NE Tarrant Tea Party:  TX Legislative Prep Series

• Sep 10 – Budget Boondoggle with Joann Fleming
• Oct 8 – School Funding with Brooke Terry; Robin Hood with Giovanni Capriglione
• Nov 12 – Texas Roadways with Terri Hall

All meetings are 6:30-8:00pm

$5 dinner served at 6pm

Grace Community Church

251 Countryside Ct, Southlake  76092

About JoAnn Fleming:

About Brooke Terry:

About Giovanni Capriglione:

About Terri Hall:

NE Tarrant Tea Party meeting

Guest Speaker:  Itamar Gelbman on Israel

August 13, 2012, 6:30-8:00pm

$5 dinner served at 6pm

Grace Community Church

251 Countryside Ct, Southlake  76092

Itamar Gelbman was born in the United States and, as a child, moved to Israel with his parents where he grew up. While studying Business Management and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Itamar served as an undercover reserve police officer in the Tel Aviv Police Department.

After graduation, Itamar joined the Israeli Defense Force where he served as a lieutenant in the Army Special Forces. For his service he received numerous awards, including commendations from the Chief of Staff, IDF.

Since returning to the United States, Itamar has worked as a security consultant for high profile clientele. He also advises law enforcement agencies on Israeli counter-terror, military and police strategies and border security.

Itamar also serves as a search and rescue pilot in the U.S. Air Force, Civil Air Patrol.

Since starting his first business in 2004, Itamar has created hundreds of jobs for Americans.

Itamar comes from fighting stock. Both parents served in the Army. All of his grandparents escaped from Nazi capture during WW II. His mother’s mother escaped alone from a mass grave in Auschwitz and his father’s parents leaped from the Holocaust train taking them to Treblinka.

NE Tarrant Tea Party meeting

Guest Speaker:  Brandon Darby on the Occupy Movement

July 9, 2012, 6:30-8:00pm

$5 dinner served at 6pm

Grace Community Church

251 Countryside Ct, Southlake  76092

Brandon Michael Darby is an activist who rose to international recognition for his role in co-founding and directing the Common Ground Relief organization in New Orleans’ 9th Ward in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Though once a prominent radical who worked with former Black Panther Party members, Palestinian and various other radical groups, his experiences led him to have a deep love for his country and to feel an obligation to support and protect its system. He once again gained international recognition for his role as an undercover operative in the FBI’s Informant/Human Source Program, working with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and having directly participated in stopping violence against U.S. and Israeli citizens. Furthermore, his public stance of being proud to have served with the FBI and his refusal to be silent and enter the Witness Protection Program has been a source of controversy and outrage amongst radical Leftist groups.

His work and efforts have been profiled in hundreds of print, radio, and television interviews. He has been a subject of numerous documentaries.

He currently resides in his home state of Texas and continues with his passion to investigate and expose groups and individuals who intend harm to the United States, though he now does so as a private citizen. He has become a staunch ally and advocate for the FBI’s use of informants and for the role they play in the frontlines of keeping citizens rights and safety protected.

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• Mon-Fri, May 14-18:  8a-5p
• Sat, May 19:  7a-7p
• Sun, May 20:  11a-4p
• Mon-Fri, May 21-25:  7a-7p
• Election Day, Tues, May 29: 7a-7p

• Bedford Public Library, 2424 Forest Ridge Drive, Bedford 76021
• Colleyville City Hall, 100 Main Street, Colleyville 76034
• Euless Public Library, 201 North Ector Drive, Euless 76039
• Southside Community Center, 959 East Rosedale St., Fort Worth 76104
• Summerglen Branch Library, 4205 Basswood Blvd., Fort Worth 76137
• Tarrant County Plaza Building, 201 Burnett Street, Fort Worth 76102
• Grapevine Community Activities Center, 1175 Municipal Way, Grapevine 76051
• Hurst Recreation Center, 700 Mary Drive, Hurst 76053
• Northeast Sub-Courthouse, 645 Grapevine Highway, Hurst 76054
• Southlake Town Hall, 1400 Main Street, Southlake 76092
• Keller Town Hall, 1100 Bear Creek Parkway, Keller 76248

If you do not early vote and choose instead to vote on Election Day, click here to find your polling location.  After you enter your name and click on it, scroll to the very bottom of the page where it says “Primary Election Information.”  This is the ONLY place you can vote on Election Day.

View your sample ballot by clicking here.  After you enter your name and click on it, you’ll find a bar at the top of the page that says, “View Your Sample Republican Ballot.”  Click that to see the ballot exactly as it will look at the polls.

To see which candidates the NE Tarrant Tea Party steering committee members supported in a recent straw poll, please click here.

To download a flyer that you can share with neighbors (and take to the polls yourself!), please use the links below:

• a sample flyer with my suggestions
• a blank flyer that you can fill in with your own suggestions

If you can help pass out the above flyers at your polling place on Election Day, please reply to this email!

Happy voting!
Julie McCarty

Texas Eagle Forum (click on “Voters Guide” at the top of the page)

THE GRASSROOTS TEXANS NETWORK – U.S. SENATE VOTERS’ GUIDE

Liberty Institute Voters Guide

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Andrew Kerr, 512-236-0201

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AUSTIN, Texas — A cease-and-desist letter was received today by fax at the office of State Rep. Vicki Truitt (R-Southlake), instructing her to immediately end her campaign’s defamatory public statements against Empower Texans, one of the state’s most recognized organizations working to promote sound fiscal stewardship in state government by engaging voters in the electoral process.

