Stuarts Draft Fireman's Festival Parade...

Stuarts Draft VA.
7 July 2006...

Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Augusta County Supervisor David Beyeler, Delegate Ben Cline, and Delegate Chris Saxman joined in and walked the 2006 Stuarts Draft Firemens Festival Parade...

The Augusta County Republican Party float was assembled and supported by Scott & Rhonda Winfield, Courtland & Carter Winfield, Lynn Mitchell, Alex Davis, David Beyeler, and Sheila Jennings... The float was completed in the area in front of the Hollister plant for the short walk up to the Firehouse in Stuarts Draft after passing an impressive crowd that was lined up along the parade route...

Congressman Bob Goodlatte was greeted by many happy parade watchers along the route after making a visit to the Target Distribution center just down the road. He also stayed for dinner at the Firemen's Festival and met with many constituents afterwards...

Delegate Ben Cline walked the parade route and saw many of his constituents from nearby Sherando and South of Stuarts Draft...

Chris Saxman was glad to attend the parade where he has received strong support from the people of Stuarts Draft and the South River district...

Scott Winfield provided the truck to pull the float for the parade and had one of the "better" seats for the length of the parade...

The Winfield boys Carter & Courtland, ages 8 and 10, elected to ride the float during the parade and to take up the task of throwing candy to parade watchers along the parade route... This is a favorite practice and tradition to small parades and was enjoyed by many at this one also. But it was interesting that we ran a little short of candy towards the end of the parade...

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Staunton 4th of July Parade #1...

Staunton Virginia 2006
4th July
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The Republicans of Staunton and Augusta County once again made an impressive presentation at the 4th of July Independence Day Celebration. The booth featuring the campaigns of Senator George Allen and Representative Bob Goodlatte attracted many visitors to find information on these "Valley Republicans" who are both running for re-election in November... Visitors also found information on the Marriage amendment and the opportunity to meet with Rhonda Winfield who authored the book "When Johnny Doesn't Come Marching Home, A Mothers Story of the Price for Freedom"...

A local couple asked if we could display a flag from their son that had flown aboard a Pennsylvania National Guard aircraft during a combat mission in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom...

In addition to the booth the Republicans participated in the parade that traveled all of "Gypsy Hill Park" and was viewed by many...

Representative Bob Goodlatte and his wife walked the entire length of the parade and is a annual favorite of the local crowd. Delegate Steve Landes was joined by his Son during the parade also...

Delegate Ben Cline has also made it a annual tradition to walk the Staunton parade and support the Republican Party of Virginia...

Staunton 4th of July Parade #2...

Staunton Virginia
4th of July 2006
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Representative Bob Goodlatte had his nice "Ride" but elected to walk the route of the parade to be able to meet and speak with the people along the parade route...










State Senator Emmett Hanger took the lead of the parade with "Old Glory" and received a warm welcome by the crowds...








The Republicans also provided a float in the parade which was welcomed by many of the people along the parade route by cheers, applause, and greetings at every turn...

The Augusta Valley has always been a strong and proud supporter of Senator George Allen...

The parade was joined by David Beyeler and Wendell Coleman of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors...


As well as a strong showing from the military...

Declaration of Independence...

4 July 1776

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Marketing, Marketing, Marketing...

Learned back in college that marketing is a very important function of both society and the business world... If at times things do not seem to be going right or selling you may just need to "Market" it in a different way... Now lets say you have a wet piece of property you wanted to sell. It would be called a "Swamp"...

Now if a environmental group wanted to keep you from building on that same piece of land it would be classified as "Wetlands"...
For many years the working stiffs out there have been drinking Coffee everyday...
But to market this same drink to the student at a higher learning campus it should be called a "Latte"

Now starting out those "Dixie Chicks" sang Country songs and did pretty well with the "Common Folk" out there...
Then it seems they decided they needed to grow and evolve into more "Popular" songs and political issues. This resulted in numerous show dates in their present concert tour being dropped due to poor ticket sales across the "America Tour"...
And then there "was" the potential Dixie Chick "World Tour"...
And for the longest time we have had the party from the Right, "Conservatives", and the party from the Left, "Liberals"... Even the Left has marketed themselves, now they call themselves:

PROGRESSIVES !!!

"Lets put it to a vote"...

Vote Record

The House of Representatives rejected a proposed timetable for pulling the troops out of Iraq by a vote of 256-153...

The Senate also turned down a proposal by Democrat John Kerry calling for withdraw all combat troops from Iraq bu 1 July 2007... The vote there was
86-13...

Some of the statements made by our elected Representatives:

"Stay the course, I don't think so Mr. President. It's time to face the facts," House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California stated. "The war in Iraq has been a mistake. I say, a grotesque mistake."

"The choice for the American people is clear; don't run in the face of danger, victory will be our exit strategy," Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., predicted that terrorism would spread around the world, and eventually reach the United States if the United States were to "cut and run" before Iraq can defend itself.

