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ARAPAHOE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY

Volume II, Issue 5

August, 2023

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     IN THIS ISSUE     

• Message from the Arapahoe County Chair - Anne Rowland

• Report from the Colorado GOP State Chair - Dave Williams

  • Introduces the new Vice-Chair

  • Colorado GOP Lawsuit Against Secretary of State, Jena Griswald

• President Trump and Governor DeSantis Send Video Messages to CO GOP

• Arapahoe County Republican Party - Important Updates

• Fighting Proposition HH - Polis's Scam to End Tabor Refunds

• Engage to Win! - Training for District Captains, Precinct Leaders and Candidates

• Coloradan's PAIN METER for August

• "Common Sense" from The Arapahoe Conservative Activist

• Let's laugh! Biden Administration "Office of Sophistry" Job Opening

• We Love Music! - Check it Out

• Links to Related and Supporting Articles

• "Connect - Engage - Strengthen" Our Website Supports You

    IN UPCOMING ISSUES   

• Colorado's Future

• State Republican Party Chair's Perspective

   

Message from the Chair

Greetings Fellow Patriots!

Summer is flying by! School is starting and campaign season activities are already underway!  We are still looking for a few quality candidates for various offices across the county. For more information, please contact Ron Redden at ViceChair@arapahoerepublicans.org. I’m happy to report that many great candidates have already stepped up to serve our communities!

Our candidates will need support during this Fall’s election, and not surprisingly, they’ll need donations and help from volunteers.  Please consider supporting our efforts and also volunteering your time to help get them elected. You can make a donation Here.

If you’d like us to contact you for our Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, please sign up on our website by clicking Here. You can also learn more about becoming an Election Judge or Poll Watcher.

A special GOP State Central Committee Meeting (SCC) was held this past Saturday, August 5th.  We elected Hope Scheppelman as our new Vice Chair.  Hope is a US Navy Veteran, Critical Care Nurse Practitioner and the current Secretary of the La Plata County Republican Party. She took an early lead in the first-round vote. Before the second-round vote, candidates Dr. Stu Asay and Aaron Wood both dropped out of the race and pledged their support of Hope, facilitating Hope to handily win her election.  Several Bylaw proposals were passed, and one was referred back to the Bylaws Committee.

The Media has recently been focusing extra attention on the divisions within our Party, in part, due to the proposed Bylaw Amendment 7, also known as the Bonniwell Amendment.  It was drafted to help overcome the very high bar set by Prop 108 passed in 2016, requiring that 75% of a party’s State Central Committee must vote to opt out of our state’s Open Primary System. The amendment proposed that any State Central Committee member who was absent from the meeting where the vote was taken, or failed to cast a ballot would be counted as a “yes” vote. 

There was a lot of debate about this amendment, as you might imagine. I wasn’t sure how heated the conversations at our SCC meeting would become.

Republicans – you can be proud! 

Although many of us felt strongly, on both sides of this issue, the discussion was very respectful for the most part. One group present successfully petitioned for a roll call vote by county. The vote was 186.83 in favor to 149.16 opposed (some counties have proportional votes). Two thirds of total SCC members or 221.76 is required to pass an amendment, so the measure failed.

I’ve said a number of times, “One of the best things about Republicans is that they are independent thinkers... and one of the worst things about Republicans is that they are independent thinkers.”  

I tend to look for the positives in life and in situations.  I saw a well-run meeting with a few minor glitches which were efficiently resolved. I heard calls for ways to work together toward our common goals.

I was so pleased to get that message from the State Party and will continue to work at building unity in our county.

In Liberty,

Anne

Anne Rowland

Chair

Arapahoe County Republican Party

Meet Your Newly Elected Vice-Chairwoman, Hope Scheppelman

Please join me in sending her a welcome and congratulations at her new email address Hope@cologop.org.

I was impressed by Hope's campaign and nomination speech that focused on representing grassroots activists across the state, not just the big counties, and standing strong for our conservative family values. I am also thrilled at her commitment to unity in the party, loyalty to our platform, and especially working together when she said:
 

"I'm humbled and grateful to help lead OUR Colorado Republican Party for the next election cycle. Working closely with Dave Williams and our other Party officers, I will do all I can to ensure we succeed as a united, tough, and effective party to stop the radicals in control of our state government."

