Elections 2010: 2010 Archives

In 2012 Scott Brown will be vulnerable to the money and muscle of the public unions as will the Republican candidate for president. The outrage is that the money originates with taxpayers who pay taxes for government services but get instead fat and growing government payrolls voted by their elected representatives.

Unless Congress acts, the tax increases listed below will take effect on January 1, 2011. There are many reasons to fight for Republican victories this November, but preventing these tax increases in the middle of this economic downturn is a top priority.

Below, see a selected list of the tax increases that could occur on January 1, 2011. These are only the most well known provisions of the Bush tax cuts that, if allowed to expire, would come to the immediate attention of the nation's taxpayers.

•The two "marriage penalty elimination" provisions will expire, so that:
◦The standard deduction for married couples will fall, no longer double what it is for single filers; and
◦The ceiling of the 15% bracket for married couples will fall, no longer double what it is for single filers
•The 10% tax bracket will expire, reverting to 15%
•The child tax credit will fall from $1,000 to $500
•The tax rate on long-term capital gains earned by middle- and upper-income people would rise from 15% to 20%
•The tax rate on qualified dividends earned by middle- and upper-income people would rise from 15% to ordinary wage tax rates
•The 25% tax rate would rise to 28%
•The 28% rate would rise to 31%
•The 33% rate would rise to 36%
•The 35% rate would rise to 39.6%
•The PEP and Pease provisions would be restored, rescinding from high-income people the value of some exemptions and deductions
•The estate tax would be restored with an exemption level of $1 million and rates that top out at 55%
The plan outlined in the Obama administration's budget is to allow only one of those 12 provisions to revert exactly to what it was in early 2001:

•The top tax rate will revert from 35% to 39.6%
Five of those dozen major provisions will change, but they won't go back to exactly what they were in 2001:

•Estate tax law will revert to 2009 instead of 2001: exemption of $3.5 million and top rate of 45%
•Rate on long-term capital gains will revert to 2001 law (rate of 20%) but only for couples with over $250,000 in AGI the year the gain is realized ($200K threshold for singles)
•Dividends will be taxed just like long-term capital gains
•The 33% tax rate will revert to 2001 law (rate of 36%) but the income threshold where that bracket starts will shift up to $250,000 in taxable income (couples) and $200,000 for singles
•The PEP and Pease provisions will be restored, rescinding from high-income people the value of some exemptions and deductions, but the income threshold where they start to pay more will shift up to $250,000 in taxable income (couples) and $200,000 for singles

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You don't have to know who Dennis Prager is to be powerfully moved by his statements about what is at stake in the 2010 elections.

He says better than we can why we ask you to join with us to work for victory for our Republican candidates on November 2nd.

Dennis is a rabbi and a national talk show host who originates from Los Angeles. He is a lover of America.

Well, we all had a great time at the parade. Democrats apparently were disgruntled that their near monopoly of the parade was broken. But even Tim Wood, editor of the Chronicle, said politicians have a right to be seen and heard, particularly on a day when we WANT to see them all expressing their love and admiration for the country they serve or hope to serve.

As we have mentioned, the Chatham Republican Town Committee is going to have a series of events to make people aware of the excellent Republican candidates we have to vote for this year.

In June the town committee sponsored the first debate between Eric Steinhilber and Jim Crocker, Jr., the two candidates for the Republican nomination for the Cape & Island state senate seat.

This coming Monday we will have a chance to meet two candidates. Ray Kasperowicz is one of the four candidates seeking the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional House of Representatives seat. Since it’s an open seat, this is a great chance to break the one-party Democratic Massachusetts representation in the House. The Republican who wins the September 14th primary can be to the House what Scott Brown was to the Senate. Kasperowicz is a CPA, a small businessman from Cohasset, who knows what it means to meet a payroll and deal with the overburden of government regulation, direct and indirect taxes.

Sandwich state representative Jeff Perry, former state treasurer Joe Malone and state utility lawyer Bob Hayden are the other three candidates. Jeff and Joe are the best known. Only Jeff is from the Cape.

