Topics: 

• Review the 2013 Republican State Convention held May 3-5 at the Patriot Center in Rothschild, WI.
• Discuss the Star Award received at the state convention on May 4th 2013
• Pass out the pins to the Campbell Award winners that volunteered over 50 hours of service to the county party in 2012.
• Sheriff Pete Johnson will present his views on the Polk County Sheriff’s Department.
• Review upcoming DVD’s for the Polk County Republican Party Movie Nights.
• Discuss plans for summer parades and the Polk County Fair.

All members of the Republican Party of Polk County and guests are welcome! If you have not sent in your membership dues please send your payment in today.

General Membership and Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday, May 21st
7:00 – 10:00 PM

West Conference Room
Polk County Government Center
100 Polk Plaza
Balsam Lake, WI

We grieve today like we have lost a friend or a close relative. The America we knew has changed because the values of many Americans have changed. Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it. Abortion, same-sex marriage, and immorality carried the day.

The great values on which America was founded were set aside because of selfishness unbalanced by biblical truth and commitment to Jesus Christ.

Race and ethnicity overrode values. The America we love is sick and in need of renewal and healing. Under these circumstances, Thomas R, it is okay to grieve.

But, after we have grieved, we must press forward. God calls us to be faithful no matter the consequences.

We might be a Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany who never lived to see the fruit of his faithful labor.  We might be a Wilberforce in England who saw the fruit of his labor (the abolition of slavery and reformation of morals), but died soon after, never getting the chance to enjoy the results.

We might even be a David who stood up against popular opinion and defeated a giant who blasphemed God Almighty. But no matter what our lot might be, we are called to be faithful!

++We have a higher calling than the world.

Our calling and our values do not depend on a survey or an election. Whether we are on the verge of revival or are soon to face the death chamber makes no difference in how we respond or how we act. Our obedience is to Christ and to Christ alone!

The world hated Jesus and it is no surprise the world hates the followers of Christ. But, be of good cheer!  The Lord Jesus Christ has overcome the world and is seated on His throne.

Without Christ we are nothing. We are lost and have no hope. And although I grieve for a season, yet I have hope because of Christ!

Yes, God is still in control. But the choices people make have consequences.  He is in control throughout the narrative of Deuteronomy 28. He is also in control in verses 1-14, where Scripture speaks of the blessings that will come to a nation if that  nation follows God and keeps His commandments.

And, He is in control in Deuteronomy 25:15 and following, where the Holy text speaks of the curses that come for not obeying God.

Either way, He is in control!  Either way, no matter what the populace does, we are not allowed to waiver and must always remain faithful.

++Here’s the bottom line…

At the end of the day, pendulums have a way of swinging from right to left and back again. We will no doubt see and feel the consequences of this election.  More children will die.  Marriage will come under greater attack.  Immorality will be exalted.

Sadly, the country could easily collapse under the weight of escalating economic debt.  Islam will be emboldened.  Our military will become weaker.  Israel will not have as strong an ally as it needs at this critical time.  The world will become a more dangerous place.

These are all consequences that follow national actions like the ones we have just witnessed.  But, when you are down, that is the time to fight all the harder!

There is NOTHING impossible for God. He is calling on His people to serve Him and He will not abandon His people!

God has called you and me for such a time as this. God is not surprised by these events. So, to reiterate, it is okay to grieve because what has happened is indeed sad.

But, we cannot go on grieving. We must arise and remember Whom we serve. God will not be mocked and His justice will not sleep forever!

In the midst of  your grief, I want to encourage you. Our eyes must remain focused on the Lord and not on the crashing waves. How can we remain down when we are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb?

How can we remain sad when Almighty God knows our name? How can we be uncertain when we know Who wrote the last chapter of the Book?

May the peace of the Lord be with you.  Be encouraged.  Remain strong.

God bless you,

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Dear Conservatives,

Thank you for your hard work over the last year – fighting for America, Wisconsin, your family, and your freedom.  We fought a valiant fight and we did our job as planned.  Although some of our candidates fell to the liberals in Madison, Milwaukee, and the rest of the United States – Polk County can hold its head up high, because we were successful in our grassroots efforts.

Polk County successfully carried the votes for conservative candidates in every election on the ballot.  We celebrate and congratulate Congressman Duffy’s, State Senator Sheila Harsdorf’s, and State Assemblyman Erik Severson’s re-election victories.  We also are thankful that Republicans maintained the majority in the State Assembly and regained the majority in the State Senate.

Although the majority of Polk County voted for former Governor Tommy Thompson and the Romney/Ryan ticket, we were saddened that the rest of the state and country did not.  As a country, we were successful in maintaining the majority in the House of Representatives, but  we failed to gain the majority in the US Senate. We were also unsuccessful at removing President Barack Obama from power.

