Who: Mike Parry, Allen Quist, and you! All Republicans are invited to this event.

Where: Best Western, 1111 Range St, North Mankato, MN 56003. Maps & directions

When:Friday, April 20.

• 5:30 p.m. Registration opens
• 6:00 p.m. Social hour; cash bar opens
• 6:15 p.m. Heavy Hors d’oeuvre Buffet
• 7:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
• 7:30 p.m. Congressional Candidate Forum
• 8:30 p.m. Candidate Hospitality Rooms

Cost: $25 per person at the door. Delegates and alternates, please purchase tickets with your convention pre-registration. Others, please reply to this email to let us know that you’re coming, so that we can estimate attendance.

Forum: If you have questions for the candidates that you would like to be considered for use at the forum, please reply to this email. (Due to limited time, not all questions will be used.)

& More: Candidates for other offices (National Delegate, National Alternate, National Committeewoman, District Officer, etc.) will be present at this event. You may visit with them before and after the Congressional Candidate Forum.

Lodging: A limited number of rooms are still available in the Republican Convention block (~$83 + tax) if you wish to stay at the hotel. Call (507) 625-9333 to reserve a room. Information on other hotels is available here, or a map showing hotels is available here.

We haven’t had a convention like this one in at least 60 years! Every piece of district business we ever consider at a convention has to be done at this one. New constitution. New officers. Resolutions. National convention delegates. Contested congressional endorsement. Holy mackerel.

ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS
PARTY

December 10, 2011
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Americas Best Value Inn
Albert Lea

cash bar
6:30 mingle
7:15 dinner

Entrees:
Pork Loin with cherry and wild rice stuffing
Turkey Breast with apple cranberry stuffing

with

buttered red potatoes or scalloped corn
garden salad or fluff fruit salad

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Price is $26 per person, paid on site

In case of inclement weather,
a decision will be made by noon the day of the event
and an email sent if it is canceled or rescheduled

WALZ HOLDS DEFICIT TOWN HALLS IN ROCHESTER AND WINONA

Involves constituents in budget decision-making process

(Rochester and Winona, MN) – Today, southern Minnesotans joined Rep. Tim Walz at two town halls on the federal deficit in Rochester and Winona. The town halls were fully interactive and offered attendees the ability to decide how to balance the budget and reduce the deficit.

“Serious conversations about how to reduce spending and create a secure fiscal future for all Americans are happening across the country,” said Rep. Tim Walz. “It was important to me to get feedback from southern Minnesotans on how we can work together to balance the budget and ensure more people can achieve the American dream in years to come. I am grateful to everyone who participated today, I will take their thoughts, concerns and ideas back with me to Washington.”

Walz organized a conversation and workshop on the federal budget to get valuable insight from southern Minnesotans. The Concord Coalition, a non-partisan organization dedicated to organizing and educating Americans about the budget challenges we face, was on hand to participate in the conversation as well.

Walz said any plan to reduce the deficit must do so in a smart, responsible way that doesn’t harm our economy. Walz has said he believes we need a balanced approach to reducing the deficit that includes targeted smart cuts; proposals to make the way government operates more efficient; and tax reform that closes loopholes and brings more fairness to the system.

Like so much of what Walz does, the event was a joke. Claimed to be involving consituents and “fully interactive” they were neither. A friend attended in Rochester. No questions were allowed. Surveys were distributed and completed by attendees but not collected! Or, perhaps, collected from a select few.

Walz is either a pathetic fake or inept. His constituents appear to be only those who support him, not all of us in the First District.

Delegates and alternates elected at the 2010 BPOU conventions will receive their convention calls in the mail prior to the convention with additional details.

Box lunch will be available.
Free wireless internet is available.

Details here.