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Related Posts: Action Alert:---State Legislation SB12, SB115, SB401, SB370 Action Alert:---State Legislation HB 2800 Action Alert:---State Legislation HB 2173 Action Alert:---State Legislation SB 478 From: Greg Walden <[email protected]> Subject: We miss you To: Republicans Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 9:04 PM We need your help to build up our team and hope that you will take just a few seconds to give us some critical feedback. We haven't heard from you of late, and given the challenges our country faces, we've never needed your help more. We at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) are building the last line of defense against Obama's campaign machine controlling Congress. The 2014 elections are extremely important. So, we need to build up our team, secure adequate resources, and plan our ground game right now. I hope we can continue to count on you as an integral part of our team. If we do not succeed in the 2014 elections, President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi will control every branch of government. No check. No balance. No stopping the President's costly agenda. The NRCC is planning a major offense strategy to insure that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Government does not become reality. We have seven (7) top Democrat targets that if we defeat we can possibly survive the election with the House Majority intact. We need you as an essential part of our strategy team. We need your counsel and feedback on our plans - what's going on locally in your area? What are the issues that we can use to be successful? Can you please fill out this short survey to give us some local insight? Take just a few seconds and tell us more about yourself by filling out this short survey and join our strategy team. Your input matters. We truly thank you for your financial support in the past -- and thank you in advance for your continued commitment. You're a valuable part of our team. Together, we will fight to make sure all Americans have a voice in government instead of an Obama-Reid-Pelosi dictatorship. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you, Greg Walden NRCC Chairman The Problem with Government "Planning" I Spy can now be heard on two different stations at different times! Listen on Saturday: 11:00 to noon (Pacific time) on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem, OR, listening area, go to www.kykn.com and hit the "listen live" button. Or on Sunday, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time) tune to KAJO (1270-AM) or if you’re outside of the Grants Pass, OR, listening area, go to www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page. Our Guests: Rob Taylor, Coos County Activist & Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow from Cato Institute This week: Imagine being able to give yourself a credit card. All you have to do is just get one of those 3-D printers and print one right out. Better yet, you get to appoint yourself as your own banker. Not only that, you convince your friends and neighbors that whenever they get a salary increase, their raise gets put into your special credit card account. But it gets even better! Any debt you run up on this card won’t affect your overall credit score. Your credit cards from other banks maxed out? No problem! Just transfer the debts from those cards to your special card. All this sound too good to be true? Apparently, you haven’t heard of Urban Renewal Agencies. Because this is essentially how they’re funded—and why schools and police are always running short of funds. This week on the I Spy Radio Show, we’re talking land use abuse. We talk with Rob Taylor out of Coos County, an activist exposing Urban Renewal Agencies rather interesting funding models. Our second guest, Randal O’Toole, a Senior Fellow from Cato Institute, discusses why government planning creates more problems than it fixes. We also discuss the Columbia River Crossing, a clear case of land-use abuse from Oregon and Washington, and other land-use projects around the country that do little good except to fund advocacy groups. And just wait until you hear what government built because it was so expensive. That's this weekend on I Spy Radio. Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during KYKN’s peak listenership? We’re looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available, but you need to contact [email protected] to take advantage of these. Saturday’s, 11:00 a.m. to noon, (Pacific time). Listen live on KYKN(1430-AM), or, if you’re outside of the Salem listening area, just go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. Or Sunday’s, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time). Listen live on KAJO (1270-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Grants Pass, OR listening area, go to www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page. Busy on Saturday or Sunday? Not a problem. Monday, after the show airs, you can go to our webpage www.ispyradio.com and download it from our “past shows” page. Related Posts: I Spy Radio---The Fiscal Cliff: To Jump or Not to Jump PERS---Worse than Fuzzy Math: It’s Fictional ISpy Radio---Finding Our Way Out ISpy Radio---The Inside Story I-Spy Radio---No Change in the Next Four Years Puts Agriculture at Risk and Maybe Out of Business I Spy Radio---Free Market Systems vs. Socialized Medicine Please call, email, and write a letter to the Senators on the Business and Transportation Committee and ask them to support SB 478. Let them know that it is time to give the people a vote on the debt created by Urban Renewal. The following is a Sample letter and more links to more information. SAMPLE LETTER: Hello Senators, I am writing you today to ask for your support of SB 478, which would allow the voter to have a choice over the Urban Renewal Agencies in the state. The Bill is currently in one of your committees, Business & Transportation, and I would like you to pass this bill out of committee and onto the floor for a full vote of the Senate. Last year the State of Oregon lost over $182 Million in taxes due to Tax Increment Financing, which is the process Urban Renewal agencies use to skim money from schools, colleges, hospitals, fire departments, law enforcement and many other taxing districts that provide the basic services on which people depend. The state’s school districts suffer the largest loss of money, up to 45% of the funding comes from their coffers, and the state