- Hope Scheppelman, Vice-Chairwoman, Colorado Republican Party

Please join me in welcoming Hope to help lead our Party to a return to greatness.

For Freedom,

Dave

Dave Williams

Chairman, Colorado Republicans

Colorado State Republican Party Files Lawsuit Against Attorney General Jena Griswald to Overturn the Open Primary Law

We have filed suit against Jena Griswold to overturn the unconstitutional open primary law. 

The Colorado Republican Party is suing to protect our right to have Republican voters choose our Republican nominees as guaranteed in the First Amendment.

The current unconstitutional open primary scheme allows for Democrats, and other leftwing groups, to interfere in our primary nomination outcomes so they can weaken our general election prospects.

We welcome all unaffiliated voters to join our Party if they want to have a say in selecting our nominees but we will not stand idly by as radical leftwing organizations use an unconstitutional law to further harm our election efforts.

It's no secret that despite the overwhelming majority (near unanimous in fact) of our Republican State Central Committee voting to officially pursue a lawsuit against the unconstitutional open primary two years ago, the past administration and Chairwoman didn't make this critical effort a priority.  

We've turned a corner now and are pleased to announce that an actual bank account was created and is being maintained. We are ready to accept funds for those who want to chip in.

Furthermore, we have an independent oversight committee chaired by former State Senator Kevin Lundberg who is leading the charge on this important project. The committee has been quietly working to put everything in place for this announcement and, ultimately, for our Party to be successful in this fight.

Here's the truth, Republicans Should Choose Republican Candidates. 

That should be a self-evident statement, but in Colorado it is not true. In 2022 more than twice as many unaffiliated voters received a Republican ballot in the primary than registered Republicans, and nearly 40% of those who voted in the Republican primary were not registered Republicans.

This upside-down election policy has been in place since the 2016 election, when Colorado voters adopted the open primary system. It permits unaffiliated voters to vote in our primary.

Since then there has been a significant drop in Colorado Republican membership, there are no statewide Republican elected officials, the legislature has the least number of Republicans in 80 years and the number of Republican county officials is dropping.

The open primary has been devastating to the Colorado GOP. It has opened the floodgates to liberal progressives who are fundamentally transforming Colorado into a high-tax, broken-economy, big-government, woke-world. 

The open primary has also ratcheted up the cost of primary elections for counties and candidates. County clerks must print, mail and process millions more ballots. Primary candidates are forced to spend much more at the primary level to expand their outreach as the raw numbers of ballots and voters is that much bigger.

Finally, the open primary is not constitutional. In 2000 the US Supreme Court’s Jones decision declared that a political party cannot be forced into an open primary system. At a minimum it violates the citizens’ constitutional freedom of association.

For all of these reasons the Republican State Central Committee voted to challenge the open primary in federal court and the party's executive board has also voted to move forward with this lawsuit.

For Freedom,

Dave

Dave Williams

Chairman, Colorado Republicans

President Trump and Governor DeSantis Send Greetings to the Colorado Republican Party

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis each sent their greetings and messages, via video, to the Colorado Republican Party during its Central Committee meeting on Saturday, August 5. Watch each by clicking the buttons below.

Arapahoe County Republican Party

- Important Updates -

We Are Participating in Littleton's Western Welcome Week

We will have a booth and staffing it to share our liberty message at the Western Welcome Week (WWW) on Saturday August 19th. WWW celebrates greater Littleton over nine days with festivities, events and fun. Come see us!

The Persuasive Speaker Seminar Was a Roaring Success

The Persuasive Speaking seminar was an outstanding event. All the participants found the training to be insightful, inspiring and remarkably helpful.  Trainees learned how to overcome and counter the Dem and media narratives that paint Republicans as mean and uncaring. All in attendance agreed that they learned and practiced a newer and better way to communicate our principled stands on issues and our caring for all.

Join in the Fun at the Arapahoe County Republican Picnic

Come enjoy connecting with fellow conservatives and meet our candidates for local and state offices. We need and invite volunteers to assist us with this major event. If you'd like to pitch in, contact Lynne Cottrell at lcottrell@aol.com.

