Meet the Candidates at the September 8th Meeting

We are continuing to do two meetings per month up until the November election.  We are inviting all of the candidates that will be in the November 8th Election.  We will be doing a straw poll at each of the three meetings; finiishing on October 8th.  From there we will do a "voter recommendation guide" and publish it in the local newspapers, etc.  Please come out for these meetings and invite your friends and family.  It will help you make the best decision in the election and give you the chance to have input into who we recommend!

The next meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 8th at the Jackie Taylor Building, Our speakers that night will be: Rob Lapham - U.S. Representative District 2 Libertarian candidate;  Jerry Bullard  - State Representative;  Buddy Williams – Suwannee County Sheriff;  Lamar Jenkins – Suwannee County Property Appraiser; Ron Williams – Columbia County Commissioner Disttrict 1 and John Rothenberger, Suwannee County District 1.  Everyone is invited to attend this meeting.  Please invite your friends and family.  Go to www.northcentralfloridateaparty.org

We meet at 128 SW Birley Road, Lake City.  This is approximately 3 miles west of the I-75 interchange, on the corner of U.S. 90 and Birley Road.

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Instead of Labor Day, why not make Constitution Day the new national holiday?

How much do you know about Constitution Day? 

It’s once again the first Monday in September, and that means Americans are taking the day off, hitting the beach, and grilling in honor of all the supposedly wonderful things unions have done. But rather than placing so much public emphasis on Labor Day — a tradition whose time has passed — Americans would be better off observing something that takes place a couple of weeks later: Constitution Day. Ostensibly, Labor Day is meant to celebrate the achievements of the American workforce, but it’s really an outgrowth of the labor movement geared at celebrating the achievements of unions. ....

Meanwhile, federal, state, and local governments as well as the private sector could do our republic and its future at least a symbolic service by having our three-day September weekend to coincide with Constitution Day on September 17.

[Note: While Constitution Day is on September 17 — the anniversary of the signing of the document in 1787 — in the event that the date falls on a weekend, the holiday is observed on the closest weekday thereto; hence, Constitution Day 2016 will be observed on September 16, a Friday.]

Constitution Day celebrates the remarkable task our framers completed in developing the revolutionary, federal system of government that we enjoy today. It was — and still is — a brilliant framework, based on the ideals put forward just 11 years prior in our declaration and, put into action, allowed the U.S. to flourish into the great nation that we currently enjoy.

Many people don’t even know when Constitution Day is. It may be marked by children if their school designates it. But we owe a far greater debt than we are paying to the revolutionary federal framework that saved our republic in its infancy and protects our God-given liberty through an ingenious system of checks and balances.

History and civics teachers may take a day to learn about the importance of September 17, but our public reverence of the document and the achievements of the men who brought it into existence are severely lacking.
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