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North Lake Tea Party - Tallahassee Trip: March 8th to March 10th, 2011

3/20/2011

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Tuesday - 7:30 AM

Met in the capital lobby

Handed a list of over 30 bills being considered in the Senate or House

Directory of reps names and office numbers

Broke up into small groups to make visits or attend committee meetings

We ran into US Congressman Daniel Webster in the hall.

House Rep. Marlene O’Toole – District 42

       Member of Government Operations Committee

Sen. Alan Hays – packed his office fellow Tea Party members

Rep. Corcoran - Tampa

       HB 995 – Local Effort Property Tax/Sales Tax

       Increase state sales tax by 2.5%

Lower real estate property taxes accordingly (?????)

Revenue Neutral

Attended the Tea Party Rally on the steps of the old capitol – Noon-2 PM

Speakers included:

James Madison Institute  - Free Market Think Tank - www.jamesmadison.org

       Rep. Scott Plakon - Orlando

              In support of constitution amendment to balance our budget

              Oppose the Numeric Nutrient law - EPA water quality regulations

              SB 1090, HB 239, HM 1401

       KeepemHonestFlorida.com  

       Freedom Connector – website connection Tea Party/912 Groups

              Added North Lake Tea Party
   
Senate President Mike Haridopolis – needs our support for next 60 days

              Balance the budget

              No new taxes

              Medicare reform

              Pension reform

              Immigration reform

       Gov. Scott spoke at 1:10 PM

Freedom Works – National organization chaired by Dick Armey

       www.freedomworks.org

FreedomWorks:

recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes millions of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom.

Tea Party Caucus – Senate Chambers of the Old Capital Building

       Formed 1st Florida Legislature Tea Party Caucus

Attended the joint session of the State-of-the-State by Governor Rick Scott

Wednesday

Attended in Senate gallery to observe debate of SB736 – Federal Stimulus funds for education

Joined TheTeaPartyNetwork

Attended Senate Criminal Justice committee meeting focused on SB234 – Open Carry Firearms

Thursday

Met in the Knott Building Room 117 at 8:30 AM – Presenters included:

Senator Greg Evers – Wanted our input on SB736 Teacher Tenure

       $750M Federal Stimulus – 50% DOE, 50% Classrooms

       TP consensus – NO

Americans For Prosperity – providing busses to Tallahassee – 3/29

CFO Atwater

       Make government think differently about how they run their business

       Take back America to Fiscal Responsibility

       Role of CFO

              No vote member of budget process

              Offers direction to make budget work

              Insures correct execution of budget goals

              Writes the checks

              Investigates Medicare/Medicaid fraud ($2B/yr)

Henry Kelly – Budget exercise using power point tool

       Discretionary            $30B

       Non-Discretionary    $40B

              Federal statute

              State statue

Governor’s Budget Director – w/2 assistants

Jeb Bush Foundation - Education Representative – SB736

       Before passage – 3yrs teacher tenure or job for life

       In support of teachers evaluation proposal in SB736

              50% Peer – 50% Student

       Now more closely matches private sector     

Rep. Doug Broxon – Panhandle - Freshman

       Watch the process closely

              Don’t decide on an issue until you’ve heard all the evidence

       Pray for our state

Rep. Keith Perry – Gainesville

Rep. Matt Gaetz -  Panhandle

       HB7005 - Reduces Unemployment Comp from 26-20 weeks

Rep. Michael Bileca – Miami-Dade – Freshman

       Filed bill to include founding fathers in US history in public schools

              Now US history begins in 1865

       TAT Rally at DOE (Turlington Bldg.)

              DOE has ignored 200 historical text book errors submitted by TP citizens

Unite In Action – The Great American Budget Bash

       www.uniteinaction.org

Sen. Alan Hays – Central Florida

       SB518 E-Verify – immigration reform

       Property insurance premiums will go up – because of sins of the past

              $138B shortfall if 100 year storm hits our state

       SB1714 corrects the grievous errors by previous governor

       To contact him:

              No form letters

              Keep you message short and sweet

Agenda 21 – information

       www.agenda21today.com

Sen. Joe Negron – Treasure Coast

Sen. Paula Dockery – Voted NO SB736 – against GOP leadership

       Opposes accepting federal stimulus funds

Sen. Matt Gaetz – Panhandle

       Announced that SB 736 Passed to end teacher tenure

       Public employee pensions – we need sensible-solvent pension systems

Keep emails coming

Write letters to the newspaper editors

SB1972 – Control Medicare Cost

       Add eligibility requirements

       US Citizens only

       Morbidly obese/smokers get rehab to be eligible

       Currently no cost controls on Fed. Medicaid

Henry Kelly – Senate/House Website

       How to be a lobbyist without a lobbyist budget

              Track bills

              Search bill text for the word ‘Shall’ to find the meat of the bill

Sen. Greg Evers – Panhandle - Needs our help with these bills

SB168 – Total Repeal of Septic Tank Language

              Ask Sen. Dean to move the bill

       SB402 – Local government cannot stop ammo sale

       SB1494 – Numeric Nutrient

       SB1478 Interstate Commerce (Exercise our 10th Amendment Rights)

       SB616 – Ad Valorem Taxation

       SB358 – 10th Amendment Bill

       SB432 – Prohibits physicians from asking if you have a gun in your home

       SB234 – Open carry firearms

Former Sen. Cary Baker

       Policy consultant to Senate President

Franz Krebreau

       3rd Friday in June – Celebrate Freedom (National Day of Observance)

              Black vs White, Principle vs Power, Good vs Evil

Andy Dubois, andy.dubois@yahoo.com

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North Lake TEA Party meeting, March 2nd, 2011

3/4/2011

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Great meeting, we had 43 signed in attendance.

We opened with prayer by Tom Dallinga.

Pledge of Allegiance & MC Andy DuBois

The speakers were Dave VonGunten, Patricia Sullivan, Vance Jochim and we showed a video about Agenda 21. See the links below.

This following letter and question was sent to our County Commissioners also.

I know you are all aware of Agenda 21, but I wanted to show you what we viewed at the TEA Party last night and the letter to Rick Scott from Bear Witness that I got this morning.  Sorry to send you links, but it is the best way to give you all the details.

First, the video from PJ TV:
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=4972 

Then the letter from Bear Witness:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=perishdab&v=001GW57Qq-hwGRPiMhVmJ8MEk9I6O2IJXnQLXri98rA2oLGMK_Cl7Q46bbWL9ODU2_2QlzeaH-h9Z0zu4PYgICgW5vXkdhUSis5nbQtD_yFsrk%3D 

It was pointed out last night that there are more severe examples of Agenda 21 activities in YouTube, but the link above is short and enough to really get their attention.  It seemed so remote until I got the mail from Bear Witness this morning.  Where does Lake County stand in relation to ICLEI?

Dave
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George Fest, a three day event at Ferran Park, Eustis. February 25-27, 2011

3/2/2011

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Our booth was next to the Fair Tax booth and we were able to share volunteers back and forth. A great time was had by all. The festival was very well attended.

We started by walking with the Fair Tax people and float. See pictures. At our booth we were able to sign up 26 new members and talk with folks local and from around the country. They were mostly supportive but some a little hostile. We have a few pictures at our picture site.

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