has to backfill that loss with the revenue provided by our income taxes. Then cities and counties use that funding to leverage grant money from state and federal government agencies. Those grants also come from other sources of tax revenue paid for by us, the taxpayer. It becomes apparent that the entire process is a pyramid scheme developed as a mechanism to provide sustainability to the corporate welfare system, with little to no input from citizens. Eventually this process will start to consume too much of our taxes and will leave many municipalities financially ravaged. Cities and counties cannot go into bankruptcy according to OR law, so they use the debt from Urban Renewal to subsidize their budgets through varying infrastructure projects. A city or county does not suffer damage to their credit rating if their Urban Renewal Agency goes belly-up, because under current law it is an independent entity legally separate from the city or county of origin. Currently, Multnomah County sacrifices 25% of every dollar collected in property taxes to Urban Renewal and much of that money goes into the pockets of very wealthy developers and private consultants. Please, support the people of Oregon by supporting SB 478 and Thank You for your time. Senators on the Business and Transportation CommitteeHere are the links to the bill: Senate Bill 478 http://apps.leg.state.or.us/MeasureInfo/Measure#measureNumber=478 Where to Access Session Information for the Oregon Legislature? Click to Find Your Oregon State Legislator Where to Access Session Information for the Oregon Legislature? The podcast above is a good program on Urban Renewal. |
Chair Representative Brian Clem Vice-Chair Representative Kevin Cameron Vice-Chair Representative Lew Frederick Member Representative Paul Holvey Member Representative Kim Thatcher Member Representative Ben Unger Member Representative John Davis Hey folks, Here is some information of the first piece of State Legislation that will need our support. Please, read the bill and contact your State Congressman and tell them to pass HB2173....Rob T. Action Alert UpdateThe Oregon Citizen Lobby has scored this bill please review at: http://www.tracktheirvote.org/ttv/TrackBill.aspx You will also be able to access the actual bill as introduced! From a Watchdog in Salem: We, in the Coquille Valley and other parts of Oregon need your help. Please either call or email Rep. Brian Clem, Chairman of the House Land Use Committee and tell him you want a hearing on this very important bill to protect and conserve agriculture lands for food and future generations of farmers and ranchers. Without creating a venue or process for wetland creation, restoration or enhancement, hundreds of acres of agriculture lands will continue to be converted out of agriculture production and into "permanent" wetlands. The latest proposal in the Coquille Valley is 742 acres in Winter Lake, Beaver Slough, and Lowe Creek. Chair, Land Use Committee Rep. Brian Clem: [email protected] (503) 986-1421 House District 9 Rep: Caddie McKeown 503-986-1409 From a Watchdog in The Coquille Valley In August another farmer in the Willamette Valley and I met with Rep. Krieger and LC to draft a bill to provide a process for these wetland restoration projects plus address the lack of liability on EFU lands should the operation be impacted by the restoration project. Currently Oregon statutes provide for fish restoration projects to be exempt from liability except for "gross negligence". Currently there are two bills in legislature. One is HB2173, which is sponsored by Rep. Krieger and Rep. Brian Clem (Salem). The bill has been sent to the House Land Use Committee of which Rep. Clem is Chair. I have done an overview plus provided some background information concerning what is happening. I also did an overview plus documents for the Coquille Valley. I'll send those to you in a second email. I had a conference call this morning and the issue that was brought up is that the "restoration" groups (TNC, Joint Venture, OWEB, etc) are not pleased with these bills. We need to be proactive in getting our story out to the legislature. Senator Betsy Johnson has a companion bill in the house which is similar to HB2173 but it also addresses the issues of appraisals by these NGO's. Her bill is SB338 and she is also getting a lot of comments. Please take the time to call your legislators or friends at the Capitol and ask them to support these bills. You will notice the overview deals primarily with the need to support Goal 3 and retain productive agriculture land. Right or wrong, this is the approach I think that needs to be taken and we can back up that with the Coquille Valley information. You can get a copy of these bills on-line however since they are land use bills, they 30 plus pages long. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. sharon Related Posts: Congressman Peter DeFazio & The Land and Water Conservation Fund USFWS---Three Articles relevant to the LWCF and the NFWF Senators Wyden and Reid Planning 2013 Omnibus Federal LandsBill USFWS & USDOT---North Bank Lane Project Coos County Today---Sign the "NO Bandon Marsh Petition" USFWS---Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge American Policy Center---news on more Federal Land grabs The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation The US Forest Service Is Involved With Another Land Grab in Coos County “Coos County Today” Keep the Lights ON in Bandon Congress wants answers on Oregon farmer crackdown Land Acquisition Green Group Gets $2.4 Billion from BP Settlement RMP's for Western Oregon Urgent, Urgent, Urgent, House May Cave On LWCF. Call Now. NO BME | Info on HB2173Oregon Live Track a Bill http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/ Link to the State Website http://www.leg.state.or.us/ Link to the page on the State Legislature’s website http://www.leg.state.or.us:8765/query.html?qt=hb2173&charset=iso-8859-1 Link to the wording of the bill HB2173 Below is the Committee and its member for the two wetland bills. These committee members need letters from you supporting the legislation and your story. SB 338: Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee Sen. Jackie Dingfelder, Chair [email protected] Sen. Alan Olsen, Vice-Chair [email protected] Sen. Mark Haas [email protected] Sen. Alan Bates [email protected] Sen. Bill Hansell [email protected] Also I would recommend you send your letters to: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I also checked to see if there was a venue to email all legislators at once without typing them and there is not. I checked this afternoon with our OFBF lobbyist. You can go on-line and get the list of 2013 legislators. Here are some others that need emails: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] HB2173 has gone to the House Land Use Committee. Chair Brian Clem signed onto this bill. Special "thank you" to Rep. Clem who was raised in Coos County. Rep. Brian Clem, Chair [email protected] Rep. Lew Frederick, V-Chair [email protected] Rep. Kevin Cameron, V-Chair [email protected] Rep. John Davis [email protected] Rep. Paul Holvey [email protected] Rep. Kim Thatcher [email protected] Ben Unger [email protected] |
