Saturday, May 22, 2010
Prohibit Illegal Aliens from receiving Worker's Comp: Support OH SB 238
Senate Bill 238
Synopsis:
Senate Bill 238 would prohibit illegal and unauthorized aliens from receiving compensation and benefits under Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_238_I_Y.pdf
Proponent testimony was on May 18, 2010. We attended the hearing and gave testimony in support of this Bill. Opponent testimony is scheduled for Tuesday May 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM.
Members of the Grassroots Rally Team also emailed supportive testimony to Senator Seitz, which was also presented as testimony at the hearing. You can still e-mail testimony to Senator Seitz at SD08@senate.state.oh.us .
Please contact the committee members and voice your support of this bill.
The following are the Insurance, Commerce and Labor committee members:
Steve Buehrer (R) Chair
Phone: (614) 466-8150
Email: SD01@senate.state.oh.us
Keith Faber (R)Vice Chair
Phone: (614) 466-7584
Email: SD12@senate.state.oh.us
Joe Schiavoni (D) Ranking Minority Member
Phone: (614) 466-8285
Email: SD33@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Karen Gillmor (R)
Phone: (614) 466-8049
Email: SD26@senate.state.oh.us
Jim Hughes (R)
Phone: (614) 466-5981
Email: SD16@senate.state.oh.us
Shannon Jones (R)
Phone: (614) 466-9737
Email: SD07@senate.state.oh.us
Eric Kearney (D)
Phone: (614) 466-5980
Email: SD09@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Tim Schaffer (R)
Phone: (614) 466-5838
Email: SD31@senate.state.oh.us
Bill Seitz (R)
Phone: (614) 466-8068
Email: SD08@senate.state.oh.us
Fred Strahorn (D)
Phone: (614) 466-6247
Email: SD05@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Nina Turner (D)
Phone: (614) 466-4583
Email: SD25@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Chris Widener (R)
Phone: (614) 466-3780
Email: SD10@senate.state.oh.us
Friday, May 21, 2010
Arizona Needs Your Support!
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has banned work-related travel to Arizona. He wants to send a message to Arizona that the new immigration law is not the American way. Click here to read the entire article.It’s time to stand with Arizona and to voice our support for Arizona Senate Bill 1070. We ask you to contact the Mayor's office and politely, respectfully express your concerns about his recent decision to boycott Arizona.
Mayor Coleman’s Office
Phone: 614-645-7671
Fax: 614-645-5818
Email: mac@columbus.govJoin us in thanking Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
Since the signing of SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer and her state have been scorned and mocked for upholding the law. As Tea Party Patriots, we need to show our support for Gov. Brewer’s actions. Please contact the Arizona Governor’s office and thank her for standing up for America’s laws. Tell her that Ohio stands with Arizona in this fight to protect our country, its boarders and our citizens.
Governor Jan Brewer’s Office
T: 602-542-4331 / 1-(800) 253-0883
F: 602-542-1381
E-mail: http://www.azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp
Here is a very compelling video put out by the Governor’s office: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1LWLlko.
Thanks to Amy & Jeff (Medina TPP) for the above.
Patriots, we wanted to add the following info to the above contact info....
In our coordinator call last night Scott Boston (Bowling Green Tea Party Patriots) shared the discussions he had with Tea Party leaders last weekend in AZ at the TPP Regional training meetings. The AZ Tea Party coordinators have expressed their heartfelt thanks for the support they are seeing from across the country. After recently facing a full frontal assault by President Obama and many Democrats in Congress, we must continue our support and stand by our American sisters & brothers in AZ.
Continue calling the City of Cleveland and express your outrage over their recent emergency passage of a Resolution against the AZ Immigration Bill. Within the next couple days, we will have a template for a Resolution supporting AZ that you can take to your own City Council and ask your local elected officials to support AZ.
Whenever possible please support the Buycott AZ movement with your purchases. To boycott the boycotters, please click here for a list of those boycotting AZ.
Please sign the Tea Party Patriot petition in support of AZ by clicking here. After signing the petition, share the link with everyone on your Facebook pages and email lists.
Please use the below 'I Support Arizona' image on your Facebook and Twitter profiles.
For further information, click here for a link to the text of the bill.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
City of Cleveland Passes Resolution Opposing AZ Immigration Bill
From our friends at Grass Roots Rally Team --
CALL AND VOICE YOUR OPINION! THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR GREATER CLEVELAND AND PROBABLY NOT FOR MANY OF THEIR OWN CLEVELAND
On May 17, 2010, Cleveland City Council passed Emergency Resolution 675, a resolution opposing Arizona 's SB1070, supporting CIR, and affirming the contributions of all immigrants. Latino community members who were present have reported that the testimony advanced was overwhelmingly positive and empowering.
Ward 1
Terrell H. Pruitt
Council Phone: (216) 664-4944
council1@clevelandcitycouncil.org
Ward 2
Ward 7
Jay Westbrook
Council Phone: (216) 664-4230Ward Office: (216) 664-4230
council16@clevelandcitycouncil.org
Ward 17
Dona Brady
Council Phone: (216) 664-3708Ward Office: (216) 961-4999
council17@clevelandcitycouncil.org
Ward 18
Martin J. Sweeney - Council PresidentCouncil
Phone: (216) 664-2942
council18@clevelandcitycouncil.org
Ward 19
Martin J. Keane
Council Phone: (216) 664-4239
council19@clevelandcitycouncil.org
President Obama; Another one who has not read the AZ Immigration Bill
From the Washington Times -- (Picture & emphasis added)
President Obama on Wednesday took another shot at Arizona's new immigration law, saying even last-minute changes leave open the "possibility" of racial profiling, and urged Congress to pass an immigration legalization proposal drafted by Senate Democrats.
