Archive for October 2011
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As President Obama’s bus tour rolls into Asheville, the President and Democrats keep spinning their wheels with the same old song and dance of more government spending, higher taxes, and promoting their already proven and destine to fail Policies.
President Obama will give a few inspirational speeches and the liberal special interest will spend $10’s of millions of dollars on their Democrat Propaganda. Some Americans will rally around Obama’s repackaged agenda and failed policies. I wish I had an answer as to why they will do this. Why do they continue to support rising un-employment? Why do they support continued efforts to divide Americans? Why do they continue to support increasing efforts to limit our ability to compete in the World economy, push corporations overseas, and vilify the very people who can lead us to a revived and prosperous America? I do not know, but there are very clear differences between where President Obama and the Democrats want to take our country and where Republicans want to lead our Nation – economic renewal, expanded opportunities, security, freedom and unity.
Since President Obama was sworn in more than 2.6 million Americans have lost their jobs and He has added more than $4 trillion to our national debt, not including future obligations. Under President Obama and Governor Perdue more 300,000 North Carolinians have lost jobs. The unemployment rate in NC is 10.4 percent, far worse than the already intolerable 9.4 percent nationally.
President Obama promised that massive Government spending would put people back to work. He continues to openly argue that it has, but the numbers don’t lie. 400,000 jobs lost last week alone and with our economy barely sputtering and almost out of gas they continue to push these same policies. Obviously, they just don’t understand these things are not working. I suppose their continued denial shouldn’t surprise us, Democrats haven’t even cared enough about America’s future to simply put together a budget in more than 900 days, but who needs a budget anyways.
The people of North Carolina and America deserve better than an ever expanding government, sky high taxes and a foreign policy of apology and appeasement.
So let the Obama bus continue rolling down the same dead end road until the American people asked him to hit the road in 2012.
Sincerely,
Henry D. Mitchell, Chairman
Buncombe County Republican Party
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 2, 2011 CONTACT: Lisa Ziriax
405-596-3873 or lziriax@nfrw.org
National Federation of Republican Women
Presents Reagan Award to North Carolina GOP Leader
State Federation President Receives Honor at National Convention
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) presented the 2011 Ronald Reagan Leadership Award to North Carolina Republican leader Dena Barnes during its 36th biennial convention in Kansas City, Mo.
A resident of Summerfield and president of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women (NCFRW), Barnes received the award at a luncheon on Oct. 2. The award was established by the NFRW in 2005 to recognize the outstanding leadership of one state president and is presented every two years at the biennial convention.
Barnes and four other state presidents were selected as finalists based on overall leadership and initiation of new programs, increases in membership, participation in national programs, and excellence in public relations and campaign efforts.
Under Barnes’ leadership, NCFRW increased membership by 20 percent, chartered 11 clubs and took a leading role in raising statewide public awareness and grassroots support for a law requiring photo identification to vote. Through this effective issue advocacy program, NCFRW passed resolutions at the club level and forwarded them to their state representatives, and gathered more than 15,000 voter signatures on petitions that were delivered to the new Republican majorities in the state house and senate. Barnes is the former mayor of Summerfield, having served on the town council since 1997, and is currently mayor pro tem. She is married to Guilford County Sheriff B.J. Barnes.
Founded in 1938, the NFRW has thousands of active members in local clubs across the nation and in several U.S. territories, making it one of the largest women’s political organizations in the country. The grassroots organization works to promote the principles and objectives of the Republican Party, elect Republican candidates, inform the public through political education and activity, and increase the effectiveness of women in the cause of good government.
