Posted by clintchedester on 09/13/10

Team,

Thanks to everyone that showed up last night even though it was raining.  Here is a recount of what we discussed and events that we've planned between now and the next meeting.

• National Blast - Watching the Disclose Act S 3628 & the Food Security Bill S 501.  These are two bills that are detrimental to our freedoms and liberties.
  • Action item: Contact Senator Lautenberg http://lautenberg.senate.gov/ & Senator Menendez http://menendez.senate.gov/
• State Blast - We've seen great results from the NJ Healthcare Freedom Act campaign here in Hudson County with over 100 signed petitions after just two events.
  • Action item: Schedule more NJ Healthcare Freedom Act events.
• Hudson Blast - Reviewed School Board budget votes in Hudson County and found that Guttenberg and North Bergen rejected the budgets.  
  • Action item: Target these two townships with the 2011 My House is not your Piggy Bank campaign to reduce real estate taxes.

Upcoming Events
Sunday 9/19 - 4PM meet at corner of 8th & Washington outside 8th Street Tavern  for Hoboken (Round 2) door-to-door NJ Healthcare Freedom Act petition campaign 

Thursday 9/23 - 6PM meet at Hudson County Seat at 567 Pavonia AVE, Jersey City for Attend Hudson County Freeholder meeting (gather financial info)

Sunday  9/26  - 4PM meet at James J Braddock North Hudson Park parking lot for   North Bergen (Round 1) door-to-door NJ Healthcare Freedom Act petition campaign  Call my cell (860) 271-3507 when you arrive.

Sunday 10/3 - 7PM meet at The Dubliner in Hoboken for Regular monthly meeting

If you need a ride to any of these events please send me a note and I'll make arrangements.

Respectfully,
Clint Chedester

Posted by clintchedester on 08/18/10
Last updated 08/18/10

This past Sunday afternoon, I hit the pavement with a fellow Campaign for Liberty member right here in Hudson County, NJ.  We were in Hoboken to be exact. 

Mission:  Knock on doors and request signatures for a New Jersey Health Care Freedom Act petition. 

What did we find in our experiment?  To our surprise, a large number of those who answered the door signed our petition.  We covered two city blocks of row townhomes from 12th to 14th on Garden Street.  After one hour and several stimulating conversations, we walked away with 11 signed petitions.  Along with each petition, the signer provided an address and in some cases their e-mail address.  We were able to successfully add 11 names to our rapidly growing contact list.  In one case a gentleman said, 'Oh yeah, this is the 10th amendment thing that all the states are doing that I saw on TV.'  What a way to spread the flame of liberty by bringing to their front door the buzz that they've heard of via media sources.  In another case, I was able to challenge a gentleman's ideology regarding freedom when I said, 'Please sign this petition to protect our Freedom.  The government is now telling us that we have to buy a product.  That is not freedom, sir.'  He replied shockingly, 'Wow, I've never heard it put like that.' 

We can win this ideological battle to restore Freedom, Liberty, and the Constitution of the United States.  Keep up the fight.

Respectfully,

R. Clint Chedester

Posted 08/18/10 clintchedester Kearny, NJ

Disregard the poll. I messed it up. Thanks.

Posted 08/26/10 stepman Northvale, NJ

Thanks Clint, You and your team are great examples of what we ALL need to do! Keep it up and we will win back Our Country and preserve Our Liberty.

Posted 09/01/10 Donna Mantua, NJ

Thank you, Clint, for sharing your success with us. We are hearing about similar encounters here in South Jersey.

Posted by clintchedester on 07/11/10
Last updated 07/11/10

Hudson County Freeholders approve budget but not sports funding

Let's all hope that here in Hudson County we can start bringing sensibility to the freeholder meetings.  The people at this time seem to want unlimited public services.  The tide can turn to put an end to debates such as the one that occurred here a few weeks ago.  One day these meetings will be focused on reducing to elimination the property taxes in this area which are some of the highest in the country.  See story below.

