Tea Party Congressional Candidate Wins Decisive Victory in 23rd CA District
(Santa Barbara, CA – June 9, 2010) In a Primary election upset in one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country - so much so that it is called “The Ribbon of Shame” – Tea Party endorsed candidate Tom Watson won a decisive victory in a field of five, including an early pick by the Republican Establishment.
A newcomer to politics, Watson is a retired Naval officer and high tech entrepreneur who has lived in Summerland for 10 years. Along with three other local candidates, he won the endorsement of Santa Barbara Tea Party after a stringent vetting process by the organization’s board.
“We were pleased to select Tom Watson as our preferred Congressional candidate,” reported Dr. Rolland Jacks, SBTP Communications Director. ”He had shown his dedication to the tea party movement by participating in our activities and events as well as wholeheartedly expressing his appreciation for our group’s goals.”
On June 8, Watson won handily with 35.9% of the vote. The 49 year old Naval Academy Graduate and former US Navy F-14 flyer will now go on to try to defeat the incumbent, 72 year old Congresswoman Lois Capps (D), who has held the seat for six terms, following her victory in a special election in 1998 after her husband died in office.
“I firmly believe in the tea party principles of limited government, lower taxes and upholding the Constitution,” said Watson. “SBTP has stood faithfully by me, and for that I am grateful. Their values are the values that have made America great.”
SBTP endorsed candidate, Mike Stoker, who won in his quest for the 35th District California Assembly. He will face off against Democrat Das Williams, who currently is a member of Santa Barbara City Council.
(5.4.10) Time Magazine Names A Tea Party Leader & Scott Brown as Among World’s 100 2010 Most Influential
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1984685,00.html
National Tea Party BUY-Cott of AZ Products Starts Today
(5.4.10) SBTP joins tea parties throughout the nation in supporting Arizona’s commerce
as the Left, Mexico, and the ACLU promotes a boycott of Arizona and its products. These new
self-avowed enemies of Arizona believe they will be successful in hurting Arizona business, thereby
forcing AZ to rescind their recently passed illegal immigration bill. Using similar race card tactics,
they were able to get AZ to recant their refusal to join other states in making Martin Luther King, Jr
birthday a state holiday several years ago. Their ace in the hole was putting enormous pressure on
the NFL. This time, they are using the same strategy as they push to stop Major League Baseball’s
championship games from being played in AZ next year, an opportunity that AZ has long-awaited.
We stand behind the Arizonans’ efforts to put an end to the death, destruction, drug cartels, attendant
cultural decay, and the threat to national security caused by illegal immigration. AZ is a beautiful place
to travel, and we suggest checking the list of AZ companies who need our business, especially the
MLB team, the AZ Diamondbacks. If you can do nothing else, we recommend buying a baseball cap
and wearing it proudly and telling the MLB to stand up for America.
PLAN A TRIP TO ARIZONA
http://www.arizonaguide.com/
http://www.nps.gov/applications/parksearch/state.cfm?st=AZ
http://azstateparks.com
http://www.camparizona.com
http://www.arizona-bed-breakfast.com/
http://www.verdecanyonrr.com/
http://www.thetrain.com/
http://www.arizonawine.org/
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SUPPORT ARIZONA COMPANIES:
Allied Waste Industries
http://sd.disposal.com/
America West Airlines
http://www.usairways.com
American Flag & Pole Co.
http://www.americanflagandpole.com/
American Spirit Arms (Manufacturer of precision firearms)
http://www.americanspiritarms.com/pages/about_asa.html
Arizona Artists
http://www.arizonaartists.net/
Arizona Cardinals (Football)
http://www.azcardinals.com/
Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB Baseball) – Buy Caps!
http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=ari
Arizona Highways (magazine)
http://www.arizonahighways.com/
Best Western
http://www.bestwestern.com/
Bookmans (largest used book seller in AZ)
http://www.bookmans.com/
Cerreta Fine Chocolates
http://www.cerreta.com/index.cfm
Candy’s Apples (gourmet candied apples)
http://www.gourmetcandyapples.com/
Circle K (Convenience Store)
http://www.circlek.com/
CSK Auto (Checker Auto Parts, Schucks Auto Supply, Kragen Auto Parts, Murray’s Discount Auto Stores)
http://www.cskauto.com/
Clear Channel Outdoor
http://www.clearchanneloutdoor.com/
Cold Stone Creamery
http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/
Discount Tire Company
http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do
Eleanor Joseph Confections (truffles & more!)
http://www.eleanorjosephconfections.com/
Fairytale Brownies
http://www.brownies.com/default.aspx
Fender Music Instruments
http://www.fender.com/#/american-deluxe
€ Flight Miniatures (model aircraft)
http://www.flightminiatures.com/
Grand Canyon Airlines
http://www.grandcanyonairlines.com/
GreenNurture.com (green corporate consulting)
http://www.greennurture.com/
Greyhound Corp.
