YCRW NEWS. Your attendance is essential as we reflect on our accomplishments, review and approve our amended by-laws, and discuss plans for 2017.

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1 Edition XI, Nov 2016 In this Issue November 10 Meeting Agenda Patt s Perspective Membership Renewal October 13 Meeting Highlights Caring for America Volunteer Opportunities Help Wanted Opinion Block Christmas Party YCRW First Annual Meeting November 10, 2016 The Prescott Club Stoneridge Golf Course 1601 N. Bluff Top Drive Prescott Valley 5:30 p.m. Networking 5:00 p.m. Your attendance is essential as we reflect on our accomplishments, review and approve our amended by-laws, and discuss plans for Please plan to join us!

2 Pg II President Patt Parker s November Perspectives Every vote does matter! Continue volunteering at the phone bank through November 8th people will be calling all through the day on Tuesday. Thanks to many of you, Dan has a waiting list for Poll Observers. Be sure to count these activities to on your campaign volunteer hours. Get out your lists and your Christmas card list. Make calls; send s to your friends reminding them to vote. No sitting out this election! Our upcoming meeting is the YCRW Annual Business meeting. We will be reviewing things we have done this past year as well as voting on bylaws. Active members may vote. Associate members may not. For all members, you will be learning more about the various committees, which you participate in - find out what we need for 2017 and look to serve in an area in which you would like to volunteer. We have two immediate needs. One for our website - it's been designed, but it needs updating on a monthly basis or more often during legislative session. The other need is for a person to edit/ publish the YCRW monthly Newsletter. Please see any of the YCRW leadership team - or better yet - find Carolyn Gardner who does this for us currently to find out what this would entail. For your planning purposes, please note that beginning January 2017 our YCRW will be meeting at the same location at the same date. However, we are changing the day we meet. The Board of Directors voted to change it to the 4th Monday of the month to deconflict the YCRW meeting day with the Prescott Valley Town Council Meeting and other meetings regularly held on Thursdays. Looking forward to seeing you at our November 10th meeting!

3 YCRW NEWS Page III Fire Chief Scott Frietag described CYFB Member Responsibilities and the challenges facing the Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority in Central Yavapai Fire Board Candidates Vicilee Jacobs, Jeff Wasiolek, Matt Kercher, and Mike Clesceri, each running for one of the three open positions, participated in a debate forum moderated by Patt Parker. The forum was a Q&A session which allowed the three candidates to articulate their perspectives and discuss solutions. Political Writer, Becca Keating, author of Impact Your World spoke briefly to YCRW about the upcoming general election and what Republicans can do to help support their candidates. Photos courtesy of Joel C. Schochet, YCRW official photographer

4 Page IV Can you believe we are already ONE year old and it is time to renew your YCRW membership? It is time to pay dues for the 2017 year which runs from January 1, 2017 thru December and we begin our renewals this month. Membership is $25 annually to a new or returning member and applicant must be a registered Republican in Arizona to join. Associate Membership of $20 is available to any Republican Woman actively holding membership in another Republican Women's Club or any man who is a registered Republican who actively supports YCRW. Come prepared to join at our November meeting. There will be membership forms at the sign-in table. OR CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD. A Gold Crown in YCRW (which includes a beautiful piece if crown jewelry and an invitation to a special event) plus a YCRW vest will be awarded to the member signing up the most associate members. Member benefits include: AzFRW and NFRW digital communications, including the weekly and monthly newsletters and weekly political briefings. The Member Center, a private network on the above mentioned sites available to members only. Sample materials that assist clubs with fund raising, membership planning and campaign and advocacy programs. Legislative Day at the U.S. Capitol and State Capitol. Workshops and seminars that allow members the opportunity to network with members across the nation via online. Sandra Laney YCRW Membership Chair

5 Page V YCRW REMINDERS YCRW MEMBERSHIP CONTEST Renewals and new memberships are beginning now. There will be a Membership Contest, starting October 15th. The YCRW member who registers the most new active members by February 27, 2017 will be given a Golden Crown. First Annual YCRW Meeting November 10 5:00 pm Networking 5:30 pm Meeting StoneRidge We will be introducing proposed 2017 Program plans and discussing and approving proposed bylaws changes. There will be opportunities to learn where your gifts and talents can best be applied to energize our YCRW team. OUR CARING FOR AMERICA PROJECT Through our Caring for America Plan, YCRW encourages donation to the food bank by asking that each attendee to our monthly meetings bring a can of food or a useable item to support this effort. Yavapai County Food Bank Yavapai County Food Bank is a non-government funded 501(c)3 non-sectarian charitable Organization that provides food and other necessities according to Yavapai County community needs.

