Hey All,
    The ISpy Radio Show that Sharon and I did has finally been posted.   
Link is below.
    Bonnie


  
Here’s the  show link.  Allow for 30 to 60 seconds for the show to load.          
Hope you have a popcorn party while you listen!  J
http://www.gripnw.com/Audio/iSpyShow06232012_CoosCo.mp3


Kind Regards,
Rick Hoffine
Asst Chapter Leader
AFP--Coos

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our
liberty."--Thomas Jefferson

State to farmers: Good luck with drought
 Rejects call for administrative action to allow crop-saving irrigation

http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/state-to-farmers-good-luck-with-drought/

By Jack Minor
 GREELEY, Colo. – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is telling farmers in the state’s drought-stricken Weld County, where farmers face the potential of losing millions of dollars in crops, they essentially are on their own.

Special Live Broadcast from the Cato Institute
View at www.cato.org/live
  
July 2, 2012 · 1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
 The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling: What Does It All Mean?
In a complex decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that the individual mandate component of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional under Congress's taxing power.  What is left of the idea that the Constitution creates a government of limited powers? What does this case-of-the-century mean for both the
Constitution and our health care system?  Two panels of experts will engage in an in-depth discussion of these issues, and more, in the immediate wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision.

Schedule: 
 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
The Scope of Constitutional Powers

Randy Barnett, Georgetown 
University Law Center

Ilya Shapiro, Cato
Institute

 David Rivkin, Baker Hostetler LLP
    
Moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute
 


 3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
The Future of Health Care

Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute

Avik Roy, Manhattan Institute

Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute
     
Moderated by Michael Tanner, Cato Institute
 
 
Watch the event at www.cato.org/live
If you are unable to view the event live, watch the archived video at http://www.cato.org/events/archive.html
Videos are generally available 24 hours after the event.

Oregon Firearms Federation
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Canby, OR 97013

Voice: (503) 263-5830
 http://www.oregonfirearms.org

OFF ALERT 06.29.12

Eric Holder Held In Contempt of Congress.
How Did Your Representative Vote?

Eric Holder, the Attorney General who has been lying to Congress to cover up information about the Obama administration�s scheme to smuggle guns to Mexican drug gangs has been held in contempt of Congress.  The Brady Campaign and many Democratic politicians have actually been defending this murderous scheme.

You may recall that some time ago Obama informed the Brady Campaign the he was working on gun control �under the radar.� Now it�s clear what he meant.

But how did your member of Congress vote?

Every single Democratic Oregon Congressman voted to protect the lying Attorney General whose policies have cost countless lives, including Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and scores of Mexican civilians.  The entire purpose of this scheme was to boost the number of American guns confiscated from Mexican crime scenes in order to implement more restrictions on law-abiding American gun owners.

NRA-endorsed Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon�s 5th Congressional District, voted with three other Oregon Democrats to protect Holder.

Links are included below if any embedded links do not work correctly.


�Below The Radar"
http://nation.foxnews.com/guns/2011/05/25/obama-were-working-gun-control-under-radar

Vote Count
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/2/votes/441/

Brady Campaign
http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=3693&s=1

OFF ALERT 06.29.12
Eric Holder Held In Contempt of Congress.
How Did Your Representative Vote?
 
Eric Holder, the Attorney General who has been lying to Congress to cover up information about the Obama administration�s scheme to smuggle guns to Mexican drug gangs has been held in contempt of Congress.  The Brady Campaign and many Democratic politicians have actually been defending this murderous scheme.
 
You may recall that some time ago Obama informed the Brady Campaign the he was working on gun control �under the radar.� Now it�s clear what he meant.
 
But how did your member of Congress vote?
 
Every single Democratic Oregon Congressman voted to protect the lying Attorney General whose policies have cost countless lives, including Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and scores of Mexican civilians.  The entire purpose of this scheme was to boost the number of American guns confiscated from Mexican crime scenes in order to implement more restrictions on law-abiding American gun owners.
 
NRA-endorsed Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon�s 5th Congressional District, voted with three other Oregon Democrats to protect Holder.
 
Links are included below if any embedded links do not work correctly.
 

Below The Radar"
http://nation.foxnews.com/guns/2011/05/25/obama-were-working-gun-control-under-radar
 
Vote Count
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/112/house/2/votes/441/

Brady Campaign
http://blog.bradycampaign.org/?p=3693&s=1

Open letter to Allen Alley, Solomon Yue, and Terri Moffett of the ORP.

I am appalled, disgusted, and ashamed to consider myself a Republican after the shenanigans displayed Saturrday at the 4thCongressional District’s Convention held in Roseburg. Not only were we, the duly elected representatives of our precincts, lied to, we were stolen from as well!

