[T]he evidence so far suggests they were "self-radicalized" through Internet sites and U.S. actions in the Muslim world." The Internet and American actions did it.


Time magazine is already exploring whether boxing might have had something to do with it.


It is amazing that within a one week period the media went from speculating that right wingers were celebrating Hitler's birthday on tax day to blaming Chechen nationalism to hearing the bomber say he was inspired by Islam to announcing it's not him, it's us to blame.


Had it been a tea partier who launched a terror attack at the Boston Marathon, the media would spend weeks blaming Republicans, conservatives, talk radio rhetoric, and Fox News hosts for inspiring the bombing.


But because the bomber himself says he was inspired by his religious faith and that faith happens to be Islam, the media will ascribe other reasons to explain the attack that are more palatable to the its liberal sensibilities. As often happens in these cases, the media quickly descends into blaming America first.


One of the most insane pieces of the whole past week was from Marc Ambinder, a respected journalist, who explicitly says we should blame America, not Islam, for the bombers.


So stuck in a liberal world view blinding him to reality, along with most of the press corps in America, he can't see to the actual nugget of truth he's trying to grasp for — liberalism. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →


3.  More immigration bill disappointments: the "back tax" provision is a fraud, and provisional residents CAN get welfare

It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it's increasingly clear that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) hasn't completely read the immigration bill he's touting.  It seems like every day, another claim made by defenders of the Gang of Eight bill gets shot down by critics who actually have read through all 844 pages.


Personally, I was most immediately and deeply skeptical of the claim that our "new Americans" would be expected to pay back taxes and fines, in exchange for amnesty.  I've just never been able to imagine such an imperative actually working in practice, particularly when administered by the same government that insists those 11 or 12 million illegal aliens are untraceable phantoms who can't possibly be arrested or deported.  Not to mention that a lot of these people would end up with zero or negative tax liability, which means "paying back taxes" would more likely end up involving the government cutting them a check, if rules were not carefully written to prevent it.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post →


4.  Get Ready for House Immigration Gangsters

It looks like we might have to get more conservative-Americans to do the job that the GOP-controlled House won't do.


In what has become a familiar routine, instead of fighting against the heaping pile of immigration deform emanating from the Democrat Senate, House Republicans are looking to tweak it with some honey and sugar in order to inveigle  conservatives into eating this excrement sandwich.  Whereas Republicans in the Senate outsourced their principles on the issue to Chuck Schumer, some House Republicans are looking to Luis Gutierrez, an even more extreme leftist, for guidance.  For months, the House gang of 8, comprised of Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), Sam Johnson (R-Texas) and John Carter (R-Texas), have been meeting behind closed doors with special interests to iron out a similar deform bill to the Senate's version.  Paul Ryan seems to merit a separate one-on-one relationship with Gutiérrez.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post →




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Erick Erickson
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Discount extended, plus speaker announcements

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Sen. Ted Cruz will be at the RedState Gathering!

Exciting news!

We can now announce that Texas Senator Ted Cruz will be joining us as a speaker at the 2013 RedState Gathering, being held August 2-3 in New Orleans, LA.

Ted Cruz's election to the Senate in 2012 was truly a victory for the conservative grassroots. Since then, Senator Cruz has continued to garner a national following as he's played an important role in protecting 2nd Amendment rights, fighting Obamacare, securing our borders, and joining Rand Paul's marathon filibuster. He's also a longtime friend and supporter of RedState, and has been an attendee favorite at the past few Gatherings.

I'm also excited to announce that we'll be welcoming Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli back to the RedState Gathering. He was with us at the very first Gathering in Atlanta and returned again last year with an especially invigorating speech in Jacksonville.

With these new announcements, we've decided to extend our Early Bird pricing. You'll now be able to receive our 20% discount off the registration price through the end of April -- Tuesday, April 30. Just make sure you enter promo code EARLYBIRD on the registration page.

More speaker announcements to come soon!

Click here to learn more or register.

Sincerely,

Erick Erickson
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**** Grassroots Round Table Meeting Saturday April 27, 2013 CANCELLED****Look inside for Team Leader information from the Cuccinelli Campaign******

Sorry Folks,

 

                There are too many members with other commitments on Saturday. Our meeting is cancelled.

 

Ken Cuccinelli’s Campaign has found a way to implement a new way of organizing our neighborhoods. It’s called the Neighborhood Leader Program. It’s volunteer driven, grassroots focused. To become a Team Leader please call Tim Pogge, 757-593-3871.

 

Perhaps we as the Grassroots Round Table can consider an issue based focus. Please contact me if there are any compelling issues affecting our state, region or country that you’d like to see addressed by us as the Grassroots Round Table.

 

Sincerely,

 

Julie Eskeli

757-515-0283

Eskeli@outlook.com

 

IMPORTANT: Information for 2013 Convention Delegates

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Dear Delegate,

Congratulations on your election as delegate to the 2013 Republican Party of Virginia State Convention! We're looking forward to having you join us in Richmond on May 17 & 18 as we choose our nominees for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, and officially kick off our campaigns for the year!

If you've already received this, please forgive the duplication, but we want to be sure that all delegates have this critical information.

We've got a ton of information to give you about what's going on over the course of the Convention weekend, what you need to bring, where you need to go, where to stay, and other critical details.

Please click here to download the entire packet. 

If you know a fellow delegate who doesn't have access to email, please print a copy for them as well!

Please regularly visit www.RPVConvention.com for Convention news and updates.  We will also send you exciting news and announcements by email, so please keep an eye on your inboxes on Thursdays for emails from RPV.

If  you have questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us by emailing convention@rpv.org or calling 804-780-0111. 

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