OCPAC e-mail

[Charlie Meadows]

Members and friends of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action
Committee (OCPAC)

++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
++ ANNOUNCEMENTS
++ ELECTION RESULTS
++ THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LAST FRIDAY’S GLEN BECK SHOW


++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday, September 1st will be held at
Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. Our main item of
business will be discussion about the Senate candidates that have
appeared before our members over the past 3 weeks. Following a time of
discussion, our voting members will vote for those we want to support
financially. Long time OCPAC member Steve Hampton and his wife have
just returned from both the 8-28 event in Washington as well as
attending the Devine Destiny meeting the night before in the Kennedy
Center. Steve will take a few minutes to relate his impressions on the
whole weekend. Bob Donohoo will also be speaking on behalf of the
John Birch Society about a national effort to repeal Obamacare. This
is a project that is gearing up and will probably go forward for at
least the next 2 years.

++ ANNOUNCEMENTS

* TUESDAY EVENING - OKC AREA - The first community meeting
sponsored by a fairly new organization, Restoring Oklahoma Public
Education (ROPE), will be held Tuesday evening, August 31st at the
Belle Isle Library in OKC. The location is on the Northwest corner of
Villa and the Northwest Expressway, with the meeting starting at 7:00
p.m. One of the real values of ROPE is the work they do exposing the
problems in Oklahoma’s public (government) schools. Part of this
meeting will be devoted to explaining the problems with SQ 744 which
will be voted on this November. Please check this organization out and
see if you want to get involved. Just remember, our children are a
target of the humanists and socialists and more importantly, Satan and
his powers of darkness. Whoever wins the battle for the minds of our
children, have a distinct advantage in the culture was during our next
generation.

* THURSDAY EVENING - TULSA AREA - OKlahoman’s for Sovereignty And
Free Enterprise, www.oksafe.org will have their monthly meeting,
Thursday evening at 6:45 p.m with the location being the Hardesty
Public Library, 93rd and South Memorial in Tulsa. The topics will
include Oklahoma earmarks, how they are requested and who requests
them. They will also explain what HUBzones happen to be. This is a
fine organization and I urge folks in the Tulsa area to attend these
monthly meetings when possible.

++ ELECTION RESULTS

OCPAC had 4 endorsements at stake this past Tuesday and three of those
races were successful. That brings our primary total to just one race
below 50% which is just below our lifetime average. As we go into more
marginal districts, the races are more difficult as much of the low
hanging fruit has already been picked over the past few years.
Oklahoma is to the place that it doesn’t necessarily need larger
margins of Republican lawmakers, but rather a better quality of
Republican lawmaker holding office. That is a difficult challenge, but
with time and effort, it is achievable.

Congratulations to James Lankford, his 2 to 1 margin of victory was
surprising to many folks including myself. I had a lot of e-mail
responses regarding last week’s e-mail. One was in agreement with my
assessment of the race as well as my statement that if I lived in the
district, I was leaning toward voting for Mr. Lankford. This person
indicated they were so disappointed with Kevin’s non-relevant attacks
that they had decided to support Mr. Lankford, though they had
previously worked for and contributed to Kevin‘s effort. If you have
supporters and contributors abandoning a candidate and going over to
the other candidate, then I believe you can say that Kevin’s last
minute change in campaign strategy backfired and thus the reason for
such a large victory.

Kevin did come by our meeting last week to thank the many members of
OCPAC who had worked for and contributed to his effort. He indicated,
it was obvious that is was not God’s will for him to be in public
service at this time, and as such, he would concentrate on his
business and family. I have a great deal of admiration for his
attitude as he had worked very hard and invested a lot of his life and
resources in the campaign over the past year and a half. Kevin is very
smart, tough and aggressive. If he should be called at another time to
serve in public office, we must hope he will step forward to fulfill
that opportunity.

One of the biggest surprises last Tuesday night was in the Senate
District 44 race between James Davenport and Ralph Shorty. That
outcome rivals the upset of the 2004 primary and run-off elections in
the race between Jason Murphey and Dale Depue. On primary night in
2004, Murphey had 44% of the vote to Depue’s 23% in a 6 candidate
race. When the dust settled on run-off night, Depue had won with 53%
of the vote. On July 27th, James Davenport was just 3 VOTES shy of
winning in a 4 candidate race. The run-off challenger was Mr. Ralph
Shorty (strange name as he is probably 6’5”) with 38% of the vote. The
3rd and 4th place candidates both endorsed James and urged Mr. Shorty
to drop out of the race to save resources for the general election.

