Archive for August, 2011
Posted August 31st, 2011 by Fran
Did you feel a little tightening in your wallet on Monday night? Just a tiny little squeeze? It’s because your taxes went up Monday, and you probably didn’t even know it. And if you or a family member attends Tarrant County College, your tuition just went up too.
Tarrant County College trustees adopted a $348.9 million budget for fiscal 2011-12 on Monday night that raises next year’s property taxes for the college district by 8 percent and tuition by 4 percent.
We alerted NETTP members last Friday that this tax/tuition increase was on the table, and urged members to either attend the special meeting on Aug 29, or submit feedback via the College’s website. Many of you did write to them in opposition, and 5 people attended the meeting to speak out in opposition of the increases.
In spite of that, the Board voted 4-2 to approve the Option A budget which included the tax increase of about $15 – $20 per year for an average household in Tarrant County, and a tuition increase of $2 per semester hour. The additional revenue will be spent in the “renewal and replacement” line item of the budget, including a proposed new performing arts center for the NE Campus.
We really need a Liaison assigned to the TCC Board so that we can be better prepared to address issues like this in the future. We were not aware of the proposed increase until late last week – thanks to Jeff Cason for the heads up on this one! – which was not really enough time to inform and motivate people.
Please consider joining our Liaison team either in this capacity or in one of the other open positions we need to fill. For more information on the Liaison program, or to volunteer, please contact Fran Rhodes, Liaison Coordinator at rhodesfran@yahoo.com
Current needs include:
TCC Board of Trustees Grapevine Colleyville ISD
State Rep Barbara Nash (Dist. 93) North Texas Council of Governments
Tarrant County Commissioners Haltom City Council & Mayor
The need is great, and our active Liaisons are making a difference! Come join us!
NOTE: The Trustees who voted against the increases are Kristin Vandergriff, and Joe Hudson. Please consider contacting them with thanks and support, and contact the other members to express concern. Trustee contact info at : http://www.tccd.edu/About_TCC/Board_of_Trustees/Members.html
Posted August 30th, 2011 by Konni
If you read our Lesson 1, you now know what a precinct is, what your precinct number is and the area your precinct covers. What is your number again?? Remember it! Know it! Again, THIS is where real change begins! This is where YOU can make a difference. Why? Because a precinct is a manageable amount of voters to educate, influence and get to the polls.
The tea party movement learned early on that starting a third party would only result in a split vote that would help get more liberals elected. We also learned early on that taking the Republican party “back” is a pretty good strategy. But that has to start at the lowest level – the precinct. Each precinct has an elected Precinct Chair who’s #1 goal is to maximize the Republican vote in their precinct. However, many precincts do not even have a Chair. You know why? Because no one has even stepped up to do this most basic, grassroots job. And so that precinct simply goes without one. And in many, many cases those that do have a Precinct Chair might as well not. That person doesn’t do anything to actually educate, influence or even try to get conservatives to the polls. This is simply unacceptable and is a big reason that our system is broken – us conservatives have not committed to the process.
Now you should know – you don’t have to actually get elected to do this job. You can just use this information to help you go out and do what needs to be done within your own precinct without the actual title of Precinct Chair. However, as an elected Precinct Chair within the Republican party you’re endorsement of true conservative local candidates can help to get them elected. Also, you would have more of a voice within the party itself.
But first things first. Does your precinct even have a Precinct Chair? Do you know who that is? To find out, click here to see if your precinct has a Chair and who they are. This list is from the Republican Party of Tarrant County and was last updated on August 31, 2010. If your precinct doesn’t have a Chair… well you’ve got some thinkin’ to do. Are you alarmed at the direction that this country is headed? Are you disillusioned with the direction of the Republican Party? Are you tired of yelling at your TV because of your disgust with establishment elite that don’t really care what YOU think? Are you lookin’ to do something to help our country, but you don’t know what?? Well, this just may be what you’ve been looking for!
Stay tuned! More lessons and an IMPORTANT meeting to come!
