Volume XII, Issue 2 April, 2019

OUR NEXT MEETING:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

North Ridge Country Club 7600 Madison Avenue Fair Oaks, California

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Membership: Caroline Takahashi-McDonald

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President: Terri Lyn Alexander (916 ) 723-6156

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Editor: Emily Humpal (209) 761-5383

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Lance Izumi

Lance Izumi is Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies and Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. He has written and produced books, studies and films on a wide variety of education topics. Most recently, he is the author of the 2017 book The Corrupt Classroom, the 2018 publication An American Education Agenda, and the 2019 book Choosing Diversity: How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Needs of Parents and Children.

In 2016-17, Lance served as a member of President Donald Trump’s transition Agency Action Team for education policy. From 2004 to 2015, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation, and served two terms as president of the Board.

From 2015 to 2018, Lance chaired the board of directors of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the official non-profit that supports the community college system, and remains a member of the board.

Lance served as a commissioner on the California Postsecondary Education Commission and as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission’s California Advisory Committee.

Lance served as chief speechwriter and director of writing and research for California Governor George Deukmejian and as speechwriter to United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III in President Ronald Reagan’s administration.

Lance served as a captain in the California State Military Reserve from 1991-96. During his service, he was awarded theCSMR Commendation Medal, theachievement ribbon and the unit citationribbon. He is the president of the CommunityRelations Board for the U.S. Army’s NorthernCalifornia Recruiting Battalion and wasawarded the Army’s Outstanding CivilianService Medal in 2016.

Lance received his juris doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Law, his master of art in political science from the University of California at Davis, and his bachelor of arts in economics and history from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Don Jans, nationally acclaimed author and speaker, was our March speaker. His study of Russian history led him to the study of teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrick Engles. He spoke about his three books and explained to the readers how the American public has grown to accept the transformation as a part of ordinary daily life without realizing what is happening. We all enjoyed his visit and the books he had available for our members.

On March 8-10, 2019, the CFRW 2019 Winter Board of Directors Meeting/Advocacy & Conference was held at the Sacramento Marriott in Rancho Cordova. There was 158 in attendance and we had a great time visiting with other Republican women from different parts of the state. Our club did the decoration for the luncheon and it turned out very patriotic and complimented the theme “Power of the Past-Force of the Future”. The ladies from our club who attended were Bev Acker, Nina Caron, Karen Klinger, Dottie Linden, Janet Gardner, Suzanne Jones, Betsy Mahan, Karen Juten, our new member, and myself. Our club won the CFRW 3rd place New Members Award in Category 4 (members between 126 & 200). Congratulations to our club!!!!

We enjoyed two great speakers, Dr. Barbara S. Stone, PH.D. political science, was our luncheon speaker. Dr. Stone was very interesting, factual and entertaining. I hope all of our members have a chance in the future to see and hear this energetic and dynamic speaker. The next speaker, Anna Khait, is a young woman who grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russia. As a child she grew up hearing about the atrocities that her native people went through during socialism and communism. She realized the same tactics used during communist Russia were being implemented in America today. The attack on Americanism, the constitution, and freedom has sparked a flame in her heart. She is a fighter intended on making this country free again. She is young person that needs to be heard by students in high schools and colleges throughout our country.

Our SRWF board has decided to start a new project, in which, we will be collecting donations each month for the Blue Star Moms. A Blue Star Mom is a non-political, non-profit military/veteran support organization. The organization is made up of 100% volunteers. Members are proud mothers, stepmothers, foster mothers and female legal guardians living in South Placer County and Sacramento County who have children serving in the military, guard or reserves, or children who are veterans. They support Veterans, Service Members from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces (regardless of their hometown) and honor Gold Star Families and remember their children.

