Send an Iowan to Straw Poll

Message from Mike Huckabee;

Dear Friend,

• I would like you to help me with the Iowa Straw Poll.


• It's important for our campaign to be able to provide Iowans that can't afford tickets to attend the Ames Straw Poll with the opportunity to particpate. Tickets for the Straw Poll are $35 each. The campaign would like to be able to provide tickets to these Iowans, but to do so however, we will need your immediate help.


• I urge you to make an immediate contribution of 35, $70, or $140 to help me sponsor Iowans who will cast a vote in the Straw Poll for me.


• It is a simple request that will have a tremendous impact on the direction of our campaign. Campaigning in Iowa you can feel the momentum building behind our campaign. Traffic to our website from Iowa is increasing. We are reaching out to Iowa voters on the phones, in the mail and over the internet. Our team is working overtime.


• That is why I hope you will help us send as many Iowans to the Straw Poll as possible. Thank you in advance for your support.


• With deep gratitude,

• Mike Huckabee

A Synospis of Thusdays Blogger Call

I was sleeping during the great Blogger call that I obviously missed. I don't mean that I was sleeping while on the call, I took a nap and didn't wake up. So hear is the post of it from the ARRA.

• Huckabee & Hardin Talk With Bloggers
  
• Dr. Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: It took a "root canal" to keep me from participating in yesterday's blogger's conference with former Governor Mike Huckabee and University of Central Arkansas President and former Senator Lu Hardin. President Hardin has been a leader in higher education and a strong proponent of laws to protection property owners from the wayward use of imminent domain. But many other friendly bloggers provided the following reports:
• Massachueetts for Huckabee: Lisa Camp reported that Governor Huckabee hosted a bloggers conference call this morning, with him on the conference call was Sen. Lu Hardin. The Senator spoke about Governor Huckabee's extensive and impressive education record. Sen. Hardin said that Governor Huckabee was an education Governor who was very generous in funding many important programs. Sen. Hardin also mentioned the Kids First program that was started by Governor Huckabee. Read about the Kids First program . . . There was also a question about gun control Mike Huckabee said it really bothers him when other candidates confuse the 2nd amendment with hunting saying, “ The 2nd amendment isn’t about hunting. It’s our last line of defense in protecting our homes and families from criminals, or the an oppressive government.”
• Colorado For Huckabee: Steven Nielson asked Governor Huckabee what he thought about Human Space Exploration to Mars. You don't want to miss Steve's insightful questions and comments regarding the NASA Space Program to Mars. When Huckabee was asked the first question, steven reports, "Perhaps it could be the frustration he is feeling towards other candidates who are currently in a smear campaign against the governor... as was evident with his opening remark, "There are a few people I would like to send to Mars... on a one way trip... but I am not naming names" [Hey, I also liked Steven's graphic.]
• Kevin Tracy: Of course was happy to throw a curve ball at him, asking about US-Russo relations and increasing military cooperation between the Russian Federation and China. While he didn’t directly answer my question, he did give a glimpse into his personal foreign policy ideology. I think it can be summed up into one word. Humility. “Humility doesn’t mean weakness,” he said, reminding us that it’s having strength but not pushing it at other people. Governor Huckabee calls it “Humility.” President (and war hero) Theodore Roosevelt practiced a similar policy of “speak quietly, but carry a big stick.” It worked for President Roosevelt, it will work for President Huckabee, and it certainly works for me.

In Case You missed it..Mike Huckabee on Neal Cavuto

In case you missed watching Mike Huckabee on Neal Cavuto at 4pm there will be a repeat episode at 5am tomorrow. I will watch it at work. I am also recording it, since I might miss some of it. For a synopsis check Kerry's post from One Mom.

Republican News from Michigan

I thought I would share a few things of interest regarding Republican activities in Michigan.

