April 2017 Voluume 10 Issue 4 Southern Hills Republican Women I N T H I S I S S U E

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April Luncheon Page 3: SHRW board members & committee chairs Legislators & other Useful contacts Page 4 What are your Volunteer Hours Page 5: Legislative day Carson City Page 6 Secretary of State Lock Box Did You Know Page 7 Women to Women Page 8 Birthdays, new member Coming Events

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COMING EVENTS April 16 April 4 Easter Municipal April Elections 6 April 9 April 25 April 6 NvFRW Legislative Day Palm Sunday SHRW Luncheon InLegislative Carson City, Day tour the April 10 Wes Duncan and Rana Goodman legislativeApril Building. 7 Meet legislatorsPassover begins at Sundown May 23rd NvFRW Board and Regency Meeting April 12-16 April 7– 8 Judge Mark Stevens April 8 Clark County Fair in Logandale Annual Spring Board and June 27th NvFRW Spring April 14 Membership Meeting Carson City Lori Frame Membership Meeting Good Friday d Senate and Assembly sessions. Vanac International 1 April 25th WHEN: April 25th Guest Speakers Wes Duncan Room opens at 10:45 a.m. Lunch served at 11:30 a.m. 1st Asst. Attorney General Legislative Update bills to help veterans and victims of rape, WHERE: domestic violence and human trafficking Buckman’s Grille And our , SHRW Legislative Chair, Rana Goodman 2600 Hampton Road Henderson, NV 89052 Wes Duncan RESERVATION DEADLINE: April 20th Wes Duncan is Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s First Check must be received in Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney the mail by date General’s Ofice. Wes serves as chair of the Advisory Committee to study sex offender laws, and vice-chair of PLEASE MAIL CHECKS TO: So. Hills Republican Women the Sexual Assault Rape Kit Working Group and the Attorney General’s 2505 Anthem Village Drive Substance Abuse Working Group. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Suite E-223 office, Wes served as a Clark County District Attorney, active duty Air Henderson, NV 89052 Force Judge Advocate, and Nevada State Assemblyman. During his time or as a legislator, he served on the Judiciary, Education, Health and Human DROP CHECKS IN MAILBOX: Services and Legislative Operations Committees. An war Veteran, 2001 DiPinto - Corner of Hampton & Duncan worked at the Central Criminal Court of Iraq assisting the Iraqis DiPinto Street with the prosecution of extremist groups and terror suspects in Baghdad.

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL DIETARY NEED? Wes is also the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for a reserve wing at Nellis Contact: Christine Acardi Air Force Base. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife Jennifer and their two 702-914-9322 sons. He graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law [email protected] and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California - Berkeley.

Luncheon Fee Please join us on April 25th as Wes gives us a legislative update on the Members $25 Guests $30 SHRW bills submitted by the Attorney General’s office to help veterans, victims of Accepts Debit & Credit Cards rape, domestic violence, and human trafficking. Learn what we can do to help get these bills passed. SHRWluncheon.eventbrite.com

Rana Goodman GIVE THE LEGISLATURE YOUR OPINION EARLY AND OFTEN Rana is our SHRW legislative chair, but even before that time she has spent the past 10 years working as a non-paid lobbyist. She is You can use this link to go to Nelis going to show us quick and easy ways to track bills that may be of and enter your opinion on each bill: interest to us, and how we can send comments to our legislators. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/ Opinions/79th2017/A/ During the final week of March Chief Justice Hardesty, of the Nevada Supreme court, and former Nevada state assembly speaker Barbara Buckley led the charge in supporting the four guardianship bills that were born from the SB174 Renames McCarran to Harry efforts of both Rana’s advocacy and the work done in the 18 months of meetings Reid International Airport. Vote no! of the guardianship commission on which Rana served. Justice Hardesty acknowledged Rana’s work during his comments to the Judiciary SB223 would make Nevada a Sanctuary Committee which will now be a permanent part of the archives of the legislative State. (WITHDRAWN by Sen Ford) records.

AB274 Oppose National Popular Vote SB 229 the bill allowing inserting the forms naming the nomination of guardians Compact - If we go by the popular vote, regardless of where they may live to the secretary of state’s lockbox was over- all elections will be determined by the whelmingly supported in the Judiciary committee meeting. Once past it must still most populated states like CA, NY, FL, move on to the assembly where Justice Hardesty has said he will present it again IL. NV Just say no. along with the other guardianship bills to assist passage.

