Executive Club Meeting
7:00 pm • Wednesday April 1st • Airport Shilo Inn
There are people who do things right in Salem.
No foolin', really!
(You knew I had to throw that in there, so quit groaning!)
I know, I know: unsung heroes, too often media-battered,
as reason hangs by a thread in a money-driven liberal government.
Well, let's celebrate one of the good guys
-- and as if that wasn't enough of an evening --
let's listen as another good guy sings about
Salem's salivation for your silver.
First, come applaud our Taxpayer Association of Oregon
15th annual Thomas Jefferson Award winner!
Representative Gene Whisnant
Rep. Whisnant has been awarded the
15th annual Thomas Jefferson Award
for his accomplishments as
Oregon’s budget crunching taxpayer champion
and
one of the boldest voices against government waste.
Whisnant helped pass the widely praised Transparency bill HB 2500 of 2009,
which opened wide the doors of our $60 billion dollar state government
to the public by creating a government transparency website,
where taxpayers can see where their tax dollars are being spent.
(Click here to visit the oregon.gov/transparency site)
Currently Whisnant is investigating hundreds of millions of tax dollars
going to vacant state employee positions.
He is also trying to extend transparency laws
into a little known half-billion $$ school fund.
Previous Thomas Jefferson Award winners have been
Lars Larson, Don McIntire, Sen. Kim Thatcher.
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Then, let's listen as Rep. Gregg Barreto provides a Capitol update.
Representative Greg Barreto
Greg is a small businessman from Eastern Oregon who can explain
how over-taxation and over-regulation can kill a small businesses.
Barreto was an early voice in the 2015 Legislature about the flood
of tax increase bills being introduced in the first days of Session.
Join us Wednesday night.
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Submitting Followup Information
Executive Club passes on meeting followup information as a courtesy to our speakers and members. Any member or speaker may submit, by email, a simple update text presentation to be sent to the club mailing list, to give the membership to have more details, or just a recap of your platform presentation. To be considered for publication, please be sure to submit your update within 24 hours of the close of the meeting. Please don't include any pictures in your text, but links to web pages, or links to things stored elsewhere on the web -- .pdf files, Word documents, or even pictures -- are OK now. Formatting and inserted pictures will not be copied, just the text content, so please don't use 4 fonts and 6 colors to convey your thoughts: you will be disappointed. Look at a previous followup email, or the bottom of most of the invitation emails, to see how they are presented. The simpler and cleaner your text, the more likely it will appear exactly the same in the email we send out. Each update must also indicate the author's name and contact information -- either a phone number, email address, or website with contact information. We reserve the right to edit for brevity, or reject, any submission.
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Timely Information and Events
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The Taxpayer Association is trying to protect Don McIntire’s Measure 5 property tax limits from the 2015 Legislature. There are several property tax bills submitted already.
If you would like to be notified of when a Measure 5 killing property tax bill comes up in the Legislature and would like to testify at the hearing, then please email Jason Williams at
oregonwatchdog@gmail.com and ask for the TAX ALERT advance sheet. This will explain how they plan to gut Measure 5 and how you can testify at the State Capitol.
Even the Legislature’s own numbers show that without Measure 5 your property taxes would be 40% higher. That’s why they wish to kill it.
For more information contact
Jason Williams at 503-603-9009.
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Details of all Cascade events and publications are available at
http://cascadepolicy.org/ and you can sign up for Cascade’s free weekly Courier email list
here.
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From Tanna Cain, Portland Friends of the NRA Chair
The Portland Friends of the NRA cordially invites you to attend our Annual FNRA Banquet
Saturday – April 18, 2015 – 4:00 pm
Double Tree by Hilton - Portland
1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, OR 97232
Live & Silent Auctions – Special Drawings – Door Prizes – Great Food & Friends
Limited Edition Firearms – Custom Knives – NRA Commissioned Art
Special Ladies Merchandise – Amazing Hunting Trips
Plus many other items created especially for this Friends of the NRA event!!!
