Saturday, April 21, 2012
The Making of America
Palmer Lake VFW Post 3915
2817 Brookdale Drive
Brooklyn Park MN 55444
8:30am tp 4:30pm
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We are making a transition with the New CD website, and are having some technical challenges, We hope to get all the new district names, links and maps up within 2 weeks. In the meantime, here are some upcoming dates for conventions and other GOP activities:

3/17, 9 am

SD 48 Grace Church for SD48 Convention. – 9301 Eden Prairie Rd, Eden Prairie, MN.
SD 37 Mounds View Community Center 5394 Edgewood Dr, Mound View, MN.

3/24, 9 am

SD 35 – Anoka high school auditorium, 3939 7th av, anoka
SD 44 - Wayzata High School, 4955 Peony Lane, Plymouth
SD 49 - Valley View Middle School, 6750 Valley View Road Edina
 
3/31, 9 am
 
SD 34, Maple Grove Senior High School, NOT Osseo as previously posted
 
Monday, March 26, 2012 - exec meeting 
Monday, April 23, 2012 - exec meeting
Monday, May 21st, full committee meeing
 
Saturday 4/14 9 am, 3 CD convention, South View Middle School, Edina (4725 south View Lane
 
Friday and Sat, May 18-19 state convention St. Cloud civic Center, St. Cloud
 
Tuesday, May 22nd filing open for state and federal offices
Tuesday, June 5     filing closes for state and federal offices
 
Tuesay, 8/14 - primary
 
Monday 8/27 - 8/30, National Convention, Tampa, Fl

By Derek Brigham

Here is the link to the new 2012 Redistricting LInes. So, how is your neighborhood looking to you for the next 10 years?

MAP

Precinct Listing

By Erik Paulsen

And so the evidence of how ObamaCare is violating individual freedom and liberty continues.  The rules and requirements of the new healthcare law continue to be rolled out and the latest is a finalized rule that requires nearly all employers to include free birth control, including the controversial morning after pill, in their health insurance plans.
 
This means that religiously affiliated organizations that have strong moral concerns about contraception and abortion, like Catholic colleges and hospitals, as well as Lutheran philanthropic organizations, will be forced to pay for coverage of these products.
 
This is a violation of the first amendment right to freedom of religion and an obvious infringement of American values.  Unfortunately, this is the essence of government-run healthcare.
 
I recently joined 153 of my colleagues in sending a letter to the President demanding this outrageous rule be redrafted to provide an exemption for those organizations who are morally opposed.
 
Stay tuned as we fight for religious freedom.

By Derek Brigham

CD3 Republicans at a full Committee meeting Monday night voted to write a check to the Republican Party Minnesota for $3,000 as a show of confidence in the newly elected leadership. This followed the announcement from SD33 chairs Patti Meier and Norma Friedrichs that the BPOU had written a check of $3,300 to RPM. SD33 is a very ambitious fundraising district in the prosperous Republican area around Lake Minnetonka.

The thinking behind the vote was not that these 2 donations would make a substantial dent in the large RPM debt, but that it would be a sign that BPOUs, CDs, and grassroots activists are looking forward to November election wins, and a willingness to help rebuild the party. This hopefully will also be a sign to other individuals, districts and big money donors to chip in. There is a powerful conservative spirit in the activists to grow rather than continue grousing about the past.

We're just lucky we don't live in CD8.

By Derek Brigham

We are at that time we see every ten years, and although it is not set in stone, I would say we are fairly safe the new CD3 district boundaries will look something like this.

Senate District 47 is excited to announce our upcoming fundraiser and "let's get physical" social event - the "Winter Square Dance Party"!

The date is Saturday, February 25, 2012. The fun starts at 6pm with dancing starting at 7pm. We'll be at the Coon Rapids VFW, just north of Coon Rapids  Blvd and east of Hanson Blvd.

Don't worry if you have two left feet (as long as your politics are right) - our caller Dick Rueter (pronounced "reeder") is a whiz with newbies.

Buy tickets at:   http://sd47squaredance.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn

or linked from our web site at:   http://www.sd47gop.org

There will be a cash bar. You may eat at the VFW from 5:30-7:30pm if you wish.

By Congressman Erik Paulsen

Want to hear about the latest tax proposal from President Obama?  It seems the Obama administration's idea of tax reform is to get the government into the business of preparing tax returns.   The Obama Administration has embraced the idea of the "Simple Return" - where the IRS prepares your tax returns and sends you the tax bill.

Allowing the IRS to do your tax return is like asking the fox to guard the hen house.  This proposal would require a massive expansion of the IRS.  The IRS would face a conflict of interest between collecting the most taxpayer dollars possible and fairly filling out tax returns.  Currently, the burden to challenge a tax return rests on the IRS.  This proposal would place the burden on the taxpayer to challenge the IRS if they disagree with the IRS' prepared return.

The only thing simple about the "Simple Return" is the way it simply fleeces taxpayers.  That's why I am cosponsoring H.R. 2528 which would prohibit the IRS from getting into the business of preparing tax returns.  We cannot allow the IRS from further intruding into the lives of regular citizens.

By Reps. Erik Paulsen and Jim Gerlach

At a time when our greatest priority needs to be creating jobs for our unemployed citizens, the government is on the verge of implementing a new medical device excise tax that will eliminate more than 40,000 well-paying jobs and imperil America’s global competitiveness in one of our leading industrial and technological sectors.

When asked earlier this year in a House committee hearing about the new tax on medical devices that will take effect in 2013, the secretary of Health and Human Services called the $20 billion tax “modest” and said, essentially, that it was so inconsequential that it would barely be noticed.

Now, we have verification of the damage this measure will do. A new study by two noted economists — one who was a former chief economist of the Labor Department and the other who was previously the chief economist of the House Energy and Commerce Committee — has found that, under reasonable assumptions, the medical device excise tax will result in 43,000 lost jobs and $3.5 billion in vanished wages and benefits. That’s a tremendous blow to a reeling economy.

This may be the most anti-innovation piece of legislation to come along in some time. The tax hits well-established companies and startup businesses that are suffering losses in their initial years while they invest heavily in the research and development of their first innovation for patients.

Thanks to this tax, companies could be forced to close factories in this country and look overseas where foreign governments are extremely eager to jump-start their high-tech sectors.

In worst-case scenarios, those potentially lifesaving and life-changing medical devices might never find their way to hospital beds and operating rooms.

The new device tax hits Americans in two extremely painful ways.

Read the rest at Roll Call