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Newsletter 2019-01 Final.Odt Bull Run Republican Women’s Club THE BRIDGE, 2019-01 President’s Corner January 2019 Happy New Year! 2018 was a very busy year for the Bull Run Republican Women’s Club. We: • increased our membership with 11 new members • volunteered a total of 7673.25 (at least) hours • made over 6,346 at our annual Fashion Show and Luncheon Fundraiser January • supported a variety of charities including Carried to Full Term, CareNet, the Haymarket Food Pantry, Streetlight Ministries, 2019 and some Title One schools in PWC • donated “The Remarkable Ronald Reagan” to elementary schools in Brentsville, Coles, and Gainesville Districts. Our members: ran for and held public office were campaign managers, Election Officers and Poll Workers knocked doors, phone banked and wrote postcards for our candidates manned the Republican Booth at many Festivals and Parades throughout PWC worked at the PWC Fair Republican Booth lobbied both the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the US Congress wrote to our Congressmen and Senators, as well as to other Representatives supported Judge Kavanaugh by contacting the Senators on the Judiciary Committee and attending a rally to show that women are behind him attended rallies, including one supporting ICE travelled to Richmond to ensure that the State Board of Elections penalized Harry Wiggins for his fraudulent campaign activities However, 2018 is now over, and we must get busy with the 2019 election cycle. It is time for everyone to renew their membership. It is also a great time to invite others to join us. Our first meeting will be on January 17th at the Lion and Bull Restaurant in Haymarket. We will start meeting at 6pm for dinner, and our business meeting will start at 7:30. Our Fashion Show will be held on Saturday, April 6th at the Brass Cannon at Stone Wall Golf Club. Start collecting donations from Restaurants, Spas, Wineries, etc. Also, get your guests confirmed early – we are always competing with a variety of other events. I will be calling everyone to find out what Committees (both Club and Fashion Show) each of you would like to be on. If there is a committee that you are especially interested in working on, let me know now. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the losses that the Club and members suffered this year, including the death of Jean Robinson, Debbie Bowers’ mother, Elaine Pugh’s father, Michelle Baker’s sister, and Pat Johnson’s husband. I will end on a joyful note, by letting you know that my grandson Keith Charles Desmedt was born last Friday! These little people are why we work continuously – their future depends on it! May God Bless all of you and your loved ones, as well as our wonderful Country! Meg January is named after the Roman god Janus. Originally “Janarius,” the month had 29 days until the Julian calendar when it became 31 days long. Janus (who represents new beginnings) is the Roman god of gates and doorways. He is often depicted with two faces, each looking in the opposite direction. His festival month is January. January’s gemstone is the garnet; the flowers are the Carnation (sometimes referred to as a gillyflower) or the Snowdrop. Snowdrops will often bloom in the snow, but legend has it that it’s bad luck to pick these delicate flowers. Those born in January are said to be intense and natural leaders, able to stand up when no one else can. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Happy Happy Birthday Birthday Stefanie Michelle 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Law Epiphany Enforcement BRRWC VFRW Executive Legislative Committee Day Appreciation (Richmond) Day Meeting 9th 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 BRRWC Lee Robert E. Lee MEETING Jackson Birthday 6:00 Dinner Day 7:30 Meeting 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Martin Luther King Jr Day Happy (Fed Holiday) Birthday --- Marta Nat’l Hug Day st nd 27 28 29 30 31 February 1 February 2 Jacks National Happy Happy Groundhog ”Wear Red” Day Birthday Birthday Day Bonnie Shirley 2 17 Dinner at 6:00 or as you are able; Meeting Called to Order at 7:30 January 17th – Lion & Bull Table of Contents Dates To Remember JANUARY President’s Corner Page 1 January Calendar 2 Jan 1 Happy Near Year! Table of Contents 3 Jan 2 Stefanie Stauffer’s Birthday Dates to Remember 3 Jan 4 Michelle Baker’s Birthday Personally Speaking 4 Jan 6 Epiphany Sympathy 5 Jan 9 BRRWC Executive Committee Meeting Newsletter Help Wanted 5 Jan 9 Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Tree Disposal 5 Jan 10 VFRW Legislative Day Mountains and Molehills 6-8 New Desmedt Baby! 8 Jan 15 Newsletter Deadline Yesli - PWC-BOCS 9 Jan 17 BRRWC Meeting Wiggins found guilty 9 Jan 18 Lee-Jackson Day World-wide migration 9-10 Jan 19 Robert E. Lee’s Birthday Republican Creed 10 Jan 21 MLK Jr. Birthday (Fed Holiday) 2019 Dues 11 Jan 25 Marta Munzi’s Birthday Fashion Show Donations 