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THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE—THOMAS JEFFERSON JANUARY 2021 Awards: NFRW Diamond Award Club – 2019 2019 CFRW Membership Circle of Excellence 2018 Newsletter 2nd Place 2021 Events Calendar 2021 Spring Event Dates: 3/24 4/28 5/26 6/9 - Wed. 4th 4th 4th 2nd Jan 13: MRWF Board Virtual Meeting Live on-line, Wed. Jan. 27th Meeting 11am on-line Jan 20: Swear in President From your home and on your computer or telephone of the United States 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Jan 22: Fri. Satellite Club, 6pm - 9pm, TBD Speaker: Andrea Widburg Jan 27: MRWF Meeting Deputy Editor, American Thinker Live on-line speaker, 11:30am -12:30pm Topic: What Do We Need To Do Now? Feb 15: President’s Day Andrea is a Bay Area native who now lives just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. After thirty years as a lawyer, she finally lucked into her Feb 19: CRP Convention dream job in 2020 and now works full time as an editor and writer for American Thinker, an Feb 20: CFRW Spring online conservative publication. Conference via Zoom Here is how Thomas Lifson, Editor and Publisher of American Thinker, highlighted Andrea when he brought her in to the American Thinker team in January 2020. “You may not be Feb 24: MRWF Virtual familiar with her name, but if you are a fan of the conservative blogosphere, you probably have Meeting Live on-line seen her blog Bookworm Room. Andrea is bringing the same insight and eloquence to AT speaker, 11:30am - (American Thinker), and we are thrilled to have her on the team.” 12:30pm Andrea posts one or more articles a day on American Thinker. And you will see those articles Feb 26: Fri. Satellite Club, linked on RealClearPolitics, Lucianne, and other top sites every day by her readers. She has her 2021 MRWF Officers 6pm-9pm, TBD thumb on the pulse of the nation. President: Jane Mar Maushardt 24: MRWF Virtual 515-9384 We in Marin are familiar with her because she was our neighbor. Those of you who were members and enjoyed the speakers presented monthly at ‘Second Wednesdays’ will recognize [email protected] Live on -line st her as a leader in that conservative group. 1 VP/Programsspeaker, 11:30am: Mary Grove- 209- 321-1310 Join us on-line to get the absolute latest news and Andrea’s take on the news on January 27, [email protected]:30pm 2021. Get your questions answered. nd st 2 Mar VP/Co 26:- Membership:Fri. Satellite Club, Mary Grove, 1 VP, Programs Judy6pm Groesbeck-9pm, TBD 789-2052 Open, Co-membership Reservations:$ 0 members; $ 0 non-members Deadline: Fri. 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[email protected] Newsletter: Faye Bourret December Christmas- [email protected] 702-524-7793 Visit us on the web at www.mrwf.org and Holiday break THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE—THOMAS JEFFERSON Page 2 Marin Republican Women, Federated with wonderful, hard-working, and committed MRWF Boards, Presidents’ Report and now leave you all in Jane Maushardt’s capable hands. As we ring in 2021--alone--it appears that the “DemoRats” have We know it was a landslide Trump victory. To quote Yogi given the nation a tutorial in election fraud and stealing. As we go Berra, “It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings!” to print, the fate of the Senate hangs in the balance, and unless Kathryn Thompson & Jane Maushardt, Co-Presidents President Trump can pull a ”rabbit out of the hat,” it appears that the next administration will be the corrupt Biden/Harris one. Membership Report When election fraud prevails, there appears to be little hope for a fair and balanced society. The Dems seem intent on furthering division, not decreasing it. What President Trump managed to accomplish, with no Dem help, and very little from Republicans, was monumental. Biden We want to wish you all a Happy New Year! I will quickly reverse the Trump agenda of Middle East peace, know we are all anxiously looking forward to a new and standing up for fair trade with Mexico, Canada, and China, energy improved 2021! We are excited to welcome new independence, enforcing border law, etc. 2021 will not be starting members Sherri Freeman and Marilyn Zerbe to our club. on a happy note. California’s “silver lining” could be the New Thank you for supporting us, and we look forward to meeting California movement. Newsom’s removal from office seems you as soon as it is safe to resume our monthly luncheons and unlikely, in spite of his tyrannical and destructive governance. But monthly Friday night Satellite gatherings. We are all saddened after his French Laundry dinner, the recall is picking up steam. If and lonely that we cannot get together like the good old days. you have not signed a petition, make that a New Year’s resolution. We are currently and actively requesting that all of our 2021 Whether business-oriented, tax-paying Californians ever wake up, membership dues be sent in as soon as possible for both our or have enough voice to make a change, remains to be seen. regular members and associate members. Regular membership On a personal note, this is the last President’s Report I, Kathryn, dues are $40 and Associate membership dues are $25. will be writing. For several years, Peter and I have been Associate members are Republican women that are regular concerned about the “state of the State.” As a 4th generation members of another club, men, and non citizens. Also all must Californian, whose whole family came here in the 1860s, this was be registered Republicans. We are always looking for new not an easy decision for Peter (and me) to make, but we will be members so please encourage friends and family to look us up moving to Genoa, Nevada, in early March. The good news is that on our website at www.mrwf.org and join one of our zoom we are three houses from MRWF members Chris Blackburn and meetings. When our usual meetings resume, please invite Guy Sapp, who moved there five years ago. We will be replacing friends and family as guests to hear our speakers. MRWF our Petaluma River and Bay views with Carson Valley and snow- memberships make great birthday and holiday gifts as well. capped Sierra views, and have already met some “like-minded” Membership forms can be found on our website at people in the community. As you may know, with our son, www.mrwf.org under the Home tab or in the back of each daughter-in-law, and grand-girls in the East Bay, we will be newsletter. Dues should be sent to Judy Groesbeck, 20 Via San visiting, and I hope to make some MRWF luncheons, if life ever is Fernando, Tiburon, CA, or email me at [email protected] nd “normal” again. I will miss you all. Over the years I have worked Judy Groesbeck, 2 VP, Membership Countdown to Socialism - Devin Nunes’ New Book * California’s own Congressman (District 22) and an unsung American hero, Devin Nunes, has written a pamphlet book in the style of what Thomas Paine had distributed preceding the Revolutionary War. In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy, ringing the alarm for what was wrong and what needed to be done. Nunes warns that something needs to be done now before our country loses it morals and values. He writes, “The Left has wholly rejected the fundamental principles that bound Americans together and allowed us to work out our differences democratically and peacefully.” The Left now rejects free speech, a fair voting system, private property, and the rule of law. They don’t dare yet admit it publicly, but as you’ll see in this book, their policies and rhetoric are incompatible with any of these principles as we understand them today. *Adapted from an Elise Cooper book review in American Thinker December 19, 2020 Americanism Anna Mae Maly, Americanism Chair Visit us on the web at www.mrwf.org THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE—THOMAS JEFFERSON Page 3 Marin Republican Women, Federated Voter Registration February Volunteers Community Action Reports Our next Voter Registration effort will be in February 2021 CALLING YOU to join in. after things settle down. This month get in to ‘Action’. 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