You'll find the
ticket order form here.
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Cliff Thomason of Grants Pass is chief petitioner for a statewide measure titled the "Lottery Local Control Act".
From the site
LotteryLocalControl:
The Oregon Lottery Local Control Act will send 50% of the Oregon Lottery net proceeds back to the counties from which they were generated. Counties can use the revenue to help fund: public education, economic development, providing for public safety, restoring native fish and wildlife, or protecting parks and beaches. Every Oregon county will benefit from more local control.
2016 Oregon Lottery Local Control Act is well underway with statewide signature gathering. Anyone wanting to help gather signatures or donate to the effort, please contact Cliff Thomason by email to
clifft9@msn.com or visit
LotteryLocalControl.Com.
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Oregon Citizens Lobby is looking for patriots to analyze bills according to our five values of fiscal responsibility, local control, free markets, limited government, and personal choice/responsibility. We also need volunteers to staff the war room lobbying politicians, attending hearings, giving public testimony, writing letters to the editor, and on the twitter brigade, tweeting and retweeting. Go to
OregonCitizensLobby.org to sign up.
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PRESS RELEASE -- MARCH 23, 2015
BORING, OREGON FOUNDATION
Contact: Steve Bates, Secretary (503) 663-6271
It is with great enthusiasm that the Boring, Oregon Foundation, the Fund for a Community Center for the greater Boring area, announces the inauguration of its website:
www.BoringOregonFoundation.org. The website will go live on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
This accomplishment is the result of a collaboration of people within the Boring Community. Boring, Oregon Foundation Associate Director Matt Lee authored the narratives within the website, Associate Director and owner of A to Z Signs, Russell Jeschke, designed the Foundation Logo while Norm Rice of Boring was instrumental in developing the on line store at BoringOregonStore.com and the Donation Page for the new website.
The website will be put on line by the Palanuk family who own and operate WolfPk, a Boring based internet development and software business.
At a lunch meeting, the President of the Foundation, DW Owens, stated that the Board has a lot to celebrate this year. Last December, we adopted our 2015 Goals and Objectives and almost half are completed or near completion.
The Boring, Oregon Foundation Board of Directors meet on the fourth Thursday of each month. The March meeting will be at the Boring-Damascus Grange, Thursday evening, March 26th at 7 pm. As President DW Owens will be away on vacation, Vice-President Steve Wiege will preside. The topics of discussion will include the plans for Boring’s own State Holiday Celebration: The Boring & Dull Day Community Social In The Park. This celebrates the relationship between the Community of Boring and its friends in Dull, Scotland.
Steve Bates, the Chair of the Boring & Dull Day Committee, advises that Ron Ruedi and The Hurricanes have been engaged for the Sunday, August 9th event. The committee has been in contact with the Sir James McDonald Pipe Band for arrangements to engage multiple bagpipers and drums to open the program for the Ice Cream Social In The Park. "We will start with Scottish Highland music at 5 pm and end with the sounds of Ron Ruedi and the Hurricanes at 8:30 pm."
Steve Bates also stated that the Foundation is looking for one or two more local organizations to provide ice cream serving stations in the park. The Boring-Damascus Grange is developing plans to serve food for purchase before and during the Ice Cream Social. As always, the Ice Cream and Entertainment will be free for all who come to celebrate Boring & Dull Day.
PLEASE DIRECT INQUIRES TO: STEVE BATES @ 503-663-6271
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The
campaign to rein in Metro is underway. The challenges to ballot title language will be heard soon in the Oregon Supreme Court. Stay tuned.
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3 years ago the debt was about $14 trillion dollars. It's grown dramatically since then. Obama's State of the Union speech had little to do with the state of the Union, or his pathetic legacy on the economy.
This is a priceless 2 minute video worth watching, regardless of your political affiliation.
DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY
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