Towards the end of the allotted time for our convention (scheduled to adjourn at 5PM), we were given a choice to speed the votes along,  or wait and finish up according to the rules of the ORP. After a passionate  speech by Jeffrey Osanka, explaining that the rules are in place for a reason, we voted to remain at UCC until our business was appropriately concluded.  


We continued voting for District Officers and were told we were waiting for the rest of the State’s votes to be counted in order to move forward to the 3rd ballot for at-large alternate delegates to the RNC in Tampa.


After the ballots were collected, we waited a little while for the results of the district officers. At approximately 5:30PM, we were told that all the other Districts in the State of Oregon had shut down and there was no further business we could conduct. A motion to adjourn was introduced.  


Most of us in attendance were stunned! How could we possibly adjourn when we still had 2 more rounds of voting to complete? After much outcry from the crowd, a motion was introduced for District 4 to continue voting irrespective of the rest of the State. The motion passed. Then we were informed that our votes may not even be counted since the other Districts had shut down. We did not care. We came to make our voices heard and decided to continue to vote on.

Next, we find out that the ballots are gone! OK, fine. We are at a college. We can find blank paper and hand write the names of our chosen delegates. Come to find out not just the blank ballots are gone, but the completed ballots with all of our previous votes have been taken by Terri Moffett of the ORP.  

I was in shock! How dare she take our ballots when we  are still in session? Who gave her the right to remove those votes? I stood up and asked Fred Dayton, Jr. Vice-Chair of CD4, “Under whose authority did she take our ballots?” Fred answered that she is the liaison to CD4 from the ORP and that her boss told her to take the ballots. I then asked Fred a follow-up question, “Who is her boss?” His answer was, “Allen Alley.” I thanked Fred and sat down.

Then the anger really began. Again, the room erupted in outrage! How dare Mr. Alley instruct Ms. Moffett, his employee, to remove our ballots when we were not done voting? Who gave him the right to attempt to silence the PCPs of CD4?

Wait, it gets better…

 Previously we were told that all the other Districts had shut down around 5PM. This was not the case. Thanks to the modern technologies of smart phones, wireless internet, and Facebook, we found out that CD2 had not shut down. They were still voting.

Moments later, our ballots were back. Hmm…

Even though we did not have the results from the rest of the Districts, we voted our 3rd ballot… and waited, and waited, and waited… We found out that CD5 had resumed their convention. Another hmm… We waited until after 7:30PM for the tellers to count our votes.

Finally, the votes were counted and we moved on to selecting our 4th District Alternates. The votes were counted and results announced after 8:30PM.

I am wondering why a convention that was supposed to take 8 hours was stalled and made to run over 3 hours longer than anticipated. I am wondering why we were lied to about the other Districts shutting down in order to attempt to prevent us from voting. I am wondering why our ballots were taken away (cast and blank) before we were adjourned. I am wondering why you attempted to steal our voices by taking away our opportunity to vote for the delegates of our choice.

Furthermore, I am wondering if the votes we cast before 5PM are going to count. We rightfully and according to the rules of the ORP selected at-large delegates and district delegates, along with presidential electors before we were told the other Districts had shut down. What happens now to those people who we selected to go to Tampa?

If any of you would like to respond to my inquiry, I’m waiting…


Sincerely,
Sharlyn
PCP from Roseburg in CD4

P.S. Feel free to share and cross-post. Thank you!

Two numbers for PERS members to keep in mind
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20120625/COLUMN0105/306250020/1064?nclick_check=1
Oregon PERS members, there are two numbers you should keep in mind during the next couple of years: 6 percent and 8 percent.

 These percentages are going to be key to some major arguments that will crop up over Oregon’s public pension system.


The 6 percent refers, of course, to the employee contribution to PERS required under Oregon law. It also refers to the practice known as the “pick-up,” in which the public employer can agree to pay that contribution on behalf of its workers, usually in lieu of a raise.

The 8 percent refers to the assumed rate of return that PERS uses in its budgeting. In other words, PERS expects to earn an average 8 percent on its multi-billion-dollar pension fund, over time.

CG912Project Members and Friends,

Erosion of our Property Rights and Agenda 21 in Action, Part III
The I Spy Radio Show
Saturday, 11a.m.-noon (West Coast time).
Listen live on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem (Oregon) listening area,
go to http://www.kykn.com/ and hit the listen live button. 
 
 Guests: Bonnie Montoya-May & Sharon Waterman, Property Owners in Coos County, Oregon


This week: The more you dig into the environmental movement, the less it seems to have anything at all to do with
nature. What started as a legitimate movement to conserve and protect natural areas—especially during a time when our society was rapidly expanding and not thinking much about the environment—has grown into a movement that cares more about the green of dollar bills than the green of nature.
 

