Following a delay by the Government Accountability Board, the Republican Party of Wisconsin has received the initial batch of recall petitions for Governor Scott Walker. Our hand review program will begin on Friday, January 27th at 3PM. All offices will have four shifts daily beginning at 9AM, 12PM, 3PM, and 6PM. If you do volunteer for a shift please remember to show up 15 minutes prior to the start of your shift.

Walk in shifts are welcome and we would love to use whatever time you do have available even if you can’t commit to a full 3 hour shift.

All the training required to verify recall signatures will be provided at the start of each of our four daily shifts. The brief training will include a review of our verification program as well as an overview of how to scan for invalid signatures.

Due to the strict time frame for our challenges to be submitted to the Government Accountability Board the Volunteer Hand-Review process is scheduled to run from Friday, January 27 to Tuesday, January 31st.

Sincerely,
Political Department
Republican Party of Wisconsin

P.S. Our Victory Centers are open for volunteers to make voter contacts from 9am to 9pm daily. Please stop in to a Victory Center near you to help us identify Governor Walker’s supporters and turn them out to the polls in the event of a recall election.

Victory Centers are open in the following cities: Appleton, Eau Claire, Germantown, Green Bay, Hudson, La Crosse, Madison, Oshkosh, Racine, Wausau, Waukesha, Wauwatosa, West Bend.

WAUWATOSA VICTORY CENTER
1233 N. Mayfair Road, Suite 111, Milwaukee, WI 53226
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wauwatosa-Republican-Party-Victory-Center/225312944219163?sk=wall

Addresses for other Victory Centers are available here:
http://www.wisgop.org/victory

Questions? Call (608) 257-4765.

Join fellow Republicans as we honor the life of our 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

Confirmed guests: RNC Chair Reince Priebus, Senator Ron Johnson, Congressmen Paul Ryan; U.S. Senate candidates former Governor Tommy Thompson, Mark Neumann and Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald. Invited guests include Governor Scott Walker, Cong. James Sensenbrenner and Tom Petri.

Cocktails at 5:30 pm, Dinner at 7:00 pm.

Checks for full amount may be sent to the RPMC P.O.Box 14665 West Allis, WI 53214 or you may sign up online. Charge per person at the door will be $50.

Signup for this event at
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/rpmc/190/975/eventsignup.aspx

Volunteer for Republican causes at
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/rpmc/volunteersignup.aspx

Become a member of the RPMC at
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/rpmc/membersignup.aspx

We just received another new shipment of 1,000 “Stand with Walker” signs. They will be available at the RPMC office at 1488 So. 84th St. in West Allis. We are asking for a contribution of $5.

Office hours this week will be 11:30 am to 5 pm. Monday through Friday.

Office hours on Saturday will be 9 am to 4 pm.

We are hoping that these hours will be the same every week. We are working hard to make sure we have someone there during these times.

Sundays we will not be open until after the Super Bowl.

We also have t-shirts, bumperstickers and campaign buttons supporting the Governor at the office.

Give us a call at 414-727-1220 for questions.

Show your support of Governor Walker!

The RPMC is on Facebook

The RPMC is on Twitter

Where to report fraud intimidation - the Recall Integrity Center

Volunteer to verify recall petitions at http://www.scottwalker.org

The media’s silence on the March for Life

My hopes for a Time magazine spread about the March for Life protesters are fading fast. For the fifth year in a row, The New York Times ignored the March for Life, which drew at least a hundred thousand participants in D.C. alone. NewsBusters reports:

For the fifth year in a row, there was no story in the Times print edition on the annual March for Life against abortion in Washington, D.C., which every year draws massive crowds in unpromising weather on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion. …

As Times Watch reported last January, the 2011 print edition of the Times did not feature an actual news story of the thousands who marched in frigid weather, just two photos with the caption “Abortion Opponents Rally On the National Mall,” above a three-sentence description that led to a link to photographs online. That was actually a vast improvement; the Times in print absolutely ignored the March for Life in 2010, 2009, and 2008 (a 300-word story marked the 2007 March for Life on January 23 of that year).

