Posted on 02/16/2009 7:34:37 AM PST by Roos_Girl
Okay, I posted to the Florida board and I heard back from no one interested in helping out to get something set up locally. Below is a good starting point that I borrowed from a W. Va Freeper getting started in his neck of the woods. I think this is a good starting point that can be massaged. Is anyone interested in teaming up with me to get something worked out in Central Florida? No one else is going to do it except us.
9AM - MeetnGreet over coffee & donuts
10:30AM - Introductions and brainstorming session to
come up with initial goals for the group
Noon - Lunch on your own
1:30PM - Session to refine our goals & objectives
3:00PM - Activism 101 workshop
5:00PM - Special Guest Speaker
7:00PM - Dinner/Social
Leni
I’m in Palm Beach Gardens also!
Enjoyed your tagline...escaped from Rochester NY in 1990!
32903 here on the east coast.
Hope to see you.
I have 2 guest rooms if any Freepers want to “stop” on their way up from the south!
Oh-boy-oh-boy! Can we stay at the Elvis motel again? .............. FRegards
Freepers can book there in advance and stay overnight if they don't want to drive any distance home in the dark that night. I know I don't.
We can have coffee and Danish together the next morning and then head for home. Fun, fun.
The motel or inn generally will have a meeting room that they will provide at no cost if asked. Tell them (with your fingers crossed, hah) that there'll probably be 50 or more breathing bodies attending. That should perk them up.
This way we can meet together, eat together, have a drink together, sleep togeth.....oops, sleep under the same roof without ever being fragmented with people leaving the premises for lunch or dinner in unfamiliar neighborhoods....... or having to split early for accomodations elsewhere.
See if Holiday or a Hampton Inn or whatever will give you a special rate and throw in a meeting room. Let your fingers do the walking to see what kind of a deal you can get. Motels and inns are hurting now just like many other tourist-dependent businesses.
It's worth a few extra bucks to be able to remain together with old and new freeper friends for the day and evening after coming all that way.
I'm only speaking for myself, of course, but I prefer to stay overnight in the place where this mini-convention is being held.
One of the reasons we stayed in such a crummy place last time was that there was too much agonizing over cost, trying to please everyone by attempting to save a few pesos....with the not-unexpected unhappy result.
Roos, don't agonize. Cut to the chase. I recommend picking the place, make the educated call yourself and then post your decision. We trust you. Post the rate for one night and folks will have several months to start saving the extra 25 bucks or so it'll cost to stay in a decent place.
You are doing the Lord's work. Take it from Bahama Mama who organized 5 freeper cruises! Oy!
Let's get the show on the road in our inimitable Florida style!
Leni
Sure looking forward to a great Florida Freeper Convention!
FRank, can you keep me posted about this?
Only if I get to carry the shotgun!!
Leni, your sense of "adventure" ain't what it use to be!
You didn't know it at the time but that place was/is destined for the National Historic Registry once the neighborhood gets the urban/obama revitalization $$$!
Leni
...is STILL a disaster! The Constitution is being swept away so fast that most people are missing it.
Maybe we can have our FReep in the re-education camp!!!
As you likely already know, the Stalinists have infiltrated many traditional organizations and dragged them towards their leftist agenda. I couldn't even begin to remember them all, but a few pop to mind quickly. 1/ AARP, dragging retired people along with ideas of more and more free benefits at the expense of their (grand-)children; 2/ AMA, now representing the 'medical profession' as favoring socialized medicine; 3/ environmentalist Christians, stating that God gave us the responsibility for the planet, so Christians should favor strong environmental laws; 4/ progressive Christianity, stating that since Christians believe in the commonality of all people, communism is the natural moral choice [the ?Rev Wright falls into this category]; 5/ National Council of Churches [of older times... constantly defended Stalin's atrocities (Joan Brown Campbell)] ...
I am sure you could add much more to this short list, but I wanted to get it on the record here. ;-P
Gainesville here. Please dont move it too far south. (have to travel alone). Count me in. Cant wait to meet all of you!
In the interest of time, instead of taking the time at the convention itself to come up with a list of topics we want to talk about, I'd like to get a Top 5 wish list from everyone prior to the convention.
Don't send me your top 5 wish list yet.
I'm hoping that this Ping will:
1. Let y'all start thinking about what those topics should be.
2. Find a volunteer to step up that will be willing to compile everyone's suggestion and let me know what the Top 5 topics are so we all can have some advance notice. Also I'm sure our invited guests would like to know what the topics will be.
Please FReep mail me if you're interested. If I have more than one person respond it'll just be whoever is first.
I'm going to hope that someone will step up quickly. I hope y'all won't assume that "someone else will do it". I will post again with the name of the person you should send your list to and we'll try to have topics to that person by 3/1/2009.
In the interest of time, instead of taking the time at the convention itself to come up with a list of topics we want to talk about, I'd like to get a Top 5 wish list from everyone prior to the convention.
Don't send me your top 5 wish list yet.
I'm hoping that this Ping will:
1. Let y'all start thinking about what those topics should be.
2. Find a volunteer to step up that will be willing to compile everyone's suggestion and let me know what the Top 5 topics are so we all can have some advance notice. Also I'm sure our invited guests would like to know what the topics will be.
Please FReep mail me if you're interested. If I have more than one person respond it'll just be whoever is first.
I'm going to hope that someone will step up quickly. I hope y'all won't assume that "someone else will do it". I will post again with the name of the person you should send your list to and we'll try to have topics to that person by 3/1/2009.