http://www.greyhound.com/home/
GoDaddy
http://www.godaddy.com
Harkins Theatres
http://www.harkinstheatres.com/
Hollycake (Letterpress Stationery)
http://www.hollycakepress.com/
Hopi Market
http://www.hopimarket.com/
Kona Grill
http://www.konagrill.com/
Knight Transportation
http://www.knighttrans.com/
Lifelock
http://www.lifelock.com/
Massage Envy
http://www.massageenvy.com/
Mesa Air Group (Mesa Airliines, Go!, Freedom Airlines)
http://www.mesa-air.com/
McClendon’s Select (mail order organic fruit and honey)
http://www.mcclendonsselect.com/
M. R. Designs & Gifts (Gift Baskets)
http://www.mrdesignsandgifts.com/
My Computer Works (Scottsdale. Online computer repair) http://www.mycomputerworks.com/
Navajo Fine Jewelry & Collectibles
http://www.gonavajo.com/navajoart/default.asp
New Vision (vitamins & wellness)
http://newvision.com
PF Changs
http://www.pfchangs.com
Ping (Golf)
http://www.ping.com/welcome.aspx
Phoenix Coyotes (NHL Hockey)
http://coyotes.nhl.com/
Phoenix Suns
http://www.nba.com/suns/index_main.html
PetSmart
http://www.petsmart.com
Poore Brothers Pototo Chips
http://www.inventuregroup.net/Poore-Brothers.asp
Protégé Sports
http://www.protegesportsinc.com/
Ramada Hotels
http://www.ramada.com
Robar (firearms & accessories)
http://www.robarguns.com/
Set Enterprises (board games & brain puzzles)
http://www.setgame.com/
Seven Sisters Sweet Shop and Chocolate
http://www.7sisterssweetshopandchocolate.com/
Sky Mall
http://www.skymall.co
Surf City Squeeze
http://www.surfcitysqueeze.com/
Taser International
http://www.taser.com/pages/default.aspx
U-Haul
http://www.uhaul.com/
University of Phoenix
http://www.phoenix.edu
US Airways
http://www.usairways.com
Candidate Endorsements
Following months of vetting, SBTP has endorsed Tom Watson for Congress (CA-23), Mike Stoker for State Assembly (CA-35) and Joshua Lynnfor County District Attorney as the candidates who best represent our mission, principles and goals in their respective races. Beginning Saturday, May 1, we will launch volunteer efforts to help them win. Please contact info@santabarbarateaparty.com regarding coordinated tea party precinct walks, fundraisers and phone banks.
Tom Watson – watson4congress.com
Mike Stoker - http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Stoker-For-Assembly-2010/81616694293
Joshua Lynn - http://www.joshualynnforda.com/
David Horowitz addresses 400 at Tea Party-sponsored speech
MATT BLOISE, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
April 16, 2010 6:30 AM
Over 400 attendees crowded into the Fess Parker Doubletree and Resort on Thursday to hear David Horowitz, the author and pundit, give his impression of where America stands as it enters a new election season and whether or not the Tea Party movement can translate its energy into political success.
The Santa Barbara Tea Party has transformed tax day into its own small-government celebration, and on Thursday the group again used the yearly government collection as a call to arms.
The event began with a short speech by Ward Connerly, a conservative author who helped end affirmative action on the entrance exams to the University of California system when he was one of its Regents.
The Democratic leadership has seriously overreached and lost the support of the American pubic, he said, and Mr. Horowitz is uniquely qualified to understand them as a former leftist. “There is no one who is more against smoking than a reformed smoker,” he said. “David as a reformed leftist is a true believer in basic, fundamental, American principles.”
Mr. Horowitz took the stage and proceeded to give the audience his insights into what he saw as America’s troubled present and its uncertain future.
He began by first defining what it meant to be a conservative, and the nature of leftist circles in the United States.
“Conservatives learn their politics in the Boys and Girls Scouts and Rotary Clubs. They start small businesses, and when they go to Sacramento or Washington it’s because it has gotten in the way.”
“Leftists learn their politics in communist camps,” he continued, “in trade unions or environmental groups, and they go to Washington to get power and fundamentally change the world. When Republicans look at politics, they view it as a management problem. For leftists, politics is about war by other means.”
Mr. Horowitz said his experience with the left comes from intimate knowledge. His parents, who were schoolteachers, were committed socialists whose view of politics was similar to a religion, he said, and and who often disguised their true intentions. “My parents, everyone else I knew, wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War. They love America, but they love it as a socialist-fantasy future. They’re very clever, they’ve been at this for a long time, since the French Revolution. ”
A major theme of his speech was how leftists disguise their arguments by advocating the defeat of the United States, while trying to make it look like an imperialist tyrant. “Every Leftist has only one objective in mind, which is to defeat the United States,” he said. “There wasn’t one demonstration in front of the Iraqi Embassy asking them to obey 17 U.N. resolutions. For three years they conducted a psychological war against our war, that’s what Abu Ghraib was about, that’s why they destroyed Bush.”
