Volume 32, Issue 6 June 2007

Joy Finley, President

The Redwood Alert Patricia Welch, Program Chair

E u r e k a R e p u b l i c a n W o m e n ,
F e d e r a t e d S i n c e 1 9 3 8
S E R V I N G T H E R E P U B L I C A N W O M E N
O F H U M B O L D T C O U N T Y

NEXT LUNCHEON MEETING: Thursday, June 21 11:30 Red Lion Inn

Guest Speaker: RANDALL IWASAKI from Cal Trans
Lunch: $14 Program and Beverage-only $6
If you are not contacted by our Telephone Committee please call Margaret Stafford 822 3255 to make a reservation.
A RESERVATION MADE IS A RESERVATION PAID.

P r e s i d e n t ' s M e s s a g e
J o y F i n l e y
LADIES YOU ARE MISSED
At our May meeting we had only 32 in attendance. PLEASE make plans to come to our June luncheon on the
21st. Another great speaker is scheduled and there will also be signup sheets for helping at the fair booths at our
two local fairs this summer. We will have Election of our Nominating Committee for our officers for 2008. A LOT
is happening and we need your attendance.
Our Executive Board has decided for our Club to "go dark" in July and August. That means we will not have our
regular luncheon meetings during those two months. We can all have time to ENJOY THE SUMMER! We
will meet back again on Thursday, September 20th. One week later in September is the National Federated
Republican Women Convention in Palm Springs. Three ladies from our Executive Board have expressed an
interest in wanting to attend this Convention. The Republican Presidential Hopefuls will probably make an appear-
ance . . . so plan to attend our luncheon in October to hear all about that. At this Convention the National Achieve-
ment Awards are presented. Eureka Republican Women, Federated is applying for the Silver Award.
Hope to see many of you this month at our June 21st meeting. Also, look elsewhere in this
bulletin for my Special Report about my amazing trip to Hawaii in May!

June Program by Patricia Welch, 1st Vice President

BONDS, BYPASSES AND CONFUSION HILL
Our speaker this month will be RANDALL IWASAKI. Mr. Iwasaki is the Chief Deputy Director
of the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans).
Mr. Iwasaki manages the day-to-day operations of the Department, including an operating
budget of nearly $10 billion and more than 21,000 employees.
Mr. Iwasaki will address us on Proposition 1B, a California Road Improvement Bond which
was passed by voters last November, the Willits Bypass and the future of Highway
101. Regarding Proposition 1B—this was a bond for state-wide road improvements, including
the rural counties, yet the majority of the funds ended up in Los Angeles and Bay Area
Counties , allegedly to ease their ‗congestion.‘
This is your chance to be personally updated on the long-term plans of CalTrans and to
express your concerns regarding transportation issues in this county. PLEASE COME AND BRING
YOUR FRIENDS, THURSDAY, JUNE 21.
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Mark your calendars ’07

JUNE
20 - 24 Rwd Acres Fair
21 - ERWF Luncheon Mtg - Red Lion
28 - Cen. Com. - OH's
July 12 - Cen. Com. - OH's
August 9-19 - Humboldt County Fair
September
20 ERWF Luncheon Meeting
27-30 NFRW Convention - Palm Springs
MORE IMPORTANT DATES
 NFRW Biennial Convention, Palm Springs,
September 27-30, 2007
 CFRW Biennial Convention, October 19-21, 2007, Crowne Plaza, Foster City (San
Francisco Bay Area)

M E M B E R S H I P R E P O R T B a r b a r a H e c a t h o r n C h a i r
Our ERWF club membership continues to grow, renewals are still being received and we are getting closer to
last years numbers. President Joy Finley, says that ERWF will receive a "Silver" Club Achievement Award and
that membership contributed many points toward that accomplishment. Lets continue the trend of making 2007 a
Great Year.......please remind past members to come, extend an invitation or bring a friend to our June meeting.

