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UP-COMING EVENTS
August 8 WRC Monthly Meeting - TIBURON GOLF RESORT WRC Member Showcase August 12 CCREC Precinct Get Together South Street Grill - 6:00pm - 8:00pm August 15 - 23 Early Voting Period Primary for General Election August 19 Cocktails & Conversation . . . By Invitation Only! Guest of Honor: First Lady Ann Scott Clive Daniel Home - 4:30pm - 6:30pm August 26 PRIMARY ELECTION - Be sure to vote!! September 12 WRC Monthly Meeting - TIBURON GOLF RESORT Guest Speaker: KCarl Smith October 10 WRC Monthly Meeting - TIBURON GOLF RESORT Guest Speaker: Rep. from The Fisher House
LUNCHEON/MEETING - AUGUST 8, 2014
Our next luncheon meeting is Friday, August 8, 2014. This month WRC is sharing the talents of three WRC members: Carole Siegel, artist; Joan Curley, children’s author; and Barbara Miller, women’s self-help author. Our menu this month is Cobb Salad with assorted salad dressings. Our dessert will be individual Tiramisus. A gluten-free vegetarian plate with steamed vegetables is also available. A Cash Bar with House Wine is available for $7 per glass. The WRC Luncheon Meeting will be at the Tiburon Golf Resort, located at the corner of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Airport-Pulling Road. The social hour begins at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon program begins at noon. The cost is $25 per person.
Please make your reservations ASAP, but no later than Tuesday, August 5th, with Pat Wagner at 598-9833 or [email protected].
See you on August 8!!!
Letter from WRC - President
Dear WRC Members,
School starts in a couple of weeks and summer is drawing to a close. Elections, however, are in full swing!! Two WRC members, Lavigne Kirkpatrick and Penny Taylor, are running for County Commissioner for District 4. WRC member, Erika Donalds, is running for School Board District 3, and WRC guest speaker, Kelly Lichter, is running for District 1 School Board. With Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, Supervisor of Elections Jennifer Ed-wards, and County Commissioner Donna Fiala, WRC is well represented in Collier County!! These ladies make me proud to be a member of WRC!!
June and July were incredibly busy with campaign events, “Politics in the Park,” and Candidates’ Forums. In between, I was fortunate enough to have lunch with Florida’s Lt. Governor, Carlos Lopez-Cantera, and to meet with Sen. Marco Rubio.
WRC also hosted two Super Saturdays at GOP headquarters making phone calls on behalf of the Gov. Scott Re-Election Campaign. According to James Fletcher, the Victory Office Director, we exceeded the number of calls he expected us to make!! Congratulations to those ladies (and gentle-men) who came and made calls with us. I think it’s fair to say that we had fun and enjoyed the lunches served. There will be other opportunities to make calls and knock on doors on behalf of Gov. Scott after the August primary. Until then, if you are interested in volunteering at GOP Headquar-ters, contact James Fletcher at [email protected] .
On August 12th from 6:00-8:00pm, there will be a get together at South Street Grill hosted by District 3 Precincts and Byron Donalds. This is NOT campaign event. Mike Lyster and Byron will speak about the CCREC, how it functions, how it impacts, local, state and national poli-tics, and how one can participate to help secure the future of our nation one vote at a time. There will also be time for Q&A. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Carol Manning at [email protected] before 8/9/14. Hope to see you there!!
On August 19th from 4:30-6:30pm, WRC’s “Cocktails & Conversation. . .By Invitation Only!” is hosting Florida’s First Lady Ann Scott at Clive Daniel Home. There will be an opportu-nity for you to have your photo with the First Lady. Food and beverages will be served. See page 5 for details.
Finally, I want to thank Michelle Morgenstern for the fabu-lous new website! It’s first class and rivals that of any website I’ve seen. Michelle, you’re terrific!! If you haven’t checked out the website, do so at www.wrc-naples.com.
Priscilla
WRC OFFICERS—2014
Priscilla W. Grannis - President - [email protected] Roberta Patton - Recording Secretary - [email protected]
Kay Andrews - 1st VP - [email protected] Pat Wagner - Corresponding Secretary - [email protected]
Cynthia Miles - 2nd VP - [email protected] Rose Parapiglia - Treasurer - [email protected]
Randy Burke—3rd VP - [email protected] Michelle Morgenstern - Asst. Treasurer - [email protected]
Susan D. Evans - Immediate Past President - [email protected]
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WRC MEMBERS
Joan Curley * Carole Siegel * Barbara Miller
Joan Curley was born and raised in Massachusetts. She earned a Bachelor's degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and earned a Master's of Education from Boston University. Thereafter, she com-pleted graduate studies in Administration, Counseling and Educational Law. She is also a successful writer of children's books, whose stories have been translated into Braille, and can be found locally in every Col-lier Public Library. Joan has had her seventh book published, entitled LUCIAN’S BOAT, The Story of a Boy’s Life by the Sea.” She was inspired to write it while viewing a painting by Tom Cardamone, at the von Liebig Art Center Show. The book, for both parents, and children from grades 4 through high school, tells the story of growth and the continuing cycle of renewal in children’s dreams of the future. The book can be
purchased from Curley directly or through the publisher www.authorhouse.com. She and her husband Neil live in Naples. Carole Siegel spent the early years growing up in Philadelphia, Pa. She studied dance and aspired to the day she could attend the Julliard School of Dance. Marriage and motherhood took precedence as a Marine Corps Family.