The root of what he called the left’s disassociation with their own country stems from a religious fervor, he said, and it has tainted their world view. For them, “the world is ruled by an evil principle, and that principle is American and Israel. If you think that, you understand that America is the force that’s getting in the way to heaven. These people are very serious. If you believe that you can bring about heaven, there’s no lie you won’t tell, there’s no crime you won’t commit. That’s why they hate us.”
The left has made a common cause with Islamic fundamentalism because they share a common enemy, he said, in the United States. Mr. Horowitz warned that this was a particularly virulent form of evil that had no precedence in world history. “I would never (before) have said that Islamo-fascism is worse than fascism or communism, but it is. Never in the history of the world has a people strapped bombs onto their children to kill them, and other little children. Ahmadinejad, or any other leader in the Middle East, has never condemned it. It is a death cult involving 300 million people.”
There has been a dangerous collusion between leftists and jihadists, he said, which creates serious dangers to the future of democracy. “We have a terrorist jihad, but the real threat is the secret jihad, the subversion of Western law and Western constitutions, which is already well on its way in Europe,” he warned. “The most fundamental right we have in America is the right to blaspheme. It is the foundation of democracy.”
As far as the upcoming elections are concerned, Mr. Horowitz said that although he was optimistic that Americans were waking up, he was wary about the Tea Party’s ability to translate its energy into a standing political movement. He mentioned a woman who was running a campaign for the Los Angeles City Council who was running across the street with two armfuls of posters and pamphlets, and was hit and killed because of her haste.
“I don’t know any Republican who has died in the line of duty,” he said. “Conservatives have something better to do with our time. Conservatives are allergic to collectivism, traits that are quite admirable but makes us hard to organize. We need to grit our teeth and get in the battle. We can’t win if we don’t fight. I’m waiting to see the army.”
The evening concluded with a closing speech by Mr. Connerly, who urged action in November and a prolonged involvement in politics if conservatives wanted to see results. He ended with a line that drew great applause from the audience.
“If you’ve come here for a meeting of conservatives, you’ve come to the wrong meeting. We’re not conservatives. We’re revolutionaries.”
e-mail: news@newspress.com
Actress Victoria Jackson - New Video
(March 10, 2010) The delightful Actress Victoria Jackson, who joined us as our headined performer at our “Something’s Fishy” event, has joined our frient Lloyd Marcus on the Tea Party Express Bus Tour beginning next week. She sent her latest video. You might enjoy it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWi182CMJY8&feature=popt00us0a
01.21.10 Video – A New Day is Dawning
Alert – Last Chance to Help Scott Brown
(Santa Barbara, CA – 01.16.10) Three days away from the Special Election, Obama & Co. are heading to Massachusetts to try to stop Senator Scott Brown from winning E. Kennedy’s seat. If you haven’t yet donated to Brown’s campaign, it is your last chance to make a difference in this referendum re the administration’s socialist agenda. Donate at http://www.brownforussenate.com.
SBTP Scott Brown Election Night Party
(Santa Barbara, CA – 01.16.10) SBTP has scheduled a get together for local Scott Brown Supporters Tuesday, 01.19.10 – Election Night in Massachusetts. Location: Longboard’s – Upstairs at the Harbor Restaurant; Time 5:00 PM. No host cocktails. Info & RSVP: dollymadison@sbtp-cs.org. Members may bring guests.
SBTP Time Sensitive Alert
Tea Party-Republican Win Can Defeat Healthcare Bill
(Santa Barbara, CA – 01.10.10) Santa Barbara Tea Party joins the national tea party movement in recommending support of Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown (Tea Party Republican), who is running for US Senate from Massachusetts (to replace E. Kennedy). The election is a week away, Tuesday, January 19. Sen. Brown’s win would end Democrats’ 60 vote super majority domination of the US Senate.
Latest polls show Sen. Brown one point ahead of the Progressive Democrat running for the seat. Financial help is needed for the necessary last minute blitz. Any amount $15 and up has the potential to put a tea partier in the US Senate and a fatal crimp in the Healthcare Bill.
Donations accepted at <http://www.brownforussenate.com/>
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0110/Poll_Scott_Brown_leading_Coakley_4847.html – Poll
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/08/there-is-something-you-can-do-to-stop-obamacare/
01.05.10 – Loss of Your Legal Rights : Obama Christmas 09 Executive Order
Tickets Sold Out to 03.05.10 Mark Levin Event
(Santa Barbara, CA – 01.03.10) Members of Santa Barbara Tea Party will be traveling by chartered coach to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley to participate in the Dinner honoring Author & Talk Show Host Mark Levin on March 5, 2010. Tickets sold out immediately.
