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						<title>Monthly Meeting  Monday May 7, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<br /><div><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Monday, May 7 - Jamison Power, Candidate for Westminster School Board</span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Our Yard Sale on Sat, May 5!</span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><p>1012 E. Palmdale, Orange ( Taft &amp; Cambridge )</p><p>7 AM - 1 PM</p></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Donate, Volunteer or Just Hang Out with Your Democratic Neighbors</span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Contact MJ Cretney </span>714 637-7025</span></span></strong></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Election Swag Available</span></span></strong></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 22.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica';"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; border: initial none initial;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">Club Meets the first Monday of the month<br />Marie Callendar's in Santa Ana 1821 N. Grand Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92701  Come at 6:30 P.M  for No Host Dinner,  Program starts at 7:00 P.M.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: small;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">What We Have Done</span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">* Voter Registration at Orange International Street Fair</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">* Voter Registration at Tustin Tiller Days</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">* Voter Registration at Tustin Chili Cook Off</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">* Voter Registration at Orange County Fair</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">*  Phone Banked &amp; Walked for Beckie Gomez-McKeon &amp; Sherri Loveland (Tustin City Council race), Yolanda Alvarez (Orange City Council race), Melissa Fox (70th AD race), Esiquio Uballe (72nd AD race), Dianne Singer (Orange Unified School District race), Beth Krom (Congressional race), Sen. Barbara Boxer, Rep. Lorretta Sanchez, Gov. Jerry Brown</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, geneva;">*  Meeting speakers and discussion topics have included saving Social Security, </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;">OCTA bus service cuts and how to minimize them, organizing drives for school bus drivers and waste haulers, </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;">issues facing building trades in Orange County, women's health care legislation and advocacy, California's proposed constitutional convention, and lobbying reform in Orange County.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: small; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #366388;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #366388;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Our Club is a Charter Member of the Alliance for Retired Americans, a grassroots advocacy group for retirement security.  Here's the latest update:</span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #366388;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #366388;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #00008b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span><p style="display: block; line-height: normal; color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dear Activist, here is your </span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #0000ff;">June 24, 2011</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"> edition</span><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="display: block; line-height: normal; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Following AARP Story, GOP Has New Ammunition in Goal of Cutting Social Security</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></strong><br />According to </span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Politico </span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span></span><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=txnjKTx%2FBVr4AybwbZEYFwO0t1KM8qws" rel="external" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #003366; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://politi.co/kxt85x</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">), the seniors lobby AARP is in “damage-control mode” following a news report </span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">last Friday</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in </span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The </span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wall Street</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Journal</span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> that the group is open to cuts to Social Security benefits. A nationwide tour by AARP soliciting feedback from their members and seniors about what Social Security reforms the group should propose is now on hold until after the current round of deficit talks in </span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Washington</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">passes, according to </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">David Certner</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, AARP’s Legislative Director. Still, </span></span><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Politico </span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">reports, the AARP story “gave Republicans new ammunition to push entitlement reforms in talks over slashing the deficit.” In response to the news story, Alliance members have sent more than 7,500 messages to U.S. House members saying that they do not support cuts to Social Security. “Thank you, Alliance members who have contacted your Member of Congress,” said </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Barbara J. Easterling</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, President of the Alliance. “Elected officials need to hear that there are many ways to strengthen Social Security besides cutting benefits. Raising the payroll cap on earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax, for instance, would preserve the program without sending millions of seniors into poverty.” If you have not yet contacted your Member of Congress but would like to, go to </span></span><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=QaLjWfj%2F%2B%2FTRCSK77WzedwO0t1KM8qws" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #003366; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://bit.ly/ldixlQ</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span><br /></strong></span></span></span></strong></span></div>]]></description>
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