Culpeper County Republican Committee

RPV State Convention 2013!

May 20th, 2013

What a great convention! We are all very excited about our Republican ticket that is going to win in November!

Governor: Ken Cuccinelli
Lt. Governor: EW Jackson
Attorney General: Mark Obenshain

There can be no doubt that we have a ticket which is dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, Constitutional government, free markets and the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness endowed to us by our Creator!

The Culpeper Delegation stood strong for the entire convention with the vast majority of our members able to stay to the very end!

Below are some photos, but we would like a lot more! Please send some our way!

E.W. With the CCRC Air Lift Command and Fighter Wing!

Above Photo compliments of Mac Stoddard

Virginia’s Republican Candidate Websites

January 18th, 2013

Websites for the Ten Candidates

You can learn a lot about the candidates that we will vote for at the State Convention on May 18th by visiting their websites.

 

Republican Nominee for Governor

Ken Cuccinelli            www.cuccinelli.com

 

Candidates for Attorney General

Rob Bell             www.robbellforag.com

Mark Obenshain www.markobenshain.com

 

Candidates for Lt. Governor

Jeannemarie Davis      www.jeannemarie4lg.com

E.W. Jackson              www.jacksonforlg.com

Scott Lingamfelter      www.scott4va.com

Steve Martin               www.senatorstevemartin.com

Pete Snyder                 www.petesnyder.com

Corey Stewart             www.coreystewart.com

Susan Stimpson          www.susanstimpson.com

‘Gun Culture’ — What About the ‘Fatherless Culture’? – By Larry Elder

January 18th, 2013

The face of gun violence is not Sandy Hook. It is Chicago.

In 2012, President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown had 506 murders, including more than 60 children. Philadelphia, a city that local television newscasters frequently call ‘Killadelphia,” saw 331 killed last year. In Detroit, 386 people were murdered.

Since 1966, there have been 90 school shootings in the U.S., with 231 fatalities. Yes, Sandy Hook shocked us. But the odds of a child being killed at a school shooting are longer than the odds of being struck by lightning.

Of the 11,000 to 12,000 gun murders each year, more than half involve both black killers and black victims, mostly in urban areas and mostly gang-related. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Rapper/actor Ice T (“Cop Killer”) and I attended the same high school. In the 1991 John Singleton film “Boyz n the Hood,” the teenagers attend that school, and car-cruise the South Central Los Angeles boulevard after which the school is named.

Crenshaw High opened in 1968. By the time Ice-T left, less than a decade later, Crenshaw had become, in the rapper’s words, “a Crip school” — meaning one controlled by that street gang. Because of the school’s reputation for violence, Time Magazine called it “Fort Crenshaw.” A powerhouse in basketball and football, the school lost its accreditation 2005, before getting it back in 2006 on a short-term basis.

In 1970, I was part of the second graduating class in the new school’s history. Some kids, who started with me in the 10th grade, did not finish. But it was the exception rather than the rule. By 2012, only 51 percent of Crenshaw’s students graduated.

What happened?

Dads disappeared. Or, more precisely, to use Bill Cosby’s term, the number of “unwed fathers” exploded.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote “The Negro Family: A Case for National Action.” At the time, 25 percent of blacks children were born out of wedlock, a number Moynihan called alarming. Fast forward to the present, 72 percent of black children are now born out of wedlock. In fact, 36 percent of white children are born out of wedlock. Of Hispanic children, 53 percent are born outside of marriage.

continued at Townhall…

Wake Up, Socially Liberal Fiscal Conservatives – By Jonah Goldberg

January 18th, 2013

Dear Socially Liberal Fiscal Conservative Friend,

That’s pretty toothy, so I’m going to call you Bob.

But whatever specific name you go by, Bob, you know who you are. You’re the sort of person who says to his conservative friends or co-workers something like, “I would totally vote for Republicans if they could just give up on these crazy social issues.”