Surprise, surprise, it wasn’t Mr. Davenport before us last Wednesday,
as Mr. Shorty received 58% in the run-off election to Mr. Davenport’s
42% of the vote. I believe both of these men worked very hard, but I
am now convinced, that the invasion of illegal aliens is so serious to
the long time citizens of District 44, whether they be Republicans,
Democrats or Independents, that the strength of Mr. Shorty on that
issue made the difference with the Republicans last Tuesday. Ralph has
the fire in his belly and with his hard work ethic and personable
attitude he will probably go on to victory in November. Ralph was very
impressive in the interview process last week and I believe he has the
potential to be an excellent senator. If he wins, it will be a pick up
for the Republicans as he is running for the open seat previously held
by Democrat Debbie Leftwhich.

++ THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LAST FRIDAY’S GLEN BECK SHOW

The significant influence of Glen Beck upon many American’s and our
nation continues to increase. I watched last Friday’s TV program with
great interest. He had on air with him the great Christian historian
David Barton and 3 pastors. A Jewish Rabbi was supposed to be on the
program, but sometimes plane arrivals just don’t work according to
plans.

During the program, David Barton began to teach all those watching
about the “black robed pastors” who were the most significant
influence leading up to and for the duration of our war of
Independence which started in 1776. A modern day “black robe” or
patriot pastor movement was started just a few years ago by Pastor
Chuck Baldwin out of Florida. A little over a years ago, I believe
they had around 100 modern day black robe pastors with Oklahoma
probably having the largest number of any state. These are pastors who
commit to preach the gospel and also teach and lead their
congregations in the culture war. That number of pastors is beginning
to grow exponentially.

Also discussed on Beck’s program was the freedom pulpit initiative
which began just a little over 2 years ago with 31 pastors nation
wide. As I was watching this discussion, I mused that 2 of those 31
were Oklahoma pastors, Paul Blair at Fairview Baptist in Edmond and
Dan Fisher at Trinity Baptist in Yukon. Last year, there were probably
a little over a hundred involved and according to David Barton, there
will be several hundred participating this year. The freedom pulpit
Sunday is where pastors all across the nation on a particular Sunday
preach an election sermon and then send a copy of their sermon to the
IRS, the ACLU, the People for the American (un-American) Way and
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. They are
challenging any of these organizations and most importantly the IRS to
challenge their 501C-3 tax exempt status. So far, not a word from the
IRS.

For the August patriot pastor luncheon in OKC, the speaker was an
Alliance Defense Fund attorney from Scottsdale Arizona. It was the
largest luncheon on record with probably more than 80 in attendance.
All of these pastors were being briefed on the history of the Johnson
Amendment, its unconstitutionality and why they have freedom of speech
from behind their pulpits. This is a growing movement and as such, we
have a chance for the church to become relevant again in the public
square, rather than just fellowshipping behind the four walls of the
church.

Paul Blair founded Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ 4 years ago and he
has now become the Director for Reclaiming America for Christ,
originally founded by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy. As such, Paul is
doing ever more traveling to other states helping them found
Reclaiming organizations. Dan Fisher probably has the best
presentation on the history of the black robe movement of anyone in
America. He starts off with a clergy’s black robe on and at the
appropriate time, pulls that off to reveal a Continental Army Uniform
of the time period of our war of Independence. At that time he goes
into a power point presentation on the history of the influence of
pastors leading up to and during the war of Independence. We will have
him do this fabulous presentation at an OCPAC meeting shortly after
the elections are over.

These are two men that Glen Beck should have on his program at some
point in time as they are both being used mightily by God in an effort
to restore America. They are being used to restore honor, which was
the theme of the Beck gathering in Washington.

The most important thing I learned from last Friday’s program was a
perspective presented by David Barton about the history of revivals or
great awakenings. What he revealed was those movements spanned several
decades, they didn’t occur at moment in time. As such, he indicated
several signs that would indicate such a revival is in process today.
If he is correct and I believe he is, that will be the only hope for
America. Without a revival, we are surely doomed to further denigrate
into oblivion.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday.

Charlie Meadows
Charlie...@gmail.com

[Charlie Meadows]

Members and friends of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action
Committee (OCPAC)

The extra e-mail this week is about a very important issue. While
OCPAC is mostly pointed toward state issues, we are a statewide
organization and we do care about our congressional delegation. More
than likely our 4 congressional seats currently held by Republicans
will continue to be held by Republicans, with James Lankford as the
only freshman. However, the Second District seat is currently held by
Democrat Dan Boren. Dr. Charles Thompson, a veterinarian was clearly
our strongest Republican as he had a very strong margin of victory
last week in the primary run-off.