E R W F 2 0 0 7 E l e c t e d O f f i c e r s
POSITION NAME phone email
President Joy Finley 845-2575 loanldy@sbcglobal.net
1st V-President Patricia Welch 227 6562 patriciawelch@mindspring.com
2nd V-President Vee Sorenson 822-2359 veesign@aol.com
Rec. Secretary Eileen Amos 442-4834 smileygop@yahoo.com
Treasurer Cindy Lewis 442-1187 liberty741776@sbcglobal.net
Director-at-large Mary Feist 445-2125 mwfeist@hughes.net

C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e R e p o r t b y P a t r i c i a W e l c h
The date of the June Central Committee Meeting has been changed; we will meet Thursday, June 28th, 6 PM
at OH‘s Townhouse. We have a great program planned that you do not want to miss!
July, we will return to our regular second Thursday of the month; please mark you calendars for July 12 when
our special guest will be Steve Baric, president of the California Republican Lawyers Association.
Mr. Baric is an Orange County attorney and will be speaking about the dangers of Voter Fraud, a "run-away"
Judiciary, and creating first class ballot integrity operations in all counties. The meeting will again be at OH‘s
Townhouse at 6 PM. We will be dark in August.
The Redwood Acres Fair is just around the corner: June 20-24th. There are still some slots available to help
man our voter registration booth; please call me if you are available and would like to help. I can be reached at
707-227-6562. Please mark you calendars for the Humboldt County Fair coming up August 9-19th. We will
need volunteers to staff our booth; a sign-up sheet will be circulated at our June ERWF meeting.
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SPECIAL MESSAGE from Joy Finley

Aloha! I just returned from paradise and the best vacation ever! You ask why? It's because I was present at the kick
-off of the Sean Hannity Freedom Tour. Also present was Newt Gingrich and Ollie North. Sean gave an energy
packed speech and not only did
they sign their books, I had
pictures taken with all three of
them. Sean personally
Hannitized me. For a political
junkie like me, this was
thrilling. The money from the tour
goes for the education of children
of the fallen troops in the Iraq war
so it was especially good to hear
Ollie speak of his hero's.
Newt's new book, Pear
Harbor, is currently on New York
Times best seller's list. He gave
an excellent speech and is going
to do an online workshop

September 27th & 29th called American

Solutions. We will be in Palm Springs at that time
for the National Federation of Republican Women
and I intend to take my laptop and I encourage all
of you to go online for this workshop. He is also
proposing that FDR's 6 minute Prayer for America
to be broadcast every June 6th on radio stations
across the nation. I am working on that, too. I
hope to see all of you at the next meeting where
our speaker is from Cal Trans. Remember, when
women work, we win!!!

Chaplain's Message by Rita O'Connell

We, the people, have lost sight of some basic truths. It is vital that we reaffirm them: * Freedom cannot exist
without morality. When morality declines, more government is needed. * Ignorance and freedom cannot coexist.
To govern ourselves, we must be both moral and informed. * Our rights come from God, not from government.
God granted us inalienable rights long before governments were established. * The essence of freedom is the
limitation of government. Because we are imperfect, we need government to secure our God-given rights. * It is
imperative that we work to elect and support honest leaders and that we pray for God's guidance as we do so.
Rita O'Connell
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AMERICANISM REPORT by Chris Wennerholm

HOUSING PROBLEM?
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH
BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms), heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and
a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy
than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas
runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property
consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or
Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.
HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green"
feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and
is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat
pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.)
heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and
it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is
collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets
goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land
surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural
landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned
environmentalist (and filmmaker), Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House,"
it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

QUOTES OF NOTE
"Conservatives and liberals approach almost every issue with completely different philosophies, underlying assumptions,
and methods. That‘s why it‘s so hard to find genuine compromise between conservatism and liberalism—because not
only are liberals almost always wrong, their solutions almost always make things worse.‖ —John Hawkins
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"God hasn’t promised us tomorrow, but He has promised us eternity.” —Tony Snow
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ON TAXES: ―What I believe is the starting place is to go back to the Clinton levels.‖ —John Edwards
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"In the Democratic presidential candidates‘ debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to
save the environment, and replied that his family was ‗working on‘ changing their light bulbs. Is this the new version of
the old joke? How many senators does it take to ‗work on‘ changing a light bulb? One to propose a bipartisan
commission. One to threaten to de-fund the light bulbs. One to demand the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for
keeping us all in the dark. One to vote to pull out the first of the light bulbs by fall of this year with a view to getting them
all pulled out by the end of 2008.‖ —Mark Steyn
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"In an effort to help the environment, Sheryl Crow has proposed using only one square of toilet paper when going to the
bathroom. In a related story, don t ever shake hands with Sheryl Crow.‖ —Conan O‘Brien