Individually wrapped items are needed such as nuts, sunflower seeds, corn nuts, trail mix, Jif to Go, Nutella, cookies, Pop-tarts, oatmeal, hot chocolate, crackers, candies, Rice Krispies Treats, Gold Fish packets, popcorn, CDs/DVDs, Books/Current Magazines, foot powder, eye drops, lip balm, floss, razors, etc. The Sacramento Blue Star Moms depend solely on donations to complete their mission. You can help by donating items for CARE packages, make a tax-deductible financial donation attend their events and fundraisers, write letters to the troops, and participate in CARE package packing parties. Tabitha Gomes, who is our Special Events Chair will be collecting the donated items and will drop off collected items every month to the facility. The website address to learn more is https://www.sacramentobluestarmoms.org/. I want to thank all of our 2019 sponsors for your gen-erous donation to our club. You are helping our club help others in our community. A list of all the sponsors are in this month’s newsletter and every newsletter until March, 2020. The sponsors will also be listed in our new 2019 member roster. Again, thank you all for your generosity.

God Bless you all.

- Terri Lyn Alexander, President

Executive Board

President Terri Lyn Alexander (916) 723-61561st Vice President Nina Caron (916) 631-92772nd Vice President Caroline Takahashi-McDonald (916) 225-6606Recording Secretary Mary Smothers (916) 631-8499Treasurer May Ruth Lynch (916) 382-4412Finance Review Officer Carol Usmial (916) 638-7809Corresponding Secretary Cammie Hottinger (916) 932-4258Parliamentarian Bev Acker (916) 297-7801

Directors

Caring for America Mary Smothers (916) 939-9560Sharon Sanders (916) 852-8236

Military Support/Appreciation/Toys for Troops Kids/Community Projects

Communications Mariluz Buchanan (530) 564-4418Bulletin Editor (OPEN) / Internet Updates/Blasts (Joan Moghadam) / Publicity (Kay Burton) / Telephone Committee (Pammy Huston) / Photographer (Mariluz Buchanan)

Education Karen Klinger (916) 712-8889Advocacy Workshop / Legislation (Local, State and National) / Scholarships

Elections Emily Humpal (209) 761-5383GOVT / Precinct Walking / Voter Registration / Running for Office Assistance / Voter Fraud

Membership Outreach Dolores O’Brien (916) 721-3075Internet Advisor (Janet Gardner) / Satellite Clubs Organizer / Assistant to 2nd Vice President / Young Republican Clubs Liaison / Hospitality (Kay Burton, Ann Dunn, Dottie Linden, Suzanne Jones)

Special Events Tabitha Gomez (916) 206-6467Christmas Event / Whistle Stop 1st Vice President / Membership Celebration w/ 2nd Vice President / Fundraisers not under specific chairs

Committee Chairs

Americanism Marylou Colombo (916) 635-1003Awards/Historian Bev Acker (916) 297-7801Birthdays Mariluz Buchanan (530) 564-4418Central Com Liaison Terri Lyn Alexander (916) 723-6156Central Com Liaison Karen Klinger (916) 481-1071Chaplain Glenda Thompson (916) 481-5593Reservations Karen Klinger (916) 481-1071Reservations Cammie Hottinger (916) 932-4258Opportunity Drawing JoAnne Pearson (916) 631-0031Ways & Means/Jewelry Peggy McGinness (916) 351-0512

CFRW Official Email Correspondence

Capitol Alert Friday, March 15, 2019

Nam-Yong Horn, President

Newsom Kills the Death Penalty

Earlier this week, Governor Newsom announced that he was effectively ending the death penalty in California, despite voters clear support of it time and time again, and granting reprieve to more than 700 death row inmates. Whether or not it is even legal for Governor Newsom to override the will of the voters is still unclear, and there are many victims' rights groups and District Attorney's offices around the state working on the question on constitutionality right now. The California electorate has voted to keep the death penalty three different times in recent years, with the latest death penalty measure on the ballot not just supporting it, but effectively speeding up the process to execution. In 2016, Gavin Newsom claimed he would uphold the "will of the voters" after his referendum to repeal the death penalty failed. "I would not get my personal opinions in the way of the public's right to make a determination of where they want to take us" on the death penalty, he said three years ago. And yet, here we are. What other promise is Governor Newsom willing to go back on? CLICK HERE to sign the petition to STOP Governor Newsom's death penalty moratorium.

