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Dennis Mahon – President Seth Grossman – Executive Director
Agenda January 30, 2010
1) The Pledge of Allegiance
2) The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
3) Introductions
4) Radio shows:
Seth Grossman Show Saturday 8 -9 Am WVLT 92.1 FM on-air number is 856-696-0092
Jesse Kurtz Show Saturday 2 – 4 PM WIBG 1020 AM, on-air number is: 609-398-1020
5) Request by Jesse Kurtz for all board members to turn in your profiles for the website
6) 8 principles of Liberty:
1) Do you believe we should enforce immigration laws?
2) Do you believe government spending should be cut to cut taxes?
3) Do you believe part-time politicians shouldn’t receive a full-time pension?
4) Do you believe Eminent Domain should be used only for public use? (At no time should it be used for private gain)
5) Do you believe that all public salary and contract information should be posted on the Internet?
6) Do you believe that all tax and zoning laws should be simple and applied equally to all?
7) Do you believe that our public highways are ours and they shouldn’t be sold or leased?
Do you believe that there should be frequent referendum (public votes) on issues of public importance?
7) Events:
a) Street Fight will be our movie for February 10th from 6 pm to 9 pm at the May Landing Library. This is a documentary movie concerning the nasty mayoral in Newark. http://www.marshallcurry.com/video.htm
b) Liberty and Prosperity will be sponsoring our annual fund raiser on February 21st at the Carisbrooke Inn from 2:30 to 4:30. Tickets cost 75.00 for single or 100.00 for a couple.
Remember Washington and Lincoln
LIBERTY & PROSPERITY
presents:
Paul Mulshine, Conservative Pundit, Newark Star Ledger
At
The Carisbrooke Inn, 105 S Little Rock Ave, Ventnor
Sunday, February 21, 2010
2:30 to 4:30 pm – Wine and Cheese
Admit One – $75 Couple – $100
c) We are in the planning stages for our candidate’s straw poll to be held at the Walter Edge Theater at Atlantic Cape Community College Building C, March 4. 5100 Black Horse Pike Mays Landing, NJ 08330. If you are planning on running for any political office, test your strength with a straw poll similar to Ohio’s straw polls.
d) April 15, 2010 Tea Party Washington DC. We need to double the amount of people that showed up on Sept. 12. We had 1.8 million people. It is not too early to start planning. You can sign up with
www.teapartypatriotsofsouthernnj.com
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
A) Candidate “basic training” big success. Roughly 40 people attended. Daryn Iwicki and Kent Strang of www.leadershipinstitute.org gave useful advice to everyone who wants to win an election. Our local daily newspaper gave excellent coverage on the front page of the region section. Read it at
If you missed it, and want to attend a similar seminar, contact the Leadership Institute directly through their website or at (703) 247-2000. Candidate training is given often at their headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and to other groups like ours around the country. If you can put together a group of more than 20 people, why not invite the Leadership Institute to do the same for you?
B) Revel Casino bail out: Republican Congressman Frank LoBiondo, Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson, Assemblyman Vince Polistina and John Amodeo have joined with Democrats like Jim Whelan and Ray Lesniak (booster of the Corzine toll hike scheme) to bail out the Revel Casino project of Wall Street’s Morgan Stanley. Last summer, city government in Atlantic City agreed to give $50 million to the project. Last month, it agreed to a scheme that will let the Revel avoid paying $50 million in local and COUNTY taxes. Now state politicians want to let the Revel avoid paying $300 million of STATE taxes. And they want to void the petitions of thousands of Atlantic City voters demanding voter approval of this deal according to the city’s Faulkner Act charter.
The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (N.J.S.A. § 40:69A-1, Et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor of Montclair and chairman of the Commission on Municipal Government.
The Faulkner Act offers four basic plans (Mayor-Council, Council-Manager, Small Municipality and Mayor-Council-Administrator) and two procedures by which the voters of a municipality can adopt one of these plans. The Act provides many choices for communities with a preference for a strong executive and professional management of municipal affairs. Twenty-one percent of the municipalities in New Jersey, including the six most populous cities — Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Trenton, Paterson and Elizabeth — all govern under the provisions of the Faulkner Act. More than half of all New Jersey residents reside in municipalities with Faulkner Act charters.
In all Faulkner Act municipalities, regardless of the particular form, citizens enjoy the right of Initiative and referendum, meaning that proposed ordinances can be introduced directly by the people without action by the local governing body. This right is exercised by preparing a conforming petition signed by 10% of the registered voters who turned out in the last general election in an odd- numbered year (i.e., the most recent General Assembly election). Once the petition is submitted, the local governing body can vote to pass the requested ordinance, and if they refuse, it is then submitted directly to the voters.
C) Liberty and Prosperity believes that all zoning and tax laws should be fair, simple, and applied equally to everyone. We believe in liberty and justice for all, not special deals for a favored few.
Four casinos are already struggling to stay alive. Why should they pay full taxes, to give their competitor an advantage? If taxes are too high for the Revel, they are too high for everyone else.
Why not cut government spending so every can afford their taxes? If the most powerful and influential people keep getting tax breaks, they will never work with us to cut spending. What about economic development? When the government gave special tax breaks to build new shopping centers, all we got was too many shopping centers with no customers and empty stores. Special deals also cause corrupt politics. Revel attorney Lloyd Levinson, gave big campaign money to politicians all over the state to get this big favor for his client. If this kind of pay-to-play politics bothers you, make your opinion known with a 200 to 350 word letter to the editor or a call to talk radio!
E) Two weeks ago, I said the high yield bondholders, not taxpayers should pay- off the $54 million borrowed by the Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) for projects it never built as planned. Last week, Republican Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson attacked me for not opposing that debt when I was a county freeholder. But I did oppose that debt, and the old newspaper articles prove it. Read the whole truth at http://www.shoreenewstoday.com/news.php?id=6951 and www.libertyandprosperity.org.
F) News items: Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that for the first time, most union members in the United States are employed by the government. Today, only 7% of people who work for private companies are in unions. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that new hires for the second shift at the Ford Motor Company assembly line in Chicago are paid a “second tier wage” of $14 per hour under its latest deal with the UAW union. Local 54 is working in Atlantic City with a three year wage freeze? If taxpayers who don’t work for the government are earning less or the same, why are their public “servants” entitled to 4.5% pay hikes, pensions, and benefits that make us pay more for taxes, college tuition, etc?
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