If you are a delegate, you should have received a credential verification letter at your home address

CREDENTIAL VERIFICATION
**BRING THIS LETTER WITH YOU TO THE WASHOE COUNTY CONVENTION**

Thank you for accepting the responsibility to
be a delegate to the Washoe County Convention.
Your election will be the first order of business
on Saturday morning.  This letter is your quick
passport into the convention.  Be sure you bring
this letter with you!

The Washoe County Convention will be at the
Peppermill Hotel and Casino on Saturday, March 13, 2010
from 10:00 A.M.  to 4:00 P.M.  To participate, you must
pay your registration fees to cover costs related to the convention.  Please register as soon as possible:

Registration                                          $35.00
Lunch with Political Leaders (optional)     $23.00

Total Registration and Lunch                   $58.00

Registration on-site March 13 from
9:00-10:00 A.M  (lunch not included)       $45.00

Save time, register on-line at

www.washoecountygop.org

To register online, use the Donate page and fill in all of the required credit card information.

Select County Convention with the “Select Event” function and

enter your precinct number in the comment section.

If you are paying for more than one person please enter the names of each in the comment section.

Register by mail at Washoe County

Republican HQ, P.O. Box 1886, Reno, NV 89505.  You can
register and pick up your packet at the office one week
before the convention.

If you have questions,  you may call 775-827-1900. I am looking forward to seeing you at the convention.

Sincere regards,

Dr. Robert Morin, Vice-Chair
Washoe County Republican Party

P.S. The Nevada State Republican Party Convention will be April 23 & 24, 2010, in Las Vegas

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By: Dan Weil

Democratic political strategist and pollster Doug Schoen predicts the Democrats will lose as many as 50 House seats and key Senate races around the country.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Schoen suggested President Obama’s sharp drop in popularity and Democratic efforts to push healthcare reform the public simply doesn’t want, will hurt Democratic chances this November.

Schoen, a Fox News analyst, who was an adviser to President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election effort, says President Obama’s popularity woes stem largely from his lack of success on bipartisanship.

The Democrats are facing what could be a disastrous year, Schoen said, with losses so big that both the House and the Senate could fall into Republican hands.

“This is all bad news for the Democrats,” Schoen told Newsmax.TV’s Kathleen Walter and Ashley Martella. “With the retirements, with the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts, the evidence is pretty clear that this is not likely to be a good year for the Democrats and could well be a calamitous one.”

President Obama has “failed to emphasize the bipartisan center,” Schoen told Newsmax.TV.

“He’s been perceived as a liberal big spender. The central focus the administration now has on jobs is something the American people feel has been missing from his agenda.”

Americans also aren’t happy with the $787 billion stimulus package, Schoen said. “They don’t necessarily see that the stimulus has provided the benefits that the administration says it has.”

So what does Obama need to do to regain the nation’s support?

“Unless the administration can come together on a deficit-reduction plan, on a true bipartisan healthcare plan and most of all a stimulus package for new jobs and stimulating the private sector, the (poll) numbers (for Obama) are likely to stay anemic at best,” Schoen said.

The three Democratic Senate retirements, most recently Schoen’s client Evan Bayh of Indiana, and Republican Scott Brown’s January victory in Massachusetts bode ill for the Democrats, Schoen said.

“The evidence is pretty clear that this isn’t likely to be a good year for the Democrats and could be a calamitous one.”

It’s “certainly a possibility” that Democrats can lose their congressional majorities this year, Schoen said. He said Republicans may pick up as many as 10 seats in the Senate and 50 in the House.

And what about the possibility of an alternative party to the Democrats and Republicans?

“There’s broad reservoir of support in the American electorate for a third party, and I think the tea party movement speaks to that,” Schoen said.

But “there are real issues with ballot access for a third party, real questions about who would lead such an effort and real questions about who could take all the elements that would support a third party and meld them together.”

Schoen says potential third party leaders could include real estate developer Ross Perot Jr., New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Bayh, though “each of those three would rule out the idea unequivocally now.”

Schoen offered his views on a slew of closely watched races across the country, including:

* The Florida Senate Race, where Gov. Charlie Crist is facing a tough Republican primary challenge from conservative former state Speaker Marco Rubio. Rubio, who has a significant lead over Crist heading into the Republican primary, is “ideally positioned” to win in a year that favors outside challengers, Schoen said.
* The Arizona Senate Race, where former presidential candidate John McCain is facing a primary challenge from GOP conservative J.D. Hayworth. Schoen thinks McCain will pull through.
* The Illinois Senate: Schoen believes Republican Mark Kirk is very well positioned to take the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama.
* The New York Senate: This one is up for grabs. While the fight seems to be entirely among Democrats — incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand and potential challengers Harold Ford Jr. or media mogul Mort Zuckerman – Schoen wouldn’t be surprised if an unknown Republican, a potential Scott Brown, emerges from the wings.
* Nevada Senate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is likely finished, Schoen believes. He was never a top vote getter, Schoen says, and with the housing market in collapse in Nevada, he’s likely to go down at the hands of Republicans Danny Tarkanian or former state Sen. Sue Lowden.
* California Senate: Sen. Barbara Boxer is in a tight race against likely challenger Carly Fiorina, Schoen believes. This one is too close to call if Fiorina wins the Republican nod.