Hey you!
get to work!
Where and when?
Sorry, no can do. Ft Walton Beach is just too far from central Florida at the moment.
This will definitely be one of the main topics of discussion at our regional conventions, so I suggest that we all make sure to read Connie Hair’s article and the important links she provides in her replies to some FReepers’ questions beneath it (copied and pasted for your convenience below).
The money quote:
“Now what we need is a ground game. This is no longer about red or blue states. ACORN, the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are openly forcing us into a clear choice between freedom and fascism. We’ll defend our First Amendment rights and talk radio. There’s no separating one from the other.”
ACORN Pushes Return of Fairness Doctrine
HumanEvents.com ^ | 2/18/2009 | Connie Hair
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:17:42 AM by 2nd amendment mama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2188304/posts
It was only last November that ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — was under FBI investigation for voter fraud in several states. Oh, wait: aren’t those investigations going on now?
Never mind. ACORN — a favorite of our Community Organizer in Chief — has a new agenda. Which is really part of the old agenda: getting Democrats elected.
What Democrats fear most, and what many conservatives value most highly, is talk radio. Its political punch is conservatives’ biggest weapon in the war of ideas. And, naturally, ACORN wants to kill it by restoring the old “fairness doctrine.”
You’ll find a plethora of liberals seeking to make sure that your young child has access to hard-core pornography on computers at the public library, but don’t let them listen to Rush Limbaugh or, God forbid, Sean Hannity. The freedom to speak out against those in our government who seek to limit our freedoms is among the most fundamental of safeguards, and the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are now working in earnest to destroy it.
ACORN has a long and rather thoroughly corrupt record, involved in everything from helping tens of thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) of people register to vote who aren’t legally entitled to do so: illegal aliens, convicted criminals and the like. And now — apparently planning how to spend their cut of the new Obama “stimulus” spending — ACORN is readying a campaign to kill conservative talk radio.
The Capital Research Center, a non-partisan, non-profit group whose mission is to act as a watchdog over other non-profit groups, presented a quite extensive exposé last November of the founding, funding and activities of ACORN. This shocking report shows a well-funded group grounded in Marxist ideology and gangland-style tactics, whose self-proclaimed mission is none other than the destruction of capitalism in America. Vital to their success is the suppression of free speech.
The framework for the attempt by Democrats to silence political opposition is already in place in what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) calls localism, a scheme set up in the form of local “community boards” that will decide whether or not your local broadcast station is meeting the standards required to review and renew their broadcast licenses every two to four years.
As you can see from the FCC localism webpage, localism regulations have already been through well over a year’s worth of procedural hearings, and, as of April 2008, “Broadcast Information Specialists are Available for Public Inquires.” The rules and regulations have been set forth in “The Public and Broadcasting,” which is the FCC field manual for the ACORN “activists” and lawyers to intimidate your local community boards into harassing your local radio stations into submission or recommend the revocation of their broadcast license. Given the reported $4.2 billion allocated for ACORN and like groups by the so-called stimulus bill signed into law by Obama yesterday, all that is left to fulfill this scenario is the confirmation of Obama’s new FCC chairman, nominee Julius Genachowski. After he’s confirmed, the full frontal assault on our First Amendment rights will begin quickly.
ACORN’s own website proudly displays their intent:
II. Make the mainstream media accessible and accountable to low- and moderate-income people.
A. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting, so that grass roots community groups have equal time to express their views. B. Require cable TV companies to make good on their promises to allow community groups access to air time, or revoke their operating licenses.
Membership on the local board is a key to the ACORN’s plan: activists on state and local boards can give their national agenda support that can’t be obtained elsewhere. “Diversity” and “underserved communities” are their mantra. The plan is for the boards to control the content of stations with their ability to make licensing renewal recommendations to the FCC. We all know how intolerant the left is of any ideas other than their own — just look how any conservative speaker is treated by the left when they speak at any college campus around the country today.
I asked House minority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) about this open secret called “localism” yesterday. He told me, “‘Localism is quickly becoming code for the efforts of liberals to limit free speech and dissent. The American people do not believe the federal government should be in the business of dictating or restricting what’s on the public airwaves, and Republicans will fight any and every effort to stifle free speech.”
Now what we need is a ground game. This is no longer about red or blue states. ACORN, the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are openly forcing us into a clear choice between freedom and fascism.
We’ll defend our First Amendment rights and talk radio. There’s no separating one from the other.
Replies and Connie’s response:
Is there a public record of WHO is in ACORN? Who runs it, who contributes to it, and who works for it?
Link to the Capital Research Center expose mentioned in the article. The Human Events article has links throughout:
Capital Research Center ACORN Foundation Watch Report http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225222922.pdf
25 posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:22:56 AM by Clinton’s a liar (Connie)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2188304/posts?page=25#25
Birch, one of the line items was $2 billion in grants for community stabilizationsearch the bill for one of those key terms (”community” or “stabilization”) and you’ll find it.
The other $2.2 billion is spread out in things like grants from HUD and the like.
26 posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:27:18 AM by Clinton’s a liar (Connie)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2188304/posts?page=26#26
Link to FCC Localism Proceedings webpage (a must read to see how far along this thing already is)
FCC Localism Proceedings Webpage http://www.fcc.gov/localism/
And the FCC manual for ACORN activists
The Public and Broadcasting http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/decdoc/public_and_broadcasting.pdf
28 posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:34:27 AM by Clinton’s a liar (Connie)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2188304/posts?page=28#28
bttt
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