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2010 Spring Senate District 48 Convention

OFFICIAL CONVENTION CALL

TO: THE DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES OF SENATE DISTRICT 48

Pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the Republican Party of Minnesota and pursuant to the 2010 Call for

Republican Party Basic Political Organization Unit conventions, issued by the Republican State Executive Committee,

the Senate District Convention is hereby called to meet at:

ANOKA CITY HALL COMMUNITY ROOM

2015 1^ST Avenue

Anoka, MN 55303

Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 9:00 a.m.

The Senate District 48 Convention shall be composed of the Delegates and Alternates elected at the precinct caucuses in 2010 designated as lying within the boundaries of Senate District 48.

The Senate District Convention shall be held for the purposes of:

Election of Delegates and Alternates to the 6^th Congressional District Convention; (Date and location TBD)
Election of Delegates and Alternates to the Republican Party of Minnesota State Convention;
Election of Delegates and Alternates to the RPM Tenth Judicial District Convention;
Endorsement of legislative candidates for House Districts 48A & 48B and Senate District 48.
The adoption of Resolutions
Transaction of such other business as may properly come before the Convention.

Issued at the City of Ramsey, Minnesota, this 7^th day of January, 2010

Patrick J. Haley, Chair – SD 48 Republicans

REGISTRATION OPENS AT 8:30 A.M. – CLOSES AT 9:30 A.M.

Registration Fee: $15.00 if received by February 25th. $20.00 at the door

Make checks payable to: Senate District 48 Republicans

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Please send registration to the attention of:

David Broughton – Phone: 763-576-0124

3420 Placer Avenue

Anoka, MN 55303

If you plan to attend and want to pre-register, print and cut on lines below, then mail)

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NAME __________________________ PRECINCT ________________________LUNCH: Y ___ N ___

Box lunches available. $10.00 if paid by February 25th (add $10.00 to your registration fee).

or $11.00 if ordered on convention day

Box lunches will include: sandwich on hoagie roil with lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo and mustard packets.

Boxed with pasta salad, chips, cookie and choice of beverage.

If lunch pre-paid, choose one of each of the following:

Sandwich choice: Turkey w/Colby Jack ___ Ham w/Swiss ___ Roast Beef w/Cheddar ___

Drink choice: Coke ____ Sprite ____ Diet Coke ____ Bottled Water ____

(Catering by Cornerstone Deli)

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No wonder the Dems are so opposed to the recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign financing.

The Top 100 donors to political parties ranked by dollars spent. Also shows which parties they donate to.

The democrats are afraid someone besides the unions would be able to donate to campaigns and spend money on political ads.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A

How the Left plans to control Teachers. (or, why we need to support Conservatives)

Katherine Kersten: At U, future teachers may be reeducated

They must denounce exclusionary biases and embrace the vision. (Or else.)

By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune

Do you believe in the American dream -- the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools -- at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace -- and be prepared to teach our state's kids -- the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U's flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers' lack of "cultural competence" contributes to the poor academic performance of the state's minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.

The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the "overarching framework" for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.

The first step toward "cultural competence," says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize -- and confess -- their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China's Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.

The task group recommends, for example, that prospective teachers be required to prepare an "autoethnography" report. They must describe their own prejudices and stereotypes, question their "cultural" motives for wishing to become teachers, and take a "cultural intelligence" assessment designed to ferret out their latent racism, classism and other "isms." They "earn points" for "demonstrating the ability to be self-critical."

The task group opens its report with a model for officially approved confessional statements: "As an Anglo teacher, I struggle to quiet voices from my own farm family, echoing as always from some unstated standard. ... How can we untangle our own deeply entrenched assumptions?"

The goal of these exercises, in the task group's words, is to ensure that "future teachers will be able to discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression."

Future teachers must also recognize and denounce the fundamental injustices at the heart of American society, says the task group. From a historical perspective, they must "understand that ... many groups are typically not included" within America's "celebrated cultural identity," and that "such exclusion is frequently a result of dissimilarities in power and influence." In particular, aspiring teachers must be able "to explain how institutional racism works in schools."

After indoctrination of this kind, who wouldn't conclude that the American Dream of equality for all is a cruel hoax? But just to make sure, the task force recommends requiring "our future teachers" to "articulate a sophisticated and nuanced critical analysis" of this view of the American promise. In the process, they must incorporate the "myth of meritocracy in the United States," the "history of demands for assimilation to white, middle-class, Christian meanings and values, [and] history of white racism, with special focus on current colorblind ideology."

What if some aspiring teachers resist this effort at thought control and object to parroting back an ideological line as a condition of future employment? The task group has Orwellian plans for such rebels: The U, it says, must "develop clear steps and procedures for working with non-performing students, including a remediation plan."

And what if students' ideological purity is tainted once they begin to do practice teaching in the public schools? The task group frames the danger this way: "How can we be sure that teaching supervisors are themselves developed and equipped in cultural competence outcomes in order to supervise beginning teachers around issues of race, class, culture, and gender?"

Its answer? "Requir[e] training/workshop for all supervisors. Perhaps a training session disguised as a thank you/recognition ceremony/reception at the beginning of the year?"

When teacher training requires a "disguise," you know something sinister is going on.

More evidence that Global Warming "scientists" LIE.

The Inquisition of Global Warming
A Commentary by Debra J. Saunders
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

This just in from the Times of London: After the leak of highly embarrassing e-mail messages from the University of East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit, CRU has been forced to admit that it dumped "the original raw" climate data used to bolster the case for human-caused global warming, while retaining only the "value-added" -- read: massaged -- data.

In short, the CRU dumped the scientific data, but archived information that supports its conclusions. "It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years," wrote Times environment editor Jonathan Leake.

