Dear 10th District Members

www.gagop10.org

September 28, 2005

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▪ Everson Wins House Seat ▪ R.E.A.L. Grassroots Summit in Athens ▪ President's Message ▪ Message from Paul Bennecke ▪ Convention Schedule 2007 ▪ New GA GOP web site ▪ Support Fair Tax Bill ▪ New Web Site Items ▪ Criminal Information Bulletin on Identity Theft ▪ Cartoons of the Day ▪ Attention County Chairmen

Just In! Melvin Everson Wins Historic Seat in Georgia House on Tuesday, September 27, 2005
House District 106 is located in Gwinnett County. Melvin will be a great addition to the House Republican majority! Read more about this very close race in the Gwinnett Daily Post.

AJC Headline: Melvin Everson on Tuesday became the first black Republican since Reconstruction to win a contested election for the Georgia Legislature.

Dear 10th District Members and Friends

R.E.A.L. Grassroots Training Summit

Our 10th District was well represented at the R.E.A.L. Grassroots Training Summit in Athens last weekend. Following are the people attending. If you know of others from the 10th, please advise: Chairman Judy Grammer, Bettye Chambers, Mary Jones, Reva Jennings, Doug Grammer, Lurlene Argo, Bill Hatley, Brian Laurens, Brad Scott, Willard Jones, Blake Collins, Bob Rodriguez, Gay Rodriguez, Sally Forest, Phil Forest, Bill Slack, Monda Wooten, Adrienne Moore, and Earl Ball.

10th District Members at the Grassroots Summit in Athens - September 23- 24
bottom row: Bettye Chambers, Reva Jennings, Chairman Judy Grammer, Mary Jones. Back Row: Doug Grammer, Lurlene Argo, Bill Hatley Brian Laurens, Brad Scott, and Willard Jones	Mary Jones, Sally Forest, Brian Laurens, Phil Forest and Willard Jones.

4News from Gilmer County - at the Summit.
Read about meeting with the Governor. .

4View more photos and read more about the Summit. . .

Message from 10th District Chairman, Judy Grammer

If you weren't in attendance at the REAL Grassroots Summit, you really missed a good presentation. And one couldn't beat the cost. Nothing is less expensive than FREE.

Just in case you did not get this email from Paul, I wanted it to get into everyone's hands. Remember, your county will not have access to Voter Vault until someone from your county has been trained in its use. I will let you know when those additional training sessions have been scheduled.

Please visit our website, www.gagop10.org for a pretty detailed account of the weekend.

FYI, we have not received a decision yet from the Department of Justice on the redistricting maps submitted to them for their approval.

If you have any questions or need any assistance on anything, please let me know.

Judy Grammer, Chairman

Tenth District GOP

jfgrammer@earthlink.net

Message from Paul Bennecke (GA GOP E.D.)

September 26, 2005

Dear County Chair/State Committee Member,

I want to thank everyone who attended the R.E.A.L. Grassroots Summit this weekend in Athens. I have heard from many people who attended, and overall, the feedback has been very positive.

Believe it or not, we are already scheduling the next R.E.A.L. Grassroots Summit for 2006 on August 18-19. Location TBA.

August 18-19 is the first weekend after our primary run-off, so we will celebrate and rally behind all of our Party’s statewide nominees, review and plan for the last two months of the election, and have a material distribution center on location for each county to get yard signs, push cards, postcards, bumper stickers, phone/walking list assistance, and statewide candidate materials.

So please mark your calendars for August 18-19, 2006 for the best R.E.A.L. Grassroots Summit yet!!

For those counties who missed the Voter Vault training, Marty Klein will be hosting two Voter Vault training sessions for you.

If you are interested in attending or sending someone on behalf of your county or district, please contact Marty Klein at mklein@gagop.org. He will be announcing the dates and locations in the near future. It will be by reservation only.

Finally, if you would like a copy of any of the presentations from this past weekend, please contact Rebecca Greener at rgreener@gagop.org or 404-260-5941 ext. 226. She will be happy to email or fax any handouts to you.

If you have any input or suggestions for next year’s summit, feel free to contact Rebecca and let her know how we can improve or what needs you have in your county that we can address at a training session.

