CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MINUTES OF
7 February 2012

Meeting held at Golden Corral Restaurant, Morehead City, NC
Meeting called to order at 6:08pm by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH
Pledge of Allegiance was led by NANCY BOCK
Invocation by EULA PARKIN

BOB told the group about CATIE MCCABE’s event last Saturday night at Glad Tidings Church.  Reminded us that she had given us a presentation last week about the program she is interested in on sex trafficking/sex slave market.  He went to her presentation Saturday night and he said it blew him away.  The poor girl that got up there telling her story, (first time she had told it before an audience, and needed to do so because she is going to have to testify in court and needs the experience exposing the life she had been forced into), talk about heartbreaking, WOW!  BOB said if she had gone on about 2 more seconds he would probably have gotten up and gone on stage and hugged her.  Talk about being alone up there, WOW!  It was so obvious that her self esteem had been completely destroyed and she was fighting hard to get it back.   BOB said he was going to try to stay involved and would like to be kept informed of any more things like that coming up.  It really touched a cord with him.

BOB reminded everyone that we had our donation bucket here tonight (as opposed to having the 50/50 raffle).  People had already started throwing money in there so we will go that route.  Please help with whatever you can.  The Western Carteret group is having their meeting tonight so KEN and DIANE LANG, and ROMA and EDITH WADE are probably there.  He said he would be joining them after our meeting concludes.

BOB called on NANCY BOCK for our Treasurer’s report.  She said we have $1,164.00 and that KEN said that at their last meeting (Western group) they collected $162.00 but she hasn’t gotten that yet.

BOB asked HARRY THOMPSON if he had an update on the John Locke presentation.  HARRY said everything was a go for the workshop to be held on Saturday, March 17th in the Joslyn Hall at the Community College again this year.  You go on line to register (this is the address I used)
(http://johnlocke.org/events/event.html?id=966) and cost is $5.00 per person to help cover the cost of the room.  HARRY said he had written a letter to the editor Friday or Saturday, right after he had received the email from John Locke’s people about it being all set up to go.  Hopefully, it will be in tomorrow’s paper and will contain the website to use for registering.  It will be from 9:00 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon with a lunch break like we did last year.  He is looking forward to it and thinks it will be another good informative session; if we can just get the word out.  We need at least 50 people to attend to help take care of the expenses.  However, all the more, the better.  It is a good presentation and he thinks everybody will enjoy it.  SCOTT CARPENTER wanted to know what the purpose of the workshop was.  HARRY said this was the second part of the workshop we held last year on the Constitution.  This will be on the original intent of the Federalist Papers, and what would our forefathers think about what is going on today.  TOM AUSTIN wanted to know if we had sent word to Beaufort County about this workshop because they had a lot of people come down here last year from their area.  BOB said he would send them an email with the details.  HARRY said we do need to get the word out, with the registration address.  STEVE BEST said he did not have computer access to register.  PEGGY GARNER said she felt sure that they would have someone available so he could pay at the door.  HOWARD said he thought he had seen a letter to the editor recently from HARRY.  He wasn’t sure whether he had seen it in the News Times or the Jacksonville paper.  HARRY said he had sent the letter to both, plus the Tideland News and New Bern paper also, he thought.  He also thought it would be good if everyone else would write a letter to the editor and plug the event. SUSAN RYNAS wanted to know about putting in on the public library site.   Don’t they have something there?  HARRY said if that were so, it would be good to have something like a notice there.  NANCY said she would put it in the ‘Community Events’ in the News Times.  Discussion on current events and the constitution.  Just what is going on right now should encourage people to come and listen and learn.