On tap is a delicious catered barbecue dinner and a surprise outstanding musical guest.

Date: Sunday, September 17 Time: 5:00 PM

Location: Centennial Center Park, 13050 E. Peakview Ave., Centennial 80112

New Attention Grabbing Banners for Our Events

We have created two new engaging display banners that will be used at public events and Party assemblies.

• The first is a large 4'x8' vinyl banner that can be used outdoors or indoors.

• The second is a 7' vertical retractable display for meetings.

We hope you like them!

- Quick question from the editor -

What two "H" words best describe the HH in Proposition HH?

The Colorado Women's Alliance

Explains Prop. HH in Just Two Simple Sentences

Colorado voters will be asked, in November, to vote on Proposition HH. As with most ballot measures, it is written to sound very good and appealing. It starts out, “Shall the State reduce property taxes….” And, of course, like most ballot measures, that’s misleading and the actual text of the measure is complex.

You will, and likely are already, seeing social media posts and news coverage, and have probably received the first of many mail pieces about Proposition HH. You will be bombarded with numbers and formulas and forecasts. One such piece, designed to “simplify” the measure included the following dollar amounts – in just one piece: $1,074 million; $620 million; $2 billion; $145 million; $72 million; $287 million; $3.5 billion; $21 million; $94.3 million; $620 million; $2.2 billion; $128 million; $161.3 million; $278 million; $351 million. Ouch, ooh, gosh...my head...

So, here’s what it all boils down to.

Here are the two sentences that you need to know when you vote your ballot this fall:

1)     If Proposition HH passes, it will only TEMPORARILY reduce property taxes.

2)     If Proposition HH passes, it will reduce your Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) refunds FOREVER and eventually PHASE THEM OUT!

That’s it.

All that mumbo jumbo, simply explained in two sentences.

Property owners – your property taxes will still go up, just not as drastically.

Renters – your rent will still go up, because your landlord needs to recoup his/her increase in taxes.

Everybody – your TABOR refunds (remember those $750 or $1,500 checks?) will permanently be decreased and, because of a change in formula, eventually will go away forever.

The Colorado Women’s Alliance urges you to remember those two simple sentences when it comes time to mark your ballots. Vote “no” on Proposition HH.

Please spread the word to vote "NO" on Proposition HH.

Three Common Sense Solutions

1. The Governor should call a special session of the Colorado Legislature to enact legislation to prevent the upcoming huge spike in property taxes.

2. The long-term solution is to cap increases in property taxes like many other states have done; or

3. Reinstate those elements of the Gallagher Amendment which address property tax limits.

A Must Listen! Natalie Menton Shows the Way to Property Tax Relief

Sources: Cherry Creek Republican Women and Advance Colorado

See also: What is TABOR?

Read: Ben Murrey of the Independence Institute talks HH

Listen: Mandy Connell and Ben Murray present what a scam and sham is HH

Watch: Independence Institute - Informative Series on HH

Communism, Fascism, and Socalism, are all the bastard children of Marx.

- Winston Churchill

Training on "How to be More Persuasive" Provided to our District Captains, Precinct Leaders and Candidates

On Saturday, August 5th, a room full of Arapahoe County Republican District Captains, Precinct Leaders, and candidates running for local and state offices participated in a half-day training session focused on how to be more persuasive in messaging and interactions with people on important issues. The training was provided by Melanie Sturm who started her conservative consulting company a few years back after she had sent a letter to the editor of her local newspaper which was published and was so popular that the editor invited her to pen a regular column for the paper. After a number of years as a columnist addressing local and national issues from a conservative standpoint in a very liberal town, she turned her successful approaches of persuading people into a very effective training system and then founded her company, Engage to Win to share her proven techniques with conservatives across the state, nation and internationally.

Read our Interview with Melanie

We interviewed Melanie and she shared more of her background, stories about her success as a columnist and her wide-ranging experiences coaching and training both individual candidates and conservative organizations. She also goes into greater detail about her techniques of persuasion. You can read the full interview Here.

