ESTERO BAY REPUBLICA WOME FEDERATED
P.O. Box 395, Morro Bay, Ca 93443
Central Coast Comments
1997-Award Winning Newsletter * 4 Times NFRW Diamond Award Club * NFRW Gold Award * NFRW Silver Award Club
2003 * 2005 * 2007 NFRW 1st Place Caring for America Award *2007 3rd.Place Caring for America Award
2 Time Winner” Our Fair Lady” Award
Volume 2009 Issue 5
Club umber 14101562
May 2009
President: Joyce Albright
Membership Chairman: Althea Starble
ewsletter Pat Kenner
Dear Fellow Republican Ladies:
It is great to be back from vacation, but I'm ready for another
one already! However, responsibilities call and I'm out of
money, so guess we better move on with our agenda.
FYI, the Republican Women Federated has booked the Arroyo Grande
Strawberry Festival booth for the May 23 and 24 weekend. We will be
needing volunteers to run the booth and register voters on both Saturday and
Sunday. Lorna Scott and Mike Zimmerman with RPSLO are heading up the
efforts for the booth and it will be located directly in front of The Wardrobe
on the corner of Traffic Way and West Branch Street.
If you would like to participate in this endeavor, please contact Amber
Johnson at [email protected]. Volunteers are needed to help with the set
up and break down of the booth on days plus supplying handouts and voter
registration information. This is your chance to help the Republican cause and
have some fun besides!
Incidentally, the EBRWF's (air conditioned) booth assignment for the Mid
State Fair is Friday, July 24. This is another place where you can serve. More
about that later. Think about it!
Estero Bay Republican
Women Federated
Luncheon
Thursday, May 21, 2009
11:30am
Inn at Morro Bay, Morro
Bay State Park
Luncheon cost is
$17.00 Inclusive.
FOR RESERVATIOS or if
you need a ride: Call Melinda
Rice - 772-7618
Or E-mail
[email protected]
Board Meetings ……. 1st.
Tuesday of the month 12:00pm
at home of Joyce Albright.
Amber sends us an interesting quote from President Abraham Lincoln during
the Civil War: "I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is
my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's
side." Just as appropriate today as yesterday.
Looking forward to seeing you at this month's meeting - Thursday, May 21 11:30AM at the Inn at Morro Bay. Bring a friend (but R.S.V.P. first).
Joyce Albright, President, Estero Bay Republican Women Federated
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May Speaker is Mike Scalise who will speak on the economy. A native of San Luis Obispo, as was his’ mother
and grandfather was District Attorney in San Luis County back in the 1930’s. Mike went to SLO High, Cuesta
College, Cal Poly, and Fullerton College, concentrating in Accounting, Business, Management Information
Systems and Management Science. He has primarily worked in the Information Systems field for healthcare
Companies such as nursing homes, Home health Agencies and physician’s offices. Occasionally provides
consulting for physicians in San Luis County.
Interests are politics, healthcare, economics, and history. Married has three kids, one grandchild lives in Cayucos.
Wife is a physician with a boutique medical practice. He has written a few newspaper articles on healthcare and
history, and has spoken to this group in 2002 on Medicare reform. . He self describes himself as being right of
Rush Limbaugh.
10 Surprising Facts about American Health
Care
Posted March 25th, 2009 at 11.14am in
Health Care.
Via the #ational Center for Policy Analysis,
Hoover Institution senior fellow Scott Atlas
identifies 10 things you probably did not
know about health care:
Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than
Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer
mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the
United States, and 88 percent higher in the United
Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent
higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway.
The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among
British men and women is about 40 percent higher.
Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality
rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality is 9
percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher
and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10
percent higher than in the United
States.
Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to
treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other
developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans
who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce
cholesterol and protect against heart
disease. By comparison, of those patients who could
benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the
Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of
Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of
Italians receive them.
Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to
preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take
the proportion of the appropriate-age population
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groups who have received recommended tests for
breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:
Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89
percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less
than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent). Nearly
all American women (96 percent) have had a pap
smear, compared to less
than 90 percent of
Canadians.