AB286 Supports Veterans Treatment Courts. Vote Yes. 2 SHRW CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SHRW Senator President (202)224-6244 Lynn Armanino COMITTEE CHAIRS Las Vegas office: 702. 388.6605 [email protected] Achievement Sen. Joseph P. Hardy 702-248-1414 Nickie Diersen District 12 1st VP Americanism [email protected] Nickie Diersen Sydney Ingram Sen. Michael Roberson [email protected] Boutique District 20 Dee Gualandi [email protected] 702-897-4682 Assemblyman Keith Pickard Bylaws 2nd VP District 22 Sharon Banta [email protected] Dorothy Kazanjian Caring For America Assemblywoman Melissa Woodbury [email protected] Trudi Dailey (District 23) 702-685-3631 [email protected] Chaplain Treasurer Senator Scott Hammond Sydney Ingram Co-minority whip Linda Schlinger Fundraising [email protected] [email protected] Senator Becky Harris 702-896-9829 Heather Stamer Caucus Policy Coordinator Secretary Historian [email protected] Heather Stamer Diane Fell [email protected] Legislative chair 702-743-0381 Rana Goodman PEOPLE /places OF INTEREST Communications Literacy Nevada Governor: Director Carol Tank ® Hannah Persons Newsletter Editor * Term-Limited in 2018. [email protected] Rana Goodman 480-570-7067 Nevada Lt. Governor: Photographer (R) Events Director Heather Stamer Nevada Sec. Of State: Christine Accardi Publicity Barbara Cegavske (R) [email protected] Gaye McDonald Nevada State Treasurer: 702-914-9322 Sunshine Campaign Director Judy Uebbing (R) Carolyn von Gortler Telephone Nevada State Controller: [email protected] Sheri McKay Ron Knecht (R) 702-914-3730 Veterans Affairs : Adam Laxalt (R) | Budget & Finance Sydney Ingram Director State Capitol Building Webmaster Parliamentarian Hannah Persons 101 N. Carson Sharon Banta Carson City, NV 89701 [email protected] Las Vegas Office\Sawyer Bldg 555 E. Washington Ave LV 89101

3 Your Volunteer Hours - What Counts & What Does Not? By Carolyn von Gortler It’s time to report your campaign volunteer hours. If you have any hours not report from the time period ranging from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2017 they need to be turned in to me by May 31st and please project your June hours. This early reporting is necessary as the NFRW Biennial Convention is in September in Philadelphia.

The following details activities that can be included in your volunteer campaign hours: 1. All non-paid campaign activities benefiting our Republican Party, candidates, and/or the Federation.

2. Campaign work done within or outside the home, including mailings, phone calls, computer work, and social media postings or blogging.

3. Work at and/or for a special campaign event - but NOT if you attend as a paid guest OR if you are compensated for the event. 4. Attendance at (and travel portal to portal) State or National Federation Board of Directors Meetings and Conventions - as well as time spent in preparation for Federation meetings if you serve on a committee.

5. Time in session at (and travel portal to portal) municipality, precinct/ward, county, district, or state party conventions.

6. Time in session at (and travel portal to portal) RNC conventions.

7. Time spent as a county, state, or national party committee member or as a temporary member, i.e. Rules Committee, Resolutions Committee, etc.

8. Campaign work at club meetings, i.e. getting petitions signed, doing mailings. DO NOT COUNT TIME SPENT IN REGULAR BUSINESS AT CLUB MEETINGS. 9. Traveling from event to event - but NOT for personal stops en route.

10. Volunteering at any municipality, county, state or Federation headquarters.

11. Volunteering for a Republican candidate for a non-partisan office, e.g. school board elections. 12. Working as a poll watcher on Election Day - but NOT if you are paid.

13. Involvement in a Campaign Management School, i.e. training to be a faculty member, teaching and organizing a campaign school.

14. Working on Election Day as an Election Judge or Election Clerk - but only if you turn the money you are paid over to your county party or your local FRW club. 15. Presenting campaign programs or speeches at local civic organizations.

16. Appearing on local media for the GOP cause.

17. Running for office - all time spent campaigning. 18. Time spent registering voters.

19. Hours spent as editor of a club newsletter or state newsletter and hours spent as club yearbook chairman.

4 Schedule for NvFRW "Legislative Day" Thursday, April 6, 2017

9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Report to front entrance lobby desk (entrance facing Carson St.) to begin tour of legislative portion of State Capitol Building. 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. (Ending time estimated.) Meet the Sergeant-At-Arms at the Senate Chamber. Those of us who are represented by Republicans will be seated on the Senate Floor with our legislators and introduced. 12:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch on your own and/or individual visits to your legislators' offices. 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Assembly Room 3100. Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske (tentative). 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Assembly Room 3100.

Panel Discussion and Q's & A's. Topic: "What the Democrats and Republicans are Doing During the 2017 Legislative Session and How We Can Help." Panel members: Jeremy Hughes, Caucus Director for the Senate Republican Caucus; Eric Roberts, Executive Direc- tor, Assembly Republican Caucus; and Greg Bailor, Executive Director, Nevada Republican Party. Moderated by Patricia Moser Morris, NvFRW Legislative Chair. 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. Assembly Room 3100. "How to Bend the Ear of Your Legislator" (with handouts and Q's & A's!) by Patricia Moser Morris, NvFRW Legislative Chair. 4:30 p.m Assembly Room 3100. End of scheduled events. Our Republican legislators have also been invited to drop by Room 3100 and give us their "take" on the 2017 legislative session and how we can help them achieve their goals. 4:30 p.m. on -- Dinner on your own.

