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Important Dates
March 10, 2011
Illinois Gun Owners Lobby
Day
Click here for the
IGOLD website.
March 22, 2011
6:00 pm - Riverbend 912
Meeting Bethalto Senior Citizen
Center
March 26, 2011
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Trivia
Night at the Wood River Moose Lodge. Click on the link below
for the reservation form.
Trivia
Night.pdf
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Bethalto School District Bond Issue
We are in need of people
to walk door to door to obtain signatures for a petition to allow
the residents of the Bethalto School District the right to vote on a
10 million dollar Bond issue that the district is wanting
to obtain. The school board is voting yes on these bonds and if we
can gather 2,000 signatures we can stop the issue from going forward
until a proposition can be placed on the ballot in March of 2012.
The reason for the
urgency is that we have less than 30 days to get the signatures and
get them certified. We are working in conjunction with many
conservatives in the area. This is a great non-partisan issue and we
have been trying to get this information out to the public for some
time.
We are asking all 9-12
members who live in Madison County to please engage and help us in
obtaining these signatures. This is a perfect opportunity for us to
put our organizational system to the test.
The walk folders are
located at Mary Goode's office (behind Dairy Queen on 140). We have
divided most of the packets up into 60 names. We will be walking
all weekend and ask that you come by and pick up a packet. The
packet contains a script and instructions. You may do it on your own
time schedule. We are asking that you turn the packet back in as
soon as you are finished as we are on a tight time line. The only
criterion to obtain signatures is that you live in Madison County.
You do not need to live in Bethalto to assist.
We will be walking this
weekend and throughout the week and evenings. We are asking for the
big push this weekend so we may deliver as many names to the board
as possible on Monday for their meeting.
Please call or email
Kathy and let us know if you will be picking up a packet and
walking. We know the weather is not nice, but the opposition is
counting on that. If we do not stop these bonds, they will affect
the resident's taxes.
You may also call Donna
Smith, she is coordinating the walk lists and will be available if
you have any questions.
Wood
River Schools Consolidation Movement
At the previous meeting Mike Babcock and Brendan Mckee
presented the reasons why we should support the Wood River Schools
consolidation movement. For further information you can link
to the "Citizens For A Better Education" website by clicking
here.
1% sales tax increase for Madison County Schools
On April 5th the ballot will
contain a vote for a 1% sales tax increase for Madison County
Schools. This increase is not in the best interest
of the taxpayers.
One of the reasons that this is not a
good idea is that it gives the school districts the power to
increase your taxes in the event they are unable to make payments on
the Bonds.
Another issue is that, although this is
being sold as a break on your property taxes, historically, very few
entities that have adopted these increases have actually passed
these savings on to the taxpayer.
The odds are that once this measure is
voted in, it will be a forever tax.
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FOID Card
The link below will take you to a site where you can fill out and
then print a FOID card application.
The FOID card is required for any resident of Illinois to possess or
purchase firearms. During the FOID application process, the
applicant’s identification and background information is checked.
Click here for FOID application
Notable Quotes
"The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis de
Tocqueville
"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you
want is also big enough to take away everything you have." - Barry
Goldwater
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those
in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James
Madison
"If
there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have
peace." - Tom
Paine
"Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the
marketplace will always allocate resources better than any
centralized government planning process." - Ronald
Reagan
"I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free
unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here
that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government
expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald
Reagan
"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed
enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much." - Ronald
Reagan
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