6 Page VI **HELP WANTED Reminder **In the First Annual YCRW Meeting, November 10 there will be opportunities to learn where your gifts and talents can best be applied to energize our YCRW team. Webmaster Needed Website technician needed beginning November 1 to upload content, and maintain YCRW website. Go-Daddy Platform. Contact YCRW Newsletter Editor Needed Newsletter Editor needed beginning December 1 to create monthly YCRW Newsletter. Experience in MS Publisher or Constant Contact Publishing Desired Report From the Legislative Committee In the new year the YCRW will be following the legislation dealing with western lands. Various states: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona have introduced, passed, or explored legislation that will demand that the federal government turnover all federal public lands to the states. One group calls this the 'stagecoach rebellion'. We will track its progress and join in when the use of letters, s, phone calls and social media will be appropriate. At our November meeting we will have the opportunity to join various committees, please consider joining the Legislative Committee. Submitted by, Pamela Walton Legislative Chairman

7 Page VII NOVEMBER 8 GENERAL ELECTION VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Remember, How Yavapai County votes is how Arizona votes. Our Yavapai County votes add to the numbers and push our statewide national candidates - President and Senator - over the top. So.are you interested in Phone Banking? For those who want to work the Trump phone bank go to It will take you to the site. Click join. Make your own password. Make sure you are out of Caps. Submit. You will receive an back saying you are authorized. Then return to the link and enter your and password and login. If you have any questions, call (602) Being a Poll Watcher/Observer? Positions filled for Poll Observers...new applicants will be added to waiting list. Contact Dan Cox at (928) or PollObserver@yavgop.org or go to to sign up. For Additional Info Contact: Elections and Voter Registration Office Yavapai County Republican Committee Yavapai County Arizona Trump Campaign Brenda Dickinson, Chair (928) or cell (928) PROP 205 IS PROJECTED TO PASS!!!! HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP GET THE WORD OUT AGAINST THIS PROP TO VOTERS: YOU can make phone calls from the comfort of your own home. Please download the i360 calls app in the app store & login with these credentials. Username: 243SMiner Password: sfojnt45 1) login and select "No on 205 ID survey #1 (Oct 25) 2) Click use this App 3) Click "Take Call" Give Steven Lee a call at if you have any questions. Every hour of phone banking makes a big difference!

8 Page VIII Prescott Native, Joel Schocet, shares his perspective on the unique rights and blessings afforded to all Americans in the U.S. Constitution It s that time of year when the media tell you all the things for which you should be thankful. We should, of course, be thankful for our families and our friends. But we, as Americans, should be thankful for much more. The liberals and so-called progressives who control most media outlets, with which they attempt to impose their love of big government and rejection of Constitutional values, treat many of our gifts with disdain. Following are two of the gifts for which Americans should be thankful and which liberals and progressives seek to devalue. Be thankful for our rights and protect them. Opinion Block As set forth in the Declaration of Independence, all men are endowed with certain inalienable rights. (If the Declaration were written today, it would say all men and women. ) The essence of this statement is that no one gives you these rights you have them without anyone s action. Read the Bill of Rights and you will notice that it does grant rights, but rather prohibits the government from taking them away. Most important with regard to securing our right are the first two amendments. The First Amendment provides: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Note that the Amendment places restrictions of the government with regard to our inalienable rights, it does not grant them. Today, liberals see the opposite. For example, they say the government can prohibit the practice of your religion by requiring that individuals and organizations must bend to the government s edicts, such as providing abortion pills, even though those edicts require the abandonment of closely held religious tenets. They say the right to practice one s religion must be balanced with a woman s right to contraception; but they cannot point to anything in the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, or history holding that the latter right may abrogate the former. They say the government can limit your speech and tell you what you can and cannot say. The attorney general even promised to prosecute individuals who voice anti-islamic rhetoric which edges toward violence, a determination to be made by the government. The Second Amendment, the great bugaboo of liberals, provides: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Again, the Second Amendment does not grant a right, but prohibits the government from infringing upon that right. Liberals, however, wish to reverse the Supreme Court s Heller and McDonald decisions, which confirmed that the Second Amendment actually recognizes the right of the people to keep arms. (The Court has not yet ruled on the right to bear arms.) Liberals fail to recognize that the Second Amendment speaks to the security of a free State, the entity composed of the people. The Founders were concerned about the power that might be wielded by the central government and sought to safeguard the method by which a State could protect its citizens from the abuse of that power. As set forth in the Declaration of Independence: Continued on Next Page

