Wednesday, November 30, 2011

ATTEND: NC RIGHT TO LIFE PRAYER BREAKFAST AND MARCH - JANUARY 14, 2012

 North Carolina Right to Life, Inc.



13th Annual Prayer Breakfast for Life

 January 14, 2012

North Raleigh Hilton

3415 Wake Forest Road Raleigh, NC

(Breakfast begins at 9:30 a.m. - Program 10:00 a.m.)

The cost for the breakfast is $25/person, $40/married couple, $20/students, clergy, and seniors.
Payment can be made using MC/VISA/DISCOVER/Check.
Call 800-392-6275 to register by phone using MC, VISA or Discover.
Mail checks to NCRTL, PO Box 9282, Greensboro, N. C. 27429-0282.
After January 11, 2011, the price WILL go up $5. Sponsorships are available.

2012 Annual Rally and March for Life


begins at 1:00 pm

Nash Square (corner of Hargett and McDowell Streets, Raleigh, NC)

Join other pro-lifers to stand up for life and to display proudly yourchurch or school banner in support of life.

The Most Rev. Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, will give remarks and the Invocation.
Christina Geradts, a student at UNC-CH and a graduate of the NRL Academy, and Teresa Pincus, a student at NCSU, will speak.



Randall K. O’ Bannon, Ph. D., the Director of Education and Research at National Right to Life will be the featured speaker at the Prayer Breakfast. Dr. O’ Bannon is an expert on the funding and activities of Planned Parenthood, having tracked the organization for over 20 years. Additionally, Dr. O’ Bannon has written dozens of stories and blog entries and produced numerous fact sheets about Planned Parenthood to highlight its being the country’s largest abortion provider, aborting 332,278 babies in 2009. He is also an expert on the chemical abortion RU-486. In addition to having been interviewed by the national press. Dr. O’ Bannon has worked on such notable projects as the award winning video, Infinite Possibilities.



Carol Tobias, the featured speaker at the Rally, became the 9th president of the National Right to Life Committee in April 2011.  A native of North Dakota, she has served on the National Right to Life board of directors since 1987.  From 1983 to 1991, she was executive director of North Dakota Right to Life and in 1991 was hired as National Right to Life Political Director, a position she held until 2005.  During her tenure as political director, pro-life majorities were elected to both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.  In both 2000 and 2004, she oversaw the efforts of National Right to Life’s political action committee on behalf of George W. Bush. She has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC’s Today Show, CNN, The News Hour on PBS, C-SPAN, and Fox News Channel, as well as numerous television and radio programs throughout the country.  She has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.



For More Information, call: NCRTL at 1-800-392-6275 or email ncrtl73@aol.com.

DAILY JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 30, 2011



Friday, November 11, 2011

NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 11, 2011

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK 
Today is Veterans Day. Maybe the deadheads should walk across the Capitol grounds and thank them. Don't hold your breath.

Billed as their largest fundraiser of the year, the Hargett Street YWCA this past Wednesday held their Academy of Women Awards Ceremony.

(Note - Another big fundraiser for them is picking up their annual check from the City of Raleigh - increased this year by 25% to $12,500. See page 80 of Raleigh's budget document here.)

And lo and behold who are they honoring? None other than Yevonne Brannon, chaos creation queen, for "government".

Let's review her past and present.

In a 2009 N&O letter to the editor Brannon stated about the Wake BOE:

"We never experienced such lack of decorum ..."

"We all obeyed .... the unwritten rules of courtesy and integrity...."

"We are not serving our county when our excellent reputation is smeared weekly with political shenanigans that show little concern for our quality of life in Wake."


(News & Observer - December 10, 2009)

Let's review that "courtesy, integrity and decorum" from Brannon's service in "government" as a Wake County Commissioner.

At a 1999 planning retreat, Brannon pushed for a property tax increase of 13 cents - the largest increase among various proposals being considered by Wake Commissioners.

As the News and Observer reported, Republican County Commissioner Herb Council finally agreed to the highest property tax increase proposal on the table - 13 cents.

From the News and Observer:

The more the commissioners talked, the higher the proposed increase got. The figure reached 13 cents when Commissioner Betty Lou Ward was told that was roughly what corresponds to a $200 average tax-bill increase.

"Sold!" Brannon yelled as she leapt from her seat in a meeting room of Wake Forest University's Graylyn Conference Center. "Hey, you guys - the bar is open!"

(News and Observer - February 20, 1999)

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Calendar

Governmental:

Raleigh Mayor's Unity Day Celebration
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 9 am - 12 pm
Raleigh Convention Center

Left:

Right:

Run for Life (RESCHEDULED DUE TO IRENE)
Saturday, November 12, 9 am
Wake Med Soccer Park
Cary, NC


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Thursday, November 3, 2011

RALEIGH "TEMPORARY" PUBLIC ART COORDINATOR POSITION - 2012

Raleigh Budget - 2012

RALEIGH "TEMPORARY" PUBLIC ART COORDINATOR POSITION - 2009

Public Art Coordinator

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

MEEKER'S PAYOFF TO NAACP?

City Council Agenda

DAILY JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 1, 2011