All of our Republican candidates had problems raising large sums of
money during the primary to match the huge war chest of Boren.
However, it is time to focus on Charles and make a difference. This is
a winnable seat, if Charles can raise sufficient financial support. Of
the 435 congressional districts in America, Oklahoma’s second district
gave the 5th largest percentage of vote to McCain/Palin, so the
citizens will vote for a Republican if they have reason to do so. If
Charles can raise the funds to do several direct mail pieces (it will
probably take $50,000 per mail out) he can expose Boren as a person
who supports President Obama and Speaker Pelosi about 75% of the
time.

If Charles can raise some impressive money quickly from people in
Oklahoma, that will get the attention of the RNC and other national
concerns who may begin to see Charles as a viable candidate. Should
that occur, a great deal of resources may come to his aid, but we need
to prime the pump right now.

Here is my challenge. There are nearly 4,000 people who receive this e-
mail directly and God only knows how far it gets forwarded. If
everyone who receives this gave just $10 that would put more than
$40,000 into the campaign right away. If people gave $20 it would add
up to $80,000. I know many people can give much more, I gave Charles
$100 following the primary and am going to send him another $100. So I
am simply asking for our readers to do what they can. I believe the
maximum for a federal race for the general election is $1,200 for a
person or $2,400 for a couple. You must print and fill out the
following form to send with your check or money order to: Charles
Thompson For Congress, P.O. Box 532 Hulbert, Ok 74441, or you can log
on to www.thompsonforok.com and give on line. Thanks so much for any
help you can do.

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P.S. Prior to his recent passing, Mark Shannon shared a story on his
radio program which really made a profound impression upon me. He had
been speaking at an event and was wanting to get home when a senior
citizen approached him. He tried to escape without having to talk with
the gentleman, but relented to hear him out. The fellow showed Mark a
deed to a small home he and his wife had just purchased in the second
district so they could move there and vote for the Republican
candidate to try and help defeat Dan Boren. He explained they had
taken their savings and purchased this home with the intention of
selling it after the election and moving back to the OKC area. The
gentleman explained to Mark how dangerous the socialist agenda was to
America’s future and this was just his way of trying to make a
difference. Breaking the back of the Democrat agenda is imperative and
defeating Dan Boren is the best thing Oklahomans can do to make a
difference in Washington. This man and his wife are doing their part,
I just ask that we do all we can to help by supporting Charles
Thompson.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Charlie Meadows
Charlie...@gmail.com

[Charlie Meadows]

Members and friends of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action

Committee (OCPAC).

++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

++ CONTACTING CHARLIE
++ ANNOUNCEMENT
++ LAST SATURDAY’S NULLIFY NOW CONFERENCE
++ SALLY KERN’S OPPONENT IN HOLLYWOOD FOR A FUNDRAISER

++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday, September 8th will be held at
Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. We have invited 26
candidates to speak at OCPAC over the next 4 weeks. Some will not be
able to come and some will need to re-schedule from the Wednesday I
put them down for. Invited this week are Rusty Farley running in House
District #1 in the Southeast corner of the state. Sean Roberts from HD
36, Steve Vaughn of HD #37, Aaron Stiles of HD #45 and Kyle Burmeier
of HD #18. We look forward to meeting these candidates, all of them
have a Democrat opponent in November.

++ CONTACTING CHARLIE

I sometimes hear people complain of the difficulty in contacting me
via e-mail when they want to respond to something I may have said in
an e-mail. Please DO NOT hit the reply button, since the OCPAC e-mail
is sent out by Google Groups and does not come directly from my
computer. I sign off every e-mail below my name with my personal e-
mail address. Please send any comments to that address which is
charlie...@gmail.com. I try to address any personal communication
which is a question, but sometimes my time is so short that I am
unable to reply to every request.

Also, recently folks complained they received multiple copies of a
recent e-mail. I only sent it out one time, so I guess it was a
problem with Google Groups and hope it doesn’t happen again. If you
ever want to be removed for our list, send me an e-mail with your name
and I will remove you from our list. Over the many years, I have
probably only removed 4 or 5 people that I no longer wanted on our
list. Some people tell me they no longer are receiving the e-mails and
yet when I check, they are still on our list. That is most likely
because their spam filter or perhaps provider isn’t allowing the e-
mail to get through. If that can’t be remedied you can always log on
to the OCPAC blog which usually has the e-mail posted a few hours
after it is sent out which will always be not later than a Tuesday
morning.