A divided America spoke on election night and the majority’s votes re-elected a president that has done more harm to our great country in four years than any other president in history.  Conservatives are realizing today that a majority of American’s have been conditioned to believe that Big Government and a nanny state is the answer any problem.  While we know it to be false and in reality impossible to sustain, those who voted for these lies are willing to give up all their freedoms and liberties for the promises of a pile of free stuff and cradle to grave care by a nosier, bossier and growing government.

Our job now is to minimize the damage to our constitutional freedoms planned by President Obama in the next 4 years. This may be our hardest fight yet. We need to hold Congress to the tasks at hand and work to retake the senate in the next election!  We need to publicly expose the lies and the cover-ups perpetrated by the biased media. We’ve been betrayed by the press and it is up to us to get the truth out to the public – for as long as we have a 1st Amendment to do so.

So, take solace – Conservatism is not dead…no it is still alive and well! We will recover and reform our lines again. This time stronger, smarter, and in greater numbers.  We have lost this battle, but we still can fight for America. Please don’t lose heart now – your future, your kids and grand kids future, depends on our success.

In the coming days, high paid strategists and analysts will be studying this election – trying to figure out what went wrong, how we lost, and what to do next.  The answer is simple.  We were beat because we allow liberals to educate us in every stage of life. We gave (give) our kids to them to educate from birth through college and then wonder why they are confused and unable to think for themselves. We inundate ourselves and our families with liberal media – TV shows, movies, books, and entertainment that is in conflict with our personal values and then wonder why our kids are corrupt.  We wholeheartedly trust the mainstream media to inform us about what is important to us and then believe it to be true because it was on the internet or some cable news show…most of us not realizing we are misled and often determined to be willfully ignorant.

We lost this election because Barack Obama tapped into the misinformed youth and adults and told them what they wanted to hear to get their vote. He made promises he can not keep and said things to make them feel valuable in order to create an army of useful minions. But they were deceived. They were easy prey because we allowed them to be dumbed down by the liberal’s agenda design for such a time as this. We no longer teach about the founding fathers and basics of personal freedom. This failure was the culmination of decades of bad personal and political decisions stemming from our own selfishness and compromise on our convictions.

So, can it be fixed?  Can we do something at this point?

Yes, we can fix this, but we won’t get out of this mess anytime soon and the longer we wait to start correcting the problem, the longer it will take to set things right.

Education

The best way to fix a problem is to acknowledge it exists – then take appropriate steps to correct it.  The problem is ignorance.  The solution is knowledge. The objective is education. We need to educate ourselves, our friends, and our kids about the history of this country, its founders, and the Constitution.  We need to expose their agenda – socialism, communism, environmentalism, feminism, and political correctness is openly taught in our government schools and conservatives rarely say anything against it.  We need to be able to give an educated response to their ideologies and take action against the indoctrination of our kids and even ourselves.  We can not simply rely on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to do the work anymore – we need to engage each other and stand up for our values, beliefs and convictions.  Only then, will we win back the young, the old and begin to take back our nation.

5 Simple Steps

1. Get Involved – Join the Polk County Republican Party and actively participate in our activities or events.
2. Educate Yourself – We have audio & video resources available to bring you up-to-speed on the liberal’s agenda.  Join us at an event, host a meeting in your home or watch a video in your spare time.  Information is power!
3. Ask questions and then give answers.  Become a person who asks questions first.  Find out what people believe and why.  Most people believe what they believe based on bad information.  When you ask them questions, you will find open doors to gently correct the errors and share with them the facts.
4. Build relationships – “A person convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”  Scripture says, “A gentle answer turns away wrath.” Prov. 15:1  Don’t aggressively try to change minds – It doesn’t work. Ask questions, build relationships, and gently persuade them with the truth out of a care for them personally – not to prove you’re right.
5. Never Give Up – You’re job isn’t to change everyone’s minds.  Some will get it and some won’t, but if you plant a conservative idea properly, it may grow when someone else waters it.

Sincerely,

The Polk County Republican Party

You are cordially invited to the Polk County Republicans REAGAN DAY DINNER!

Keynote speaker: Peter Vodenka – Telling his Journey for Freedom story of defection from Communist Czechoslovakia to life of freedom in America.*
Location: Trollhaugen Convention Center in Dresser, WI.
When: November 11th, 2012 at 5pm (Social Hour) 6pm (Dinner & Program).