Ray will be with us Monday, but we are currently negotiating to bring all four back to Chatham for a debate in August. So far, three of the four candidates have agreed to debate in Chatham and we will get Kasperowicz’s answer Monday if not before. The big question is whether we can get a date all will agree to. (Since Joe and Jeff were both in the parade, we had a chance to get their personal commitment at that time to do a Lower Cape debate in Chatham.)

The other candidate Kamal Jain is contesting with Mary Zarilli Connaughton, the candidate for State Auditor endorsed by the Republican State Convention. Mary received just over 85% of the vote and Jain failed to qualify for the primary ballot by not getting 15% of the vote. After some delegates pleaded to give him a chance, a few votes shifted to put him on the September ballot.

Both Connaughton and Jain were in the Chatham parade with us. Mary appeared before our committee a couple of months ago and made a great impression. She is a CPA, has a history of routing out fraud and waste as a Romney appointee to the Turnpike Board. The Globe called her “the thorniest thorn in Governor Patrick’s side.” As usual, the Globe was probably complaining about that, but most of us would take that as praise. Jain is a qualified candidate. He had been a Libertarian, but resigned from that party and became a Republican in February.

Both of these candidates should be interesting to see close up. Both are long shots. Why are they running? What do they think they can offer that the leading candidates do not?

This is your chance to show your support for effecting change in governments at the state and national levels. We are asking that you make a special effort to attend Monday and get a friend or two to come along.

Both these candidates will be in contests on September 14. We will need your help as the elections near. The better informed you are the more help you can be. There are 5,700 voters in Chatham; 1300 Republicans, 100 Democrats and all the rest independents. We need to be able to persuade those independents that the country and the state are headed in the wrong directions and our candidates can help steer the ships of state back on a sane course.

We welcome folks from neighboring towns. The 10th Congressional is the South Shore, all the Cape and the Islands. The state senate seat is most of the Cape and the Islands.

We have the most extensive line-up of Republican candidates in years. Their quality is excellent.

This is a chance to make a dramatic change for the better at the state and national levels. What we do here in Chatham will have an impact.

See you Monday.

Chatham Republicans will hold their next meeting Monday, July 12th, at 7 p.m. in the Chatham Community Center. All fiscal conservatives are welcome to attend to discuss the upcoming elections and what we can do to make goverments return to sane spending practices. This will involve electing candidates at national, state and local levels who believe in private enterprise, individual responsibility and taxpayer priorities.

We welcome folks from our surrounding towns such as Harwich, Brewster and Orleans because this fall we have common cause.

Governments at all levels are spending too much, taxing too much and taking on way too much debt.

The national debt is on track to reach $20 trillion in just a few years, which will be more than 100% of GDP. When unfunded liabilities for Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid are taken into account, the national debt is a staggering $130 trillion. And the Obamacare deficits aren't even included.

State debt is growing twice as fast as revenues.

And on Cape Cod county officials are pushing towns with nitrogen problems in their coastal waters to spend billions of dollars on Big City Sewer systems to take care of these problems when there are far less expensive ways to do the job. But county officials disparage such alternatives, refusing to take taxpayer concerns into account. There are county elections this fall, which often get overlooked, but are important.

In Chatham the Town Manager decided Big City Sewer was for him. As a result, he is driving debt up ten-fold, from about $30 million to over $300 million. Debt service on the property tax now is about $2.7 million per year, but it will soar to an estimated $13-$14 million a year to pay for his expensive -- and unnecessary -- Big City Sewer, urged on and applauded by Barnstable County officials. Property tax charges for sewer debt service will crowd out spending for ordinary operations and needed capital projects for decades. It will also crowd out homeowners who won't be able to pay the freight and who won't get value for their homes when they try to sell because of the looming sewer debt.

This can't go on. But it will, if citizens don't act.

Join us Monday next.

To get a real feel for the exciting presence of Chatham Republicans in the Independence Day Parade in Chatham on Saturday, July 3rd, click here to view our slideshow.

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Our good friend Jim Dillon acted as the Chatham Republicans Official Photographer for the Parade and created this show for us. His boys Jack and Timothy also marched, handing out small flags to young and old along the way.

