Oklahoma R3publicans Endorse Amanda Teegarden

Press Release and Official Announcement For Immediate Release 

Oklahoma R3publicans Endorse

Amanda Teegarden

for Oklahoma GOP State Chair

R3publicans – Republicans Restoring the Republic (R3s) is a purely grassroots group that formed in 2008 with a mission to Restore, Reenergize, and Reignite the Republican Party. We advocate for a limited Constitutional government that protects life, liberty, and property. We support sound money and balanced budgets through reductions in government spending rather than revenue generating schemes, and personal responsibility. We believe that less government will result in more personal freedom, peace, and prosperity. Now more than ever we recognize that we are at a crossroads not only as a party, but also as a nation.

Several years ago we met Amanda Teegarden who serves as the Executive Director of OK-SAFE, a group made up of individuals and coalition groups dedicated to the Principles of American Free Enterprise and the Constitutional Sovereignty of Oklahoma and the United States of America. As we worked together on projects targeting certain legislation, we were consistently impressed by Amanda’s coalition building skills, her dedication to principle, and her adherence to the stated and agreed upon goal(s).

Amanda has successfully protected the integrity of her own organization as well as the groups with which she has worked – skills absolutely necessary for a large operation like the Republican Party of Oklahoma. In addition to conducting the business of OK-SAFE with great fiscal integrity, Amanda also presents herself professionally with humility, style, and grace. She gives projects her time, her talent, and her prayers. She is a passionate and articulate spokesperson.

R3publicans is pleased that Amanda Teegarden has made the decision to seek the position of Oklahoma Republican Party State Chair. We believe that she is indeed the most qualified person for the job and we give her our enthusiastic endorsement.

Please join us in electing Amanda Teegarden April 20^th in Oklahoma City. If you are a delegate, please make plans now to attend. We have lots of work to do in our precincts, our cities, our counties, and our state. With Amanda at the helm we are confident that together we Republicans will have an opportunity to Restore our Republic.

For Life and Liberty

Sandra Crosnoe   Porter Davis   Joanna Francisco   Ryan Underwood

For more information:

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 Tulsa R3′s Meetup

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Stop Health Care Reform Legislation — OK-SAFE Tells Reps Why!

Amanda Teegarden from OK-SAFE to

____________________________________________________

Joint Legislative Committee

on 11-03-11

Health Care Reform –

IT, Security, Privacy Issues/Concerns

In the beginning of the presentation, Amanda made the critical point,

“He did not give man dominion over man….”

The powerpoint presentation is available on scribd for reference and for sharing in it’s entirety. There is a link below and then ideally the presentation should be embedded here. If not refresh your screen and if it is still not showing as embedded, click on the link to see the power point presentation via scribd’s website.

OK-SAFE, Inc. PPT – Joint Committee on Health Care Reform Law 11-03-11

View this document on Scribd

The research will show you what has been done in legislation to bring us to this point. It also documents the many policy concerns with this level of information sharing and why we should not be permitting it to be done nor being asked to pay for it and ‘forced’ to implement it in our states. Study the presentation and talk to your friends about it. We must be able to tell people why we do not want to share our data and why it should not be being collected and retained. We must understand that if collected it will be shared with/without your ‘permission’ because ‘they’ can. Once shared, there is no way to put the genie back in the bottle. What will happen to your identity if you no longer ‘own’ it?

In closing, Amanda gives the joint committee seven recommendations which we hope will be heeded by ALL of our elected officials and representatives who are charged with the public trust in any way, shape, form, or fashion.

1.Repent – not kidding here
2.Do not establish a state-based Health Insurance exchange – it will be the same as the Federal government’s version
3.Allow people to escape HIT/HIE system without penalty; do not penalize providers who opt not to adopt EHRs or participate in this system
4.Repeal state laws that prohibit individuals from seeking alternative health care services, i.e. homeopathic medicines or non-traditional treatments
5.Terminate the Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust
6.Audit the Oklahoma Health Care Authority – expenses outweigh benefits
7.Adhere to the OK Constitution – work to restore liberty

VIEW OK-SAFE’S PRESENTATION HERE

Go to www.okhealthcare.info for information on this and past joint committee meetings.

