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Marcus,
I am so disillusioned with the Party I was gonna just walk away. You showed true leadership and focus with the bus organizing to DC. You have shown the kind of LEADERSHIP that the party at every level needs. I am sure this cost you more than time. maybe others will follow your example because that is what a leader does motivate others and you have motivated me.
John
Marcus---Add MY name to tthe list of those who want to thank YOU for all you did for this 1st of perhaps many marches to DC's "hallowed halls" !!!!!!!!!! We couldn't have done it without you, When you're ready to start putting something like this together again, please let me know as I would love to help. I can work w/Carol Anne out of "our Gaston headquarters" and Jonathan(the 17 yr old who came w/ me) would be right there too. He's wk'd on campaigns w/ us and he's a good computer person. The press hasn't given us much coverage, and what was, isn't favorable. That tells me we DID MAKE A DIFFERENCE! The wind is @ our back and they know it too!! We just need to keep the pressure on. Just so you are sure to have it my email is ( Removed for Privacy). Please keep me in the loop. I want to help any way I can.
HUZZAH !!!
Lee Ann MacMillan
Vice Chair, Gaston County Republican Party
Marcus, I just finished sending my sister-in-law an email about our trip, and I told her that I had never been as proud to be an American as I was on Saturday! I've never been in a crowd so huge and was amazed at how polite and friendly everyone was. I am spreading the word on Facebook and through email. Of course, the current admin is trying to dismiss us (as usual), but WE'RE NOT GOING AWAY!
I just wanted to thank Marcus for a great trip to DC. It was awesome to say the least. Now, I wouldn't give you two cents for that bus ride, but other than that torture, the trip was worth its weight in gold. What a great group of people from all over the country. I really do believe it's the start of something good -- how about a change I can believe in. Hope so anyway. I was telling my mother that everyone was polite, friendly, etc. And I didn't hear or see any angry people like the media portrays it. What an experience. Marcus truly did a wonderful job of putting that together. If he needs any help with anything, let me know and Jim has plenty of time on his hands and would love to be involved. He's done some volunteering in the past politically and keeps up with all the conservative websites.
Thanks again for telling me about it. Great fun!!
Becky
-12-09 Washington TEA party March
It was amazing - Hundreds of thousands of people shouting, waving flags, protest signs, spear heading up Pennsylvania Ave. towards the Capital building. It may have been empty when we got there, but our voices are still echoing off the inner walls creating a deafening sound when congress comes back to work. And there I was in the middle of this wave of patriots holding my quickly penciled poster, SPEAK BOLDLY without FEAR. This is the mindset that will best get this country back on track. You can and should speak out when we disagree with a political stance. However, many will not do so for fear of having a accusing finger pointed as us condemning our dissent as being racial motivated. We have been indoctrinated by the liberal side of humanity to hold our tongues because of this fear. No longer. Beck is right, SPEAK BOLDLY WITHOUT FEAR. When we start doing this out of earnest disagreement, pointing fingers will droop in impotency.
Marcus
I wanted to say how very much I appreciated and enjoyed the bus trip to D.C , and to say how well it was organized and how great it was to meet so very many people and fellow patriots along the way, truly a trip I will never forget! You did an unbelievable job of coordinating and organizing! I am very grateful I had the opportunity to travel with the bus from Pinehurst, AnnBeth Simmons was terrific, such a great organizer and leader, also a Huge Thanks to Dee Park for all the calls and emails. I hope you will keep me on your email list for future trips and rallies. Again Thank you for all the hard work and effort that you put forth, and for all others that helped you.
Sincere Thanks, Candy Smith
I tried to get some good pictures, but shoulder to shoulder, belly to belly, butt to butt with everyone, it was near impossible. Holding the camera as high as I could, all I got was a sea of hair and hats. It was very inspiring, something that will hopefully last for more that the 28 hours of adventure.
WE THE PEOPLE will hopefully be more than just a motto in the upcoming years bringing congress back to the reality that they work for us.
I learned a lot. Most importantly, I learned that I did not know what being a Republican meant or what being labeled a Democrat meant. I did, however, learn what being an American meant.
Yes, please keep us on your email list - we need to keep up the pressure! Thanks for organizing the trip. Met some great folks and at least felt like we did what we could to better our country.
Joyce and Anthony
Thank you Marcus for organizing the buses to DC. I along with many others had tears in my eyes when I witnessed the turnout for the taxpayer march. It was a proud day, but we must not rest. Please feel free to keep me on your email list so that I can participate in future events when my country calls. Thanks again for all you do.
Mike Mahler
Marcus,
Thank you VERY much for all the work you did in organizing our trip to Washington. I'm very glad I went,and I believe we made a difference. Your N.C. flag, by the way, was most helpful.
Has anyone given a reliable, or even semi-reliable, count on the number of people who attended? I've heard thousands, hundreds of thousands, and 1.5 million.
Again, thanks for making all the arrangements.
Galen Hobbs
Marcus, Ken, et al...what an important trip and rally! If the Congress and Obama listen, there will be changes. If they do not, we will be back. Thank you for arranging the transportation and food and such...it was well planned and executed.
