Executive  Club  Reminder!

7:00 pm  ⊕  Wednesday April 3rd  ⊕  Airport Shilo Inn

Mueller speaks, leftist heads explode!
Smollett walks, and Rahm explodes!
It's raining Leftist (brain bits)!

So what's the deal with Salem, then?
Rent-control? HUGE pay increase?
Did somebody slip LSD into the water?
And SCOTUS be damned, Salem wants our guns!

Could the Janus decision be any more specific?
(Unions can't collect without an opt-in request!)
And yet, here we are, wading around in cutesy
little tricks in Salem, cutting pay, writing
checks to the unions directly, and RENTING?

I smell a class-action lawsuit: by workers
who just managed to escape the unions, now
FORCED to "re-join" by the legislature!

Let's listen to the expert on the subject:

Aaron Withe is the Oregon Director of the Freedom Foundation, fighting government unions in Oregon since 2015, with great success. Which, of course, provokes the unions to fight back. But Aaron is determined, after growing up in a socialist country (Birmingham, England), to do what can be done to prevent Oregon and the rest of the left coast from slithering any further towards socialism. Hence, the passion to remove the influence of government unions. He will be talking about the unions' strategy to attempt to nullify the Freedom Foundation's campaign and also their attempts to circumvent the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME.

Join us Wednesday night, and let's plot some un-socializing of Oregon.

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Portland Airport Shilo Inn  ~~  11707 Northeast Airport Way
Bring a friend!  ~~  $20 select menu option  ~~  no host bar

And of course, the cigar room, afterward

Next meeting after this: May 1st

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From Clarice Moss, of the Mount Hood Republican Women

Read the April 2019 MHRW Newsletter

Next Meeting is Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at Elmer's Restaurant 1590 NE Burnside Rd, Gresham, OR 97030 (503-665-5144)

Business Meeting begins at 11:30am, followed at 12:15pm with a presentation by Celestia Bue, world traveler and one of our favorite members, who will relate her recent tour of Vietnam and Cambodia.

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From Jim Pasero, of Third Century Solutions

Read "Q and A with Casey Roscoe, Senior Vice President for Public Relations at Seneca", in the Third Century Solutions March 2019 Newsletter

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From Aaron Withe (503-951-6208), Oregon Director of Freedom Foundation.

The Freedom Foundation is a regional think and action tank dedicated to removing government unions influence on the political cycle.

Last month we reported that SEIU 503 had lost 21% of it's membership since Janus. I'm happy to report the damages are even worse than we thought. Newly reported state numbers show that 26% of state workers have left the SEIU!

On top of that we've also found out that the average school district is reporting 31% of classified school employees are opting out of the AFT.

These losses show that on the west-coast, and in Oregon specifically, our campaign is having significant impact and the unions are feeling these losses. Perhaps that's why they've introduced several bills in the legislature to attempt to circumvent Janus. Most notably HB-2643, reported here by Fox News.

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From John Charles, of Cascade Policy Institute (503-242-0900)

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