Thank you again to everyone who participated and made this first R.E.A.L. Grassroots Summit a success.

All my best,

Paul Bennecke

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Executive Director
Georgia Republican Party
404-257-5559 ~ 404-257-0779 (f)
P.O.Box 550008 ~ Atlanta, GA 30355
Email - paul@gagop.org
Direct Line - 404-260-5941 ext. 227
www.gagop.org

News from the State Committee Meeting
September 24, 2005

No Conventions in 2006 -- Off Year

Conventions 2007

February 24 - Precinct Mass Meetings
March 25 - County Conventions
April 21 - District Conventions
May 19 - 20 - State Convention in Duluth in Gwinnett County at the
Gwinnett Civic Center

Clelia Davis, the new Communications Director of the GA GOP, announced that their new and greatly improved web site would be unveiled later this week. One new feature will be interactive maps for accessing your county and precinct information. The new web site will also have a page for recognizing outstanding volunteers. Rumor has it that the first volunteer to be highlighted will be from the 10th District. More on this later on www.gagop.org

Thanks to Bert Guy, GA GOP Secretary, for creating and distributing these new special badges for members of the State Committee. If you have not purchased one yet, contact Bert at bert_guy@msn.com

Fair Tax (National Sales Tax)

Do you have your Fair Tax Book yet? It came out on August 2, and has been #1 on the NY Times Best Seller list and is still up there in the top 50. It is great and answers so many questions. Keep The FairTax Momentum Going . Congressman Linder said recently that the extreme popularity of the Fair Tax Book written by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder really got the attention of the House and Senate members. This tells them that Americans are very interested in this type of tax reform. Read the latest update from Boortz on Wednesday, September 28 -- the Lobbyist are Stirring!

This is without a doubt the most exciting piece of legislation to come along in my life time. It could solve so many of our problems and would definitely grow our economy. Many businesses which have moved off shore to avoid heavy taxes by the IRS would move back along with many other foreign counties who have by-passed setting up in this country. Illegals would also be paying taxes to help pay "there fair share" for a change!

If you have not already done so, please go to www.fairtax.org and sign up to become a volunteer and receive their e-mails. If you click on "Scorecards", you quickly find out which of our Congressmen have signed on to the bill, those who are undecided, those against, and those leaning in favor. Needless to say, we need to contact those who have not signed on and encourage them to support this bill.

All of our Republican members of Congress from Georgia have signed up to support the bill. Of course, Democrats Cynthia McKinney, John Lewis, and John Barrow are against (Surprise!) with David Scott listed as "will not commit".

While at the NFRW National Convention at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville in early September, my husband and I spent time working in the Fair Tax booth in the vendors area. It was exciting to see so many Republican women from across the country interested in the passage of the Fair Tax Bill HR 25. Let's keep the interest going!

Bettye Chambers
Fair Tax Volunteer

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New Items on the 10th District Web Site

As always, new items are always posted at the top of the Home page of www.gagop10.org. Please take a look since there are quite a few new items there. There are also some new political cartoon on the Cartoon page which you will find interesting.

Memorandum: Criminal Information Bulletin (CIB) concerning a method of Identity Theft by direct telephone contact

This e-mail came from a very reliable source.

This CIB was generated to inform Commanders of the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell of a method known as "Jury Duty Scam" being used by identity thieves to deceive victims into revealing their personal information. Read entire memorandum. . .

Cartoons of the Day

Blame Bush

Attention County Chairmen

Please send us news from your county for the next edition (October) of the E-Elephant Ear and for the 10th web site. Also, please forward this to all of your members who have e-mail addresses.

Many thanks for your contributions.

Bettye Chambers
Communications Director/Webmaster
5904 Fox Tail Cove
Buford, GA 30518
770/271-2595

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District 10 Officers

Judy Grammer Chairman	Mary Ellen Childree First Vice Chair	Wesley Clark Second Vice Chair	Mary Jones Treasurer
Rita Odum Asst. Treasurer	Nancy Burton Secretary	Brian Laurens Asst. Secretary	Nathan Deal Congressman - Web Site
Regional Directors:	Alan Painter Northeast	Reva Jennings 770-887-758 Southeast	Charles Gordon Central

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