Our thanks to Jim and all those who worked to make this parade appearance a smashing success. Chairman Walter Bilowz has that great inventory of patriotic gear, Phil Dupont got things organized and had his grandson Mason wave a flag from the lead car and provided a ride for our GOP elephant, Jo Ann Sprague had the idea for our special T-shirts and made her grandchildren available to carry the committee banner and Diane Brownsdon's brother's convertible added pizzazz to the procession.

For more parade coverage below. Scroll down.

And to everyone who participated, a big "Thank you!" It was a hot day, but a fun, rewarding one.

Chatham Republicans marshaled the largest Republican presence in years for the annual Chatham Independence Day parade, this year held on Saturday, the 3rd of July.

Led by the Chatham Republican Town Committee featuring "Proud to be American" T-shirts, the Republican contingent consisted of more than100 Republicans, independents and tea partiers, including Republican candidates and their supporters.

The parade was viewed by an estimated 30,000. The parade itself was one of the largest in years.

Committee marchers called out "Happy Independence Day" and "Proud to be American" as they passed along the route, evoking waves of applause and cheers. Candidates shook hands with sidewalk parade-goers. Cars, vans and buses of the committee and the candidates were festooned with American flags, bunting and banners.

The committee banner "CHATHAM REPUBLICANS" was carried by twin teenagers Luke and Dan Sprague. Handing out small flags to young and old and waving to the crowds were youngsters Andy Sprague, Nick Walters, Jack Dillon and Timothy Dillon (pictured below).

Committee marchers spanned the generations, ranging from those in their 70s to as young as 7, with the decades in between represented.

The Committee had invited all statewide Republican candidates and other Republican candidates that Chatham voters would have a chance to vote for to join them in the parade.

In the lead car driven by campaign coordinator Phil Dupont was our official GOP elephant with Mason Dupont.

Following behind the banner of the Chatham Republicans were three convention-endorsed candidates: Treasurer (Karyn Polito), Auditor (Mary Z. Connaughton) and Secretary of State (Bill Campbell). (The other convention-endorsed candidate, Charlie Baker, Republican candidate for Governor, was committed to a local hometown parade on the North Shore.)

Also in the town committee's delegation were these Republican candidates:

Bill Doherty, Barnstable County Commissioner, who has served the county faithfully for more than 20 years and is running for re-election;
the two leading candidates for the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional District seat (Cape Cod State Representative Jeff Perry of Sandwich and former State Treasurer from the South Shore Joe Malone);
both candidates for the Republican nomination for the Cape & Islands state senate seat (Eric Steinhilber and Jim Crocker, Jr.);
supporters of Dave Dunford, the Republican candidate for the 4th Barnstable state representATive seat (Dunford, an Orleans selectman, marched in the Orleans parade, being held at the same time.); and
Kamal Jain, who is challenging the convention-endorsed candidate Mary Z. Connaughton for the Republican nomination for Auditor in the September primary.

All in all, it was a festive, upbeat, patriotic event enjoyed by all.

The June 14th debate between the two Republican candidates for the Cape & Island state senate seat nomination at the Chatham Community Center drew more than than 75 people. Since it was Flag Day, the program began with the showing of the video featured on this website, which was met with appreciative applause. Republican town committee deputy chair Diane Bronsdon open the proceedings and introduced Orleans selectman and businessman David Dunford, who is the Republican candidate for state representative in the Barnstable Fourth District. Dunford had agreed to moderate the debate between Jim Crocker and Eric Steinhilber, both of the Town of Barnstable.

The debate had been advertised broadly on WXTK, in the Cape Cod Times, the Cape Codder and the Cape Cod Chronicle, so there was a great deal of interest in hearing what the two candidates had to say. The Barnstable Patriot reported extensively on the debate; its coverage can be read here. WXTK carried a report with quotes from both candidates during its news broadcasts the day after the debate.

Numerous questions were submitted by the audience. Both candidates supported pared down spending on Beacon Hill. Great concern was expressed for plans by Barnstable County officials to force Cape towns to install hugely expensive centralized sewer systems that would burden town budgets for decades. Both candidates agreed that clean waters were a priority, but were of the view that there were alternatives that could do the job for a lot less money that were being ignored because of influence of Big City Sewer companies. Also, with the Cape still mired in recession and unemployment high, they questioned whether this was the time to embark on such a costly program.