More than half of American men (54
percent) have had a PSA test, compared to
less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly
one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a
colonoscopy, compared
with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).
Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better
health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many
American seniors with below-median incomes selfreport “excellent” health compared to Canadian
seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8
percent). Conversely, white Canadian young adults
with below-median incomes are 20 percent more
likely than lower income Americans to describe their
health as “fair or poor.”
Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for
care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian
and British patients wait about twice as long sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to
have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get
radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429
people are waiting for some type of procedure in
Canada. In England, nearly 1.8 million people are
waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient
treatment.
Fact No. 7: People in countries with more
government control of health care are highly
dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than
70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New
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Zealand and British adults say their health
system needs either “fundamental change” or
“complete rebuilding.”
Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the
care they receive than Canadians. When asked about
their own health care instead of the “health care
system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent)
are very satisfied with their health care services,
compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower
proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent)
than Canadians (8.5 percent).
Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to
important new technologies like medical imaging
than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a
waste by economists and policymakers naïve to
actual medical practice, an overwhelming
majority of leading American physicians identified
computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important
medical innovations for improving patient care
during the previous decade. The United States has 34
CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12
in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has
nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to
about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.
Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast
majority of all health care innovations. The top five
U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the
hospitals in any other single developed country.
Since the mid-1970s, the
Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to
American residents more often than recipients from
all other countries combined. In only five of the past
34 years did a scientist living in America not win or
share in the prize. Most important recent medical
innovations were developed in the United States.
Author: Conn Carroll Interact: Sphere Share This
American Thinker: Why be a conservative?
March 26, 2009
say "No, you weren't. You were indoctrinated to be
conservative by heartless, authoritarian parents. You
chose to be conservative because you are meanspirited." Why would I choose to be a
conservative? Why would I choose the persecution?
I am constantly ridiculed for my beliefs. I have been
compared to Nazis. Liberals call me a sexist, racist,
bigoted
homophobe. My intentions are mischaracterized,
and then I am judged by those mischaracterized
intentions. For example, because I favor policies
to help get everyone off of welfare to succeed on
their own, my intentions are characterized as trying
to keep blacks and minorities poor. These
liberals then brand me a racist because they perceive
my intentions are to keep blacks poor. You would
think I would choose to be a liberal. Liberals
worldwide are hailed as compassionate for merely
"raising awareness" of the plight of the poor. Forget
that the poor don't see a dime from the "awareness"
raised. Despite poverty winning the war we waged
on it, liberals get judged by their intentions rather
than the results of their policies.
I was born a conservative. I was born with the
yearning to be free. My love of liberty has been an
inherent part of me as much as my blond hair
and blue eyes. God gave me a conscience to know
March 25, 2009
Why be a conservative?
By Christopher S. Brownwell
Setbacks in recent elections have left some selfproclaimed conservatives announcing the era of
Reagan is over. David Frum thinks conservatives
need to be less aggressive and move to the center to
win. David Brooks suggests that Louisiana governor
Bobby Jindal's conservatism is stale. Possibly, the
Kathleen Parkers, Peggy Noonans, Christopher
Buckleys of "conservatism" are just embarrassed by
the NASCAR watching, Wal-Mart shopping, Jesusloving conservative base. In a survival of the fittest,
these political pundits have tried to spontaneously
generate an evolving definition of conservatism.
They then try to put conservatives like Rush
Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, and Sarah Palin in a closet
of political extinction. However, these and many
other conservative Neanderthals refuse to go quietly
into the political closet despite the ridicule.
Let me follow these conservative examples and come
out of the closet by announcing my political
orientation. I am a conservative and I am proud
of it. Furthermore, I was born this way. Some might
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what is right and wrong. He gave me the desire to
follow my conscience rather than the dictates of
politically correct tolerance. But, even if I weren't
born this way, I'd still choose to be a conservative
despite the name calling and lies about me.
