The NCYRF is proud to announce our 1st Annual Summer "Fun"raiser! The event will be held Saturday June 13th at Hideaway Park in Lake Wildwood. Highlights for the event include:
-Live music
-Guest speakers
-Hamburgers, hot dogs & more
-Lake and beach activities
-Beer and wine
-Large play structure for kids
Please join us for this event and bring the whole family! To learn more or purchase tickets, please contact Kim Pruett at (530) 477-7993, or email us at nc.yrfc@yahoo.com. See you there!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
"What Republicans Need is a Mutiny..."
Two major debates face conservative Republicans about the future of the party. The first, rekindled by Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party, is whether the GOP should move further leftward. The second is whether conservatives should tone down their advocacy on social issues. History is on the side of outspoken conservatives in both debates.
To learn where to position themselves, some big-government GOP loyalists are going on so-called listening tours. The trouble is, skulking around the country on pandering tours isn't leadership. Politicians, lobbyists and campaign consultants who caused the problem cannot fix it. You can also rebrand damaged goods all you want, but they're still damaged goods, which is why GOP establishment leaders are incapable of understanding the problem -- it's them.
The ascendancy of conservatives to power was done by boat-rockers, not establishment politicians. Barry Goldwater laid the foundation of reducing government to conform to the Constitution. Ronald Reagan demonstrated that the conservative vision of smaller government is one of prosperity. The Gingrich revolution started making congressional leaders the servants of the people, not vice versa.
In each case, the message was reforming the Washington establishment. President Obama's campaign used a variation of that theme. His message of change, while obfuscated, clearly resonated with the grass roots. He remains popular, although polls show his version of change is substantially less so.
The current GOP leadership has no message or vision that appeals to the grass roots. We never hear from them the boat-rocking message of successful conservatives.
Instead, the public's image of the GOP is that it is incompetent (think Hurricane Katrina), corrupt (think Jack Abramoff, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, etc.) and without principles (think wild spending, bailouts, earmarks and a lack of a true conservative vision). Republicans can try smoke and mirrors, but they really need new leaders who will reverse the big-government policies of Bush 43 and congressional Republicans and articulate and move a conservative agenda forward.
Democrats have nothing to fear from today's Republican Party leaders. That's why Democrats have taken to targeting Rush Limbaugh and others who aren't in formal leadership positions in the GOP but who forcefully articulate a conservative vision.
Republicans need the political equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. First, they must admit their problem (many are in denial). Next, they must promise never to do it again. Then they must recognize what caused the problem ("Washingtonitis," abandoning the principles of the party and allowing people who didn't believe in the principles of the party to assume leadership positions). Last, when in a hole, stop digging.
Instead, Republicans are still digging. The GOP has lost the Goldwater/Reagan vision of rolling back unconstitutional government and restoring it to its prescribed authority. Its leaders seem barely capable of fighting for basic GOP principles of low taxes, a strong national defense and traditional values.
The American people have said clearly in the last two national elections that they don't like the GOP of Bush, Karl Rove, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, etc. All the rebranding efforts and pandering tours won't work as long as the party remains under the leadership of the team that was a party-wrecking disaster on the order of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bush 41 and Bush 43.
In the 2008 election, Republicans acquiesced to the Specter/Colin Powell wing and nominated the one member of their party most famously critical of conservatives and most open to partnerships with people from across the aisle, John McCain. That obviously didn't work.
For Republicans to remove the stigma of Bush 43 and his GOP Congress, they must be able to honestly communicate to Americans that they are "Open Under New Management" -- but with old, time-tested principles.
The second debate is whether conservatives should tone down on social issues such as abortion and marriage.
Those, however, who win without principle have neither an agenda nor a mandate and rarely change anything for the better. In the history books, centrists and accommodators end up alongside James Buchanan, who compromised with slavery, and Neville Chamberlain, who compromised with Nazism. Political leaders we respect are ones who changed political reality, not those who accommodated themselves to political reality.
Leftist activists on social issues not only advocate loudly, even threateningly, they are happy to achieve their objectives through unconstitutional methods such as judicial activism.
Certainly, conservatives need to appeal not just to the faithful but must use logical and constitutional rationales on social issues. But stay quiet? I think not. What would have become of the great social and political debates of our country -- slavery, segregation, suffrage -- had activists acquiesced to the political establishment?
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
The political establishment is averse to conservative boat-rockers, which is why conservatives should withhold financial support from all GOP national committees and establishment politicians but support principled organizations and candidates. They should run candidates for every party and public office except when there's a principled incumbent conservative.
Conservatives should no longer look to Republican politicians for leadership and should assume the role of leading the opposition to Obama and the Democrats. We believe we have a party and a country to save, and the GOP establishment is in our way. Let the rebellion begin.
"What Republicans Need is Mutiny..."