Please RSVP by calling or emailing Pat Peterson: 715-755-2644 or gordy-pat@centurytel.net

The mainstream media did little to cover the story that delegates at this year’s Democratic National Convention publicly denounced God three times.  In an effort to placate the remaining Christian Democrats and mention God somewhere in their party platform, a vote was taken to put God back in. The vote was called for three times. All three times God was booed and denied.  It can be found on www.youtube.com Search, “Democrat’s Boo God”.

Democrats chose to have their convention in the Bible belt, but then refused welcome gift bags from local churches because the congregations hold values that are contrary to their party platform. [That platform without God]. The gift bags included no political message, but local praline candy and a welcome letter.

A different religion was welcomed at the convention and got national coverage.  But there was no coverage for the 9000 Christians that assembled to pray for the convention the Sunday before it started.

America was founded on Christian beliefs and her laws founded on the Word of God. The book “Sacred Fire” by Peter Lillback provides some history. Since the Bill of Rights, America has had assurance that secures our freedom of religion – not freedom from religion.  But this year a federal mandate forces all employers be required to provide sterilization and contraception to employees.  We were told we could keep our own healthcare, but now Catholic hospitals must provide abortions. We are losing our freedoms step by eroding step.  Can we choose not to be willfully ignorant and realize a very important basic freedom has just been taken away.

Do you ever notice that it is the Democrats who champion the side of darkness; the culture of death [abortion and euthanasia], crippling debt, the promotion of thuggish communist governments, favoring one religion over Christianity, stripping more personal freedoms, increasing a tax burden on future generations….

Maybe it is time to take a look to see if the Democrat party still holds the same values you do.

“The Harbinger”, by Jonathan Cahn, writes about ancient Israel receiving warnings from God before their destruction – very much like what is happening now in America.

Do you think that God might be getting tired of all our naughtiness and haughtiness? I hear it’s happened before.

Sally Porte

• http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/05/jerusalem_and_god_get_booed_at_dem_convention.html
• http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/dnc-rejects-church-gift-baskets.html

Movie Night | Polk County Republican Party

Double Feature!

• Isaiah 9:10 Judgment from the New York Times best seller -  The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn
• The Determinators: Whoever Pays Holds the Power to Decide.

An obscure passage in the Book of Isaiah describing the fall of ancient Israel has, since September 11, 2001, been eerily re-enacted in the United States exactly as it originally occurred in the time of the great prophet of Israel leading to the nation’s demise.

Jonathan Cahn, the author of The Harbinger, has been shocking audiences by revealing the astonishing parallels between the fall of ancient Israel and current events unfolding in the US, what he calls “an ancient mystery that holds the secret of America’s future and the collapse of the global economy.”

In this stunning new documentary The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment, Rabbi Cahn unravels the mystery behind this seemingly innocuous Biblical verse, and shows that ancient harbingers of judgment are now manifesting in America, just as they once did in Israel. This fascinating new DVD asks the question, “Is God sending America a prophetic message of what will soon be?” and Rabbi Cahn provides the answers through mounting evidence that the answer is ‘yes.’

Polk County Republican Party
St Croix Falls Library  6:30 pm
Monday, October 15

Is Barak Obama a Red Diaper Baby? www.obamasrealfather.com

Dreams from My Real Father A Story of Reds and Deception

At age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama’s foundation in Marxism? Throughout his 2008 Presidential campaign and term in office, questions have been raised regarding Barack Obama’s family background, economic philosophy, and fundamental political ideology. Dreams from My Real Father is the alternative Barack Obama “autobiography,” offering a divergent theory of what may have shaped our 44th President’s life and politics.

In Dreams from My Real Father, Barack Obama is portrayed by a voice over actor who chronicles Barack Obama’s life journey in socialism, from birth through his election to the Presidency. The film begins by presenting the case that Barack Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist who likely shaped Obama’s world view during his formative years. Barack Obama sold himself to America as the multi-cultural ideal, a man who stood above politics. Was the goat herding Kenyan father only a fairy tale to obscure a Marxist agenda, irreconcilable with American values?

This fascinating narrative is based in part on 2 years of research, interviews, newly unearthed footage and photos, and the writings of Davis and Obama himself. Dreams from My Real Father weaves together the proven facts with reasoned logic in an attempt to fill-in the obvious gaps in Obama’s history. Is this the story Barack Obama should have told, revealing his true agenda for “fundamentally transforming America?” Director Joel Gilbert concludes, “To understand Obama’s plans for America, the question is ’Who is the real father?’”

We’ve been hearing a lot about the redistribution of wealth from our current President.  In theory, it sounds great BUT let’s review how this theory works when moved from concept to reality.  The most obvious example is the Soviet Union.  When the government took away the land from the successful farmers and distributed it to the masses, food became scarce and thousands of Soviet people died from starvation.