"Engaging to win" is not about winning debates or talking points or even elections. It’s about winning people over to the common ground they instinctively share by engaging in meaningful conversations that transcend obstacles to agreement. That’s how we change minds, behavior, and culture while elevating our discourse – whether in workplaces, families, social media, and beyond.

THE SIX POWERS OF PERSUASION

1. YOU Are The Message! In-person communication is 60-90% non-verbal, so use "pre-suasion" to build rapport, likability and trust. Trusting relationships open hearts and hearts open minds, helping remove barriers to agreement.

2. Find the COMMON GROUND: People are best persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered. Remember, it's not what you say but what people hear that matters.

3. The winning side always fights for PEOPLE, not THINGS! People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care! To come across as caring, fight for people, especially the most vulnerable, not abstract things. Don't just talk about policies or facts; talk first about the people who benefit from or will be hurt by them.

4. Use a FAIRNESS and COMPASSION frame: We can reach everyone through moral domains. Compassion is the opposite of harm, it is the cherishing and protecting of others, advancing human wellbeing. Fairness, the opposite of cheating, the belief that fair exchanges yields mutual happiness. Money arguments must be framed by compassion and fairness of they are viewed as uncaring.

5. Tell STORIES: Many think stores are shaped by people. In fact, people are shaped by stories. Stories convery emotion, are relatable and resonate in ways that facts and data do not. Stories are memorable and irrefutable, allowing us to connect and build credibility and trust.

6. Use RHETORICAL DEVICES to Pivot to better ground: Your 80% friend is not your 20% foe. Show you Care! Use "I worry/am concerned that..." to pivot to your persuasive argument. Ask rhetorical questions, don't make declarative statements - so people own their answer.

"Persuasion is the act of replacing someone's perspective with something they come to believe is better."

"Encourage people to imagine that better result."

To learn more about Melanie and "Engaging to Win" visit her website Here.

Uh-oh; Time to Update the Colorado Pain Meter!

Here's the JUNE Pain Meter

Here's the JULY Pain Meter

Here's the New AUGUST Pain Meter

See the difference? The PAIN needle has moved up again!

Coloradans' PAIN has gotten worse!

Why?

Because there's more BAD NEWS !

Colorado Business Ranking is Dropping

Colorado dropped out of the top 10 best business environments to No. 11 in new CNBC rankings — the first time that the state hasn’t placed in the top 10 since the national news station began reporting rankings in 2007. The CNBC report highlighted several areas in which the state either is struggling or is failing.

Colorado:

• Fell from in overall business environment from 4th in 2022 to 11th in 2023

• Fell from No. 1 to No. 9 in workforce readiness and availability

• Fell from 11th to 21st for its failing education system

• Plummeted from 11th to 32nd in its overall economy

• Has GDP growth lower than most Western states

• 38th place in the cost of doing business - due to high rent, labor and property costs

   

  Source

Colorado "Restaurant Inflation" Highest in the Nation

Believe it or not, a recent data analysis published by USA Today has revealed that Colorado's restaurant inflation – the increase in how much Coloradans are spending while eating out – is the highest in the nation, skyrocketing by 24% between November 2022 and June 2023.

Denver Ranked One of Worst-run Cities in the Country!

Financial adviser site WalletHub analyzed 149 of the largest cities in the U.S. to see which are the best run. The study asks the question of return on investment – how well do city services operate compared to how much the city spends?

The study drew from a wealth of public data on each city’s financial stability, education, health, safety, economy, infrastructure and pollution. There were 36 relevant metrics overall, each of which was graded from one to 100. Each was given a weight and the final results ranked from one to 149.

The results said Denver is one of the worst-run cities in the country, ranking 135 out of 149 cities, sandwiched between Philadelphia and Memphis.

San Francisco is dead last, while Nampa, Idaho is first.

Read more about it here.

Denver Ranks in Top 10 Cities People are Exiting

The most recent report from national real estate brokerage Redfin is the second in a row that records Denver among the nation’s top 10 areas people are looking to leave.

Redfin calculates this by comparing the number of people searching to for homes inside Denver from somewhere else to the number looking for homes outside of Denver from within it.

Denver’s population loss is the nation’s eighth-highest.