Overall, it’s a year that favors outside challengers, tea party-like candidates, who can muster support among angry constituents. Schoen believes if Democrats manage to pass a healthcare bill using so-called “reconciliation” tactics to avoid the Senate’s 60-vote rule, the results could be calamitous.

“I would think that if the Democrats are unable to get a bipartisan agreement at that event, it would be a profound error to pass a healthcare bill with 51 or 52 votes in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House if they could get it, especially given the polls that show a solid majority of the American people oppose both the House and senate legislation.”

Proponents of man-made global warming have suffered a serious blow as leading climate change scientist Phil Jones now acknowledges that the earth may have been warmer in medieval times than now.

Jones also conceded in an interview with the BBC that during the past 15 years there has been no “statistically significant” warming.

“The admissions will be seized on by skeptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely made-made,” Britain‘s Daily Mail observed.

Jones recently stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in Britain after leaked e-mails indicated that scientists there were manipulating data to strengthen the argument for man-made global warming.

The data have been used to support efforts by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to urge governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions and to produce the “hockey stick graph” that shows temperatures relatively stable for centuries before rising sharply in recent decades.

Critics of global warming crusaders believe there is evidence that the world was warmer than today between about 800 and 1300 A.D., during the so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP), due to evidence of high temperatures in northern countries.

“There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not,” Jones said in the interview.

“The MWP is most clearly expressed in parts of North America, the North Atlantic, and Europe and parts of Asia.

“For it to be global in extent, the MWP would need to be seen clearly in more records from the tropical regions and the Southern Hemisphere. There are very few palaeoclimatic records for these latter two regions.

“Of course, if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or warmer than today, then obviously the late 20th century warmth would not be unprecedented.”

Marc Sheppard, environment editor of American Thinker, declares: “As the entire anthropogenic global warming theory is predicated on correlation with rising CO2 levels, this first-such confession from an IPCC senior scientist is nothing short of earth-shattering.”

He also writes: “Indeed, we know that, during the MWP, ice-free seas allowed the Vikings to settle a then comfortably warm Greenland, where colonies flourished for many centuries. Modern archaeologists digging through [Greenland’s] permafrost have uncovered bones and artifacts attesting to the villages established there.”

Despite his concession that there has been no “statistically      significant” warming over the past 15 years, Jones still maintains that    he is “100 percent confident” the climate has warmed and said      “there’s evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due          to human activity.”

Glenn Beck, the hero of the political right and the closing speaker of a three-day conservative conference, ripped the roof off a Washington hotel Saturday with a sweeping denunciation of progressivism.

Progressivism, he told the Conservative Political Action Conference, is a cancer that must be cut out of the system.

But he aimed his fire at Republicans as well as Democrats, and gave them little quarter, saying he did not know what the Republicans stood for.

“It’s not enough just to not suck as much as the other side,” he said.

Noting that he was a recovering alcoholic himself, he said that the party had to admit that it had a problem, which he had not heard it do.

“Hello, my name is the Republican Party and I have a problem!” he declared. “I’m addicted to spending and big government,” he said, drawing cheers and applause from the thousands of people packed into the hotel ballroom.

But both parties are to blame, he said. The Democrats tax and spend, while the Republicans just spend.

People are losing a fundamental belief that things will get better, he said.

“It is still morning in America,” he posited, “it just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting-for-four-hours kind of morning in America. And it’s shaping up to be kind of a nasty day, but it’s still morning in America.”

When the audience finished laughing, he asked: “What made us sit there at the john making us vomit for four hours? What are we suffering from?”

Saying President Obama, he said, was “too simple an answer.”

The real problem, he said, is progressivism, scrawling the word with chalk on his signature blackboard. “This is the disease in America,” he said.
Glenn Beck at CPACStephen Crowley/The New York Times Mr. Beck, a Fox News personality, was the keynote speaker.

He held the audience spellbound with riffs on his personal life laced through his political philosophy, strong on personal responsibility.

“Who can guarantee you happiness?” he asked. “Tiger Woods wasn’t happy.”

If you find financial success on the road to happiness, he said, conservatives believe “you shouldn’t be demonized or penalized by it.”

“I’m not going to pay for your mistakes and I don’t expect you to pay for my mistakes,” he said, to wild applause.

By Newt Gingrich

February 2010

Dear Fellow Americans:

During the past few months, a number of people have asked me about the possibility of a new Contract with America for the 2010 elections. They remember the clarity, the positive focus, and the election results of the 1994 contract.

It is clear that the country is increasingly angry with the Obama-Pelosi-Reid team. But it is equally clear that Americans still distrust Republicans almost as much as they fear liberal Democrats . . . there has to be a lucid set of reforms both on the legislative process and on spending for the Republicans to be seen as truly reformed from the party that was defeated in 2006 and 2008.

So the question is whether a new Contract with America would provide the extra focus and extra energy needed to change the results of the 2010 elections from the expected Republican gains to a Republican majority that will deliver.

I believe there would be a lot of advantages in October to having a contract-centered campaign if the House Republicans can work their way to a serious, collective, positive commitment.

A contract in September would be a powerful unifier for all those who are tired of the corruption and waste of Washington and the alien views of the secular socialist coalition seeking to change America radically.

However, House Republicans should consider several issues cautiously before undertaking a contract-centered campaign. On the following pages, please read my modest proposal for how a new Contract with America could change the nation in 2010 and beyond.

Yours,

Newt Gingrich

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