26 Oct 2009 – Meeting Minutes

MINUTES

October 26, 2009

The Constitutional Patriots met for their regular scheduled meeting on October 26, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Life Center Auditorium. Steve Huffman welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming. Ted Claghorn offered the prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance recited by the audience.

Johanna Campbell noted the following upcoming events:

November 9 - Matt Rawlings of Allegiance Defense Fund

November 23 - Don Bates, Jr. - Senatorial Candidate

December 14 - Marlin Stutzman - Senatorial Candidate

She then introduced the Guest Speaker Richard Behney, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. He will be running for the Senate seat currently held by Evan Bayh.

Mr. Behney owns a small plumbing business and stated that the economy has caught up with his business as it has many many small businesses and he had to make some painful cuts in his employees. He started the "Tea Party" in Indianapolis and had 15,000 people join him on tax day. He had never done anything like this before but felt he had to do something to stop his country from being taken away. People started asking him to run for office and after visiting Washington D.C. and much soul searching he along with his wife decided he would run for the U.S. Senate. He cares about his God, his family and his country and hopes we the people feel the same way. He's asking people to send him to Washington to protect the Constitution. He believes in the following principles:

1. God is the center of his life.

2. Believes family is the backbone of our nation. He believes life starts at conception and all life has dignity.

3. Believes in the Constitution and the Republic that it defines.

4. Believes America is a good and great nation and is proud of who we are as a people.

5. He believes in government of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to stand up for our Founding Fathers.

He then had a very productive question and answer session with many concerns voiced by audience members.

One of his volunteers then showed a large copy of the Declaration of Independence and asked everyone to sign it as they left. He had asked Mr. Behney to let Wells County residents be the first to sign due to the fact he was raised in Ossian. He said Mr. Behney has a book due out in mid November and encouraged everyone to read it. He stressed their need for donations as they are operating on a small budget.

Johanna Campbell asked for freewill donations to help pay for our facility. Meeting was adjourned at 8:23pm.