When you explain your votes for Barack Obama, you talk about how Republicans used to be much more moderate and focused on important things such as low taxes, fiscal discipline and balanced budgets.

When Colin Powell was on “Meet the Press” the other day, you nodded along as he lamented how the GOP has lost its way since the days when it was all about fiscal responsibility.

And, Bob, you think Republicans are acting crazy-pants on the debt ceiling. You don’t really follow all of the details, but you can just tell that the GOP is being “extreme,” thanks to those wacky tea partiers.

So, Bob, as a “fiscal conservative,” what was so outrageous about trying to cut pork — Fisheries in Alaska! Massive subsidies for Amtrak! — From the Sandy disaster-relief bill? What was so nuts about looking for offsets to pay for it?

Bob, I’m going to be straight with you. I never had much respect for your political acumen before, but you’re a sucker.

You’re still spouting this nonsense about being fiscally conservative while insisting the GOP is the problem. You buy into media’s anti-Republican hysteria no matter what the facts are. Heck, you even believe it when Obama suggests he’s like an Eisenhower Republican.

Well, let’s talk about Eisenhower, your kind of Republican. Did you know that in his famous farewell address he warned about the debt? “We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage,” he said. “We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

Bob, we are that insolvent phantom, you feckless, gormless clod. The year Eisenhower delivered that speech, U.S. debt was roughly half our GDP. But that was when we were still paying off WWII (not to mention things like the Marshall Plan), and the defense budget comprised more than half the U.S. budget (today it’s a fifth and falling). Now, the debt is bigger than our GDP. Gross Domestic Product is barely $15 trillion. The national debt is over $16 trillion and climbing — fast. The country isn’t going broke Bob, it is broke.

continued at Townhall…

Democrats Kill Bill For Secret Ballots!

January 15th, 2013

Dear Friends,

I regret to inform you that SJ88, my constitutional amendment to secure the right to a secret ballot, died on the Senate floor today. Every Democrat member of the Senate voted NOT to ensure your right to a private and secret ballot.

 

Labor bosses, and their high paid lobbyists in Washington, are pushing federal legislation that would deny federal, state, and local workers from their right to a secret ballot in union elections.  Big labor’s push to pass the “Employee Free Choice Act,” also known as Card Check, would deny Virginia workers their right to privacy when voting in union elections.

 

The right to a secret ballot should not be a partisan issue, and I was ashamed to see my colleagues on the other side of the aisle make it so. This amendment is essential if we are going to preserve voter integrity and privacy. I believe that no person should be forced to reveal how they voted in any election at any level and I am disappointed that my Democrat colleagues decided to take this in a party line direction.

 

I assure you that we will not give up the fight. Please join me in saving the ballot by signing my petition and staying updated through our Facebook page, Twitter handle, and website dedicated to this essential resolution.

 

This is not a Republican, an Independent or Democratic issue; this is a Virginia issue. A secret ballot is the Virginia way.

 

Yours in service,

Sen. Bryce Reeves

 

 

For more information contact Ashley Nixon at

804-698-7517

Ashley@BryceReeves.com

U.S. Constitution To Be Read On House Floor

January 14th, 2013

Beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, the U.S. Constitution will be read aloud from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House Rules Package (H. Res. 5) sponsored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was adopted by the House on January 3, 2013, and included the reading at the urging of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.

 

Majority Leader Cantor made the following statement:

“Our Founding Fathers understood a legitimate government must be based on the consent of the people. As James Madison, the Father of the Constitution wrote, ‘It is essential to liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people.’ This is the people’s House and as Members of Congress we must never lose sight that we are committed to protecting the fundamental rights of the people we represent. Congress must live within its means, limit the growth of government and maximize individual liberty. Guided by these principles, I am confident the House will chart a course for the future that ensures liberty and prosperity for all Americans.”

