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CAN YOU LEND A HAND? A note from our new Executive Director, Renita Fennick...
Dear Volunteer:
I am in need of volunteers to help out with Thursday's Lincoln Day/Meet the Candidates Event at headquarters.
Please e-mail me or call me at 570-208-4671 to let me know if you can help out.
As always, your help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Renita Fennick
Executive Director
Luzerne County Republican Party
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On the Menu...
Issues & Eggs
Meet our GOP candidates, see where they stand on the issues!
If you would like to meet our Republican candidates on the federal and state levels and want to know how they stand on issues that are important to you, here's your chance.
The Luzerne County Republican Party is hosting an Issues & Eggs Forum on Friday, April 9, at 7:45 a.m. at Genetti's in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. We're starting early so that you can enjoy a breakfast buffet with us and then sit back and listen to the stellar GOP candidates who are running for state and federal offices.
All Republican candidates who have races in Luzerne County are invited to participate.
With the help of some local media, you'll hear how they stand on federal issues such as health care and taxes and state issues such as property taxes and gas drilling along with their ideas for passing a budget on time. (Novel idea!)
You will be able to submit questions and meet the candidates.
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... A note from James O'Meara, Sr
First, I would like to thank everyone who helped me in any way during the Primary Election petition drive.
Whether you offered words of encouragement, gathered signatures ...one or a hundred, each and every one was critical... or simply gave me a pat on the back and said: "Go get'em!" I was deeply moved by all the help I received. It spurred me on as I knocked on countless doors to gather signatures.
When the dust cleared, we had 436 signatures ...well over the 300 required and all gathered over a very short period of time. It is a testament to the spirit and determination of the 6th District that we were successful in getting these filed and getting me on the ballot.
God Bless each and every one of you for your hard work and your words of encouragement. To see people willing to work so hard for me was humbling and inspirational.
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Abraham Lincoln...
...If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
...If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
...America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
...Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
...How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
...I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
...I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
...My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Luzerne County GOP You Tube Link..
...We've added a link to the Luzerne County GOP You Tube Channel.
There's a lot of great content there, folks, including a number of videos from the Lincoln Day Dinner. If you coudn't make the dinner, you can see some of what you missed.
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Revolution is afoot!
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
...From The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Something absolutely stunning is happening in Massachusetts.
Revolution is afoot.
The special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, a seat the Democrats clearly thought was a slam-dunk "sure thing," is on the verge of going to Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown.
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Volunteers Needed!!
Dear Committee Members and Friends...
Volunteers are needed at County HQ on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to help make calls for the Lincoln Day dinner (more information on the event below).
If you can help, please contact Renita Fennick at Headquarters for more details: 570-208-4671
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**NEW CANDIDATE LINK** Richard M. Hughes - Candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
Ready and well prepared to serve as judge.
A new candidate link has been added to the 6th District website.
Richard M. Hughes, the Republican candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, understands the virtues of truth, honesty and integrity. He is well prepared and ready to serve as judge.
Attorney Hughes believes strongly in public service. He practiced law with Legal Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania where he fought for the rights of the poor. In 1988 he was appointed Luzerne County Assistant District Attorney and served for five years. He returned part-time to the District Attorney's office in 2008. He has tried over 30 jury trials to verdict, including the prosecution of three Defendants for first-degree murder of whom all are presently serving life in prison without the right of parole.
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New Mailing Address for the 6th District!
The mailing address for the 6th District Republican Committee has changed.
Our new address is:
41 South Main Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701
The 6th District Republican Committee has filed an address update with the Luzerne County Board of Elections.
James M. O'Meara Sr.
Treasurer
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2009 MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS...
Click here for complete Luzerne County Election Major County Contest Results, courtesy of the Luzerne County Website.
...or click here for complete Luzerne County Election All Ballot Contests Results, courtesy of the Luzerne County Website.
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