Chatham will be honoring our first Republican president Abraham Lincoln on the anniversay of his birth on Sunday, February 12th, at the Chatham VFW for an observance and celebration beginning at 3 p.m. A reception with cash bar and goodies will follow. Donation $15, young folks free. Come honor our greatest president who fought division and kept the nation "indivisible." Hear his immortal 1863 Gettysburg address. All are welcome.

Laugh and feel depressed at the same time. This messag is so true.

At its January 9, 2012 meeting the committee voted to extend its congratulations to the new state chairman and to indicate it is looking forward to working with him during the critical 2012 election campaigns.

The committee also extended an invitation to the chairman to come to Chatham to celebrate with the town its Lincoln Day observance on Sunday, February 12th. The event will be held at the Chatham VFW from 3 to 5. Details will be announced shortly.

Chairman Walter Bilowz said, "This is an important year for Chatham since it is celebrating its 300th birthday as a town. It's also an important year for the nation since new leadership is desperately needed in Washington. It is therefore fitting that the committee honor our first Republican president, who was serving when Chatham celebrated its 150th birthday. Abraham Lincoln had the courage, comitment, strength and determination to save this nation at a time of its greatest peril. Once again, it falls to a Republican to rescue the country from forces seeking to destroy it. We can do no better than to turn to Lincoln as an example of towering leadership."

The 2012 election is the best chance for the people to take back the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and progressively stolen away by Big Government over the decades. The public has finally awakened to the threat and is roused and ready to fight for liberty.

Obama’s declining presidency has become synonymous with the image of big government, from spiralling budget deficits and out of control federal spending to massive taxpayer funded bailouts and increasing regulations on businesses and healthcare. Even 28 per cent of Democrats agree with the 61 per cent of Republicans (and 57 per cent of independents) who now view the federal government as “a threat” to the rights and freedoms of the American people. It is little wonder that a mere 11 per cent of US voters now describe themselves as liberal on fiscal issues in Rasmussen polling, compared to 44 per cent who call themselves conservative and 40 per cent who describe themselves as moderate.

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Friday, September 16, 2011
Today is CONSTITUTION DAY. Take the Constitution out and read our foundational document. Online, you can find it here and here.

While we are celebrating the Constitution, let's remember the great celebration we had this past 4th of July, Independence Day. Chatham Republicans with friends from Harwich, Brewster, Orleans and Barnstable marched in the annual Chatham parade before a crowd of about 40,000. What was particularly exciting was the enormously positive response we received all along the parade route. Click here to see our picture show of the parade.

We can also celebrate the great victories in Nevada and New York for our Republican candidates for Congress. Nevada's was expected, but the margin was huge. A Republican will be serving in this New York disctrict for the first time since 1920. Family values and Obama's anti-Israel policies made the difference in this heavily Jewish neighborhood.

It is shocking and dismaying to keep reading about Obama administration scandals that stain the White House and the nation. The Gunrunner/Fast and Furious funneling of automatic weapons to Mexican drug gangs has resulted in the death of Americans as well as Mexicans.

Now we learn about the political payoffs to Obama fundraisers behind the now bankrupt Solyndra solar panel company that may well cost taxpayers half a billion dollars. Not only was the loan guarantee pushed by the White House after the Department of Energy had rejected the credit, but the agreement gave the fundraisers/investors in Solyndra a $75 million preference to the U.S. loan in the event of bankruptcy. Shocking and contrary to law.

Incompetence, corruption, ideological blindness, the list goes on. We must restore honor and dignity, fiscal sanity and competence to this country in November, 2012.

Some important dates ahead:

Saturday, Sep 24 – 3 to 5, Lower Cape Republican Council meets at Bishop’s Terrace, Route 28, West Harwich, featuring Senator Scott Brown. He will autograph (and sell) books (or bring your own copy). The senator will speak and pose for pictures, which can be bought. Tickets - $35 for expenses and to benefit local town committees. For information: Diane Bronsdon f.bronsdon@comcast.net and 508 945 9218. There are already nine, maybe ten, Democrats lined up to challenge Scott in the 2012 election. We have to support him and let him know we want him to stand up strong for fiscal sanity and discipline in Washington.

Wednesday, Sep 28 – Film showing, 7 p.m., Chatham Community Center, “Agenda – Grinding America Down,” presented by the Liberty Forum.

Liberty Forum Agenda Flyer.pdf

Oct 1 – Republican Boot Camp Learn about campaigns. Although primarily aimed at town committee members, all are welcome to sign up.

Republican-BootCamp Cape.pdf

And here is the schedule for upcoming Republican presidential candidate debates. The next one is on Fox News this coming Thursday, the 22nd of September at 9 p.m.

Do check our Facebook page regularly. Go to Google and search for Facebook. Once on Facebook, search for Chatham Republicans. The two-step is required until we get enough traffic that Google will retrieve our link at the top of the lists.

We had a great time at the parade.

We had a terrific walking group of Chathamites and folks from Barnstable, Brewster, Harwich and Orleans.

Our group was led by a fire-red pick-up truck with our "Chatham Republicans" banner draped across the front. On each side a "Support Our Troops" banner was hung. And a quilted "God Bless America" was on the tailgate. We had our own bellringer in the truck back, letting "Freedom Ring" as we moved along.

Our marchers ranged in age from four (he rode part of the way in the truck) to over 80 with each decade well represented.

Behind our flag-carrying walkers was our yellow Jeep festooned with patriotic bunting and our "Don't Tread On Me" flag prominently displayed.