11 Jan 27 Bonnie Ippoliti’s Birthday Legislative Update: Equal Rights Amendment 12-16 Jan 28 Shirley Way’s Birthday “Disease of Despair” 17-18 Voter Fraud 19-22 LOOKING AHEAD BRRWC in Photos 23 Feb 1 National “Wear Red” Day Members and More 24 Feb 2 Groundhog Day Miscellaneous 25 Feb 3 Superbowl Sunday 2019 Oficers 26 Feb 3 Chrissy O’Connor’s Birthday Membership Application 27-28 Feb 7 Jane Beyer’s Birthday Committee Interest Form 29 Feb 17 Debbie Weber’s Birthdays Websites 30 Feb 20 Meg Connelley’s Birthday Feb 21 MLK Birthday Feb 23 Renee Baldwin’s Birthday 3 Get Well Wishes Birthdays This Month Stefanie ~ Jan 2 th Michelle ~ Jan 4 Heather Rice had surgery on December 14 to repair her knee and is doing well. Marta ~ Jan 25 Bonnie ~ Jan 27 Stefanie Stauffer is also doing well following back surgery she had at the end on November. Shirley ~ Jan 28 Ilma Striker and Jacquie Meeks are both now at home recovering from broken hips. They would appreciate cards or visitors very much! Your Info Welcome Anniversary, illness, birth of a grandchild, or special trip? Any other announcement that you would like to share with your fellow club Bob Colucci (Judy ‘s husband) has been members? (Trips are not announced until undergoing chemotherapy after your return) Have an article, a photo, or an opinion to Debbie Bowers’ mother passed away on share? Your input is both welcome and wanted! December 13th Please contact Jan at: jan.bullrun @ yahoo.com 4 TREE DISPOSAL Help Wanted! Wondering where to dispose of your live Christmas tree? Trees may be dropped off at the following locations: I have agreed to stay on as Editor. Prince William County Landill However, as Treasurer, I will not • 14811 Dumfries Road in Manassas be able to put forth the me and • Monday-Saturday, 6am-6pm; Sunday 8am – 5pm effort needed to connue to Balls Ford Road Compost Facility • 13000 Balls Ford Road in Manassas publish the type of newsleer as • Monday – Saturday, 7:30am –5pm; Sunday, 8am – in the past year. 5pm Shelter 2 at Leesylvania State Park • 2001 Daniel K. Ludwig Drive in Woodbridge I am looking for one or more members who will write • No restrictions on hours arcles as a regular feature in each month’s newsleer. NOVEC Write on any topic you choose. No experience • 5399 Wellington Branch Road in Gainesville • between December 26 and January 7. necessary. Otherwise, the newsleer will be shorter • Take to the front parking lot of Novec’s tech center, where orange safety cones will be set up, and some features will disappear. 5 CREATING MOUNTAINS OUT OF MOLEHILLS AND MOLEHILLS OUT OF MOUNTAINS Reprinted with permission from: ConservativeGovernment.Net The article below is from 2013, but the tactics have not changed. All of us need to be aware of how progressives play their game. Each link (in blue) substantiates the arguments made. Click on any of the links for more details. Posted June 27, 2013 One of the key progressive tactics is to create straw men issues out of tiny or non-existent issues, fabricating “mountains out of molehills”, while at the same time downplaying real crises and ignoring them, in effect turning real mountains into molehills. In many cases, the left completely makes up the mountain out of whole cloth, Republican “War on Women?” Please! What better way to show this strategy than to list some examples, all to the detriment of our country, by the way: Mountains out of Molehills: • Donald Trump and His campaign “colluded” with the Russians to steal the 2016 elecon. • Criminals are mistreated by America, and should be given their full rights back. “Obama doesn’t think rapists, armed robbers, drug dealers are criminals”, now called “justice-involved- individuals”, VA Gov Terry McAuliffe executive action grants 206,000 felons right to vote. • Global cooling – Clearly their alarmist prediction of another ice age never happened. • Man-made global warming – Now that we have 17 years without a global temperature rise, they changed the lexicon to global climate change and blame extreme weather on carbon. Global Warming Science Reversal of Green Guru Lovelock , falsifying data to create warming. Climate Change Infographic. • GOP “War on women”– Sadly this worked and helped get President Obama reelected in 2012. • “ Ban Bossy” effort • DDT – Completely made up claim that DDT was dooming the planet. Bogus claims were made like DDT was responsible for killing bald eagles by reducing the thickness of eagle egg shells. Banning DDT resulted in (tens of millions of people dead from malaria, and now bed bugs are returning to the US, don’t let them bite!) • US healthcare system was in crisis – Hysteria used to ram through Obama care • Energy • High oil prices (blame oil companies, speculators) • Offshore drilling, Anwar, coal mines, fracking, Keystone XLOil Pipeline ( claims that it will destroy the environment and poison our water) • Incandescent Light bulbs (soon may not have any American made bulbs).
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