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I hope you will be able to attend at least one of the 4th of July events of celebration in your area. If you have time, please read the Declaration of Independence to your children. They need to hear it.
Marie A Cole
I hope your plans are made to attend the Conservative Party USA Convention to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 22-24, 2010. This will be a unique opportunity for members of the Conservative Party USA to get together to discuss Party activities, goals and ideals and to celebrate the successes to date.
The home of the convention will be the Loew’s New Orleans Hotel. The hotel is located at 300 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. Check-in policies and hotel information can be found here. The main hotel phone number is 504-636-3300 .
Room Cost is $126/night for single or double occupancy. This special rate includes taxes and state fees. Please make your reservation directly with the Hotel Reservations department by calling 866-563-9792. Be sure to mention “Conservative Party USA” when you call to assure this special rate. Naturally, a standard credit card required and rooms are subject to availability.
For convention activities, the Registration Fee is $175 per convention attendee. Be an early bird and register for only $150 per attendee if paid by June 15, 2010. This fee will entitle you to all the convention activities including the reception on Thursday night, July 22, the banquet on Saturday night (evening wear required), July 24, and the business meetings held during each day (casual dress) of the convention. Please make checks payable to the “Conservative Party USA” and mail to:
11814 Coursey Blvd #530
Baton Rouge, LA, 70816
Attn: 2010 Convention.
On the assumption that most people will be flying, the most economical transportation from the airport to the hotel is the New Orleans Airport Shuttle. The rate is $38 round trip or $20 one way per passenger. This will provide ample savings over the normal $30 one way per person taxi fare. Please contact the shuttle service to reserve by calling 504-522-3500 or visit their website linked above.
If you plan to drive to the convention, be aware that the hotel provides valet parking with a convention discount of $20.00 per night.
Part of the business of the convention will be the debating of Party Planks. As a member in good standing of the Conservative Party USA, you are eligible and invited to submit suggestions for consideration to be included in the Party Planks. The National Site of the Conservative Party USA offers the abstract form for you to make your suggestion. You will also find on this site the method that will be used for approval of planks submitted by the membership.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Marie A Cole
I have been closely following the Primary Elections in the various states to this point. There have been twelve so far in addition to three Special Elections with Hawai’i having a Special Election on May 22.
By my count, 74 Governors, Senators and Congressmen will not be part of the November General Elections, the “mid-terms.” Some of the Governors are stopped by term limits, some Senators and Congressmen are retiring (wonder why?), one has been denied the nomination of his Party for reelection, Bob Bennett of Utah, two have been kicked out in the Primary, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Alan Mollohan of West Virginia,. Two have resigned due to scandal, Mark Souder from Indiana and Eric Massa from New York. Several others are running for another national or state office. Read the rest of this entry »
I got the strangest thing in my mail today. It’s a questionnaire from the Republican National Party. They want me to fill it out giving them my feelings about issues facing Americans. Read the rest of this entry »
Louisiana currently has 209 registered CONSERVATIVE voters. We need a minimum of 1,000 before we appear on the voter registration ballot, and before we can have a Louisiana CONSERVATIVE candidate run for office. Take 5 minutes out of your day and switch to the Conservative Party. There is no more crucial of a time. Click here to Register as a CONSERVATIVE Today!
Ryan M. Cahill
A recent Gallup poll indicates “Conservative” is the #1 political ideological group in America, with 40% reporting they are Conservative, 36% reporting they are Moderates, and 21% report they are Liberal. Click here for the Gallup Poll and Report
Ryan M. Cahill
Obviously, the Conservative Voice is being heard more loudly than we thought. Democrats in the House and Senate are “retiring” two at a time. Not just the “keep a low profile” Dems either – these are the big guns.
The latest to join the ranks of the unemployed of their own volition are Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and (thank God for answered prayers) Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Bless their hearts they’re tired and ready to rest after their long illustrious (?) careers during which time they have sent America and Americans down the tubes. Read the rest of this entry »
2009 can now officially become a memory, thank God! Let’s move forward into 2010 with due diligence and respect for our Conservative viewpoints. We must and will be heard in every 2010 election all across the United States.
Our voice starts with each of us in our local, state and national elections. Since there are very few candidates represented by the Conservative Party – USA, we must stand up and speak up for the most conservative candidates we can find. If that isn’t satisfactory, then we must search for a true conservative to run under our banner. If big money, offers of fame and notoriety, promises of continued support, etc. work for labor groups, heavily funded corporations and other lobby interests, we must turn them around to fit our conservative voices.
Conservatives are the largest voting bloc in the United States. Thomas Paine said so succinctly, “If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.” This was echoed by Benjamin Franklin, “Ay, we must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately.”
We find ourselves in much the same position. As long as we are united in our common conservative values system, no one will hang!
Have a wonderful New Year’s Day. Enjoy the football, basketball, hockey, front-yard football and black-eyed peas today. Rest up. We have a long fight before us. It is a fight we must win.
Marie A Cole
Affirmative Action has been construed way beyond JFK’s original intent in 1961, and it now divides America more than it unites. Candidates for jobs should be based on Merit not race. Affirmative Action as we now have in America supports racial differences when selecting employees. Martin Luther King Jr. did not want to get a job solely because he was a black American. He wanted to get a job and have a chance at the American Dream based on his merits and personal character. Colin Powell talked about Affirmative Action in his book My American Journey, and stated “if affirmative action means programs that provide equal opportunity, then I am all for it. If it leads to preferential treatment or helps those who no longer need help, I am opposed. I benefited from equal opportunity and affirmative action in the Army, but I was not shown preference. The Army, as a matter of fairness, made sure that performance would be the only measure of advancement. Affirmative action in the best sense promotes equal consideration, not reverse discrimination. Discrimination ‘for’ one group means, inevitably, discrimination ‘against’ another; and all discrimination is offensive.” (1995, p. 608). The current Affirmative Action laws are reverse discrimination and they need to be changed. We need to make laws punishing segregationist, not laws inhibiting another form of discrimination.
Ryan M. Cahill
Do you remember the 60’s song about Alfie, the lyrics of which begin, “What’s it all about, Alfie? What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? The Christmas holiday season in the United States generally inspires one’s thoughts to that question, “What’s it all about?” I say it’s about the mystery of something greater than us. It provokes that thought today, and it did at the time of the Founding Fathers of this nation.
.” The Declaration of Independence makes four explicit references to our nation’s reliance on God.
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