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March 8, 2010
The Constitutional Patriots met for their regular scheduled meeting on Monday March 8, 2010 at the Life Center Auditorium. Johanna Campbell opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and then led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. She then announced the guest speakers for some future meetings and some future events:
Saturday, March 13 - Dave Fillers is having a fundraiser at the 4-H facility. He is a candidate for Wells County Sheriff.
Saturday, May 15 - Republican Lincoln Day Dinner.
March 18 - current deadline for vote on the Health Care Bill in Washington. There will be some buses taking people there to protest the bill.
Monte Fisher - Candidate for Wells County Sheriff will be hosting a "meet and greet" on March 21st at the 4-H Building.
Phyllis Shady from our prayer team then led us in prayer.
Ryan Mounsey, candidate for Wells County Sheriff then gave a brief talk. He is married with three children and currently is employed at the Sheriff's Department. He is a Southern Wells graduate and has a two year associates degree. He stated he decided to run for the office to try to better the department.
Charlie White, a Republican candidate for Indiana Secretary of State told the audience his political awareness started with Ronald Regan when he was only 12 years of age. He is an attorney and also the Republican Chairman for Hamilton County. Some issues that are important to him are:
Photo ID law - he thinks this would be very beneficial.
Continue the good work of the current Secretary of State
Promote the idea of easily understood voter boundaries
Promote the idea of a one-stop shop - for example when starting a business you should be able to go on line to one place and accomplish everything necessary to start that business. He then answered several questions from the audience.
Sam Locke, a Democratic candidate for Indiana State Auditor was the next speaker. He said he lives in New Albany and works at the National Headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Louisville. He believes he can be more transparent in handling our dollars as auditor. He would like to do the following:
Have an Accounts Payable Recovery System- making sure payments are only paid once
Government Reform - needs to start at the top instead of the bottom(local)
Increase use of electronic records and provide more public access
Pledge to work with other office holders - regardless of political affiliation
Provide information on line that would help small businesses
He then took questions from the audience.
Michael Yancey introduced John Totten from the Freedom Makers Coalition who stated patriot groups need to join together in order to have one voice. He said all politics are local and we need to pray, stay informed and do not give up.
Donations were taken to help pay for expenses. Meeting was adjourned at 8:25pm. The next meeting will be March 22, 2010 at 7:00pm.
SPEAKERS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS:
March 22 - Representative Espich; Phil Stoller on Township Government
April 12 - Senator Holdman; Representative Lehman
April 26 - Local Candidate Night; Part II/Pre-Primary Wrap UP
