July Meeting, find your attending partner!

This is a MUST ATTEND MEETING

The following contains short and long versions.

Short Version:

The short version is get to our July meeting and hear Our Speaker, David Bailey. He is co-author of Shock & Alarm: What it was really like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. He is Delaware Director of ‘ACT! For America’ and will speak about Islam vs Western Society.  It is very important that we drag someone extra to the meeting.

Long Version:

Fellow Tea Party identifiers, we have a sixteen month adventure looming in our path.  For the remainder of 2015 you will be bombarded with pros and cons of possible presidential candidates.  We need your help, voice, questions, and thoughts. Foreign affairs are a major concern regarding who we select to be our President.  Foreign affairs are not the only concern.  On our home front we have impacts to the national economy.  The impacts range from our national debt to; employment, government over control or indulgence, to personal privacy. 

The July Speaker will provide information regarding a major portion of foreign affairs.  Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the US Embassy in Iraq is a riveting behind-the-scenes exposé of daily life at the Baghdad Diplomatic Compound in 2009, providing an insightful look at the culture clash taking place between the Islamic world and the West. Our Speaker is the co-author David Bailey telling the story of Hugh Iwanicki's personal story of the eleven months served as a performance auditor for the Office of the Inspector General at the Embassy. Benghazi brought up close! Iwaniicki’s journal of unforgettable experiences juxtapose the mundane with the bizarre, moving from discussions of constitutional law with Sharia attorneys to several near-death experiences, as well as the strange bedfellow’s tale of a regional embassy housed in a Shiite-owned "Temporary Marriage Honeymoon Hotel." For comic relief, there are also the misadventures of the Blackwater contractors, Marines, diplomats, and plumbers who inhabited the Green Zone and made the best of the Coalition embassy parties, where the women, though far outnumbered, were in full control of the men. And then there’s the story of how the Embassy got an unlimited supply of free beer, thanks to a Sharia law against alcohol. Iwanicki’s startling autobiographical account brings to light the human, the brutal, and the bewildering sides of life among the Iraqis, Jordanians, and Kuwaitis, as well as the mind-bending ironies and paradoxes encountered by the jumbled crew that lived within the confines known as the US Embassy in Iraq.

Since our early start of 2008, the Tea Party has been the Voice of Conservatives. We are experiencing a slowing pace of participation. The Gloucester County Tea Party since 2013, has provided speaker forums for such subjects as:  Tax, Firearm control, Constitution and the move to hold a Constitution Convention. Speakers included:

·       Jerome Huyler, Seaton Hall University, subject: Welfare State.

·       All the candidates for local offices

·       Nora Craig, Faith and Freedom, subject: Dr. Eck's free clinic program to reduce medical costs

·       George Gellenthin, Woodbury, subject: Eminent Domain abuse

·       Jack Scheidell and Jan Lennox, subject: Common Core

·       Eileen Hart, Gloucester County resident who objected to the high reassessment of their property, had their guns confiscated and was charged with making threats.  (Guns restored and charges dropped)

·       Robert Najmulski, FAIR Regional Coordinator, subject: immigration

·       Frank Flamingo, 2nd Amendment Society, subject: gun control in NJ

·       Alexander Roubian, NJ2A (NJ 2nd Amendment), subject: Senator Sweeney recall

·       Peter Boyce, Faith and Freedom, Nullification

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·       Gerry Grabinski, subject: Agenda 21

·       Dennis Mahon, Liberty and Prosperity, subject: school funding reform

We have experienced highs of thirty people in attendance. Recently attendance has waned. For your Tea Party to be effective, review your schedule attend and participate. We are working on evaluation of the upcoming Presidential Candidates based upon their adherence to our principals. Come to the July 2015 meeting. Provide your first opinions and questions regarding who should be endorsed or supported. Provide your ideas how to best influence and achieve the objective of a proper best presidential candidate. This is: “the time for all good citizens to come the aid of their country”.