Silicon Valley Republican Women Federated

NEWSLETTER

Volume 44 - Number 2 * www.svrwf.org * February 2005

 

             

 

 

President: Doris Whitney – 408-997-0581 * 1st VP & Program: Alice Story – 408-733-3248 * 2nd VP & Membership: Marie Dominguez-Gasson - * Newsletter Editor: Laura Riffle – 408-263-0990

 

All SVRWF luncheons and dinner meetings are held at the Ramada Inn Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Avenue, Sunnyvale, California – Luncheon Meetings: Social 11:30am, Lunch 12:00 Noon – Dinner Meetings: Social 6:30pm, Dinner 7:00pm – Luncheon: $16.00 – Dinner: $20.00 – For reservations please call Louise Kinney at 408-739-4724 or Alice Wilson at 408-733-6352 or Doris Whitney at 408-997-0581

 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

 

Feb. 3              SVRWF Luncheon Meeting Ramada Inn Silicon Valley – Jim Cuneen, Speaker

                              Choices: Chicken Teriyaki or Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Feb.10             SVRWF Board Meeting, Noontime, Ramada Inn Silicon Valley

Mar. 3              SVRWF Luncheon Meeting Ramada Inn Silicon Valley

Mar. 10            SVRWF Board Meeting, Noontime, Ramada Inn Silicon Valley

Mar. 18 & 19    Northern Division, California Federation of Republican Women Spring

                              Conference, Napa Embassy Suites

Apr. 25 & 25     California Federation of Republican Women Advocacy, Sacramento  

                        Hyatt Regency Hotel with Lobby Day at the California Capitol

 

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

 

Our January meeting was a great beginning for 2005.  Santa Clara County Supervisor Don Gage brought a positive message to us regarding Santa Clara County.  Supervisor Gage discussed the Santa Clara County budget.  He stated that he believed the Santa Clara

County budget recovery would be fine in two years with careful cut backs and employee job improvement.  Supervisor Gage speaks to our group once a year.  Our best wishes to this dedicated, hard working Republican supervisor.

 

Our program chairman, Alice Story, has been busy scheduling speakers for our meetings.

Thanks to Alice's work, we were able to have Supervisor Gage speak to us in January.  Our luncheon meeting speakers are always interesting, and we look forward to seeing each of you at our luncheons. 

 

On January 20 at noontime (Eastern Time), President George W. Bush was sworn into office for his second term.  What a great day for Republicans!

 

Thank you to the new members and existing member renewals.  The response has been great for memberships.  As we start planning the activities for the year, feel free to volunteer for a committee. 

 

Doris Whitney -  President - Silicon Valley Republican Women Federated

 

Text Box: Membership – SVRWF membership dues are: Active Voting Member - $25.00, Associate Member - $15.00, Patron - $40.00 ($25.00 dues plus a $15.00 gratuity to the club). A person can only be a voting member of one federated club but may be an associate member of one or more clubs if she is already an active voting member of a Unit Club. Please make your checks payable to SVRWF and mail to: SVRWF / Doris Whitney 20181 Almaden Road San Jose, CA 95120

 

 

 

Our February speaker is Jim Cuneen, the former California State Assemblyman and current CEO of the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, who we all know well. 

 

A Note From The Treasurer…

To speed up check in at the luncheon, it would help if each member would pay by check.  It will make accounting easier and eliminate the need to bring an unknown amount of change.  Please have your check already written prior to coming to the luncheon.  Of course, cash is always welcome, but please try to have the $16.00 correct change.

- Carol Greenleaf - Treasurer

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln – Our first Republican President

Think about his legacy of freedom on February 12th

 

 

Text Box: The Republican Freedom Calendar is available on the Internet at: www.conservativebookservice.com

 

 

 

 

Excerpts from the REPUBLICAN FREEDOM CALENDAR

 

February 1, 1865                   Chief Justice Samuel Chase swears in Republican John S. Rock, first African-American to be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court

 

February 4, 1959                   President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce the 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition by many Democrats

 

February 7, 1983                   Republican Elizabeth Dole appointed by President Ronald Reagan as first women to be US Secretary of Transportation; she would later become the first women to represent South Carolina in the US Senate

 

February 9, 1864                   Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,00o signatures to US Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

 

February 12, 1809                 Abraham Lincoln is born

 

February 12, 1909                 On 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP

 

February 18, 1946                 Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California schools

 

February 20, 1895                 Death of Republican activist Frederick Douglass – escaped slave, author, abolition leader, civil rights champion

 

February 21, 1863                 Republican Governor John Andrew establishes the 54th Massachusetts, the famous regiment of African-American US troops in which two of Frederick Douglass’ sons serve

 

February 22, 1856                 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to the Democrat’s pro-slavery policies

 

February 27, 1860                 President Abraham Lincoln launches campaign for Republican presidential nomination with a speech at the Cooper Institute in New York

Text Box: “Isn’t it nice to see a president that puts his hands on a Bible instead of an intern again?” – Dave Letterman

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the website of the National Federation of Republican Women:

The Iraqi people are longing for democracy after decades of dictatorship and oppression, according to a member of a leading Shiite political party.

• This was confirmed by a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in December, showing that 67.4% of Iraqis support going forward with the elections as scheduled.

• According to Iraq's independent election committee, 7,471 candidates — representing 75 political entities, 27 organizations and nine coalitions — plan to participate in the national assembly elections.

• This election process — to create a transitional national assembly that will begin to build durable democratic institutions and draft an Iraqi constitution — is for the benefit of all Iraqis and does not to favor one class or group

• The new Iraq will be for all Iraqis and not for any one particular group, faction or religion.  It will represent all the Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens and Assyrians, and any other minorities or religions. 

• No one wants injustice or inequality except the terrorists. That was the old policy under the racist regime of Saddam Hussein — a policy that led to mass graves all over the country — and the terrorists today would like to re-create it.

 

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