Posted August 29th, 2011 by Konni
The precinct is the smallest political unit of registered voters. Real political change begins at the local level and there is no section of political geography smaller or more local than the precinct. By getting involved in the political process at this level you can begin to exert a growing influence on the world around you and do your part in promoting the ideals and principles that American’s have protected for generations.
All precincts have a number. Do you know what your precinct number is?? If not, you can find your precinct number located on your voter card. Do you know where your precinct number is on your voter card? If not, click here to find out! Don’t have your voter card? Click here to find your information online! Once your have your precinct number, this is what you do to SEE your precinct geographically:
First off, click here. At the top right hand of the District Viewer page, click on “Precincts”. Then go to the top left side of the page and click on “Find”. From that drop down menu click on “Precinct”. A pop up will appear on the Texas map. Find your county and click on that. Then find your precinct number and click on that. Then click “Find”. Wahlaa! THERE is the geographical area of YOUR precinct!
THIS folks is where it all begins! Now, ingrain your precinct number into your head! And look at and study YOUR precinct for now. More lessons to follow!
Posted August 29th, 2011 by Julie
It certainly was a one-two punch! Anita Moncrief started us off with her fantastic story (read it here), and then Brandon Darby wow’d us with the amazing recount of what he’s been through as a leftist activist who turned Right and then went undercover for the FBI. He is responsible for saving hundreds of lives as he alerted officials to Left-wing plots against the Right.
Watch the full video presentation of Brandon’s message here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPP2NMBORg
Some highlights from Brandon and the minute-mark in the video where you can hear them are below…
- 00:55 That’s the thing about America. We believe in redemption. Y’all are smiling at me. You just got done hearing that I worked with Palestinians and I worked with Black Panthers. I did do those things. I did a lot of things in my life… And I’ve done my best to make up for those things.
- 2:29 I always felt like I was someone who had survived a plane crash for some reason, and I always felt this great deal of sympathy for people who were having problems in life for whatever reason, whether their choice or not.
- 3:07 I started to realize that when I saw things that were wrong, if I got other people involved I’d have a lot more of an effect in fixing those things that were wrong. And so that’s when I become politicized… And very quickly a lot of older, radical activists on the Left began to take me under their wing.
- 3:31 …began to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States… and I felt lied to about my country. I really bought that line of logic because here were these people who were helping people more than I’ve ever seen anyone help people, and they’re telling me that this is the history and it was so believable — to believe Howard Zinn’s version of what our nation was, that we were a nation founded on oppression. And I believed it, hook, line and sinker… And the people I respected around me, they really reinforced that. So I had these heroes, and a lot of them were the Black Panthers.
- 7:45 [speaking on Hurricane Katrina] I remember looking on Red Cross – all the lists… and you see thousands of people missing their relatives… It was really horrible. And I was really angry. And it really reinforced everything bad I thought about the United States. It really did. I was like, “Wow, this government doesn’t care about the low-income black people.”
- 8:52 [when trying to help Katrina victims] I never had more guns put in my face, more people shooting at me, saw more dead things…
- 9:50 At that time we got another call from another Black Panther who was in trouble there… To make a long story short I helped to save the life of this guy… All of a sudden I was getting a lot of media coverage and I was saying some radical stuff. I was angry about what I had experienced at Katrina. And the Panthers — you can imagine they were angry.
- 10:16… Micheal Moore came up and gave us $200,000 to start an organization, even though we were radical… and after that… a bunch of groups started giving us money. So… we just started organizing in the communities… thousands of volunteers started to come… Prominent, left-of-center activists and political players began to come and began working with me and began to try to co-opt the organization.
- 11:30 Louisiana, which is very socialistic, they decided that they were gonna take… the 9th Ward and the Lower 9th Ward for private community development. I said, “Wait a minute. That’s not right.” We got pretty radical about it… I would do it again if someone did that to your home. I’ll stand in front of that bulldozer…. That’s your private property. When I said that, the Left got mad at me… It was really a weird moment for me. I realized there were some problems.
- 13:36 I got invited to Venezuela by the government of Hugo Chavez.
- 15:08 What they really wanted was a revolutionary movement in the swamps of Louisiana. Obviously I wasn’t real cool with that.