CA Petition Battle 2010: Will Citizens’ ‘David’ Slay Unions’ ‘Goliath’ with a Pen?
| The “grassroots” Campaign in California launches a statewide petition drive for a 2010 ballot initiative to stop mandatory payroll deductions from public employees for political activities, which is a Mother Lode for union clout. |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SBTP and other tea parties in California are packing their core principles of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and a free-market economy into the pages of a petition to break the grip of public sector unions–and their war chests–on statewide politics and preferences.
According to a Dec. 4, 2009 article by Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee, 37 initiatives are cleared for signature-gathering in CA with 44 more awaiting title and summary by the Initiative Coordinator in the Office of the Attorney General.
“The unions want to strangle two pending measures, one barring public payroll deductions for political activities (a California version of an Idaho law that recently won Supreme Court blessing) and the other overhauling public worker pensions,” Walters writes, “but the groups sponsoring the two are immune to direct retaliation.”
The tea party coalition wants to take taxpayers out of the unions’ game of ”paycheck politics” in CA and join Ohio, Utah and Idaho, which passed statutes targeting the issue. (In Idaho, the unions for teachers, fire fighters, the state AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) took their appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States largely on the grounds that the initiative violated the public employees’ First Amendment right of free speech. SCOTUS upheld the Idaho statute.)
“What can you do to make government accountable to its citizens, not the unions? Support the Citizen Power Initiative to cut off the flow of taxpayer funds to public employee unions and the politicians who do their bidding.
Steven Greenhut, author of “Plunder! How Public Employee Unons are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation,” agrees with the position.
“Now, public employees get higher average pay, far higher benefits and many more days off,” he writes in a Nov. 23, 2009 article (“Plundering California”) in the City Journal. “They have also obtained greatly reduced work schedules, thus limiting public services even as pay and benefits shoot ever higher.”
Three of the top 10 all-time political donors (1989-2010) are public employee unions according to www.opensecrets.org, the web site for the Center for Responsive Politics.
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) contributed 98-percent of its nearly $42 million to Democrats; the National Education Association (NEA) gave 92-percent of about $30 million to Dems and the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), with its strong ties to ACORN, gave 95-percent of nearly $28 million to Democrat issues.
Those figures do not include the unlimited soft money (from the treasuries of corporations and labor unions) to 527 tax-exempt organizations, which engage in political activities such as issue ads that promote or criticize a candidate’s record.
The SEIU tops the list of contributors to 527 organizations in each of the last two federal election cycles (2006 and 2008) and leads the pack for 2010, according to data IRS data posted on the Center for Responsive Politics web site.
The Golden State is the “Golden Goose” for public union coffers, especially the SEIU, California Federation of Teachers (the local arm of the American Federation of Teachers) and the California Teachers Association (affiliated with the NEA).
The NEA is the nation’s oldest and largest teachers union with mega politcal clout and the purse strings to prove it.
In 2005, the NEA gave $65 million to left-liberal groups including Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Amnesty International, according to an editorial (Jan. 3, 2006) in the Wall Street Journal. (What made the disclosures possible were then new federal rules pushed through, despite union litigation, by Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, which required large unions to disclose in more detail how they spend members’ dues.)
“They (the new rules) expose the union as a honey pot for left-wing political causes that have nothing to do with teachers, much less students,” the WSJ editorial states. “It’s well understood that the NEA is an arm of the Democratic National Committee. (Or is it the other way around?) But we wonder if the union’s rank-and-file stand in unity behind this
laundry list of left-to-liberal recipients of money that comes out of their pockets.”
In 2007, the NEA spent $80.5 million of teacher’s dues on left-liberal groups including Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the National Council of La Raza, the National Women’s Law Center and 18 ballot initiatives in more than 10 states. Likely some of the California Teachers Association’s dues went to its NEA “mother ship”. In 2004, the CTA put $971,325 into political contributions. (See www.Unionfacts.com a project of the watchdog group Center for Union Facts in Washington, DC)
Other non-statewide unions for unified school districts in Oakland, Sacramento, Long Beach, San Diego and Los Angeles are counted separately from the tandem nationals, the NEA and the AFT, which top donors with corporate names.
Mike Antonucci, the director of the watchdog group Education Intelligence Agency (www.eiaonline.com) put the NEA political contributions for 2007-08 in perspective:
“America’s two teachers’ unions outspent AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, General Electric, Chevron, Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, Lockheed Martin, FedEx, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, Exxon Mobil, Lehman Brothers, and the Walt Disney Corporation, combined.”
