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Coronavirus in the real world.

I have four full-time employees in Northern Italy. Two of them are quarantined. According to them, and remember they LIVE there, the reason Italy is a “hot spot” is because Italy tests EVERYONE. France, and many other Women Western European countries? They only test people who are hospitalized.

And in any case, “the flu” is, and always has been, contagious. I think there is room to speculate that the panic is media-generated (and for one, Tucker Carlson should calm down about it. Watch this whole thing fade away by June. Your thoughts?

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The future of Oregon hangs in the balance!

Subscribers: Representative Stark has given us permission to publish this insightful, informative essay. -sam

The future of Oregon hangs in the balance!
-by Duane Stark, Oregon House District 4

The rural / urban divide continues to grow as the Oregon Legislature is dominated by Portland Metro Legislators who are advancing an agenda that is contrary to our way of life. The Democrat Party has secured a supermajority in both the House (38-22) and the Senate (18-12). This means they can now pass any policy or tax without a single Republican vote. We experienced the negative effects of the supermajority this past session when Democrats passed a $2 billion hidden sales tax on Oregon’s working families without a single Republican vote. Without a balance of power, there is little motivation for the Democrats to collaborate with Republicans to develop legislation that is beneficial to ALL Oregonians. Instead, they pass legislation catering to Portland voters and special interests groups.

This past session, Republicans fought fiercely while maintaining respect and thoughtfulness in our debates. We were able to halt some of their agenda but in the end, due to the lopsided numbers, they were able to advance much of their Portland-driven legislation. What is their next step? They would like to take out two Republicans in the next election so that they don’t even need Republicans to show up in order to conduct business.

That’s why I’m asking for your help!

We must protect the Republicans we have in office and then pick up seats to restore much needed balance in our legislative process.

Simply put: (in the House)

  • Republicans Lose 2 seats = Democrats don’t even need a Republican in the building to do their business
  • Republicans Win 3 seats = Democrats would need at least one Republican vote to pass a tax (like the $2 billion tax they just passed.)
  • Republicans Win 8 seats = Democrats would need at least one Republican vote to pass any policy
  • Republicans Win 9 seats = Republican would be in the majority
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Points One Through Five: I Only Get Three Minutes

As part of my campaign for ORP National Committeeman, my presentation at the March 21st Oregon Republican Party Central Committee election meeting will be an incredibly brief three minutes. There will be no way to cover everything that should be covered and so I will address those points this way, via email. Over the next two weeks I will send a series of messages like this one to SCC members. The messages will be brief, but I’ve added links if you want to go deeper (and I urge you to do that). Here are my first five points and they all have to do with the direction of the Party as channeled by its most senior member and obvious Executive Committee power-broker, current National Committeeman Solomon Yue.

  1. Democrats are waging an all-out war against us, and we need to fight back. Why doesn’t our top Republican Party leadership see this? Ninety-five percent of our Republican base joins President Trump in understanding this key point. (One has to give credit to our Democrat progressive opponents. Despite their insanity, they fight tooth-and-nail, they never back down, and they never apologize.)
  2. The Committeeman election is a critical fork-in-the-road for the ORP. Will our Party can keep going steeply downhill under the iron-grip leadership of National Committeeman Solomon Yue? Or will we elect new leadership, myself or John Lee, and dramatically change direction? Here in this homepage message, is an overview of our state Republican condition, and where I personally think the ORP should be headed .
  3. Leadership must stop moving to the Left, trying to appease a fictitious “blue Oregon.” Let’s proudly and confidently go back to our conservative roots. Here are successful examples of this approach. But good grief. Just watch Donald Trump and follow his lead. (And, Diana says, “Donald Trump is packing around a sack of backbones and he’s giving them away for free.”)
  4. The current top leadership’s enthusiasm for our president is thin and has a very short history. Don’t be fooled. After four years, it’s time to climb on the Trump Train like we mean it. We must stop squandering this incredible opportunity to take back power! THIS video says it all.
  5. We need a professional, properly funded organization. At a minimum this means an occupied headquarters office, a full-time paid Chairman/Executive director, and a full-time paid office manager. Our underfunded ORP organization, headed up by too-busy-elsewhere Solomon Yue (and executed by part-time Chairman Bill Currier), is little more than a social club. Donors, mostly business people,  see this colossal organizational failure and so they stay away. It’s a vicious circle.
    -sc
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Oregon Governor Promises Executive Action On Climate