- 15:43 When I got back to the United States, I actually kissed the ground.
- 17:10 I really believe that God was helping me to change.
- 19:41 Everything about me was changing and all these things I had been dedicated to for so many years were changing… At this point I started to feel really bad about how I spoke about my country.
- 20:03 A guy… from the Palestinian Children’s Welfare Fund came to me and he wanted me to help him set up fake businesses… He wanted to support suicide bombers. So I told on him, and I called my arch enemy, the FBI.
- 20:47 Who are these people that I hang out with that if they know I did this, they would hate me?
- 22:07 For two years I spent most of my time working undercover with the International Terrorism Division of the FBI.
- 22:24 We have reports that they’re… threatening violence to stop the Republican National Convention. They’re threatening to do it by any means necessary. At this point I was pretty irritated with the Left’s tendency to shut people’s rights down just because they feel like they’re morally superior, and to de-humanize.
- 24:10 There were two guys making Molotov cocktails, and I was the person who uncovered it.
- 28:01 I’m not going to shut up because I did nothing wrong. I’m proud of what I did, and I’m gonna challenge that narrative [lies from the main stream media].
- 29:20 They [the main stream media] slaughtered me. My mom cried every day for one year. My mom called me everyday crying. I joke you not. I wanted to die. They won’t tell the truth.
- 30:00 Who are these people who do this? They are fighting for the right to be able to suppress Republicans and conservatives because they are morally superior than the ‘evil, racist conservatives.’
- 31:03 They’re just re-writing history and they know they’re lying.
- 31:10 I didn’t know what to do and I wanted to die… And you know what happened? My phone rang one day… “My name’s Andrew Breitbart…” I’m gonna start crying because you don’t know what that felt like.
- 35:11 I started this organization called Citizen Patriot Response. If we could find a way to mobilize tea party people and get a way for them to actually just interact and help in low-income communities, that would break that narrative down [the narrative from the main stream media that labels tea parties as racists].
- 39:25 [speaking about an interaction between a tea party in Houston and some black voters when Shelia Jackson Lee showed up] Everyone was getting along, and …Sheila Jackson Lee showed up… yelling at the top of her lungs. So once again, the people were getting along, it was just the leadership, the traditional black leadership, who was making those divisions.
- The whole deal is, if you have an organization or you wanna help people and if you’ve tried to help people and you found out that in order to help you have to go to this left-of-center non-profit where they try to indoctrinate you and you feel marginalized, if you wanna help, the back of my card says, “If you or someone you know need help or want to help others – please contact us so we can put our heads together and find a solution.” It’s called CPR, Citizen Patriot Response.
- 40:04 It’s guaranteed to get some attention to the good work that conservatives do.
- 40:34 I don’t take money from it… It’s a ministry… I want to support them with the skill sets that I know.
- 41:41 To most of the country, to a lot of the country, to a lot of people under 25, this is what they believe: they believe that if you wanna …help people you vote Left, and if you wanna vote for rich, white racists you vote Right. That’s the narrative, and if you don’t break that narrative down, if private charity doesn’t find an effective, helpful way of addressing needs that are actually encouraging people to be better in the world instead of perpetuating the system, people are eventually gonna vote Left.
Brandon’s email address at CPR is darby@citizenpatriotresponse.org, and the number is 512-749-8578. He promises to return your call!
Posted August 28th, 2011 by Julie
What a surprise to have Anita Moncrief show up at one of our meetings! She gave a presentation that is a must-see for all conservatives. Anita details the inner workings of the Left agenda and tells the story of how she exposed the fraudulent voter registration practices of ACORN and Barack Obama. If you’ve got friends who are left-leaning or independents, or especially those who have become disenchanted with Obama, you need to show them this. I simply cannot fathom how one can listen to this presentation and still support the Democrats.
You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuDSKAh27IE
Here are some highlights I pulled out from Anita’s presentation, and I noted at what time in the video she said them.
- 3:56 For me, I was a staunch, and when I say liberal, I mean radical liberal.
- 4:30 I was really committed to what we were doing. So you start to look the other way. You see things going on in the organization, and you know it’s wrong, but you’re doing it for the ‘movement’, and it’s not really about some of the things that get glossed along the way.
