GOP Pledge Falls Flat Posted by rbhill

Posted 09/26/10

To understand what the GOP's new "pledge" means for America, one simply has to look at the voting record of party leaders and "pledges" of past administrations. Most notably, support for the financial bailout enacted by Hank Paulson and President Bush. 91 Republican Congressmen - including minority leader Rep. John Boehner from Ohio - cast their votes behind the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, better known as the Wall Street bank bailout. And now, two years later, these same state-loving politicians expect us to believe that they will "...advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national
economic prosperity." Once again the Republican party falls short of making any clear distinction between themselves and Democrats. Fancy rhetoric echoing tea party sentiment cannot erase the facts. This is the same GOP that expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008, began a string of expensive financial bailouts, created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade, increased federal education spending 58% faster than inflation, spent 3% of GDP on federal antipoverty programs, and presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Thanks to the Heritage Foundation for these statistics. Republicans are still clueless about the relationship between monetary policy and freedom, will continue promotion of an interventionist foreign policy, refuse to address the illegal and immoral income tax, etc. etc. etc...

It is likely that Republicans will tap into voter unrest using empty phrases such as these and we'll see a revolt against Democrats come November. Unfortunately, the only thing worse than a socialist Democrat is a socialist Republican.

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DeMint Blocks Bernanke for Vote on Audit the Fed Posted by John Tate

Posted 12/03/09 Last updated 12/03/09

C4L staffers have been working very closely with Senator Jim DeMint's office in recent days to advance Audit the Fed (S. 604) in the Senate.

Just a little while ago, it was announced that Senator DeMint, who is the lead Senate cosponsor of Audit the Fed, has put a "hold" on Bernanke's confirmation for a second term as Federal Reserve chairman until S. 604 receives an up or down vote on the Senate floor.

Keep reading for more details on how your immediate action could help make this vote possible.

While Ben Bernanke was handed a few softball questions from establishment politicians during today's Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomination, he also faced serious grilling from senators who are tired of his evasive answers and secretive practices.

DeMint is joined by Senator Jim Bunning and S. 604 sponsor Senator Bernie Sanders in pledging to block action on Bernanke's reconfirmation.

According to DeMint, "Mr. Bernanke has been one of the chief proponents of the Fed's easy money policy that created the current financial crisis. He ignored asset bubbles, dismissed concerns about the weakness of the dollar, and helped encourage the credit mania that led to the financial panic. Even worse, Mr. Bernanke has refused to accept any responsibility for his role in these actions prior to financial crisis.  

Read the rest of his press release here.

Ultimately, Bernanke's reconfirmation is irrelevant to the main issue, which is bringing real transparency to the Fed.

It doesn't matter who's at the wheel of the car; they will still be driving a clunker.

Contact your senators today and tell them that before they consider either reconfirming Ben Bernanke or appointing a new Chairman, they must deliver the answers the American people want and deserve by giving Audit the Fed a standalone, up or down vote on the Senate floor.

And if you live in Kentucky, urge Senator Bunning to take an even stronger stand by cosponsoring S. 604.

You and I have come so far this past year in our battle to Audit the Fed.  Now, we have an excellent chance of seeing S. 604 debated on the Senate floor.  But we must take immediate action to turn this chance into a reality!

Contact your senators right away!

time for action Posted by liberty26now-j

Posted 10/22/09 Last updated 10/22/09

I read a poll today that pitted President Obama against Republican hopefulls in 2012, they were all there, Romney, Huckabee, Palin, even Pawlenty , but one was missing, Congressman Ron Paul. I know the Congressman hasnt decided yet if he's running, but it angered me that his name wasnt even mentioned. Do they think he's not relevant? Do they think his supporters aren't as well? This is more evidence that the Political establishment is dead set against Congessman Paul, his supporters, and the movement he has started in this Country. They fear the election of Ron Paul or anyone who truly values the Constitution, because if we make our voices heard, if we work hard enough, and if we get our candidates elected, then all the Bureaucrats, all the Special Interests, and all the Politicians who think it fashionable to trample our rights and our Constitution will be out of buisness.This should motivate all of us to spread the message of Liberty and Freedom. Now is the time we must work the hardest to make our voices heard. We must make it clear that we will not go away, we will not be silent. Its time to send a loud message to Washington that this Movement is just beginning, and that we will not tire in our efforts to restore our Republic.

