V1 N3 Nye-gateway To Nevada's Rurals Newsletter July 25, 2009

July 25, 2009

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Inside this issue: Trigg ends campaign for Congress

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Paul Reeves for Congress

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Jack Schofield for Congress

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Africa meets Adrienne Lever

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Organizing for America Comes to Pahrump

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Legalize Marijuana, regulate, and tax it

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T. Boone Pickens Plan and Army

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Nevada’s Republican Senator John Ensign and his connection with a “secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as The Family with whom he lives when in Washington, D.C.” was revealed this past week. The fundamentalist group was the subject of a book written by Jeff Sharlet. Sharlet was interviewed on theKNPR-FM radio show State of Nevada by Dave Berns.

“The Family began with this idea that God does not Tidbits work through churches but rather through those Adrienne Lever is currently in whom The Family calls the West Africa ‘New Chosen.’ They be-

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lieve they’re chosen by God. They can’t be expected to pray with the rest of us. They need to pray in private with people of equal status.” “Ensign is free to believe these things, but if he’s going to this place for spiritual authority, he is turning to a group that regularly invokes as leadership models Hitler, Stalin and Mao, whom Doug Coe said are three men who understood the New Testament best in the 20th century.” "...they understood … that the New Testament is not about love, mercy, justice, forgiveness. It’s about

H e a l t h c a r e The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of Representatives has prepared an analysis of H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, District by District

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Impact. The Committee has prepared, for each member, a district-level analysis of the impact of the legislation. This analysis includes information on the impact

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power.” The Family uses the National Prayer Breakfast held annually in Washington. “The real action isn’t at the breakfast. It’s the weeklong lobbying session organized around it," says Sharlet. Foreign defense ministers meet with defense contractors at seminars on how to pursue this business for the glory of God. Read more.

R e f o r m of the legislation on small businesses, seniors in Medicare, health care providers, and the uninsured. It also includes an estimate of the impacts of the surtax that is used to pay for the legislation.

Those of you who live in the Rurals of Nevada can read the one page analysis for Congressional District #2. Read more.

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“As of today, I am ending my campaign for Congress,” Trigg wrote. “This decision came after a sudden series of unforeseen professional obligations that required and will continue to require more of my attention than a campaign for Congress will allow.” “It just became very

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obvious that I needed to spend more time raising money than my school board issues allow, and I had to make a decision,” she said by phone. Federal Election Commission records show Trigg raised $8,700 and had $3,300 on hand as of June 30.

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Paul Reeves, of Pahrump, will formally announce his candidacy for The United States Congress, Nevada‟s Congressional District #2. Reeves will appear at Honeysuckle Park, in Pahrump, Nevada from 7-9:00 p.m. Monday, August 3, 2009.

J a c k The Democratic Party still has two candidates to run for election for the United States‟ Congressional District #2 even though Cindy Tr ig g has dropped out. Mr.

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Paul Reeves of Pahrump as the sole unannounced Democratic candidate for Republican incumbent Dean Heller. However it was shortly learned there is a second unannounced candidate, Jack Schofield of Las Vegas.

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Trigg‟s withdrawal left

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Following his address he will respond to questions posed by Erin Neff, former columnist with the Las Vegas Review Journal and current author of Progress Now Nevada. Master of Ceremonies will be Dennis Keating of Pahrump. Live music of American

S c h o f i e l d of Las Vegas, will compete with Paul Reeves, of Pahrump, to be the Democrat to run against the incumbent, Republican Dean Heller, assuming Heller does not run for some other office.

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Jazz Standards will be performed by Kelly Almond. K-7 Pizza will also be present from whom you can obtain outstanding pizza at the park. Everyone is invited to see, hear, and personally meet Mr. Reeves. Read more.

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In a phone conversation Mr. Schofield informed me he had not yet formally announced his candidacy, but will do so in due course. His campaign website can be found here. Read more.