This week on the I Spy Radio Show, we take you to Coos County, Oregon, which is under assault by the environmental movement, including such saintly groups as the Nature Conservancy, which uses the same sort of market schemes for land swaps that has turned carbon credits into a multi-billion dollar industry.  Working
with state and federal agencies, they’re slowly snapping up land to put it off limits. We talk about Agenda 21, but here it is in action.
 

If you missed Parts I and II with Dr. Michael Coffman, creator of the famous Wildlands Map you can download those shows for free on our archives page at http://www.ispyradio.com/. 
 
That’s Saturday, 11 to noon, West Coast time on the I Spy Radio Show. Join us as we get a little more intelligence on Big Government.
   
Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during KYKN’s peak listenership? We’re looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available, but you need to contact karla@ispyonsalem.com  or marcia@ispyonsalem.com to take advantage of these.

The show will be aired on KYKN(1430-AM), this Saturday at 11:00 a.m., West Coast time.  If you’re outside of the Salem listening area, just go to http://www.kykn.com/ and hit the listen live button.  Busy on Saturday?  Not a problem.  After the show airs, you can go to our webpage http://www.ispyonsalem.com/ and download it from our
“past shows” page.
  
Congressional District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar
Statewide Calendar of Events - http://bit.ly/OregonLibertyCalendar
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Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare But Poverty Levels Unaffected

“The vast majority of current programs are focused on making poverty more comfortable … rather than giving people the tools that will help them escape poverty.”
 
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/study-more-half-trillion-dollars-spent-welfare-poverty-levels-unaffected
 
 
By Matt Cover
June 25, 2012

CG912Project Members and friends,
 

RMPs for Western  Oregon
The  BLM Oregon is initiating a resource management plan (RMP) revisions which will provide goals, objectives, and direction for the management of approximately 2.6  million acres of BLM-administered lands in western  Oregon.  
 
Having attended the Eugene BLM meeting, it is clear that the intent is NOT Forest Management for Timber Harvest, but for the  Protection of the Spotted Owl and Forest Management for Climate  change. I remember when they used to manage and prepare for next years weather,  not if it is going to be warmer or cooler in 100 years. 'useful  idiots'.
 
I ask the question, where are the Foresters?
 
The O&C Act of 1937 set aside approximately 2.4 million acres of federally-owned  forest lands in 18 western Oregon counties for the economic benefit of those  counties. 
According to USFS records the volume of timber harvested, measured in thousands of board feet (mbf) on USFS 
lands has declined from a peak harvest in 1973 of 5,791,353 mbf to 1,126,867 mbf in 1994 to 419,381 mbf in 2007.
http://giveusourlandback.org/news/commentaries 

 
Timeline http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/ Following is a tentative timeline for the RMPs for Western Oregon planning process:

 The BLM is accepting scoping comments until July 5. The  BLM is seeking public input on what issues and management alternatives the RMPs  should address. RMPs for Western Oregon Comment  Form
http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/comments.php


I encourage my fellow Oregonians to take the time to respond,  share you story how the decline in the lack of managing the Forest for  timber harvest has affected you and your family.


It is time to return economic benefits back to the  County
http://giveusourlandback.org/
 
Congressional 
District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar


Statewide 
Calendar of Events - http://bit.ly/OregonLibertyCalendar


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Hey Guys,
This is U.S. Navy Texsting in all oceans around the U.S.  There is a comment period to ask for congressional hearings.  http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/us-navy-atlanticgomex-warfare-testing-ranges.
 
A must read!
Tressa

Signed into law in 1973, the goal of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was to preserve, protect and recover key domestic species. However, today the law is failing to achieve its primary purpose of species recovery and instead has become a tool  for litigation that drains resources away from real recovery efforts and blocks job-creating economic activities.


It has been 23 years since Congress has reauthorized or made any significant, responsible improvements to the Endangered Species Act to ensure that it works for both species and people. After more than two decades, the ESA should be modernized and updated to once again focus the law on true species recovery.

Get the Facts:
In the United States, 1,383 species are listed under the ESA: 5828 animals and 795 plants.

 Of the domestic species protected by the ESA, the Fish and Wildlife Service has declared only 20 species recovered. This represents a 1 percent recovery  rate.

 According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the average cost for the recovery of an endangered species is $15.9 million. The average cost of a complete listing decision is $85,000.

 The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 97.8 million acres and 40,000 miles of coastal rivers and streams as “critical habitat” for 603 listed species. The cost of a single designation of critical habitat is $515,000.


In the past ten years, Congress has appropriated $1.4 billion to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct ESA activities including listing, consultation and recovery efforts and $174.3 million to the National Marine Fisheries
  Service to undertake ESA related activities.


In July 2011 the Interior Department agreed to a settlement that covered 779 species in 85 lawsuits and legal actions. Information obtained from agencies indicates that they have a combined total of over 180 pending ESA-related
  lawsuits.