The Times is far more eager to publicize protests in support of liberal causes, no matter how puny. When four protesters marched in support of the doomed Dream Act to grant amnesty to illegal immigrant students, the Times marked the occasion with a 780-word story.

Read more by Tina Korbe at HotAir.com

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wauwatosa-Republican-Party-Victory-Center/225312944219163?sk=wall

Address is 1233 North Mayfair Road, Suite 111

There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.

This guy is Barack Obama. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy. George W. Bush is, for sure, and that evil Dick Cheney, oh, no doubt. House Speaker John A. Boehner — evil, too — is, of course, to blame. But guess what? So is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and every Democrat in the House and Senate.

Now, President Truman made it very clear: The buck stops with him. No passing the buck for that guy. But Mr. Obama blames everyone but himself. Mr. Bush, he says, left the nation in a ditch, a deep ditch, and he’s been digging out since he took office. And Congress? Those guys are just plain awful, he says. So mean. Wah, they won’t do anything I want done! Mr. Obama feels so sure about it that he’s basing his re-election campaign on bashing Capitol Hill.

But with the president delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday night, let’s pause here to take as hard look at the real state of America, by the numbers, using only cold, hard facts.

Read more by Joseph Curl in The Washington Times

1000 days, as of January 24, 2012

Obama’s State of the Union Address to Mark 1,000 Days Without a Democrat Budget

Democrats have not fulfilled their basic budget responsibilities since April 29, 2009

When President Barack Obama offers his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, it will mark exactly 1,000 days since the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has passed a budget. The Senate has not bothered to pass a budget since April 29, 2009.

Read more at Americans for Tax Reform

President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it. All it tells us is that Obama is so obsessed with his re-election that, through some sort of political calculus, he believes that placating his environmental supporters will improve his chances.

Aside from the political and public relations victory, environmentalists won’t get much. Stopping the pipeline won’t halt the development of tar sands, to which the Canadian government is committed; therefore, there will be little effect on global warming emissions. Indeed, Obama’s decision might add to them. If Canada builds a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific for export to Asia, moving all that oil across the ocean by tanker will create extra emissions. There will also be the risk of added spills.

Now consider how Obama’s decision hurts the United States. For starters, it insults and antagonizes a strong ally; getting future Canadian cooperation on other issues will be harder. Next, it threatens a large source of relatively secure oil that, combined with new discoveries in the United States, could reduce (though not eliminate) our dependence on insecure foreign oil.

Finally, Obama’s decision forgoes all the project’s jobs.

Read more by Robert Samuelson at RealClearPolitics.com

–SNIP– Deborah Howell, {Washington} Post ombudsman from 2005 through 2008, said at the end of her tenure that “some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt [at The Post] are valid.”

I won’t quibble with her conclusion. I think she was right. I read all of The Post’s lengthier, meatier stories on Obama published from October 2006 through Election Day 2008. That was about 120 stories, and tens of thousands of words, including David Maraniss’s 10,000-word profile about Obama’s Hawaii years, which I liked.

I think there was way too little coverage of his record in the Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate, for example, with one or two notably good exceptions. But there were hard-hitting stories too, even a very tough one on Michelle Obama’s job at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

And that’s what The Post needs to do in covering his reelection campaign this year: be hard-hitting on his record and provide fresh insight and plenty of context to put the past three rough years into perspective.

Read more by Patrick B. Pexton at the Washington Post

Late in October 1973, grassroots prolife leaders became concerned that January 22, 1974, might come and go without properly memorializing the Supreme Court’s infamous abortion decisions and without petitioning Congress for redress.

No established right-to-life organization was prepared to undertake the planning, financial and operational responsibilities for a high impact prolife March on the U.S. Capitol. But, grassroots prolifers wanted to march! About thirty prolife veterans resolved themselves into a committee and began making plans for the first March for Life.

On January 22, 1974, the first March for Life was held on the West Steps of the Capitol. An estimated 20,000 committed prolife Americans rallied that day on behalf of our preborn brothers and sisters.

In 1974, the March for Life was incorporated as a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian organization.