Conservatives believe that right principles drive
right policy choices. Policy choices must yield to the
proper principles. As a conservative I will not
change my conservative principles to mirror popular
or progressive policies. These conservative
principles stand in antithesis to principles held by
modern liberals. Here is a sampling of conservative
foundational principles:
1. Our liberties come from our Creator, not
from our government. As a self-evident truth, we
owe our allegiance to God for making us free and
equal, not to our government. Our inherent, Godgiven rights include life, liberty and private property.
No government has the authority to take our lives,
liberty or property unless we forfeit those rights.
2. The authority to govern comes from God
through the people. Our charter document, our legal
authority to exist as a nation is our Declaration of
Independence, not our Constitution. In our
declaration we told a candid world the source of our
authority to govern ourselves. The Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God entitled us to "assume among
the powers of the earth the separate and equal
station...."
To secure the blessings of our God-given liberty, we,
the people, established our Constitution. We chose a
representative republic to best secure our liberties
from anarchy and tyranny. Government must obey
the people even as we obligate ourselves to obey the
laws of our government.
Conservatives actually believe that the words of our
founding documents have meaning today. Our
humble allegiance is to a higher authority than
ourselves. In relying on the protection of Divine
Providence, as our Founders did, we can pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor.
3. Human nature tends toward evil and not
toward good. James Madison wrote in Federalist No.
51 "But what is government itself, but the greatest of
all reflections on human nature? If men were angels,
no government would be necessary." John Adams
stated "[W]e have no government armed with power
capable of contending with human passions
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unbridled by morality and religion.... Our
constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other."
The problem today is that the predominant
philosophy in America, secular humanism, does not
allow for an inner moral restraint. People without
moral restraint need an external force to restrain
them. Benjamin Franklin said "[O]nly a virtuous
people are capable of freedom. As nations become
corrupt and vicious, they have more need of
masters." Conservatives believe an inner restraint on
human nature is preferable to an external one.
4. Government, being obligated to restrain
human nature, must be obliged to restrain itself. "In
framing a government which is to be administered
by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you
must first enable the government to control the
governed; and in the next place oblige it to control
itself." Federalist No. 51. Our Constitution is a
document of enumerated powers. This document
gives our federal government only such powers
necessary to protect our liberty from an unruly mob.
To control itself, government must be small and
government authority must be separated and
restrained by checks and balances. The bigger our
government grows and the more centralized
government authority gets the more we lose our
liberty. Reagan conservatism is not dead and does
not need to evolve with the times. Conservative
principles are as true today as they were at the time
of our founding. After reading americanthinker.com
and other conservative websites, clearly intelligent,
thinking, politically-oriented conservatives are far
from extinction. We simply need politicians to
articulate and postulate today what our Founders
believed. When it comes to foundational principles,
I prefer to align myself with the conservative
political orientation of the Founders. They were
infinitely smarter than Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi
and Barrack Obama. Although I was born this way,
anyone can choose this conservative political
orientation.
A nation of Sheep will beget a
government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
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Correction on chairman list. Lori NobleAction Alert/legislation chairman.
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Si Tenenberg will be our speaker in June. Please remember to bring
your checkbook; we need to support his ongoing effort in Afghanistan. Last
visit he brought us boxes to mail and he has been asked to bring more this time.
NEW BOOK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Bertha Tyler - 1st ( May)
Teri Coleman - 6th
Paula Everitt - 11th
Emily Campbell - 21st
rd
Marianne Kent - 23
rd
Phyllis Poe 23
th
Suzy Moyer - 29
Elizabeth Olson - 30th
June:
Rickie Spitzer - 1st
Althea Starble - 24th
EBRWF voter registration Friday July
24th. Mid State Fair. Need volunteers.
Please call Joyce Albright
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Red Hot Lies" by Christopher C.
Horner
Be sure and stop by the Library table and see
all the books the club has to share.
RPSLO is back at Farmer's Market in SLO and
looking for volunteers to help staff the booth and if
they would like to do so to contact me.
Thursday's from 5:30-9:15pm
RPSLO Annual Family Barbeque Santa Margarita
th
Park June 14 . Call me for tickets.
Linda Donnelly
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More than ever you must make your voice heard. The Tea Parties were a perfect example of what you can
do. If you were unable to attend you missed a very inspiring moment in history. Th
This
is editor attended and
I would like to share some of that with you. Grandma in Atascadero and Grandson in San
Sa Diego, it’s in the
genes.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's
minds."
– Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary
A new group album has been created on Photobucket for friends of RPSLO to view and upload
photos of events they’ve attended and would like to share.
To view the photos, go to: http://photobucket.com/RPSLO and enter the password: rpslo2009
To upload photos, you need to have a Photobucket account (which is free).
From the RPSLO Members album page, click on "Add photos & videos to this group" text in red,
then you can login or signup for a free account.
Linda Donnelly has formed this and wants to put all club events up on it that are going on so we can reach out to
Central Coast people. There are so many Republican's out there that don't know about us BUT we know that they
are looking for us and this is just one more forum for them to look at and find us. Also legislators add these pages.
Please send me the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY AND WHERE. And who to contact for your local clubs events.
I will also be posting your club luncheon dates. If you want me to post the speaker's then email that to me too.
This is also going to go on our website that is under construction and also in the RPSLO Patriot Newsletter.
The now-famous
amous Democratic donkey was first associated with
Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His
opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use
the image of the strong-willed
willed animal on his campaign posters. Later,
cartoonist
oonist Thomas Nast used the Democratic donkey
in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous.
Nast invented another famous symbol—the
the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly
in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion’s skin
skin,, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals,
the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the
Republican Party. Democrats today say the donkey is smart and brave, while R
Republicans
epublicans say the elephant is
strong and dignified. Source: factmonster.com
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Officers and Committee Chairmen 2009
President
Joyce Albright
534-9230
1st Vice President (Programs)
Judy Montoya
995-1884
2nd Vice President (Membership)
Althea Starble
772-7729
Recording Secretary
Lanie Stier
995-2164
Treasurer
Jacqueline Crumpley
528-3149
Parliamentarian/Past President
Linda Donnelly
772-1374
Achievement Awards
Suzy Moyer
995-2844
Chaplain
LaVerne Smith
995-1085
Americanism Chairman
Barbara Barisic
772-0340
Action Alert/Legislation Chairman
Vacant
Budget/Auditor Chairman
Marta Zanghi
995-2591
By-Laws Chairman
Lori +oble
772-5060
Hospitality/Protocol/Telephone
Melinda Rice
772-7618
Althea Starble
772.7729
Lanie Stier
995-2164
Barbara Barisic
772-0340
Legislation
Lorie +oble
772-5060
Librarian
LaVerne Smith
995-1085
Mamie Eisenhower Library Project
Chris Holmberg
528-3941
o Child Left Behind Project Chairman
Chris Holmberg
528-3941
ewsletter Editor
Pat Kenner
995-3430
Sunshine Chairman
Shirley Palmer
528-5301
Technology Chairman
Dorothy Fones
995-1771
Ways & Means Chairman
Marta Zanghi
(Jewelry)
995-2591
Suzy Moyer
(50/50)
995-2844
Voter Registration/ Bounty Chairman
Melinda Rice—Morro Bay
772-7618
Marta Zanghi—Cayucos
995-2591
Voter Fraud Chairman
Cathy +ovak
772-9499
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Web Pages:
California Federation of Republican Women
www.cfrw.org
National Federation of Republican Women
www.nfrw
Central Division CFRW
www.cfrwcentraldivision.org
EBRWF WEB: webpages.charter.net/fones/EBRWF
FEATURIG:
www.LimitTaxes.org
www.CaRepublic.com
www.cagop.org
www.humanevents.com
www.flashreport.org
May 19, 2009 Special Election
CALIFORNIA BALLOT PROPOSITIONS
Proposition 1A: "Rainy Day" Budget
Stabilization Fund - Oppose
Proposition 1B: Education Funding. Payment
Plan - Oppose
Proposition 1C: Lottery Modernization Act Oppose
Proposition 1D: Children's Services Funding Oppose
Proposition 1E: Mental Health Funding.
Temporary Reallocation - Oppose
Proposition 1F: Elected Officials' Salaries.
Prevents Pay Increases during Budget Deficit
Years - Oppose
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