According to the Washington Post, “In fiscal 2010, the Fish and Wildlife Service spent so much of its $21 million listing budget on litigation and responding to petitions that it had almost no money to devote to placing new species under federal protection, according to agency officials.”

Litigation Drives Endangered Species Act to the Detriment of Species and People
 Jun 19, 2012 | Press Release 

Full Committee Oversight Hearing on "Taxpayer-Funded Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and Harming Species, Jobs and Schools"
 Jun 19, 2012 | Hearings 

Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Endangered Species Act Litigation and Attorney Fees
 Jun  19, 2012 | Resourceful Information


Further  Details Sought on Costs of Hundreds of Endangered Species Act Lawsuits and Settlements
 May 31, 2012 | Press Release


Chairman Hastings Letters to Obama Administration Officials Requesting Further Information on Endangered Species Act Lawsuits and Settlements
 May 31, 2012 | Letters


Northwest Federal Forest Regulations Have Devastated Forest Health, Local Economies With
  Little Benefit to Northern Spotted Owl
 May 21, 2012 | Press Release 

Hastings' OpEd in The Washington Times: Time to improve the Endangered Species Act
 May 21, 2012 | Op-Eds and Speeches 

Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Oversight Field Hearing on "Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs, Forests and  Species"
 May 21, 2012 | Hearings


Chairman Hastings Seeks Answers from DOJ on Endangered Species Act Litigation and Settlement Costs
 Mar 21, 2012 | Press Release 

Chairman Hastings Letter to Assistant Attorney General Moreno on Endangered Species Act Litigation and Settlement Costs
 Mar 19, 2012 | Letters

Here is a very educated response to this letter to the editor written back in March about the Bandon Marsh.
Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/opinion/mailbag/marsh-expansion-brings-benefits/article_d3bfaf3f-5223-51a1-979f-7cad9d821971.html#ixzz1tD3lsr48

Rob,
 
Sorry I didn't get back to you right away; just checked my  email a few moments ago.  I don't know the particulars re: the NYC Catskill  Watershed project, but on the face of it it's a proposterous comparison.   Yes, watersheds and freshwater/salt marshes are known to remove minerals,  organic molecules and certain bacteria  that in concentrations of  concern would make water unfit for human consumption.  But no one is  proposing to drink from the Coquille River, and as far as I know there are no  minerals/compounds that are currently at levels of concern in the Coquille (and  this includes pesticides and herbicides) that would harm fish and  wildlife. The coloform levels may be high, but that may not be due to human  septic systems or livestock, which means you could do the marsh restoration and  the coloform count might not change and would likely go up because of  the increased numbers of rodents, beavers,
mustelids.... that would be crapping  in the water.
 
Her argument about off-channel refuges for fish could be accomplished w/o converting the entire lower valley (i.e. just make a  few such areas at strategic points along the river).  Again, salmon  production could be increased an order of magnitude just by using  hatchboxes and killing Double-crested Cormorants (Note: I counted 150+ in a  tidal eddy on the Coquille R. near the confluence of Seven Mile Cr. just  Wednesday.  When the smolts start to run over the next couple of weeks  these birds will decimate their numbers.).   And by the way if the converted  land is contributing $6,000/acre/yr in "services", then shouldn't the  land owners be offered at least $12,000/acre for their places instead  of <$1,000/acre?  Of course this will never happen because the very  agencies/enviro groups so eager to purchase these farms are the very same  ones that have promulgated so many rules and regulations on these folks the land  is now next to worthless for agriculture which will be reflected in the buyer's  offer.
 
The last piece of bullshit in this letter was the claim  that birders and other ecotourists will bring in big bucks to the area.   This is such hogwash it's hardly worth addressing. 
 
Hope this will be of some help,
 
Dan

Rob--                   

Yesterday, the Fed announced it will create $267 million with the press of a button in yet another soon-to-be failed attempt to "stimulate the economy by keeping interest rates artificially low."

That’s why it’s more vital than ever you  sign your Audit the Fed petition right away, if you haven’t already.
The word on Capitol Hill is that a committee vote on this legislation could occur next week!

                     So click here to sign your petition if you have not already done so.

                     In addition, I ask that you forward this petition to your friends and contacts.

                     Over the past week, C4L has collected over 50,000 petitions from grassroots activists demanding
transparency and accountability at the Fed.

                     Our best chance to push Audit the Fed through without it being watered down is to demonstrate the overwhelming outrage across America to the Fed’s secrecy and manipulation of our economy.

                     So please, pass the word along that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee must        
              pass a clean version of Audit the Fed by forwarding this email on to all of your friends.

                     In Liberty,        
                     Teri 

                    

Learn about the pipeline

Seeking permits for export instead of import, the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline project will hold an open house June 26 to present information and statistics on  its proposed natural gas pipeline, which would supply a proposed liquefied 
natural gas terminal in Coos Bay.

Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/local/learn-about-the-pipeline/article_5254dece-cfd2-5ed5-aef0-4de1baac95aa.html#ixzz1yPMJR0c1

Hello,
 We need your help to gain back Oregon’s economic freedom.

 Americans for Prosperity has endorsed Initiative Petition 15, the Death Tax Phase-Out Act, and joined over 40 organizations in the coalition to eliminate this tax. We ask you to be a part of this effort.

 We have just over three weeks to finish collecting the required 87,213 voter signatures to put this important initiative on the November 2012 ballot. You can help us with your signature.

 Here is a single-signature e-petition and here is the text of the measure. All you have to do is print the attached petition, sign the petition and mail it in. The mailing address is on the petition.

We ask that you also forward this email to your friends.

 You can make the difference. Please take action!

 For prosperity,
 Karla Kay Edwards
 Oregon State Director
 Americans for Prosperity


p.s. If you want more information about this issue, visit www.endoregondeathtax.com.

To All:
 
    ARRRG is pleased to announce two information/discussion meetings regarding the proposed "Voice of the 
Voters" Coos County Home Rule Charter -2012.  The Charter is written  to protect you, the voter, and to control an unsympathetic county  hierarchy. 

The first dicussion will be held on June 20th, 2012, Wednesday,  at the OSU Extension meeting room in Myrtle Point from 6 to 8:00pm. 

The  second is June 26th, 2012, Tuesday, at the North Bend Library from 6 to  8:00pm.  A panel of five will present the Charter. 

Copies of the  Charter will be available. 
Questions will be welcomed. 
Cookies will  be served.
  
Submitted by Ronnie Herne, Secretary, ARRRG
 
Americans for Responsive, Responsible, Representative Gov't.
ARRRG2012@dismail.net    
ARRRG, PO Box 826,
Coquille, Ore  97423   

ARRRG   541-396-4200
 
Please post and disribute as you wish.
 
Full text of the Charter is available online at:  www.koosnews.com   Click "Local News"  Click "Voice of the Voters"  Charter.
          and at:  www.cooscountywatchdog.com   Click "Press Release"  Click  "download file" at the bottom.

Lane County Republicans
 
Reminder of the Victory 2012 Kickoff BBQ
June 30, 3:00 - 7:00 pm
The Lane County Republican Women and the Lane Republican Central Committee are holding their Victory 2012 Kickoff BBQ at the ranch of Greg and Therese Stallings.  We invite you to come and bring the family as we have a
terrific event planned and have made prices affordable especially considering that the Stallings have generously donated the Prime Beef for this event.  This ain’t your backyard BBQ it is a Santa Maria Style BBQ with a touch of Oregon including Oregon Wine and Lucy’s famous salsa!

We have candidates (or a surrogate or two) from the Presidential, Congressional, Statewide and Local races
attending.  There will be candidate materials and opportunities to sign up to help however you can.  This combined with horseshoes, swimming (bring your own towel) and drawings will make for an enjoyable event. 
BBQ & Registration Flier

We need to know by June
25th to prepare for a great afternoon.  See you there!

They just keep spending.


Apparently unfazed by the spending-driven crisis in Europe and our $16 trillion debt here at home, the U.S. Senate is actually considering whether to spend a trillion dollars over the next ten years on the so-called Farm Bill. 

In 2008, the country spent $51 billion on these programs and by 2011 it had almost doubled to $98 billion. Somehow the bill’s lead sponsor (Senator Stabenow from Michigan) has the audacity to claim $23 billion in deficit
reduction over ten years. As AFP Policy Analyst Christine Harbin wrote, “Lawmakers are now patting themselves on the back for locking in those huge increases and then cutting a little bit around the edges.”


Take Action Today and Urge your Senator to Vote NO on this Bloated Spending Bill! 

What’s worse, this whole package is masquerading through Congress under the guise of being a Farm Bill. But in 2011 almost 80% of the funding went to food stamps and other supplemental nutrition programs. With less than a quarter of the spending in this bill actually going to farm programs, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call this the Food Stamps Bill. 

The bill also claims to end direct payments to crop producers but it puts in a whole new program called “shallow
loss” where Congress guarantees big agribusinesses’  revenues will never fall below 90% of their average revenues over the last five years. If a crop has a bad year or if prices fall, Uncle Sam is there to make up the difference. It’s a guaranteed minimum income and it’s just as bad as direct  payments.

 AFP has issued a key vote letter in support of four amendments as the Senate considers changes to the bill;
click here to read our letter.


Take Action Today and Urge your Senator to Vote NO on this Bloated Spending Bill!

Hey Everyone,

We have great news.