Rent Control Again!

In another example of ignoring the will of the voters, California Legislative Democrats are working on passing a rent control bill, despite the electorate's decisive rejection of it last fall. AB 1482 (Chiu, D) comes in a housing bill package that includes a series of legislation that aims to target rent. AB 1482, in particu-lar, would annually cap rent increases. Just 4 months ago, voters blocked the passage of Prop 10, which would have imposed rent control state-wide. So why then, do our Democrat leaders think they know better than California's voters? Simple economics tells us that a rent control does nothing to truly protect renters in this market. Rent control will create shortages when landlords are forced to sell and then where do renters turn? They can't afford to buy a home either. What we need is affordable housing creation, and rolling back burdensome CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) reforms on housing construction is a step in the right direction. Legislative Democrats should listen to Californians and leave Costa-Hawkins alone!

More Taxes, Please

In another effort to squeeze small businesses until they are dry, the state is trying to collect back taxes from e-commerce retailers that sold their products on Amazon while temporarily housing their merchan-dise in California. If the company had any sort of physical presence in California since 2012, the state tax collection agency is asking the small business merchants to pay up. But some of these retailers didn't even know they owed the state of California taxes, since they didn't know that their merchandise was ever housed in Amazon's California fulfillment centers. This crack-down of "third-party" sellers on Amazon could leave many of them bankrupt and out of business. They could face a $5,000 fine on top of the back taxes and interest, as well as prison time. California's Tax and Fee Administration said it alerted more than 2,500 online retailers that they may own California back taxes. But these "third-party" sellers claim they have no control over where Amazon sends their merchandise, so Amazon should be on the hook for the alleged back taxes. Either way, the state should figure out how to promote small businesses to flourish in our state by easing the tax burden, but instead they continue to drive business further and further away.

-Allison Olson, CFRW Advocate

By Caroline Takahashi-McDonald

Greetings Ladies!

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to renew your 2019 Membership! We need the following items to be correct and up-to-date:

E-mail Address (so you never miss a fabulous newsletter or e-blast from our President)Contact informationBirthday (Month and Day only)

If any member is not receiving her newsletters and e-blasts, please let me know so I can e-mail you directly and/or assist you in adjusting your e-mail filters and settings. We currently have 11 new members, 65 renewing members, plus 9 affiliate/associate members for a total of 85 members year to date. With your help, we hope to grow even more as each of you in-vite friends and family to be our very special guests! If you wish to renew your membership for 2019, please complete the membership form (at the end of this newsletter)

Please make checks payable to SRWF. Membership forms and checks can be mailed to: Caroline Takahashi-McDonald, 4948 Olive Oak Way, Carmichael, CA 95608. If you need help signing-up or have any questions at all, call Caroline at 916 225-6606 or email her at lemondrop-cake@gmail.com.

Remember your husbands are always welcome at our meetings. If they would like to join as Affili-ate Members, have them fill out the membership form (at the end of this newsletter). If you are a member of another Republican Women’s club, you can join us at an Associate Member. If you know of anyone who would like to become a member or an affiliate or associate member, please bring them to the next luncheon or have them contact Caroline for additional information.

Caring For America I am happy to report that I haven’t heard about anyone is ill. Our Treasurer, May Ruth Lynch, is making progress from a stroke but would still appreciate hearing from you.

Please let me know if you know of a member that could use a little cheery note or our help. Thank you.

Sunshine Report

Our February Birthdays!

Sandra Fernandez Sue Frost Kathleen Hegemann Cindy Schroeder

Cammie Hottinger, Corresponding Secretary (916) 932-4258 Camille727@att.net

Dear gracious heavenly Father,

For the blessings You have given us as Republican Women, Citizens of California and America. We meet here today in the spirit of sisterhood sharing our knowledge and encouraging one another as we work and sacrifice for our beliefs. You know we are women who care deeply about the future of our country and the sound principles on which it was founded.

