Fountain Hills Republican Club meeting/elections this Saturday, January 21st ++ other information

With Donald Trump's inauguration tomorrow, we enter a new era.  We Republicans now have control of both the legislative branch and the executive branch of government at both the federal and the state level. 

Our next FHRC meeting is this Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.  The program is a Legislative Update from our three LD 23 Legislators (Senator J. Kavanagh and Representatives M. Ugenti-Rita and J. Lawrence) on the goals, objectives, and committee assignment challenges for the 20171/8 Legislative Session.  The meet and greet period with coffee and breakfast snacks commences at 8:30.  Only paid up members can vote.  Dues are $20 for individuals and $30 for families. 

The election of officers for the 2017-18 term will occur at this meeting.  Judge Michael Reagan will swear in the newly elected officers.   The club is happy to announce that two of our members (Sheila Muehling and Yvonne Cahill) were elected to Maricopa County Republican Committee offices.  Yvonne to 2nd Vice Chair and Sheila to Treasurer. 

The monthly  Fountain Hills Republican Club's "GOP Social" resumes on Tuesday, January 24th at 6 p.m. in the Fireside Grill inside the Lexington Hotel, 12800 N Saguaro Blvd, FH 85268.  The GOP Socials are scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month except November & December.  These are social events.  NO Speeches, no reservations, no host bar/drinks (with optional food) in a friendly social atmosphere at a local bar/restaurant. Socialize with old friends while making new friends.    The Fountain Hills Republican Club's "GOP Socials" are open to all interested persons, membership in the FH Republican Club is not required.  Everyone is welcome, including elected civic and party officials (and candidates for party offices). 

The annual FHRC March fundraising breakfast is scheduled for Saturday, March 18th in the FH Community Center.  This has always been a great event.  Plan on attending.  The superb speaker will be announced at Saturday's meeting. 

Boe James

Secretary,

Fountain Hills Republican Club

To Much Proxy Voting at Maricopa County Republican Meeting

Re-post from Maricopa County Republican Committee Briefs(MCRC Briefs) by Frosty Taylor. The Current Tentative List of 1,235 state committeemen, including nominees not yet formally elected:  http://az.gop/arizona-republican-state-meeting-2017-committeemen/

The Chart Below Was Prepared By Arizona Freedom Alliance: See Proxy Harvesting - What to Expect if They GO! to read the entire article: 

MCRC Statutory Meeting January 14, 2017 Stats Red = More proxies than people.    Blue – about 1/2 proxies, 1/2 peopke
Legislative District	Total PCs in District	Number of Pcs Attending In Person	% of Total PCs Attending in Person	Number of Pcs AttendingBy Proxy	% of Total PCs Attending by Proxy	Number of PCs Attending in person or by Proxy	% Attending in person or by Proxy	% of Attendees by Proxy	Avg no of proxies carried by person	No of Precincts with NO PCs
1	98	27	27.55%	48	48.98%	75	76.53%	64.00%	1.78	1
4	17	12	70.59%	1	5.88%	13	76.47%	7.69%	0.08	13
12	267	70	26.22%	99	37.08%	169	63.30%	58.58%	1.41	1
13	115	23	20.00%	52	45.22%	75	65.22%	69.33%	2.26	15
15	163	48	29.45%	28	17.18%	76	46.63%	36.84%	0.58	11
16	81	26	32.10%	16	19.75%	42	51.85%	38.10%	0.62	4
17	254	60	23.62%	113	44.49%	173	68.11%	65.32%	1.88	9
18	186	71	38.17%	59	31.72%	130	69.89%	45.38%	0.83	2
19	33	11	33.33%	15	45.45%	26	78.79%	57.69%	1.36	20
20	97	41	42.27%	20	20.62%	61	62.89%	32.79%	0.49	20
21	80	29	36.25%	26	32.50%	55	68.75%	47.27%	0.90	16
22	143	56	39.16%	28	19.58%	84	58.74%	33.33%	0.50	12
23	356	141	39.61%	113	31.74%	254	71.35%	44.49%	0.80	10
24	86	32	37.21%	19	22.09%	51	59.30%	37.25%	0.59	12
25	237	74	31.22%	45	18.99%	119	50.21%	37.82%	0.61	8
26	55	24	43.64%	16	29.09%	40	72.73%	40.00%	0.67	14
27	27	13	48.15%	3	11.11%	16	59.26%	18.75%	0.23	25
28	321	75	23.36%	139	43.30%	214	66.67%	64.95%	1.85	7
29	28	15	53.57%	1	3.57%	16	57.14%	6.25%	0.07	18
30	74	38	51.35%	27	36.49%	65	87.84%	41.54%	0.71	9
Total	2718	886	32.60%	868	31.94%	1754	64.53%	49.49%	0.98	227

CONCLUSION: At this meeting, 304 PCs present in person carried 493 proxies. This is ONLY among those seven districts that had more proxies than people in person. 189 votes were cast on behalf of ghosts in those seven districts where the predominance of votes were by proxy.... not by the actual PCs who didn't even show up. There were 868 total votes by proxies, many of them ghost proxies*. Is that right, by any measure? Remember, two candidates were elected by 54 and 45 votes. You see how proxies elected these two board members. Is that right? If YOU were there, you got only ONE vote but for those who carried proxies, some got as many as nine or ten votes but the average was 1.62 votes for those in person.