Category — Action Alerts

Below is some information on buses leaving the area to go to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally in Washington, DC on 8/28 the March on DC on 9/12.

Map showing buses for the 8/28 event

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http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/events/dc-buses-from-greenville-sc

Working with Jean’s Bus Service to fill buses for these Events. We have 1 and 2 day trips seats available.

• Boom-a-rang trip: $75 (approx), depart from Greenville on 7/27 at 7pm, return Sunday 8/29 at 7-8am (must RSVP by 8/25)
• Two-day trip: $200 (approx) for a single person room/$150 for two/$130 for three/$115 for four, depart from Greenville on 8/27 at 4am, return Sunday 8/29 at 7-8am

Contact: Sassydue@aol.com or call (864) 277-2383.

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There are three buses leaving from Boiling Springs (near Spartanburg) Friday evening the 27th at around 9:00 PM going to DC for the Glenn Beck event. This is a boom-a-rang trip. The buses will arrive in DC early Saturday morning the 28th. You will be in DC for about ten hours before catching the bus for the return trip back. The buses should arrive back in Boiling Springs by 6:00 AM Sunday morning.

At this point, two buses are full and there are 41 seats available on bus three. If you are interested in going, you must get your checks to Randy Simpson by 1:00PM Wednesday (8/25). We must prepay for the third bus. The cost is $70/person…plus you will need cash for two meals and snacks along the way.

Also, there is a blind man in Pickens who needs a ride to and from Boiling Springs. If you can help with this, please let me know.

If we do not get the needed people to fill the third bus, your checks will be returned to you.

Contact: Randy Simpson, RandyS549@aol.com or call (864) 784-9500.

Primary election day is upon us and it’s time to get out the VOTE and help your favorite candidates get elected. Primary elections are the voters chance to make sure we have the best representation possible! We will have representatives from all the federal, state and local conservative campaigns on location to equip you with all the materials needed to help promote your favorite conservative candidates to the public! We need volunteers to canvas neighborhoods, put up signs, hand out literature and make phone calls. A great time will be had by all!

Date: Saturday, June 5th

Time: 9am – ? (You determine how long you can help.)

Location: Old Circuit City parking lot, Clemson Boulevard (beside Books-A-Million)

This may be the most critical primary of our lives. Please help the candidates of your choice on the last weekend before June 8.

Sponsored by the Anderson TEA Party in conjunction with The Upcountry Coalition

Please read the article below and take the following survey. It is important that we need send a clear message that any such regional growth plan needs to be market-driven and protect private property rights. The deadline for the survey is the end of the day tomorrow. Click here to take the survey.

By John Staed of IndependentMail.com

ANDERSON — A new regional economic development and cultural support group wants to know what area residents think about growth.

The survey seeks ideas from development of new subdivisions to retaining farmland to transportation issues.

Ten at the Top is launching its Regional Vision Survey from Monday to May 31 to seek answers on what residents want for growth, land use, natural and cultural resources and education, according to a statement.

Results of the survey will be reported during a regional summit Sept. 28, followed by community forums in each of the 10 counties represented by Ten at the Top. A “vision” strategy will be completed in the first quarter of 2011, then presented to communities across the Upstate.

The survey is available online at www.sharedupstatevision.org, in printed form at municipal buildings, hospitals and libraries in the 10 Upstate counties, or by calling 864-283-2315. Counties represented include Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg and Union.

The survey was developed through the Appalachian Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Studies Institute at USC-Upstate.

“Input from Upstate residents is vital to creating a regional growth vision,” said Irv Welling, chairman of Ten at the Top.

H.3047 is stalled in a Senate Committee.  Senators McConnel, Knotts and Martin, the three big bullies of the Senate, are trying to run the clock out on us. After this week, there are only two more weeks before the session ends for 2010.

They have introduced S.1437, a rules change which would be worse than no recorded vote at all. Unless we put pressure on these guys, we will not get transparency this year.

Please take a few minutes to write a letter to editor of one or more of the newspapers listed below (and/or any other paper you know of). Letters should be concise, 200 words or less in order to increase the likelihood of their getting published. Include your full name, city and daytime phone number as the editors may want to call you to confirm your submission.

After you send you letter, please post it in the comments section below, and also forward it to your Senator, and to Senators McConnell, Knotts and Martin. (Click here to find their contact info.)

Thank you for your involvement! It really does make a difference.