Regards,
Chuck
I want to speak to you today about why I am here. I am nobody special. I
am someone’s wife, daughter, mother, and friend. I am a patriot and I swear my allegiance to my American flag every day. I grew up in a working class Christian home and have worked hard all
my life. I wanted to be a nurse since I was old enough to realize that nursing was an actual job. I was a candy striper at age 12, a member of the jr. rescue squad at 15 and finally realized my dream of being a registered nurse as a young adult and have been so for many years. I have seen many changes over the course of my professional lifetime-changes of which I am often proud to have been a part of, many of which I am not so proud.
I have seen my share of tragedies-like sending children back into unfortunate and neglectful environments and witnessing young teen pregnancy in epidemic proportion. I have become a bit jaded and one might say bitter when I see the waste every day. We think nothing about offering care to a young teen mother and her children and we shouldn’t. But anymore we don’t even dare ask for any accountability on her part. The welfare system has become for many an entitlement. One, which I feel we can no longer afford. I have seen an influx of illegal-yes, I dared to say the word aliens who are having families in this country and enjoying the benefits that all its
Citizens share, but are not being asked to repay even a portion of the cost. You see, Medicaid is
Retroactive in my state. Even if the pt and family are admittedly undocumented, we are
Not allowed to breathe that fact to a soul-lest I breach the pt confidentiality act-
better known as Hippa.
It applies to all patients, even those who are not legal citizens of our country.
My brother and sister are both teachers and face much the same frustration that those of
us in the medical field feel. They work tirelessly to achieve great success with their
students, but we have some of the poorest test scores in the world.
But we can’t be the teachers and nurses and doctors that we want to be =
or used to be because bureaucratic red tape ties all of our arms behind our backs. It
is as impossible to squeeze out even one more new program into our already failing hospital
system, as it is for our public school system. We should look at our government run
education system as an ominous look of things to come in the hospital system.
I am also a real estate broker. I have seen first hand what government intervention in a do
gooder fashion can produce. By the way, where is my Tarp money? I want it back or at
least I want a document explaining to me who has it and who is going to get it. Let’s pay
that back before we go in the hole any deeper.
We are overburdened. We need less government intervention, not more.
I think that we are all in agreement that options are great and a competitive marketplace
is healthy. It is not healthy to borrow trillions of dollars from countries who don’t even
like us much with no real plan on how it will be spent or when it will get paid back or by whom.
I would like to finish my sentiment with a situation that I found myself in just this past
week. I began having problems with my left breast. I called my physicians office who
asked me to come in that same day. Which I did. My doctor recommended a mammogram and his nurse set it up for me that same day-I drove straight over and had the test. The next morning, I got a call to tell me that further testing was necessary and could I come two days following . The next morning I received a letter to confirm that further testing was in order, just in case I did not get the call. I went in for my repeat mamographic views and it was determined that just to be sure, I needed a breast ultrasound, which they did at that very hour. I was released with good
news of a benign situation and all of this took a total of 5 days. I wonder how many
countries around this globe could boast a timeline like that. I was not dismissed or put off
or told it was probably nothing just to get me out of the office. I had a whole team of =
experts on my team. And as a nurse I can absolutely say that in a pinch, the American health system is where I want to be.
We’ve got a lot of fixing to do. This is our start and possibly our swan song. Let’s make
it count. Let’s lock elbows and do not be discouraged. Fight now, hard, with purpose and
resolve. We are Americans. This is our land. Make them take it from us.
Don’t give it away.
Thank you.
AnneBeth
My husband & I (Dick & Gwen ) were very proud to be a part of 9-12. Thank you for helping making this happen. We would like to a helping part in the future. We were on the bus from Moore County. Ann Beth was a great leader for our bus. Thanks again this weekend has made us proud again to be an American Gwen
Congratulations on doing a superb job with the Washington trip. I watched on the TV. Wish I could have been among the crowd, but some hateful 'ole medical problems sidelined me (temporarily, I hope).
Again - job well done - and thank you!
Lee
Hi Marcus, Claudia and I apreciate all you and the other organizers did to make this a success. I am sending a few pictures I took. God Bless you and God Bless America! Let me know what I can do to assist in the Concord area in the future.
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Richard
hey, thank you for making it all happen...you took the "ball" and rolled it into one big "bang"....all in all, a huge success....I was proud to be part of such a movng experience..but, I do feel it is only the beginning of a very long battle! Andrea
I want to thank Marcus for coordinating this event along with those from our sister counties. It was well organized and we showed Washington we can get people involved. Actions really speak louder than words. Less talk and more action is what it takes and I look forward to more action! Thanks again Marcus for making this happen locally.
Don
Thanks so much for all your hard work - you are the real hero & a truly great patriot my friend. What a fantastic day we had - Lord willing, we'll be at the next one and bring plenty more friends & family - we'll just keep coming until they can no longer ignore us!
Thanks again, and God Bless you & your family - Best regards, Julian & Lori
Hey, Marcus,
Many thanks for organizing the DC trip. It was a truly awe inspiring day; I'm glad that I was able to be there.