Keeping in mind that this is a left-leaning OPB article (see link below), here’s the ultimate take-away…and it’s very good news: if Governor Brown moves ahead with an Executive Order on a new carbon tax, she will be guaranteeing the election of a conservative Republican governor in 2022. (And yes, whatever Executive Order Brown implements will be immediately rescinded by this new governor).

Boosted by President Trump’s electoral coattails, the House and the Senate will go Red by 2022, too.

We must stick together on this, and in our immediate outrage lets NOT institute another Recall effort or create any other distraction from what we can accomplish the simple and quick old-fashioned way, through elections.

And for sure, we must change our current Oregon Republican Party leadership to make this happen. We’ll do that the simple way too, this year, through our Party’s own internal electoral process.

THIS IS TOTALLY DOABLE.

One last thing: MANY thanks to our Republican legislators for courageously walking away from our current Democrat Progressive overlords. Now the people will be backing you up. Just watch!

https://www.opb.org/news/article/executive-action-oregon-governor-cap-trade-republican-walkout/

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Updated “Vacant” Districts, Candidacy and PCP Deadlines TUESDAY

As of last weekend, in the 60 state House races we’re already below last year’s final no-Republican-has-filed-yet “vacancy” tally, and that is VERY good news. last year’s final tally was 25%. Today we’re at 18%. We hope to hit 10-12% by today’s 5:00PM filing deadline.

For all of you candidates, especially our first-timers, THANK YOU for being bold enough to make your personal statement!

Go to our website homepage here, and get an updated overview of everything. (The  “vacancy” stats are in a footnote at the bottom of the page.)

5:00PM TODAY, the 10th, is the deadline for filing for both becoming a candidate and to become a PCP.

Please, please, please…if you’ve been thinking about running for office, just do it…NOW! To file go here. 

In any case please consider becoming a PCP (Precinct Committee Person). It will be an incredibly potent way for you to make your personal impact on the real-world. Remember, the name-of-the-game for Oregon Republicans in 2020 is assertive, confident action...just like Donald Trump!

This assertive, confident ACTION is how we turn Oregon red by 2022! Go here for the latest details regarding becoming a PCP.

-sam and diana
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Podcast: How to Make More and Hustle Less

I don’t talk about my professional and business life much, but here’s a just-released interview that goes into some detail about how I run my organizations and, in our business consulting, what we teach others. Thanks much to Jason Campbell and Vischen Lakhiani (https://www.vishen.com/) of Mindvalley.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-work-system-to-make-more-hustle-less-sam-carpenter/id1489932627?i=1000466609218

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Do You Want Your Voice Heard in Oregon?

Do you REALLY want to help? Diana and I are personally asking you to do something that really matters in upcoming Oregon Republican Party (ORP) elections.

If you truly want to have a personal impact on our ORP leadership, you must become a PCP (“Precinct Committee Person”). The deadline to register as a PCP is just days away: next Tuesday. This sign-up is easy to do yet the impact is huge. All you have to do is print and then fill out the SEL Form (see link below) and mail it to your County Clerk to arrive before March 10th. If you do this, there is a 95% chance you will be on the PCP ballot and elected as a PCP in May. Then, there are two critical elections in 2020 in which you will be able to vote. One in June and one in November. These meetings will determine future Oregon Republican Party leadership. As you know, current leadership has led us to Republican super-minority status in Salem.

Leadership HAS to change and it has to change in 2020!