Visit OK-Safe website for more information. Become a member today to stay informed and help keep this group’s influence growing and keep yourself and your friends informed by signing up for the newsletters and alerts on the website.

For a Nebraska perspective on Health Care Reform from Shelli Dawdy of Grassroots in Nebraska see  10 Untold Truths About Health Care Law State Officials Hope You Miss.

Posted by Sandra Crosnoe for OKGrassroots and R3publicans

OK-SAFE: FEMA’s Re-mapping of Oklahoma – Stealing Home

FEMA’s Re-mapping of Oklahoma – Stealing Home

oksafeinc | August 26, 2011 at 10:43 pm  | URL:
http://wp.me/pvYI8-aq

OK-SAFE recently had the opportunity to interview two Oklahomans about their encounters with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration, aka the Mob), local officials and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB). One successfully rebuffed the officials; the other was not so successful.
What was the issue? The designation of their (non-flooding) property as being in a flood zone, resulting in the devaluation of the property; the limitations on development of the land; the devaluation of the land as collateral; reducing the future sell-ability of said property; and the forced purchase of flood insurance for said property.

Listening to the accounts of these two separate incidents it appears that the maps being used to determine the flood zone designation are rather whimsical: it all depends on which map the agent is using, and whether you want to be designated as flood zone or not. The gentleman in the township of Skiatook, OK was actually presented with 3 different maps over the course of three days. He resisted the OWRB/FEMA efforts and they actually backed down.
This was not the case in Ramona, OK.

There, a family with 40 acres of property was surprised to find that their property was now designated as being ‘Zone A High Risk’ flood zone. The property has been in their family since 1946, has never flooded, and the land is actually mapped as upland agriculture. The result of the ‘Zone A High Risk’ flood zone designation has been a 50% decrease in the assessed value of their property.

FEMA and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board are using stealth methods to steal property in Oklahoma; in essence, they’re stealing home.

Listen to their stories on America in the Balance on Truth in Focus internet radio here. (
http://www.truthinfocus.org/radio/america_in_the_balance.php
)

For an excellent analysis of the FEMA/Oklahoma Water Resources Board activities and ties to sustainable development see article below posted on Axxiom For Liberty.

Oklahoma Water Resources Board/FEMA Flood Map Follies, by Kaye Beach.

August 24, 2011
America in the Balance, an internet radio program hosted by Amanda Teegarden (Exec. Director, OK-SAFE, Inc.) & Don Wyatt (Tulsa 912) did a very interesting show on the FEMA Flood mapping taking place in our state last Sunday.

Their two guests David McClain and Margaret Snow shared their experiences with FEMA and the new floodplain maps that are being drawn up in Oklahoma.
The two are looking for other Oklahomans who have had a similar experience with FEMA and their new maps. OK. Attorney General Scott Pruitt has agreed to take a look at documented instances of questionable FEMA flood re-designations. (Contact information can be found at the end of this article.)

These flood maps produced by FEMA will indicate which property owners must purchase flood insurance. Development is discouraged in the designated zones and building or development in the floodplains is often highly regulated

If you have had your property’s flood designation changed or had an encounter with FEMA or the Oklahoma Water Resources Board regarding floodplain designation, you will be interested in these two stories.

(Listen to the archived show here or read the summary I have written from the radio show interviews.)

Skiatook Township, David McLain
David McLain, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Skiatook tells Amanda and Don that a few weeks ago he noticed some officials taking measurements on his property. David approached the two gentlemen to find out what they were doing. The two identified themselves as being with FEMA and informed Mr. McClain that they were working on adjusting floodplain designations. One of the agents, Gavin Brady, although he introduced himself as being with FEMA, the business card he handed to David showed him as being with the Oklahoma Water Resource Board. The other agent is reported to be Matthew Rollins.

Curious as to why the man is representing both FEMA and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, I did a little searching and found that the OWRB is under a cooperative agreement with FEMA and is the coordinating state agency for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for the state of Oklahoma. link
Map Modernization

The OWRB website explains that this is a “Map Modernization” effort;
“Many of the nation’s flood hazard maps are outdated and no longer realistically depict the true flood risk. As a result, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is conducting a multi-year effort, the Map Modernization Program, to update these maps and present them in a more reliable digital format that is easily accessible to local and state floodplain officials” link

(For more about the FEMA/ Oklahoma Map Modernization program, click here.) (Rest of Kaye Beach article here.)