Truitt has performed poorly on the ratings of many conservative groups’ legislative ratings, including the Fiscal Responsibility Index. Rather than address her own record, or explain her efforts to raise taxes and increase regulations, Truitt’s campaign has been distorting the positions and activities of Empower Texans, including a mail piece sent last week that asserted false information without any citation of public records.

“Unlike Vicki Truitt, Empower Texans has never advocated for the imposition of any new taxes, and certainly not imposing sales taxes on health care, groceries or medicines. Out of desperation to hide her tax-raising record, and no-bid contracts from taxing entities, Vicki has resorted to creating myths and spreading distortions,” said Empower Texans president Michael Quinn Sullivan. “Vicki conveniently forgets her own tax-hiking record. While she is welcome to try and distort her own voting record and positions, she is not welcome to distort ours.”

The letter, sent by respected ethics attorney Trey Trainor of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., directs Truitt “to cease and desist any further mischaracterization of the organizational goals of Empower Texans or the employment status of its employees.”

In her campaign mailer, Truitt also fraudulently claims Empower Texans employs a lobbyist. Truitt, however, uses as a campaign consultant Fort Worth lobbyist Bryan Eppstein. Truitt barely won re-election in 2010 despite outspending her opponents 10-to-1.

The incumbent legislator has recently been found to have received no-bid contracts from the Tarrant County Hospital District starting shortly after being appointed to the House Committee on Public Health. Those contracts accelerated in 2009 after she entered the leadership circle of House Speaker Joe Straus, a fellow moderate from San Antonio. A company run by Truitt and her husband has received at least $350,000 in no-bid contracts from the hospital district.

Truitt has also spearheaded an effort to increase the state’s gasoline tax and various fees — an effort opposed by every conservative group in the state, thousands of voters and a bipartisan majority of the Legislature. However, Truitt vowed at a public rally on the steps of the state capitol to continue working to raise taxes.

“As a state representative, Vicki Truitt has engaged in a reckless pattern of misrepresentation both on the House floor and in her actions as a candidate,” said Sullivan. “Rather than engage in defamation, Vicki and her team should spend time addressing her pursuit of no-bid government contracts. Rather than hide behind distortions, Vicki should come clean about her failed record.”

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A copy of the letter from Mr. Trainor:

Dear Friend,

“Patriot Academy: Today’s Generation”

Over the years, many requests have been made to have a Patriot Academy Session for adults over 25. We are excited to announce the unveiling of our new adult track program, just in time for our 10th Anniversary!

COME JOIN US THIS SUMMER!

What: Patriot Academy 2012

Where: Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas

When: July 30 – August 4, 2012

Who: YOU!

NEW! Adult Track Program: 26 yrs old and up

Student Track:  16-25 years old

WHAT IS PATRIOT ACADEMY?

The vision of Patriot Academy is to equip a new generation of Patriots to become leaders in local, State, and Federal governments and to help bring our nation back to the principles of liberty on which we were founded. Founded by former Texas State Representative Rick Green, our first student session began in 2002. To read more about our history, click  here.

Our goals are to:

• Train students and adults to develop government policy with a conservative worldview like that of the Founding Fathers of America.
• Teach the political process through hands-on training that prepares these leaders to win in the arena of ideas.
• Motivate students and adults to be leaders in politics, business, entertainment, media, and all areas of the culture.

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Unless we motivate and equip the rising generation to take up the torch of freedom and carry it forward, it will become extinguished forever. We desire to help students and adults alike become agents of positive change and to give them the tools they need to successfully engage in the political process.

Our desire is that every person who attends Patriot Academy will understand that it is their duty and the privilege to guard the precious legacy of freedom.

For more information about the program, please visit www.PatriotAcademy.com. To contact us, email info@patriotacademy.com or call 512.858.4825.

NEED HOPE? WANT CHANGE?

Now is the time to take leadership to a whole new level with our Adult Track.You can be a part of this revolution of leadership! If you already feel a stirring in your soul to be a part of today’s generation of leadership, then you owe it to yourself and our nation to attend Patriot Academy. A Partial listing of our “Today’s Generation”training workshops:

• Citizen Duty 101
• Revolution!…just not the French kind!
• Using Social Media to win the culture war
• EFFECTIVE citizenship that wins elections and passes legislation
• The Power of Purposeful Communication (5 hours of communication training)
• Thinking Biblically, Speaking Culturally

Many adults are concerned about the direction our Nation is headed and want to know how they can be involved, how to make a difference and stand in the gap!  The Adult Track will not only help attendees learn how bills are written and the committee process works, but how to effectively lobby elected representatives and work to get patriots elected in their community and state. Speakers will address specifically the situations we adults face as we wonder how to make a difference within our sphere of influence. By the end of the week’s training, attendees will be able to confidently carry the Torch of Freedom while effectively passing it to the next generation!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ADULT TRACK AND TO APPLY, CLICK HERE.

STUDENT TRACK (ages 16-25):

Patriot Academy is a six-day leadership training program where students from all across America and Canada learn about America’s system of government and how to influence the process while maintaining their principles, integrity, and character. Students gather at the Texas State Capitol to form a fully functioning mock legislative body, drafting legislation, debating bills and passing laws.

Students participate in fast-paced, interactive workshops on media relations, public speaking, campaigning techniques and the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of government. Current and former elected officials and experts share their personal experience in government and discuss today’s most relevant issues. Visit our FAQ page for more info.

If you have a young person who would be interested in attending, encourage them to apply ASAP at  www.PatriotAcademy.com. This year is shaping up to be our best yet!

Hope to see YOU this summer!

For God and Country,

Founder and President

Torch of Freedom Foundation