Americans For Prosperity Multnomah County

Calling potential tweeps… Americans For Prosperity Clackamas and Multnomah County Chapters will be presenting a Twitter Training on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm in the upstairs conference room at Latus Motors Harley Davidson 870 E Berkeley St Gladstone OR 97027.   If you have wanted to use Twitter, but it just seems so foreign, please try this training.  Once it is de-mystified, you may find you really enjoy Twitter.  There are only 25 seats available in this training.  Reserve your spot today! Email afpmultco@gmail.com for your reservation.

Learn how to make a tweet, a retweet,  a modified tweet, a direct message, subscribe to a list, access a list feed, use a hashtag, and navigate the four sections of Twitter: Home, @Connect, #Discover, Me.

Help to amplify the messages of interest to you on an exciting new media medium.

You could join the Twitter Brigade of Oregon Citizens Lobby!

https://twitter.com/

https://twitter.com/ORcitizen

Documentary Night Presented by AFP Multnomah County Chapter

“COOL IT A Light Bulb Won’t Solve Global Warming This Guy’s Bright Ideas Just Might”

By Bjorn Lomborg

Tuesday June 11^th  6:00pm  at Bumpers 21935 NE Halsey St, in Fairview     Limited dinner menu available (no host)

From the same filmmaker who brought us “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” this film explores the economic priorities impacted by the global warming scare.

http://coolit-themovie.com/about

http://www.bumpersgrill.com/

Documentary Night  Presented by AFP Multnomah County Chapter showing:

“Not Evil Just Wrong The True Cost of Global Warming HYSTERIA”

By Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney

Tuesday May 14^th  6:00pm  at Bumpers 21935 NE Halsey St, in Fairview  Limited dinner menu available (no host)

This documentary covers the alarmism of the environmentalism movement and the aftereffects of their successes particularly the first huge victory of the environmentalism movement – the banning of DDT worldwide.

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/

http://www.bumpersgrill.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949ykDS7muA  You Tube video of Phelim McAleer asking Al Gore about the ClimateGate emails and his entourage’s costly reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWRHTGfu2w  Interview of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney at CPAC 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrYGSIQJfQ&list=PL7D708E6D581EE17C Part 2 Ann McElhinney at AFP Right OnLine 2010, talks about how we need to talk about the goodness of capitalism.

Do you remember the Informational Meetings for the Springwater Corridor ? Well, the outcome arrived via email from Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT):

Every year AFP Foundation hosts two exciting annual conferences: Defending the
American Dream Summit and RightOnline. These two events are both incredible
opportunities to meet other like-minded activists, hear top-name speakers and
learn how to be a better activist for freedom and liberty.

Both events will take place in Orlando, Florida at the gorgeous and family
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At the same time in an adjacent hotel, AFP Foundation hosts RightOnline, a new
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No matter which conference you choose, you’re in for an incredible weekend. And,
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Thank you for your continued support of economic freedom, and we hope to see you
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Sincerely,

Tim Phillips
President of AFP Foundation

Join us for the Multnomah County Chapter Americans For Prosperity chapter meeting Saturday, April 27th at 11:15 at Round Table Pizza 6250 SE Foster Rd Portland.  Our speaker will be Kevin Starrett of Oregon Firearm Federation speaking to us about some of the liberty losing gun control bills in the legislature.

We meet at Round Table Pizza on Foster Rd where it intersects with Holgate and 62nd. It is a brick building and the parking lot is entered from 62nd off Holgate. The pizza parlor opens at 11am, so the meeting starts at 11:15 to give anyone ordering pizza time to place their order.

http://www.oregonfirearms.org/  Join Oregon Firearm Federation here.  Sign Up to get their alerts here.

http://www.tracktheirvote.org/  Check out the bill analysis here

http://www.oregoncitizenlobby.org/  join Oregon Citizen Lobby here

http://americansforprosperity.org/oregon/newsroom/join-afp-and-the-oregon-citizens-lobby/ Join the effort against these bills

http://www.afpmultnomah.com/?p=678   See SB346, SB347, SB699, SB700, SB758, SB795, HB3200 links here.

http://www.leg.state.or.us/index.html State website to see the status of bills

http://www.katu.com/politics/Multnomah-County-tightens-its-gun-control-laws-204728251.html   Multnomah County decision

http://www.oregonfirearms.org/multnomah-county-passes-anti-gun-ordinances Multnomah County ordinance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTUWdzxMEw  video of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners Meeting

http://oregonoracle.com/?p=430 Does the new ordinance apply to incorporated cities?

6:00 pm Tuesday April 16th at Bumpers Grill 21935 NE Halsey St Fairview OR.  Dinner menu available (no host).  This documentary by Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney begins with the story of a small village in Romania looking forward to a huge economic boom when a Canadian company chooses to place a mine there investing in the households displaced by the development – until the environmentalists get involved.  Who was the enemy of the poor?
This video showcases the lies, hypocrisies, and exaggerations of the left as the environmental activists try to control how other people live.

