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Apr 06
2009
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OCRP UpdatePosted by Lauren Rakolta in Untagged   |
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Hi Everyone! I hope you are all well and enjoying this lovely spring weather. I wanted to update you on a few new goings-on at OCRP! First, we launched our new website, so please check back often for updates and information. Also, don't forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter where you will be regularly updated on the latest OCRP news and events.
We are excited to announce two new events OCRP is hosting; on April 16th we're planning our kickoff of Potluck and Politics at the OCRP HQ in the Basha Building. Stop by to chat with the staff, local leaders, and anyone else who decides to drop in. Conversation for the evening will entail national and local politics, current events, and countywide news. This will be a great opportunity to get some one-on-one time in order to further develop ideas, thoughts, events, or whatever else that maybe on your mind. Consider bringing your signature dish for all to enjoy or simply bring your own dinner. We look forward to making this a biweekly event. If you should have any question please do not hesitate to contact Lynn at 248.655.0501 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Mark your calendars for May 4th when we'll be hosting Sign Up Oakland! Please join your fellow Republicans in recruiting your friends, neighbors, and past OCRP donors. The focus will be to increase our OCRP membership with tantalizing events and offers! We will be at Trott and Trott all day from 9a to 9p. Sign up for a 2 hour time slot and bring your friends and family for this festive event. OCRP will make this so easy for you and will set you up with everything and anything you might need. Check out the website for more info or call Lauren Gervason at 248.655.0501 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
If you're not already receiving emails from us let us know and we'll put you on our list asap. I want to take a minute and thank you for your continued interest and support to OCRP. We are here to assist and help you in any way possible. If you should have any questions, concerns, or suggestions please feel free to pick up the phone and give us a call or send an email. You're feedback is incredibly important to us!!! This is going to be an incredibly exciting year and I look forward to working with all of you as we work to keep Oakland County red!
We are excited to announce two new events OCRP is hosting; on April 16th we're planning our kickoff of Potluck and Politics at the OCRP HQ in the Basha Building. Stop by to chat with the staff, local leaders, and anyone else who decides to drop in. Conversation for the evening will entail national and local politics, current events, and countywide news. This will be a great opportunity to get some one-on-one time in order to further develop ideas, thoughts, events, or whatever else that maybe on your mind. Consider bringing your signature dish for all to enjoy or simply bring your own dinner. We look forward to making this a biweekly event. If you should have any question please do not hesitate to contact Lynn at 248.655.0501 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Mark your calendars for May 4th when we'll be hosting Sign Up Oakland! Please join your fellow Republicans in recruiting your friends, neighbors, and past OCRP donors. The focus will be to increase our OCRP membership with tantalizing events and offers! We will be at Trott and Trott all day from 9a to 9p. Sign up for a 2 hour time slot and bring your friends and family for this festive event. OCRP will make this so easy for you and will set you up with everything and anything you might need. Check out the website for more info or call Lauren Gervason at 248.655.0501 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
If you're not already receiving emails from us let us know and we'll put you on our list asap. I want to take a minute and thank you for your continued interest and support to OCRP. We are here to assist and help you in any way possible. If you should have any questions, concerns, or suggestions please feel free to pick up the phone and give us a call or send an email. You're feedback is incredibly important to us!!! This is going to be an incredibly exciting year and I look forward to working with all of you as we work to keep Oakland County red!
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Brian Pannebecker
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... Lauren, I just wanted to introduce myself and let your members know about a political blog I am now writing in The Oakland Press. My "blog" is titled "Brian Pannebecker ...On The Right" Please encourage your readers to check it out at www.TheOaklandPress.com and click on Blogs. Everyone's comments are welcome, Thanks ! |
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Ron Simpson
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... It is not only high time, it is an excellent time that we Republicans redefine ourselves. We need to leave our past behind and look to the future if we are to have a future of any kind. If we don't eliminate the right wing social conservative ideals from the party, we will certainly cease to be a viable party in Michigan and in the nation. This will be tough for many, but the current far right leadership inside the Party and outside (Limbaugh) have little in common with the younger generation coming up that we need to be Republican if we want a future. We have to stop talking about abortion and gay rights and cede these to the will of the individual. We need to eliminate the emphasis of fundamentalist Christian views of society and government. These are destroying our Party and marginalizing our value in the eyes of the predominantly middle of the road American people. These changes will not be easy for many in our party to swallow, but, like pulling teeth, the pain is sometimes necessary to heal and take the focus off what is infecting us. Where we Republicans have always excelled, areas of efficient government, support for business, and encouragement of personal success of the individual as a good hard worker, we need to remake our goals, vision, and platform. Instead of our current message, which seems to be no government and business is free to do as it needs for the short term, we need a new approach that includes government that supports business in this new era of global competition that focuses on what is best for America and plans for the future. We need to change our tone and admit that government in and of itself is not bad. Inefficient government is. Right sized government, if scoped, focused and manned properly in a mode that helps ensure American business competes and wins in the global arena, that ensures Americans have jobs, that enriches America across all economic groups, especially the middle class, and that ensures the tax base is large enough to pay for nimble government, invest in people, invest in education, plan and invest for the future, keep the infrastructure up-to-date, keep taxes low for all, pay off the deficit as soon as, balance the budget. With the nations we compete against doing just this, competing as nations, our current process of having our businesses individually competing against nations is dooming us to lose this fight. If we don't compete as a nation, with business and government working together to win the global economic war (that is what it is), we will not come back from this recession as the strongest economy and the strongest nation politically and militarily for the future. We need to ensure that business and the nation work together to ensure we do the best for America. As a nation we need to plan for the future and help business make decisions that in all cases are good for America, that enrich not only the business, but definitely all Americans. America first and foremost. This is a very middle of the road, pragmatic approach, using what works best for success of the country, that floats all boats. It focuses on what nearly all Americans can agree on - healthy American enterprise, healthy American economy, the most solid and universal of Republican values - in such a way that includes all Americans and ignores what separates us, the conservative social issues. If this does not become the primary focus of the Republican Party, our Party will cease to exist. Ron Simpson Troy, Michigan |
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