So far, the first endorsements are from conservatives: the Orange County Register newspaper and State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), a candidate running against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
SBTP Declares December 20, 2009 Democratic Senators’ Day of Shame
(Santa Barbara, CA – 12.20.09) December 20, 2009 went down in history as a Day of Shame, as Senate Democrats muscled and bribed Senators to vote for Cloture that brings the unpopular Healthcare Bill to the Floor for Debate. Bribery by the Majority Party included use of taxpayer funds. Senators who voted for it after receiving special favors included Patrick Leahy (VT), Bill Nelson (FL), and Mary Landrieu (LA). Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska received the most impressive gifts for his vote: Free Medicaid for his state in perpetuity. Many judicial scholars say it is unconstitutional.
As Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out, the 2,014 page bill was assembled in secret by the Majority Party and was only available for reading by Congress and the public for under 24 hours.The Roll Call vote passed 60-40 with all Republicans voting Nay.
12.20.09 Healthcare Bill Call to Action
SBTP’s Dolly Madison Quote du Jour, “AMERICA! Stop the Grinchs. Defend your Liberty. ”
1. Senate Vote on Cloture to Bring the Bill to the Floor for Debate Sunday, 12.20.09 at 10:00 PST (1:00AM in Congress); Live on C-Span
A. Read the Bill http://reid.senate.gov/ <http://reid.senate.gov/>
2 Kill the Bill – Focus is on Ben Nelson, NE @ senator@bennelson.senate.gov
A. His Pro Life Concern: The Abortion Amendment does not stop tax payer funded Abortion.http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLConReidManagersAmend.html
<http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLConReidManagersAmend.html>
B. Special Favors - Tell him he’s been duped. His Special Favors Bribe (Free Medicaid in perpetuity) is unconstitutional. It violates Equal Protection for All States. (Why should CA not get the same deal?) See 14th Amendment and Article 1, Section 9, Clause 6 - “No preference shall be given by any Regulation or Revenue to the Ports of one state over another . . ” Article 4, Section 2: ” The Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the Privileges and Immunities of the Citizens in the several states.”
3. Contact Other Senators on Our Targeted List.
4. Virtual Vigil - Many Americans believe that the Holy Week of Christmas is not the time to be voting on a Bill that will harm and kill Americans and is fraudulent in that it demands to be paid for no services rendered for four years. (Recall that Progressives have demanded our military not fight on Islam’s festivals.) Candlelight Vigil Starts 12/20. http://www.takebackmedicine.com/ourtownhall/nationwide-virtual-vigil-starts-sunday-december-20-9pm.html <http://www.takebackmedicine.com/ourtownhall/nationwide-virtual-vigil-starts-sunday-december-20-9pm.html>
5. Prayer - As in the Days of our Founding, Tea Partiers Nationwide are being called to Prayer. Now, we battle for the Defeat of Socialism and Defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
6. Next Step will be Senate Debate – Before that Happens, Let’s Stop it Now.
7. Stay informed. Visit our website at www.santabarbarateaparty.com <http://www.santabarbarateaparty.com> . Blog on SBTP Facebook and Twitter.
Central America Submits Amnesty Demands to US Congress – Demands Supported by US Unions & Progressive Organizations
(Univision Reports – Translation) December 18, 2009, 02:10 pm ET
San Salvador, Dec 18 (EFE) .-The Central American countries will present next year to the U.S. an immigration reform proposal focused on comprehensive care for thousands of immigrants from the region, Salvadoran Foreign Ministry announced today. “For the first time Central America will have its own immigration reform instrument, which responds to the needs and aspirations of Central Americans living illegally in the U.S.,” said Vice Minister for Salvadorans abroad, Juan Jose Garcia. The initiative, led by El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic with the support of Central American Integration System (SICA), is in “consultations” with Nicaragua and Costa Rica and seeks to add the support of Panama, Belize and even Mexico, which, Garcia said, showed “strong opening” over reform.
“From now on, Central America will sit at the table of dialogue and negotiation with a tool that allows us to have an impact,” the deputy minister in a meeting with the press, saying that they have the support of organizations and unions U.S. Garcia said that “the commitment of the region is the defense and promotion of human rights of immigrants.” The proposal provides for a fine to immigrants who stay illegally in U.S. and to enable a fund to finance the immigration reform process, in addition to being granted “facilities” to reunite families and beneficiaries to protect their rights. It wasn’t confirmed the date on which the initiative will be presented, then, according to Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez, are “calibrating” the “best time” and the “level” to make it known next year, but did not rule out made during a visit by President Mauricio Funes who is “pending.” Nor was it informed if this proposal would benefit many Central Americans, but Garcia said that in the case of Salvadorans would cover between 750,000 and 1,100,000 U.S. National “This is an approach to comprehensive immigration reform, in the sense that not only is it the responsibility of the U.S. Government to implement reform,” he said. “The region is also willing to create conditions to make immigration a choice of life freely assumed and not a necessity dictated by external factors, complemented Garcia. SICA Secretary General, Juan Daniel German, highlighted this effort as a “step in the right direction.”