BOB introduced the new faces in the crowd:  ROSANNE THOMPSON,  Precinct Chair for Salter Path and Indian Beach.  (BOB jokingly said ERNIE GUTHRIE was going to be her Vice Chair…in charge of all the vice.)  Speaking of all the precinct chair positions, the Republican Party, is having precinct meetings this Saturday.  You need to go to wherever your precinct has their meeting and get involved so you can get on phone committees and help get the campaign going and get out the vote.  LYN BAKER said they were supposed to have sent her the registration lists but she had not gotten them yet.  BOB wanted to know who was supposed to have sent them.  LYN said JUDY WILGUS.  FRED DECKER wanted to know which precinct LYN was in.  She said North River.  She was asked if she was the chairman there and she said no, she was a judge.  She was asked where they voted and she said East Carteret High School.  Discussion on what comprised the North River Precinct with everyone talking at once.  BOB asked FRED if he had anything else he wanted to add about the Precinct meetings this Saturday.  Someone said it and the locations should have been posted in the county paper; and several said it had been. SCOTT CARPENTER said he was Precinct Chairman for the Wildwood/Brandy-wine Precinct area (where 24 and 70 link up, goes up to Hibbs Road and loops around back to start) and their meeting would be held right here at the Golden Corral.  They need some help.  Wanted to know if anyone here at the meeting lives in that loop he had just described.  VERNE THOMPSON said he did and would be glad to help out making calls or whatever was needed.  SCOTT said he would get up with him tomorrow and discuss it with him.  He just wanted to let everybody know it was his pleasure to have been asked to be the chair and with RUTH PARKER, being the Vice and helping him out, they had a good start to the team right here tonight.  Do need more battle buddies to help out if you know of anyone interested.  ROSANNE said if anyone knew of anyone interested in helping with the Salter Path/Indian Beach area to please let her know also.  FRED said BILL HODGE is having problems down there in District 2 of Newport.  He is having to work and just got custody of his 12 year old grandson.  It is just he and the boy and he is not being able to get away to work the precinct.  He had called on FRED to help him out.  FRED had told him he would try to get him some help here tonight, thinking of BELVA and RON MANNING, but they are not here tonight, nor is LUKE KUKULINSKI and his wife.  FRED said young people need to get involved, since they are the ones that are going to be paying all this money back, so they need to come to the meetings and see what they can do to help.  He also invited HOWARD and PEGGY and HOWARD said they were not registered Republican, but Unaffiliated.  FRED said he understood that, but he would like for us to attend if we could.  HOWARD said he didn’t want them to think, if we went, that we were going as spies.  FRED laughed and said he wasn’t worried about that.  He said he didn’t say anything that he didn’t want anyone to hear, so he wasn’t concerned about spies.  The meeting for Newport Precincts is Saturday at 10:00 am at the Town Hall.

BOB also recognized GLADYS and ED SUESSLE.  GLADYS said they were from New York, but they have a home in Beaufort; actually South River, really.  BOB asked if they were just down for the week, or have they moved here.  She said their plans are to eventually move here but right now they are only here until April.  But…if there is anything they can do to help while they are here, just call on them.  GLADYS asked PEGGY, Secretary, to please put her name on our email listing.

BOB called on EULA PARKIN for her ‘J’had Watch’.  She said a long time ago she had told us about the situation with the Muslims and it all started here in North Carolina in July 2009.  This was the wife of the man that was arrested.  (showed picture of Muslim woman whose eyes were all that you could see).  Her husband was 39 years old, had 2 sons and 4 others who were called J/hadies.  They lived in a rural area south of Raleigh. They were all US citizens.  He decided to take his sons and recruit them as war activists.  At the time of the arrests in 2009, the boys were between the ages of 21 to 24.  They had been being indoctrinated since 9-11 when they were only around 9 to 12 years old.  It is hard for her to think that this man was the only J/hadi instructor in our country…just the only one yet to be discovered.  He must have stuck out like a sore thumb for things he did over the years of preparing them.  They had purchased several hundred rounds of ammunition.  You would think that would have gotten someone’s attention.  When discovered they were charged with a J’hadi plot and a NC jury found them guilty of conspiring to provide support to Islamists military in foreign countries.  They were convicted and the terrorist mom, who’s picture she had shown, shouted out ’Prosecutors were racist vultures’.  Finally in January 2012, they received 15 to 45 years in prison for ’misunderstanding Islam’.  She asked did anyone know what happened after being sentence to prison.  They started recruiting someone to behead those who had testified against them.  This woman, the terrorist mom, actually came forward with money, over $4,000.00, went all the way to Wilmington, to meet this guy, which turned out to be a con man, but he took the $4,000.00.  So now this North Carolinian has been accused of trying to behead the witnesses and it turns out that several people were involved and one was a school teacher, so EULA thinks her career is probably ended.  It is pretty amazing to her that this person is in prison and still getting people to go out and get people to kill the witnesses.  He told them to be sure and keep the heads, because he wanted to make sure they had done as told and had the right people.  The NC Muslim is to stand trial as the hit man.  HOWARD said he believed that trial was held in New Bern.  EULA said yes, and she would have gone if she had known about it.  BOB wanted to know if anyone was in jail and she said not yet as far as she knew.  This all started In 2009 and is not over with yet.

HOWARD said he read an interesting article this week about Grover Norquist.  Did you all know his wife is Muslim.  That is kind of shocking.

