Straw Poll Results from the Kanabec County Precinct Caucuses
57% Rick Santorum – 105 votes
15% Ron Paul – 27 votes
13% Newt Gingrich – 24 votes
12% Mitt Romney – 21 votes
Undecided – 1 vote
Blank – 1 vote
Total Votes – 179
Each political party will hold precinct caucuses throughout Minnesota on February 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM. The caucuses are held simultaneously so an individual may only attend one caucus.
Minnesotans are not registered by party affiliation. Minnesota citizens are free to attend the political caucus of their choice based on the values that best represent their beliefs. You don’t become “card carrying”, there is no such thing. There are no future committments, but we encourage you to attend because we believe with your help we can work together to restore the strength of America!
The Kanabec County Republican Caucus will be at Trailview Elementary School, 200 9th St N Mora, MN, at 7:00 PM.
Each precinct will meet separately and discuss candidate preferences for the presidential elections as well as other candidates, issues, party resolutions, etc.
If you believe in all or many of the following, JOIN IN! Vote your values!
…government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
From “The Blaze”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/we-will-not-comply-catholic-leaders-distribute-letter-slamming-obama-admin-contraceptive-mandate/
…Catholic churches across America read a letter to congregants that perfectly encapsulated the church’s stance against the impending federal requirements.
The Church’s vocal arguments against the Obama administration are centered upon a Health and Human Services Department requirement that employers must include contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in health-care coverage. While this requirement doesn’t apply to houses of worship, it will force Catholic colleges, hospitals and other Christian groups to provide these drugs despite their faith-based opposition to them.
Many of these organizations, despite not being, themselves, churches, are intrinsically rooted in religious belief systems that stand firmly opposed to medications and procedures that would terminate the life of an unborn child. These deeply-rooted moral codes, which drive the groups’ work, will be impeded, Catholic leaders say, should the Obama administration continue with its planned mandate.
From NEWSMAX >
Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 11:56 AM
By Paul Scicchitano
While President Barack Obama may have referred to “investments” in his State of the Union address, conservative activist Grover Norquist, who invented the “anti-tax increase” tax pledge embraced by Republicans, tells Newsmax that he was actually calling for higher taxes and more spending.
“There’s a collection of demands for higher taxes and higher spending. He used different words for ‘invest’ when he meant ‘spend,’” Norquist said in an exclusive interview following the State of the Union address.
Obama referred to “tax, taxes and taxpayer 34 times in his speech. He called on Congress to remove incentives for business that move jobs and profits overseas, expand tax relief for small businesses that “are raising wages and creating good jobs” while repeating his call to end tax breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, including billionaire Warren Buffet, who pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
The president also sought to put pressure on Congress to pass the payroll tax cut without any side issues, “drama” or delay. “Let’s get it done,” urged Obama.
But Norquist, the Harvard-educated president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), says Obama didn’t propose anything he couldn’t have proposed in his first day on the job.
“He had the power to change any spending law or tax law in the country for two full years,” insisted Norquist, who started soliciting signers to the no-tax-increase pledge from state capitols to Capitol Hill in 1986 with the passage of the landmark Tax Reform Act.
“Nothing in his speech today he couldn’t have done in the first two years of his presidency. He had a Democrat Senate, a Democrat House,” added Norquist. “There isn’t anything he said he wants to do that he couldn’t have done in the first two years — if he tried — which makes you wonder what the point of the speech was.”
ATR has signatures from some 238 House members, 41 Senators, 13 governors, and all of the GOP presidential candidates.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Norquist: Obama Called for More Taxes, Spending
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http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2012&month=01
January 2012
Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He received his B.A. in history at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written for numerous newspapers and journals, including the Washington Post, theWall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, andNational Review. His books include Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, What It Means to Be a Libertarian, and Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality. His new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, will be published at the end of January.
The following is adapted from a speech delivered in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 28, 2011, at a conference on “Markets, Government, and the Common Good,” sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Center for the Study of Monetary Systems and Free Enterprise.
THE CASE FOR the Department of Education could rest on one or more of three legs: its constitutional appropriateness, the existence of serious problems in education that could be solved only at the federal level, and/or its track record since it came into being. Let us consider these in order.