Rob, Check out this video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/l3gaOGGd6Pw This was taken by the guy that lives across the street from me. The reason that I am sending it to you is to point out that something like this could be a huge advantage to you. In 1970, Bohemia, Inc., had purchased the Umpqua River Navigation Company, my employer at the time. They desired filling portions of Bolen Island, using pumped fill from the river. The area of the river to be pumped was part of the river channel that was filling in. The Corp of Engineers had not yet been taken over by environmentalists, but we still needed a fill permit. I was detailed to work with the attorneys to gain that permit. I had a pretty good understanding of the Umpqua drainage wetlands and I knew that not many others did. To make the case that the wetlands were not threatened by this 6 acre fill, I gained the use of the Bohemia heliocopter. I mapped out a flight that would display the enormity of the wetlands and we conducted tours to make our case to company attorneys and the officials. It was a slam-dunck. The hearing went in our favor and we got the fill permit. The Corp got some free dredging of the river channel. | It will not be as dramatic as the flight that we did, but it could be a real help to the Coqille farming community and their neighbors to have a pictorial display of the Coquille River wetlands taken by an overflight. I am surer that you will quickly see that you could gain a huge audience to view the display. The audio added could be a big factor in establishing the public opinion that you desire. This would be lots of advertising at a very minimal cost. I would look at the Bandon Marsh at the same time, you may have to go through that adventure again sometime. Merv |
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Rob Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Amy,
Sure send my the link.
Sincerely,
Rob Taylor
Hey Amy, | |
Greetings!
I want to thank you again for your participation last year in the Coquille Estuary Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Project. Since the April meeting, the project steering committee and key researchers have been working to complete several of the products-- and they are now available on the new project website (a copy and paste link is below).
We hope that these initial products will start to provide relevant climate change vulnerability information that you can use for natural resource management. The products include an online GIS data and mapping tool (no software purchase required), and two reports exploring past and future climate change and related threats to the Coquille region. We will also soon post a video
of presentations from two research teams working on sea level rise at Bandon Marsh NWR. Stay tuned for that announcement.
Our next step is to draft a vulnerability assessment for the estuary’s ecosystems and natural resources, and convene an expert panel this Spring to further evaluate the vulnerability of habitats and species. (The panel will use the climate change information from the reports and data on the AcrGIS platform). Some of you will receive invitations as a species, habitat or ecology expert—but feel free to contact me sooner if you’d like to participate or have any questions.
New Reports and Resources
-->Climate Change and the Lower Coquille Watershed, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
-->Coquille River Basin Stream Temperature Assessment, Water Resources, US Fish and Wildlife Service
-->Climate Change Information Summary Table (summarizes information from the first two reports)
-->Coquille River Basin Mapping Resources: Accessing data and maps, creating maps, and adding your data in ArcGIS.com
Upcoming Project Activities
-->Expert panel assessment of climate threats to habitats and selected, key species (Spring, 2013)
-->Final Vulnerability Assessment report (Spring/Summer, 2013)
The background reading and resources, and presentations from the April 18, 2012 workshop in Bandon are still available on the workshop support web page reachable from the project web page above.
The Project
The project is co-led by EcoAdapt, The Nature Conservancy, the Oregon Coastal Management Program of the Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development, and the Coastal Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Many other organizations and entities have participated through workshops and other means.
Thank you for your continued interest in the Lower Coquille Estuary Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Project and please let me know if you have any questions or comments about the products on the website.
Copy and paste address for new project website:
http://ecoadapt.org/programs/awareness-to-action/Lower-Coquille-Vulnerability-Project
Thank you,
Eric Mielbrecht -- Eric Mielbrecht, Directing Scientist & Director of Operations
EcoAdapt
P.O Box 11195
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Direct: +1 206 201 3244, Main Office: +1 206 201 3834
Visit the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) and our blog, Adaptation Nation
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Ken Ivory's www.http://www.americanlandscouncil.org and www.wheresthelineamerica.com you tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjUyy8-v8gw | |
The U.S. Supreme Court: Architects of the American Police State February 26, 2013 in Front Page, Government In the police state being erected around us, the police can probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, all with the general blessing of the courts. Making matters worse, however, police dogs—cute, furry, tail-wagging mascots with a | |
Hey Folks, Here is the video about the Minning Rally. It was very well produced......Rob T. | |
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