EULA said the more she reads about Jimmy Carter (laughter).  There is a conspiracy there and Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State is right in the middle of it.  He (Jimmy) comes out in January and says he thinks the US should support Islamic world in Egypt.  EULA is surprised he doesn’t want it right here in America.

PEGGY asked that those in attendance, please only one talk at a time.  When she is playing back the recording for the minutes, and everyone is talking at once, it is impossible to understand what is being said.  It comes in as a big roar.  She would appreciate those who wished to talk to please wait their turn.  Thank you.

HOWARD reminded BOB about the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday Night at the Senior Center.

BOB called on DENNIS TOMASO for an update on our business cards.  He said the guy making them had been sick but would have them ready for us next week.  BOB said we are getting 1,000 cards for $60.00.  That is the double sided cards.  DENNIS said once he adds his charge of another $40.00, the price will run a little higher.  Much joking followed.

BOB asked SCOTT CARPENTER if he was going to run for Board of Education.  He said he was tied up with being Precinct Chairman right now.  BOB told him he needed to learn to multi-task.

TOM AUSTIN asked if anything had been said among the TEA Party groups about being down in Charlotte during the Democrat Convention.  Are we going to try to get hold of a couple of hundred motel rooms and have some buses or vans so we can go down there and march and protest. He said he would take a week off but he didn’t want to go by himself, because he would look kind of funny.  RUTH PARKER said she thought we should just take a tent, no soap, no shampoos, don’t get a permit, just occupy Charlotte.  Discussed the police finally going in and breaking up the OWS gang there.  HOWARD said he thought he had read that the Charlotte City Council has enacted a lot of new rules to try to prevent the protest groups being there during the Democrat convention.  He suspects it might be real easy to get locked up during that time especially.  BOB said he thought after the Chicago ‘67 convention they really lock down these political conventions now to keep the crowds out.  TOM said he had in mind just walking around out side carrying signs maybe single file or double file around the block, not mob action. Someone said then they would probably consider it a parade and we would need a permit   TOM said then you say, I don’t know this guy next to me, he just showed up.  He asked BOB if it had been brought up among the TEA party groups.  BOB said there had been some talk about it but nothing has gotten any traction.  TOM said ‘then what did he need to do‘.  BOB said maybe start an email campaign.  TOM said he would kick it off and start locating hotels outside of Charlotte because in Charlotte, being the highly Democratic mob owned, hotels are already booked.  BOB wanted to know how much the bus seats were going to be.  TOM said he didn’t know right now.  We may decided to go in vans, rather that buses.  They would work better transporting the people from hotels/motels to the convention center.  We could probably stick 16 people in a van.  BOB asked TOM what he was going to call his event, the TOM AUSTIN Road Show?  TOM said, maybe the ‘Let’s Get Arrested TEA Party Show’.  BOB recognized STEVE BEST, who asked what happened in ‘67, that he wasn’t born yet then.  BOB said there was a lot of rioting at the Democrat convention.  Pandemonium type rioting.  LYN said it was their people doing it too.  Several got arrested and there was a big long drawn out trial, monkey show.  One of those guys married Jane Fonda (Tom Hayden).  TOM said, Daley’s police went in and started beating the crap out of the protestors. Then the hippies decided that non-violence is not the way after all and they started going back after the cops; and the cops brought in reinforcements and while they were having the Democratic convention inside they were having massive fights outside in the streets…tear gas, clubs.  Discussion as to who was running in that election.  Decided it was McGovern.  BOB said, remember he wanted us to be on our knees and apologize to the North Vietnamese.  He wanted to give every taxpayer $3,000 refund, a lot of stupid stuff.

BOB then called on STEVE to report on when he planned to have his movies shown.  STEVE said we were supposed to vote on it tonight.  BOB asked what did he have coming up this weekend.  (The Republican primary meetings are this Saturday.)  STEVE said he had scheduled the move “C me dance’ on the 25th .  He said he had watched it and thought it was one of the most powerful movies he had ever seen.

HOWARD said he had received newsletter from the Civitas Capital Connection and they put on a workshop ‘A Free Market Academy‘ (he had given it to HARRY  to check in it to see what is involved.)  He is thinking maybe we can have it here, maybe even in the fall at the Community College.  HARRY is going to get the details on it and report back to us.  HOWARD said he thought it sounded interesting.