As we marched through the 40,000 or so crowding the streets, we received a tremendous outpouring of applause, cheers and shouts as our young marchers handed out over 750,000 miniature flags to children and olsters along the way. It was clear that our down-to-earth, regular folks approach to the parade struck a responsive chord.

At the end of our two and one-half miles of walking, we had sore feet but lots of big smiles.

Our thanks to all whose participation made our part of America's birthday celebration a great success.

We are all set for and excited about the parade on Monday.

We have a terrific group marching to celebrate the nation's founding and to honor those who have fought and died to keep us free.

You’ll see us coming. Our fire red pickup truck will be in the lead with our “Chatham Republicans” banner prominent on the hood.

We honor those who make this land of the free possible, the brave troops who defend us around the world, with our “Support Our Troops” message on both sides of the pickup.

We acknowledge from whence our blessings flow with a banner facing the marchers at the tail end of the truck.

After the red pickup will be our marchers with American flags galore

It’s wonderful that Harvard has just published a report that Republicans are more likely to be patriotic and attributes some of that inclination to parades.

Bringing up the rear of our unit will be our yellow Jeep carrying some of the longtime members of the town committee and saluting the Brewster Republican Town Committee, nine or so members of which are marching with us.

This is a day of celebration for how lucky we are to be Americans. We also march to say thanks to our founding fathers and those men and women who have fought and died to keep the flame of freedom burning.

Our music selection (which you may or may not be able to hear because of the background noise) will recognize America, the land of opportunity (Only in America), will salute all the men and women in uniform (a medley of service songs) and the American flag (John Phillips Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever) and express our appreciation for the beneficence bestowed upon us with Kate Smith’s historic God Bless America.

Since the theme of the parade is “Let Freedom Ring” and that is the signature of the Liberty Bell, we will be, in Chatham’s seafaring fashion, sounding a ship’s bell as the parade moves along Main Street.

A happy and safe 4th to all.

Today's observance of Memorial Day in Chatham was very well attended, even better than last year's. 300 would be our guess of those who followed the parade from place to place.

The total time for the parade and stops at the various memorials was just 1 and 1/2 hour.

At each memorial there were short prayers for the dead, gunfire salutes and the playing of taps.

The first at 10 a.m. was at the World War I memorial in front of what is now the Community Center.

To Oyster Pond for a wreath laid in the waves for those who died serving at sea and a wreath at the Korean-Vietnam Memorial.

Then to Sears Park at Main and Seaview for the Civil War observance highlighted by a stirring rendition of the Gettysburg Address by Scott Hamilton. (Imagine: Chatham with a population of just slightly over 2000 sent 263 men off to fight for the Union.)

The final stop was at the rotary where the Veterans Memorial is at the center of the rotary. There were short speeches; patriotic songs sung by We are the Men choir and a wonderful playing of Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. The parade was led by veterans (including Finance Committee Chairman Jo Ann Sprague in full uniform), Coast Guard personnel, police and fire personnel, boy and girl scouts, cubs and browies, the high and middle school bands and the high school music director and selectmen Roper, Seldin and Sussman.

It was quite moving. Thanks to the Public Ceremonies Committee. Well done.

Join us at the Community Center at 7 o'clock on Monday, June 13.

Our last meeting on May 10th was very productive. Several new folks joined us. We are hoping many more will join us June 13th as we continue our planning for the 2012 elections.

We have to constitute a new Republican town commitee by August 1. We plan to enlarge the committee from its present 15 to 35, the most allowed by Massachusetts law and we welcome new recruits. We will circulate an agenda well in advance of the meeting.

We want the best possible turnout in 2012 for the Republican presidential candidate. Crucial is the re-election of our U.S. Senator Scott Brown, who will be under heavy attack by the Massachusetts Democratic machine and its public union allies. We also will field Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, the state Senate and State Representative.

We will have a great chance in 2012 to elect our candidates for statewide office. It was only the public union employee turn out that Boston Mayor Menino orchestrated that deprived us of victory in 2010. Winning all the cities and towns except the union-controlled big cities isn't enough if we can't achieve better numbers in those public union strongholds.

Our Republican headquarters last fall was a great success serving not only Chatham, but Harwich and Brewster. All our top statewide Republican candidates carried Chatham.

We'll be working with other Lower Cape towns again for the 2012 election, the most important election for the future of a sane America.

Our next big event will be the 4th of July parade.

Every feel like you're talking to a wall? It's like that with those who are still are mesmerized by the idea of Obama and refuse to see his reality.

That he has driven the nation into a financial ditch, pulled the rug out from under our allies and has een licking the boots of of our enemies, earning their contempt for us, doesn't seem to mean a thing to folks like this. Happily, their numbers are dwindling.

Rush Limbaugh is puzzled by the Republican elites and their reaction to Sarah Palin. He reminds his listeners that many of the Republican elites despised Ronald Reagan before and while he was president. Too folksy. No Ivy League credentials. Not one of us.

In answer to a question, Charles Krauthammer expressed his disgust that the president can't even admit the possibility that jihadists driven by the teachings of Mohammad murdered two American servicemen in Germany. He treated it as if it was "a bus accident."

Just the kind of statement she should have made. Bravo.

Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.

Stanley Kurtz new book "Radical-in-Chief" about Obama's socialist upbringing and world today is riveting. It must be read. This interview with Kurtz provides the flavor. Get it at Amazon.