When people see their wealth is going to be confiscated for “the good” of others, they soon began to lose interest in producing more.  Over time there becomes less “wealth” for the government to redistribute.  Russia, Germany, Cuba are just some of the countries who’ve experienced the failure of moving this theory from concept to reality.

Thomas Sowell, a nationally syndicated columnist, writes:  “If the redistributionist were serious, what they would want to distribute is the ability to fish, or to be productive in other ways.  Knowledge is one of the few things that can be distributed without reducing the amount held by others.”  He goes on to say:  “That would better serve the interests of the poor, but it would not serve the interests of politicians who want to exercise power, and to get the votes of people who are dependent on them.”  Redistributionists give people a fish and leave them dependent on the government for more fish in the future!

Our country doesn’t need more government programs; it doesn’t need more politicians promising whatever they determine people “need.”  Our country needs a LEADER — someone who will revamp our education system so that it will prepare our young people for their future careers (teach them to “fish”); someone who will get serious about working with the captains of industry to create jobs that will get our 26 MILLION unemployed/underemployed back to work; someone who will work WITH our healthcare professionals & insurance companies & drug companies in order to lower costs and CONTINUE to provide the best medical care in the world!

In 2008 Barack Obama promised people fish and cell phones and homes and … the people responded by electing him President.  As a result we now have 26M people unemployed/underemployed; we have 46.7M on food stamps, that’s 14.9% of the entire population.

Did you vote for fish?

Dear Editor:

How crazy is our culture becoming?  The highest paid teachers in the country (avg. $76,000 a year) go on strike in Chicago, even though 40% of their students never graduate from high school; the “Occupy” movement rhetoric damning the “rich” is echoed by our President as being a reason to implement his agenda; and the entitlement mentality is pushing our country into a great abyss!

Benjamin Franklin said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”  What USED to be considered personal responsibilities (health care, education, food, housing, cell phones, etc.) have become “rights” that others are expected to pay for.

So how is our government paying for all these new “rights?”  Borrowing from China – that’s one way.  Have you heard about “Quantitative easing three (QE3)?”  This is the plan from the government to print money indefinitely to buy our own debt.  That’s like getting a new credit card to pay off the one you’ve already maxed out.  On 9/13/12, the Federal Reserve announced the launch a new $40 billion a month, open-ended, bond purchasing program of agency mortgage-backed securities.  Ratings firm Egan-Jones said it believes the Fed’s decision “will hurt the U.S. economy and, by extension, credit quality.” As a result the firm once again slashed the U.S. bond rating bringing it down to AA.  The United States is now ranked last on a list of 192 countries in economic strength!  China is ranked FIRST…

There is a solution to these problems.  This upcoming election will determine whether we have the will to survive as a free nation or not.  We need to elect LEADERS who will rein in spending NOW!  We not only need a President who will LEAD, we need Senators and Congressmen who will stand firm with the President.  Enough of this divide and conquer mentality of the current administration – we don’t need class warfare, racial warfare, neighbor against neighbor like our President keeps telling us we need.  Barack Obama keeps saying he wants to work with everyone – the problem is that’s all he’s done – TALK – to Letterman, Whoopi, Jay-Z, etc.

Let’s get beyond TALK – elect a President who WILL take ACTION!  Elect a President who takes responsibility instead of blaming others & FOUR years later is still blaming others!

Take time to watch the YouTube video “The United States Budget Dilemma.”

Sharon Kelly
St. Croix Falls

Madison, WI – The Community Bankers of Wisconsin (CBW), a statewide association of more than 200 community banks, announced its support for Tommy Thompson for the U.S. Senate, citing his proven record on job creation, lowering taxes and fostering a pro-business environment.

“Community bankers support Tommy Thompson’s efforts to restore America by stimulating our economy through a focus on job creation and by cutting taxes and eliminating excessive regulations,” said Daryll Lund, president and CEO of the Community Bankers of Wisconsin. “CBW is proud to support the candidacy of Tommy Thompson and look forward to working with him as our next U.S. Senator.”

Governor Thompson knows the best way to create jobs and restore America is to create an environment that fosters entrepreneurial activity – not one that hinders it. As governor, Thompson cut taxes 91 times, saving Wisconsin taxpayers $16 billion and creating 740,000 new jobs.

“Wisconsin’s community banks are the lifeblood of our economy,” said Governor Thompson. “They make capital available for our most important investments, such as mortgages, higher education and small business growth. They create jobs and provide invaluable financial advice to individuals and small businesses alike. I’m proud to have the endorsement of the Community Bankers of Wisconsin, and I look forward to working with them to pass smart economic policy in the U.S. Senate.”

Thompson faces off against liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in November.