CLALLAM COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY SEPTEMBER 2013 “Hutch” Hutcherson talks freedom Family Policy Institute grassroots director speaks at GOP meeting Dr. Ken Hutcherson shares his thoughts at Sequim gathering
– Sequim, WA On August 10, On August 19, 2013, Danille 2013, former Seattle Seahawk Turussini, WA State Grassroots and Dallas Cowboy middle line- Director of the Family Policy Insti- backer, and current pastor of An- tute of Washington (FPIW) spoke to tioch Bible Church near Seattle, Central Committee at GOP head- Dr. Ken “Hutch” Hutcherson, quarters. She shared the im- shared his testimony, a sermon, portance of understanding the pro- and answered questions from the cess that takes place in Olympia in audience. Co -sponsored as a introducing, debating and passing legislation, and invited everyone for free event by the CCRP and a 3 -hour class at the Capitol to learn RWCC, Hutch talked about living first -hand “how it works”, TBA. through the final days of segregation and how it affected him, and how his attitude changed when he became a Christian. His energetic re- She discussed the public policy that sponses to questions about all topics political offered encouragement to the FPIW works to develop, includ- the packed house of citizens who turned out at Sequim Bible Church to ing life, marriage, religious freedom hear him speak. Hutcherson has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn and parental rights. Beck and is an outspoken advocate for freedom and conservative gov- The core functions of FPIW include ernment policies. He has been battling bone cancer for 13 years, and — was supposed to have been gone some 5 years ago according to doc- preparing leaders legislators, edu- cators, pastors, parents and citi- tors, but as he says, God is the zens, to become an effective advo- one Who decides when he will cate for their values within their “Firearms stand next in go. You can view videos and sphere of influence. The policy they importance to the constitution read his blog at hutchpost.org . work to promote would strengthen itself. They are the American families and reflect what is “good, people's liberty teeth and true and beautiful.” keystone under independence." Finally, FPIW works to provide ac- ~George Washington countability for decisions that are made by their elected representa- tive by connecting voters with infor- mation at the time they need it the
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JULY CONTRIBUTORS Half -Century Club I don’t know about you, but all this talk Forrest & Anna Faulkner about Obama’s health care plan is making me sick.
ROGUE ELEPHANTS Kip & Alice McKeever 5/13 Let’s get this straightA the whole plan is based on ELEPHANTS providing health care to an additional 30 million or so Seven Cedars Casino 4/13 Richard & Lynne Kott 2/13 Mark & Sonjia Marinaro 1/13 Don Alexander 6/13 recipients which, on the face of it, sounds like a good BABY ELEPHANTS idea. Jerry & Diloy Ludke 4/13 John Procter 3/13 Barbara & Allan Bentley 2/13 Georgia & Warren Mitchell 2/13 Anon. 1/13 Kaj & Laura Ahlburg 7/12 Colleen Philliber 4/12 However, we are not going to increase the number of CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS healthcare providers which, incidentally, are retiring in Rod & Patti Howard 4/13 Tobert & Gisela Kavanaugh 3/13 Thomas & Susan Lee 3/13 William Bartlett, Jr. 3/13 Dixie Simpson 3/12 droves without significant replacements on the immedi- Michael Schaefermeyer 3/13 Lonnie Pollard 3/13 Stanley & Mary Johann 3/13 ate horizon. Nor will we increase the “waiting time” for Janice & Gary Smith 3/13 Susan Virgin 2/13 Dick Beare 2/13 