“It’s an innovative step, brave, very sensible and very responsible,” he said, as Guatemala’s ambassador in El Salvador, Silvia Caceres, stressed that “Central America is united” to get their citizens with a legal immigration status. Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives filed on 15 December a “historic” initiative for comprehensive immigration reform to allow the legalization of millions of immigrants, but for now, no Republican support. According to Foreign Minister of El Salvador, there are “plentiful coincidences” between both initiatives. “We are glad we agree with the proposed strategic lines of the Congressman,” he said, for his part, Garcia.
Fix Gerrymandering : Apply for Redistricting Committee Now
(Santa Barbara, CA – December 17, 2009) In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 11, which establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission, a new independent commission for redrawing Assembly, Senate and Board of Equalization districts. On December 15, the Commission’s web site began accepting applications from citizens to join this 14-member commission.
.On the first day of the application process, less than 600 citizens had applied. Please consider applying. Go to site.http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/. Apply athttp://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/application.html
If you do apply to join the Commission, please contact SBTP and let us know: mturney@afphq.org
SBTP Joins National Day of Prayer on December 16, 2009
(Santa Barbara, CA – December 16, 2009) – SBTP joins with tea parties nationwide in a Day of Prayer today. A statement released to the press, the nonpartisan group noted, “In view of the attacks on our freedoms by the current Administration, we are suggesting that our fellow Americans ask for God’s help in defeating Socialism and oppressive taxation. America’s history that took place in the month of December : the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, and the Ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. We are participating in the Day of Prayer as a tribute and in concert with the objectives of two important historical events in America’s history: the Boston Tea Party and Ratification of our Bill of Rights in 1791.”
SBTP Celebrates 236th Anniversary of Boston Tea Party with Holiday Meet & Greet
(Santa Barbara, CA – December 10, 2009) SBTP & Culpepper Society will celebrate the 236th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party at their Christmas Party on December 16, 2009. The 1773 event is considered to be the beginning of the American Revolution.
236 years ago to the day, a large band of Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded the three ships in Boston Harbor carrying tea – the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver – and dumped tons of tea into the sea. The rebellious act resulted from built-up resentment of the colonies toward what they called a “tea tax:,” which allowed the East India Company to undersell the 13 colonies’ tea.
Anger had been building over the years, as taxes and tariffs were imposed by an imperious Great Britain, who refused to listen to America’s concerns. Colonists became increasingly outraged by the Sugar Tax of 1764, which taxed sugar, coffee, and wine; the Stamp Act of 1765, which put a tax on all printed matter (from magazines to playing cards); and the Townsend Acts of 1767, which placed a tax on items like glass, paints, paper and tea. The Tea Act of 1773 was the final straw; it sparked a willingness to take action to achieve freedom and lead to the American Revolution.
In 2009, Tea Parties throughout America are concerned about escalating taxes and loss of freedoms, including from the Administration’s Stimulus Plan, Czars, Healthcare Bill, Death Tax and Cap & Trade. Thousands of these nonpartisan groups will commemorate December 16 with ceremonies, such as candlelight vigils. SBTP & CS Members are getting together on this special day to enjoy holiday good cheer with fellow tea partiers.
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1776 Santa & First String Barbershop Quartet are on Their Way
(Santa Barbara, CA – December 7, 2009) First String Barbershop Quartet and 1776 vintage Santa Claus confirmed today that they will appear at our “Catch the Joyful Spirit” Meet & Greet. They join Pianist Bryan Tara playing Christmas favorites and Composer Barbara Reed with a new tea party song as part of our short entertainment entrée. Our surprise Tina Fey lookalike celebrity will also delight you with moose-happy holiday standards. Can you guess who she is? Please join us. Meet, greet and make merry with your tea party friends. You may even find a potential and viable Congressional candidate under our Christmas tree.
Healthcare Advisory – Please keep calling& faxing the Senate
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What is Cap & Trade?
(Santa Barbara, CA – 11.25.09) Today, America is embroiled in a debate over climate change. One troubling result of climate change hysteria is Congress’s “Cap & Trade.” This legislation aims to cut man-made carbon emissions + other greenhouse emissions (water vapor), even though they aren’t pollutants and represent under 1% of the atmosphere.
How does Cap & Trade work? First, the Cap is the limit of carbon allowances a company/group can have. Then a permit/license is issued by the EPA Czar which states the exact allowance each company is allowed. Companies that can reduce their carbon emissions can sell credits to companies that have trouble reducing their emissions. For example, if company A cannot get its limit low enough, it would buy carbon credits from company B, as long as B’s emissions are below its Cap. The “Trading” is done on “Carbon Trading Exchanges,” where payment is made for extra carbon that lets a company go over its cap. Like Wall Street, the trading companies make a profit off every transaction.