NOTE: Transportation from hotel to tours, meetings, and Legislative Building will be provided.

SOUTHERN HILLS REPUBLICAN WOMEN MISSION STATEMENT The Southern Hills Republican Women’s Club believes in American exceptionalism. We are committed to supporting and advancing the Republican Party, and its candidates, at the local, state and national level. To fulfill this mission we will: • provide information on current political and community issues, • organize members and coordinate efforts to promote and elect Republican candidates, • maintain our commitment, passion and knowledge in support of the Republican Party and conservative issues. • influence policy making at all levels of government.

5 ABOUT LIVING WILL LOCKBOX The Secretary of State is responsible for electronically storing and making available filed documents to the registrant and/or healthcare providers by request in conjunction with the registrant’s medical care.

Simple Any person may file an advance directive (NRS 449.965) in the form of a:

• Declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment • Durable power of attorney for health care decisions • Do-not-resuscitate order • http://www.nvsos.gov/sos/online-services/living-will-lockbox

Registration is free. Instructions, forms and resources needed to register are available

Did you know? By: Sydney S. Ingram

We recently celebrated Presidents’ Day. If you’re like me you would also think you were honoring George Washington who was after all America’s first president. If so you’d be wrong. The declared its independence in 1776, yet George Washington did not take office until April 30, 1789. From 1776 until 1789 John Hanson served as the first President of the United States. America was actually formed in 1781 with the adoption of the Articles of Confederation which were proposed in 1776 but not agreed upon until 1777 and not signed until 1781. Once the signing took place a President was needed to run the country and John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included George Washington). Hanson was a major player in the revo- lution and an extremely influential member of Congress. -From the beginning, he was faced with challenges in trying to keep America together and figure out what the role of the President was since no one had ever been President before. As he took office just as the Revolutionary War end- ed, America was broke. Yet the troops demanded to be paid and threatened to overthrow the new government and establish a monarchy with Washington as king. The brave members of Congress ran for their lives, leaving Hanson as the only guy left running the government. Fortunately, sanity prevailed, deals were made, and anarchy was prevented. Since the Articles only allowed a President to serve a one year term, seven other Presidents were elected prior to George Washington taking office. WHAT HAPPENED? Well the Articles of Confederation didn’t work well and a new doctrine was written-the Constitution. While George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States, he was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first eight Presidents have been forgotten in history. (See google for additional information.)

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7 Welcome New Members Linda Berry Joann Sellers Cheryl Wilcox

4/1 Marie Black 4/1 Peggy Moon 4/3 Yvonne Sweeten 4/5 Patricia Ashment April 4 Municiple Election 4/10 Will Gillam 4/1 April 6 Legislative Day in Carson City 1 JoAnn Sellers 4/13 April 7 NvFRW Board and Regency Meeting D.C.Collins 4/15 April 8 NvFRW Spring Membership Meeting Bette Miller April 9 Palm Sunday 4/16 Linda Elliot 4/17 April 10 Passover begins at Sundown Sue Hansen April 12-16 Clark County Fair in Logandale 4/21 Elizabeth Chevez April 14 Good Friday 4/22 Rebecca Tackitt

April 25 SHRW Luncheon. Guest speaker 4/23 Sydney Ingram 1st Attorney General Wes Duncan, SHRW Legislative chair, Rana Goodman 4/26 Dee Clifford 4/30 Kathy Matsen May 23 Judge Mark Stevens

June 27 SHRW luncheon guest speaker, Lori Frame Vanac International

Oct 13-14 NvFRW Biennial Convention in Las Vegas

CONGRESS PASSES “KILL WHILE HIBERNATING” HUNTING LAW by Rana Goodman While many of us have been focusing our attention on Nevada politics the “fat cats” in Washington just passed a bill you won’t believe. Courtesy the net:“ The vote in favor of H.J. Resolution 69, authored by Alaska’s Rep. Don Young, was 225 to 193. Those 225 members voted to overturn a federal rule – years in the works, and crafted by professional wildlife managers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – to stop some of the most appalling practices ever imagined in the contemporary era of wildlife management. Denning of wolf pups, killing hi- bernating bears, spotting grizzly bears from aircraft and then shooting them after landing, and trapping grizzly bears and black bears with steel-jawed leghold traps and snares. The stuff of wildlife snuff films. And not just on any land. On our country’s national wildlife refuges. More specifically, on 16 national wildlife refuges covering 76 million acres, all in the state of Alaska. “

One day these beautiful creatures will be gone, all because hunters love the thrill of the kill. Children will have to see what bears and wolves looked like in picture books just as they do with dinosaurs. Maybe, like the unicorn they will wonder if the bear was a mythical creature and hug their teddy tighter thinking real ones never really were…… because hunters must kill! 8 9 10 11 12