Healthcare Townhalls

This summer's townhall meetings are all over the news. It seems that telling our employees what we expect them to do is threatening to them.

Do you enter your boss' office, tell him what you are doing whether or not s/he likes it, that s/he can do nothing about it and that s/he can not tell you otherwise or you will have her thrown out? That is what is happening! We are the employer; they work for us! Yet, across the country, our elected officials, our hired hands are calling in security and police to silence us!

We must not let them silence us, however! Plan to attend at least 1 townhall this summer. Take signs, take a list of questions and make yourself heard. Be prepared and be informed. If possible, offer an alternative. Do not threaten and do not call names. Keep your questions/remarks factual. Try to have someone with you to video with a camera or a cell phone.

Above all, be respectful, but firm. We pay them, we have a right to demand that they follow their job descriptions. Do not give the opposition reason to be in physical fear. Keep it clean, respectful and assertive. We do not want to emulate the extreme left behavior. No violence or littering.

If you need a copy of a pocket Constitution, you can request one free here. Better yet, buy 100 copies for a low price of $30 (s/h included) and distribute them to everybody including politicians!


Townhalls this week

Defazio has 7 townhalls on Wednesday and Thursday this week and 6 next week. You can find his schedule on page 4 of his August newsletter.

Merkley's office stated that he will hold one townhall per year and we already had ours. He has no currently scheduled townhall meetings per his website. Call all of his offices and demand an audience with your employee.

Wyden's website has links for each county with a list of townhalls for each~ all of them in the past. Call his offices and request townhalls, too!

If you are looking for phone numbers to call these rogue employees or having a problem finding Defazio's townhall list, drop me an email and I will send them to you.

A letter to the GOP

I have always appreciated your support and your advice, There seems to be some real miscommunication in the party, however.

I did not realize that this OPR meeting this weekend was a speaking engagement, nor did I receive any invitation. While my opponent had an opportunity to address the people of this state, I was out gathering petitions for the tax initiative. Kerry Ferguson emphasized that the weekend training session series was only for non-declared candidates. Since I filed my FEC paperwork, I figured I was a 'declared' candidate.

As a PCP, a Pachy, a donor, an county volunteer coordinator, and a candidate, I would have expected to receive an invitation to this event. And in the event that I was not there, I would expect that my candidacy would have been announced to the attendees and that my campaign materials would be made available. As it was, those attending this event saw only the endorsement of the party of Sid Leiken.

This does not appear to be the impartiality that I was told would be presented by the party in a contested primary race. I would like to hope that the next time there is an event I will be told about it far enough in advance that I can make arrangements to attend. Since I am speaking around the state now, I need to know at least 2 weeks in advance so that I can coordinate the schedules with my manager.

Thank-you for your usual support and impartiality!

Jaynee

An open letter to the timber industry

My name is Jaynee Germond and I am running for US Congress, OR-4 for 2010. I want to take this opportunity to re-introduce myself. Last year, I ran this race against Peter Defazio, but was on a 3rd party ticket. As a fiscal conservative, I spent 1% of the campaign funds that Mr. Defazio claimed to have spent to win the election. With less than $5,000, I took a district-wide 13% of the vote with a county variance of 10-23%. This year running on a Republican ticket with American’s dissatisfaction with our federal government, the time is right for me to win this election.

My primary opponent, like my general election opponent, opines that “Our timber industry is gone. It is time to look forward to other options, like tourism”. He prides himself on the new hospital in Springfield and is boastful of the 3500 jobs it has created. While that is an accomplishment, it does not put our loggers back to work. I will not accept the demise of Oregon’s timber industry.

When meeting a woman a few months ago, I asked her what she did for a living. “We farm” she replied. When I asked her what her crop was she grinned, “Trees”. As I talk to people and travel across the country, I meet people who call me a tree-hugger from Oregon. I re-educate them that real Oregonians don’t hug trees; they harvest them, replant them, mill them and sell them. In other words, they are farmers. To demand that Oregon not grow trees is akin to demanding that Iowa not grow corn, Idaho not grow potatoes and Michigan not build cars. Growing, harvesting and taking trees to market is what Oregon does; and it does it well.

As your elected representative in Congress, I will work to bring our timber industry back. Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 17 of the US Constitution states that the Federal government has no jurisdiction over any land except that which is designated as the seat of government (District of Columbia). The 10th amendment states that the US government is constrained to the powers listed in Article 1, section 8. Of course the national parks act and others has usurped some of our authority, but I believe that together with other Constitution-believing representatives, we can regain our timberlands…. but you need a representative willing to fight for it.

I am willing, no, eager to fight for our timberland, but I need your help to do so. To run a race of this magnitude against ‘experienced’ politicians who are beholden to special interest groups, I need your generous contribution to my campaign. I ask that you consider your most generous contribution today. Your industry, our state depends on it. Thank-you in advance for your donation.