REMINDER: FLY THE FLAG ON FLAG DAY, JUNE 14TH and 4th of JULY.
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Education Update by Sheryl Fearrien
( a bit more personal this month)
As we wind down and go "black" for July and August, some of us are getting ready to be energized for the
summer! As a teacher, I will be participating in some special training to hone my skills to better help my students.
Under Senate Bill 472 (enacted 8-28-06). I and other teachers from Mattole Valley Charter School will retrain in math
or language arts. (Yes, the legislature actually does pass some meaningful legislation occasionally!) I've chosen a math
course, specifically algebra, to be held in August. Backing up to July, I will be taking a two-week Montessori course in
math, language arts, and social studies. I had always heard that Montessori was "touchy-feelie", maybe so, but a
conservative teacher friend of mine took the training last summer and reports that it has really helped her reach kids who
learn in different ways. That's the key!
Not all students are gifted in the same way. If it can add more to my "bag of tricks", so much the better! Then in
September, I'll start a year-long course, Teaching American History, or TAH for short. Two of our teachers took the
course this year and report that it is really worth-while. The instructors often don't agree with each other so many
opinions are voiced. We will see! The shrinking violet, that I'm NOT, won't stay quiet if I hear something from recent
history being portrayed the way I KNOW it didn't happen!
My students all know, that while they are working on a few refresher activities I've assigned for summer, their teacher
will be working on her own refresher activities as well!

Legislation Report "Tax Tid-bits" - From The Leonard Letter 5/29/07

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
―I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it
more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake
to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is
not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate
new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the
Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that
impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will
not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I
have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my
constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their
main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the
very best I can.‖ --- Barry Goldwater, ―The Conscience of a
Conservative‖
UNDER THE DOME
***Water Bond Fraud Upsets a Liberal***
The LA Times George Skelton filed a devastating report on
the egregious port-fest going on with the implementation of
last year‘s $5.3 billion water bond, also known as Proposition
84. Skelton saw that I had written the opposition argument in
November‘s ballot so he called for a quote. Since everything I
say in these conversations is on the record, I think it fair to
relate what George said to me. Quoting liberally, George said,
―Bill, you know I can‘t get enough government. If the state can
do it, I‘m almost always for it. But this is a disgrace.‖
The disgrace is that last year, the voters were sold on the
idea that this bond was about essential infrastructure. But as I
predicted, the money is going to be spent on trails, aquariums,
camping access for kayakers, and all manner of goodies that
have nothing to do with making sure the state has enough
water. Special interest beneficiaries are being open about the
fact that their contributions to this campaign were
―investments‖. Skelton reported the Big Sur Land Trust spent
at least $100,000 promoting this bond and the executive direc-
tor of that group now says he expects between $10 and $15
million of the public‘s money in return. These are funds we will
be repaying over the next 30 years.
****The UnCOLA Budget Flavor***
Kudos to my friend Steve Frank for pointing out that the
real culprit with runaway state spending is that nearly the
entire state budget is made without any oversight or regard to
actual need. Over the years, lawmakers have instituted
mandatory categories of spending that increase automatically.
The annual budget standoffs can be good theatre to some, but
the media rarely points out that these ―high stakes‖
confrontations are actually over a very small piece of the
budget pie. Almost all the budget is cruising higher on
autopilot.
In the early 80's with the help of the Legislative Analysts
Office I introduced the UnCOLA bill (COLA stands for Cost of
Living Adjustment). My bill did not seek to regulate soft drinks
for kids – that would have been prophetic. Instead, it would
have identified every indexed item in the state budget and
deleted the automatic indexing or spending increases, and
instead leave them to the legislature and the governor to
decide each year. It is a budget reform that is not only long
overdue; it is perhaps the only reform that will give legislators
the flexibility to solve the structural deficit that plagues us.
***Cook Bill Spotlights Majority Cronyism***
Congratulations to freshman Assemblyman Paul Cook
(R-Yucca Valley) for going right at the majority party in both
houses for trying to reward its friends in secret. Before
granting the contract award for the new security fence around
the capitol grounds, the Senate and Assembly Rules
committees – without a formal vote that would have included
Republicans -- placed an arbitrary ―union only‖ stipulation on
the project, invoking a ―self-awarded exemption‖. In other
words, they allowed themselves to do something that others in
state government do not get to do. This arbitrary rule knocked
five contractors out of the bidding process.
Before the Speaker killed it, Cook‘s bill, AB 1070, would
have required the legislature to abide by the same competitive
bidding laws other state agencies follow. With this stand I
hope that Todd Spitzer has extra room in the doghouse office
because Cook might just be moving back in.
HOW TO CONTACT ME - Bill Leonard, Member—State Board of
Equalization, Second District—Email: Leonard@billleonard.org
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No Matter How You Slice Baloney—It’s Still Baloney By Colleen Hedrick