Why is Cap & Trade bad? First, it is a scam of global proportions that enriches elitists and betrays Americans. The only winners are big government and the carbon mafia. (ex: Al Gore’s GIN) Second, it would act like a huge tax increase that would lead to inflation, due to the increase cost of products and services. Third, because 85% of US energy derives from CO2 emitting sources, C&T would lead to cuts in energy, loss of jobs, a weaker economy and a shrinking GDP. On a personal level, the EPA Czar wouldn’t let anyone sell/buy a home without a license that showed compliance with energy and water efficiency requirements.
Cap & Trade is bad and must be stopped. What Can You Do? Help your Fellow Tea Partiers defeat this Bill.
“Americans & the World Can Exhale Again”
Santa Barbara Tea Party Responds to ClimateGate.
(Santa Barbara, CA – November 24, 2009) As news breaks about ClimateGate – the release of UN-IPCC emails and documents showing that Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory (AGW) was the product of purposely manipulated “data” by shady “scientists” – Santa Barbara Tea Party joins Congressional leaders and others who are demanding an investigation and the review of the eco-politics that are driving so many aspects of our economy under the current Administration.
“We agree that ClimateGate is the biggest scandal in modern science,” said Barbara Miller, SBTP Board member. “Nice people believed Gore’s hysterical propaganda. Waking up to being conned is not fun. The good news is that we Americans will be able to exhale – with a clear conscience.”
Since Gore introduced the AGW Theory after he lost the Presidential Election in 2000, it has spawned an environmental movement and industry that has been given top global priority. His film “Inconvenient Truth” purported that the planet was imminently doomed because of carbon dioxide, and the answer was to regulate carbon.
“Looking back, it was odd,” remarked Mrs. Miller, “Suddenly we were carbon footprints. Then the Warming fad spun out of control. Tiny children were crying about Greenland melting. Now the Administration wants everything Green, Green, Green, and pushing Cap & Trade.”
SBTP is concerned that the Cap & Trade bill is overloaded with taxation and will kill the already fragile economy. It is based on the AGW Theory. The nonpartisan group hosted the Santa Barbara Premiere of film, “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort on November 13. The two month-old documentary rebuts AGW, and it easily demonstrates the flaws in their data interpretation. A Canadian mathematician featured in the movie was mentioned in at least one of the ClimateGate emails. He has used the Warmists’ own global temperature data and showed that the infamous “Hockey Stick” graph of increasing global temperatures is nonsense.
Given that AGW Theory has essentially been debunked as fraud, lawsuits are being filed, and protests are mounting worldwide complaining it was a scam, SBTP, along with tea partiers nationwide, are calling for a halt to the Cap & Trade taxation proposals that are moving through Congress and similar bills that are being processed in state legislatures.
“Taking a second look at AGW before any more damage is done seems like the reasonable thing to do,” Mrs. Miller says. “We also deserve an apology. It’s time again for worry-free, guilt-free inhaling and exhaling. We owe it to our children and our grandchildren.”
What’s Next Re the Healthcare Bill After 11.21.09 Cloture Vote?
SBTP’s “Dolly Madison” Quote du Jour [paraphrasing Charles Health, Sarah Palin's Dad]: “We aren’t retreating, we’re reloading.”
HEALTHCARE
Thank you for your efforts.
NEWS: Our side lost the Cloture on a partisan vote 60-39. The missing GOP vote was Ohio Republican George Voinovich, an opponent of the bill who announced that he would skip the vote for a thirtieth anniversary celebration of his election as Cleveland mayor.
NEWS: What’s Next? Thanksgiving Break. Senate reconvenes on November 30. The Biggest Cloture vote will take place at the end of the Debate weeks from now. That’s when it all counts. If Reid doesn’t get the votes for Cloture at the end of the debate and amendments, the bill dies.
INFO: Senate Rules are totally different than House Rules. Senate Rules permit all kinds of amendments, so, over the course ot the debate, we will see amendments that will test the Democratic majority and this bill. Getting a bill off the Senate floor is extremely difficult. If the Bill makes it out of the Senate, it goes back to the House for reconciliation.
ON THE HORIZON: In addition to China’s concerns about their investments in America, Governors should be speaking out, since the bill places massive unfunded mandates on their already financially strapped states.
ACTION: Stay tuned. Feel free to call the Senators who voted for the HC bill and ask them to reconsider.