One is my District will be having a picnic and meeting in my town the same day as the Straw Poll. I am torn between if I want to volunteer at the Straw Poll or attend the picnic, where I can tell people about Mike Huckabee. I would be able to set up a table for Mike Huckabee and set out bumper stickers. If I can work it out just right, I would set up my display between the Romney and Brownback tables.
I have emailed a field director from the campaign to see if he could send me promotion tools. I haven't heard from him yet. I hope he's just really busy. If I do attend I can not show up empty handed. I have already talked to one of the organizers of the picnic and he knows I want to promote Mike there. He also told me there will be Ron Paul supporters there. I don't care if I look like a fool, but I do not want Mike or his campaign to look like a fool. I could just see it now, the Ron Paul guy shows up with all kindsa material and I am empty handed. Yes, there will be a Ron Paul guy there. So if I don't hear from the guy from the Huckabee campaign I may need help from my fellow bloggers. There will be about 50 people. So if just a few of you each donate a few bumper stickers me, those few added together can add up to 50. Also, I would like help writing up literature.
Hopefully, I will hear from him and not need your help. The way I see it, whether or not they are waiting on the outcome of the Straw Poll, there will be just be more people knowing about him when he does have a good outcome at the Straw Poll. These are people that I do not see very often, since the 1st District consists of the entire UP and northern Lower Peninsula. Despite what some people may say, The UP and "Up North" area is not full of hicks. Charlevois and Traverse City are included in the 1st District. And those are richy rich towns.
These are people that once they hear about what Mike Huckabee stands for giving $2,300 to them is like me buying a candy bar. Oh gosh, I hope no one from the 1st District is reading this. Why ignore them until the results from the Straw Poll are in?

I will take pics from the event and post here.

The next thing is, I get emails from Mitt Romneys Michigan HQ. I feel why take myself off the email list when I can find out what they are up to? I got one today about signing up volunteers in Michigan.

• Come join Congressmen Joe Knollenberg and Pete Hoekstra, along with Scott Romney and others for Sign Up Michigan!
  Sign Up Michigan! is a statewide effort in which Elected Officials, Grassroots Leaders and Volunteers, spend the day calling their friends, families, co-workers, and neighbors to recruit new members for Team Mitt, Governor Mitt Romney’s national grassroots team.
  Don’t miss this great opportunity to reach out to your community and help build the team! Join us Monday August 6th and bring a friend to get in on the excitement. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

No, I will not give the locations. There may be people reading this who is a Mitt supporter. Why Mitt Romney supporters would read my blog is beyond me. If you want to go holding Mike Huckabee banners I will give you the location in an email ;).
Here's my point. I would love it if the Huckabee campaign would do that here in Michigan. I would work for free. Whatever they wanted me to do, I would do it.

Now for the last part. I got an update about the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter will be there, added to the original line up of Rudy McRomney.

Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference Updatehttp://www.mackinacconference.com/

RegistrationRegistration is now open for the 27th Biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Make sure to sign up today and reserve your spot at this exciting event. You will not want to miss it!

Speakers, Please check our website for updates on our featured speakers. http://www.mackinacconference.com/

Meal TicketsBe sure to order your meal tickets and secure your seat in advance. Check out our website at http://click.emailgop.com/?ju=fe881d767761017e7c&ls=fe251679746c0174761170&m=fef8167770650c&l=fef91674776303&s=fe5e10727c6401757014&jb=ffcf14&t= to order yours today. Just a reminder for those staying at the Grand Hotel, your meal tickets are included in your hotel package.

