Sierra Star | Tea Party meeting Sierra Star The Mountain Area Tea Party will host Colonel John Somerville during its next meeting, at 6:30 p.m. May 16 inside Yosemite Gateway Restaurant. Somerville will speak on The Muddled East, to discuss recent events in the region. Somerville retired from ... |
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Staff report 4:02 p.m. CT May 7, 2017
San Angelo Tea Party(Photo: contributed image)
The San Angelo TEA Party will host Ruth York during its next meeting set for 6:30 p.m.Tuesday, May 9,at the West Texas Training Center, 3501 N. US Hwy 67 .
York is president of Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County, and will discuss the "Grateful Texan" campaign, which urges citizens to engage in positive and encouraging correspondence with elected officials.
This presentation will include a hands-on workshop designed for smart phones, and attendees are asked to make a note of app store usernames and passwords to facilitate downloading the free software during the event.
TEA Party meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month, and are always open to the public.
Coffee and refreshments will be served.
For more information please visitwww.SanAngeloTeaParty.org
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TEA Party meeting set for May 9 - San Angelo Standard Times
LOWLINESS Those running for offices in Mifflin County were given a chance to speak Monday night.
For the second month in a row, the Mifflin County Tea Party 9-12 group gave candidates running for Lewistown Borough Council, Lewistown Borough mayor and the Mifflin County sheriff the chance to share their platforms and what they hope to accomplish if elected.
This was the last meeting of its kind before the Pennsylvania Primary election on May 16.
Lewistown Mayor Deb Bargo, who is running for office again, was given the opportunity to speak first.
I wanted to speak to you a little bit as to who I am, she said. I was born and raised in Lewistown and there is something special about being the mayor of your hometown.
She stressed the importance of being kind and patient with everyone who comes into the office of the mayor.
Bargo said her goal is always to make sure the person is calmer or generates a better understanding after leaving her office. She also said there is something special about being in a small town, even though community members may get frustrated.
We have challenges, but we have a true core of good people here, she said.
Bargo said she has never regretted coming back and raising her family here and has enjoyed every minute of being mayor for the past nine years.
When speaking about the police department, Bargo said there is an issue but not that the officers are bad.
They are a good group of guys, she said. They just dont have the people skills. I will still stand behind them.
She said the new chief, Jeff Lusk, is working with the officers and helping them develop their people skills. She said he is encouraging each of the officers to pick a project that they can be involved in so they can be seen in the community.
I have confidence in the chief and think he can turn it around, she said. And dont give up on the guys, it is a hard job.
Venus Shade, candidate for Lewistown Borough council, spoke next. Shade is running for either the two year or four year term for council.
I come from a law enforcement background, she said. I currently teach at South Hills.
Shade said she decided to run because it was time for her to become involved and sees changes that could be made to make the life of her son better.
I have listened to people complain over and over and I want to be part of the solution, Shade said.
Some of the topics she mentioned included:
Deteriorating buildings, which could lead to higher crime rates.
Focusing on economic development.
Investing in the youth.
The old adage that this is how it always has been done needs to go, Shade said. We need to stop looking at things with blinders and get rid of the negative connotation.
She said when there is commitment and pride there is progress.
The final person to speak was Jim Drayer. Drayer is a candidate for Mifflin County sheriff and currently serves in the Mifflin County Sheriffs Office as a deputy sheriff.
For the past three years full-time but 12 years total, he said about his background.
He called himself a Marine brat that followed in his fathers footsteps and went into the Army before being honorably discharged. After he left the Army, he enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Police Academy, but ended up coming to Mifflin County to work.
I am not a Mifflin Countian, but I have lived here longer than I have lived anywhere, Drayer said. I can tell you this is great town and have raised my family here.
He said that current Mifflin County Sheriff Chris Shade came to him late in 2016 about running for sheriff.
I originally told him he was out of his mind, Drayer said. But after some consideration and speaking with friends and family, decided to run.
Drayer said he is running because things are not the way they were before and that scares him.
I am running for officer safety, he explained. Officers are getting shot every day and that is terrible.
Drayer said Chris Shade had been successful in this position and that he wants to add onto progress already made.
An example of changes Drayer would want to make is to bring less people into the courtroom jail cell because currently, sometimes too many are present. He also said he would like to see less of the six-on-one with taking prisoners back to the correctional facility.
There are just little things I would like change from learning on the job, Drayer said. I will do the best I can to be involved because I need to be out there.
Drayer said he is all for getting officers out there and being visible. He also said everything has to be done efficiently, even with the limited manpower that all departments are dealing with. He also said he would like to see the police departments training together because that could help with bringing the community together.
Where I feel I am best at is law enforcement, he said. I look back and everything I did was community based.
The other candidates for council include John Adams, William Parson, Nelson Rieffannacht, Mark Severs, Dave Campbell, William Wilson, Larry Searer, Matt Moore Keith Yoder and Shari Mundy. The other candidate for mayor is Kathy Wilson.