9 Page IX Author, Joel Schocet, continued from previous page That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [to secure the inalienable rights of the people], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government. Opinion Block Pg 2 The Second Amendment ensures that the people will have the means to exercise that right. Thus, the Second Amendment protects all the other rights held by the people, including the rights enumerated in the First Amendment. But liberals argue that militia in the Amendment would today refer to the National Guard. The federal government, however, can exercise its authority over the Guard and thereby deprive the State of the Guard s service. Liberals refuse to acknowledge that the militia was and is composed of the people, and that the militia exists in part to defend the State and the people from the federal government. If we permit the federal government to take these and other rights from us, we will cease to be what the United States was created to be: a defender of its citizens rights. We must not ignore that the name of our nation is the United States and that the authority of the federal government is derived from the States and the people. This, too, is set forth in the Bill of Rights. The Tenth Amendment provides: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Notwithstanding the plain language of this Amendment, the federal government unconstitutionally exerts powers it lacks. If there is a Constitutional Convention, the Tenth Amendment should be amended to add at the end the words and we mean it. The Obama administration has furthered the federal government s usurpation of powers that are denied to it by the Constitution, notably the powers granted Congress in Article I of the Constitution, and a Hillary Clinton administration can be expected to continue this. As there is a reason that the right to keep and bears arms is protected by the second of the Amendments, surpassed only by the rights of religion, free speech, free press and free assembly, there is a reason that the powers of Congress, the representatives of the people, is set forth in the first Article. We must protect our rights, and right now the way to do so is to vote. Remember that Republicans who do not vote elect Democrats and their liberal agenda. Every four years, it is said that the coming election is the most important ever. This time it is true, for we are on the cusp of forfeiting our rights and there might be no way to recover them. VOTE! Be thankful for our military. We must also be thankful for our military, for is it they who secure our rights from outside threats. Veterans Day is upon us and we say thanks to our veterans who have selflessly given their service to our nation in the most honorable way. Let s especially remember the combat veterans who have fought for our freedoms: in World War II, where the Greatest Generation defeated the most abhorrent powers the world has ever known; in the Korean War the forgotten war our first fight against communism; in the Vietnam War, whose veterans put their lives on the line and then returned to the scorn of many; and in the Gulf and Iraq Wars, where America rescued others from dictatorship and provided them with the freedom to rule themselves. No nation has sacrificed more to the freedom and well being of others than the United States. And it is our military that has stood on the front lines protecting democracy and, most of all, us. THANK YOU ALL.

10 Page X The Second Annual Yavapai County Republican Women Christmas Party Theme: "Thanks For The Memories" Friday December 2, 2016 StoneRidge Golf Club Time: 6:00-8:30pm $40.00 per person $75.00 per couple Attire: Your holiday best For reservations call: Yoli Bounds All reservations made before Nov. 28 will receive 4 tickets for a special raffle. Featuring: Beautiful Christmas Décor, Music & Delicious Appetizers Christmas Ornament Sale to benefit Yavapai County Food Bank - $10 per ornament Nostalgic Item Sale Purchase a Nostalgic item and receive a chance to win a vacation trip. Each of these beautiful items will be $50.00 with each item you will receive a key 2 keys will unlock vacation trips. (more details to follow)