At a county BOC meeting in March we were able to get the county’s Board of Commissioners to pass a Resolution against the Bandon Marsh Expansion, which was a good victory. Well, in the last county meeting we were able to convince the commissioners to put that question up for an advisory vote for this November’s general election. Now, the people of Coos County will get to show their support for the farmers, ranchers, and property owners living inside the intended expansion area and for the economy of the surrounding area.

BELOW ARE FILES OF THE RESOLUTION AND THE ADVISORY QUESTION:

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ADVISORY QUESTION:

Don Chance submitted this public request at the BOC meeting on June 19th.  Call your neighbors, your family, and your friends and let’s start the campaign opposing the expansion of the Bandon Marsh.  It is the first step in ridden the county of this federal invasion.   

Please call the Coos County Commissioners and thank them for allowing the people a voice in this argument. 

 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext. 225

Commissioner Bob Main
bmain@co.coos.or.us 
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 770

 

Commissioner Fred Messerle
fmesserle@co.coos.or.us 
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 247

 

Commissioner Cam Parry
cparry@co.coos.or.us 
Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 281

 
Here is info on our next project: 
We believe in the freedom of assembly and there are plans underway to have a peaceful protest at the marsh sight near Bandon.   The time is now to act if you are interested in a PEACEFUL PROTEST to demonstrate the right to property.  We will need all the help we can get to stop the USF&WS from using our tax dollars to take more property off the free market.  Help stop the destruction of the Coquille Valley.

 

Click here to answer a NEW SURVEY QUESTION:
Would you be willing to be part of a peaceful protest against the Bandon Marsh Expansion?  
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY:  

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Don Chance
541-329-2020

 
Rob Taylor
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Myth of Perpetual Growth is killing America Commentary: Everything you know about economics is wrong
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/myth-of-perpetual-growth-is-killing-america-2012-06-12?siteid=nwhwk

The difference is that the economic profession is a genuine threat, not  entertainment. Economics dogma is on track to destroy the world with a  misleading ideology. 

   
Why? Because all economics is based on the absurd Myth of Perpetual Growth.
  Yes, all theories and business plans based on growth are
mythological.

Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association
PO Box 400 - Battle
Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org/
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC 20003

Urgent, Urgent, Urgent, House May Cave On LWCF. Call Now.

The Senate & House have been Deadlocked Over LWCF Highway Bill Funds.
It looks like the House is beginning to cave.

That battle has now turned into funding a CARA like Trust Fund. The Greens want to set a precedent for these funds so the LWCF gets over $1 Billion dollars every year, automatically, off budget. That will be the death of rural America.

*Action Items: (The LWCF is a huge issue that threatens you).**
-----1. Please forward this message out quickly to at least 10 other people. Your whole list if possible.

-----2.. Call, fax and e-mail your Congressman. Deluge him or her with calls to stop the LWCF Funding. Call any Congressman at (202) 225-3121. Focus especially on the Congressmen on the LWCF Highway Bill Conference Committee and the House leadership listed below.

-----3. Call, fax and e-mail any Congressman or Senator from your state who is on the Conference Committee.

-----4.  Call the leadership in the House. Make sure they know that if the House lets you down on the LWCF, you will remember in November. 

We've listed their numbers below. Make sure they know that Republicans will not be given immunity on the LWCF issue. If they sell you out, you will remember.

-----5. Deluge the Speaker of the House John Boehner at (202)225-0600 or the Capital Switchboard at (202) 225-3121.

Urge him to oppose any LWCF funds in the Highway Bill Conference Committee. .
E-mail  Boehner at: -- bill.greene@mail.house.gov

-----6. Call,  fax and e-mail the offices of other House Leaders:
Rep. Eric Cantor  House, Majority Leader (202) 225-4000
Fax: (202) 226-1115. E-mails: steve.stombres@mail.house.gov
neil.Bradley@mail.house.gov

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Whip (202) 225-0197
Fax: (202) 225-0781 E-mails: brian.worth@mail.house.gov
Natalie.Buchanan@mail.house.gov


-----7.  Call both your Senators. Call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.
Tell them the same thing. Pay special attention to the Senators on the Conference Committee. We've shown which Republicans sold you out by voting for the LWCF amendment.

-----8. Call your friends, neighbors and business associates.  Get them to call, fax and e-mail your Congressman and Senators.

Who will win? Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the Greens are fighting hard for the giant land acquisition LWCF trust fund.

The House is fighting back.  But they are staring to cave in. They need to know you support them as they hold firm against the pressure from the Senate.

You are making history but you must keep up the pressure. This battle will likely go to the end of June or even beyond. But the LWCF part of the battle is raging now and will be decided shortly. Your calls, faxes and e-mails are
critical now.

Keep calling at least two or three members of the Highway Bill conference committee every day.

Your Time Is Now, Make History, Stop LWCF Highway Bill Funds

-----The Greens are going all out. They are calling every day. If you fail to call, fax and e-mail your Senators and
Congressmen, you will lose.

