The Northern Kentucky Tea PartyNorthern Kentucky
4
Mar
2013
Say NO to HB-441
by Garth Kuhnhein
Legislators in Kentucky just don’t get it. While families continue to struggle with rising prices on everything from food to utility rates, our elected officials in Frankfort, our employees, want to make driving throughout the commonwealth even more expensive.
We already pay a motor vehicle tax, license plate fee, drivers license fee and gas taxes to name a few. Now Frankfort wants to charge tolls on our roads and highways. HB 441establishes the framework to collect tolls on any road project for maintenance, repair and operating the project. Tolls are taxes! We already pay almost 50¢ a gallon in federal and state gas taxes for road repair and maintenance. Why would we want to pay another tax? Enough is enough! Call 800 372-7181 tell your state senator to vote no on HB 441.keep Kentucky roads and highways free. Tell your state Senator to vote no on HB 441. Call 800 372-7181.
Your voice can make a difference today. Make a two minute call now.
1-800-372-7181
Please, you can make your point known in a 2 minute phone call.
YOUR VOICE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
27
Feb
2013
Stop Agenda 21 in Kentucky; Senate Bill 80
by Legate Damar
This is a great piece of legislation that will start the process of eliminating UN Agenda 21 from Kentucky. If you don’t know what Agenda 21 is, it is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. The concept sustainable development (SD) refers to a mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come. The philosophy behind Agenda 21 is that our environmental problems (e.g., global warming, etc.) are the number one problem that we are facing, and that those problems are being caused by human activity. Therefore, according to Agenda 21 human activity needs to be tightly monitored, regulated and controlled for the greater good. Individual liberties and freedoms must be sacrificed for the good of the planet. Those that promote the philosophy underlying Agenda 21 believe that human activity must be managed and free market economies are destructive and dangerous.
Call the Legislative Message Line in Frankfort: 1-800-372-7181. Tell the operator you would like to leave three Messages:
Message 1 is directed at the sponsors of Senate Bill 80, Senator John Schickel and Senator Robin Webb: “Thank you for sponsoring Senate Bill 80 and supporting Kentucky's sovereignty against an overreach by the UN’s Agenda 21.”
Message 2 is directed at the Senate State and Local Governments Committee: “Please support Kentucky's sovereignty and Senate Bill 80, and oppose the UN’s Agenda 21, a bureaucratic overreach. Please vote YES and Pass SB 80.”
Message 3 is directed at ALL Senate Leadership (Republican and Democrat): “Please support Kentucky’s sovereignty and Senate Bill 80, and oppose the UN’s Agenda 21, a bureaucratic overreach.”
Your voice can make a difference today. Make a two minute call now.
1-800-372-7181
Please, you can make your point known in a 2 minute phone call.
YOUR VOICE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
27
Feb
2013
The NKY Water District Waterboarding
by Legate Damar
Members of the Northern Kentucky Tea Party movement took a close look at some of the numbers behind the Northern Kentucky Water District’s proposed 25 percent rate hike for 2011 and they didn’t like what they saw. Chair massages for district employees and $35,000 worth of water bottles are some examples of spending the organization says it didn't want to see passed on to the water utility’s 80,000 customers in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties (Tea party questions NKY Water District spending, 2010).
Tea Party members and others became incensed during an October public hearing during which Northern Kentucky Water officials, who attended the gathering at Thomas More College, were not allowed under state rules to detail their rationale for needing the significant increase.
27
Feb
2013
"Unlimited Power Corrupts The Possessor"-William Pitt
by Eric M. Vest
Port Authority Power Grab
I just read the "A bold plan to fund new Brent Spence" article in the November 10, 2012 Kentucky Enquirer. They are promoting letting he Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and the Northern Kentucky Port Authority take over the responsibility for the Brent Spence Bridge replacement. Important parts of this article are:
27
Feb
2013
No Tolls for New Mississippi River Bridge
by Eric M. Vest
The new St. Louis Interstate 70 Bridge is under construction across the Mississippi River between St. Clair County, Illinois and the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The structure will relieve traffic on nearby bridges, most importantly the Poplar Street Bridge, which carries I-55, I-64, I-70, and US 40.
Ground was broken on April 19, 2010. In 2012, both the Missouri and Illinois approaches were under construction. Completion is scheduled for 2014.
The funding of the bridge project was debated by the Illinois and Missouri governments. After receiving the Federal grant, Illinois pushed to start as soon as possible, but Missouri said it had more pressing highway projects to work on. Missouri transportation officials proposed to privatize the bridge, which would have allowed a private company to charge tolls in return for building, operating, and maintaining the bridge for up to 99 years. Illinois officials and several St. Louis congressmen demanded a toll-free crossing and this was ratified by an agreement signed February 28, 2008, by the Missouri and Illinois governors.