services. And we will definitely not institute a method of Daniel & Susan Shotthafer 2/13 Charles & Karen Fink 2/13 Cleo Brenner 2/13 Don & Ruth Roberts 2/13 prioritizing services whereby certain persons will be Milo & Terri Walker 2/13 Claudia Cookson 2/13 Doris Nolan 1/13 “more eligible” than others. (Can you say death panels?) Col. David Swinford 1/13 Jim & B.J. Harper 1/13 Dixie Gaydeski 1/13 Jerry & Geri Angiuli 12/12 Harold & Joyce Hanusa 10/12 Moreover, to top it off, we will actually decrease the Leland Jones 10/12 William Bartlett, Jr. 9/12 Norris Hart 9/12 overall cost of healthcare. Carl & Helen Rice 7/12 Jim & Margaret McAllister 7/12 Deborah Kelly 5/12 Daniel & Cynthia Gase 5/12 Curtis Johnson 4/12 Stephen Deutermann 4/12 J W & Aloma Blaylock 6/13 Really?? Well, maybeA But only after we successfully HALF -CENTURY CLUB repeal the law of supply and demandA Shirley Lannan 4/13 James & Beatrice Muir 4/13 Ann Kennedy 4/13 I.J. & Delores Leskinovitch 4/13 Brando Blore 4/13 Bill & Linda Rhodes 4/13 Krys Gordon 4/13 Fred Chan 3/13 Let’s face itA the bottom line is that providing Ernest Secondez 3/13 Grant Munro 3/13 Fred & Carol Royce 3/13 healthcare to many more people will, in fact, cost more Carol Philpott 3/13 Arthur & Veronica Ayres 3/13 Lorraine Ross 3/13 Elna Kawal 3/13 Floyd & Margaret Norcott 3/13 Eric Foth 2/13 money. And if those who are newly added to the Karl & Soonja Spees 2/13 Laurence O’Donnell 2/13 healthcare roles cannot or will not pay for these ser- Richard & Grieta Sieg 2/13 Wesley & Priscilla Edwards 2/13 Dan & Wilma Johnson 2/13 Donald Hall 2/13 Pat & Joanne Nolan 2/13 vices, someone else will be required to. And that Orville Campbell 2/13 Jim & Sheila Pfaff 1/13 “someone else” is likely to be you! Bob & Gisela Kavanaugh 11/12 Don & Dixie Simpson 10/12 You see, there are only three payment options for Lucinda & Steven Schlaffman 10/12 Norma Hunt 9/12 Bob Phillips 8/12 Will Garrison 8/12 Harry Lee 8/12 Tom & Virginia O’Donnell 8/12 health care. One pays for their own healthcareA or one Martha Brooks 7/12 Carl & Pat Nielsen 7/12 Walt & Marlis Panchyshyn 6/12 “freeloads” on the system thereby making others pay for Forest & Anna Faulkner 5/12 John & Pauline Behel 5/12 Maria Mactavish 4/12 their healthcareA or one pays for their own care and Richard Brostrom 4/12 Joanne Hatfield 4/12 H. A. McKeever 6/13 that of the “freeloader” as well. Mary Lee Long —6/13 Jim & Connie Beauvais —6/13 SUSTAINING MEMBERS Tom Damman 4/13 James Cunningham 4/13 Linda Beatty 4/13 This last option is the one to be chosen for you in the Mike & Robin Van Sant 4/13 Dave Collins 4/13 Adrienne Monro 3/13 coming year and this is why your healthcare costs are Dorothy Ludke 3/13 Bill Paddock 3/13 Ruth Fox 3/13 James Carey 3/13 going to skyrocket. You see, Obama is determined to Peggy Newlin 3/13 Beverly Stanley 3/13 Brian Teel 3/13 Paul Sprinkle 2/13 Tom Santos 2/13 Phyllis Bentley 2/13 John Hanrahan 2/13 Gordon & Sue save you money no matter how much it costs youA Gibbs 1/13 Sue & Bob Forde 1/13 Frank Staben 10/12 Bob Leitz 10/12 Albert Friess 10/12 Rev. Don & Jan Smith 9/12 Merle Broderick 9/12 Samuel Springob, Sr. 9/12 Larry Noblin 9/12 Glenn & Joyce Corson 9/12 In the past, I have had the opportunity to live in several Stephanie Noblin 9/12 Maureen McElravy 8/12 Jerry & Sandra Mitchell 8/12 countries wherein health care is provided without charge Peter & Gayla Heisel 7 /12 Janet & Pete Flatley 4/12 Stephen Holloway to its citizens. And I have to tell youA if you think your healthcare is expensive now; just wait until it is freeA
~Dick
(Dick Pilling is chair of the Clallam County GOP. He can be reached at [email protected].)