- 6:12 They [ACORN] always wanted to divide the country. It was always a poor black issue… They told us,”Find the most toothless black person you can… We don’t want white people.”
- 9:43 If my team is cheating, are we really winning? That’s when I realized I had to do something.
- 10:38 With liberals, it’s never about right, logical thought. It’s always about how you feel — what emotions — and how you can tie those emotions into things that’ll get people motivated to do things they wouldn’t normally do.
- 11:33 They all told me you cannot go up against ACORN and win.
- 11:42 I sent them [the NY Times] documents, emails, phone records, everything they would need to realize that ACORN was not only a subversive organization, but they were working illegally with the Obama campaign. Every time an article came out, it seemed to be more watered down than the others.
- 14:39 No one in the main stream media wanted to cover the story and admit that Obama had lied about his connections to ACORN.
- 17:40 I realized that all those things that I wanted to do about helping people, I could not do it on the Left, but I could do it with these folks [the conservative groups she was finding] because they were honest; they pulled me in; they were nice to me. And for the first time I realized that the racism that I kept expecting wasn’t coming from the Right; it was coming from the Left.
- 18:26 That’s when I realized that all this time I had been programmed.
- 19:00 You can’t be with a group that’s trying to destroy your country. In everything they did, what they called it, it was never about socialism. They’ve never mentioned the word ‘socialism’ because most blacks do not agree with socialism. They talked about what’s fair, what’s right, giving money back to the people, redistributing wealth. These are the key words, the catch phrases, that they used to get folks involved, not realizing that when you say you’re fighting capitalism that means that you’re socialist!
- 19:49 If you think ACORN has gone underground and has disbanded, you’re completely wrong.
- 20:27 The number of fraudulent [voter] registrations was double the national average. This is how they chip away at our electoral system, putting things in place so where they can go in and make chaos and controversy at the ballot on election day – same thing with some of the things they’re working on with illegal immigration.
- 20:44 We have to be aware that it’s not just voter registration, it’s not just black people… they are trying to fundamentally change… and they are very effective at it because they’re long-range planners. While we’re trying to win an election cycle, they’re trying to make a permanent Democrat majority for the next 40 years. And I won’t even say Democrat because it’s more ‘progressive’ or radical liberal than anything else.
- 21:40 So what we’ve been doing for the past year now is moving out from exposing ACORN to talking about what we can do as conservatives.
- 21:55 We’re teaching the tactics of the Left to conservatives and putting them in the same communities that we have ignored so long. We can’t take back America and ignore areas that look like… I call them liberal fallout zones.
- 22:09 Imagine if we start to get out… in these communities and we show them that with conservatives being in those areas we’ve done more in the past year than Democrats have done in 40+ years. That’s where we are now. If we’re gonna take back America… we have to take it back block by block, city by city.
- Since we can’t trust them [groups like ACORN who register voters] we have to form our own organizations based on conservative values and principles and show them it’s not handouts, it’s prosperity and capitalism — that’s the only proven pathway out of poverty. That’s one of the things we’re doing here in Texas.
- At the end of minute 23, Anita talks about working to elect conservative Democrats in the primaries (including within Shelia Jackson Lee’s district) because many blacks would rather die than vote for an R.
- At minute 24, the Q&A focuses on how to convert Democrats.
Anita’s organization is Sanity 2012 (www.sanity2012.com). She can be contacted at anita@sanity2012.com or 202-412-2970.
Please also check out Brandon Darby’s presentation on a similar topic this same evening. Click here.
Posted August 26th, 2011 by Konni
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Fran
The TCC Board of Trustees has propped a tax and tuition increase in the 2011-12 Budget. At their Aug 18 meeting, the Board delayed action on the budget until Aug. 29 in order to receive public input.
The tuition increase proposal is $2 per semester hour (average $16 per semester for the average student), and the tax increase is 1.133 cents per $100 value.