RUTH PARKER wanted to know what was the latest on the March 24th deal to Washington?  BOB said no further news.  He wanted to know if anyone had any friends or knew of anyone connected to the Americans for Prosperity.  If they are involved, maybe we will be able to get $25.00 bus seats and go with them.  RUTH wanted to know if we could call Lockwood and ask him.  BOB said if they are involved then there should be something on their web site.  NANCY said she did not see anything on their website.  RUTH asked if anyone said anything on the webcam last night.  BOB said it didn’t come up.  He said they were working on some kind of position paper on Agenda 21.  They have been talking about that for quite a while and February 20th there is a presentation in Kinston on Agenda 21 that he is going to.  TOM said he had been out of the loop for a while, what was Agenda 21?  BOB jokingly said if we told him, we would have to kill him; so TOM said, then just email him so he could hide.  BOB recommended TOM do a Google on Agenda 21.  BOB said we have an Agenda 21 chairperson, STEVE, who opened his case and drew out a massive stack of papers— a little light reading for TOM.  Discussion among the group on Agenda 21.  BOB said the long and short Agenda 21 stems from the Kyoto  Accords.  It is an environmental movement to save the planet with controlled development.  If you look at the videos out, it is setting aside lands and trying to force humans to live on smaller chunks of real estate.  He said he understood there were 21 wilderness areas scattered around the country, and they plan to interconnect all those with the National Forests and State Forests, and then put in green belts around them enabling the animals to be able to move back and forth.  In order to do this they are going to have to confiscate property and put limitations on the use of real estate and basically just allow smaller and smaller land areas that humans can have freedom of movement on.  He thinks this 100 year sea rise thing that NC is involved with is a part of it also.  The way this is going to come about is going to be little bits and pieces with environmental groups, that eventually over time we will build our own prison.  RUTH said a man on TV last night said each state would have to give up one half of the land in their state in order to connect these areas designated; and that boards will be appointed, not elected by the people, and they will tell you where you can live and where the animals can live.  TOM wanted to know who was pulling for this in the US.  BOB said many various groups, but they are not really aware of all the consequences of this program, like the UN is just supplying the money.  Anyway, February 20th is a meeting in Kinston where you can learn more about it in detail.  What he has been spouting off is from articles he has read on the subject.  HOWARD said there is a lot of these county, city and state planning boards involved in this and if you start seeing things about ‘sustainability’ (there are certain code words you need to watch for) ie ‘central planning‘, etc.  Raleigh’s city planners are very much into it, trying to get everybody living downtown in high rises but someone checked to see where the head man of the board lives.   He lives outside of town on a many acre lot.  BOB said the whole idea of an American citizen buying a half acre of land to live on is considered not wise use of the land.  You don’t need that much land.  TOM said a lot of gardens around here are that big.  BOB said the folks running this program, what they are trying to do—remember back in the 60’s the old projects they built, the great big high rise things.  They want to bring that back for just general habitation.  They call it Stack ‘em and Pack ‘em.  When he saw all those condos going up on Hwy 70 in and around Newport, man, the first thing he thought of was stack ‘em and pack ‘em.  MARIAN MERRILL said she heard they cost $900.00 a month.  Most said they thought that was cheap.  Someone else said they thought they were  a lot more than that.  MARIAN said she didn’t even get enough to pay the $900.  More discussion on Agenda 21 with input from the attendees.  ROSANNE THOMPSON said she thought that if the deer ate the turtles or the turtles ate the deer (on Emerald Isle) we would all be much better off.  Discussion on shooting the deer followed.  BOB said they were shooting the deer because the deer were trampling the turtle nests.  Actually there are too many deer on the island, for the island to support.  Deer are going hungry, eating things they shouldn’t, getting sick, etc.  BOB said the last time Frank Palombo was here, they left this meeting and drove down to Rucker John’s on Emerald Isle to catch the other meeting there and when he came off the big bridge there by Cape Carteret, making that round turn, a deer shot across the road right in front of him and he had to jerk the wheel back and forth to miss him.  Discussion followed on regulations to follow upon hitting a deer on the highway.  BOB said the sad thing about the animals getting hit —the ones that get killed are the lucky ones.  The ones to pity are those that just get mangled and  either crawl off and die a slow death or are unable to pull themselves off the highway and keep getting hit.  He told about seeing a deer that had been hit one morning on his way to work.  He said it appeared that its legs were broken and was on his back with his injured legs in the air thrashing around.  This was before cell phones, and he had no way of notifying authorities to come take care of it and he had to get to work or get fired.  It would have been dangerous for him, alone, to try to get the animal off the road.  He hoped some cops or someone with help, stopped and helped that poor animal, or even some red neck came by and shot him and put him out of his misery.  He said he worried about that deer all day long and still thinks about what happened to it to this day.  This past summer there was a deer laying on the 9 mile road outside of Newport and people were just riding around it and not paying any attention.  He stopped and picked it up (it was a fawn, still had little white spots on him).  He was all busted up (his legs and hips).  He took him to the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter, gave them $50.00 and said if they could fix him, fine, otherwise put him down.  That is why we do need hunting to try to control the population because with all the development going on there is just less habitat for animals to roam.  Around Raleigh, as well as other areas, they are stripping off the land and building hundreds of homes.  They then landscape with non-native shrubbery and the deer eat that too.  HARRY said Agenda 21 will take care of that.

