Joomla! site syndication http://sjcrp.org/livefree Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:24:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://sjcrp.org/livefree/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://sjcrp.org/livefree Joomla! site syndication http://sjcrp.org/livefree/content/view/1/2/ Republicans in San Juan County are united in the core beliefs and framework established by our founding fathers. Join Us as we re-claim America for our children. News - Latest Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:54:06 +0100 http://sjcrp.org/livefree/content/view/4/ The San Juan County Republican Convention will be held at the Grange the last Saturday of March. The delegates from the caucuses, the Precinct Committee Officers, and the County leaders will gather to hammer out a new County Republican Platform. They will also elect two delegates to the State Convention at the end of May. These delegates will be voting at the state level for the delegates to send to the National Republican Convention (in Minneapolis) who will elect the Republican candidate for the President of the United States. The state convention is always an exciting Newsflashes - Newsflash Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:30:34 +0100 http://sjcrp.org/livefree/content/view/6/2/ “Something happened in June, I (and many others) don’t know what it was, cannot quite but something changed. Good people in Iraq started to stand-up, good people began to join of Al Qaida began to break. We achieved a tipping point of sorts, the Iraqi Security forces, lack of ability began to take a pre-emptive role in security operations. Good people starting and telling coalition forces where the bad guys and their tools of war were hidden. We began high level AQI and Special Groups leadership, and the more we did, the more the good forward with even more information.” Excerpt from Ciotola, Neil CSM of 3rd Corps, after Baghdad Prayer Patrol began in June, Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:59 AM (http://prayercentral.net/baghdad/?page_id=154) News - Latest Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:54:06 +0100 http://sjcrp.org/livefree/content/view/2/ FH Grange, OI Legion Packed “There were more people at the caucus than I can remember ever having,” stated one active Republican member. Indeed, both Orcas and San Juan Island caucuses were packed, with people asking that the next caucus have a larger area so that people could be heard better. Local party leaders were encouraged with the increased participation on all the islands, since people seem to be taking issues more seriously. The wonderful thing about caucuses is sitting together and discussing issues, and seeing where our neighbors are on certain subjects and why. If we don’t do that, we leave opinion forming up to the newspapers and other media. The media seem to be in favor of this, loudly calling for primaries in both the local and the Seattle newspapers’ February publications. But if the people want to take back control of this country at the grass roots level, the caucuses are a great place to do that. A questionnaire was also available at the caucus to see where people stood on various topics. The local questionnaire reflected many interesting trends. Without a doubt, the three top issues among the Republican respondents were controlling government spending, securing our borders, and winning the war against terrorism. Newsflashes - Newsflash Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:30:34 +0100 http://sjcrp.org/livefree/content/view/3/ I have seen it happen before in issue after issue, and now it is over the Orcas Village Plan. What happens is a small group of people get together and write a restrictive plan basically shutting down all future development...the “I’m here, let’s pull up the bridge” syndrome. Then local residents who are seriously affected by the plan protest. They are instructed to get input from other people on the island, signing initiatives and writing letters to the person who is working on the regulations at the county level. Then the other side gets defensive about their plan, and they try to get a bigger “mob” than the protesters’ “mob.” Our founding fathers, who specifically did NOT want this type of democracy for our country, shied away from Greece’s pattern which Aristotle was the first to describe as “mob rule.” They chose instead the “republic” as a form of government. When leaving the Constitutional Congress, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government we had, and he replied, “A republic, if we can keep it.” Right now, we have a lot of work to do. What must be done to get back our Republic is to elect leaders who can make good decisions, to hire educated men to come up with a variety of good plans for various areas set aside for growth, and who have the guts to make a decision, as best they can, for the good of all of the people of the islands. This will mean that on occasion, they will have to stand up to a “mob” of people who got their small group together to protest and do the right thing in spite of the mob. Newsflashes - Newsflash Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:30:34 +0100