OCTOBER 2017 Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 10

The Republican Party of Sierra County

RPOSC SEPTEMBER 2017 MEETING HIGHLIGHTS Sheridan introduced first time visitor Richard Biggs. After approval of the prior minutes and approval of the Treasurer’s report with a $4053 balance including the net proceeds from the Gun Drawing, Sheridan thanked Jacqueline Bentley for organizing volunteers for the county Fair. He then introduced County Clerk, Shelley Trujillo and thanked Skip “the Barber” Bennett for overseeing the Gun Drawing.

Sheridan announced that next month Kelly Zuni, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, will be our guest speaker. Future speakers include Gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce in December and District 2 candidates for office in January. For the January meeting there will be no tables in the meeting room, but dinner is available in the Atrium of the EB Inn from 5:00 to 6:00 with candidate presentations from 6:00 to 7:00.

On Saturday, February 17, our State Republican Party Chairman is scheduled to headline our Lincoln Day dinner . In March Senate candidate Mark Rich is scheduled; to be followed in April by the candidates for the PRC..

APPLETREE, INC PRESENTS TO RPOSC

Laura dow, daughter-in-law of our State Representative, Rebecca Dow, and Creative

Director and Donor Relations Director of AppleTree, introduced her codirectors Seth

Dow, Denise Bressani and Saul Baquera before showing a brief video describing the

multifaceted offerings of AppleTree.

AppleTree is a federally-qualified non-profit organization that provides Kindergarten

through 12th grade in its Monzano Christian School as well as other services.

AppleTree serves over 700 children weekly with comprehensive services addressing

health and wellness, community and economic development, career and life skills and

recreation in addition to education. AppleTree is largely grant and contribution

funded, allowing them to offer their services on a sliding-scale basis or scholarship.

In addition to the Education Center, AppleTree offers early childhood services, health

and dental screenings, out of school summer services and after-school services.

AppleTree operates “The Club” to provide a safe and healthy home away from home

for teens from

6th grade

through 19 years

old.

Saul Baquera

described one of

his jobs as

addressing

underage

drinking and

prescription

misuse and

abuse.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Pearce on Education 2

Lest We Forget Revisited 3

My View 3

Upcoming Events 4

From the Chair 4

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Pearce Puts Priority On Public Education, Santa Fe New Mexican, By Robert Nott, October 22, 2017

In a marked contrast to Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration, U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce said if he is elected governor, he will give school districts more local control over such hot-button issues as teacher evaluations and standardized testing. Pearce — the only Republican to enter the 2018 gubernatorial race to date — said he also would contract with local businesses to start internship programs in high schools to help disengaged students earn training certificates so they can work in industries they enjoy, even if they do not go to college. “I would push decision-making about education as close to the classroom as possible,” the 70-year-old Hobbs native said during an interview at The New Mexican Saturday. He said education, as well as the economy and crime, would be the top issues during the gubernatorial campaign. Though he stopped short of saying he would get rid of the teacher evaluation system or standardized testing, Pearce said: “I would trust superintendents to make those decisions. “Why go through mindless exercises on testing and teacher evaluations?” Pearce’s remarks about reforming public education are far different in tone to those of the Public Education Department, which during Martinez’s administration has drawn the ire of educators and others over what they see as an overemphasis on testing and an unfair teacher evaluation system. That evaluation process has led to two lawsuits that are pending. Pearce said teachers are under stress to be “everything but teachers — we demand they be policemen, we demand they be truancy officers, we demand they be probation officers, we demand they be priests, pastors and counselors.” As a result, he said, they are demoralized and leave the profession. “Just put ‘em in the classroom and let them do their job,” he said. He said if New Mexico - which is generally ranked at or near the bottom in most national reports on public education -does not improve its education system, students will continue to drop out or graduate without the skills to get jobs. As a result, he said, “we’re not going to get any businesses to come here.” Pearce tied the education system’s failure to the creation of a pipeline in which disengaged youth leave school for a life of despair, crime or drugs. “We have to catch kids earlier,” he said, adding that a high school journeyman training certificate could help do that by preparing students who want to work as truck drivers, plumbers or carpenters to go directly into those fields. He said he does not yet know how the financially challenged state would pay for such a program. Pearce said it is too early for him to consider who he would appoint as his secretary of the Public Education Department but that person would be “somebody from New Mexico and somebody who has time teaching in the classroom.” Many critics said former Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera, appointed by Martinez shortly after taking office in 2011, had little if any time teaching in the classroom. Originally from California, Skandera was working for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush when Martinez tapped her for the position in New Mexico. Pearce declined to criticize the Martinez administration’s handling of the state’s proposed science standards for K-12 schools. “What New Mexico should be teaching is a broader range of ideas, not a narrowing range of ideas,” he said. “Kids need to learn how to distinguish between good scientific arguments and not-so-good scientific arguments.” Those new standards, which the Public Education Department first posted in mid-September, immediately drew criticism from educators, scientists and faith leaders who decried the elimination of such scientific concepts as evolution, global warming and Earth’s age. They said the new standards would weaken the teaching of science and leave room for creationists, among others, to incorporate religious lessons into the classroom. The department recently announced that it would revise the standards to address many of the issues raised. Pearce, a seven-term congressman who served as a combat pilot during the Vietnam War, said regardless of who cinches the Democrat nomination for governor next summer, he is in for a challenging campaign.

