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DAVID SULLIVAN for RI State Senate – District 14
80′s Dance Party Fundraiser
Saturday: 6:00pm – 11:30pm
German American Cultural Center
78 Carter Ave
Pawtucket, RI
The first was successful… the second will be Biblical.
Cost is only $15.00 per ticket ON SALE NOW! $20.00 AT DOOR. Cash bar and pizza, too!
SPECIAL AUCTION: BID TO WIN A PLANE RIDE WITH YOURS TRULY ABOVE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Source: David Sullivan for State Senate
This the big fundraiser for Smithfield’s Republican Candidates. Tickets are $50 per person / $90 per couple. We will be serving great food and beverages. The event will be held at Emin Farm, 7 John Mowry Road, in Smithfield, from 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM.
Expected guests:
Carol Mumford, National Committeewoman to the RNC
John Loughlin, candidate for US congress
John Robitaille, candidate for Governor
Erik Wallin, candidate for AG
David Bibeault, candidate for RI Senate
Jen Hirons, candidate for RI House
John English, candidate for RI House
Tickets can be paid for via Paypal at paypal [at] smithfieldgop [dot] org.
Please include name, address and employer information as required by RI law
A clarion call is a powerful request for action or an irresistible mandate. It derives from the sound of a clarion, a medieval trumpet… Used in a political context, it issues a challenge for action from the public.
Voter frustration and anger remains at an all-time high. Congress continues to turn a deaf ear to constituents, passing sweeping legislation it hasn’t read: bank bail-outs, stimulus packages, mandatory health insurance, car company bail-outs. Administrations rely more and more on executive orders to circumvent the system of checks and balances. The net result is an unprecedented, over-reaching federal power grab far beyond the limits set by the United States Constitution.
But there is a remedy. And courageous states around the country are invoking it. It’s the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
On Saturday, August 21 at 1:00 P.M., Rhode Islanders are invited to the front plaza (Smith Street side) of the State House in Providence to celebrate The Clarion Call – The Tenth Amendment Rally.
Around the country, there has been growing interest in – and much misinformation about – the Tenth Amendment, states’ rights, and nullification. The purpose of the rally is to put the Tenth Amendment into accurate historical and contemporary context, and will feature speakers from community, business, and government watch-dog groups. Presentations will include description of federal policies and mandates that exceed constitutional authority, and how states are under no obligation to abide by unconstitutional federal legislation.
Christopher Carlozzi, member support manager and activism coordinator from the Boston office of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), will speak about the lawsuit filed by 20 states – and joined by NFIB – to challenge the constitutionality of the federal health care bill. Mr. Carlozzi will highlight some of new health care mandates and the effects they will have on small businesses.
Using events in other states as examples, other speakers will describe how legislatures around the country are successfully exercising their rights under the 10th Amendment to challenge or nullify over-reaching federal mandates. Locally, asserting Rhode Island’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment can be key in improving Rhode Island’s economic health and restoring more local, constitutional control. Speakers will note examples of federal encroachment on Rhode Island’s rights and how it directly impacts the state’s financial condition in areas of business, education, the commercial fishing industry, and illegal immigration.
Adam “Maverick” Muccino, producer of the Matt Allen Show on radio station 630 WPRO-AM, will be the master of ceremonies for the event.
Speakers include (in alphabetical order, not order of appearance): Continue reading ‘The Clarion Call: Tenth Amendment Rally | Saturday’
If you want to know why Rhode Island is in the shape its in, this video will help. It’s from a few months ago, when Senate president Theresa Paiva-Weed, who was determined not to have a particular bill dealing with illegal immigration voted on (despite half the Senate being cosponsors) used parliamentary tactics to kill a bill, and violated a number of procedures in the process. I had previously heard it on radio, but this video is literally appalling.
Almost equally as appalling is Paiva-Weed’s obvious ignorance of proper procedure.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96u5Q-7CD0[/youtube]
FUNDRAISING EVENT HOSTED BY MICHAEL & LEANNE NAPOLITANO
DATE: SUNDAY AUGUST 22, 2010
TIME: 4PM-6PM
LOCATION: 121 MAIN STREET, ALBION RI
(Note: Albion is part of Lincoln)
DONATION LEVELS:
$35- WAVEMAKER
$75- OCEAN CLUB
$250-GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE
Food and beverages will be served.
Please RSVP by Sunday 8/15/10
Directions from Providence: 146 North to the Lincoln/Smithfield route 116 exit, left turn at the traffic light off of exit, left turn at 3rd traffic light on to Old River Road, go about a mile or so and come to a 4-way stop sign and take a right on to School Street, come down hill and take a left at the blinking light on to Main Street, #121 is a ¼ mile down on the right. Please park 2 doors down in the Landry’s Service Station lot. (Do not park in the Whistle Stop Restaurant lot) If lost please call us at 401-333-5271.
Donations must be made in the form of check or money order as cash donations can’t be accepted. Please make checks payable to: Robitaille for Governor Campaign. To return by mail, please mail to: Michael Napolitano, P.O. Box 627, Albion, RI 02802
Rhode Islanders,
By now, you may have heard of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” a purposeful plot drafted by Marxist Ivy League professors that was designed for one purpose – to collapse and overthrow America’s capitalist system. To eradicate the American Dream.
This sinister plot instructed leftist agitators to purposely expand the entitlement mindset by overwhelming government welfare rolls with impossible obligations. The result would be a “profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces…for major economic reform at the national level.” Largely adopted by the Democrat Party upon its proposal in 1966, the Cloward-Piven Strategy became one of the most overt attempts by the Left to drastically change the landscape of American Life.