Recap of last week’s Oregon House Meeting on Property Taxes

John Charles ends the meeting with “The Purloined Letter”

by Bob Clark    

March 12, 2013

The Oregon House Revenue Committee met March 7 and 8, last week, on various proposals to increase property taxes, essentially proposals aimed at eliminating or weakening Measures 5 and 50.  (I review these proposals in “Oregon House takes up Property taxes tomorrow,” Oregon Catalyst, March 6, 2013.) In summarizing this meeting, I would say key House Revenue Committee members voiced resistance to referring any property tax increase proposals to voters, at this time.  (This may be in keeping with Governor Kitzhaber’s agenda for this legislative session.  The Governor reportedly spoke patience to those in education about tax increase proposals leading up to this year’s legislative session.)  Committee Chair Barnhart (D-Central Lane and Linn Counties) voiced skepticism about referring the proposals at this time, a skepticism echoed by Representative Berger (R-Salem).  Representative Conger (R-Bend) voiced strong resistance to changing existing property tax rates and mechanisms.  There were three representatives who revealed a level of support for lifting property tax limits, although the passion with which they spoke was rather low key.  (Of course, those of us who want to stick with existing property tax rates and mechanisms should not take much solace in these statements of House Revenue Committee members.  Lest we forget our Yogi Berra-ism:  “It’s not over, until it’s over.”)

Judging from this House Revenue Committee meeting, the greatest risk to existing property tax rate limits and mechanisms very well might come via initiative measures launched by Oregon’s various state and local government employee unions.  A union representative, American Federation of State and Municipal Employee Union, testified at the meeting saying his city’s police department has struggled for funding because of property tax compression;   whereupon, Chair Barnhart seem to say, let the campaign begin.  One has to wonder, though, if PERS (Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System) is indeed reformed so as to curve public employee retirement benefits; won’t a significant portion of public employees and retirees be less inclined to also vote themselves a property tax increase (kind of a double whammy to their pocketbooks).  So, maybe there is some hope in keeping existing property tax rate limits and mechanisms, although the drumbeat of property tax inequity stories doesn’t help instill much confidence in such a hope.

A Rather Selective Fairness Argument

The League of Oregon Cities testified in support of the proposals to lift property taxes, arguing in part existing property tax rate limits distort voting by citizens whose property tax bills are compressed.  Other supporters of lifting property tax rates also presented the same testimony, saying in essence it is unfair for voters who won’t get a property tax increase because of compression to vote in favor of new local property taxes.  So, the argument goes: a voter who is up against property tax rate limits doesn’t mind voting in favor of an operating levy; because he or she will not bear any of its additional costs.  This begs a much larger question, as if you think it unfair for this particular voter to vote others taxes, what about the hundreds of thousands of Oregon voters who are without material real property who routinely vote in favor of property tax increases, borne by those with homes and other real property?   Now, being a homeowner myself, I might lessen my opposition against increasing property tax limits if persons without material real property (non-home owners) were ineligible to vote on property tax measures.   The Chair and other Representatives on the House Revenue Committee took briefly to the deeper question of tax fairness and efficiency, and opined such taxation is the matter of imperfect politics.

But who should happen by but John Charles, offering an Edgar Allan Poe Story (The Purloined Letter)

The last person of the public to testify at the meeting was John Charles, president of the Cascade Policy Institute.  His testimony I believe bewildered several members of the House Revenue Committee and those testifying in favor of the property tax increase proposals.  Charles offered the following analogy to describe the continual legislative deliberations about the optimal tax system:   Like the detectives in the Edgar Allan Poe story who look all through the nooks and crannies of a suspect’s house for a secret letter which would solve matters, only to ignore the obvious letter sitting in plain sight on top of the desk; our politicians continually look for the ideal tax in convoluted manner ignoring the efficiency and fairness of the most routine private sector funding mechanism (user fees).  Charles said why not charge more fully the persons actually using the government service? In other words, why not fund government in greater degree than currently with user fees?  Why should someone perfectly capable of paying for their child’s education, for instance, not be charged directly by the public school for their child’s educational expense?  Well, with that, the meeting came to a ghostly like Edgar Allan Poe ending.

Others with Public Testimony on the Property Tax Increase Proposals

Join us for the Multnomah County Chapter Americans For Prosperity chapter meeting Saturday, March 23rd at 11:15 at Round Table Pizza 6250 SE Foster Rd Portland.  Our speaker will be Mike Nearman of Oregon Citizen Lobby.  He is the team leader for the Government Operations team of bill researchers.  We also have Ken McCracken coming to share his experience volunteering in the War Room.

We meet at Round Table Pizza on Foster Rd where it intersects with Holgate and 62nd. It is a brick building and the parking lot is entered from 62nd off Holgate. The pizza parlor opens at 11am, so the meeting starts at 11:15 to give anyone ordering pizza time to place their order.

http://www.tracktheirvote.org/

http://www.oregoncitizenlobby.org/

http://americansforprosperity.org/oregon/newsroom/join-afp-and-the-oregon-citizens-lobby/

http://www.leg.state.or.us/index.html

http://www.afpmultnomah.com/?p=678

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/

http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/

http://fracknation.com/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/01/11/FrackNation-Powerful-Response-to-Anti-Fracking-Hysteria

http://www.oregonfirearms.org/

Members of Multnomah County Chapter of Americans For Prosperity will be attending the Oregon Citizens Lobby War Room at the State Capitol in Salem 900 Court St NE Salem OR 97301 room 167A  We won’t know yet what hearings may be scheduled for that date.  This is our chance to meet with state legislators and their aids and educate them on bills that concern us.  See TrackTheirVote.org and OregonCitizenLobby.org

Members may be able to hitch a ride to Salem on special transportation.  This transportation is confirmed! If interested in this transportation (donations will be accepted for it) please email for instructions.

If you are interested in joining us please email afpmultco@gmail.com