“For any Republican to run in any race in New Mexico, it’s tough,” he said. “It will be a very hard race, but for New Mexico, the stakes are very high.”AKE PLANS NO

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MY VIEW BIG BROTHER - I noticed a couple of months ago that I had started getting little headline “cards” on my android phone as soon as I pushed my on button and before I swiped the face to open my applica-tions. My problem with this is that the headlines are predominately from the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post or NPR.

I worried that this is a way of indoctrinating cell phone users into the liberal orthodoxy, so I tried to de-lete the “Newstand” ap only to find out that it won’t delete. So I did a little research.

Five years ago “Google Now” was ostensibly to use your search history to figure out what information you needed and to present that to you in a swipeable “card.” Late last year Google updated the ap to put more focus on news – just to news that Google thinks you’ll be interested in based on your search history.

“Ostensibly, Google’s feed is based on your search history, not your social graph”1 I want to know what it is in my search history that indicates I want to get my news from liberal outlets. Was it my search for an electric power washer? Does simply shopping on Amazon.com indicate liberalism? Or is Google cov-ertly selling its Liberal slant. I fear the later and I wonderhow many people will not recognize the slant on the news.

Does anybody else have a problem with this android ap? 1 “Google is putting a news feed in Android’s home screen,” by Dieter Bohn@backlon Dec 6, 2016, 11:00am EST

TRUMP DOSIER—Some Republicans are so negative. They think having the “Trump Dosier” paid for by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign would skew the researcher’s result. Preposterous! That would be like research paid for by the tobacco companies finding no link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer! No, wait; that may not be the best example...how about, that would be like letting wind mill manufacturers fund research on the cost/benefit of alternative energy—no, wait. That’s not quite right either. How about letting Loretta Lynch exonerate Hilary on her email use. Not quite right either; but you know what I mean—stop being so negative.

Some times things bear repeating. The following article appeared in the August 2016 Newsletter. Editor

LEST WE FORGET

Where does Iran’s uranium come from? There is a good possibility the an-swer to that one is...drum roll please ... Wyoming!

Canadian Mining tycoon, Frank Giustra, made his fortune “pumping and dumping” penny stocks.23-24

Bill Clinton often flew on Giustra’s private jet. Giustra created a uranium mining company and needed approval from the Kazakhistan government to acquire uranium assets in that country. After the Ka-zakhistan government approved Giustra’s uranium deal, Hillary approved release of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. aid to Kazakh’s dictator.29

Giustra’s uranium company evolved into Uranium One. When Uranium One began acquiring uranium assets in the US, several major Uranium One stockholders gave multi-million dollar checks to the Clin-ton Foundation. Giustra himself gave $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation and committed to donating $100 million and half of his

future profits to the Clinton Foundation.34

Uranium One was purchased by Rosatom, a Russian State-owned company, with the funds coming from Putin directly and approved by the Russian Presidium.46-47 Because uranium is a strategic asset, Russian purchase of a Canadian Company with massive US as-sets required US Government approval.47

In 2011 at the time HRC would be involved in approving Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One, a company wholly-owned by Rosatom funneled millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. At the same time Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow and met personally with Putin. On October 22, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, (of which HRC is a member) approved the acquisition of Uraniun One by Rosatom - a deal which meant half of American uranium production is owned by a pri-vate company controlled by the Russian State Nuclear Agency.

Makes you feel a lot safer, doesn’t it? *Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer, 2015, pages in superscript after referenced information.

Frank Giustra

OFFICERS

Sheridan Fuss - Chair

Johanna Tighe - 1st Vice Chair

Skip Bennett - 2nd Vice Chair

Crystal Diamond - Secretary

Sandra Cliborne - Treasurer

Headquarters Phone: 575-740-1318

The Republican Party of Sierra County is organized to sup-

port local, state and national republican candidates in or-

der to further the republican ideals of individual self-

sufficiency, conservative thinking and patriotism. New

members are always welcome. Meetings are on the third

Monday of each month at the Elephant Butte Inn unless

otherwise posted.

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Upcoming Events RPOSC Monthly meeting, 3rd Monday, Elephant Butte Inn, 6:00 p.m.

November 20 - Guest speaker, Kelly Zunie, candidate for Lt. Governor

December 18 - Steve Pearce

January 15 - Candidate Forum - all District 2 candidates

February 17 - Saturday, Lincoln Day Dinner, Guest Speaker, NM Republican party Chair, Ryan Cangiolosi

Hi fellow conservatives!

The last fund raiser for 2017 is complete and now we strive to prepare for our "biggest" celebration/fund raiser-- the Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, February 17, replacing our regular monthly meeting. Please begin getting silent auction items donated and make certain the dinner is on your calendar.

We have invited EVERY candidate who is running for ANY office in Sierra County to attend at their expense without the opportunity to speak from the podium. One candidate has already responded and wants 8 tickets!!

Our heartfelt thanks go out to Jacqueline Bentley and her team of volunteers who "manned" the Fair booth.

Congrats to Mick Montgomery for having his name drawn for the S & W 9 MM pis-tol. And our gratitude is beyond words for the hours Skip Bennett put in taking care of the tickets.

Please pray for the wisdom our Leaders need at every level of our government.

Sheridan

FUND-RAISING DRAWING The Republican party of Sierra County Fund-raising Drawing was conducted at the County Fair on October 8. The draw-ing was done by a young fair visitor. The winner of the Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun was Mick Montgomery. The drawing raised $2257 for use in supporting local and State candidates for office. Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to Mick and our local Republican party.