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Candidates speak at Tea Party event - Lewistown Sentinel
Dressed in their finest ruffles and bows, more than 70 mothers and daughters attended the 5th Annual Mother & Daughter Tea Party, hosted Sunday by the Winnetka Park District in the Skokie School cafeteria.
"Anyone can sit down and have tea with their mom," said Toby Ross, the park district's recreation supervisor, "but we're creating the opportunity for moms and daughters to take a few moments away from everyone and everything else and just spend time together."
"My daughter Kiera is 8 years old and the youngest of my six children," said Nora Larkin of Winnetka. "This is an opportunity for the two of us to spend some special time together."
Olivia Joffrey attended the tea with daughters Cosima, 4, and Camilla, 8.
"We are all so busy," Joffrey said. "It's lovely just to have time to be together without any objective of achievement, but just for fun it."
Along with a sit-down tea service, the event included harp music, crafts and mother-daughter portraits. The event was made possible through partnerships with The Grand Food Center, Peet's Coffee & Tea, and Goldfish Swim School of Evanston.
The Tea Party has been a family tradition for the Mahers of Winnetka; mother Tara Maher said this is the fourth year they have attended.
"This year is very special for us because it is the first time that my mother and both my daughters and I have been able to attend all together," she said.
Gina Grillo is a freelancer for Pioneer Press.
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Dozens of mothers, daughters attend tea party - Chicago Tribune
So the true manifestation of the Trump presidency has been revealed in the form of public policy that has no definable objective other than to attempt to mask the impotency of a leader and party that has neither a heart nor a soul. The incredibly inane attack on Obamas signature achievement to change Americas broken health care system is both cowardly and may prove self-destructive.
But to be fair, I was never a fan of Obamacare because I felt it was a poorly negotiated capitulation to the dark forces of the powerful healthcare lobby and its un-indicted coconspirators in Congress: namely, the Republican members. So, to be fair about it, let this low point in a steady devolution of representative democracy serve as a pox on both houses.
Rest assured that those who have disfigured our health care system can enjoy their 15 minutes of fame as the Pyrrhic victory will prove as illusory as the demented claims that it will actually foster both accessibility and affordability.
Obamacare has certainly been an improvement in many respects over the previously cannibalistic system of health insurance that has made our country the envy of no other industrialized country on Earth. But it was a surrender to overt partisanship and polarization that only deepened the discord among the American electorate, which led to the emergence of the Tea Party and eventually spawned the orange Julius.
Where were efforts over the last seven years to lance the sores that had been oozing with respect to affordability? Surely Obamacare has been gaining in popularity and has many positive attributes, but it also has many problems. An acknowledgment on the part of its supporters to fix it rather than rest on the laurels of victory and hope the problems go away has helped pave the way for a surgical makeover. That makeover was done with the precision of a rusty fish knife rather than a scalpel.
Rest assured that those who have disfigured our health care system can enjoy their 15 minutes of fame as the Pyrrhic victory will prove as illusory as the demented claims that it will actually foster both accessibility and affordability. Whether the public backlash will sufficiently result in fulfillment of the Democrats new anthem, Nah Nah Nah Nah, Hey Hey Hey Hey Goodbye, remains to be seen. Even if it does, however, what a terrible price to pay for political revenge.
A pox on both your houses. At what point are we going to see a level of either testicular or intestinal fortitude where leaders of both parties actually challenge the status quo and insist on an actual fix to our pathetic healthcare nightmare? At what point are we going to insist as an underrepresented populace that our needs be addressed as they would be in, oh I dont know, maybe Costa Rica? When will we see the light that health care is a right not a privilege?
Trump needed a victory at any cost. He now has one, sorta. The President has no conception of the complexity of public policy. His first nature is to lie as a cover for his disinterest in knowledge and detail. Unfortunately, he has a willing base and an absolutely flabbergasted and underwhelming party leadership that values self-interest more than the public interest. So let the people eat cake.
Democrats, on the other hand, have been transfixed by the marvel they created and shrunk from the responsibility to fine-tune an imperfect instrument as the opposition strengthened its resolve. The only answer now is to blow it all up and take the not-so-radical approach to guarantee health care for all. Pure and simple.
The time for tinkering at the edges and incremental modifications is over. Trump had a chance to actually foment such a historic transformation but is not up to the task, if only because he actually does not have either the intellectual capacity or curiosity to do it. He has shown a willingness to abdicate and delegate the hard work to Congress.
Therein lies our only hope. Will the Senate produce the leadership to force the issue? Calling on Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley. Will the House Democrats forge an alliance with Republican moderates to create a rebellion in the lower body? I know it is a stretch but how long can our democratic processes run on a life-support system that is sustained by polarization and dysfunction? Many millions will suffer unless we act now. To paraphrase Trump, What do we have to lose?
Lance Simmens
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