You must call, fax and e-mail your Congressman and both Senators.

PLUS, PLUS, PLUS The Members of the Conference Committee listed below.

-----If the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM get the EXTRA $1.4 Billion Dollars over their normal appropriations over the next two years the greens are going for, no community will be safe. Land acquisition will go crazy.  The Greens want to use this as a precedent for spending every year.

-----No Trust Fund -- Don't allow the Greens to create a huge land acquisition trust fund that threatens rural America. Congress needs to cut the deficit and the debt, not buy private land and turn it into Federal land.

-----The Greens plan to use the huge trust fund money now in the Senate version of the LWCF Highway bill as a precedent to increase the amount of money Congress gives the LWCF EVERY YEAR. They want to make it a
Trust Fund like CARA. Don't let it happen.

Don't let down. Call, Fax and e-mail at least once a day.

The LWCF funds are taken right from the taxpayer. The 1.4 billion dollars comes right out of your pocket.

-----The "willing buyer, willing seller procedure of acquiring land touted by park officials is 'meaningless' and a more proactive method is generally used," said William Kriz, chief of Land Acquisition for the Park Service, in an article in the Concord Journal  (Massachusetts) in 1988.
http://www.moosecove.com/propertyrights/index.shtml#willingsellermyth

Please  help American Land Rights carry out the fight.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Join or donate:*

*Please consider supporting American Land Rights* by visiting our membership
page http://www.landrights.org/members.htm to join or donate."

You may also mail a check for $35 ($25 if you are a first time member) to American Land Rights, PO Box 400, Battle Ground, WA 98604.  Many people send larger gifts. They just do what they can. ALRA is working hard to keep you informed. E-mail is not that expensive but ALRA  also sends tens of thousands of faxes and letters to alert your allies and  friends about your issues. In addition we maintain a full time office and  staff to serve our members and allies. Your support at this critical time would be appreciated.

Thank you, Chuck Cushman, Executive Director. ccushman@pacifier.com. Look up Chuck Cushman or
American Land Rights
Association on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
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Stop The LWCF
Highway Bill Land Grab, Go To
www.landrights.org  
for more details.
* **Keep calling until June 30th.*

It could go beyond  that. We'll keep you informed. Call any Senator at (202) 224-3121. Call any  Congressman at (202) 225-3121. You must make his or her phone come off the  hook.

No land acquisition funds (LWCF) should be included in the Highway Bill.

The LWCF is a constant attack on Rural America. It is the attempt by the greens to drive rural people out of their homes and into the  cities.

You do not want the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and  Wildlife Service and BLM to get these billions of dollars to buy millions of acres of private land and convert it to government ownership.

The land acquisition funding (LWCF) in the Senate Highway Bill threatens all private property owners, ranchers, farmers, miners, forestry and other users of both private as well as Federal land.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You must bury these Conferees with calls, faxes and e-mails. We've listed an e-mail address for a staff person on the staff of each of the Congressmen and Senators on the Conference
Committee.

For the Senators you can see how they voted on the original LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Fund). Yea means they voted YES. That means if there is a Yea by your Senators name, he or she voted not to protect your. Her or she
voted for a massive expansion of Federal spending to buy private land.

Don't forget when sending to the staff of a Senator that there is an underscore between the first and last names.
Example:  ryan_Jackson@

Republican Senators on the Conference  Committee:

Notice when one voted for the LWCF. That means that without your calls, faxes and e-mails, they are likely to support the LWCF in the Conference Committee.

James Inhofe (R-OK) (Yea) --Fax: (202) 229-0380 - 
Staff E-mails: ryan_Jackson@inhofe.senate.gov
luke_Holland@inhofe.senate.gov

David  Vitter (R-LA) (Yea) - Fax: (202) 228-5081 -- Staff E-mails:
bryan_zumwalt@vitter.senate.gov

Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (No) - Fax: (202) 224-6331 - Staff E-mails:
jared_brown@hatch.senate.gov
john_tanner@hatch.senate.gov

Richard Shelby (R-AL) (Yea) - Fax: (202) 224-3416 - Staff E-mails:;
andrew_newton@shelby.senate.gov

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) (Yea) - Fax: (202) 224-0776 - Staff
E-mails: dana_barbieri@hutchison.senate.gov
david_davis@hutchison.senate.gov
jenifer_healy@hutchison.senate.gov
; troy_lyons@hutchinson.senate.gov


John
Hoeven (R-ND) (Yea) - Fax: (202) 224-7999 - Staff E-mails:
don_larson@hoeven.senate.gov
ryan_bernstein@hoeven.senate.gov
josh_carter@hoeven.senate.gov
emily_tryon@hoeven.senate.gov


jessica_yearous@hoeven.senate.gov


Other
Democrats on the Conference Committee:
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)(Yea),
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) (Yea),
Richard Durbin (D-IL) (Yea),
Tim Johnson (D-SD) (Yea),
Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Yea),
Bill Nelson (D-FL) (Yea),
Robert  Menendez (D-NJ) (Yea).
Notice they all voted for the giant LWCF land acquisition spending amendment.