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A f r i c a Adrienne Lever, the outstanding young lady, that organized and led the Obama Primary Campaign, is in Africa. More precisely she is in Conakry, Guinea Africa. She visited with members of the American Library Club in Conakry. And I heard from them, in French. See here. They commented “we are very impatient meet Miss Adrienne Lever.” They wanted to hear all about the election of President

O r g a n i z i n g Last week President Barack Obama‟s Organizing for America came to Pahrump. The OFA listening tour drew about 20 Democrats in Pahrump. Jennifer Lopez, Nevada State Director for Organizing for America, Evan Sutton, Nevada Field Director for Organizing for America

L e g a l i z e The need for money by local and state governments is sparking a wide movement to legalize marijuana so that it can be taxed. For years governments have been trying to eradicate marijuana cultivation in the so-called War on Drugs. The war on drugs has failed miserably since its inception. Governing bodies are beginning to realize their need for money and to re-

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Obama. I‟ve had a most enjoyable time back and forth with those kids in Conakry, Guinea. The blog post will show you a map so you can locate Conakry. And, in case you don‟t know you, too, can “talk with them as well.” Just leave a comment on that blog post, in English, and I will translate it to French so that can read it. Read more.

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Adrienne Lever The Nye County Democratic Central Committee meets Monday, July 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m., at the Ruud Community Center, Room B, Pahrump, Nevada.

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ganizers to cover the states and rebuilding the neighborhood teams,” said Evan Sutton.

“Over the next year, we‟re going to be focusing on issue organizing rather than specifically focusing on candidates work. We will be hiring staff in all fifty states by the end of the year. We will be recruiting volunteer or-

Those of you who want to help rebuild the Democratic Party‟s grassroots in Nye County can contact Evan Sutton at [email protected] or Jennifer Lopez at [email protected]. Read more.

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duce costs can be achieved by legalization of pot. They can reduce their expenditures by millions of dollars by abandoning eradication and increase their revenues with a user tax on sales of marijuana.

If one includes elimination of unnecessary defense contracts in the Military Industrial Complex, such as the F -22 fighter jets that cost $331 million each and the military didn‟t want it would save a ton of money.

The federal government still holds marijuana as illegal.

Remember the Department of Defense‟s $640 toilet seat and $436 hammer and the National Park Service‟s $797,400 outhouse? Waste!

But times are changing: Read here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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Evan Sutton leads discussion at Pahrump Listening Tour.

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T . You‟ve surely heard of T. Boone Pickens‟ Army and the Pickens Plan. - Today is Energy Independence Day and the One-Year Anniversary of the Pickens Plan.

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- HR 1835 or the „NAT GAS Act of 2009‟ is in front of Congress right now with over 70 bi-partisan CoSponsors in the House. It would provide incentives for natural gas to become a viable transportation fuel alternative to foreign oil.

- The goal of the Pickens Plan is to make us safer here at home and create millions of high paying new jobs by ending our country‟s dependence on foreign oil.

- The Senate version of HR 1835 is being introduced today and Boone is in Washington for the announcement.

- I believe this is critical to the future of our country and future generations.

- Call your congressman and senator today to ask for their support of this bill, HR 1835 that will help get us off of foreign oil.

- The basics of the Plan are for 20% of our nation‟s electricity to come from wind power and to divert excess natural gas to the transportation grid. We currently import nearly 70% of our oil from overseas.

- This bill stands to create a number of new jobs at a time we need it most. - Boone is dead on with this plan! We do have enough natural gas. In fact the Potential Gas Agency says there‟s enough natural gas in the

U.S. for every man, woman and child to drive a car for the next 120 years. - This plan is also the right choice for the environment. Natural gasburns 23% cleaner than gasoline and 60% more than diesel fuel plus it‟s ¼ the cost of foreign oil. - And if you took just one 18 wheeler off the road and replaced with a natural gas rig, it‟s the environmental equivalent of taking 325 cars off the road.

- Learn more and sign up at www.pickensplan.com.