Here's the list of the top 10:

1. San Francisco

2. New York

3. Los Angeles

4. Washington, D.C.

5. Louisville, KY

6. Boston

7. Seattle

8. DENVER

9. Hartford

10. Minneapolis

The trend is also continuing for Colorado itself, not just its capital!

If you wondering why people are leaving, scroll down and read the statistics below.

Read more about it here.

 Feeling the PAIN yet?

Denver Plummets in 'Best Places To Live'

In U.S. News & World Report's just published survey results of 150 of largest US cities, Denver dropped 44 places to No. 99 as a Best Place to Live in the 2023-24 survey.

see survey

Denver in Decay – US News and World Report “Best Places to Live” Rankings

• 2020-2021: Denver is ranked No. 2

• 2022-2023: Denver falls to No. 55

• 2023-2024: Denver plummets to No. 99th out of 150!

   

The main reason for falling off the "livability" cliff?

Affordability!

Who knew?

“Denver is becoming one of the most expensive places to live in the entire country,” stated the report's author.

• Denver is the 16th most expensive place to live in the U.S, according to the report's index. U.S. News & World Report's data shows the cost of Denver's median home stands at $642,437, compared to the U.S. average of $365,616.

• And it’s not just Denver – we know that here in metro Arapahoe county, our cost of living is not different from Denver.

• Colorado is also among the top 5 most expensive states for first-time homebuyers making home ownership impossible for the vast majority of young couples and those wanting to start families.

…but don’t despair, Colorado still ranks No. 1…in CRIME

-WELCOME TO "CRIMEFUL" COLORADO! -

Colorado is one of the Nation's MOST DANGEROUS STATES!

Colorado Ranks at the TOP IN THE NATION FOR CRIME!

• #1 Auto Theft in the Nation

• #1 Violent Crime Victimization among 22 most populous states

• #2 Property Crime Victimizations

• #2 Fentanyl Death Rate Increase in last 2 years (up 382%)

• #3 Fastest Increasing Crime Rate in the Nation

• #4 Recidivism Rate (repeat offenses) in the Nation

   

...Homelessness? Guess what - Denver ranks high there too!

• #10 of all US cities in highest number of homeless (all 10 have Dem Govs.)

• #29 of all cities worldwide in number of homeless

• 25% growth in homeless population from 2021 to 2022

   

And as you have noticed, its spreading to Denver's neighboring counties, like ours.

Sources: here and here .

Who to thank for your PAIN?

Jarod and the Democrats who run Colorado.

Ask yourself

How bad does the pain have to get to change leadership?

ELECTIONS MATTER!

The Arapahoe Conservative Activist

Let's Make Colorado a

"Sanctuary State for Common Sense"

by

The Arapahoe Conservative Activist

- OPINION -

Colorado State Republican Party Conducts a Transparent Election

“You will never lose sight of your ballots today,” announced Peg Cage to a cheering audience, introducing the voting process for the GOP State Central Committee meeting Saturday, August 5th. We were set to elect a new Vice-Chair and vote on an important amendment.

The (literally) transparent “Glass Box” process worked remarkably well, solving conflict but showing other areas the GOP can improve. Many Arapahoe Republicans were on the teller committee, having seen paper ballots used at our own elections back in February. The state GOP elections in March also used some aspects of the process, but Saturday was the first state-level experience of the full system and its double/quadruple-check for collecting, counting, and totaling ballots.

Here's how it worked.

Collecting: A three-person team held the see-through ballot box, tallied each ballot going in, and marked the voter’s ID tag as having voted. With about 360 ballots (half of which were proxies) the six teams only had on average 60 ballots each. When voting closed, the teams carried the ballot boxes onstage in full sight of the assembly.

Counting: On stage each team sat at a table. The middle person read and showed each ballot to the right and left team members tallying the ballots. The right and left counting sheets had to agree with each other, as well as match the number of ballots recorded in the ballot box. Counting went quickly in spite of the fractional-vote complication – several Colorado counties divide votes between two or three people, so fractional ballots were distinctly marked, and tallied separately from the full votes.  

Totaling: The counting sheets then went to the totaling teams. These teams totaled the counts (and fractions) from all six counting teams. This was the only stage electronic devices were used – calculators for those who aren’t good at adding 2/3+3/2+59 under pressure – but the calculator answers were checked against each other and the process could work the same with an abacus! Each team checked their totals with each other, and then with the other team, for a quadruple cross-check.

