http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFb1Yvlem4

The Butte County Republican Party urges the swift passage of a state budget with real reforms. First we must cut duplicative agencies like Cal EPA, which costs the state more than $2 billion annually. Then we should sell oil drilling rights off our coastlines, which are estimated to be worth $10 billion.

Next we must deal with illegal immigration, which costs our state over $11 billion annually. We can start by deporting illegal immigrants in our prisons and denying welfare to non-citizens.

Finally, while California has 12 percent of our nation’s population, we carry 30 percent of the welfare burden. Clearly cuts must be made so that our state will no longer be a magnet for those who won’t work. Letting counties determine their own rate of welfare payment would be a good start.

These cuts and revenues would total at least $20 billion, roughly our current deficit, without any further tax increases on the people. Anyone who agrees or has other ideas should visit us at www.butterepublicans.com, or attend the next TEA Party and express your views.

— Steve Thompson, Biggs

Don’t forget there are two upcoming TEA Parties here in Butte County!

On Thursday July 2^nd the Oroville TEA Party Patriots will be holding a car rally. We will meet in front of Big 5 at 11:30. Have your banners and signs displayed on your vehicles. We will leave there and do a loop through town, incorporating the Riverbend Park (Oro Dam Bl. to the 7-11, coming back on Orange/Montgomery, through Riverbend Park, up Feather River Bl and back to the Big 5).

On Friday July 3^rd, from 10am to noon the Oroville TEA Partiers will rally in front of the Oroville Jet Ski shop on Oro dam blvd. Bring your signs and show your support for some great speakers like Dan Logue and Tom McClintock!

On Saturday July 4^th the Chico TEA Partiers will be at the Elks Lodge at 8:30am for a car rally, OR come to the CARD Center (545 Vallombrosia Ave) where we will re-assemble at 9:45am to walk to One Mile Recreation Area together.

On Saturday July 4^th, the Oroville Republican Women will be hosting a Riverboat Regatta! Join the fun and watch some patriotic decorated boats float down the Feather River. For more information call (530) 532-7922.

And finally when the tea parties are over, you can head to Biggs for more fun and incredible fireworks at the Biggs Hometown 4^th of July Hometown Celebration.  Vendor booths open at 8:00 a.m. and continue until 2:00 p.m., parade at 10:00 a.m. down historic “B” Street taking you back to the Cork Oak Park to enjoy live music, food and fun for your kids.  The evening program begins at 7:00 p.m. with live music by Courtney Lynn and Big Trouble leading us into our spectacular fireworks show at dusk.

Thank you, all of you, for sticking with us and supporting our party. Republican values and ideals will one day return our nation to its former glory, so long as we don’t give up.

Sincerely,

Steve Thompson, Chairman

Butte County Republican Party

(530) 415-7071

stevegop@sbcglobal.net

butterepublicans.com

Gary Stromberg made cited some very good alternatives to nationalized health care. I would like to add some ideas to them, taken from “The Republican Health Care Alternative” by Peter Ferrara. (You will not hear about Republican ideas in the national media.)

To All Our Friends and Supporters,

 I’m excited to tell you that in Butte County we have two separate TEA Parties being planned, Victoria Coots and her friends in Oroville are planning a heck of an event for Friday July 3^rd. Cynthia Van Auken (from Chico Republican Women) and the TEA Party Patriots are planning a Chico event for July 4th.

If you have any questions or want to help out, please contact Victoria at 533-4348. Cynthia  can be reached at 332-9144.

As a reminder, the Republican Party does not run or control the TEA Party events, these events are citizen born and driven with no other agenda than the taking back of our country from the government class that wants to tax us into socialism and failure. Republicans are heavily involved because we share these beliefs and we want the TEA parties to succeed. We are pleased to see other political parties such as the Libertarian Party there, and can’t help but notice that the only democrats we’ve seen at the TEA parties have been protestors who think we should pay even more taxes.