Candidate for Capps’s Seat to Announce
Sarah Palin Breaking Records
SARAH PALIN: Going Rogue is Number One on numerous lists. First day post publication sales: 300,000 (her advance was $1.25 million) beat out Hillary Clinton’s 200,000 (her advance was $8 million – and the buzz was that her 1 million in sales the first month broke all records) and challenged Bill Clinton’s 400,000 (his advance was $15 million – and sold 2.25 million). MSM counts do not mention Palin’s pre-sales of one million. Harper Collins announced the book is in its second press run, for a total run of 2.5 million books in print by Christmas. This success is happening, despite the fact that some Progressive booksellers (notably in San Francisco) have refused to stock the book, but will be promoting their parody, “Going Rouge,” a coloring book. Sarah’s book tour will end at Fort Hood. http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_13836041
SBTP Christmas Party 12.13.09
Notes from American History for November & December
NOTES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY This Month & Next – 233 Years Ago
November 1776 – British score victories over the rebelling colonists. Thomas Payne writes.”These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
December 25-26, 1776 – Washington crosses the Delaware. Huge win is a morale booster. In 1777, a series of unlikely victories begin for the outnumbered colonists.
Copenhagen Summit May Be Postponed
( November 14 2009 - National Tea Party Coalition ) Major Garrett reporting from Korea where he is with the press pool from Washington D.C. following the President announced that it appears the Copenhagen Summit may a wash for next month. This is what was said by Lars Rasmussen the Dutch Prime Minister and lead on the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month”
Froman told the traveling White House pool reporters the following:
“There was a general consensus of support for what Rasmussen laid out. He called it one agreement, two steps. Copenhagen (UN Climate Change talks) would be the first step in a process toward an international binding agreement.”
Rasmussen, in a tacit admission the Copenhagen process will not result in a full-blown global treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, told the assembled leaders he will instead seek a politically “binding agreement that would cover all the major elements of the negotiations including mitigation, adaption, technology and finance.”
Froman told the travel pool that there was “widespread consensus among leaders that Copenhagen be a success” and that it produce evidence of “real concrete progress.”
And to further highlight the issues facing the Copenhagen process:
The Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will also attend the breakfast, though Denmark is not an APEC member. Rasmussen leads the Conference of the Parties of 15, which is the overseeing body of UN-sponsored climate change talks aimed at developing global limits to greenhouse gas emissions at the mid-December UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
“The purpose of the meeting is to review where the (climate change) negotiations stand and the path forward,” a White House official said.
Climate change negotiations have already bogged down and realists predict no global pact this December, prompting open recognition of the need for another conference in 2010.
Armed with information that shows Green as the New Red, we continue to focus on fighting Boxer on Cap & Trade.
Santa Barbara’s Exclusive Premiere of “Not Evil, Just Wrong“will be Hosted by Santa Barbara Tea Party & Coalition of Area Groups as Cinematic Centerpiece of “Something’s Fishy” Benefit for Central Valley Farmers on November 13
(October 24, 2009 – Santa Barbara, CA) As the cinematic centerpiece of their “Something’s Fishy” Benefit for Central Valley Farmers who have been victimized by a Court Ruling Shutting off their Irrigation Water purportedly to save Delta Smelt, Santa Barbara Tea Party – in association with a coalition of area nonprofits and businesses – will host the Exclusive Santa Barbara Premiere of the popular film,” Not Evil, Just Wrong.” Guest speakers include farmers from the Central Valley, who will tell the “inside story” about why an area that once supplied food to the nation is now called “the Dust Bowl of California.”
“Alarm bells are going off for everyone when they hear our food supply is being shut down by extremists who have made US agriculture the enemy,” remarked Diana Thorn, Vice President of SBTP. “Who wouldn’t be concerned? Our families don’t want rationed or imported food. It’s time to say, ‘This cult has gone too far.’”
Not Evil Just Wrong tells its story from the perspective of ordinary human beings who want the best for their families. With the aid of the documentary, the event will focus on the evolution of the Environmental Movement over the past forty years and how it has ultimately impacted turning 500,000 acres in the San Joaquin Valley into parched earth. It will also launch the local tea party’s campaign associated with the national debate on Cap and Trade legislation, which both proponents and critics agree will significantly increase energy costs to consumers, damage American commerce, stir inflation, and reduce America’s world leadership as a superpower via punitive “environmental justice” assessments against our past use of energy.
“It’s not a mainstream Hollywood documentary,” says Ann McElhinney, one of the filmmakers. “It features real people, and the real impact on their lives.”
Since “Not Evil, Just Wrong” was released on October 17, the film has seized the attention of millions of Americans searching for Truth amid Hysterical “Doomsday” Rhetoric. Using hard evidence and facts –purposely presented calmly without hyperbole and fear-mongering – the 85 minute documentary shows how extreme environmentalism is harming the lives of the most vulnerable populations in the developed and developing world. Examples from Indiana to Uganda illustrate that Global Warming “solutions” are destroying jobs, livelihoods and entire cities.
“Something’s Fishy” is scheduled for Friday, November 13, at 7PM in the Sierra Madre Room at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort; 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard; Santa Barbara, CA. It is open to the public. Due to limited seating, reservations are required. $10 Admission, popcorn included, and a Silent Auction is planned. RSVP to coordinator@santabarbarateaparty.com.