By: Richard A. Viguerie
May 10th, 2009
To learn where to position themselves, some big-government GOP loyalists are going on so-called listening tours. The trouble is, skulking around the country on pandering tours isn't leadership. Politicians, lobbyists and campaign consultants who caused the problem cannot fix it. You can also rebrand damaged goods all you want, but they're still damaged goods, which is why GOP establishment leaders are incapable of understanding the problem -- it's them.
The ascendancy of conservatives to power was done by boat-rockers, not establishment politicians. Barry Goldwater laid the foundation of reducing government to conform to the Constitution. Ronald Reagan demonstrated that the conservative vision of smaller government is one of prosperity. The Gingrich revolution started making congressional leaders the servants of the people, not vice versa.
In each case, the message was reforming the Washington establishment. President Obama's campaign used a variation of that theme. His message of change, while obfuscated, clearly resonated with the grass roots. He remains popular, although polls show his version of change is substantially less so.
The current GOP leadership has no message or vision that appeals to the grass roots. We never hear from them the boat-rocking message of successful conservatives.
Instead, the public's image of the GOP is that it is incompetent (think Hurricane Katrina), corrupt (think Jack Abramoff, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, etc.) and without principles (think wild spending, bailouts, earmarks and a lack of a true conservative vision). Republicans can try smoke and mirrors, but they really need new leaders who will reverse the big-government policies of Bush 43 and congressional Republicans and articulate and move a conservative agenda forward.
Democrats have nothing to fear from today's Republican Party leaders. That's why Democrats have taken to targeting Rush Limbaugh and others who aren't in formal leadership positions in the GOP but who forcefully articulate a conservative vision.
Republicans need the political equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. First, they must admit their problem (many are in denial). Next, they must promise never to do it again. Then they must recognize what caused the problem ("Washingtonitis," abandoning the principles of the party and allowing people who didn't believe in the principles of the party to assume leadership positions). Last, when in a hole, stop digging.
Instead, Republicans are still digging. The GOP has lost the Goldwater/Reagan vision of rolling back unconstitutional government and restoring it to its prescribed authority. Its leaders seem barely capable of fighting for basic GOP principles of low taxes, a strong national defense and traditional values.
The American people have said clearly in the last two national elections that they don't like the GOP of Bush, Karl Rove, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, etc. All the rebranding efforts and pandering tours won't work as long as the party remains under the leadership of the team that was a party-wrecking disaster on the order of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bush 41 and Bush 43.
In the 2008 election, Republicans acquiesced to the Specter/Colin Powell wing and nominated the one member of their party most famously critical of conservatives and most open to partnerships with people from across the aisle, John McCain. That obviously didn't work.
For Republicans to remove the stigma of Bush 43 and his GOP Congress, they must be able to honestly communicate to Americans that they are "Open Under New Management" -- but with old, time-tested principles.
The second debate is whether conservatives should tone down on social issues such as abortion and marriage.
Those, however, who win without principle have neither an agenda nor a mandate and rarely change anything for the better. In the history books, centrists and accommodators end up alongside James Buchanan, who compromised with slavery, and Neville Chamberlain, who compromised with Nazism. Political leaders we respect are ones who changed political reality, not those who accommodated themselves to political reality.
Leftist activists on social issues not only advocate loudly, even threateningly, they are happy to achieve their objectives through unconstitutional methods such as judicial activism.
Certainly, conservatives need to appeal not just to the faithful but must use logical and constitutional rationales on social issues. But stay quiet? I think not. What would have become of the great social and political debates of our country -- slavery, segregation, suffrage -- had activists acquiesced to the political establishment?
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
The political establishment is averse to conservative boat-rockers, which is why conservatives should withhold financial support from all GOP national committees and establishment politicians but support principled organizations and candidates. They should run candidates for every party and public office except when there's a principled incumbent conservative.
Conservatives should no longer look to Republican politicians for leadership and should assume the role of leading the opposition to Obama and the Democrats. We believe we have a party and a country to save, and the GOP establishment is in our way. Let the rebellion begin.
"What Republicans Need is Mutiny..."
By: Richard A. Viguerie
May 10th, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
NCYRF is Official!
Nevada County Young Republicans Federated is official! At the CRP Convention held over the weekend in Sacramento, Young Republicans Federated of California voted and approved Nevada County Young Republicans Federated as an official chapter. At Saturday’s board meeting Ben Lopez, president of the YRFC, informed chapter presidents from around the state that this is the first YRFC chapter ever to start in Nevada County. It was a great honor to be there representing NCYRF as President alongside NCYRF Program Director Kim Pruett. Getting this organization started is a great achievement, and although NCYRF has a long journey ahead I am confident that the young Republicans of Nevada County will rise to the occasion. We are a group filled with creative minds and enthusiastic individuals. Congratulations Nevada County on your first NCYRF!
Jennifer Saylor
Nevada County Young Republicans Federated, President
Jennifer Saylor
Nevada County Young Republicans Federated, President
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
NCYRF First Mixer a Huge Success!