Our numbers have gradually risen through the years despite reduced numbers from the snow in 2000 and the terrible 9/11 attacks just months before the March 2002. These growing numbers give testimony to the increasing ranks of prolife Americans and to the importance of the March’s work.

The Marchers Keep Marching
The First March 1974 20,000
March 1975 50,000
March 1976 65,000
Marches 1977-1998 Up to 100,000
The 25th March 1998 225,000
March 1999 125,000
March 2000 100,000
March 2001 225,000
March 2002 100,000
Marches 2003 - 2007 200,000

Read more at http://www.marchforlife.org

“Stand With Governor Walker” ~ by Glen Shulfer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIMDTjHB6A

The caucus of the Republican Party of Milwaukee County will be held on Saturday February 25, starting at 9am. $5 will be cost for caucus only. Breakfast is extra, for $10. At the Harmony Inn, 5601 Broad Street, Greendale.

There is no admission charge for branch caucuses (caucii?), but you must be a current member of the Republican Party of Milwaukee County to participate in your local caucus.

SIX BRANCHES OF THE RPMC
1. Milwaukee North Branch: Sam Hagedorn, chair
Mon. January 16 at 7:00pm
at Bob Spindell’s, Prospect Towers, Condo #2209, 1626 No. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202

2. Milwaukee South Branch: Michael Murphy, chair
Thurs. January 12, starting at 6:30pm
at the “K” Ranch , 4840 S. Whitnall Ave., Cudahy.
Speakers: Mark Neumann and Dan Sebring at 6:30pm, caucus after.

3. Northshore: Laurie Wolf, chair
Mon. February 6, at 5:30pm
at the Milwaukee River Hilton
Join fellow Republicans as we celebrate the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Confirmed speakers: Lt Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, State Assemblyman & Senate Candidate Jeff Fitzgerald, Surrogate speaker for former Congressman Mark Neumann, RPW Chairman Brad Courtney, State Senator Alberta Darling, State Senator Van Wanggaard, State Assemblyman Jim Ott, County Supervisor Joe Rice
Signup at
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/rpmc/184/988/eventsignup.aspx

4. Southwest Suburban: Roseann Dieck, chair, swsrepublicanclub AT yahoo.com
Mon. January 23, at 6:30pm
at the Franklin Public Library (corner of Loomis and Drexel)

5. Wauwatosa: Becky Geary, chair
Thurs. January 26, at 7:00pm
at Keller Williams Office, 12700 W. Bluemound Road, Suite 100.

6. West Allis/West Milwaukee: Tony Bellanti, chair
Thurs. January 26, at 7:00pm
at the RPMC HQ 1488 S. 84th St. West Allis.

DISTRICT CAUCUSES:
– First District Caucus - Sat. April 21
– Fourth District Caucus - Sat. April 21, Registration and breakfast will start at 8:30 am.
at Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 No. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202.
– Fifth District Caucus - Sun. April 22
at the Quilted Bear, Germantown

RPW STATE CONVENTION from Fri. May 11 to Sun. May 13 at the KI Center, Green Bay

Roe v. Wade, decided by the US Supreme Court on January 22, 1973

Hart Park in Wauwatosa
Sat, January 21, 2012, 1pm – 4pm

Scheduled Speakers (Check back as it is constantly growing):
Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleesfisch
Former Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson;
Former congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Neumann;
State Sens. Leah Vukmir, Alberta Darling, Glen Grothman and Van Wanggaard;
State Reps. Robin Vos, Jeff Stone and David Craig.
State Treasurer Kurt Schuller
Nationally known political activist Kim Simac and Libertarian speaker Tim Nerenz

We have even more potentially in the works so stay tuned.

Celebrate Walker Rally/Celebration on Facebook

Article at Wauwatosa Patch

2nd article at Wauwatosa Patch

Our speaker is John Callaway, SE WISGOP Regional Director. He will be speaking about the Verify the Recall Signature Process and you will have an opportunity to sign up for the process. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to hear John and stay inform!

We will have also club business and two board members will take the National Federation of Republican Women’s oath.

