Members of Sacramento Campaign for Liberty,
In the past months, we have been working hard to get the Sacramento liberty movement better coordinated and connected. You specifically are critical to any efforts here in the area to organize and mobilize the legions of liberty lovers. Quite obviously, we can’t achieve what we set out to do collectively without you plugged in, and active.
For this purpose we have set up groups on Facebook and Meetup, and are operating a website and the Sacramento County page on the Campaign for Liberty website. I recommend you sign up either on Meetup or Facebook and subscribe to our web site’s blog.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66296349488#/group.php?gid=66296349488
http://www.meetup.com/sacramentocampaignforliberty/
http://sacramentocampaignforliberty.com/
Besides holding monthly general meetings the second Tuesday of every month, and hosting monthly action and education items, in the coming months, we will be expanding our grassroots lobbying base through a local contact tree, as well as further pressing Rep. Matsui (CA-5), Sen. Boxer, and Sen. Feinstein to support H.R. 1207 in the coming months. We will need your help, not just your support if we really want to instigate some real change in the right direction.
Check out our calender on our Meetup or Facebook pages for events in June. If you can’t come out next month, then subscribe to our blog and send us a email with your comments, concerns or wishes for the liberty movement in Sacramento. Together we can take our country back.
Kevin Duewel
Organizer of Sacramento Campaign for Liberty
Take the time to watch Judge Napolitano’s FreedomWatch. The Foxnews.com exclusive show runs a hour long and is divided into six ten-minute long videos with guests like Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Dr. Rand Paul, and Glenn “Kane” Jacobs, the professional wrestler.
We hope to see you all on Saturday for our 7:00pm viewing of I.O.U.S.A at 202 Bonita Street, Roseville, CA 95678 . For the location check out our SCL Meetup.
On Friday, Dr. Paul was interviewed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where host Joe Scarborough praised Dr. Paul for his 2003 warning about the current economic crisis.
On another note, we will be hosting a showing of the documentary I.O.U.S.A. on Saturday, May 23 in Roseville. Come network and socialize with other fiscal conservatives from the greater Sacramento area. You can find out more about the event on SCL’s Meetup group.
For those of you who are interested in viewing it beforehand, here’s the agenda for tomorrow night’s meeting. Just as a reminder, our meeting begins at 7 p.m. and is located at the Round Table Pizza on Watt Avenue (3327 Watt Avenue). Hope to see you there!
Dr. Paul introduced H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, on the House floor in February. In waiting in the House Committee on Financial Services, our bill has accumulated 111 cosponsors, 26% of voting members! The co-sponsors include Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-4) and Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-3), but not Rep. Doris Matsui (CA-5). Why would a member of Congress not be in favour of making assessable the audits done by the Government Accountability Office of the Board of Governors? I want to make clear that since the passage of the Federal Banking Agency Audit Act of 1978, the Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has been audited by the Government and Accountability Office under the Controller General and by multiple private accounting firms; however these performance audits have historically been presented solely to the Board of Governors themselves, and not to Congress. This is hardly consistent with the American principle of checks and balances. It makes me wonder what Matsui has to hide, or rather what she wants to be ignorant of.
Perhaps you could ask her for me? If you are a constituent of Rep. Doris Matsui (CA-5), then could you call her district office at (916) 498-5600, or visit her at the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse, 501 I Street, Suite 12-600, Sacramento, CA? It only takes five minutes to call your representatives office and share with them what I shared with you. If your representative is not in, share your concerns with a staff member. Remember: sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Hope to see you all at our 7:00pm Sacramento Campaign for Liberty general meeting on May 12 at Round Table Pizza, 3327 Watt Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821. You can see our calender on our Meetup group. Hope to see you there!
Our May YAL Meetup is scheduled for May 5th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be meeting at the Round Table Pizza at the Hive on J Street. The address is 6000 J Street. If you are in college or college age, we’d love to have you come to this meetup. We’ll be discussing our strategies and working to set up YAL chapters at all of the local colleges and JCs. Hope you can make it!
Our May C4L Meetup is scheduled for May 12th at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be meeting at the Round Table Pizza located at 3327 Watt Avenue. This is our regular monthly meeting, and everyone is welcome to attend.
It would be helpful to us if you would either RSVP on Meetup or Facebook or leave a comment here on our blog letting us know you’ll be attending. We just want to be able to plan accurately for each meeting. Thanks!
Your fellow liberty lovers,
Sac Campaign for Liberty
Don’t forget! The tax day tea parties are THIS WEDNESDAY. The one downtown at the capitol is from 1-3, and it’s turning into a HUGE event. Fox News will be broadcasting live from this event.
The second tea party in our area is on Sunrise and Greenback from 3:30-6. This event is designed for those of you who can’t make the earlier tea party due to work. It’s also designed to get the attention of a good deal of traffic right at rush hour. If you’re planning to come to this event, please make sure your RSVP is accurate. We want to make sure we’re adequately prepared for the group we’ll have. If you haven’t already invited your friends, now would be a good time to do so! 
Also, if you haven’t started making signs yet, you should probably start! There are tea party sign ideas all over the internet. Just do a search, and you’re guaranteed to find some great stuff. However, we ask that you please sick to the topic at hand and not veer off into other political issues (as important as they may be).
Hope to see you all out there!
Sac Campaign for Liberty
This note was originally sent out to our members via Facebook on March 10, 2009 after our very first monthly meeting.
We appreciate the time of everyone who came to SCL’s first monthly meeting tonight. It was a productive event, and it was wonderful getting a chance to meet those of you who came in person. Here’s a quick rundown of what we discussed.
At the top of our agenda was defining the goals of SCL. Our goals are to network with other liberty-minded groups in the Sacramento region regardless of party affiliation. We will act as a facilitator between these groups in order to promote our unifying principles. These principles are:
- Freedom is an indivisible whole. It must include not only economic liberty but also civil liberties and privacy rights.
- Local self-government is superior to federal control.
- A free market is the most just, humane, and prosperous economic system.
- The U.S. should end involvement in the UN, IMF, and World Bank, which encroach on our nation’s sovereignty.
- The Federal Reserve, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913, must be ended.
- Our nation must pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.
We have two events coming up. First, there’s Recruiting Day. This is April 4, 10pm-4pm at the Galleria Mall in Roseville. You can read more about it and RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71736885859 … Second, the Tax Day Tea Party is April 15, 3:30pm-6pm at the Greenback & Sunrise intersection in Citrus Heights. Information about that is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=67421955151
We also discussed other future events. One event we are in the process of planning is a Town Hall meeting in Roseville with Congressman Tom McClintock. We will notify you if and when this is organized.
There was also an educational period during tonight’s meeting. The topic was the “Broken Window Fallacy” which was covered both by Frédéric Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt. This economic fallacy has directly influenced the supporters of Obama’s stimulus package and is very important for Americans to understand. We distributed an article by Lew Rockwell which discusses that fallacy in-depth but also in easy to grasp terms. You can read the article here: http://mises.org/story/2868
If you weren’t there tonight, we hope to see you at our next meeting. Since we have two events in April, our monthly meeting will likely be pushed back to May.
Remember to RSVP for April 4 and 15. In particular, we want to see you and your friends and family at the Tax Day Tea Party on April 15. If you have work or class, please try and get the day off so you can attend the Tea Party.