She studied black and white photography and exhibited in Philadelphia, Pa. While teaching a basic photography program she designed to preschool children, she discovered her passion of painting. Carole has exhibited in many local art shows and galleries. Her work hangs in private col-lections and organizations. She has provided paintings for fundraising events. See also www.siegelfinearts.com. Barbara Miller, author, motivational speaker, and certified master life coach, is the founder of Barbara & Company
International, Inc. Barbara studied Health & Wellness at Ashford University and also studied at Kendall College of Art & Design. Barbara earned her master life coaching certification through American Univer-sity of NLP. Barbara is the author of, Dancing in Rhythm with the Universe, 10 Steps to Choreographing Your Best Life, and You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life, How to Create the Life You Want Your Way, and her soon to be released book, Is There a Book in You: How to Write the Story You Were Born to Tell in 7 Easy Steps. Barbara’s main goal is to empower women to lead their best life yet by creating balance mentally, physically, social-emotionally, and spiritually. She resides in Naples, Florida with her husband David.
WRC’s ARTIST
SHOWCASE
PIN THE “TALE” ON THE DONKEY
Abuse of Executive Power
Remember the days when the press would trumpet the abuse of power by the executive branch? They often would cite that the president takes an oath of office and swears a constitutional duty to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Any time it appeared that an interpretation of law was, in the press’ view, extreme, they would sound the alarm of executive overreach. Until now.
Over the years, the Obama Administration has repeatedly suspended the laws in numerous areas. Last count for this admini-stration’s “modifications” to its own ObamaCare was 15 times, maybe more. These “modifications” allow select individuals or groups to delay the onerous requirements of the law.
But, it didn’t start or stop there. Immigration laws, environmental regulations, education funding have also received selective attention for enforcement. In the case of immigration, entire programs have been created without the involvement of the leg-islative branch, Congress. The regulatory bureaucracy can and does make regulations that are far more constricting than what was intended under the legislation.
Remember the president’s words: “What I’m not gonna do is wait for Congress,” he said. “So wherever we have an opportu-nity and I have the executive authority to go ahead and get some things done, we’re just gonna go ahead and do ‘em.”
A battered Constitution and years of legal precedent do not seem to matter to this Administration. Unless you stand up against these actions and speak out, it will only continue. Write to the editor of your newspaper. Engage your friends and family. Volunteer and support organizations that honor and defend the Constitution, the rule of law and the America we cher-ish. Elect only those that do the same.
Take a stand against the abuse of power.
Quality stands out. Leaders inspire. Determination and achievement are rewarded.
WRC NEW MEMBERS AND ADDRESS CHANGES Jean Hahm
5993 Ashford Lane
Naples, FL 34110
239.596.4066
Christine Hodapp
28713 Wahoo Drive
Bonita Springs, FL 34135
239.495.2499
New Email Addresses:
Judie Sanders [email protected]
Marti Pettler [email protected]
Three Presidents
What did Presidents Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?
Back during the great depression, Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.
Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million illegal Mexicans. The program was called Operation Wetback. It was done so WWII and Korean War veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took two years, but they deported them!
Now, if they could deport the illegal aliens back then, then surely it can be done today. Why, you might ask, can't they do this today? Actually the answer is quite simple. Hoover , Truman, and Eisenhower were men of honor, not untrustworthy poli-
ticians looking for votes!
And Reminder: Don't forget to pay your taxes - 12 to 20 million illegal aliens - are depending on it.
SOCIALISM 101
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "Ok, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.” (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little, had studied even less, and the ones who studied hard, decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased because bickering, blame and name-calling all re-sulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the re-ward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.
SUMMARY
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from some-body else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
WRC - Getting Connected in the 21st Century!
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Sandy Doyle as Betsy Ross
Collier Republican Party
Naples - 2014
Michelle Morgenstern Republican Trolley WRC Goodie Bags for
New Naturalized US Citizens
Hodges University - 6/11/14
Paint the State RED—Super Saturday 7/19/14 WRC Members made over 1,500 calls on behalf
of Gov. Rick Scott Re-Election Campaign
Super Saturday 6/28/14
Paint the State RED
Even Ronnie was involved in
getting Gov. Scott re-elected!!
7/7/14 - RSW
Welcoming Home SPC Christo-pher Hollingsworth, 27, USAR
Dr. Ben Carson - Book Signing at Costco
* Priscilla & Richard Grannis * Rosalie & Larry Pendleton
* Dayna Meserve * Sandy Doyle
The Stages of The Rise And Fall of All Great Nations
"History shows us that all of the great nations of the world have never lived much more than 200 years, and there
has been sequential stages in every case.
The first stage moves from bondage to spiritual faith.
The second from spiritual faith to great courage.
The third stage moves from great courage to liberty.
The fourth stage moves from liberty to abundance.
The fifth stage moves from abundance to selfishness.
The sixth stage moves from selfishness to complacency.
The seventh stage moves from complacency to apathy.
The eighth stage moves from apathy to moral decay.
The ninth stage moves from moral decay to dependence.
And the tenth and last stage moves from dependence to bondage.
These are the ten stages through which all the great nations have gone. We can't help from noticing the progression
from bondage to liberty back to bondage. Seems that the law of circularity might be at work. Nevertheless, the first
generation throws off the shackles of bondage only to have a later generation -- through apathy, indifference, and
dependence upon the government -- to allow itself to once again be enslaved."
Which stage do you think the United States of America is in, as well as the other great nations of the world? How
long do we have before the people of this nation are in bondage again? Can it prevented?
And, as a side note, if anyone knows who wrote this, I would greatly appreciate knowing. I cannot find it anywhere.
Thanks!
Primary Election
August 26th
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT!!
County Commissioner - District 4
School Board for Districts 1, 3 & 5
Judges
DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!!!