The Board invites public input either at the meeting on the 29th, or via their website. Please let them know your opinion on this issue before the 29th. The link for budget information and the feedback form is
http://www.tccd.edu/About_TCC/Board_of_Trustees/Budget_2011-2012.html
The Star Telegram has two good articles on the proposed increases:
http://www.ongo.com/v/1563974/-1/1EF4753B3992CBCC/tcc-administrators-propose-5-year-tuition-increase
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/08/16/3295059/tcc-hasnt-made-case-for-tax-tuition.html
Most folks aren’t even aware that the TCC Board has the power of taxation over county citizens. And we certainly are not actively involved in the Board elections that come every two years, but it’s time to wake up and pay attention.
I’d love to have a Liaison monitoring this group. If you’d be interested in filling that role, please contact me. There are several other Liaison positions currently open which need filling. We need to monitor these groups, or they slip things right past us!
Fran Rhodes, NETTP Liaison Coordinator
rhodesfran@yahoo.com
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Konni
by American Majority
New candidates often make the mistake of not thinking hard enough about where to run for office. Check out this video (if needed, the the password is: am2011) for helpful tips on deciding where to run before making the leap!
For more on American Majority’s New Leaders Project, check out NewLeadersProject.org and AmericanMajority.org
Posted August 23rd, 2011 by Konni
Greetings,
Are you fed up with the way kids are being indoctrinated in the government schools? Do you wish there was something you could do to counter the relentless onslaught of anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian propaganda that fill our children’s textbooks and related curriculum in K-12 education?
There is something we can do. Interested?
My name is Chris Rowan, and I am writing to you on behalf of Sheri Krass who is Chair Person of the Florida Textbook Action Team (TAT). Sheri writes:
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The Florida Textbook Action Team (TAT) is forming State and National Divisions, and is also looking for volunteers in each State – so that we can network with its organizations.
We want to communicate with every State in our Republic – sharing education information, identifying problems, and determining possible actions/solutions.
This work will mainly be done online – through emails. Some research will be needed to identify organizations not on the contact list that we will be providing. Each State volunteer will be given an introductory letter to be sent to these organizations.
Textbook publishers are providing books that have faulty, slanted, and biased excerpts. Citizens for National Security (CFNS) identified over 200 faulty excerpts with a pro-Islamic and/or anti-Judeo/Christian bias. These textbooks are used in every State of our Republic. Every organization in every State will receive both a list of these textbooks and faulty excerpts.
We are going to ask the organizations in each State to contact their State Department of Education and insist that they inform these publishers that they will not buy these textbooks until revised editions are available.
We believe that the Federal Department of Education (DOE) is unconstitutional. The US Constitution clearly states the powers of the Federal Government. Education is not one of the delineated powers. It is reserved to the Sovereign States.
Right now, the Federal Government dictates to the States what curriculum they must follow and “pushes” Agenda 21 onto the States. By the States joining together, we will eventually have the power to remove the Federal DOE and their influence.
One way to do this is to “de-fund” the DOE – by the States refusing to send monies to them. Decisions pertaining to how the money is spent, curriculum, etc. will be made by each State – where it belongs.
In Florida, of the monies that are allocated toward education, the Federal Government only contributes 10%. The rest is provided by the State. For a breakdown of the States – Fiscal Year 2009 – by the National Center for Education Statistics – you can go to this link: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011329.pdf Table 1, Page 7 of this report.
As we are organized in Florida and just obtained a volunteer for the States of New York, Indiana, and New Jersey, we only have 46 States to go! I’ve only been able to identify 50 States – not the 57 that Obama mentioned!
If you are interested in volunteering to network with your State organizations (or choose another State), contact me, and I will send you a list of emails and websites of organizations in your State. You will first need to verify the emails provided and, through searching each website, find those emails we do not have.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Please forward this request to anyone you think may be interested in volunteering.
Sheri Krass, Chair Person
Florida Textbook Action Team (TAT)
561-672-1410
sheri1449@gmail.com
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If you are interested in joining Sheri and forming a Textbook Action Team for Texas, please let me know. We need to go county-by-county and find at least one person in each county willing to liaison between the local School Boards and the Texas TAT. We also need someone willing to serve as Texas State Coordinator.
Best regards,
Chris Rowan