David Dunford did an excellent job in his role of moderator and both candidates acquitted themselves well. Refreshments were provided by Caroline Geishecker of Chatham Coffee Company of North Chatham and Sandra Curtiss. Arrangements were coordinated by Phil Dupont.

This debate was the first in a series of events the town committee will be sponsoring throughout the campaign season. The next committee activity will be its participation in the Chatham Independence Day Parade Saturday morning, July 3rd. This parade is immensely popular, drawing between 30-40,000 annually. The committee's theme will be "Proud to be American."

Arrangements have been completed for the state senatorial candidate debate Monday night in Chatham at the Community Center. The following are excerpts from the press notice issued by Chatham Republicans:

The Chatham Republican Town Committee will host the first debate ever between the two contenders for the Republican nomination to the Cape & Islands State Senate seat being vacated by Rob O’Leary, who is running for Congress. The huge district stretches from Barnstable to Provincetown and includes Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

James Crocker, Jr and Eric Steinhilber, both from the Town of Barnstable, will square off this coming Monday, June 14tth, Flag Day, at 7 p.m. in the Chatham Community Center, 702 Main Street, Chatham. Cape Cod tea partiers, independents, Republicans and Democrats concerned about the future of this country, our state and Cape Cod are all welcome.

Moderating the debate will be Orleans Selectman David Dunford. Dunford is the Republican state representative candidate in the 4th Barnstable District which extends from Harwich to Provincetown.

Jim Crocker is in real estate and serves on the Barnstable Town Council. Eric Steinhilber is also a businessman, but does environmental work as well, serving in the management of the Alliance to Save Nantucket Sound.

Dave Dunford has had years of experience in the financial services industry. He is a founder and director of the new small business-oriented Bank of Cape Cod and serves on the board of the Cape Cod Hospice and Palliative Care.

According to Walter Bilowz, chairman of the town committee, “People have had enough with out-of-control spending. We need people in office whose first priority is the people who pay the bills. People are suffering with this recession, which is still going on, with forecasts of worse times to come. We need fiscal sanity on Beacon Hill as well as in Washington.”

Bilowz added: “If the free spending one-party Beacon Hill government of Sal DiMasi and Tom Finneran has you thinking that more independent and outspoken voices are needed to protect the public interest and to promote taxpayer-friendly, fiscally sensible policies, come hear what these candidates have to say.”

Refreshments will be supplied courtesy of Chatham Coffee of North Chatham.

The highlight of Monday's meeting of the Republican Town Committee was the appearance of the Republican nominee for State Auditor Mary Zarilli Connaughton.

Mary has a wealth of experience, is a CPA, for heaven's sake! An MBA, too. Imagine: Competence, experience and dedication!

She knows how they do things in government and has ferreted out their frauds while serving as a Romney appointment on the Turnpike board. She's determined to clean house on Beacon Hill and to uncover the shady deals at the city and town level as well.

Watch this video clip and you'll see how informed and articulate she is. Since she declared her candidacy for auditor, the incumbent announced he's retiring.

Visit her website to get the story and make a contribution. Tell your friends. This is a candidate of high caliber, full of energy as a mother of three boys, two of whom are 7 and 6, has to be.

Mary received an enthusiastic response from everyone attending the meeting. She can count on our support.

The Republican State Convention convenes in Worcester on Saturday. Mary will be one of the stars there and we are confident she will star and win on election day in November.

For real change, support for Mary Connaughton.

Mary's website, click here.

Liz Cheney got it right.

Speaking Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, in just a few words she captured the Obama foreign policy that deeply concerns Americans.

Obama believes America is the problem in the world and wants us weak. Inspired by Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers, one might say.

Obama acts as if he wants Israel destroyed. Inspired by Jeremiah Wright and Edward Said, one might say.

Obama is making Islam's war of world conquest easier by pretending it doesn't exist. Inspired by Rashid Khalidi, Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour and Ali Abunimah, one might say.

Obama is attacking the Constitution and destroying our economy to turn the citizenry into welfare dependents of the state as The Communist Manifesto would have it. Inspired by his mentors communists Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky, one might say.