New York Times‘ reporter, Jim Rutenberg, opined about immigration, ―Conservative opponents can use one word,
amnesty, against the bill. Supporters, the president included, are forced into the complex weeds of policy and the
nuances of legislative language.‖
Nuances and complexities my right foot. The conservative base knows when it is getting a bunch of foolishness
shoved down its collective throat. Our administrative and legislative bodies, both past and present have failed to enforce
the laws they have already passed that promised to protect our borders, control the ever increasing flood of illegal
immigrants, and defend our citizenry against those with ill intent.
The liberal media, the administration, and most of congress are convinced we are too blamed dumb to know when we
are being lied to big time and jerked around. Pushing these policies makes them pathetic copy cats for Humpty Dumpty--
there just won't be a way to put it together again.
We don‘t think bargain lettuce, cheaper tomatoes, and bigger profits for some businesses are worth greater public
expenses for schools, numerous welfare programs, police forces, overloaded medical care, and social security plus
medicare for illegals. That whole irrational structure is a house of flimsy cards certain to collapse in the gusting winds of
ever increasing demands on our public resources.
The current dialogue is certain to be bringing an ever increasing influx of illegals across our borders with the promise
of citizenship if they are in this country. The premise that after a given period of time the illegal immigrant will return to
their home to wait a set period of time, pay a fee, and learn English to attain citizenship is mushy pie ala mode in the sky
since the elected officials have not ever been capable of enforcing the laws and requirements they have voted into effect
in the past. The truth about this biggest game in Washington is ―which party will buy the most votes by making the il-
legals citizens?‖
All this grandiose out pouring of benefits doesn‘t even buy us the good will and respect of the current and would be
recipients. Montebello High School students fly the Mexican flag above an upside down United States flag, Thousands
demonstrate their contempt in our streets because for all our give away programs it‘s still just not good enough. And a
young woman from the state of Tennessee competing for Miss Universe in the pageant held in Mexico City (she finished
in the top five) was roundly booed just because she is a United State ‘s citizen. Does that sound like a bargain to you?
They can shmooze us through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a nightcap---the conservative base still knows this is as
dumb as it gets.
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campaign is to have as many people as possible wear something red on every Friday until all of our troops come
home. Please pass this information along to your relatives, coworkers, friends, and anyone who will listen. This
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Some Perspective on Global Priorities by Bill Leonard

Going to the Memorial Day benefit for the fight against Hepatitis-B raised my awareness of the huge worldwide
threats to public health that are out there. It reminded me of an article I read in the April 22 World magazine about
Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg. Lomborg founded a group called the Copenhagen Consensus, which identifies the
world‘s toughest problems and analyzes them from the perspective of economics in order to find ways to help the most
people with the least economic harm. Not surprisingly, opportunities to counter climate change ranked dead last. Under
their analysis, the Kyoto Protocol would cost the U.S. $160 billion a year for very little measurable benefit. In contrast,
the Copenhagen group cites UNICEF‘s estimate that $70-$80 billion a year could give the entire undeveloped world
access to clean water, education and basic sanitation. The group lists four opportunities to help millions of people with
solutions that are attainable and cost effective. These
are: Control of HIV/AIDS, providing micronutrients to the Treasurer’s Report by Cindy Lewis
undernourished, trade liberalization, and control of malaria. Balance 4/30/07 $4879.25
Global warming reversal opportunities are ranked 15 Income May 2007 +1207.68
through17 on a list of 17 items. Expenses May 2007 - 807.95
Balance 5/31/07 $5278.98

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