ELEPHANT EARS CHICO REPUBLICAN WOMEN, FEDERATED Member of NFRW, CFRW Region 2 Winner of Awards for Diamond Achievement, Membership & Newsletter Established 1955 -WWW.ChicoRepublicanWomen.com - Like Us on Facebook Pat Jones, President Lee Flournoy, Membership Ron Lassonde, Editor January 2021—Newsletter #1 General Meeting/Luncheon President’s Message - Pat Jones A Message From Incoming President Pat Jones When: Thursday, Jan 21, at 11:30 am (Please come early to get checked in) Happy New Year…Hopefully 2021 will reward us with justice! President Kris Anderson has done an outstanding job as President of CRWF. During the most severe circumstances our club held more Place: Chico Catering Company (Foodies) @ the Chico Airport meetings and had outstanding speakers while Kris was president. 999 Marauder St. Chico Under Kris’s leadership we never missed a board meeting due to the China virus. Many thanks Kris. Speaker: I will be taking over as the new President of Chico Republican Doug Ose Women. I would like to concentrate on voter election fraud. Since Butte County is using the Dominion software I suspect that Presi- MAKE A RESERVATION !! dent Trump was probably cheated here in the last election. We Call, Text or Email must stay positive even though some representatives and judiciary Peggy Dudman are lacking the guts to stand up for the American people and the [email protected] or Constitution. We must not give up or our country will become com- 530-518-2709 munist and our lives and our children's lives will never be the same. BY 5:00 pm Friday the 13th Whenever I feel this election is hopeless I look at what President Trump has gone through and then I know I must be positive. Since This location is a new venue for us. we can no longer rely on local media to keep us informed I have However, the cost is still only $20 turned to Newsmax and The Epoch Times for the most accurate Purchase Lunch Tickets information. I also listen to podcasts such as War Room Pandemic >>> Click Here <<< and John Soloman. I go to Revolver, George and Gateway Pundit on the internet since Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have banned the truth. If any of you have suggestions of where you get your news please share them with us. When I have had more news than I can stand, I watch a Hallmark movie! Pray for President Trump and all those working to uncover the truth in this election. Looking forward to seeing you at our January meeting. Pat Jones 1 Chaplain ’s Corner January, 2021 “Soldiers! Let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God, asking through Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, beseeching the aid of the God of our forefathers in the defense of our homes and our liberties, thanking Him for His past blessings, and imploring their continuance upon our cause and our people.” “Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the supreme call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray. Believing that prayer is the greatest contribution that our people can make in this critical hour, I humbly urge that we take time to pray- to really pray.” “Let there be prayer at sunup, at noonday, at sundown, at midnight - all through the day. Let us pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for the churches.” “Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word ‘concern’ out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and His redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.” General Robert E. Lee, 1863 Betty Schumacher We received the sad news that longtime Chico RWF member Betty Schumacher passed away on December 26, 2020. Betty was a wonderful person, a hard worker, a great Republican woman and greatly appreciated by the members of Chico Republican Women, Federated throughout the years. Our sincerest condolences to Betty's loved ones and friends. CRWF BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2021 President Pat Jones [email protected] 530-342-5224 1st V.P . Peggy Ferenz, Registration Chair [email protected] 530-893-8827 2nd V.P. Jenna Duckhorn, Speaker Chair [email protected] 530-514-7782 3rd V.P . Lee Flournoy, Membership Chair [email protected] 530-521-0981 4th V.P. Meg Vogel, Ways & Means [email protected] 530-566-7090 Treasurer Loretta Torres [email protected] 530-519-7265 Rec. Sect Suzanne Wong [email protected] 408-480-1578 2 AMERICANISM When searching for what exactly Ameri- canism means the best reference I found was on Wikipedia surprisingly. “Americanism is a set of United States patriotic values aimed at creating a col- lective American identity, and can be defined as an articulation of the na- tion's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. According to the American Le- gion, a U.S. veterans' organization, Americanism is an ideology, or belief in devotion, loyalty, or allegiance to the United States of America, and to its flag, traditions, customs, culture, symbols, institutions, and form of government.” Also In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace." This past year has shown us all what being a patriotic American really is. We have been tried time and time again. We have been woken from our slumber of faith, family and daily work. They tried to take those things from us for the past nine months. We can not sit idly by and trust that our gov- ernment is doing the very best for us. We must remember what our forefathers laid before us from the sweat of their brows and their blood on the battlefields. We must be a part of this democracy or we are left with elected politicians that have tried to destroy President Trump for the last four years. Anarchy should never be tolerated. As a local educator I see first hand what toll this lockdown has had on the youth of this area. We must stand up and protect our children because honestly their lives matter the very most! Now is the day to stand up and protect your family, your neighbors and your community. We must do our due diligence to vet the people that run for political office. This group of women gives me hope. Share Chico Republican Women with your family, your friends and your neighbors. Invite them to belong, sign them up, so that we can make our voices heard. Women that support other women and the strong men around them. God bless you all and especially President Trump. 3 Be A Member 2021 In the last 4 years we've been forced to watch as President Trump was repeatedly attacked, as Newsom made a shambles of California, and the Left drove the US further to the edge. Many of us have exclaimed, "What can I do?" "How can I help?" We want to do something, but what is it we can do? Meanwhile, the Chico RWF Board of Directors and other members of CRWF have been working on everything we can to bring about good changes. We are pleased with the outcome of the Chico City Council race, in which a group of Leftists that had taken over and beaten Republican candidates in 2018 were replaced by four Republican candidates in the November election! We are seeing immediate results. We need your help! We need you to each go out and convince one of your Republican women friends to join our club so that we can build our numbers. We need women who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work with us. In 2020 our members manned a table to get voters to sign the Recall Newsom petition, helped promote local Repub- lican causes on our popular social media pages, helped Republican candidates for city council and the school board by featuring them in online interviews and hosting them in online meetings when they badly needed the exposure. We roused the troops in our club and got our membership to dig deep for Republican candi- dates, helping to ensure a victory. We volunteered to make phone calls for the NFRW and helped candi- dates around the country. We posted YouTube videos on our channel, emailed our membership on our bulk email system, attended online meetings and conferences with California Federation of Republican Women, and joined with other women from all over our state to try and further our causes. So if you know of a woman in your sphere of influence who is a hard worker, who cares about America and America's history and freedom, who wants to help educate the public about Republicanism, and wants to Make America Great Again, then invite her to join. It's easy and not very expensive. $45 a year for new mem- bers, and we have an easy form to fill out and pay online at https://ChicoRepublicanWomen.com. Just send them to the website and have them look for the link that says, "Be A Member 2021." 4 Our Newest Past President, Kris Anderson Kris Litvak Anderson now enters the designation of "Past President," a time honored tradition in the Republi- can Women, Federated clubs all over the US. She became our club president under less than ideal circumstances, yet rose to the occasion in spite of overwhelming odds.