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New State Chair elected at State Central Committee meeting Smart Meters cause Spokane, WA —The State Committee, consisting of the chair and two elected a variety of citizen representatives from each county across Washington State, met on August 24, concerns 2013 to conduct business on behalf of the Washington State GOP. This meet- ing focused on electing a new State Chair to replace Kirby Wilbur, who re- On Saturday, Sept. 7th, there will signed to take a job in Washington DC. Four candidates were nominated from be a showing of the film “Take the floor, in accordance with the Rules. After the first ballot, Luanne Van Back Your Power: The ‘Smart Werven received the 41 votes (Jim Walsh got 16 votes; Christian Berrigan re- Meter’ Agenda Unveiled.” This is ceived 11 votes; and Susan Hutchison received 39 votes). According to the a nonpartisan event. Rules, the two lowest candidates were dropped, and the remaining two, acting chair (vice -chair) Luanne Van Werven, who has worked her way up within the It will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in GOP, and Susan Hutchison, a former KIRO news anchor, were in the final run- the Carver Room of the Port An- off. Susan Hutchison won by a vote of 59 -46, apparently drawing many of the geles Library, 2210 South Pea- votes from those who had lost in the first round. body.
The newly elected Hutchison will serve out the remaining term of one year and The documentary investigates approximately 4 months, before another election will be held in 2015. Since the “smart meter program” being her years at KIRO, Hutchison has served as a board member for the Discovery rolled out worldwide without most Institute, a Seattle think tank, and more recently as executive director of the people’s consent. There are is- Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, a philanthropic founda- sues about health, privacy, prop- tion in Seattle. She also serves as Finance Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Cen- erty rights, corporate fraud and ter in Washington, and is vice -chair of Young Life International, among others. the unprecedented vulnerability of the “smart” grid. Obama “Excuse -O-Meter” featured at GOP Fair Booth This free event is an opportunity Employees”, “The Stimulus Wasn’t for Olympic Peninsula residents Big Enough” and “I Inherited It.” A to learn more about the issue 12th spot on the wheel allowed peo- before Smart Meters are installed ple to win “Entitlement Candy from in Port Angeles. the Obama Stash”. The wheel was created and built by Peter Heisel, who found inspiration for the idea More information about the film while surfing on thepeoples- at: www.takebackyourpower.net cube.com. He was also responsible for creating the messaging in the Rob McKenna has a new website — booth. www.smartergovernment.org. He’s offering perspectives about why The CCRP booth at the 2013 Clallam Heisel thanks all the volunteers who Washington state government County Fair in August was a resound- made the booth a success, saying should focus on “core functions”. ing success. That’s why the central “their time and devotion are greatly committee voted it the “best fair booth appreciated.” He would like to give ever.” The booth sported new, roomi- special mention to Tom O’Donnell, SEND A GENEROUS $300 CHECK er tents with elegantly styled decora- Don Hall and Mark Marinaro, who FOR THE RENT tions and timeless messaging. CCRP helped with the set -up and decora- JANUARY
volunteers cheerily handed out US tion. He also credits the excellent KIP & A LICE MCKEEVER FEBRUARY —ANON . flags, US Constitutions, CCRP news- messaging and wheel creation with letters and “entitlement” candy. Over MARCH his close collaboration with Mr. Jack BARBARA & A LLAN BENTLEY 50 new people signed up to receive Daniels, Sir Johnny Walker, Dr. APRIL the CCRP newsletter. James Beam and Senor Jose Cuer- RICHARD & L YNNE KOTT vo. MAY —JOHN PROCTER The public was entertained by the “President Barack Obama Excuse -O- After the CCRP newsletter, the fair WE NEED YOUR HELP , FOLKS !! Meter”, where they could spin a wheel booth is our biggest and most expen- CHECKS PAYABLE TO
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President Barack Obama Home Rule Charter: Now is the time to consider running http://www.whitehouse.gov Write: c/o The White House Home Rule. That’s what we have. ed (5 from each commissioner dis- 1600 Penn. Ave., N.W. Our county is one of only six in the trict) to serve on the Home Rule Wash. D.C. 20500 state of Washington designated as a Charter Commission —to review and Comments: 202 -456 -1111 “Home Rule” charter county. suggest changes for citizens to vote
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