Key Republicans who will influence the Committee and appear to be getting soft on the LWCF.

Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) malisah.small@mail.house.gov  lindsay.slater@mail.house.gov

Senator Lisa  Murkowski (Yea) (R-Alaska)
Nathan_bergerbest@murkowski.senate.gov_shaw@murkowsi.senate.gov
frank_gladics@energy.senate.gov


Key Democrat to contact:

Tim Johnson (D-SD) (Yea). Staff E-mails:
todd_stubbendieck@johnson.senate.gov
megan_descamps@johnson.senate.gov
janelle_diluccia@johnson.senate.gov


Remember, you can call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.

-----Here are the Congressmen on the LWCF Highway Bill Conference Committee.
You may call any Congressmen at (202) 225-3121. You should call, fax and e-mail all the Congressmen from
your state.

Republicans:
John L. Mica (FL) -- Fax: (202) 226-0821 -
Staff E-mails:
brian.waldrip@mail.house.gov 
casey.brinck@mail.house.gov

Dave Camp  (R-MI) - Fax: (202) 225-9679 - Staff E-mails:
rob.guido@mail.house.gov

Doc Hastings  (R-WA) - Fax: (202) 225-1171 - Staff E-mails:
james.streeter@mail.house.gov 
jenny.gorski@mail.house.gov

Ralph Hall  (R-TX) - Fax: (202) 225-3332 -mitzyn.delarosa@mail.house.gov

Fred Upton (R-MI) - Fax: (202) 225-4986 - michael.beckerman@mail.house.gov

Don Young  (R-AK) - Fax: (202) 225-0425 - erik.elam@mail.house.gov

John J. Duncan,  Jr. (R-TN) - Fax: (202) 225-6440 - scott.fischer@mail.house.gov

Bill Shuster  (R-PA) -- Fax: (202) 225-2486 - stephen.martinko@mail.house.gov

Shelley  Moore Capito (R-WV) - Fax: (202) 225-7856 -
Andrew.stasiowski@mail.house.gov

Rick  Crawford (R-AR) - Fax: (202) 225-5602 - greg.michalek@mail.house.gov

Jaime Herrera  Beutler (R-WA) - Fax: (202) 225-3478 - chad.ramey@mail.house.gov

Larry Bucshon (R-IN) - Fax: (202) 225-3294 - teresa.buckley@mail.house.gov
sarah.whiting@mail.house.gov

Richard Hanna  (R-NY) - Fax: (202) 225-1891 - adam.hepburn@mail.house.gov
andrew.brady@mail.house.gov

Steve Southerland (R-FL) - Fax: (202) 226-4183 - blair.mixon@mail.house.gov

James Lankford  (R-OK) - Fax: (202) 226-1463 - brittnee.preston@mail.house.gov
michelle.altman@mail.house.gov

Reid Ribble  (R-WI) - Fax: (202) 225-5729 - paul.bleiberg@mail.house.gov

Pat Tiberi (R-OH) - Fax: (202) 226-4523 - brad.bailey@mail.house.gov

Rob Bishop (R-UT) - Fax: (202) 225-5857 - john.newhall@mail.house.gov

Chip Cravaack (R-MN) - Fax: (202) 225-0699 - paul.blocher@mail.house.gov
ian.foley@mail.house.gov

Ed Whitfield  (R-KY) - Fax: (202) 225-3547 - cory.hicks@mail.house.gov
craley.davis@mail.house.gov

Democrats:
Nick Rahall (D-WV) - Fax: (202) 225-3121 - aaron.Pritchard@mail.house.gov

Peter  Defazio (D-OR) - Fax: (202) 225-0032 - mahar-piersma@mail.house.gov

Jerry Costello (D-IL) - Fax: (202) 225-0285 - sarah.blackwood@mail.house.gov

Tim Bishop  (D-NY) - Fax: (202) 225-3143 - mark.copeland@mail.house.gov

Henry Waxman (D-CA) - Fax: (202) 225-4099 - zahava.goldman@mail.house.gov

Ed Markey  (D-MA) - Fax: (202) 226-0092 - william.spring@mail.house.gov

E.B. Johnson  (D-TX) - Fax: (202) 226-1477 - chris.Kelley@mail.house.gov

Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) - Fax: (202) 225-8941 - tyler.Frisbee@mail.house.gov


Additional  House staff to e-mail:
jonah.shumate@mail.house.gov
jacob.melcher@mail.house.gov

Please  forward to at least 10 other people. Your whole list if possible.

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