HARRY asked us to remember coming up in the May primary there will be a referendum for the Defense of Marriage Act on the ballot, an amendment to the constitution.  It will be good if you will keep that in mind and spread the word and make sure everyone in your churches and neighborhoods know about it and get out there and vote.  SUSAN said she guessed we had heard that out in California they had voted for that also, but the 9th District Court said it was unconstitutional.  It doesn’t seem fair that one man can undo what thousands of voters had voted for.

FRED said on the primaries coming up the parties do not work the primaries, so if we would work the polls during the primary, it would be a big help.  We (the TEA party people) need to be at all the polls and encourage the voters to do the right thing.  We need people outside the polls, passing out information.

HARRY said the other thing he wanted to mention— Queen Perdue has decide she is not going to try to reign another four years (cheers and clapping), the bad news is Bob Etheridge is now going to try to take her place.  It might not be a bad idea to think about this for the primary also —change your affiliation from Republican to Independent so that then you can vote either way (Republican or Democrat) in the primary.  He and his wife did that in 2009 (changed to Independent) and he got to vote for Hilary against Barrack Obama and he was hoping others would do that too.  This is why he was thinking it would be good the more people we could get of our political leanings to register as Independents and then get in there and vote somebody besides Bob Etheridge for governor.  TOM asked “Etheridge; was he the one that slammed that kid up”.  Several yeses in response.  TOM said all they have to do is show that and there is no way he can win.  He also wanted to know if the TEA Party was going to sit down at the primary (both Democrat and Republican) voting places with a list of their best choices.  Rather than just hitting the Republican, are we going to hit the Democrat primary also.  Are we going to say that these are the best choices?  BOB said he hadn’t even thought about the Democrat primary.  TOM said he was thinking like what we did with the judges, where we had come up with a ‘conservative’ list of judges and we did have some Democrat judges on that list he thought.  BOB said that was the main election, not the primary.  TOM said true, but if we affect the primaries we have a better chance.  HOWARD said TOM wasn’t here a few weeks ago but as he brought out ‘for years in Carteret County, whoever won the Democratic primary was going to get elected in the fall.  Well, things have changed, so now whoever wins the Republican primary in the spring is apparently the one going to get elected in the fall.  His suggestion was that we need to consider putting out a recommended list in the Republican primary if there are several running and work for those we  think would be the best for our ideals.  TOM said he still thought we should be doing it for both parties.  He said he was an Independent and was probably more conservative than most Republicans are, but if a Democrat gets elected, GOD forbid, at least it would be the best choice of the Democrats or at least the lesser of the evils.  HOWARD said he refers to that as negative voting, which he does quite frequently.  BOB said the problem for us is trying to vet so many candidates in the primary process.  Right now we don’t even know who is filing/running until the end of the month.  There could be 20 people running for an office so how are we going to get around to so many to vet.  We can’t.  TOM said the former mayor of Charlotte is going to be running for governor; is anyone else running on the Republican ticket.  BOB said he didn’t think McCory would be challenged by another Republican.  Greg Lewis, county commissioner, who came in late, said there would be a contested governor’s race on the Republican side.  All indications for the last six months there is a gentleman from the western part of the state who, according to his opinion, has no shot in h—, but he is continuing, so far, to state that he is going to enter his name.  Greg did not answer when asked who.

FRED said we need to replace some members on the school board.  He said he had talked to Bob Hardin, who was an investment banker for Merrill Lynch, and they have changed his commission to having to make over $250,000.  It used to be $50,000 to $200,000 and he said he could not continue on that job because he would be working for nothing.  So he got another job and he is in charge of six different financial institutions between Morehead and Kill Devils Hill and he said he would be gone a lot and he could not do the job required of a school board member.  FRED said he did not know anybody else from Newport.  BOB said that’s the biggest problem, finding people who have the time to run and serve.

