From Sylvia: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SylviaBokorCommentsNewsletter --- June 17, 2014 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear New Mexicans, ---- 7 items + 1 Comment ---- EVENTS: -- CORRECTION:-- I stated the wrong time in yesterdays, June 16, Newsletter. The CORRECT time is 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Thanks to Doug Thomas, CVA volunteer, for catching the error. 1. June 19, Thursday. -- REMINDER -- Most locations 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Concerned Veterans for America Defend Freedom/Madison Rising Summer Tour. Duke City Harley Davidson, 8603 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque. Speakers include: Captain Sean Parnell, Karen Vaughn, Sgt. Dakota Meyer, and Pete Hegseth. Tom Greer, New Mexico State Director Concerned Veterans for America Email: [email protected] writes, This Summer 2014 Tour will have complimentary local fare, great music and speakers at this event; so, I hope you will attend. RSVP at summertour2014/tour_event/redrock/ +++++++ 2. June 27, Friday. 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Albuquerque Federated Republican Women annual fund raiser: Champagne and Haagen-Daz. 9920 Wilshire NE Albuquerque. Light Hors doeuvres will be also served. $25 per person. RSVP: Melanie -- 730-3720 or e-mail: melaniecravens@gmail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EVENTS -- ADVANCE NOTICE 3. August 9, Saturday. 6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P. M. Santa Fe FRW Ladies of Liberty Gala Reach for the Stars! La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe. Guest Speaker Star Parker, plus Ladies of Liberty Award Winner, Carla Sonntag. Dress code: Cocktail dress. Dinner and auction followed by live dance music at this fundraiser to support our New Mexico Republican candidates and causes. Tickets: $110 each or $200/couple. Contact SFFRW ---SantafeFRW@gmail -- Phone: 505-795-1109. Or mail your check to SFFRW, P O Box 31665, Santa Fe, NM 87594. SFFRW writes, Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market-based public policy to fight poverty. Before involvement in social activism, Star Parker had seven years of firsthand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. Now, as a social policy consultant, Star is bringing new energy to policy discussions on how to transition Americas poor from government dependency. She is a sought-after expert on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, and for talk radio shows, television, and print interviews nationwide. . . . In addition to heading CURE, Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 300 newspapers and Internet news sites worldwide, including the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the Orange County Register, the Korean Times, the Washington Examiner, and Stars and Stripes, which is the largest newspaper serving the men and women of our Armed Forces stateside and abroad. ------------------------------------------------------------- MESSAGES 4. From Hannah Oh, Glen Allen, VA. Forwarded by Representative Yvette Herrell [Excerpts. For entire article with links, access statebudgetsolutions.org/publications/detail/showdown-in-the-west-federal-lands-put-state-budgets-at-risk]. “Showdow in the West -- State Budget Solutions. On June 11, Carl Graham, director of the Coalition for Self-Government in the West (CSG-W) told an audience at Americans for Tax Reform that the financial future of the western United States is being jeopardized by federal ownership over large swaths of land. With over 50% of the land in this region controlled by the federal government, western states -- California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii -- face a serious financial risk. The federal governments ownership of this vast area has caused states to become increasingly dependent on federal funding, since states are unable to tax federal land or develop it for their own economic purposes. In effect, these states have become beholden to the federal government to take care of basic state functions, such as education and road maintenance, through federal subsidies and grants. Graham explained that because federal funds to states are allocated through discretionary funding, they are likely to be squeezed between mandatory entitlement spending and national debt service in the next several years. Federal funding for states will inevitably decrease and Graham says that it is up to states to prepare themselves for the worst-case scenario. With one-third of state budgets provided by the federal government, he argues that states ought to consider ways to reduce that dependence and mitigate the financial risks involved. . . . ------------------------------------------------- 5. From the Washington Times, forwarded by Frago, CVAs Newsletter. -- washingtontimes/news/2014/jun/16/resume-padding-va-employee-got-big-bonuses/ -- “Resume-padding VA employee got big bonuses: A top Department of Veterans Affairs executive received tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses even after an internal investigation found she lied about having a masters degree, according to a senior member of Congress who has asked the department to justify the bonus. Sheila Cullen, director of VAs Sierra Pacific Network, received a $21,000 bonus in 2009 and $23,100 the following year. The Washington Times reported last month that a 2009 inspector general report found Ms. Cullen falsely