September 2023 Let us never forget the single most horrific day in America, September 11, 2001. It is now 22 years since that tragic day that has changed America forever. On this day 22 years ago, 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefight...
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August Meeting Recap
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE AUGUST 2023 MEETING President Kaye Feller opened the meeting with an invite for members to purchase tickets for our "Club 26" fundraising for the Club in 2023. There are 26 drawings, thus the name. 20 of the drawings pay $50 and the remaining drawings pay $250.00 each. Rather than have a dinner fundraiser such as last year's ...
August Membership Update
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE AUGUST 2023 MEETING Our current, August 2023, Membership Report to the General Membership is as follows:We salute two new Primary Members: Laurie Williams and Corinne Teeple, and one new Associate Member, Ross Teeple. Laurie lives in Queen Creek and was referred to our club by Pam Brandis. We thank you Pam. Corinne and R...
August President's Message
It's only August 2023, 15 months until the 2024 Presidential election.Yet it feels like we are already well into campaign season.Thankfully we have 15 months to work toward the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIVES.And work we must with everything we have, our money, time, and effort.We need it all! But let's have some fun while we are working to sa...
July Meeting Recap
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE JULY 2023 MEETING Thank you to all of the members and their guests who came out in this unprecedented heat wave for our meeting on Tuesday night, July 18. And what a fabulous meeting it was! The speakers were amazing and held everyone's attention. We opened with a discussion of the movie "Sound of Freedom". Most of those...
Interesting Essay - Where Are We in the Spectrum of History?
Men, like nations, think they're eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn't believe, at least subconsciously, that he'll live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it's harder to hide from reality.... as you lose friends and relatives. Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contempla...
July Membership Update
Our current 2023 July Membership Report to the General Membership is as follows:NEW MEMBERS UPDATEWe salute two new Primary Members: Sarah Hager and Susan Walter, and one new Associate Member, Barry Walter. Sarah Hager lives in San Tan Valley. She was referred to our club by Pam Brandis. We thank you Pam. Susan and Barry Walter live in Queen Creek ...
The Depravity in Our Beloved Nation
Most of our nation's framers of the Constitution were Christians and moral men who believed in the Biblical concept of total depravity (the spiritual condition of fallen man). James Madison, for example, said, "Depravity in mankind…requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust." Alexander Hamilton wrote about human depravity as to why th...
July President's Message
Greetings to all. Coming back from a wonderful trip to Rome and points beyond, Steve and I had unfortunately caught something that turned out to be Covid. Many thanks to Gayle Peters, Glenda Bird, and Berta Lockhart for standing in and doing such a great job. From everything I heard the program was excellent and gave us much to think about and work...
June Meeting Recap
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE JUNE 20, 2023 MEETING President Kaye Feller returned from her vacation quite ill and was not able to be at our June 20 meeting. Gayle Peters, Berta Lockhart and Glenda Bird filled in quite ably for Kaye. We don't have our usual writeup of the happenings at the meeting, however, we do have a few pictures of the two speakers fo...
Tracking Member Hours
Every two years, all Member Clubs of the NFRW are evaluated by both their state-level officers and by the NFRW. At each level, there are expectations that member clubs are active in Campaign Activities which includes reporting the total number of volunteer hours and calls our members make each month in support of Republican candidates and advocacy ...
Upcoming Programs
QC-STV RWF has been tremendously blessed by knowledgeable speakers coming out to speak with our group. Please return the favor by attending our meetings so we can continue to draw great speakers! JUNE Our June 20 meeting was well attended for a brilliant presentation by Greg Blackie of AzFree Enterprise. He led us through the complexity of liberal ...
June Membership Update
Our current 2023 June Membership Report to the General Membership is as follows: We had our first New Member Welcome Coffee on May 31, 2023, with four new members and one who is not new. It was held at the Panera in Queen Creek and hosted by Berta Lockhart and Arlene Stassinos (outgoing 2nd VP Membership). We plan to have this event regularly as we...
June Member Highlight
This month, I would like the Member Highlight to be Monica Parker, our Chaplain, who quietly and humbly helps our club in many ways. She writes the invocation for all of our general and BOD meetings. She is our club's first Chaplain and one of the first ten members of our club. Her prayers are beautiful and always calls upon God to help our nation ...
Independence Day – July 4
"Congress adopted the final writing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Two weeks later Congress voted to have the statement engrossed on parchment and signed by the members who either appeared in person on August second or later affixed their names (Hancock's being the largest since he, reportedly, wanted the king to be able to rea...
June President's Message
Fellow Republican Women, Greetings! I recently returned from the Summer AzFRW Conference in Prescott. Kathleen Leaman, Roz Gorski and Glenda Bird also attended the two-day event. Friday morning, we started early with 8AM meetings for the Bylaws Committee of which I have been a member for the last two years. It is an interesting process to ensure th...
May Meeting Recap
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE MAY 16, 2023 MEETING Wow, what a terrific meeting with three of our current Pinal County elected officials and they are all running for re-election. Michael McCord, county Treasurer, Douglas Wolf, county Assessor and Jill Broussard, County Superintendent of Schools were all in attendance sharing information about themselves, ...
Legislative Report - No Common Ground
I originally wrote this piece in August 2017. As I reread it recently, I thought it was as applicable today as when I originally wrote the article. It is a thought-provoking piece. We need to understand the war we are fighting. This month's legislation report aptly describes the state of all legislation whether in Arizona or Washington D. C. Every ...
May Membership Update
QC-STV Republican Women Federated MEMBERSHIP REPORT Our current 2023 May Membership Report to the General Membership is as follows:69 RENEWAL MEMBERSHIPS for 202328 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS We welcome our NEW Primary Member and have been officially reported to AZFRW and NFRW May 31, 2023:CLAUDETTE DEAN (who lives in Enca...
Why I Became A Republican - Kelly McDonald
I have been a lifelong Republican starting at an early age. The only grandfather I knew was bedridden from 1964-1969 when he then passed away. During his convalescence, he read everything he could and would discuss politics with my mother who was also an avid reader. He would also write letters to all politicians on different subjects to get their ...
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