Speaker Beth Harwell to Host 2013 Right Women, Right Now Summit

Will Lead Republican Efforts to Elect More Women Nationwide

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Washington, D.C. (September 4, 2013) –Today, the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) announced Speaker Beth Harwell will host the RSLC’s 2013 “Right Women, Right Now” Summit in Nashville, TN September 9thand 10th.  Harwell, who serves as a co-chair of the RSLC’s initiative to identify, train and support women to run for state level office, will lead the Summit’s efforts to recruit candidates to better reflect America’s full diversity.

“I’m honored to host this gathering of over twenty-five women elected leaders from across the country.  Together, we will accomplish the goals of ’Right Women, Right Now ‘ to recruit 300 women to run for first time office and become our future Party leaders,” said Harwell.  “Our Party, and more importantly our nation, must increase the number of Republican women in state level office to bring needed voices to debates on job creation, education reform, healthcare and how to improve the economy.”

Harwell noted that last cycle, the RSLC's “Right Women, Right Now” identified 185 new Republican women candidates from 36 states, yielding 84 new Republican women elected to state offices in 2012.  This cycle, the RSLC has committed to recruit 300 new Republican candidates and elect 150 of them, spending $6 million to do so as part of the overall Future Majority Project that recruits women and minority candidates to run for first time office.

“Speaker Harwell is an outstanding leader for the state of Tennessee, a star within our Party and a passionate advocate for families across the Volunteer State,” said “Right Women, Right Now” Director Jill Bader.  “We commend her for her commitment to growing strong women leaders and thank her for hosting our ‘Right Women, Right Now’ summit.”

Harwell, the first woman Speaker in Tennessee History, is Co-Chair of “Right Women, Right Now” along with Attorney General Pam Bondi (FL), Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (WI) and Secretary Kim Wyman (WA). 

The 2013 “Right Women, Right Now” Summit will take place in Nashville, TN on Sept. 9 and 10, 2013.  Attorney General Pam Bondi will give the keynote address.  Hosted by Tennessee Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, the gathering will bring together over 25 elected women and supporters from across the nation to address how to support women at all levels of elected leadership.


 

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Metro Nashville paid a foreign company to study our schools. So why did its reports get an icy reception?

by Andrea Zelinski, Nashville Scene, Sept. 5, 2013 - During the day, Metro Schools' headquarters on Bransford Avenue bustles with traffic as hundreds of district employees file into work, from bean counters to executive principals, secretaries to chief officers in three-piece suits.

If David Moran had his way, there'd be a lot fewer of them. Maybe he'd have the Central Office whittle down its staff, and fill the facility with students instead of adults. Or he'd just have the district sell the former school building, and plug the extra money into the system's 153 other schools. Either way, his reasoning would be the same: Nashville's public school system has too much central bureaucracy.

That criticism stoked recommendations Moran gave to Nashville's director of schools over the past two school years. Working then for the U.K.-based Tribal Group, the British consultant led a team contracted by MNPS to develop turnaround plans for the district's worst schools. Part of his job was to assess what role the Central Office would clay. (link)

My Comment:  Please read this. Unbelievable! The school board spend $6.3 million of our money for a study to tell us what we already knew and when the school board did not like the results they just ignored the recommendations and they refuse to release the report we paid for.

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Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots and ForAmerica announced the next stop of its multi-state “Exempt America” Tour will be in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday, September 6 at 10 a.m. EST.



Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots and L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman for ForAmerica will join with local activists to call on Congress to exempt Americans from Obamacare.



“President Obama has already exempted Big Labor, Big Business and Congress has exempted itself.  That leaves the American people on the hook to live under what Sen. Max Baucus, an Obamacare supporter, has called a ‘train wreck.’  More than 70% of Americans favor delaying the implementation of Obamacare.  In order to delay it, the spending must stop. We will make sure Congress hears this message loud and clear,” said Ms. Martin.

WHO:                         Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots

                                   L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman, ForAmerica

                                   Matthew Perkins, Tennessee Medicine and Pediatrics

                                   Kurt Potter, Board Member 9-12 Project Tennessee

                                   Mishelle Perkins, president 9-12 Project Tennessee

WHAT:                        “Exempt America” Press Conference

WHERE:                     Embassy Suites Nashville Airport

                                   10 Century Blvd

                                   Nashville, TN

WHEN:                        Friday, September 6, 2013

                                   10 a.m. EST

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“There is no doubt the Assad regime’s willingness to use chemical weapons is unacceptable and that his growing dependence on Iran is a threat to stability in the Middle East. But President Obama’s weak and ineffective approach over the last few years in this part of the world continues to weaken our nation’s stature overseas,” said Tracy. “That weakened stature is why Assad ignored President Obama in the first place. The President “leads” from behind and when he inches toward action, he does so without a clear sense of purpose or an attainable conclusion. This administration, at this point in time, cannot be trusted with an authorization of military force in Syria. Congress should reject the President's ill-conceived, ill-timed request."

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This is obviously a phony argument. At about the same rate that children are leaving the regular district schools for charters, population growth is adding new students.  Charter schools are not leaving empty seats.  Those seats are being filled by new students.  In any event, cost are not fixed. If a system as large as Metro's public school system cannot reallocate resources to manage change in student enrollment then something is terribly wrong. You can be sure that if we had more students in public schools, the same people who are saying that fewer students present a financial hardship would be saying more students present a financial hardship. 

Charter schools have almost worked miracles in some cases. In charter schools, Black children with all of the disadvantages that usually indicate failure are excelling. No child should have to attend a failing school. We should embrace charters.

I have about given up thinking there is any bill so bad that our Council will not vote for it. I have also come to the conclusion that  Republicans in the Council are as about as useless as tits on a boar hog. Last month the Council passed a resolution calling on Congress to end sequestration, not cut spending, and to raise taxes.  The Republicans in the Council voted for it. A few months ago they voted for a resolution calling on the EPA to vigorously enforce the arbitrary CO2 limits the EPA had adopted without Congressional approval. The Republicans in the Council voted for it.  Some of the Republicans in the Council were in that body when the Council unanimously voted to impose minimum fare prices and other anti-market polices on limousine services. Think of your most conservative Council member; he votes exactly like the most progressive council member.  I don't expect any principled opposition to even the most liberal of legislation from any members of our Council.

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