Golf TournamentTee-times are still open for the 1st Biennial "Chairman's Cup" golf tournament. Sign up today at www.mackinacconference.com/golf.asp

Vendor TablesIf you are a vendor interested in participating in the conference please check our website for additional information on obtaining a table, www.mackinacconference.com/vendors.asp

Agenda(Please note that this agenda is tentative and subject to change)

Friday, September 21, 20073:00pm-9:00pm Conference Registration opens3:00pm-9:00pm Media Registration opens3:00pm-10:00pm Vendor Tables open3:30pm-5:30pm Welcome Reception on the Front Porch5:00pm-7:00pm Pundit's and Pollsters Panel7:30pm-9:30pm Dinner Program with Special Guest Mayor Rudy Giuliani

Saturday, September 22, 20077:00am-10:00pm Conference Registration opens7:00am-10:00pm Media Room opens7:00am-10:00pm Vendor Tables open7:30am-8:30am Congressional Q & A8:00am-12:00pm Chairman's Cup Golf Tournament8:30am-10:00am Breakfast program with Special Guest10:10am-11:00am Conference Panels11:10am-12:00pm Conference Panels12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch program with Special Guest Governor Mitt Romney12:00pm-2:00pm Chairman's Cup Golf Reception2:30pm-3:20pm Conference Panels3:30pm-4:20pm Conference Panels5:30pm-7:00pm Chairman's Reception7:00pm-9:00pm Dinner Program with Special Guest Senator John McCain

Sunday, September 23, 20079:30am-10:30am Non-Denominational Church Service

Child Porn and Castration in the Czech Republic

Having a Czech ancestry and being curious about Czech history and modern culture I signed up to get email updates from Radio Praha. A couple news items I got a few days ago seemed to be of enough significance to share with y'all.

Czech senate decides against criminalising possession of child porn

• The Czech Senate has decided against making the possession of child pornography a criminal offence. Discussing an amendment to the law on pornography passed by the lower house, senators agreed that only people who produce or sell child porn or who make it available should be punished, but not those who just own it, as such a measure could be easily misused by third parties to get others into trouble.
  One senator expressed concern that even an unsolicited email could result in a person being prosecuted under the proposed new child porn legislation. One of the authors of the amendment, Communist MP Milan Bicik has criticised the senators' reservations, saying that they were unfounded and that the legislation only targeted those who knowingly possessed pornographic images of children. The bill has now been sent back to the lower house of parliament for another reading.

Ya know what, I hate to admit it, but I am going to have to agree with the Commies on this. What is going on in the minds of those who posses it is just the same as those who produce, sell or make it available. Maybe even more so. Perhaps the people making it available are not all pedophiles, they could just be marketing to pedophiles. Obviously if someone purchases or downloads it they are definitely pedophiles. I am not making excuses for those making it, whether or not they are pedophiles they are just as disgusting as those possessing it. I think they should all be punished equally.

As for unsolicited email, I may not be all the technology savvy, but I do know not to open up suspicious email. So if a person open up suspicious email they must be interested in the child porn.

Now for the next article of interest.

Czech sexologists defend castration practises

• The Czech government and sexologists have rejected criticism from the Council of Europe regarding the practise of castrating some sex offenders in this country. The Council's Committee for the Prevention of Torture has criticised the policy of allowing some sex offenders to choose between surgical castration or confinement for life in a psychiatric facility. Leading Czech sexologists have defended the practise, saying that castration is only carried out with the prisoner's consent and that it has drastically reduced re-offending. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture maintains that consent to castration can hardly be considered free if the alternative for the prisoner is indefinite confinement in a psychiatric hospital.

Again, I don't see anything wrong with this. I have been saying for years that we need similar laws here. While I know we have the same 2 above problems here in US and we should focus mostly on the US I think these things are important issues. Whether it be in the U.S., Europe or anywhere else. I think both these things are a good turn from the stereotypes some Americans have about sex in Central and Eastern Europe. Probably it is more important to know how the Czech people and officials feel about Missile Defense Shields in their area feel. I will get to that in later posts.

Great Articles

I love this photo! Taken when he spoke at the National Wellness Conference in the Jenkins Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Thomas Kujawski/Stevens Point Journal. "A picture speaks a thousand words." To me this says, "Mine and my supporters prayers are finally being answered. AMEN!".

Here are three great articles to read.

