April 1, 2011 Volume 4, Issue 4 APRIL BIRTHDAYS APRIL LUNCHEON Patricia Ashment 5th Jean Eibs 10th APRIL 26, 2011 Bette Miller 15th Joan Passaro 15th Lila Loyd 19th CONGRESSMAN JOE HECK Mary Martin 19th Sydney Ingram 23rd It’s hard to know which of Joe Bella Meese 24th Dee Clifford 26th Heck’s titles to use. Should it be Con- Sue Walker 26th gressman, State Senator, Colonel, Doctor, Eileen Anes 29th businessman, husband and father; he Kathy Matson 30th holds all these titles, and more. Cur- If you have a birthday in April and don’t see your name on this list, rently serving his first term as Nevada’s it’s because I don’t know the date of your birthday. Send me an e- representative from the 3rd Congressional District, mail so I can complete my re- cords. [email protected] he is coming to our luncheon to share his experiences from his first four months in office. His committee INSIDE THIS ISSUE assignments, (Education & Workforce, Armed Ser- PAGE CALENDAR 2 vices, House Permanent Committee on Intelligence), $5 BILLION BAILOUT 3 involve him in a wide spectrum of issues that are COMMITTEES 4 very important to the future of our country. He is KATHY MATSON’S uniquely qualified to tell us what our government is SPORTS REPORT 4 NEW MEMBERS 4 doing to promote jobs, defend our country, support LISA HECK’S COLUMN 5 our veterans, acquire intelligence on terrorist groups BOARD MEETING and fix Medicare and Social Security. Make your res- REGISTRATION FORM 6 VOLUNTEER HOURS 6 ervations early as we expect a full house. DID YOU KNOW? 7 LEGISLATION 7 PHOTOS 8 RESERVATION INFORMATION:s PLACE: Buckman’s Grill, 2600 Hampton Road, Henderson, NV 89052. TIME: Room open at 10:45, lunch is served at 11:30. Make DEADLINE FOR your $22.00 check payable to SHRW and mail it to Donna Lakers, 1817 Tarrant City Drive Henderson, NV 616-0056. RESERVATIONS Or drop off your check in the mail box by the door at 2001 April 21st Di Pinto Avenue, at the corner of Hampton and Di Pinto. Reservations are on a first come basis as space allows. VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 PAGE 2 Southern Hills Republican Women CALENDAR OF UP COMING EVENTS!!!!! Apr 15th Tea Party Tax Day Rally— Grant Sawyer building—4 to 7 pm Apr 26th SHRW Luncheon—Congressman Joe Heck May 8th Mothers’ Day—Official Flag Flying Day May 11th American’s for Prosperity class on Citizen Activism May 20th NvFRW Legislative Day — Carson City May 21st NvFRW Spring Board Meeting—Carson City (Information about Legislative day and the Spring Board meeting can be found on page 6. ) May 21st Armed Forces Day —Official Flag Flying Day May 24th SHRW Luncheon— May 30th Memorial Day —Official Flag Flying Day June 7th Local and County Elections Oct 18th Western Republican Leadership Conference with Presidential Candidates debate on the 18th. Do you know someone in our club who is ill, has suffered a loss, or could just use a little cheering up? Please let our Sunshine Lady, Doris Federwisch, know so she can send greetings from our club. You can contact Doris at 616-3011 or [email protected] WE ARE ON FACEBOOK AND THE WEB!!! Thanks to the hard work of Lynn Armanino, we are reaching out to the world through FACEBOOK. Go to facebook.com and look for us at SHRW Hen- derson Republican Women and see the latest postings. If you like what you see, click on the ―LIKE‖ button. If you don’t like it, let Lynn know what you would like to see. [email protected]. And, don’t forget our web site, www.shrwhendersonrepublicanwomen.com. If you don’t remember the web ad- dress, just type SHRW into Google to search and you will find us. Give it a try. SHRW’S 2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Daryll Ann Carter 979-9724 [email protected] 1st Vice Pres. Kathy Matson 407-1130 [email protected] 2nd Vice Pres. Virginia Finnegan 270-0425 [email protected] Secretary Linda Raia 898-2207 [email protected] Treasurer Donna Lakers 616-0056 [email protected] Past Pres. Joan Passaro 617-0458 [email protected] The Southern Hills Republican Women’s Newsletter is paid for by the Southern Hills Republican Women’s Club and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 Southern Hills Republican Women PAGE 3 TO CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: Governor Brian Sandoval (R-NV) State Capitol, 101 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701; Or Grant Sawyer State Office Bldg., 555 E. Washington St., Suite 5100, Las Vegas, NV 89101 Ph: 775-684-5670 E-mail: gov.state.nv.us U.S. Senator John Ensign (R-NV) 333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 3203, Las Vegas, NV 89101 Ph: 702-388-6605 or 119 Rus- sell Senate Bldg., Washington, DC 20510 Ph: 202-224-6244 E-mail through his web site ensign.senate.gov