California GOP: "Audit the Fed!" Posted by Anthony Gregory

Posted 09/28/09

Writes Jerry Salcido: "Yesterday the California Republican Party adopted the following resolution which Michael Erickson, Chairman of the Sonoma County Republican Party and I (Chairman of the Alameda County Republican Party) submitted":

Whereas, the California Republican Party applauds transparency and accountability in government and rejects government secrecy involving monetary policy that impacts the entire economy; and

Whereas, serious discussions of proposals to oversee and audit the Federal Reserve are long overdue; and

Whereas, the Federal Reserve can enter into agreements with foreign governments and foreign central banks and the United States Congress is prohibited from overseeing these agreements; and

Whereas, the California Republican Party believes agreements made by the Federal Reserve with foreign powers and foreign banking institutions should be subject to Congressional oversight; and

Whereas, the United States Constitution, gives the United States Congress the authority to coin Money and regulate the value thereof and does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank; and

Whereas, auditing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to assert its constitutional authority over monetary policy and help to protect the value of the United States dollar;

 Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Republican Party, in defense of the United States Constitution, STRONGLY URGES the representatives of the 111th United States Congress to support the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 as set forth in H.R. 1207 and S. 604.

"Several members of the Campaign for Liberty including Matt Heath, Walter Stanley, David Latour, and David Ewing spent hours emailing, calling, and speaking in person with delegates of the California Republican Party over the course of the last 3 weeks in order to gain their support of the resolution," Salcido continues. "Our efforts resulted with a near unanimous adoption of the resolution.  There was only one nay vote out of the hundreds of delegates in the CRP."

Emptying Reservoirs in the Middle of a Drought Posted by RonPaulinator

Posted 09/16/09

Emptying Reservoirs in the Middle of a Drought

By Max Schulz from the September 2009 issue

ANYONE DOUBTING THAT OUR nation's environmental and economic policies can get seriously out of whack from time to time need only look to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Located in California's Central Valley, between the state's capital city and Stockton, it is where the American, Mokelumne, Cosumnes, and Calaveras Rivers flow into the larger Sacramento and San Joaquin. It is also where the saddest agricultural saga since the Depression-era Dust Bowl is now playing, as the waters from those rivers flow beneath San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and out to sea. As they flow unimpeded to the Pacific, those waters are also washing out to sea the livelihoods of tens of thousands of farm workers and agricultural business owners. It is an economic as well as human tragedy.

This is a story about water, about its lack as well as its abundance. But it is also a story about the price we pay to protect the environment, and whether we are striking the right balance between nature and mankind. In the end, the question is whether people should exercise dominion over nature, or whether nature should lord over man. To most Americans, the answer is obvious: our capacity to make nature subservient to our needs justifies doing so, insomuch as we act as responsible stewards of the environment. But however obvious that might be to most people, the countervailing idea-that nature should take precedence over mankind-is being sown into a series of laws and regulations that are causing undue torment and distress.

The American West was created, it is fair to say, by mankind taming nature and using it for his own purpose. That is how the San Joaquin Valley over time became the most productive agricultural region in the world. Massive and expensive irrigation and public works projects captured the waters in the San Joaquin River Delta to transform a desert into a paradise, providing much of the fruits and vegetables and dairy products Americans consume. Millions more acre-feet of water are diverted each year to the state's coastal population centers from these and other rivers, like the Colorado. By damming and diverting mighty rivers, and reshaping the landscape all throughout the American West, the federal government allowed Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco to bloom into the cities we know today.