February the 9th marked the first mixer held by the NCYRF. The event hosted by Brian and Megan Hood in Nevada City turned out to be a huge success and was a chance for Board members to mix with prospective new members. Vice President Michael Horne spoke to the group and thanked everyone for coming to our event. Representatives from both Tom McClintok's office and Dan Logue's office were present and spoke to the group, as well as Dottie Ray Souter President of the Republican Women Federated and Bill Neuharth President of the Central Committee. Thanks for all the hard work by everyone involved, especially the Hood's for their hospitality. Looking forward to the next one!
Walgreens Project Suspended
The suspended Walgreens project will come up for review Tuesday at the Grass Valley Planning Commission — and is already facing local discord and scrutiny.
Only one area contractor has been hired for the Glenbrook Basin job now sitting in a lake of Sierra mud, drawing criticism from the Nevada County Contractors Association.
In addition, critics of the project charge that Sacramento-area developer Interra-Vision Development is trying to get out of an agreement made last year with the city to build two 800-square-foot retail buildings on the site.
The buildings were added to the project after former City Councilman Steve Enos complained the pharmacy giant was not adhering to design guidelines the city has embraced to make new construction more amenable to pedestrians and evoke mining-era facades.
When Interra-Vision’s Brian Kisling shut down the 14,550-square-foot drugstore job Feb. 4, he said it was for economic reasons and “the resolution of issues” concerning the extra retail buildings. Kisling will ask to put off erecting the two small stores at the commission meeting.
That attempt “smells like a pile of six-day old fish in the middle of the Mojave Desert on the Fourth of July,” Enos said. The City Council “needs to hold these folks to the ... requirements that they ... accepted when the project was approved.”
The retail buildings will be built when tenants are found for them, Kisling said. To do so otherwise would not make sense in the current financial market, he added.
The lone subcontractor hired for the project was Mitch’s Drywall Co. of Grass Valley, Nevada County Contractors Association Executive Director Barbara Bashall said.
“We’re really disappointed that on a job of that scope, they didn’t do more outreach for local subcontractors,” Bashall told The Union.
Bids from Nevada County subcontractors were submitted for almost every portion of the job but were rejected “because they were 10 percent higher than contractors from outside your area,” Kisling said. “I was disappointed. We really tried to get some local contractors.”
The main contractor of the job at Brunswick Road and Sutton Way is Huff Construction of Modesto, which has built several Walgreens in the past.
When the project will resume is unknown now that the wet season has begun in the Sierra, Kisling said. He hopes to have the project done some time this summer, he added.
-The Union, February 16th 2009
By: Dave Moller
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Stimulus pork
Here are just a few of the earmarks included in Obama's stimulus bill that was passed by the Democrats in the House:
-More than $4 billion is earmarked for "neighborhood stabilization activities" money that will go to groups like ACORN, which worked closely with the Obama campaign, the same group accused of massive voter fraud.
-Almost half of the proposed spending will directly benefit the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democratic-controlled unions, according to writer Ben Stein.
-$600 million goes for new cars for top government bureaucrats.
-Obama promised major infrastructure projects yet only 5 percent of all the money goes for this.
-$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
-$75 million to fund anti-smoking programs.
-$650 million for the switch from analog television to digital.
-$335 million to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
-$600 million for climate change research programs.
-More than $4 billion is earmarked for "neighborhood stabilization activities" money that will go to groups like ACORN, which worked closely with the Obama campaign, the same group accused of massive voter fraud.
-Almost half of the proposed spending will directly benefit the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democratic-controlled unions, according to writer Ben Stein.
-$600 million goes for new cars for top government bureaucrats.
-Obama promised major infrastructure projects yet only 5 percent of all the money goes for this.
-$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
-$75 million to fund anti-smoking programs.
-$650 million for the switch from analog television to digital.
-$335 million to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
-$600 million for climate change research programs.
Get involved locally: The Bel Air project
The $30 million plan to build a Bel Air supermarket and retail complex at Higgins Corner moved closer to becoming reality last month when the County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to OK an environmental report for the project. The Board also voted 3-2 to recommend a general plan amendment and 3-2 to rezone the property so the project could go forward. Although this was a huge step forward for the project, many more hurdles still lie ahead before ground can be broken. Despite the creation of construction related jobs while the complex is being built, the estimated 143 full time jobs once the complex is completed and the nearly $2 million in revenue during a 13 year period, there are still some that seek to block this project from getting off the drawing boards citing overcrowding and traffic concerns. With the current economic crisis, do you think Nevada County should be turning away an opportunity to create jobs and increase revenue?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Sue Horne
We were honored to have former NC Supervisor Sue Horne join us at our meeting on January 12th as a guest speaker, and thank her for sharing her time with us. Sue covered many issues facing Nevada County from the past, present and future. What did you take away from our conversation with Sue?
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