Orange/Sullivan County NY 912 Meet and Greet

Held at the Galleria Mall in Middletown NY on Sunday 1-31-2010.

Greetings Orange/Sullivan County NY 912 Patriots!

The following is a recap of our January Meetup and a call to ACTION!

Many of you like Randy and I have spent the last several months or year emotionally invested in the Tea Party /912 movement.  Many of us marched with the 1.7 million other awesome Americans at DC for the 912 Rally.  Many of you, like us, attended other rallies such as The House Call November 5, 2009, and the Operation Can You Hear Us Now in NYC December 2009.  These events were wonderfully encouraging and energizing.  For us, we took that energy, came back home and attempted to find others in our area that felt like us and wanted to continue working for a return to conservative values, including less government intrusion (primarily the resistance of the HC Bill), fiscal responsibility, and the encouragement of competition and business opportunities.

Fortunate for us, we found the Orange County NY 912 Meetup!  We have had two great Meetups, December with 17 in attendance and January with 21. We continue to meet more like minded patriots from our area and the group is growing.

At our January 31 Meetup we discussed the name change from Orange to Orange/Sullivan to include a broader area of patriots.  We live right on the border of Orange and Sullivan in Bloomingburg. We live in Sullivan County but we do most of our business in Orange County.

Recently, it became apparent the Eldred Preserve Glenn Beck Meetup was without an organizer. We reached out to the Eldred Preserve and invited them to join us at our Meetup.  Many members of the Eldred Preserve attended our January 31 Meetup and we were thrilled to have them.  If you have not joined us at Orange/Sullivan County NY 912 Meetup we encourage you to do so and invite your friends to join us too. Our goal is to offer our members a place to network, keep informed and become active in local, state and national events.

One way to do this is to register with Jennie and John at their website www.citizens4freedom.com Jennie and John are offering to help us get our message out on a larger scale in Orange and Sullivan Counties.  They also post events and news from around the state and nation. Check out their site!

At our January Meetup we presented many opportunities open to us in the coming months.  Some of these opportunities are the Blue Print for Change Conference February 15, April 15 Tax Day 2010 Rallies, and the Restoring Honor Rally at DC August 28, 2010. Check our calendar and message board for continuing details about each of these events.  We highly recommend you attend the Blue Print for Change Conference.  This will be a day of networking and education.  There will be several great speakers and Q & A panel sessions that will answer many questions and help us set strategize for the future.

At our January Meetup we had the privilege of having Carl Svensson of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) and a member of Orange/Sullivan County NY 912 speak to us about the political landscape of our state and counties.  Carl is the immediate past chairman of the RLC for NY.  We discussed the possibility of helping candidates George Phillips(R) running for Congress against Maurice Hinchey (D) in District 22 and John Carey, a young conservative Republican running against Eileen Gunther in the 98 Assembly district. (Check your email threads for district lines)