"We must give them that support and not send a signal that we're going to pull possibly the rug out from under them," Sen. John Warner, R-Va.,

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said: "It is time to tell the Iraqis that we have done what we can do militarily."

*Thanks to Sacred Cow for the Graphics and NewsMax for the quotes...

"Now about that Voter Fraud"...

Voter Fraud

During the comment period of the “Busby” post it was brought up that RightsideVA was attacking the Democrats on the “voter fraud” topic. Of course not all Voter Fraud is done by just one party but it is interesting to look at the history of this topic and to note who is responsible for the majority of this practice and incidents…

Went to the RightsideVA library and found the book “Stealing Elections. How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy” by John Fund for some information on this topic…

* The Military Vote: “The problem is that most states are still conducting absentee voting essentially as they did in World War 2, depending on snail mail to deliver the vote”. It can take weeks for the military person to request a absentee ballot, receive it, use it, and send it back to the states to be counted. And as in the 2000 election there can be problems with dates and postmarks when the military mail service is used. Remember Democrat Al Gore’s lawyers in the 2000 election when they aggressively looked to disqualify the military vote. The Washington Post commented: “Absentee ballots from service members overseas need to be treated with the utmost care and subjected to ballot-counting criteria that are, at a minimum, no more stringent then those applied to regular ballots”…

* Photo Identification: A Rasmussen Research poll finds that 82% of Americans, including 75% of Democrats, believe that “people should be required to show some form of photo ID before they are allowed to vote. But yet Maria Cardona, spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee claims that “ballot security and preventing voter fraud are just code words for voter intimidation and suppression”. Why so much opposition to requiring photo identification by political party?

* Motor Voter Law: Motor voter law was the first legislation signed by President Clinton. This allowed anybody renewing a drivers license, applying for unemployment, welfare, etc to register to vote without having to produce identification or proof of citizenship. Also states had to permit mail in registration which is very easy to forge. In Broward county Florida an eight year old girl successfully registered to vote. A elephant in the San Diego zoo was also successful in registering to vote. In Missouri the secretary of state found that 56,000+ St. Louis voters held multiple voter registrations…

* Pay for Vote: “The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee filmed Democratic campaign workers handing out food and small sums of money to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha, after which the patients were shepherded into a separate room and given absentee ballots. One of the Democratic operatives fled when she saw the NBC camera”. On Indian reservations Maka Duta was paid more then $13,000 in voter registration “bounties” by the Democratic party before county auditors discovered that she had turned in hundreds of illegal registrations. Maka Duta was linked to as many as 1,750+ questionable absentee ballot applications.
During the 1996 skin-tight election of Democrat Mary Landreieu of Louisiana the election was tainted by thousands of phantom votes including 1,380 people registered at abandoned buildings…

Imagine if we had an accurate and true vote total of all properly registered and identified voters during the next election in 2006? I believe it would not even be close and this is why there is so much opposition to proposed laws requiring photo identification and the likes…

"Rightside" of the fence...

RightsideVA

In a recent post it was stated that this blog was in the habit of “Smearing” the Democrats whenever possible and always looking to attack them at every opportunity. It is the intention of this blog to present facts and topics that are current and provide the facts that many Mainstream Media sources tend to leave out… Does this blog lean to the Right? Yup… But it also allows discussions and comments to be posted as long as they do not offend or attack another writer… If you are looking for that there are many on the other side of the fence that will be happy to see you…

Flag Day 2006...

Flag Day 2006

"Don't need no stinkin papers to vote"....

Busby

Investor Business Daily had another great article on the comments by Liberal Democrat Francine Busby who told a group at a rally in San Diego “Yeah, you don’t need papers for voting, you don’t need to be a registered voter to help”.

She is now backtracking on her comments and is being allowed to do this by the mainstream media at the same time. Reports are that she meant that even if you are not registered you can still help with the campaign but many feel she meant what she said about not needing papers to vote…

This is nothing new with elections and efforts to correct this problem has met numerous hurdles by the Democrats. This is the party that is against having every voter present a valid photo identification before being allowed to vote. Photo Identification must be presented to do many common tasks done by everybody each day.

Back in 1995 President Clinton pushed thru a program that naturalized 1.2 million people without the usual scrutiny and background checks just in time for the 1996 elections.
Then there was the 1993 Motor voter law that allows anybody with a drivers license to register to vote. It is interesting that 14 states don’t require the person to prove citizenship to get a license and 17 states don’t require any identification to vote! Now get this. During the 2000 election Scripps Howard study found that 190 counties and the entire state of Maine had more voters than adults…..?

Is it only the Democrat party that benefits from these screwy laws? Probably not, but it is the Democrat party that fights tighter control on valid voter registration at every opportunity….