Rhode Islanders may be less aware, however, that this portion of the Left’s radical heritage was spawned right here in the Ocean State. And the “strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis” still operates with precision within the RI Democrat Party. Elected Democrats – buttressed by groups such as the Poverty Institute, the George Wiley Center, union organizers, and other progressive organizations – have been actively shepherding Rhode Island toward statewide bankruptcy for years. And it has all been by design.
You can now read all about the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and the Ocean State radicals behind its implementation, by clicking on Excerpt of the Week on TravisRowley.com.
News Release: Travis Rowley, Author of “The Rhode Island Republican”
A press conference about the RI Clean Slate will be held by the RIGOP at the RI State House today at 1:00 PM.
The state of our State is a little bit frightening these days, and if we did not have some hope that we could turn things around, most of us, like so many other people already have, would probably pack up and leave.
We stay, however, not just because we love our home state, but because we share a vision for making Rhode Island great again. We have a strong hope and we see a clear path to returning Rhode Island to economic, cultural, and political vitality. And we trust in our fellow citizens to rise up against the status quo and let our voices be heard.
If you share our optimism, if you share our belief in a future here for our children and families, if you know that Rhode Island should be first and not last, then please join us in taking a stand.
Whatever your party affiliation, and whatever your view of the national political scene, if you believe that one party rule is bad for all of us, and that the lively experiment needs a new direction, then help us wipe the slate clean.
We can do no worse with a clean slate, and if our 90 candidates are right, then we will do much, much better.
Press Release: Rhode Island Republican Party
A fellow Patriot, Daren Gardner, is riding his motorcycle to all state capitols in the contiguous 48 states and then to DC. The East Bay Patriots is the host for RI. The rally begins at 10:00 am and ends at 12:00 noon at the RI State House.
No signs or campaign material, just lots of flags, flags, and more flags. This rally will have a different message. The rally will be positive and uplifting and it is our hope that the citizens who attend will leave with inspiration and a desire to take a step forward to protect our freedom, our nation, and our US Constitution.
Daren will speak on the destruction of the Constitution, present an honorary Constitution to a sitting legislator (Jon Brien), then 11 candidates will speak, and pledge to uphold the Constitution when elected.
Event Hosted by East Bay Patriots
Helen Glover and Steve Wright to emcee
Speakers include candidates John Robitaille, Michael Pinga, Tim Burchett, Dan Gordon, Phil Duquette, Ernie Greco, Doreen Costa, Deloris Issler, John Loughlin, Sean Gately, Karin Gorman, Bob Healey, and non-candidates Terry Gorman and Dexter Liu.
This is a national event and will have national coverage. If you go to the website http://craa2010.com and click on ‘Ride Calendar’ you will see, after clicking on Rhode Island, that the sponsor is East Bay Patriots.
Please support this event!
Please invite as many fellow patriots as you can.
Source: East Bay Patriots
John Robitaille, the endorsed Republican candidate for Governor, today released the following statement regarding Frank Caprio’s comments on the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s recent approval of a $75 million loan guarantee supporting retired Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video-game venture, 38Studios. General Treasurer Caprio made outrageous anti-business statements when he said that the state of Rhode Island should own part of Studio 38 by holding an equity position, and also have the right to attend the company’s board meetings.
“Frank Caprio’s suggestion that government must own part of a private company in return for economic development assistance proves his pro-business rhetoric is a fraud. This is not a question of whether this particular loan guarantee should have been approved. It’s about a reckless statement being made by gubernatorial candidate, Frank Caprio that could further damage our state’s economic development efforts. The state’s innovative loan guarantee program designed to attract new employers to Rhode Island will certainly fail if businesses think that the government will own and control a part of the company as a result,” said Robitaille.
“Mr.Caprio is a career politician so it’s no surprise that he thinks the state government should own and run our businesses. I’ve worked in the real world, owned a small business, and employed workers right here in Rhode Island, so I know what government should and should not do to create jobs,” said Robitaille.
“Rhode Island’s economy doesn’t need more government, it needs less. It certainly doesn’t need government running our businesses. We must lower taxes for all businesses, so they can invest,innovate and grow – providing more jobs for Rhode Island families. We must reduce wasteful spending and live within our means. Less spending leads to lower taxes. Lower taxes leads to more jobs. If we follow Frank Caprio’s plan, pretty soon government will be the only employer in our state. Caprio’s plan is not good for businesses or Rhode Island families.”
Press Release: Robitaille for Governor
Rhode Island’s largest conservative organization (and sponsor of this blog), the RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY, will hold its next general meeting on Thursday, August 12th, 2010.
The meeting will be held in the lower-level of the Tri-City Elk’s Lodge No. 14, at 1915 West Shore Road, in Warwick. For those wishing to eat before the RIRA meeting, a pasta buffet dinner is available between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. The cost for dinner is $8.00 per person. It is “all you can eat” and generally includes pasta, meatballs, soup, salad, and dessert. There is also a Cash Bar available. The RIRA business meeting starts promptly at 7:00PM, and generally lasts until around 9:00PM.
The guest speaker for the meeting will be Michael Napolitano, Communications Director for the John Robitaille for Governor campaign. We will also be voting on several additional endorsements as part of a relatively brief “Special Convention.”
The RIRA is the Rhode Island affiliate of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, a thoughtful national organization of GOP conservatives working to grow and strengthen the Republican Party in the tradition of President Ronald Reagan. This is a dinner meeting, and if you want to eat, you pay for your own meal. Any like-minded conservative Republican is welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact RIRA President Ray McKay at president [at] ri-ra [dot] org or NFRA Northeast Region Vice President Will Ricci at NEVP [at] ri-ra [dot] org or visit the RIRA web site at http://www.ri-ra.org.
