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Due to the projection of inclement weather, Wednesday night’s previously scheduled meeting of the RIRA Bylaws Committee will be postponed until Saturday. It will instead run concurrently with Saturday’s scheduled meeting of the Executive Committee, and will begin at 9:30 AM sharp.
NFRA: CALL TO BOARD MEETING
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) is holding the 2012 NFRA Spring Board Meeting in conjunction with the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on April 14th, 2012.
The NFRA Board Meeting will take place at the Embassy Suites Hotel, located directly across the street from the Convention Center.
We are hosting a lunch at 12:00 noon, with the Board Meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m.
Registration for the NFRA Board Meeting is $35 per person and covers lunch.
You may REGISTER for the NFRA Board Meeting through the NFRA website.
There is NO specific hotel room block for NFRA. However, reservations for hotel rooms are available at the following link:
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=3371998
The National Rifle Association Annual Meeting is located at the America’s Center in downtown St. Louis. There is no cost to National Rifle Association members to attend the exhibit hall and workshops. Contact NFRA Executive Director Chris Brown if you are not yet a National Rifle Association member.
For a full schedule of National Rifle Association Annual Meeting Events visit:
http://www.nraam.org/events/schedule-of-events.aspx
The National Rifle Association is offering many ticketed events that may interest you. They include:
• Thursday, April 12 (5 p.m.): National Rifle Association Foundation Banquet and Auction. $75 each.
• Friday, April 13 (1-3 p.m.): National Rifle Association Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum featuring former UN Ambassador John Bolton, the Honorable Ken Blackwell, Lt. Col. Oliver North, and Senator Roy Blunt. $20 each, group of four $65.
• Friday, April 13 (6 p.m.): National Rifle Association Country Jam featuring Trace Adkins. $25 each.
• Saturday, April 14 (5:30 p.m.): National Rifle Association Celebration of American Values Freedom Experience featuring Glenn Beck and Larry the Cable Guy. $35 each, group of four $120.
• Sunday, April 15 (7 a.m.): Prayer Breakfast featuring Lt. Gen (U.S. Army Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Chuck Buck, and musical guest Bryan White. $35 each.
• Sunday, April 15 (12:30 p.m.): Ted Nugent Seminar. Free.
For Freedom,
Rod D. Martin, President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA)
“The Republican Wing of the Republican Party”
http://www.RepublicanAssemblies.org
(The NFRA is the national parent organization of the RIRA. Any RIRA member in good standing may attend the NFRA Board of Directors meeting. However, only members of the Board may vote on contested issues.)
This is a reminder that Rhode Island’s largest Conservative organization, the RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY, will hold its next meeting this Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
The RIRA monthly meeting will be held in the lower-level of Tri-City Elk’s Lodge No. 14, at 1915 West Shore Road, in Warwick. For those wishing to eat before the RIRA meeting begins, dinner is available between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. The cost for dinner is about $8.00 per person. There is also a Cash Bar available. The RIRA business meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:00PM.
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. Regular attendees are encouraged to inquire about membership.
For more information, please contact RIRA President Raymond McKay at (401) 487-2514 or president [at] ri-ra [dot] org. Thank you.
SIGNATURE PARTY SCHEDULE TO GET GOP PRES. CANDIDATES ON R.I. PRIMARY BALLOT
You have read recently that all but 2 of the Republican Presidential candidates failed to even get on the ballot for Virginia’s Primary, due to that state’s ridiculously restrictive ballot access laws. But Rhode Island’s laws are even WORSE than Virginia’s. We could be looking at NONE of the candidates getting on R.I.’s ballot, thanks to major changes in the R.I. law, passed in 2011 and taking effect in 2012.
But we are taking steps to make sure that this embarrassment does not happen here. We are in charge of getting all the GOP candidates on the April 24 R.I. Primary ballot. We are organizing a team effort, to make sure R.I. Republican voters are able to choose from ALL 7 of the Presidential candidates.
First, a brief explanation of why this is so difficult in R.I. We have just 2 weeks to get 1,000 valid signatures for these candidates, from January 19 to February 2. (This is down from the 5 weeks we had previously, in warmer weather). Also, in normal states, signatures are turned in to one central location. In R.I., signatures must be turned in to the City or Town Hall where the signer resides. (So, for instance, if you are a Providence voter, and sign a paper that is turned in to Pawtucket, your signature would be disqualified.). This makes it impractical to gather signatures at shopping centers or at athletic events, where people come from numerous different communities.
The only thing about R.I. law that makes things easier, is that one person can sign papers for ALL of the candidates (not just for the one that they support). We are asking people to sign every paper, so that ALL the candidates get on; rather than NONE of them, if we each go our separate ways.
So here is what YOU can do.
* SIGNATURE PARTIES
We are organizing events in most of the 39 Cities & Towns, where residents can come and sign all the papers. The GOP City & Town Chairmen’s Caucus (President Mark Smiley from Warren) is working with the 39 local GOP Committees, to set these up.
We will notify you, via E-Mail, about the time & place for the Signature Party in your own community. (THE SCHEDULE FOR ALL COMMUNITIES IS LISTED BELOW). We ask you to take the time to go to the event in your Town, and sign all the papers.
These Signature Parties will also be social events, where you get to meet and greet the GOP leaders in your Town (and maybe get more involved with your local GOP organization).
* GET SIGNATURES YOURSELF
If you would be willing to get signatures on all the papers from 10 or more of your friends and neighbors, just REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL (DaveTalan [at] aol [dot] com), and we will deliver the papers to you on January 19 (together with instructions on how to handle them).
We will help you get all the papers properly notarized, and turn them in for you.
(Note: If you replied a week ago, to your monthly R.I. GOP Update, and it bounced back to you, then reply again. That Update had a space mistakenly included in the return address, which caused some replies to be rejected.)
SO HERE IS THE CURRENT SCHEDULE OF SIGNATURE PARTIES !!
(In a few days, we will send you an updated schedule, once we hear from more communities. We will also send you an E-Mail with more details about the Signature Party in your own particular City or Town.)
RHODE ISLAND GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SIGNATURE PARTIES Continue reading ‘Presidential Signature Party Schedule for RI’