Obama is undermining America in every way he can.

Obama is weakening America and making us less safe.

He is going through the motions in Afghanistan, needlessly exposing our soldiers to death in a war he had no interest in winning.

He is on the verge of throwing away the victory we won in Iraq by his insistence on his timetable for troop withdrawal regardless of the facts on the ground. Iran will fill the vacuum he is creating.

He is allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

He cannot be allowed to succeed. Americans must take back control of this country in November.

Update: America's leading expert on Iran Michael Ledeen sees it the way we do:

Not Inadvertent at All
by Michael Ledeen

Victor Davis Hanson says there is neither rhyme nor reason to our foreign policy. Obama has no idea what he is doing and wings his way from one embarrassment to another, he says. Victor lists the embarrassments: dissing the Brits; pulling the carpet out from beneath the feet of the Czechs and Poles; rewriting Islamic history to make them look good; kissing up to the Russians and Saudis while insulting Karzai; and so forth.

But what if Obama does know what he’s doing? What if Victor has it right when he says that we are being transformed into a much larger version of the E.U.? (Actually, it’s a somewhat smaller version, but no matter.)

Obama sure rhymes, even if we find it unreasonable. He is not an admirer of America. He believes that America’s past behavior is the root cause of the world’s problems, and he wants to bring America under control by making it just another European country: impotent in world affairs (except for spreading the wealth) and stripped of its traditional exceptionalism at home.

That’s what his latest initiatives are all about, the new nuclear policy and the removal of clarity from our national-security doctrine by banning words like “jihad” and “Islam.” Since he considers us the problem, he imposes a nuclear doctrine that reins in America — the root cause of evil in the world. And since he wants to turn America into a weak country that will accept the political correctness of the feckless “international community,” he adjusts our language to bring it into line with the U.N.’s version of Newspeak.

It’s worse than you thought, Victor. It’s not confusion at all. It’s a campaign to cut America down to size.

Defection of white males from the Democratic Party right now is higher than it was in the Republican landslide of 1994. Obama's support among white males has sunk because he is focused on big government, not the man out of work.

Today, among whites, only 35 percent of men and 43 percent of women say they will back Democrats in the fall election. Women's preferences have remained steady since July 2009. But white men's support for a Democratic Congress has fallen eight percentage points, according to Gallup.

Obama's brand of liberalism is exactly the sort likely to drive such voters away. More like LBJ's than FDR's, Obama-style liberalism favors benefits over relief, a safety net over direct job programs, health care and environmental reform over financial reform and a stimulus package that has focused more on social service jobs -- health care work, teaching and the like -- than on the areas where a majority of job losses occurred: construction, manufacturing and related sectors.

The Obama socialist agenda is not the American agenda and Americans have the chance this November to get back control of their country. Ramming a massive government entitlement bill through Congress such as the health care bill against the opposition of a substantial majority of voters shows the disdain Democrats in Congress and Obama have for working people who pay the bills. They don't want their tax dollars used to build a Democratic constituency with government handouts.

Read it all.

White men shun Democrats

By DAVID PAUL KUHN

David Paul Kuhn is chief political correspondent for RealClearPolitics and the author of "The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma." He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

First published: Saturday, March 27, 2010

Millions of white men who voted for Barack Obama are walking away from the Democratic Party, and it appears increasingly likely that they'll take the midterms elections in November with them. Their departure could well lead to a GOP landslide on a scale not seen since 1994.
For more than three decades before the 2008 election, no Democratic president had won a majority of the electorate. In part, that was because of low support -- never more than 38 percent -- among white male voters. Things changed with Obama, who not only won a majority of all people voting, but also pulled in 41 percent of white male voters.

Polling suggests that the shift was not because of Obama but because of the financial meltdown that preceded the election. It was only after the economic collapse that Obama's white male support climbed above the 38 percent ceiling. It was also at that point that Obama first sustained a clear majority among all registered voters, according to the Gallup tracking poll.

It looked for a moment as though Democrats had finally reached the men of Bruce Springsteen's music, bringing them around to the progressive values Springsteen himself has long endorsed. But liberal analysts failed to understand that these new Democrats were still firmly rooted in American moderation.