U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) 522 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20510 Ph: 202-224-3542 E-mail through his web site : reid.senate.gov U.S. Rep Dean Heller (R-NV) 125 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515 Ph 202-225-6155 or 600 Las Vegas Blvd., #680, Las Vegas, NV 89101 Ph 702-255-1651 E-mail through web site: heller.house.gov U.S. Rep Shelley Berkley (D-NV) 405 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515 Ph 202-225-5965 or 877-409-2488 or 340 Paseo Del Prado, #D-106, Las Vegas, NV 89102, Ph 702-220-8923 E-mail through web site Berkley.house.gov U.S. Rep Joe Heck (R-NV) 132 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515 Ph 202-225-3252 or 8484 W#. Sunset Rd. Suite 300, LV, 89113 702-387-4941 or heck.house.gov Email through web site State Senator Joe Hardy (R-Dist 12) P.O. Box 60306, Boulder City, 89006702-293-7506 [email protected] Assemblyman Lynn Stewart (R-Dist 22) 2720 Cool Lilac Avenue, Henderson, NV 89052, Ph 775-684-8823 or 702-370-2185 E-mail [email protected] Uncovered: New $5 billion bailout in Obamacare According to Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent at the Washington Examiner, investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered another surprise in Obamacare. A provi- sion in the bill authorizes $5 Billion to be paid to unions, state public employee systems and big corporations to subsidize health care coverage for early retirees. The law created the “Early Retiree Reinsurance Pro- gram” and called on it to spend a total of $5 billion between June 2010 and December 2013, when the na- tional health care exchanges are schedule to go into effect. This program is meant to help corporations, states and unions pay for health insurance for their employees who retire before they are eligible for Medi- care. Between June 1, 2010 and the end of the year it paid out about $535 million, but the rate of payments has increased dramatically in 2011 and at the current rate the $5 billion will be exhausted long before the end of the program and the Dems and their supporters will be back asking for more. This sounds very much like the plan that Hillary Clinton offered to business and unions to win their support when she was trying to insti- tute national health care during her husband’s administration Where did the money go in 2010? United Auto Workers, $207 million; AT&T, $140 million; Verizon, $92 million; GE, (who paid no taxes last year on billions of earnings) $37 million; and General Motors, $19 million. Large sums were also paid to state governments including: Ohio, $71 million, Teachers Retirement in Texas, $68 million; CalPERS, $58 million; Georgia, $58 million; and New York, $48 million. Other unions receiving funds include United Food and Commercial Workers, United Mine Workers and the Teamsters. Maybe now these unions will have more money to contribute to the campaigns of Democrat candidates. Republican lawmakers were unable to get information on this program until they won control of the House. I wonder how many other little goodies are in the legislation as a payoff to those who supported the passage of this bill. For more information go to http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway- confidential The Southern Hills Republican Women’s Newsletter is paid for by the Southern Hills Republican Women’s Club and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 Southern Hills Republican Women Page 4 Southern Hills Republican Women’s Club Committee Chairs & Leaders Achievement Nickie Diersen Americanism Sydney Ingram Auditing Veronica Westurn Boutique Mary Ann Kelly Campaign Lynn Armanino Correspondence Doris Wallace Historian Teri Hulsebus Legislative Nickie Diersen Literacy Sara Honrath Membership Angela Lin-Greenberg Monthly Fund Raiser Paula Richter Parliamentarian Karen Miller Ivy Syriotis Publicity Gaye McDonald Sp. Events Sheri McKay Asst. to Treas. Marla Nacon Sunshine Doris Federwich Bette Miller Welcome Veronica Westurn Web Master Lynn Armanino Newsletter Virginia Finnegan Lila Foster WEB SITES OF INTEREST www.shrwhendersonrepublicanwomen.com Our new web site!!!! www.clarkgop.org Clark County Republican Party www.nv.gov Official web site State of Nevada www.nvfrw.org Nevada Federation of Republican Women www.nfrw.org National Federation of Republican Women (user name: federation; password: nfrw1938) www.anthemrepublicans.com Sun City Anthem Republican Special Interest Group BASKETBALL AND THE PRESIDENT by Kathy Matson I love to listen to Sports Talk Radio and was doing so just before the start of the NCAA Basket- ball Tournament. The hosts were talking about their brackets and low and behold, who should come on the show our own President, Barack Obama.