ACORN Origins - From the Glenn Beck Show

Gaspee Day Tea Party!

The Tax Day Tea Party was a great success around the country. Hundreds of thousands of people stood up for their values and expressed their concern with the outrageous spending habits of this new administration. But the movement cannot end there. On June 10th at 4:00pm speak up again! Come to the State House and speak your mind. We must let our officials know that we are still here and we still care.


June 10, 2009
Rhode Island State House
4:00-6:00pm

Bring your signs, your banners, and your voices!

Student Impact Fee - Clarification from Providence Mayor

Mayor David Cicilline had a press conference today to announce the final details of the "student impact fee" legislation being put before the House. The new details outline that the schools will be charged for every full time student they have registered, instead of taxing the students directly. The idea, as Mayor Cicilline discussed on the Helen Glover Show today, is that these schools can distribute these costs however they want. So for instance the school can absorb this "fee" with their endowments or by attaching the fee to students tuition. There are some problems with this new idea.

Now that the school is given the opportunity to distribute these fees however they want, who do you think is going to pay them? Not only the out-of-state students, thats for sure. Every student, whether they live in Bristol, Tiverton, or California is going to have to pay extra money for this fee.

Why are these schools tax-exempt? Now that they are being charged a fee for every student does that remove this status? What are you going to do with the tax-exempt hospitals? Tax the emergency room patients? Tax the intensive care patients? Just a few questions I would have liked to ask the good Mayor of Providence today at the press conference he had.

Legislators of Rhode Island, I would like to tell you just one thing: Don't blame your mistakes and fiscal irresponsibility on the students of these colleges. Don't talk about "responsibility" and how these students have to be responsible and pay extra taxes. How about you be responsible and balance a budget? How about you be responsible and do what your elected to do, run the state. Not into the ground, we do know you do that well, but in the right direction.

I urge everyone to go to the State House on June 10th to protest this fiscal irresponsibility and to say to these legislators, we've had enough. Enough of your blame game. Enough of your hypocritical talk of responsibility. Enough of your getting re-elected every cycle while we, as a state, continue to spiral downward.

Student Impact Fee - RI Legislators Seek to Tax Students

Projo Article

Gordon Fox, House Majority Leader in Rhode Island, D-Providence, is sponsoring legislation aimed at assessing a "student user fee" for private colleges in Rhode Island. This fee, the brainchild of Providence Mayor David Cicilline, would be distributed to the "host communities" for the students use of municipal services.

What the leaders of this state do not realize is that the students that go to the private colleges and universities are economic powerhouses in the state. All students do is spend, spend, spend. They order pizza, buy goods from local convenience stores, they shop at grocery stores, they get coffee, they buy alcohol, you name it they spend money on it. Roger Williams University alone contributes a large sum of money to the RIPTA to give every freshman student a bus pass.

And what about those students who rent houses? They are paying property taxes through their rent, why should they pay more. And the public schools? URI, RIC, CCRI wouldn't have to pay this $300 annual fee. Sorry Cicilline but not every URI student lives in RI.

This bill also neglects to mention anything about private high schools. These high schools have people coming from out of state, why aren't they being taxed?

These students, who do not live in the state, do not get a chance to vote for a representative in the House or the Senate or for the Mayor or for the Governor. Why should they be taxed, by these officials, when they do not have representation within any branch of the Rhode Island government.

No Taxation Without Representation - the very reason our founding father's fought for our freedom.

King George Cicilline - leave us kids alone, stop spending outrageous amounts of money and putting the city into debt. Stop your police officers from driving around the state in police vehicles, using taxpayer gas. Be responsible, for our sake.

"Obama-Man Can Cause he Mixes it with Hope and Makes the World Taste Good"

"If this movement ends up being as powerful as I think it can be, Mr. Obama and the Democrats will be up against something big."

A nice article in The Washington Times

Janeane Garofalo Calls Republicans "Tea Bagging Rednecks"

Janeane Garofalo, renowned actress, calls all right-wingers and Republicans racist and says conservatism is, "a neurological disorder." And did you know all black Republicans have Stockholm syndrome? This is even more outrageous then calling out the Tea Parties as right-wing extremism and having "Don't Tread on Me" flags making you a militia member.

What is happening America?

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Bush and Bush

Of course, who can forget the 2006 White House Press Correspondents Dinner. This was by far the funniest thing President Bush has ever done, and I think this dinner got more laughs and applause from the audience than did President Obama's.