In a joint appearance in the Rose Garden, Mr. Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon offered little in the way of specific solutions to several thorny topics of discussion that ranged from the Arizona law to the violent smuggling of drugs and weapons across the border to ongoing trade disputes.
But in pointed remarks, Mr. Obama said he sympathized with Arizona's frustration over federal inaction on immigration but agreed with Mr. Calderon the state's new law could lead to discrimination. He also said Republicans are holding up efforts to reform immigration policies.
"I think a fair reading of the language of the statute indicates that it gives the possibility of individuals who are deemed suspicious of being illegal immigrants from being harassed or arrested. And the judgments that are going to be made in applying this law are troublesome," Mr. Obama told reporters.
For his part Mr. Calderon, speaking at an earlier arrival ceremony with Mr. Obama, said the law shows that Mexican migrants "face discrimination" in Arizona. More...
So instead of just slamming the country he is supposed to lead, President Obama, another one who has not read the AZ Bill, will use his bully pulpit in a hell-bent & politically feeble attempt to castigate AZ for standing up for their states rights with nothing more than amnesty-loving lies!
President Obama, what is troublesome is that, in your role as POTUS, you would willingly misrepresent the truth about a sovereign state of this nation in the presence of the leader of another country.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Help the Ohio Valley Tea Party Welcome Obama in Youngstown Visit
From the Ohio Valley Tea Party --
Barack Obama will be in Youngstown on Tuesday at V&M Star Steel according to a Business Journal article.
According to the article, he will be speaking at approximately 1:30pm. So if you are available, it would be great to give him a Tea Party welcome. Bring plenty of signs and please remember to keep them clean and civil. I have also been informed that the workers at the plant have been encouraged to stay home from work that day. (For whatever that is worth)
Please remember this is intended to be a peaceful demonstration / protest of agenda, policy and performance not the person.
“Love the sinner, hate the sin” if you will. News crews will be on hand so please be careful what you say or do.
Here is a link to a Yahoo Map to help you find the place. Hope to see you there!http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=41.12637&lon=-80.679804&zoom=14&tt=V%26M%20Star&tp=1&ioride=us&q1=2669%20Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.%20Blvd.%20Youngstown%2C%20oh
Saturday, May 15, 2010
AG Holder uses MSM to draw legal conclusions
Amazing! It appears Holder would rather draw his looney legal conclusions from the liberal fish wraps and the MSM instead of reading the actual Bill itself!
Contact your OH Rep about HB 489
HB 489 has been assigned to the OH House Health Committee. HB 489 will prohibit requiring an OH resident to obtain or maintain a policy of health insurance. Please contact members of the OH House Health Committee (See Contact Info Below). Click Here to Read HB 489
We are requesting everyone contact their OH House Rep and ask them to publicly declare their support for this bill. When you contact them please share your feelings on why you believe OH residents should not be forced into purchasing government mandated health insurance. To find your OH House member click here for their contact information.
Contact OH House Speaker Armond Budish. Please inform Speaker Budish that as an OH resident you support this proposed legislation and ask that he do the same.
Speaker Armond Budish
77 S. High St 14th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-5441 Fax: (614) 719-0008
Email: district08@ohr.state.oh.us
Chair
Barbara Boyd D District 9
district09@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St., 11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
614-644-5079 / Fx 614-719-0009
Vice Chair
John Patrick Carney D District 22
district22@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 13th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-2473 / Fx 614-719-6961
Ranking member
Lynn R. Wachtmann R District 75
district75@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-3760 / Fx 614-719-3975
Edna Brown D District 48
district48@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-1401 / Fx 614-719-6948
Robert F. Hagan D District 60
district60@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-9435 / Fx 614-719-3960
Tom Letson D District 64
district64@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-5358 / Fx 614-719-3964
Deborah Newcomb D District 99
district99@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 13th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-1405 / Fx 614-719-6999
Debbie Phillips D District 92
district92@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-2158 / Fx 614-719-6992
Stephen Slesnick D District 52
district52@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 13th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-8030 / Fx 614-719-6952
Roland Winburn D District 40
district40@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 13th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-2960 / Fx 614-719-6940
Kenny Yuko D District 7
district07@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-8012 / Fx 614-719-0007
Troy Balderson R District 94
district94@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-644-6014 / Fx 614-719-6994
Dave Burke R District 83
District83@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-8147 / Fx 614-719-6983
Randy Gardner R District 6
district06@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-8104 / Fx 614-719-0006
Bruce W. Goodwin R District 74
district74@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-644-5091 / Fx 614-719-3974
Matt Huffman R District 4
district04@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-9624 / Fx 614-719-0004
Robert Mecklenborg R District 30
district30@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 11th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-466-8258 / Fx 614-719-3584
W. Scott Oelslager R District 51
district51@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
(614) 752-2438 / Fx 614-719-6951
Courtney Eric Combs R District 54
district54@ohr.state.oh.us
77 S. High St. , 10th Floor
Columbus , OH 43215-6111
614-644-6721 / Fx 614-719-6954