Our goals are to fight for the “non=negotiables” of life: Morality and wisdom in economics, religious liberty, a strong military, secure borders, protecting the innocence of children, and the abolition of human trafficking. We won’t back down with your help, dear Lord. We ask you to empower us to reclaim our conservative vote as we unite to face a difficult future; a high-stakes battle for life, liberty and the future of the family.

Now, Lord, we thank You for this food, our gracious hosts, and the good people serving us today.

In Your Name, Amen -Glenda Thompson, Chaplain(916) 481-5593

How the Specter of Communism is Ruling our World Epoch Times

The Specter of Communism in Western Universities The Severe Leftist Slant of University Faculties One of the most important causes of students’ embrace of socialist or communist ideology, or being influenced by radical ideologies such as feminism and environmentalism (to be discussed later in this book), is the fact that a large proportion of staff in American universities leans to the left. In a 2007 study titled “The Social and Political Views of American Professors,” among the 1,417 full-time college faculty members surveyed, 44.1 percent considered themselves liberal, 46.1 percent moderate, and only 9.2 percent conserva-tive. Among them, the proportion of conservatives in community colleges was slightly higher (19 percent), and that of liberals was slightly lower (37.1 percent). In art colleges, 61 percent of faculty were liberal, while conservatives made up just 3.9 percent. The study also noted that faculty members near retirement were more staunchly leftist than new faculty members. In the 50–64 age group, 17.2 percent proclaimed themselves to be leftist activists. The study also stated that most university faculty supported homo-sexuality and abortion rights. Studies after 2007 also confirm the leftist trend among professors in four-year universities in the Unit-ed States. A study published in Econ Journal Watch in 2016 surveyed the voter registration status of professors in the departments of history and social sciences in forty leading U.S. universities. Among 7,243 professors surveyed, there were 3,623 Democrats and 314 Republicans, or a ratio of 11.5-to1. Among the five departments surveyed, the department of history was the most uneven, with a 35-1 ratio. Contrast this with a similar survey from 1968: Among history professors at the time, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans was 2.7-to-1. Another survey for four-year university faculty in 2016 found that the political inclination of the faculty was uneven, espe-cially in New England. Based on 2014 data, the survey found that the ratio of liberal and conservative professors in colleges and uni-versities nationwide was 6-1. In New England, this ratio was 28-to-1. A 2016 study by the Pew Research Center found that 31 percent of the people who had studied in graduate schools held liberal views, 23 percent tended to be liberal, only 10 percent held conserva-tive views, and 17 percent tended to be conservative. The study found that since 1994, the people who had received graduate-level education had increased significantly in holding liberal views. Scholars who attended a seminar at the American Enterprise Institute in 2016 said that about 18 percent of social scientists in the United States considered themselves Marxists, and only 5 percent considered themselves conservative. Senator Ted Cruz once commented on the law school of a prestigious school he had attended. “There were more selfdeclared Communists [in the faculty] than there were Republicans,” he said. “If you asked [them] to vote on whether this nation should become a socialist nation, 80 percent of the faculty would vote yes, and 10 percent would think that was too conservative.” Communism began its penetration of American education from the time it took root in the United States. Since the beginning of the 20th century, many American intellectuals have accepted communist ideas or the Fabian socialist variant. The 1960s counterculture movement produced a large number of young antitraditional students. In these people’s formative years, they were influenced greatly by cultural Marxism and Frankfurt School theory. In 1973, after President Nixon withdrew American troops from the Vietnam War, student groups associated with the anti-war movement began to fade into obscurity, as the main reason for the protest was gone. But the radicalism brewed by these large-scale student movements did not disappear. Radical students went on to pursue graduate studies in the social and cultural fields—in journalism, literature, philosophy, sociology, education, cultural studies, and the like. Having received their degrees, they began careers in the institutions with the most influence over society and culture, such as universities, news media, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. What guided them at that time was mainly the theory of “the long march through the institutions” proposed by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. This “long march” aimed to alter the most important traditions of Western civilization. The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse was regarded as a “spiritual godfather” by rebellious Western students. In 1974, he asserted that the New Left did not die, “and it will resurrect in the universities.” In fact, the New Left had not only managed to survive: Its long march through the institutions was massively successful. As one radical professor wrote: “After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn’t just crawl back into our literary cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost, and it seemed for a while—to the unobservant— that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.” The term “tenured radicals” was coined by Roger Kimball in his book of the same name, published in 1989. The term referred to the radical students who had been active in the anti-war, civil rights, or feminist movements of the 1960s and later entered universities to teach and obtained tenure in the 1980s. From there, they inculcated students with their system of political values and created a new generation of radicals. Some of these new radicals became department heads and deans. The purpose of their scholarly work is not to explore the truth, but to use academia as a tool for undermining Western civilization and traditions. They aim to subvert mainstream society and the political system by producing more revolutionaries like themselves. Once tenured, professors can participate in various committees and have considerable say in recruiting new faculty members, setting academic standards, selecting topics for graduate theses, and determining the direction of research. They have ample opportunity to use their power to exclude candidates who do not conform to their ideology. For this reason, more traditionally minded individuals who teach and do research according to traditional concepts are being steadily marginalized. As professors of the older generation retire, those who replace them are mostly leftist scholars who have been indoctrinated with communist ideas. Gramsci, who coined “the long march through the institutions,” divided intellectuals into two camps: traditional intellectuals and organic intellectuals. The former are the backbone of maintaining traditional culture and social order, while the organic intellectuals, belonging to the newly emerging classes or groups, play a creative role in the process of fighting for hegemony in their classes or groups. The “proletariat” uses organic intellectuals on its path to seizing cultural and eventually political hegemony. Many tenured radicals defined themselves as “organic intellectuals” who oppose the current system. Like Gramsci, they follow the Marxian axiom: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” In this way, education for the Left is not about imparting the essence of knowledge and human civilization, but for priming students for radical politics, social activism, and “social justice.” After graduating and joining society, they vent their dissatisfactions with the current system by rebelling against traditional culture and calling for destructive revolution .