Of course, global warming skeptics see Climategate as vindication. For years, global warming activists have maintained that they alone could claim the mantle of dispassionate science, while skeptics were venal, nutty or both.

The publication of these e-mails puts an end to that happy conceit, as they reveal a small cabal of scientists obsessed with obliterating dissenting scholarship and destroying the reputations of any who stood in their way.

For years, I've read global warming activists cite the work of UC San Diego science historian Naomi Oreskes, who looked at 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles from 1993 and 2003 and found, "Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position" in favor of man-made global warming.

No surprise, her unbelievable claim was wrong. In a leaked e-mail, CRU Director Phil Jones complained of a 2003 peer-reviewed article that departed from global warming orthodoxy. Jones went so far as to boast, "I will be e-mailing the journal (Climate Research) to tell them I'm having nothing to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," who approved printing the piece.

In 2004, Jones said he would keep two troublesome papers out of a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report "somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

In another e-mail, Pennsylvania State University environmental sciences Professor Michael Mann proposed considering a boycott of Climate Research. But that's nothing compared with Benjamin D. Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who, the Washington Post reported, said he was tempted to beat up skeptic Pat Michaels.

Polls show that Americans are cooling on the notion of man-made global warming. I must credit the bully mentality of activists, whose claims often defy common sense -- and at times, simple decency.

The defying-common-sense part: They claim that no credible scientist departs from the IPCC orthodoxy. Counter with some names -- Richard Lindzen, Fred Singer, William Gray, John Christy, Don Easterbrook, Piers Corbyn, Roy Spencer, Pat Michaels, James O'Brien -- and they impugn their scientific credentials.

If they have to redefine peer review, they'll do that, too. And then they ask you to trust them on the dumped CRU data. After all, they're scientists.

COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM

The true cost of global warming HYSTERIA

You are invited to attend a free screening of

Not Evil, Just Wrong: The true Cost of Global Warming Hysteria

The movie looks at how false, extreme environmentalism threatens the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people in the developed and developing world. Whether you loved An Inconvenient Truth or hated it, I think you're going to be very curious what this documentary brings forth and it's perspective on the climate debate.

Here are the details:

Thursday, November 5th

6:00 social, 6:30 movie (80 minutes in length)

Ramsey City Hall

Alexander Ramsey Room

7550 Sunwood Dr. in Ramsey

Get Engaged... Join us on Thursday!!

For more information, contact DeeDee at 763-323-2026

or go to nocapandtrade.com and click on attend a screening of our movie

"Global Warming" is a Fraud...

Lord Christopher Monckton is one of the most respected climate researchers in the world and spoke at Bethel College in October. He brought enough evidence to prove to all but the completely deranged that "global warming" and "climate change" are not real, but just words the left uses to try to scare people into giving up their money and freedom. Everyone who values TRUTH needs to watch HIS PRESENTATION ON YOUTUBE.

SD 51 Republican Gov. Candidates Forum

SD51 Republicans

SD51 GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Forum

Written by Administrator

Sunday, 20 September 2009 01:10

Buy your ticket securely online at BROWN PAPER TICKETS.com
Gubernatorial Candidates Forum
hosted by SD51 Republicans We have a great field of Republican candidates running for the party nomination for Governor of Minnesota in 2010. Meet all nine in an engaging and interactive forum. Dessert reception, cash bar available.
Date & Time	Tuesday, October 20 Doors open at 6:00pm Forum begins promptly at 6:30pm
Location	Mermaid Event Center 2200 Hwy 10, Mounds View MN 55112 Google Map
Ticket info	$25/ticket - limited seating Buy your tickets securely online at BROWN PAPER TICKETS.com
Candidates	former state auditor Pat Anderson Mr. Leslie Davis state representative Tom Emmer former state representative Bill Haas state senator David Hann Mr. Philip Herwig state senator Michael Jungbauer state representative Paul Kohls former state House minority leader Marty Seifert
Forum Format	Participants will be seated in small groups. Candidates will speak one at a time to each group for 10 minutes. After their 10 minutes are up, the candidates will all rotate between each of the groups. Participants and candidates can meet and interact in a positive, engaging environment!
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Forum Live Stream	We are working with the MN GOP to ensure that Republicans who live outstate or cannot attend the event live can follow along. Check back regularly for more information. Participants can submit a question once they have purchased a ticket. Buy your tickets securely online at BROWN PAPER TICKETS.com We will select 10 questions to be asked on the Forum Live Stream. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 9, so buy your tickets today!
Contact us	Questions? Email Richard: datavice51b at sd51-gop.org

SD 44 Governor Candidates Town Hall

Ron Paul & Michelle Bachmann Student Town Hall Event - U Minn, 9/25

Ron Paul & Michelle Bachmann Student Town Hall Event - U Minn, 9/25

Ron Paul & Michele Bachman will lead a student town hall discussion at the University of Minnesota on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:00pm CT. This is a big day for Dr. Paul and the movement, as it is the same day as the HR 1207 hearings. Dr. Paul will fly immediately from the hearings in DC to Minneapolis for the event, so this will be his first opportunity to comment on the hearings. We expect there will be a webcast of the event so everyone can watch and hear Dr. Paul's comments. Stay tuned for more info.

The event is hosted by Young Americans for Liberty and sponsored by the Minnesota Campaign for Liberty, Republican Party of Minnesota, Minneapolis City Republican Committee, College Republicans, CFACT, and Students for a Conservative Voice.

TRUTH TOUR YOUTH CONFERENCE KICK-OFF

Inviting everyone to come and watch the first Truth Tour presentation following the BPOU Meeting on Thursday Sept. 10, at 8pm. The meeting begins at 7pm, and will be done by 8pm, so we hope all who have middle school and High School kids will show up with their children and watch the presentation with them and give us feedback afterwards.