The event is free, but you can order off the menu, but please RSVP; so we have a head count.

Saturday, Jan. 21 at Benny’s Cafe at 9:30 AM.

Benny’s Cafe
5354 South 27th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53221-3756
On S. 27th Street
North of College Ave.

Contact: Dana Meyers, President, Republican Women of Greater Milwaukee (RWGM) at 414-467-7419

Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline and blames Congress.

The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President’s hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the economic recovery has been so lackluster because the second impulse keeps winning.

Yesterday came proof positive with the White House’s repudiation of the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada’s $7 billion shovel-ready project that would support tens of thousands of jobs if only it could get the requisite U.S. permits. Those jobs, apparently, can wait.

Read more at The Wall Street Journal

We had a great turnout at the Waukesha training session yesterday, and there are more Verify the Recall training sessions this week:

Wauwatosa Victory Office
1233 N. Mayfair Road (northwest corner of Watertown Plank and Mayfair)
Ste. 111

Even if you have received your training in Waukesha, you may go to the office on Tosa to help with verifying signatures.

Training sessions are being held at
7:00 pm on Wed. Jan. 18, (done)
7:00 pm on Thur. Jan. 19, (done) and
7:00 pm on Fri. Jan. 20

If you have not been to a training session, it is very important that to try to attend one of these sessions.

Thank you very much for your help in this part of the recall.

Where: The Anchorage/Hilton, 4700 N. Port Washington Rd, Glendale

SPEAKERS: Jon Callaway, SE WISGOP Regional Director + US Senate Candidate
TOPICS: Verify the Recall + The Race for the Senate

TIME: 11:30 A.M. Social/Sign In
12:00 P.M. Luncheon

Don’t miss this golden opportunity to get up to speed on how the Wisconsin GOP and Governor Walker’s team are responding to the disgraceful recall attempt. Is there a plan? Can you help? Come to this meeting for the answers. We will also receive training that will enable us to be a productive part of the statewide effort to verify recall signatures, support the Walker reforms, and defend the results of our fairly won election.

Lost in the news is the Race for the Senate and the WI seat that is up for grabs in November. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to elect a Conservative to represent us in Washington D.C. alongside Ron Johnson? We will book a US Senate Candidate at each of our upcoming meetings, so you have a chance to hear and meet each one. Check our website where we’ll announce who is coming in January as soon as we confirm.

Bring your questions & friends!

Alert: Food costs have increased, and there’s no way the Anchorage/Hilton can provide salad, entree with vegetable, bread, dessert, and coffee/tea/water, service, and taxes for less than $17 now. We will continue to only charge our costs for the meal, which means you get to hear and meet a great guest speaker for free!

RSVP by Tues., Jan. 17 — the earlier, the easier our job. Lunch at the Anchorage includes salad, Beef Tips Bordelaise, dessert, camaraderie and great information. Please note if you prefer a vegetarian entree. Please MAIL CHECK to: Elaine Boyce, 3059 South Shore Dr., MKE WI 53207. Payable to SRWC ($17/members & their first-time guests / $22 non-members after 1st visit). Call Jane 414-352-2290 with questions/RSVP. RSVP via email to SRWC@wi.rr.com. If you haven’t already renewed your SRWC membership or joined, it’s only $20 through 2012. Check the label on your envelope to see if it’s time for you to renew. Donations gladly accepted to help support the excellent line up of speakers.

SRWCmilwaukee.com

President Obama’s jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines.

“[W]e should allow more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands,” states the year-end report released Tuesday by the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

The report does not specifically mention the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it endorses moving forward quickly with projects that “deliver electricity and fuel,” including pipelines.

“The Council recognizes the important safety and environmental concerns surrounding these types of projects, but now more than ever, the jobs and economic and energy security benefits of these energy projects require us to tackle the issues head-on and to expeditiously, though cautiously, move forward on projects that can support hundreds of thousands of jobs,” the report says.

Read more by Andrew Restuccia at TheHill.com

Pictures from a class to teach volunteers how to verify recall petitions was held at Republican Headquarters of Waukesha County in Waukesha.

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at JSonline.com