Americanism Article

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U.S. REPRESENTATIVES www.house.org

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Tom Mc Clintock 4th Congressional District 4230 Douglas Blvd. Granite Bay, CA 95746 916 786-5560 house.gov/mcclintock

Doris Matsui [D] 6th Congressional District 501 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814 916 498-5600 house.gov/matsui

STATE OFFICE www.ca.org STATE SENATORS www.sen.ca.org

Governor Gavin Newsom State Capitol Sacramento, CA 94249 916 445-2841 governor@governor.ca.gov

Ted Gaines 1st Senate District 4080 Cavitt Stallman Road Granite Bay, CA 95746 916-651-4001senator.gaines@senator.ca.gov

Richard Pan [D] 6th Senate District 1020 N Street, #576 Sacramento, CA 95814 916 951-1529 senator.pan@sen.ca.gov

STATE ASSEMBLY www.assembly.ca.gov

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James Gallagher, District 3 State Capitol, Room 2158 Sacramento, CA 95814 916 319-2003 Assemblymember.Gallagher@ assembly.ca.gov

Kevin Kiley, District 6 State Capitol, Room 4153 Sacramento, CA 95814 916 319-2006 Assembly-member.Kiley@assembly.ca.gov

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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Sue Frost - District 4 700 H Street, # 2450 Sacramento, CA 95814 916 874-5491 SupervisorFrost@saccounty.net

Don Nottoli – District 5 700 H Street, #2450 Sacramento, CA 95814 916 874-5465 nottolid@saccounty.net

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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!

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March 28 @10AM — Parents of California Rally on South Capitol Steps 1315 10th Street—Sacramento, CA

April 3 @11:30AM — General Meeting North Ridge Country Club

April 3 @2:10PM — BOD Meeting North Ridge Country Club

April 11 @5:30-7:30PM — Defending Free Speech Reception (By Sac County GOP) Sutter Club *Featured Guest: Harmeet Dhillon, Republican National Committeewoman

April 15 @ 11:15AM—4PM — National Tax-Limitation Committee Sacramento Hyatt Regency * www.rescuecaliforniaconference.eventbrite.com

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