GOP brand seen as dead

San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 23, 2011

Yes indeed, to most California voters the GOP brand is dead and why not? The GOP brand cannot compete with the Party that feeds at the public trough. A decade of Democrat happy meals have bloated the state deficit to $28 billion with a $500 billion tab for public pensions. California's 2.4 million public and private sector union members and their accomplices in Sanctuary Cities will continue to select the Democrat menu and a mismanaged welfare program that includes 32 percent of America's welfare recipients.  California will continue among the states with the highest taxes and lowest credit rating in America; the worst to do business - burdened with regulations that starve out businesses, jobs and tax revenues. Enjoy the happy meals - for now.

NEW SFRCC COMMITTEE CAN BUILD SFGOP

NEW SFRCC HAS CAPABILITY and OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD SFGOP

www.mikedenunzio.com

On January 5^th the new chairperson, vice chairs and members of the 2011-12 San Francisco Republican County Committee were sworn in by Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer. This new committee has the professional capability and an extraordinary opportunity to build the Republican Party.

The Democrat Party in statewide victories and national defeat has branded itself the party of yesterday-addicted to the public trough: The party of race baiting and class warfare; taxes and spending; bureaucracy and regulation: sanctuary and amnesty; pension plunder, environmental fiction and partisan rancor.

The 2010 election has created a new political environment in the city, state and nation. San Francisco leaders want 21st century solutions. The SFRCC can readily produce an action plan on key issues for corporate execs, small business, merchants and property owners. It also will help the VC Finance raise funds.

The Committee on Jobs and the Chamber of Commerce can provide helpful information and CRP Vice Chair Tom Del Beccaro offers valuable insights in his three partthe series in Political Vanguard.com: The Challenges We Face; Silver Linings from 2010 Election; and The Way Forward.

San Francisco Republicans and SFRCC members want their committee to assert itself as proud “REPUBLICANS for a better city, state and nation. The SFRCC cannot register voters and raise funds if its own leaders vote for taxes as with Prop 1-A and take NO POSITION on city benefits (Prop B). Every member and alternate can step up and serve on a committee and help make the SFRCC seen and heard, especially among the ethnic various groups.

This new SFRCC and chartered clubs-YRs SFRA, NHRWCF, CCARA-will build the Party on the 11th Commandment: “Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” The committee and the clubs know that some members suffer from a compulsion to defame people-(and other abuse.) They also know that repeating a false defamatory statement-even as a rumor-can be damaging and costly. Members of this committee and every club will build the party by speaking with care and respect for everyone.

The new SFRCC can build the party- as it was elected to do: Register voters, raise funds, recruit candidates, communicate issues, conduct special events- and it can evaluate progress at monthly meetings. To do this It needs and deserves support of all Republicans .

Mike DeNunzio, served on the SFRCC from 1998 to 2010. He was VC Finance and thrice elected Chairman and a candidate for Supervisor, and also for Congress against Nancy Pelosi. Gov. Schwarzenegger appointed him a California Commissioner on Aging and to the San Francisco State Building Authority. He is CM of the San Francisco Republican Assembly and a surrogate spokesperson for the California Republican Party and a contributor in the press radio and TV: http://mikedenunzioblog.blogspot.com

A Soulless Assault On The Unalienable Right To Life

         The unalienable right to life is the fundamental teaching of the Church. It is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as an endowment to all men. This God-given right demands unyielding protection of the church and state.

         In 650 BC the Council of Elders in the City-State of Sparta decreed- for the common good-ailing seniors and infants be taken to hillsides to die. Today for the common good advanced nations also deny care to ailing seniors, the disabled and infants. Catholic spoke persons who advocate government health care know this. They have an obligation to inform the faithful that health coverage is not health care.  The so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama is a soulless assault on the unalienable right to life. This 2700 page womb to tomb government takeover of health care is opposed by a majority of Americans, especially seniors. George Wesolek the director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public policy accuses  opponents of "bad theology and partisan political activity." (CSF Dec.10)  He is wrong.

         The fiercely partisan former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid badgered and bribed their Democratic majority to pass- unread- this unwanted government intrusion on every American. Their personal pro-abortion theology now will unleash faceless bureaucrats, boards and commissions on a health system that has done more for the common good than any other.     

         Catholic leaders also know that access to a waiting list is not health care. Over 40,000 patients a year from Canada and thousands more from the European Union, including heads of state, seek treatment in the U.S. that is unavailable or inferior in their homeland. In Great Britain the National Health Service bases treatment on  age and condition of the patient- called Quality Adjusted Life Years. Britain and other E.U. nations also deny renal dialysis and advanced drugs to the elderly and terminally ill. In the Netherlands The Royal Dutch Medical Association has endorsed euthanasia and permits lethal injection of newborns diagnosed  unable to have a meaningful life.  

         Every diocesan office of public policy knows the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cuts $500 billion from Medicare and will restrict diagnoses and treatments for older patients. They also know  the administration has reinstated its previously withdrawn plan for end-of-life counseling by Doctors. It  can encourage patients with severe illnesses and disabilities to forgo care and  justify restricting costly life-sustaining treatment to such patients. The White House special advisor for health policy, Ezekiel Emmanuel, MD has stated: "Whether to save one 20 year old who could live an additional  60 years or three 70 year olds who could live only 10 years-- We recommend the system which prioritizes younger people." (British Medical Journal, June 2009)   

         George Wesolek acknowledges this health plan has fundamental flaws and hopes the new Congress will clarify it. The aged, disabled, and terminally ill deserve more than feckless hope for clarification; they want this immoral intrusion repealed and rewritten to protect their unalienable right to life. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and every diocese in America must boldly defend this fundamental teaching of the church. It is affirmed by Pope John Paul II and re-affirmed by Pope Benedict XVI -and hallowed in the Declaration of Independence.    

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