If Only Huckabee Had Money

• Even though he isn't counted in the upper tier of most lists, Mike Huckabee has managed to generate more buzz for his presidential candidacy than other second-tier candidates. He was well-served by the debates, in which he was articulate, glib and funny. Many observers seem to lament the fact he has not been able to raise the money to compete with the big boys. While Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain had their millions, Huckabee couldn't crack a single million. His response was predictable: Money isn't the best indicator of strength. He asserted that the candidates who were being hailed by the media would eventually fade...
• Click link above to read the rest of the article in the Arkansas News Bureau.

Huckabee Shows Faith-Based Action can be Nonconfrontational

• Gov. Mike Huckabee thought about that after Hurricane Katrina. The ordained Southern Baptist minister also knew that the summer camping season was over and that thousands of people fleeing New Orleans had to go somewhere."I saw on TV people on the bridges of Interstate 10 stranded for days without water, and I thought, this isn't Rwanda. This isn't Indonesia. ... This was the United States of America," said the former governor, who is now part of the throng of Republican presidential candidates. "These were the neighbors just to the south of us in Louisiana. It was beyond my comprehension that we could get TV cameras to those people but we couldn't get a boat or a bottle of water to them."Thus, he asked religious leaders to open camps all over Arkansas to the evacuees, while urging the public to rally around this blunt public policy: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."...
• Click the above link to read the rest of the article in The Daily Dispatch.

Ex-Arkansas Governor Urges Culture Shift in Health Initiatives

• About five years ago, Mike Huckabee had a heart-to-heart conversation with his doctor that changed his life.
  
  "If you don't change your lifestyle, you're entering the last decade of your life," the former governor of Arkansas remembers his doctor telling him. "He then described for me the progression of how I would decline and then die."
  
  Huckabee is now 110 pounds lighter, a candidate for president and nationally recognized for the success of the wellness initiatives he instituted in Arkansas.
  
  His keynote address to the National Wellness Conference in the Noel Fine Arts Center on Tuesday afternoon was part pep talk, part stand-up comedy routine and part warning about the stark consequences the country faces if it doesn't start investing in health...
• Click the above link to read the rest of the article in the StevensPointJournal.com.

Tomorrow there will be another Bloggers Call with Mike Huckabee. It will take place a few hours after I come from work. So I may or may not be asleep. If I do partake I will let y'all know about the call.

I am working on a post about sex offenders and the Czech Republic. It's not what you think, knowing American stereotypes. It's actually a good response from the Czech Republic. As a woman I find these issues important.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Hey Y'all, Check this Out!

Pundits Say Huckabee Had a Good Quarter

Click on the link above to read the blog of the same title from MikeHuckabee.com. It is very positive about the second quarter. Check out the link to a radio interview from Professor Dr. Jay Barth from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas and an article about the views from Professor Dennis Goldford from Drake University in Iowa . Also take time to read the interesting comments from Mike Huckabee supporters. One commenter makes an interesting point about the questions from poll takers giving only four options or "other" on primary choices.

These are all definitely must reads!

It is getting late for this third shifter so I must go to bed. "Night night."

God bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

A More Funny Take

Yesterday Jeremy from Mike Huckabee in '08 posted about the UUUGGGLY fish that was served at the wedding rehearsal dinner for Bill Lee and Sarah Gore.

And now for the funny take from a Glenn Beck email I received.

• Gore in Trouble
• Al Gore recently threw a rehearsal dinner for his daughter's wedding in California. One tiny little problem, however, was that the meal served at the dinner included Chilean Sea Bass, a 'threatened' species. Now animal rights groups are upset with Mr. Gore for patronizing a restaurant that serves up threatened animals for meals. His daughter, incidentally, is named Sarah and she married Bill Lee, making her new name Sarah Lee. Read the story here.