Don't be shy to laugh to face off.

2009 WH Correspondents Dinner

This past weekend President Barack Obama hosted his first White House Press Correspondents dinner. Members of the beltway, the Hollywood elite, and top politicians all attended the dinner. However, President Obama surely did not hit a homerun with year's dinner. He started off alright with his little joke about the every member of the Press voting for him. How sad. He told a really awful joke about Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, of which garnered awkward attention from the audience. Now, I do applaud him for not using his teleprompter....but maybe that would have helped? Moving on, there was more hesitated laughter when he joked about heading to Iowa and marrying Senior Advisor David Axlerod. President Obama of all people should know that in the presence of the Media, you must always be politically correct. He did lighten up a little bit halfway through, and told what I believe was his most humorous joke of the night when mentioning to GOP Chairman Michael Steele that the Republican Party cannot have a bailout and that Rush Limbaugh didn't qualify as a troubled asset. Now, I love my party and enjoy listening to Rush, but you can't deny that wasn't at least a little funny. More remarkably, President Obama got almost no reaction or laughter when joking about former Vice President Cheney. Towards the end of his "act," President Obama touched on some more humorous rhetoric that also received warm welcomes from the audience when talking about Hillary Clinton and Arlene Spector. Nice job Mr. President.

Unfortunately, the bombshell of the evening was Ms. Wanda Sykes. I was so disappointed. In the movies that Ms. Sykes has appeared in, I liked her work. But at the dinner, the gloves came off and she tanked. You'll even find that the White House will mostly begin to distance themselves after her remarks. I mean, come on. Poking fun at someone is harmless, but wishing them to die is just plain unacceptable.

Good luck next year Mr. President.

Ohio Man Testifies in Front of Election Board

Ohio man testifies in front of Ohio Election Board that ACORN registered him to vote 18 times. When he told ACORN employees he was already registered they told him to register anyway.

ACORN Natl Spokesman Scott Levenson Sidesteps Fraud Questions

"We had a bad employee." Scott Levenson, national spokesman for ACORN, said recently on the Glenn Beck Program. He went on to say, "[voter registration fraud] is not what we were charged with."

Well Scott, what were the ACORN employees charged with? According to the Pittsburg Post Gazette ACORN employees were charged with 51 counts of voter fraud in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania alone. The Las Vegas Sun reported that ACORN employees were charged with 21 counts of voter fraud AND 13 counts from compensating voter registrations, both felonies.

The FBI is currently investigating ACORN in 13 states nation wide.

Scott Levenson, check your numbers then get back to us.

Mark Zaccaria Salutes College Republicans

Mark Zaccaria, candidate for US Congress in 2008, gave a short speech to members of the CRFRI at our annual convention today. "You are the one percenters of today," he said. "You will be knocking on doors and handing out literature every two years for the rest of your lives. And all of that is just how you get started as a one percenter."

Zaccaria talked about how the College Republicans are the next wave of candidates for every position starting at the local level and farther beyond. "..and when you get there you will count on the CRs to pass out the literature and make the phone calls."

"There is more to it then just process."

Mark laid out the necessity of a clear, coherent, and intelligent message for the Republican Party to get back in power.

College Republicans Are the Strongest Part of the Republican Party

Dr. Chris Ottiano, 2008 Republican candidate for Rhode Island State Senate, told the members of the CRFRI that he is nothing more then "a citizen and a tax payer." A physician, husband, and father thanked the College Republicans for all their support and work during his campaign.

Dr. Ottiano showed his concern for where the Republican Party stands today in politics. He outlined how we can changed the sentiment towards the party starting with the grass roots. "College Republicans aren't just a free source of labor," he said, They are "seeds in the forest." As a taxpayer and a voter Dr. Ottiano is extremely optimistic about the College Republicans and their role in Politics both in Rhode Island and around the country.

"You are the strongest part of the Republican Party."

CRFRI Convention Kicks Off With Viewing of 33 Minutes

As the CRFRI convention began today the First Vice Chairman, Barry Lucier, started a short clip of 33 Minutes, a movie about America's susceptibility to a nuclear strike.


What if a nuclear warhead exploded above the World Trade Center instead of a plane? It would only take about 33 minutes to be hit by an ICBM(Inter Continental Ballistic Missile). Are we safe?

Obama mocks Tea Party

Obama takes a wack at the Tea Party, mocking the protesters at a town hall meeting in St. Louis. I guess his handlers didn't tell him that he isn't campaigning anymore.

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