Allen Alley has had a schedule change, and will also speak at our My 4th meeting!

In July, Allen was not so sure about making another run for governor.
Later, he said he wasn't going to do it.
But times and circumstances change, and he's back in for the win.

He's a successful entrepreneur, free-market capitalist,
husband and father, once the Republican candidate for Treasurer,
for a time Chairman of the Oregon Republican Party,
and he has the experience of running for Governor once already.
Not to mention a self-processed "nerd" (we are a feisty breed).

He also served in Kulongoski's administration as Deputy Chief of Staff
-- A spy behind enemy lines? Trenchcoat and miniature camera? --
rattling their thinking by inserting economic reality into tax and spend fantasies.

A guy who can point out the folly of current policy and new legislation,
like a state-run (another oxymoron!) retirement system,
higher minimum wages that clobber minority employment,
and that crazy make-me-a-felon-please gun transfer law.

Hey! Maybe that's what changed his mind!
More insanity from this last tweaking-gone-mad, short-but-deadly session,
condemning the poor to even less competitiveness for jobs,
while offering them 40% increases in power costs.
(Germany calls that situation "heat or eat")

Or was it continued contemplation of past follies: Metro. TriMet. PERS.
State-wide land use planning. Unfunded pensions across the state.
For crying out loud WES! The Convention Center Hotel!

Or maybe it was relishing the opportunity to remind Kate Brown that
having Comcast write a letter for her to sign -- lobbying for
Comcast's Time-Warner bid while Comcast donates to her campaigns --
isn't exactly transparent and ethical governance.

Oh, yeah! Let's not forget the opportunity for a fellow
-- who has experience adding value to employees and customers --
to challenge Kate -- who only has experience taking value from taxpayers --
that maybe we SHOULDN'T be "first in the nation" in being anti-business,
anti-prosperity, anti-civility, anti-employment, while
funnelling almost all state spending through partisan union hands.

So many negatives for Brown, it's just hard to know where to start.
-- Continuing to defy the people by refusing to allow just executions.
-- Betrayal of her own Democrat allies on PERS reform.
-- Cute little election shift to favor friend Brad Avakian.

I'd say he has enough reasons to run again, wouldn't you?

Heaven knows, Oregon can't take much more of what we've got.

Now we get the opportunity to compare and contrast two men.
Heal Oregon by rewiring and reprogramming government?
Heal Oregon by carving the cancer out of it? Both?

Join us Wednesday night, May 4th, and decide.

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You are invited to attend:

Fallen Hero Memorial -- Highway Dedication Service
(U.S. Highway 26; Boring, Oregon)
May 27, 2016 • 1:30 pm
Good Shepherd Community Church; 28986 SE Haley Road; Boring, Oregon

To Honor and Remember: The Wright Brothers
Heroes from Boring who perished in the
service of our country in South Vietnam
United States Marine United States Army

United States Marine
Pvt. George Nathan Wright
September 19, 1945 - May 21, 1967

United States Army
SPC4 James Alfred Wright
January 14, 1948 - May 31, 1969

Download a printable flyer here

PLEASE DIRECT INQUIRES TO: STEVE BATES @ 503-663-6271

Article IV, Section 4, begins with: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."

Isn't part of the that Republican Form of Government a procedure for amendment, which includes the right of states to amend the Constitution? Then for states to have governance modelled after the federal Constitution, shouldn't the political subdivisions of states -- counties -- also have that right of amendment to their state's Constitution?

Please read the proposal, here: CONVENTION OF THE COUNTIES.

Please contact me by phone (503-332-5836) or email to ddgulstrom@yahoo.com to comment or assist in promoting this idea.

Have you heard? We are having another AR-15 gun raffle! Buy your ticket today!

Help support the Multnomah County Republican Party, Defenders of the Second Amendment.

You could win an Anderson Mfg AM-15 Rifle (Anderson's name for the AR-15 Rifle) with a Bushnell 1x28 Red Dot Sight!

Tickets $10 each, or three for $25.

Winner must be 18 years old.

Need not be present to win.

Winner must pass a legal background check; failure to do so will result in us drawing again for a new winner.

Drawing to be held at MCRP Office on June 6, 2016 at 7PM.

For more Information contact Frank Martin by phone at 503-863-7098 or by email to kitanis@comcast.net

The Freedom Foundation is pleased to announce the First Annual Freedom Foundation Dinner Event on June 24th at 6:30 pm. We are excited to have an amazing line-up of speakers:

Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media and two-time candidate for president, will be the keynote speaker.

Other speakers include:

Rebecca Friedrichs, plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the just-decided U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with mandatory union membership for government employees; and, Dr. Eric Fruits, adjunct professor of economics, finance and statistics at the University of Portland, who will discuss Oregon�s economic malaise.

We are excited to continue to press on the gas of such issues as labor reform, worker choice and freedom in Oregon.

I would like to personally invite you to join us for what is sure to be a special and memorable evening. There are many ways to join us not just that evening and to invite additional guests you think might like to "meet" Freedom Foundation and hear not only about our aggressive mission but also our success in Oregon in the first year we've been here.

Click on the link below for more information about the speakers, sponsoring, prices and ticketing. This event will sell out, and I wanted you to be one of the first to be able to reserve you and your guests' seating.

www.myFreedomFoundation.com/oregon-dinner

Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you may have.

Anne Marie Gurney
Oregon Director | Freedom In Action

AGurney@myfreedomfoundation.com
cell 503-901-5635 l ofc 360.956.3482 | PO Box 552 Olympia, WA 98507
myFreedomFoundation.com

I am running in State House Representative District 44 to unseat Rep Tina Kotek, and I am asking for your help.

If you know anyone in District 44, please ask them to vote for me in Primary and write my name in if it is not on their ballot.

Please contact me if you can:
-- help by walking out fliers,
-- help by spending an afternoon driving walkers around,
-- help by making a donation

We have a real chance of winning by getting out and asking for the vote... turns out that not many people like Rep. Kotek, and many did not know she will not meet with constituents, community leaders, or citizens who have concerns on a range of issues.

Please contact me by email at sharonnasset@aol.com or visit Electnasset.com