Results for the first vice-chair vote were delayed because ballot totals didn’t match the voters present as reported by the credentialing committee! Since at that point the ballot totals had been double-checked, cross-checked, and spoiled ballots accounted for, the number of ballots was the reliable number.

So credentials had to be rechecked. A step was added to ballot collection for the second vote – each person/proxy got re-checked against the list of members before voting. Credentialing always takes a while, but the voting and counting went faster with the teams now confident in the process. This time totals matched.

The two votes resulted in a clear, transparent, and decisive win for Hope Scheppelman as vice-chair.

After watching the process openly performed before all, some were happy, some were sad, but Republicans agreed this leader’s election was fair and was viewed to be fair.

The costs for this peace of mind: a ream or two of paper, the printing, pens, and plexiglass boxes…and of course the volunteer counters and watchers.

The Amendment 7 vote was somewhat less transparent because due to a call for a roll-call vote by county and therefore, the Glass Box process couldn’t be used. We believe the vote was accurate, but we can’t know in certainty because of the roll-call vote process which is less transparent.

However, the margin of no to yes votes was so significant that any minor discrepancies that may have occurred would not have changed the outcome.

In applying the most transparent and reliable of voting methodologies in conducting the election of the State Vice-Chair, the Colorado Republican Party exemplified and demonstrated the very highest standards of election integrity.

As avid proponents of election integrity, we must advocate that all local, statewide and national elections seek the same transparency resulting in outcomes that all can trust.

*Visit the Arapahoe Conservative Activist's website to see more Arapahoe and Colorado articles including a calendar of upcoming city, county and school board meetings around the county click here.

When government fears the people, there is liberty.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

- Thomas Jefferson

Let's Laugh!

WHITE HOUSE JOB OPENING 

– DIRECTOR OF SOPHISTRY –

by the Editor

JOB TITLE: Director of the Office of Sophistry

DEPARTMENT: Executive Branch

DIVISION: Propaganda, Disinformation and Logical Fallacy

SALARY RANGE: Vastly Overpaid Consistent with Other WH Staff Positions

SUPERVISED BY: Susan Rice, Director of White House Domestic Policy Council

REPORTS TO: Rice and Consulting Advisor, Barack Hussein Obama (via Zoom)

GENERAL PURPOSE

The art of sophistry - using information which sounds correct but is deliberately false - is essential to the effective operation of the Biden administration. This is a highly responsible position that supports every employee of the executive branch. This includes collaborating with devious Marxist leaders, propagandizing administration spokespeople and egotistical, conniving redistributive apparatchik White House staff members who are all dedicated to facilitating an anti-American “Destructive Reset” agenda by deceiving the public at every turn.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS - EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

- Graduation from elite ivy league university in which candidate excelled in subversive ideologies and collectivist utopian dogma

- Degree in manipulative journalism with special emphasis in subterfuge, hoodwinking and fabrication

- A portfolio demonstrating skills of duplicity, duping and prevarication.

- Experience in hyping media, misdirecting legal authorities and finessing responses to congressional inquiries is highly desirable.

- Familiarity with classic and modern masters of propaganda and the ability apply their essential communication concepts, for example:

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they believe it.”

"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them."

“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”

- Adolf Hitler

“The press must grow day-in and day-out, it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.” - Joseph Stalin

“If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."- Barack Obama  

DIRECTOR OF SOPHISTRY WILL POSSESS THESE SKILLS

• Be highly creative, imaginative and deceitful

• Be comfortable with half-truths, fairy tales and fabrications

• Have strong writing skills that can seamlessly deny reality and easily torture truth

• Have ability to conceal disdain for the middle class, the media, and especially ignorant GOP deplorables clinging to their guns and religion

• Be deaf to reason, rationality and virtue

• Be able to redirect blame, cast aspersions and concoct groundless accusations against political enemies

• Have proven skills in manipulating social media to shadow ban, gaslight, deplatform, censor and cancel opponents

   

MAJOR DUTIES

• Prepare all presidential speeches, talking points and presentations using distortion, deception and deceit contained in (very) short sentences