++ ANNOUNCEMENT

OKC AREA - NEXT TUESDAY, SEPT 14TH - Edmond attorney Don Powers
along with H&H Gun Range are sponsoring a 7 week class on Liberty and
Freedom. The sessions will begin at 6:30 and run until 8:00 p.m.. The
location will be at H&H, 400 South Vermont, suite 110 in OKC. There is
no charge, but seating is limited so it requires enrollment by
contacting H&H at (405) 947-3888 or www.hhgunrange.com.

Covered during the class will be the Declaration of Independence, the
28 principles of Freedom used by the Founders to structure the
Constitution, and vignettes of history about America’s war of
Independence. The class is based on the book “The 5000 Year Leap”
written by Dr. Cleon Skousen. This is another book Glen Beck begs his
viewers to read. We have this book available at our OCPAC meetings for
people to access.

++ LAST SATURDAY’S NULLIFY NOW CONFERENCE

This past Saturday, Clark Curry and I took an expensive camera to Fort
Worth Texas to do interviews with some of the speakers at the Nullify
Now Conference which was being sponsored by the 10th Amendment Center
out of California. Local hosts consisted of a Texas Tea Party, a 912
group, the local chapters of the John Birch Society and other Texas
liberty organizations. It was well attended, given it was a holiday
weekend with 350 to 400 people filling a stadium seating auditorium in
the arts and museum complex in Ft. Worth.

Assuming we figured out how to work that impressive piece of
technology, it should be posted sometime in the near future on the
Liberty News Network which is affiliated with the John Birch Society.
Besides the warmly received Oklahoma speakers, Senator Randy Brogdon
and Representative Charles Key, they had some rousing speakers from
various Texas organizations along with lawmakers and candidates for
office. I was very impressed with the answers to my questions as well
as the speech by Debra Medina, a recent Republican candidate for
Governor, who lost in her bid against the establishment’s candidate,
Governor Rick Perry. That was another example of Sara Palin endorsing
an establishment candidate rather than a tea party candidate because
the establishment candidate being the likely winner will be obligated
to help in her future bid for President.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Thomas E. Woods Jr., a New York times best
selling author and frequent guest on the Glen Beck program. Dr. Woods’
most recent book is titled: NULLIFICATION - HOW TO RESIST FEDERAL
TYRANNY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. His speech had a great overview of
history, was full of substance and he has mastered the craft of
delivering such with great humor. I approached him about the
possibility of being our keynote speaker for OCPAC’s awards banquet
next Spring. If that works out, those in attendance will have a great
evening.

It is important to understand, that not only do the states have the
right to nullify unconstitutional edicts from the federal government,
it is their duty to do so. Most Americans think the only way to combat
the tyranny of the federal government is through changing congress,
which is one method. However, nullification is also a valid method and
an understanding of such is being re-awakened in our nation.

++ SALLY KERN’S OPPONENT IN HOLLYWOOD FOR A FUNDRAISER

A week ago Saturday, State Representative Sally Kern’s opponent
Brittany Novotny attended a fundraiser on her behalf in the home of
Hollywood actor and voice over artist Ben Patrick Johnson. In a group
picture I saw, presumably at Johnson’s home in West Hollywood,
Brittany was actually smiling right in the middle of what I guess was
about 50 likeminded people.

Brittany used to be a “he“, had a sex change operation to make him
into a “her” but turned out to become a confused “it”. Some have
suggested that having a sex change operation is a person’s greatest
act of rebellion and hatred toward God for His making them what they
were.

It is truly sad to see people reject God’s love for them by being
willing to mutilate themselves. If they would submit their life to
God, they could find the true the joy in life that will forever elude
them while on their path of rebellion. The hatred and rage toward
Sally continues unabated in the homosexual community because Sally
dared to declare their political agenda for what it truly is, more
dangerous to the future of America than the threat of terrorism.

Brittany has suggested Sally doesn’t represent the values of her
constituents. Sally, on the other hand, from the time she first ran
for office, told her constituents that she was a Christian and would
stand for traditional morality and family values. Aside from the moral
issues, Sally is one of the most conservative and well informed
lawmakers in the state on a broad range of issues. In November, we
will see which set of values the voters in HD 84 care most about.
Remember, all elections are first about the quality and character of
the voters.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday

Charlie Meadows
Charlie...@gmail.com


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