That is the irony of California: a state that is Valhalla for environmentalists and the home base for the green movement is an affront to-and perversion of-nature. California is an artificially constructed paradise. The Golden State owes its golden existence largely to mammoth engineering feats representing mankind's ingenuity and triumph over the natural realm. It's not just Hoover Dam, that wonder of the modern world, but dozens of less famous man-made dams and lakes and reservoirs, with names like Glen Canyon and Parker and Havasu and Link River, that help reshape the landscape to provide water and power to California's faraway population centers. The state could not sustain its giant cities or its astoundingly fertile agricultural sector without them. Today's California, that greenest of American states, is itself testimony to man bending nature to his purpose.

NATURE, OR AT LEAST ITS SELF-STYLED advocates, is striking back. Its cudgel is the federal Endangered Species Act and supporting California statutes wielded on behalf of fish such as the tiny delta smelt. In 1993, the delta smelt was listed as threatened under the ESA. And with that designation, litigious environmental groups went to court. Filing lawsuit after lawsuit on behalf of this or that supposedly endangered quarry, they aim to dismantle the infrastructure of California's State Water Project (SWP) and the federal Central Valley Project (CVP). Those two projects' dams, reservoirs, canals, waterways, aqueducts, and pumps deliver the life-giving water supporting the state's agriculture and supplying its major cities.

The greens have had some success. In 2007, U.S. district judge Oliver Wanger ruled that the pumping that annually sent about 6 million acre-feet of water to Kern County and beyond was threatening the delta smelt's existence by disrupting water flows for the fall spawning season. Citing the protections accorded by the Endangered Species Act, he ordered pumping for agricultural uses curtailed by one-third until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could evaluate the situation. After studying the issue for more than a year, the USFWS determined last December that pumping by the SWP and CVP "was likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the delta smelt and adversely modify its critical habitat." The agency issued plans to keep Judge Wanger's restrictions in place. According to Tulare County supervisor Allen Ishida, "California was forced to let 660,000 acrefeet of its freshwater supplies run out to the ocean. That was enough water to supply the entire Silicon Valley for two years."

Further curbs may come, on behalf of the delta smelt as well as other species. The USFWS and the California Fish and Game Commission are moving forward with threatened and endangered designations for Chinook salmon, steelhead, and the longfin smelt, presaging further water reductions for agriculture.

The result of these irrigation pump shutdowns is that hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland are being forced out of production. Kern County authorities estimated that 145,000 of the 850,000 acres that are typically irrigated were idled or under-irrigated last year. The loss was pegged at $100 million in the county alone. A study by UC-Davis estimated San Joaquin Valley farm revenue losses to range from $482 million to $647 million. Total California agricultural economic losses could hit $3 billion this year.

But those are just abstract financial numbers. Behind those figures are real people, farmers and business owners and families who are losing livelihoods and are being forced to uproot and flee. The UC-Davis study conservatively suggested 24,000 to 32,000 Central Valley jobs were destroyed by environmental rulings designed to protect endangered wildlife. It further estimated job losses could approach 80,000 or more if restrictions intensified. Communities are withering for a government-imposed lack of water. It is little exaggeration to say that the farmers of the most valuable farming region in the nation are facing extinction.

IS THAT WHAT THE Endangered Species Act was designed to accomplish? In the 36 years since President Nixon signed the ESA into law (its chief congressional sponsors were Rep. John Dingell, D-MI, and the future Abscam crook, Sen. Harrison Williams, D-NJ), an entire federal and state government apparatus has sprung forth to provide protections to creatures like the bald eagle and the grizzly bear. More than 1,300 species of animals, fish, and plants have been designated either "endangered" or "threatened." Certainly, there have been some preservation successes, notably with iconic animals like our national bird or Smoky the Bear's cousins.