Steve Thompson, Chairman

Butte County Republican Party

(530) 415-7071

stevegop@sbcglobal.net

Butte County Republican Party Invites you to attend The Butte County Lincoln Day Dinner

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
6:00 p.m. Social Hour
7:00 p.m. Dinner

at the Feather Falls Casino
3 Alverda Drive, Oroville CA
Guest Speaker
Assemblyman Dan Logue
$40.00 per person / $400.00 per table
$30.00 per person / $240.00 per table for RWF & Central Committee Members
RSVP to Steve or Angela Thompson at 868-5088
Please detach and send with check or CC information (please note: 5% charge for CC) to PO Box 822, Magalia CA 95954
Paid for by the Butte County Central Committee, PO Box 822, Magalia CA 95954
(FPPC #741598 ~ FEC #C00322768 ) Not authorized by any Federal Candidate or Committee
Contributions to the Butte County Republican Party are non-tax deductible for Federal or California tax purposes. Federal and California law requires political
committees to report the name, mailing address, occupation and employer for each donor whose contributions aggregate $100 or more per calendar year.

Republican Friends,

The election is finally over and the results are beginning to sink in. What can I say other than that I am as disheartened as all of you surely are. America missed an opportunity to honor and elect a national hero, a patriot, who served our nation with great sacrifice, and reward his sacrifices by naming him Commander in Chief. In this our country failed.

What I ask you all to remember is that our battle is not over and never will be. Had John McCain been elected it would not have meant that we were free to curl up on the couch and zone out for four more years. Rather we would have continued to be subjected to the demonizing of our party and its principles. We would have watched John McCain’s reputation slandered and smashed by the national media. How quickly would they blame him for the latest earthquake or hurricane? How might they tie the death of every soldier around his neck like a political noose? What new fabrications (think “McCain lied, people died) would we hear each week? No, our battle with liberal elitism would not have been over and perhaps never will be. Once we resolve ourselves to that reality, our next task becomes clear.

While the Republican Party has fallen from power, I choose not to look at it as an end (or the end). Instead, I think we have a great opportunity for a new beginning. Our party was becoming stagnant, and our leaders had forgotten what being a Republican really meant. Too many of the party leaders put the party (and themselves) ahead of their principles. In 2006, and last night, our nation punished them for that. But while Republicanism was punished, conservatism was not. How else would one describe the success
of Proposition 8, here in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Obama? Or the defeat of Proposition 5? How else would one explain that Dan Logue (whose signs declared SECURE OUR BORDERS) would win so handily in counties where John McCain did poorly?

There are some (mostly the intellectual left) who are tying to convince us that McCain’s Achilles heal was Sarah Palin. This is nonsense. Sarah Palin brought new life into the McCain campaign and to the Republican Party. Had she been at the top of the ticket we might have seen a different result. No, the enemies of liberty want you to believe Sarah Palin was a disaster solely because they hate and fear her. Not only because she is a woman, but because she is a conservative woman. Conservatism is not dead, and a return to our conservative roots is the only way we will revive our party.
 

This is why I see our current situation as such an opportunity! Think of the impact we as Republicans can have in the recruiting and shaping of a new, more conservative party. We haven’t had this opportunity since Bill Clinton took the White House in 1992. It was only then that Newt Gingrich was able
to bring in the fabled “Contract with America” that brought about Republican landslides in 1994.

My friends we have a great opportunity now to take part in the rebirth of our party. We have dedicated, stalwart conservative leaders here locally who can lend us tremendous support in doing so. Leaders like Rick Keene, Dan Logue, and God willing, Tom McClintock. We have new faces on our city councils and new activists with the Chico State College Republicans. The opportunities exist for us to accomplish great things, but it can only happen if we pull together and make it happen.

Over the next couple of months I will be calling on all of you to join with me in the reorganizing of our party. It is important that we discuss what went wrong, and what worked for us locally, as we plan our actions for the next year. There is much to do and many battles left to be fought. 

Until then, I want to thank all of you who gave up your personal time and helped out at our headquarters and in our precinct walks. Everything you did made a difference, and I have nothing but respect and gratitude in my heart for you. No matter the outcome of our struggle, I am honored to have stood by your sides.

Sincerely,

Steve Thompson, Chairman
Butte County Republican Party