As a PCP, you will be a member of your county committee. You can attend meetings locally. The more you participate, the more influence you will have in county and state party leadership. You can voice your opinions and vote for county officers and delegates. You can even run for a party office yourself!

This is YOUR ticket to making an actual difference!

Here’s more: the county officers/delegates elect the state ORP officers next February. When they go to state meetings, those delegates should represent YOU! You can hold them accountable to vote for Executive Officers who will focus on what matters most: finding great candidates and then helping to get them elected!

It is so easy to get involved and make a difference! PLEASE FILE FOR PCP NOW. The absolute deadline is March 10th. There is no filing fee.

Again, simply print out this form (see below), fill it out, and take it or mail it to your county clerk. Your name will be on the May 19th Primary ballot. The county clerk can answer any questions you have. Your application HAS to arrive at the county clerk’s office by next Tuesday!

THIS is your chance! Today, right now, please take action!

PCP Filing Form (SEL105): https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/SEL105.pdf

County Clerk Contact Information:
https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/countyofficials.aspx

Let’s make Oregon red by 2022!
S-

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Updated House and Senate Race “Vacancy” Maps

As of today, March 2nd, 2020, there are no Republican candidates filed with the Secretary of State in State House Districts: 7, 10, 16, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 and 57. (25% unfilled). Here is a map.]

Also, no candidates filed in State Senate Districts: 14, 18, 21, 22 and 23. (33% unfilled). Here is a map.

Great news! Of the three Executive Positions up for election:
Secretary of State: we have a solid candidate, the awesome Kim Thatcher
Treasurer: we have powerful candidate, Jeff Gudman!
Attorney General: I’m working on this now. I think some good news soon…. -sc

Now, all five U.S. Congressional Districts now have Republican candidates (in CD1, thank you to both Laura Curtis and Army Murray!)

March 10th is the filing deadline!

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Under the Direction of Solomon Yue: The State ORP’S Faux Trump-Enthusiasm

From Chapter 35 of the book Making Oregon Great Again, published April 2019. (Download this chapter, along with the mentioned Appendix S and T documents, here: www.makeoregongreatagain.com/book)

(Author’s note: The point of posting this excerpt: if we don’t change state-level ORP top leadership, we will continue to produce “moderate” Republican candidates and therefore we will continue to lose the state. These left-leaning Republicans simply can’t win general election races. An opportunity to make this change in leadership comes in an Oregon Republican Party Central Committee election for National Committeeman to be held on March 21, 2020 in an Oregon Republican State Central Committee intra-party election)

Here is the excerpt:
Nothing tangible is going to change in election outcomes until we replace our current top ORP leadership. As things stand now, we’re going to continue to lose important general elections because of the ORP’s failure to find viable conservative candidates due to their…

1. overt and covert preference for “moderate” Republican candidates
2. conscious decision to allow chaos to reign in primary elections
3. failure to quell personal-destruction mudslinging against
conservatives*
4. encouragement of vote-splitting and “capture and hold”
shenanigans
5. deliberate lack-of-action used as a tactic.”

SOLOMON YUE: CRAZY-MAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE
The chief protagonist of the Oregon anti-Trump Ruling Class contingent is Solomon Yue. See Appendix S for a 2010 letter by former ORP Chair Bob Tiernan. It says it all, and it was written ten years ago…

Remember that chaos is key to creating an inefficient and therefore useless organization. (My bet is that Yue has a Mao quote to substantiate that point…).

Note that in my candidacy for ORP Chair in 2019, Bob Tiernan and three other past ORP presidents, plus a former U.S. House Representative, endorsed me and my slate. This action was in blunt opposition to existing ORP Ruling Class leadership. I didn’t personally ask any of them for their support. Unknown to me, they worked together and did it on their own. See Appendix T to read their endorsement letter.