But while the bald eagle and the grizzly are the poster children of ESA protection, they are the exception and not the rule. Most species for whose preservation the power of government has been harnessed are ones whose loss few would mourn, or even notice. How many tears, for instance, would be shed if the rock gnome lichen disappeared, not to mention the dwarf wedgemussel or the Comal Springs dryopid beetle? Or the delta smelt? And yet court decisions and other regulatory moves are being made on behalf of these and other creatures in ways that present significant hardship for landowners. Whether depriving Central Valley farmers of contractually entitled water or placing restrictions on landowners' use of their own properties, endangered species regulations end up hamstringing humans for the benefit of certain plants, fish, and animals that few have heard of and even fewer care about.

Sometimes such hamstringing is merely a costly irritant. Case Western Reserve University law professor Jonathan Adler has noted, "Under the ESA, individual Americans have been prevented from building homes, plowing fields, cutting trees, clearing brush, and repairing fences-all on private land."

In other instances, it can be tragic. According to Adler, "The federal government has even barred private landowners from clearing firebreaks to protect their homes from fire hazards." In 1993, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forbade residents of California's Riverside County from clearing firebreaks around their homes for fear of disturbing the endangered Stephens' kangaroo rat (despite the fact state authorities required them to do so as a fire protection measure). When wildfires whipped through the Southern California community, nearly two dozen homes were destroyed. The case of the Central Valley farmers is a similar-and needless-calamity.

The problem, says Tulare County's Ishida, is not the courts or even activist judges. "The problem is the courts are being forced to base their decisions on laws that have not been amended or changed in decades. The environmentalists have skillfully used such laws as the Central Valley Project Improvement Act and the Endangered Species Act so that judges have no alternative but to order massive releases of water."

Ishida recently told a congressional panel that since the passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act in 1992 (roughly the same time that the delta smelt was listed as threatened), the state of California has redirected more than 3 million acre-feet of water that used to serve cities and farms. Now that water supports fisheries and habitats. Often it just goes out to sea, completely unused for any of the many purposes for which a thirsty state is desperate to use it.

As California farmers lose their jobs by the tens of thousands to protect a tiny fish, the sad irony is that the delta smelt may not be faring much better. That's not because of inadequate protections against humans offered by state and federal officials, but rather because those officials seem incapable of saving the delta smelt from nature's predators. The smelt rarely grows much longer than three inches, and it is prey for any number of other creatures that inhabit the rivers of the San Joaquin Valley. As Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), noted at a recent congressional hearing, the water diversions have not helped the delta smelt populations. There are quite a few officials who believe that the delta smelt is on Darwin's fast track to extinction, despite the feel-good efforts of human environmentalists. McClintock's congressional colleague, George Radanovich, is even rooting it on, calling the smelt "a worthless little worm that needs to go the way of the dinosaur."

For their part, environmentalists who sue on behalf of the delta smelt consider the tiny fish to be an absolutely critical part of the food chain, feeding on plankton and in turn serving as food for larger fish and birds. If the delta smelt disappears, they warn ominously, the local food chain collapses. Whether that's true or not, what the policies boil down to should be a matter of picking your calamity: should the fish (and others in the food chain) suffer, or should humans?

PERHAPS THE MOST MYSTIFYING ELEMENT of California's farms-versus-fish imbroglio is the unwillingness of the media and the state's political establishment (other than the elected representatives of the region) to confront the issue head-on. Sidestepping the tough questions involved, they refer instead to California's lengthy drought as the cause of much of the state's misfortune.

"California is in its third year of drought, and many farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley are looking at dusty fields, or worse, are cutting down their orchards before the trees die," according to National Public Radio in a report typical of the media coverage. "This year, farmers have been told they are getting only a small fraction of the water they need." The alarm over California's drought spread on both coasts. In Sacramento, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency, while in Washington Congress held hearings at which Democrats decried "California's Katrina."