Pollsters regularly ask voters whether they would rather see a Democrat or Republican win their district. By February, support for Democrats among white people (male and female) was three percentage points lower than in February 1994, the year of the last Republican landslide.

Today, among whites, only 35 percent of men and 43 percent of women say they will back Democrats in the fall election. Women's preferences have remained steady since July 2009. But white men's support for a Democratic Congress has fallen eight percentage points, according to Gallup.

White men have moved away from Obama as well. The same proportion of white women approve of him -- 46 percent, according to Gallup -- as voted for him in 2008. But only 38 percent of white men approve of the President, which means that millions of white men who voted for Obama have now lost faith in him.

The migration of white men from the Democratic Party was evident in the election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. His opponent, a white woman, won 52 percent of white women. But white men favored Brown by a 60 percent to 38 percent margin, according to Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates polling.

It's no accident that the flight of white males from the Democratic Party has come as the government has assumed a bigger role, including in banking and health care. Among whites, 71 percent of men and 56 percent of women favor a smaller government with fewer services over a larger government with more services, according to ABC/Washington Post polling.

Obama's brand of liberalism is exactly the sort likely to drive such voters away. More like LBJ's than FDR's, Obama-style liberalism favors benefits over relief, a safety net over direct job programs, health care and environmental reform over financial reform and a stimulus package that has focused more on social service jobs -- health care work, teaching and the like -- than on the areas where a majority of job losses occurred: construction, manufacturing and related sectors.

This recession remains disproportionately a "he-cession." Men account for at least seven of 10 workers who lost jobs, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Nearly half of the casualties are white men, who held 46 percent of all jobs lost.

In 1994, liberals tried to explain their thinning ranks by casting aspersions on the white men who were fleeing, and the media took up the cry. The term "angry white male" or "angry white men" was mentioned 37 times in English-language news media contained in the Nexis database between 1980 and the 1994 election. In the following year, the phrases appear 2,306 times.

Tarnishing their opponents as merely "angry" was poor politics for the Democrats. Liberals know what it's like to have their views -- most recently on the war in Iraq or George W. Bush -- caricatured as merely irrational anger. Most voters vote their interests. And many white men by the 1980s had decided the Democrats were no longer interested in them.

Think about the average working man. He has already seen financial bailouts for the rich folks above him. Now he sees a health care bailout for the poor folks below him. Big government represents lots of costs and little gain.

Meanwhile, like many women, these men are simply trying to push ahead without being pushed under. Some once believed in Obama. Now they feel forgotten.

Government can only do so much. But recall the Depression. FDR's focus on the economy was single-minded and relentless. Hard times continued, but men never doubted that FDR was trying to do right by them. Democrats should think about why they aren't given that same benefit of the doubt today.

David Paul Kuhn is chief political correspondent for RealClearPolitics and the author of "The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma." He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

The annual spring breakfast of Lower Cape Republicans is taking place this Saturday morning, 8:30 to 10:30, at the Orleans Inn in Orleans. The inn is on Route A on the right just before the rotary leading to Eastham. $15 at the door

This is always and enjoyable and lively event and Republican candidates for election this year will be attending.

David Dunford, Orleans selectman, Republican candidate to become the state representative for the Lower Cape, is the featured speaker.

Invited guests include Rublican candidates for the gubernatorial nomination Charlie Baker and Christy Mihos and Jeff Perry, who is running to represent Cape Cod in Congress. Incumbent Democrat Delahunt is not running for re-election.

The breakfast is open to all who prefer freedom to government control of their lives.

Senator Scott Brown has pledged to do all he can to repeal ObamaControl (also known as ObamaCare). All freedom-loving Americans must applaud his commitment.

Now Senator Brown has endorsed Jeff Perry to be the Republican nominee to become the next Congressman serving Cape Cod and all of the 10th Massachusetts Congressional District.

Jeff Perry has served ably as a state representaive at the other end of the Cape (where he lives in Sandwich). He deserves our active and enthusiastic support.

Visit Jeff's website where you can make a contribution or volunteer.