• Develop justifications for White House and federal agency staff that invent, dodge and cook-up schemes which exonerate their illegal, anti-American actions while expanding their authority

• Convincingly employ coercive language in new ways to indict moral, hard-working, patriotic Americans and impugn America as a racist, hateful, homophobic, transphobic and xenophobic while advancing progressive socialism 

• Concoct false narratives including pro-China stances and recruit smooth-talking dupes to deliver them

• Invent believable strategies that employ “dangerous climate change” as a rationale for all administrative actions

• Create new “War(s) on ____” (fill in the blank) to deepen the concept of victimization in support of the Administration

• Ensure that any allegations of misconduct, overreach or malfeasance against the President and his/her staff are turned against the accusers, to their everlasting regret,

  that they are added to the Administration's enemy’s list and that the confabulated narrative created about the innocent victims devastates their careers, futures and personal lives.

   

OVERALL WORK SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITY

The Sophistry Director is accountable for checking all White House and federal agency communications to insure that they contain sophistry and propaganda consistent with the administration’s goal of resetting and fundamentally transforming America into a third-world fiefdom of a Global Fascist Government.

We Love Music

Join us in appreciating the music and messages of these timeless performances by artists that may be new to you.

Enjoy.

Josh Turner, Guitarist, Multi-instrumentalist, Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Sound and Video Engineer

We are pleased to introduce you to one of our favorite young musicians. Joshua Lee Turner, age 31, is best known for his YouTube channel Josh Turner Guitar, where he posts covers, original music, and instructional content. He created the channel in 2007 at age 15, about a year after first picking up the guitar.

Playing music was purely a hobby until a few videos received quite a bit of attention, such as his 2012 rendition of “Sultans of Swing,” which has since garnered over 12 million views.

Josh may be one of the best new musicians of the last decade. Commenters on his site frequently say that his performances of well-loved standards are better than the originals. His guitar artistry coupled with his flawless voice, plus his addition of other outstanding young musicians from all backgrounds make his music over-the-top required listening.

Josh’s YouTube channel has grown to nearly 665K subscribers and over 180M views, but the basic formula behind his videos has never changed: straightforward, live performances of songs, solo and with ensembles large and small. Josh has a strict policy of always showing the viewer exactly what they’re hearing - no lip syncing, no trickery. Josh’s pure musical artistry has led him to cover a breadth of genres that is perhaps unmatched on any other single YouTube channel, spanning; folk, jazz, classical, choral, rock, pop, bluegrass, blues, early music, traditional Irish music, disco, and beyond.

Josh graduated from Butler University in Indianapolis with a BA in Music in 2015. That same year he performed alongside Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys at their induction ceremony into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. In 2016, Josh was a Chairman’s Scholarship recipient at the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival, where he opened for Jim Messina and performed alongside Chris Eldridge and Gonzalo Bergara.

In 2016, Josh began touring internationally in support of his own original music, as well as with long-time collaborator Carson McKee, as the folk duo The Other Favorites.

Source: Josh Turner Guitar Channel

Enjoy.

Here are some of our favorites which showcase his talent and diversity.

Josh and Kami Maltz on the zither – Joni Mitchel’s “All I Want.” If you like Joni Mitchell and want to think you’re listening to her, give this a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-xl44vFgfE 

Do you remember and like Frankie Valli? Here is an incredible "Medley" with Josh on guitar and two acapella singers. 1 guitar - 3 voices…unbelievable! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Npd2FyyLI

How about Peggy Lee’s “Fever”?  Allison Young joins Josh to cover this classic. You won’t forget this performance by two of the best today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_0XSTQ61UI

Here’s Josh and Mary Spender performing the “Sultans of Swing” originally soloed by Josh 11 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVJrul4sOA

Beatles anyone? Josh plays and sings his poignant version of “Eleanor Rigby.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT98yd84iCE

Or… "Paperback Writer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjILVhkEsX0

Now for some blues! “Acoustic Blues in D.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sZp0XzHNJ8

And finally, classical - Josh plays Chopin: “Nocturne in B Minor for Solo Guitar”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNLPhmTttg

We Love Music !

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