Category — Action Alerts

The Anderson County Council Finance Committee is proposing a new “financing program” for small businesses. This sounds perilously close to a local bailout program. Was it not the government’s stepping into the banking industry that pushed America over the edge economically on the Federal level? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Your help is needed. Change, for good or for evil, starts from the ground up.

Click here to find out what you can do.

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.