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“North Carolina’s Liberty Flag”
NC LS Winter Conference and Nathaniel Macon Institute (NMI)
“Cracking North Carolina’s Closed Political System”
Saturday, 12 February 2011
11AM-3PM
Mayflower Seafood Restaurant, 1160 Huffman Mill Road
Burlington, North Carolina
L-R: Dr. Michael Beitler, Dr. Tom Minsel
Join us for a day of provocative analysis of North Carolina’s political system, an important part of our daily lives no matter what happens in Washington City. Our keynote speaker will be free market proponent and former US Congressional candidate Dr. Mike Beitler of Greensboro. He is the author of “Rational Individualism” and “Strategic Organizational Change,” and will be presenting his views on the limited ballot access prevalent in North Carolina.
Dr. Tom Minsel, Director of the NMI, will present “November 2010: Catch 22” an analysis of poll data results and the systemic problem built into our State political "system.” He will ably demonstrate how the State needs to take the lead in national politics and why the League of the South offers the only solution to our national plight. We expect a third speaker on the same topic and are in negotiations with a well-known political analyst from Charlotte.
Mark your calendars for February 12th. Members are expected, guests are always welcome.
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Directions to the Mayflower Restaurant:
Take Exit 141 off I-40/85 and turn West away from town (left if you are coming from Raleigh, right if you are coming from Greensboro). The Mayflower is located on the left just beyond the interstate overpass and beside the Kangaroo gas station.
See www.northcarolina.chapterlos.
Washington – An Organized Criminal Enterprise
Come January, the House will have 94 new members, and at least 15 percent plan to sleep in their congressional offices rather than rent living space in pricey Washington.
“With voters again shunning Washington and fiscal excess, a number of incoming House members plan to demonstrate their scorn for both by camping out near their new desks,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Rep.-elect Todd Rokita, an Indiana Republican, said he decided to sleep in his office after he was shown a 600-square-foot studio renting for $2,000 a month. Most House members earn $174,000 a year but maintain homes in their districts.
Rep.-elect Clarke Hansen, a Michigan Democrat, is another newcomer planning to bed down by his desk.
“I don’t want to be comfortable in Washington because I need to get back to metro Detroit,” he said. “Businesses are struggling right now. Families are struggling. I’m only in Washington to work.”
Rep. Pete Hoekstra is one veteran congressman familiar with the sleeping-in-office routine. The Michigan Republican has camped out on a couch by his desk a few nights a week since 1993. He declined to run for re-election this year to launch an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, but his successor, Republican Bill Huizenga, has heard from hundreds of constituents who expect him to follow Hoekstra’s lead, according to The Journal.
“I think back home there’s a sense of frugality and sort of a Spartan element that this isn’t a place where you’re going to call home and get too comfortable,” he said.
House members are supplied with desks, file cabinets, tables, and chairs for their three-room suites in three House office buildings. They can sleep on a government-issue couch, but they must supply their own air mattresses or cots.
One new congressman who won’t sleep in his office is Steve Womack, an Arkansas Republican. He said: “I don’t think my staff wants to see me in my pajamas.”