Not surprisingly, global warming is being blamed for California's drought. California's drought was regularly invoked on Capitol Hill as Congress debated cap and trade legislation this summer. Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave this storyline a boost in February when he warned that drought will cause California's vineyards and farms to vanish by the end of the 21st century if we fail to combat warming. "We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California," he told the Los Angeles Times.

The only problem with the idea of drought driving California's misery is that it is largely a fiction. There has been very mild drought in recent years, but not enough to account for the current massive cuts in water to Central Valley farmers. This spring, the state's Department of Water Resources revealed that the mountain snowpack feeding California reservoirs was at 80 percent of normal levels, while precipitation in the northern and southern Sierra was 90 percent of average. This prompted California's chief hydrologist to tell reporters writing about the supposedly epic conditions that while, sure, there had been some drought, it was "not the worst we ever had." By the conventional definitions his office employs, he said, 2007 and 2008 barely qualified as drought years at all.

Drought isn't the reason the Central Valley's farmers aren't getting water. "There's plenty of water," says congressman Devin Nunes, a Republican who represents part of the Central Valley. "But the courts say it can't be touched, so it's flowing out to sea under the Golden Gate Bridge."

The false drought meme has conveniently allowed policy makers as well as the media to sidestep the uncomfortable issues surrounding Endangered Species Act regulation. It permits them to avoid confronting what Nunes refers to as "the fundamental wrongness of choosing fish over people." And it permits them to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of government policies and regulations that have tremendously adverse impacts on ordinary people's lives. When cornered, blame the weather.

DURING THE 1930s, the Dust Bowl tragedy pitted hapless farmers against the vagaries of weather and climate, as the Great Plains endured a horrific seven-year drought the likes of which no one could recall. California, too, has suffered drought in recent years. No one denies that. Yet however much the drought gets blamed for so many of the state's problems, the disaster unfolding in the Central Valley is almost entirely man-made. Fields lie fallow. Families in some of America's richest cropland face crushing poverty. Businesses go belly-up. The fact that this is spurred by government policies designed to protect endangered species from dying off is an irony tinged with tragedy.

Missing in this sad affair has been any element of common sense. But that may be changing. In response this summer to an appeal of the last year's Fish and Wildlife Service ruling, Judge Wanger signaled a change of course. He hinted that the USFWS's decision supporting the shutting off of pumps to Central Valley farmers (not to mention his initial order to do so) may have erred by not taking into account the impact on the human populations. As the issue winds its way through the courts, it remains to be seen whether Judge Wanger's newfound logic holds up. If so, there may be protection for the endangered farmer after all.

Max Schulz is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Over 30,000 to desend on Sacramento Capitol Building 8/28 Posted by RonPaulinator

Posted 08/27/09 Last updated 08/27/09

www.sac828.org Please come be a part of history!

Something is terribly wrong.  Businesses are leaving California.  Productive citizens and their businesses are fleeing to places like Texas and Nevada, with business friendly policies, less regulation and lower taxes.  Meanwhile, California's unemployment rate skyrockets, our cost of living increases, and our politicians respond by passing even more stringent legislation and higher taxes...even when we vote against it!

On August 28, groups who have never come together before, farmers, ranchers,
miners, loggers, trucking companies, cement makers, builders...productive,
hard working people from all political parties, social affiliations and
industries will descend on the state capitol in Sacramento.

Our message to the government is clear and simple; we don't need your help,
and we don't need your bailouts. Set us free from burdensome taxes and
regulations and get the hell out of our way. We're the productive people of
the state of California, we're Americans, we're Tea Party Patriots, and
we've had just about all we're going to take from you!!

We are expecting between 30-50,000 people, over 200 pieces of heavy equipment, from tractors to logging trucks.

Don't miss the first REALLY big shot of the 2nd American r3VOLution!