Tomorrow’s reading is only the second time the U.S. Constitution has been read aloud in the House of Representatives. It was first read at the beginning of the 112th Congress when Republicans regained the majority.

http://majorityleader.gov/blog/2013/01/us-constitution-to-be-read-on-house-floor.html

Eric Cantor Holds Strong!

January 2nd, 2013

Our own Rep. Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader held strong on the “fiscal cliff” negotiations that have been taking place over the last several weeks.

 

At a time when our country needs real solutions that address our fiscal concerns with sound free market principles, not shoddy last min. compromises which fail to address the underlying problems we face, Eric Cantor choose the hard right over the easy wrong. Despite others agreeing to a negotiation that will do nothing to solve our fiscal issues at the same time that it hands out billion in payouts to pet projects that have nothing to do with the focus of this legislation, Eric Cantor stood strong in the house and helped provide the kind of leadership that other conservative law makers can rally around.

 

House passes fiscal cliff deal, tamps down GOP revolt – By Oliver Knox

 

The House of Representatives late Tuesday easily approved emergency bipartisan legislation sparing all but a sliver of America’s richest from sharp income tax hikes — while setting up another “fiscal cliff” confrontation in a matter of weeks.

 

Lawmakers voted 257-167 to send the compromise to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Eighty-five Republicans and 172 Democrats backed the bill, which had sailed through the Senate by a lopsided 89-8 margin shortly after 2 a.m.  Opposition comprised 151 Republicans and 16 Democrats.

 

Republican House Speaker John Boehner voted in favor of the deal, as did House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, his party’s failed vice presidential candidate. But Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voted against it.

 

continued here…

John Lott Destroys CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Gun Free Zones – Katie Pavlich

December 31st, 2012

Webmaster note…One of the truly fascinating things about this and several similar interviews is that right out of the gate the liberal leaning journalists are not interested in the facts surrounding gun control. They claim to only be concerned about the safety of the public but then immediately ignore evidence which suggests that their position actually serves to further endanger the public they claim they want to protect. That kind of intransigence is generally indicative of either a hidden agenda, or a complete lack of critical thought process. People who are serious about achieving their goals of public safety don’t resort to uninformed knee jerk reactions like Ms. O’Brien, they conduct thoughtful and objective research like Mr. Lott.

article below:

Mass shootings in the United States have at least one thing in common: they all happen in in gun free zones. Yesterday economist and author of More Guns Less Crime John Lott went on CNN with anchor Soledad O’Brien to discuss why mass shootings occur in gun free zones. O’Brien as usual, wasn’t interested in factual data Lott was presenting and continually cut him off as he was making his points.

John Lott, the gun advocate who recently had a heated encounter with Piers Morgan, spoke to Soledad O’Brien on Monday morning — continuing to make his pro-gun argument. O’Brien had a hard time stomaching Lott’s perspective, telling him she simply does not understand it.
The common feature across such attacks, Lott said, is that, with few exceptions, they’ve occurred where guns have been banned. “But there’s more than one thing in common, right?” O’Brien asked, adding that they’re armed, often with semi-automatic weapons.
The point, Lott underlined, is that these “gun-free” pockets are the ones that are targeted. Specifically, he spoke about the gunman who chose the movie theater in Aurora, as opposed to other nearby theaters. O’Brien countered that Lott hasn’t spoken to him and has no way of knowing the gunman’s thought process. “How do you know that?” she asked. “You don’t know that.”
“Why is your takeaway from all of this to get rid of gun laws — and your takeaway is not to say, ‘There are people who should not have access to certain types of weapons,’” O’Brien questioned.In this instance, she said, we know the gunman used a semi-automatic rifle to breaking into the building, rendering their security useless. “Why would you not say that’s exactly the kind of weapon that someone should not be able to easily get their hands on?”
Lott said that Germany had three of the five worst public shootings in the world. And Germany has extremely strict gun control laws. “Yet they’ve had a worse record,” Lott said.

“I don’t argue Second Amendment, I argue crime,” Lott said.

 

continued at Townhall

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