Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany October 2016

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1 Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany October 2016 Time to Party!!! Come One, Come All to the Elephant Masquerade!! Dates to Remember: September 25, Senator Sunday October 8, RPWST Elephant Masquerade November 2, RPWST mtg November 8, Election Day December 7, Christmas Party January 4, RPWST mtg October 8, 2016 Covington Country Club Patron Party 5:00-6:00 pm Main Event 6:00-10:00 pm Get your tickets today!! Executive Board: President Stephanie Danielson Past President Robin Pringle 1st Vice President Brandy Morris Programs and Venues 2nd Vice Pres. - Samantha Goodwin Membership Secretary, Recording Tracy Krieger Secretary, Corresponding Barbara Ryan Treasurer Barbara Phillips Standing Committees: Bylaws Campaign - Communications Susan Strain Legislative Brandy Morris Public Relations/Publicity Scholarship Gayle Weber Additional Committees: Americanism Sara Wood Community Involvement Fundraising Susan Strain Meeting Raffle RobinPringle Military Audra Shay NFRW/LFRW Programs/Awards

2 October 2016 pg 2 Where to Find It: RPWST September minutes Pg 3 RPWST September mtg Pgs 4 & 11 RPWST 2017 Nomination Slate Pg 5 Elephant Masquerade Information Pgs 7, 8 & 9 Legislative Report Pg 10 LFRW Fall Conference Photos Pg 12 RPWST 2017 Membership Application Pg 13 NFRW & LFRW Information Pg 14 Early Voting begins October 25th through November 1st Happy Birthday!!! Sharon Drucker October 6 Gayle Weber October 18 Sonia York October 6

3 October 2016 pg 3 Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany Minutes of the September 7, 2016 Meeting Anadelle s Plantation, Covington Call to Order and Welcome: After a sign-in and social, President Stephanie Danielson, called the meeting to order at 7:10 P.M. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance was led by Susan Strain. Stephanie welcomed our guests and officials. Our guest speaker was Sheriff Randy Smith. He generously explained how the sheriff s department is working to keep us safe and to use his resources wisely. The department helped with the tragic flooding of our neighbors. He explained changes in the correction facility and improvements in 911 call center. He thanked us for our generous support. Before he spoke we held our business meeting which included the following notes. Business Meeting and Reports President: Republican women will hold a meet and greet for our senatorial candidates on Sunday, September 25 at Beau Chen from 4 6 pm. This is a free event sponsored by our Republican clubs around the parish and including Washington Parish Republican Women and Washington Republican Parish Executive Committee. Linda Begue strongly urged us to attend this informative forum for our senatorial candidates. Susan Strain, Liz Didier, and Stephanie Danielson will attend the LFRW Fall Board Meeting in Lake Charles on September 16 th. We heard from Susan Strain about our Elephant Masquerade Ball at Covington Country Club. We would like to change our November meeting to a work meeting for our veterans. We plan to meet at Coscino s Italian Grill in Mandeville. Having a quorum at our meeting we did slate our officers for the 2017 year. Kristie Thomas, Chair of the Nomination Committee, announced the slated officers as Stephanie Danielson for President, Pamela Ferguson for 1 st Vice President, Samantha Goodwin for 2 nd Vice President, Daphne Misuraca for Recording Secretary, Liz Didier for Corresponding Secretary, and Barbara Philips for Treasurer. Kristie explained that anyone who is interested in an office may present a letter to Stephanie explaining their desire to also be included in the election. Once approved, the members of RPWST will vote at the November meeting for the 2017 officers. One of our members, Leslie Rozycki, lost her home in a fire caused by lightning strike recently. The executive board wished to collect donations from members. After discussion the club wanted to match our volunteer donations. It was moved and seconded by Susan Strain and Kristie Thomas; the club approved. Membership: We have 55 members as of our September meeting. Treasury: The current treasury balance can be requested by any member to view. Minutes: Tracy Krieger asked for acceptance of the August minutes as presented in the Newsletter. Susan Leonard moved to accept and Susan Strain seconded. Members accepted the minutes. New Business: Susan Strain modeled one of the masks for the fund raiser. We are all looking forward to wearing masks and making donations to help our club s effort to continue our scholarship and philanthropy work. We are looking forward to the fun and frivolity! Please come out and help. If you would like to help, please contact Susan Strain at or susansstrain@bellsouth.net. Remember to look at our webpage republicanprofessionalwomenofsttammany.html Also follow us on FACEBOOK: At 8:45 PM Robin Pringle moved to adjourn and Susan Strain seconded. Respectfully submitted, Tracy Krieger