In Liberty,

Clint

Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 3:33 PM     Updated: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 3:53 PM

 Melissa Hayes/The Jersey Journal 
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After hours of testimony from students, parents and community members the Hudson County Board of Freeholders voted 6 to 2 to adopt a county budget late last night.

Despite weeks of debates, the budget does not include $150,000 to restore sports programs in the Hudson County Vocational High School District.

Freeholder Bill O’Dea announced at the meeting that he had found $150,000 for sports and $150,000 for the district’s adult education program, which is facing significant cuts.

But when he and Freeholder Eliu Rivera, both of Jersey City, made the motion, they failed to get the support of the other board members.

Freeholder Jeff Dublin, of Jersey City, was absent.

When the 2010 county budget came up for a vote around 11 p.m., O’Dea and Hoboken Freeholder Anthony Romano voted against it.

The board may not have supported sports, but when Freeholder Jose Munoz, of West New York, made a motion to allocate $150,000 for adult education, all eight members backed him.

“The unfortunate thing is that I found enough money to be able to both support the athletic program and support the funding for the adult high school,” O’Dea said. “Except for freeholder Rivera the rest of my colleagues don’t seem to feel that that’s important.”

Even if O’Dea was successful in getting $150,000 for the sports program, the sports program may not have come back.

The Hudson County Vocation High School Board of Education voted earlier this year to eliminate sports after receiving a letter from Sen. Nicholas Sacco, mayor of North Bergen. Sacco was supported by all the Hudson County mayors, however Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healylater withdrew his support.

Parents and students had appealed to the freeholders to save the program.

O’Dea said the funding could have served as a bargaining chip to convince the school district to bring back sports, but Munoz said the freeholders shouldn’t force another governing body to do something.

“The funding of the program would have done nothing,” he said. “You would have thrown $150,000 in front of the school, but the school already voted to take the program out. When you do that, you’re basically putting a gun on their head and forcing them to do something. I think that’s the wrong way to negotiate.”

Munoz said the district and the North Hudson mayors were advocating for the restoration of funding to the adult education program, which is losing $1.7 million in state aid.

Munoz personally understands the importance of adult high schools. He graduated from the adult education program in Union City. He went on to college and has two masters’ degrees.

“My father got sick when I was in my junior year, he was the guy who worked and paid the rent,” Munoz said. “I had to drop out of school and started working. I started going to night school.”

Sacco, whose letter sparked the sports program debate, said he advocated for the adult program getting funding.

He said the county schools sports program is a “duplication” because students can play in their home districts. He also said the freeholders couldn’t have saved the sports program.

“The freeholders have no ability to do that, that only ones with that authority are the members of the Board of Education,” he said. “Everything else was grandstanding by Bill O’Dea. You just watched hours of grandstanding with no power behind it. The freeholders acted quite properly for reinstating funding for the night school, which hurts thousands of students.”

While students are allowed to play in their home districts, the vocational district would not provide transportation to sports practices or games at other districts. Students also wouldn’t be allowed to leave school early. Depending on the location of their home district, that could mean they miss practice or games.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/06/hudson_county_freeholders_appr.html

Posted by clintchedester on 03/24/10

The day after President Obama signed the massive Healthcare overhaul into law we hear the call by many to Repeal the Bill.  I, of course, am in favor of such a notion.  However, I honestly feel that if there was ever a chance to expose the real offender in this case, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, it is now.

The American people and the States of the Union tried their very best to stop the takeover of the health care industry by the Federal government.  Through town hall meetings, phone calls, e-mails, faxes, new grassroots movements (Tea Party, etc), and even marching on Washington, it is said that we did all that was in our power.  Unfortunately for our generation the real tool to prevent such tyranny was eliminated in 1913 when the Constitution was amended on the 17th occasion.

The 17th Amendment removes the power from the legislature of each State to choose its representative in the U.S. Senate.  While many State legislatures (I've seen reports of as many as 36) are moving nullification of Federal health care reform through their respective legislatures, the best tool available to them to repeal this unconstitutional act is no longer at their avail.  One could only imagine that in November these 36 States would remove their Senator from Congress if their time for re-election were due, and replace them with Senators that would actually carry out their demands to repeal the bill in Congress.