If you need any further information about this issue, please contact Jonathon at jhill@andersonteaparty.com, or me (Priscilla) at wavetheflag@compright.com

Independent Mail Contact Bonnie Williams, Editorial Page Editor

The Index Journal Contact the Editorial Department at bcollins@indexjournal.com

Greenwood Today News@GwdToday.com

The Journal/Upstate Today Click here for contact page

Edgefield Daily editor@edgefielddaily.com

Westminster New/Keowee Courier westnews@bellsouth.net

5/17 Update: The Senate has abandoned S1365 and replaced it with S1437 which is mostly the same.  Meaning it is still no good.

Contact your Senator today and tell them to vote no on S1437 and tell them to demand a recall of H3047 from committee!  The vote on S1437 will likely come Wednesday or Thursday.

5/13 Update: The full Senate will vote on the fake transparency bill S1365 today. Tell your senator to VOTE NO.

Under the leadership of Sens. McConnell and Martin, the Senate Rules Committee unanimously passed a rules change late Wednesday that would:

• Record every Senator as voting yes on every voice vote.
• After the voice vote, this rule change will allow each Senator to go to the clerk and ask that their “recorded vote” be changed to no!

Read S1365 it for yourself. This rule makes an incorrect record of every vote that is not unanimous. Worse, it allows the Senators to blatantly game the system. And this is what Martin and McConnell call transparency! [Read more →]

Shockingly, 75% of the votes on bills in 2009 were off the record, hidden from public view. This cloak allows many of our state legislators to profess to do one thing, but to act completely different in Columbia.

H3047 will require the House and Senate to record how each member votes on every law they pass and on every section of the budget. Unfortunately, it is receiving stiff opposition from certain Senators who wield enough power collectively to kill this bill. Here’s what the Sen. Glenn McConnell had to say about H3047:

You can read why he is wrong here: http://andersonteaparty.com/blog/840

The Senate is having a public hearing on H3047 … and unless “we the people” show up in overwhelming force it will be shot down with little hope of recovery. Are you going to let that happen?

It is scheduled for Wednesday, May 5, at 9:30AM in room 308 of the Gressette Building on the State House grounds, 1101 Pendleton St. in Columbia.
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The Civics course you didn’t get in high school!

Presented by Hal Rounds from Memphis, Tennessee

When:
Saturday, May 1st from 9 AM to 5:30 PM

Where:
Anderson County Library
300 N. McDuffie St, Anderson, SC 29621

Download full-page flyer (pdf)

RSVP online or call 864-245-5885
Cost: $5 per person (pay via cash or check)

Bob Bennett of Utah (202) 224-5444
http://bennett.senate.gov/public/

Susan Collins of Maine (202) 224-2523
http://collins.senate.gov/public/

Christopher Bond of Missouri (202) 224-5721
http://bond.senate.gov/public/

Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (202) 224-3521
http://chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm

Bob Corker of Tennessee (202) 224-3344
http://corker.senate.gov/public/

John McCain of Arizona (202) 224-2235
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/

Olympia Snowe of Maine (202) 224-5344
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/

Scott Brown of Massachusetts (202) 224-4543
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/

Click here to get event details and RSVP.

Citizens to rally at Healthcare Nullification Amendment Hearing

March 24, 2010 – Citizens from all parts of the state will be attending a Healthcare Nullification Rally on March 25, 2010, 9:00am at the State Capitol.

The rally’s central focus is a bill brought by Rep. Jeff Duncan proposing a Constitutional Amendment that would prevent the enactment of the Healthcare Reform bill recently passed by Congress.

Rally attendees will be testifying at the bill’s first subcommittee hearing at 9:00, and will also be demonstrating outside the Blatt Building (1105 Pendleton St, Columbia), where the hearing will take place.

“Here in South Carolina we believe that the U.S. Constitution is still the supreme law of the land,” said Jonathon Hill and Randy Simpson, two of the rally organizers and leaders of the Anderson and Seneca Tea Parties. “We’re determined not to allow our Ninth and Tenth Amendment rights to be trampled by the government.” [Read more →]

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, please think about the future of your children and grandchildren, and consider what you must do. At times like these, let us not shrink from making sacrifices for the sake of our country.

If you can go to DC this weekend, a group from the Upstate will be leaving Friday evening. If you want to go, or can pay someone’s way to go in your place, please contact Jonathon Hill ASAP at 864-245-5885 or email me at jhill@andersonteaparty.com. The more who go, the more affordable it can be for everyone.