4 October 2016 pg 4 RPWST September Meeting at Annadele s Plantation with Sheriff Randy Smith

5 Nomination Committee Slate of 2017 Officers October 2016 pg 5 President 1st Vice President 2nd Vice President Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer Stephanie Danielson Pamela Ferguson Samantha Goodwin Daphne Misuraca Elizabeth Didier Barbara Phillips Alliance for Good Government Legislator of the Year RPWST Member Maureen O Brien!! Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany Empowering women through political education and through the support of Republican candidates for better government

6 October 2016 pg 6 New and Renewing RPWST Members!! The 2017 RPWST Membership Application is now available!! See page 13 We re looking forward to celebrating 2017 as the Year of the Republican!! Successful Rally & Fundraiser for our next President!!

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8 Elephant Masquerade Fun and Frivolity - MAJOR Entertainment! October 2016 pg 8

9 Elephant Masquerade Special Hotel Rates! Holiday Inn 45 Louis PrimaDrive Covington, LA Call and ask for the special rate of $99/night under Republican Professional Women s Banquet October 2016 pg 9 Senator Sunday

10 Legislation October 2016 pg 10 Most Federal Reserve officials agree the economy is at or getting very close to what economists consider full employment, the rate below which inflation starts to rise. What they can t agree on is what should happen next. As the unemployment rate hovers below 5% and job gains moderate, one of the key debates at this week s Fed policy meeting will be how much farther the Fed can let it decline without risking runaway inflation.on one side are officials, including governors Lael Brainard and Daniel Tarullo, who say there s still room for improvement in the labor market. Allowing unemployment to fall further below its current 4.9% level would give more Americans especially minorities a chance to come back to the labor force and share in the gains of the expansion, they say. The counterargument from officials such as San Francisco Fed President John Williams is that letting the jobless rate get too low could cause prices to surge, forcing the Fed to ratchet up short-term interest rates faster than they d like. That could trigger a downturn that would hurt minorities most. I understand the desire to try to help everybody in the economy, Mr. Williams said Sept. 6 in Reno, Nev. But I think that just running an overly hot economy for too long does risk creating the conditions that then could lead to a recession that undoes all of that. When faced with inflation jumps in the past, the Fed doesn t have a great track record of combating rising prices without causing a sharp upturn in the unemployment rate. In the 1960s and early 70s, the Fed let the jobless rate fall below estimates of full employment. Several bouts of runaway inflation and the severe recessions that followed have made officials wary of testing that boundary today, despite little evidence of inflationary pressures. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has expressed sympathy for both camps, and added in a footnote to a March speech that the Fed could be wrong in its estimate of the full-employment level. Officials median estimate then was 4.8%, and she said the true level was likely lower. And if so, a lower level of unemployment might be needed to fully eliminate slack in the labor market, drive faster wage growth, and return inflation to our 2% objective. With officials divided over whether to raise rates, they are inclined to leave them unchanged at their meeting Tuesday and Wednesday. They have held their benchmark short-term rate since December in a range between 0.25% and 0.5%. The debate among Fed officials is occurring against a backdrop of growing pressure from liberal lawmakers and labor activists, who urge the central bank not to raise rates right as African-Americans, Hispanics and other low-income workers are starting to see economic progress. They say some measures of labor market slack suggest there are still gaps to be closed. The share of prime-age workers participating in the labor force those 25 to 54 years old is still below where it was before the crisis, at 81.3% in August, compared with 82.9% in August The median U.S. household income rose 5.2% last year to $56,516, the biggest annual gain recorded since the survey began in 1967, the Census Bureau said last week. Still, it remained 1.6% below the 2007 level and 2.4% below the all-time recorded high reached in At the same time, the Fed s preferred inflation gauge continues to run below its 2% objective, and inflation expectations have softened. In the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market, Ms. Brainard said in a speech in Chicago Sept. 12. Part of the challenge for both sides is that nobody knows where that sweet spot is that is, how low the jobless rate can go and for how long before inflation starts to rise too much. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that full employment also known as the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment, or Nairu is 4.8%, the same as the Fed s estimates in March and June and a hair below the current jobless rate. But CBO s estimates also have varied over time. That s enough for some officials to worry that hotter inflation could be right around the corner, based on the long-held belief that falling unemployment eventually generates higher wages, which in turn will push up prices and generate stronger inflation. But that so-called Phillips curve relationship hasn t been working the way many Fed officials have come to expect. No one can prove them wrong, except for the fact that we keep coming around the corner and there s no inflation, said Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a former Obama administration adviser. - Kate Davidson, The Wall Street Journal

11 Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany More information, more fun, more Republican values October 2016 pg 11

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