Playing With My New Toy

Update: Here is a pic of my Grand Am with the Mike Huckabee bumper sticker. Remember to send your pic of bumper stickers on your car. Just click on the "Universal Car Acsecory" link at the top of the page. I am having fun playing with my new camera. I may post my out takes for the "I like Mike" vid, after I get the real one done.

I thought I would share with you the sewing project I am working on. I know Mike Huckabee needs all the help he can get. But if I post too much I will get burned out. So I need to break once in a while and sew. In this pic is the Elvis fabric I am using to make an apron and my grandma's 1950 series 153 Domestic Brand sewing machine.

Crossing the Bridge 4 Huckabee

I know Labor Day is still quite a ways away. But I would like to invite y'all to come up to the UP for the Labor Day Bridge. The Mackinac Bridge will celebrating it's 50TH anniversary this year. Every year, for the past 50 years there has been a bridge walk on Labor Day. People from all over Michigan attend this event. There is even attendance from non-Michiganders. Also is the occasional Asian or European busload of tourists. This year will attract national attention, due to the anniversary.

The reason I want to invite y'all is that this would be a great way to show support for Mike Huckabee. Think about it, 1,000s of Michiganders AND Americans, plus national media will be there. If we can all group together and show support for Mike Huckabee he will get more attention than anyone could imagine. We could all walk together wearing Mike Huckabee t-shirts and pass out bumper stickers, plus other literature with info about him. Unfortunately, we can not make banners. But most other campaigning activities are allowed. Since the Mackinac Bridge is 5 miles and it takes about 2 hours to walk people will get thirsty. If somehow we could get water bottles made up with Mike Huckabee's name on them to hand out that would be great.

I will do everything I can to find places for y'all to stay. If it comes down to it, I will go out of my way to put everyone on the floor in my 750 square feet house. Ya would just have to deal with Joe, my cat, wanting to cuddle. For Mike Huckabee I think y'all would be willing to sleep on Arrow Bed in a Minute and/or sleeping bags. In fact, I would be willing to give up my bed for any "princesses."

We gotta do what we can to get Mike's name out there. In a situation like this we need to think outside the box. I suggested this event to the campaign. I guess maybe they want to wait and see what happens at the straw poll. I say, "straw poll be damned." Of course I want him to do well at the straw poll. But if he could come to the Mackinac Bridge he would get noticed. This is not a political event. So Republicans, Democrats, Independents and those who do not pay attention to politics will be there.

Michigan is one of the few states that does not require voters to register with a party. Thus non-Republicans can vote for him also. Even if he can't show up to the event, at least people can see his supporters show up in droves.

If he were to win the primary, not only would Republicans vote in droves, dis-illusioned Democrats and Independents would vote for Mike Huckabee. Maybe I am over optimistic, but I truly believe he will be able to even attract those that don't vote.

He is the only Republican who can defeat Hillary. Remember, he is from Arkansas. He knows what Hillary, and Bill Clinton are capable of. He will be able to predict her tricks. Then he could play against her tricks, using honest methods. Even if there are Republicans who could play against her tricks, do you want a president who would use dishonest methods to get elected? Anyways, Hillary would have people to watch every move of the opponent and expose them, before they were able to expose her dishonest tricks. Hillary's people would not be able to find anything dishonest about Mike Huckabee. If you recall, in the book reports I have been doing (that I got behind on), in one of the chapters Dick Morris told him that Mike's supporters "would swim the Mississippi during flood stage" for him. Hey, we might not be swimming the Mississippi, but we can cross the Mackinac Straits.

Come on, whatd'ya say? Please comment. If the campaign sees lotsa comments about people wanting to show up for Mike they will take this seriously. Considering that Mike Huckabee is the candidate who is focusing on fitness and healthy lifestyle the most, walking five miles across a 5 mile bridge would be a terrific show of that.

I will add a demand sticker from eventful, please demand. Here is a link to the bridge event http://www.mackinacbridge.org/annual-bridge-walk-7/ .

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!