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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Cincinnati Tea Party’s ‘precinct project’ featured on Fox News
Press release from the Cincinnati Tea Party (we reported on the “Precinct Project” in a weekend series):
Dan Lillback, Director of Special Projects for the Cincinnati Tea Party, appeared on Fox News Special Report last Friday with a special message of his own: “We have some different ideas and we have some direction that we’ve been talking to you about and you haven’t heard us yet.” Lillback was speaking to elected Republicans who seem to be in short supply of the time-tested values the Cincinnati Tea Party hopes to bring back into vogue: fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.
Lillback heads up the Precinct Project, an effort to educate people on the importance of being involved on county and state candidate-selection committees. He has presented to more than 30 liberty-minded groups around Ohio, explaining how to get elected to these positions. “The importance of the candidate-selection process is revealed in the understanding that protesting, letter writing, and phone calls only go so far, and that real change starts at this foundational level. The few elected citizens that make up these county and state committees effectively create the policy for the party.”
Phase I of the Precinct Project was getting people on the ballot. At a recent candidate press conference and rally in Cincinnati, over 100 candidates signed an agreement, pledging to uphold Cincinnati Tea Party values. Now, Phase II of the project is underway—getting candidates elected and implementing a game plan. And Dan has plenty of ideas: using voter identification resources, being a political leader in the neighborhood, having candidate nights, and simply increasing the level of engagement in one’s sphere of local influence. “It’s your best bet for results,” said Lillback. “While I’m not that good at politics, I am pretty good at math. A 51 percent majority of liberty-minded members in these county and state positions absolves us from playing politics and allows us to choose freedom.”
Dan Lillback has been working with the Cincinnati Tea Party since April 2009. The Tea Party movement is looking beyond 2010.
See Dan Lillback on Fox News here.
Read more about the Candidate Pledge here.
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The battles for control of both local parties
In case you missed it, here are links to a pretty thorough package we ran on Sunday about central committee races for both the local GOP and Democratic party.
Here is the intro:
With his campaign button, eager smile and fistful of business cards, Carl Rullmann looks like any other candidate for election.
Rullmann is running for GOP central committee. One box of business cards should be enough. There are only 250 registered Republicans in his West Chester Twp. precinct.
“I’m sick and tired and I can’t take it anymore,” the retiree and Tea Party activist said of why he’s entering politics for the first time. “I’ll do what I can (to fix things).”
He’s far from alone.
Rullmann is one of 399 Republicans and 206 Democrats who filed to run for their Butler County parties’ central committees.
This has turned the 298 precincts in Butler County into tiny battlegrounds for control of both parties this year.
“I believe that there are more candidates that filed for the Butler County (Democratic) central committee this year, than ever before in history,” said Don Daiker, former party chairman and founder of the Butler County Progressive Political Action Committee.
The PACs — remnants of President Barack Obama’s campaign — are a big reason there are more people running for the Democratic Party central committee this year.
The Tea Party is one reason for the surge of Republican candidates. But equally responsible is a seat that’s not even up for election.
That’s the Butler County prosecutor post, which the GOP central committee will fill if current Prosecutor Robin Piper wins his bid to become Court of Appeals judge. He’s unopposed in the primary or general election.
As for Rullmann, he still has the incumbent to content with: Naomi Stock, who said she has been active with the party for 25 years. She’s unfazed by the challenge.
“Everybody has a right to run,” said Stock, also a Tea Party supporter. “I’ve walked the precincts for other people, I can walk it for me.”
Here are the rest of the stories:
- This is the full intro, with an explanation of what central committees are and why these seats are important.
- Here is a look at the Republican Party central committee races, and the several reasons why they’re hotly contested. Reasons include the Tea Party movement and the unofficial race for county prosecutor.
- Here is a look at the Democratic Party central committee races, which some say highlight the classic split in the party at large.
What do you think?
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Compost bins, rain barrels for sale
Press release from Butler County Recycling and Solid Waste District:
The Butler Soil and Water Conservation District (Butler SWCD) has added compost bins and rain barrels to their annual Tree and Groundcover Sale held this month. Butler SWCD will use proceeds from this sale to fund the district’s education program, grants for schools and scholarships for students.
“More and more homeowners are contacting Butler SWCD to find out about composting, rain barrels, and creating rain gardens,” said Butler SWCD District Administrator Kevin Fall. “It just makes sense to offer these products as a part of our traditional tree sale,” he said.
Compost is one of nature’s best mulches and soil amendments and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Compost loosens clay soils, improves soil fertility, stimulates healthy root development in plants, improves soils capacity to hold water and attracts earthworms and other beneficial microbes to your soil. Compost bins make the compost pile more attractive, while keeping out unwanted animals. The compost bins for sale are called Earth Machines. Butler SWCD is offering the compost bins at the discounted price of $60 each (Earth Machines typically sell for $100 retail).
“Up to one-third of the waste generated by residential households is organic material, like vegetable food scraps. Composting provides a natural way to use these materials to benefit the environment and reduce waste,” said Recycling & Solid Waste District Coordinator Anne Fiehrer Flaig.
Butler SWCD is selling the rain barrels at a reduced price of $120, thanks to the Butler County Storm Water District. Bob Lentz, the storm water coordinator, is enthusiastic about the sale and states, “Rain barrels help to keep rain water onsite where it belongs, allowing us to use this free resource, which is better for your plants and better for your wallet.”
The sale also includes many species of trees, shrubs, groundcovers, grasses and animal homes. Butler SWCD will take orders through March 26 or until the supply is exhausted. Pick-up dates will be April 22-23 at the Butler County Fairgrounds. An order form is available at www.ButlerSWCD.org or by stopping by the Butler SWCD office located at 1802 Princeton Road, Suite 300, Hamilton, Ohio 45011. For more information, call 513-887-3720 weekdays or visit the above referenced website.
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