claimed in numerous official documents over the years that shed received a masters degree from Bernard M. Baruch College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine.” +++++++ 6. From National Tea Party Command Center. National Director Dee writes, Communists Shut Down Press: This video was taken by one of our members! When you shine the light on the communists, they sure do get nasty! -- Video: We Dont Allow Right Wing Bloggers To Tape Our Events teapartyorg.ning/video/video/show?id=4301673%3AVideo%3A2864712&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_video Text -- Unedited: Monday June 16, 2014 – Portland Oregon: On Thursday evening I decided to attend and film an event called “The Edifice Complex – A critique of how Capitalism Affects the Built Environment.” Held at Portland State University (PSU), this was an event open to the public. I went to sit and peacefully film. The event was sponsored by the International Socialists Organization (ISO) which teaches Trotsky Communism. Grant Booth, a senior member of the organization, who teaches Marxism at the University, decided to try to have me ejected. Booth’s group is heavily subsidized by the taxpayer on campus. After giving me looks that could kill, Booth calls Campus security. When Security arrives they of course tell me I can stay. More: daylightdisinfectant/communists-shut-down-press-we-dont-allow-right-wing-bloggers-to-tape-our-events/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. From Senator Bernie Sanders a member or supporter of Moveon.org, a Left-wing organization -- forwarded by Anonymous -- [Editors note: bold face and highlights by MoveOn.org]. Subject: Stand with me against the Koch brothers in Albuquerque? Our great nation must not be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like Charles and David Koch. For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we must fight back—and we have to do it now, in advance of Novembers elections. In the coming months and years, the Koch brothers and other extraordinarily wealthy families will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to elect right-wing candidates to the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, governors mansions, local school boards, and the presidency of the United States. These billionaires already own much of our economy. Now, they want to own the United States government as well. Thats why, on Saturday, June 28, and Sunday, June 29, thousands of MoveOn members will gather in living rooms nationwide for America Has a Koch Problem movie parties. Theyll watch Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition, the critically acclaimed new release from our friends at Brave New Films, and theyll kick off a powerful national campaign to challenge the Koch brothers toxic influence on our democracy. We are facing the test of our time: Are we going to sit back and watch as billionaires hijack our democracy, or are we going to act? Act! Sign up now to host a movie party. Heres what every American should be deeply concerned about: Charles and David Koch, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme-right organizations, have taken fringe ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. And because of the Supreme Courts Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions, their power is greater than ever. Lets be very clear: The Kochs goal is to not only defund Obamacare, cut Social Security, oppose an increase in the minimum wage, and cut federal funding for education. The Kochs worldview and ultimate plans are much bigger than all of that. They want to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years to protect the middle class, the elderly, children, the sick, and the rest of the most vulnerable in this country. The only way to tackle the Kochs shadow empire is to expose it—and then take it apart, piece by piece. Will you sign up now to host an America Has a Koch Problem movie party on Saturday, June 28, or Sunday, June 29, and jump-start this critical work? Ill say it again—our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like Charles and David Koch. Will we sit back, or fight back? I say fight back. And begin today. Ill be with you every step of the way. Were stronger when were together! Thanks for all you do. -– Senator Bernie Sanders . ------- SylviaBokorComments: I strongly support every one of the Kochs brothers goals as listed above. If any of you have read or heard either or both of the Koch brothers, you know that their purpose in whatever funding they do is to restore the Republic -- to restore protection of individual rights, limited government and free markets. So the above list is not far from the mark. Take note, Right-wingers consider those goals virtuous. Left wingers consider them a nightmare. Thats one of the basic differences between the Rights individualism and the Lefts collectivism. Either you protect individual rights and therefore have a prosperous economy. Or you violate or obliterate them and you have a impoverished, stagnant economy. Its as simply as that and was demonstrated by East Germany, by the Soviet Union and todays wretchedly oppressive North Korea. There is no middle ground. Thank goodness that the Koch brothers are taking time out of an enormously busy schedule to fight Soros money and the Progressives. More power to them. I will help in every way I can. Thank you, Charles and David Koch. ===###===
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