How to jump start the Liberty Movement in your county Posted by David Ewing

Posted 05/17/09 Last updated 05/18/09

How Sonoma County's Liberty Movement became so successful:

What I share with you today is my story and only my option, it is not part of any official statement or position supported by Campaign for Liberty or the Republican Liberty Caucus.

Before Super Tuesday of last year the Sonoma County Liberty movement was butting heads with our local Republican Party not over issues but over the antics of some Ron Paul supports nationally.  We were supporting Congressman Ron Paul and they were supporting all the traditional candidates like Mitt, Fred, Huckabee, even the ex-mayor of NYC, the interesting thing that I noticed at the time was that not may established Republicans came out publicly supporting McCain.  After Super Tuesday some Ron Paul supporters decide to run for the local Republican Central Committee and started to attend meetings.  Myself and a few other Ron Paul supporters needed find a way to keep Ron Paul's message alive in our local community.  Some members decided to run a booth every week at our local summer farmer's market.  I felt the message at the booth was getting mixed up with national issues that most "average joes" off the street would run away from, because they just didn't know any better. The intent of the organizer of the booth was a forum to educate our community on monetary issues, but to me the booth should have been focused more on our local issues such as county and city corruption creating an avenue to strengthen our local numbers, allowing us to take back our county with honest politics.

We realized if Ron Paul's message was going to get accepted at the county level we needed to create a larger tent and education along wasn't going to do it.  We also need to understand the inner workings of our county, who was running the show, in essence who was running our county.  Our county on the surface was and still is controlled by the left but as we started to dig deeper we began to understand our county politics and the amount of corruption there was run by a small hand full of people.  If you could imagine a real version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" with our very own Boss Hogg.  We didn't like this and needed to find more friends to help us combat the "Alliance."  We need to find the opposition of the corruption within our county and get them into our tent.  We needed to talk with conservative groups through out our county.

We got involved with our local Republican Central Committee. We started attending their meetings every month and got to know the key players on the committee.  We dressed and acted professionally, we did not try to create a ruckus, we just sat in the back and observed like well mannered guests.  At the same time we started to develop relationships trying to find common goals with key players from other organizations within our county that had messages similar to Ron Paul but who necessary didn't vote for Ron Paul.

(Why get other local key players involved? -- If you are planning on getting onto a central committee or would like to stay on your central committee.  I suggest you develop relationships with local central committee members and other groups and organizations and have them assist you when you need them and help them when it's appropriate.  You must bring these community leaders with you to your central committee meetings. You will be sending a strong message to those members of the central committee who might not support you or your friends.  If those central committee doesn't support you, then they don't support their local conservative community, and they will eventually lose their elected seats.  Because you've proved to them that you have the support of the local conservative community and groups they belong to.  These groups will be in your corner when it's time to cast votes if you took the time and energy to set up a large base of support.)

Once we established good working relationships with these organizations, we started volunteer at EVERY local Republican event. We became THE volunteers at every booth, event, function, and even cleaned the local headquarters.  Basically we knew we were on the bottom of the local GOP totem pole, but we didn't care, we knew if we could work harder then any other volunteer, show up first/work hard/last one to leave, our local GOP would soon realized that they needed people like us and we would leave a lasting impression for people within the central committee when it came down to voting for officers onto the central committee's executive board, because no one else in the local GOP was.

We knew once we were in the committee we needed to find a legitimate avenue within the GOP to keep working against the issues we opposed without getting much heat, so we started a Sonoma County affiliate of the Republican Liberty Caucus of California.  Through the banner of the Liberty Caucus, we became the home for Ron Paul Republicans and Barry Goldwater types, the libertarians and constitutionalists of our Republican Party and even some Huckabee supporters.  The Liberty Caucus also started to host monthly shoots at our local gun range.  We would shoot a little and we would talk a little about local issues.  Just like before when we volunteered for everything, the Liberty Caucus became the most active political group for our local party.  We precinct walked every weekend for the local conservative candidates, rain or shine.  We knew most of the candidates won't have a chance in our liberal county and districts but we worked harder then any other group.  Because of our hard work the Liberty Caucus were able to pick up a few more seats as alternates for these ex-officio candidates, which allowed us to strengthen our numbers within the central committee.