*The Republican Ruling Class’s character destruction protocol: using mainstream media henchmen, the ultimate aim is the personal annihilation of any viable conservative candidate who challenges their stranglehold on power. The leftist-style attacks hinge on treachery and lies, always smothered in a bath of PC/virtue-signaling. The ultimate task is not just to defeat conservative candidates in primary elections, but to destroy them personally – and therefore politically – so they never reappear. And yes, so they will serve as examples of what will happen to any future grassroots conservative candidates who have the temerity to challenge Ruling Class authority.

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What the Oregon Republian Party Must do

This is taken out of my book, Making Oregon Great Again: Guide to the Grassroots Revitalization of the Oregon Republican Party, published in January 2019. (You can download the whole book for free, here).

I am making a post of this small segment of the book because I get regular complaints that:

  • My book is no good. It’s BS. Sam is crazy. Don’t listen to him. This ALWAYS comes from people who have not read the book
  • I only rag about the Oregon Republican Party and never give constructive ideas. Yes, these people are the same people who haven’t read the book. (I think there are maybe 40 of these rabid ORP loyalists in the entire state. In a sense they are deaf, but by-God they are loud!)

Although this chapter of the book was intended for an election that was held over a year ago, this particular excerpt is still 100% applicable to today’s Oregon Republican Party. I haven’t changed a single word. (You can download, the entire Chapter here).

Here’s the excerpt.
The ORP must:

  1. Always pursue the prime objective of winning control of the legislature, the governorship and other four executive offices by finding, cultivating, training, protecting and promoting solid candidates. We can no longer be distracted by intra-party bickering. Let’s do our job.
  2. Ramp-up PCP participation and meet membership guidelines (by county), engaging their help in critical programs and projects
  3. Review, update and streamline structure, goals, and Bylaws. Let’s run this organization like a business, lean and disciplined, always using our resources and time wisely.
  4. Transform internal communications and outside marketing to incorporate the latest cutting-edge technology
  5. Provide Point-of-Sale administrative support for county and Congressional District Republican organizations. The county and District organizations are the heart and soul of the Oregon Republican Party
  6. Execute a thought-out, professional organizational and operational plan for GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts, including candidate messaging and database security
  7. WE ARE LOSING THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN THE PRIMARY RACES! In election cycles, via a special committee of perhaps six executive board members, publish objective and brief assessments regarding statewide and congressional district primary candidates (does the candidate support the party platform, have a clean legal record, support the Republican President, if the candidate has been in previous campaigns does he/she have a successful record of fund-raising? etc.). The single focus will be on win-ability in general elections. Then, on the ORP website, we would publish objective and brief “approval” statements regarding the candidates who meet the basic necessary qualifications to actually win the general election. There would be no approval or mention of candidates who, in the panel’s conclusion – supported by objective, tangible facts – stood no chance of winning. (It is a wasted opportunity – not to mention a waste of time and money – to nominate a candidate who can’t possibly win the general election.). Yes, of course we can’t prevent someone from running for office, but we, as an organization – The ORegon Republican Party – can choose whom to approve based on simple objective criteria. The specifics on this plan will be determined in the days after the organizational election in February, then presented to the Executive Board.
  8. In order to discourage obvious vote-splitting intrusions, and/or mudslinging, take a stand via press release, email, and a powerful social media machine in order to instantly update candidate assessments.
  9. Redesign the website, keep it up to date, communicate constantly with membership via the various social media and other communications tools, while protecting privacy, and provide an easily accessible roster of Central Committee members (perhaps, each with an ORP-domain email address). Make the ORP an easily operable “structured machine,” so the next new Executive Board will have a smooth time managing the organization.

    Our positioning will follow these guidelines:

    1. Must reflect a bottom-up mentality where our base, via the county membership, reigns supreme, as reflected in the ORP Platform
    2. Keep the Party Platform front-and-center (pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-legal immigration, support ICE, police and Vets, no sanctuary state, etc…).
    3. Publicly and without equivocation, support Republican President Trump (as 90% of Oregon Republicans already do).
    4. Whole-heartedly support our nominees and current office holders