Maybe the people will remember in November and each subsequent November thereafter, but my money is on the Sovereign State legislatures.  In any case, and I hope you agree, now is the time to educate our fellow citizens in regards to the 17th Amendment.  Now is the time not to squander our energy on a hopeless cause to Repeal the Bill in the face of a corrupt Washington, but to refocus our energy while the time is right for a national movement to Repeal the 17th.

In Liberty,

Clint Chedester

Posted by clintchedester on 03/23/10

In what most socialists may declare as their final victory in the war against freedom and liberty the health care reform bill that passed the House on Sunday is actually just the opposite.  Unfortunately for the socialists little do they know that brewing in the minds of the American people is a new revolution.  This time the revolution is conservative in nature.  It is based upon conserving the founding principles of a truly free nation:  Freedom from tyrants, individual liberty, and non-intervention.

I hope that you as I are aware of the beginning of this revolution.  In my mind the health bill will actually produce the opposite effect that is expected by the socialists.  They feel that their war is over and that the people will subside from their recent rage and accept complete state control over their lives.  I'm pleased to announce today to those who wish to destroy freedom and liberty forever, the war has only just begun.

In fact a war cannot be a war when only one side is fighting.  Unfortunately for those Americans who enjoy their freedoms and liberties, the only side that has been fighting over the last 50 years are the socialists.  

Today, however, marks the first day in which true Americans that wish to conserve the principles upon which our country was founded begin to fight.  I am here to help lead the charge.   Here's to the next 50 years in which our fight will produce most excellent results:

1.  100% repeal of all Federal health regulatory laws, including that passed on Sunday as well as Medicare.

2.  100% repeal of the Social security system through a gradual opt-out plan for new workers entering the system.

3.  100% repeal of all Federal gun control laws.

4.  100 % repeal of the 16th & 17th Amendments to the Constitution.

5.  And of course 100% repeal of the Federal Reserve System, replaced with a true free market system in which Americans can once again use silver and gold to make purchases.

If this is the legacy that our generation, this new generation of Americans fighting to conserve our founding principles, can leave for our descendants, then we will ensure prosperity for generations to come.

In Liberty,

Clint Chedester

Posted 03/23/10 mattgeb84 lynn, MA

Right on brother, this may turn into a very ugly physical fight, socialist scum have been using government to physically force people to go along with thief agenda for decades now it's up to us to fight back

Posted 03/23/10 rileyb Arcadia, CA

I know this may come as quite a shock to you, but actually socialists would agree with you on quite a few of those things. C4Lers complain about being lumped in with neocons, while for years, the socialists have been lumped in with statists. Also, socialism has failed just as often as libertarianism has at the polls. What your post should have said is that the war against STATISM is finally heating up.

Posted 03/23/10 MichaelBarry Sebring, FL

I must say that I really doubt if Americans have the spine anymore to do what really needs to be done..... the fascists should be driven from office, horse whipped, tarred and feathered, and ridden out o' town on a rail.... But.....the highest probabiltiy is that the average American will complain for few minutes and then return to his couch with a beer and some pretzels.

Posted 03/23/10 mattgeb84 lynn, MA

But.....the highest probabiltiy is that the average American will complain for few minutes and then return to his couch with a beer and some pretzels. yup... so damn sad... sigh but true

Posted 03/24/10 clintchedester Kearny, NJ

All, thanks for the input. I'm hopeful that a new era is upon us. I for one was awakened by Ron Paul to some of the harsh realities of our current government in Sept 2008. I will never stop fighting for freedom and liberty. Thanks.

Posted 06/01/10 danodoc hoboken, NJ

Clint, I'm also in Hoboken. would be great to speak sometime. Dan danodoc@gmail.com

Posted 06/01/10 BillNM , NM

But.........if the couch is not there and he can't get his beer and pretzels THEN he will start asking questions and once he understands WHO did WHAT to him all hell will break loose. Our job will be to explain it. As the poet said, "The Gods of the Copy Book Headings with terror and slaughter return!"