In December, I ran and won the Treasurer position and in January two Ron Paul supporters got selected as District Chairs and became members on our executive committee.  Without the support from our local community conservative groups including our Liberty Caucus I don't think I would have won my election for Treasurer, I won by a very small margin.  Now we have members sitting on our central committee's executive committee, by-laws committee, budget committee, and precinct and registration committee. We don't have a majority on any committee, but what we do have is the support and respect of a small majority on our central committee. With their support we have been able to gain many victories each month.

The Liberty movement in Sonoma County has been very successful in one years time, because we have focused our political energy on local politics. Here's our playlist:

1. Attend Meetings

2. Dress for Success

3. Leave wedge issues that will marginlize you at the door

4. Sit in the back and keep your mouth shut

5. Get to know your local party

A. Recognize the leaders in the room

B. Get to know the leaders on a personal level through personal conversations

C. Find local issues that you have in common and develop alliances with committee members (know when to bite your tongue, agree to disagree)

6. Get you and your friends involved by volunteering for local issues like TAXES

A. Work harder then anyone else

B. Earn trust and respect

C. As you are volunteering, learn how to organize future political activities

7. Develop working alliances with other local organizations.  Through local issues for example: TAXES or gun rights or property rights

A. Organize political activities

B. Find local political candidates and issues

C. Become the political activist your party depends on

8. Become voting members of your central committee

9. Organize you and your allies to run for central committee in 2010

10. Use everything you have learn in these steps to get elected onto the central committee in June 2010 

In Liberty,

David Ewing

CA 6th District Coordinator

Las Vegas - California Report Posted by Matthew Heath

Posted 07/19/09 Last updated 07/19/09

Well, it has been a week since the Campaign for Liberty Regional Conference in Las Vegas; and what a great time we had.  A large number of Californian C4Lers converged on Las Vegas. Friday night was highlighted with speeches from Tom Woods and Ron Paul.

Saturday and Sunday was chalk full of valuable training.  Between Mike Rothfeld, Kirk Shelley, John Tate and Jeff Greenspan, those in attendance learned learned how to successfully win in grassroots politics.  Lessons covered the nature of politics, tactics, strategies, media, vetting of candidates and meeting and caucus presence.  I know I am now better prepared to win in my precinct and county. 

Sunday afternoon gave California a chance to hold its first statewide Campaign for Liberty meeting

We had representatives from counties all over the state; Alameda, Fresno, LA, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernadino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma.  Californians had a chance to listen to C4L leaders from around the state speak about their successes and stories.  

There are a lot of exciting things going on with the Liberty Movement in California.  C4L members are having great success with organizing rallies, exhibitor booths at gun shows and tea parties; and a large number of members are either attending or are very interested in attending and getting involved with their local political parties.  We had a great chance to sit down and network.  Watch out California politics.

Now is the time to step up and become a local coordinator.  Local coordinator development throughout all of California is the key to saving our Bear Republic.  Becoming a local coordinator allows you to receive FREE online grassroots political training as well as a 20% discount at the C4L online store.  The online training is an essential tool for winning back your precinct and district.  You will learn all you need to know about the who's, what's, where's and why's about your area.

California's Campaign for Liberty is roaring to go, become a local coordinator today and Be a part of it.

Click here for additional pictures.  Courtesy of Brennan Westerson.

A special thanks goes out to Martin Anding, Allan Bartlett, Adam Cabrera, John Dennis, Andrew Dirks, David Ewing, Jordan Shollenbarger , Robert Vaughn, Steve Wayte, Brennan Westersen, Dave Whitaker and Rob Woodard for all your help during the weekend.  It couldn't have been so successful without you.  Great Job!