BOB introduced our latest attendee, Greg Lewis, Republican Party Chairman for Carteret County and one of our County Commissioners.  (Applause)  Mr. Lewis apologized for being late.  They had had an all day meeting (and he was a firm believer that if it takes a 4 hour meeting, then you are not accomplishing anything.)  He said BOB has been asking him to come out and he has been busy getting ready for elections for the last two weeks, and after getting home tonight from the long meeting he was sitting reading the paper when he realized it was Tuesday night.  He said if he thought he was too busy now, what was it going to be a little more down the road, so he decided to show up tonight, even if he was late.  BOB asked if there was anything going on in the county he wanted to share with us, or if there was anything we could help him with, or anything else we need to know about.  Mr. Lewis said not at this time.

DENNIS TOMASO said Hillsdale College has something going on about the constitution also.  He didn’t know if everyone was aware of that—-on the web.  He is not sure exactly when it starts, but it is running something each month.  HOWARD said he thought it was on the 20th.  They are pretty good about sharing stuff and if you miss something you can go on line and get it.  Second thing he wanted to mention was — were we aware that Senator Burr voted against the Insider Trading bill.  Several said they saw the email today.  BOB said he guessed Burr had some investments he wanted to look out for.  DENNIS said Burr said they were wasting their time talking about this since they had insider traders all over the place, so he voted against it.  That sucker doesn’t deserve to be there.  He really doesn’t.  TOM said but he is still safe for the next few years.  DENNIS said true, but he needs to go as soon as we can get rid of him.  RUTH PARKER said Senator Coburn said they already had rules against insider trading.  That is the problem – they don’t enforce what they pass.  BOB said true, they had rules against what Bernie Madeoff was doing, but it didn’t stop him – nobody is enforcing them.  RUTH said nobody is watching the store.

BOB recognized STEVE BEST.  STEVE said he would be showing ‘C Me Dance’ (a Christian movie) on Saturday, February 25 at 4:00pm.  He has converted his garage into a movie theater with seating for 45 and would love to have everyone come and see this impressive movie.  BOB said STEVE had gotten two more movies just for the TEA Party,  ‘Agenda 210 and Iranium’.  KEN LANG has watched them both and said they both are really good and we would be interested in watching them.  It boils down to when we want to watch them.  It probably will have to be on a Saturday, since most folks work.  This Saturday is tied up with Republican Precinct Meetings plus the Republican Dinner, so that day is pretty much tied up.  So that leaves the 18th of this month available.  Decision was made to show those movies on the 18th at 3:00pm.
GLADYS wanted to know if it would be alright if we made it a pot luck dinner ’party’.  STEVE said he thought that would be nice.  ANYONE WISHING TO ATTEND THE MOVIE AT STEVE’S ON THE 18TH  THAT WOULD LIKE TO BRING SOMETHING TO EAT, PLEASE DO SO.  GREAT TIME FOR A GET TOGETHER PARTY and bring your friends!!!!!!  He said he does have a fire place, but he is running out of wood, so if you would like to have a fire, bring your own wood and you can sit by the fire until your log is gone and then you have to give your seat up to the next log bringer.
To get to STEVE’s from Morehead:  go pass the stop light by First Citizens Bank and Food Lion, take the next paved right…. Then an immediate left at the “Y”.  His home is the first trailer on the left.  SEE YOU THERE!!!!

BOB said he had forgotten to get a ticket for the Republican Dinner Saturday night.  Greg Lewis informed him they were completely sold out to seating capacity.  Fire marshal will not let anybody else in the building.

FRED said we all knew Terry Frank is running in Morehead, who do we have running over in Beaufort for Doug Harris and Pat Joyce’s seats.  Mr. Lewis said filing doesn’t start until this Monday and right now he doesn’t know who has announced they are running yet or not.  But we will have a full complement of candidates and we will probably have some primaries in several races.  Hold off a couple of days and that information will be forthcoming.  BOB asked what was the county website.  Mr. Lewis said to Google ‘Carteret County Republican Party.org‘.   FRED said, if you have given your email address to the TEA Party, they email out just about everything they get.  If you haven’t and would like to be included in our listing, then please include your email address on the check in sheet you signed when you arrived tonight.  BOB said you could sign up on the Republican Party web site also.

Meeting adjourned at 7:14pm
Minutes submitted by PEGGY GARNER, Secretary