 Original post by OK-SAFE here >>> 

Posted by Sandra Crosnoe for R3publicans

Crossposted:  OKgrassroots 

Constitutional Liberty Coalition

TARA: Topic: Dewey F. Bartlett, Tulsa Mayor: Positive Changes at City Hall

http://r3publican.wordpress.com/calendar-of-events/tara-topic-dewey-f-bartlett-tulsa-mayor-positive-changes-at-city-hall/
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Officers
President: Nathan Dahm

Vice President: Donna Taucher

Secretary: Amanda Teegarden

Treasurer: Andrea Darr

Chaplain: Susan Hill (918-664-0347)

Sgt. at Arms: Claude Taucher

Imed. Past Pres: Dan Bickerstaff

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Tulsa Area Republican Assembly is the local affiliate of Oklahoma Republican Assembly (OKRA) and National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA).

Tulsa Area Republican Assembly meets

Third Tuesday of each month

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. for dinner

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. for speaker

Golden Corral, 9711 East 71st St., Tulsa, OK, 254-5560

Price for each adult meal is $10.19

Price for each Senior meal is $9.59

(sales tax will be added)

Tulsa Area Republican Assembly

Please join us
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
6:00 p.m. for dinner
7:00 p.m. for speaker
Golden Corral in Tulsa
(on 71st Street and Mingo, just west of Hiway 169)

for

Speaker: Dewey Bartlett, Mayor of Tulsa
Topic: Positive Changes at City Hall

Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr. was born in Tulsa. He graduated from Bishop Kelley High School, received a B.S. in accounting from Regis University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. After graduating from SMU, he worked in the oil fields, and worked as a landman. In 1979 he started working for the family-owned Keener Oil Company. He has served as President of the Tulsa-based Keener since 1994. He served as a Tulsa City Councilor from 1990 to 1994. He has also served as Chariman of the American Red Cross, Tulsa Chapter, the Tulsa Airport Authority Board of Trustees, and as a member of former Mayor Taylor’s Complete Our Streets Committee to recommend a plan for fixing Tulsa’s streets. He was elected Tulsa’s 39th Mayor in November of 2009. He and his wife Victoria have 3 children.

http://www.cityoftulsa.org

Questions will be taken from the audience.

Crossposted from email alert for Tulsa Area Republican Assembly

R3publican

Oklahoma Grassroots

Constitutional Liberty Coalition

Note: Date corrected by R3publican Editor

OK-SAFE: Cato’s Michael F. Cannon Interview; OK Senate Stalls “ObamaCare” Enabler – sort of

Dear Oklahoma R3publicans and OKgrassroots,

Please take action to promote truly free enterprise in the state of Oklahoma. We don’t want government run or mandated health care by the feds or the states now, do we?

What is it about limited and less government that seems so difficult to understand by those we elect. We don’t want them implementing solutions, we want them to keep us free to do so ourselves as we want to do so.

We want to take care of ourselves and our families and our friends with Godly wisdom and charitable hearts in our own neighborhoods.

Please tell them to help us by keeping us free to do so.

Please support OK-SAFE especially if you live in Oklahoma!

Here is a recent letter from Amanda Teegarden on behalf of OK-SAFE to some of our Oklahoma Senators (sample below and below that a recent newsletter).

Share with friends and email or call your Senator on this topic asap.

Our elected officials need our input!  Thank you~

For Life and Liberty,

Sandra Crosnoe

Finding Gems and Sharing them
R3publicans
OKgrassroots
Constitutional Liberty Coalition

Sample Letter to Senators

From: Amanda Teegarden
Date: April 5, 2011 6:01:09 PM CDT
To: Elbert L. Brown,  Cliff Aldridge
Cc: Patrick Anderson, Randy Bass, Josh Brecheen, Brian Crain, Mike Mazzei, Andrew Rice, John Sparks, Gary Stanislawski,  Jim Wilson
Subject: Fw: OK-SAFE – Cato’s Michael F. Cannon Interview; OK Senate Stalls “ObamaCare” Enabler – sort of

Dear Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee Members,

[RE: HB 2130 language, and possible amendatory language in HB 1996]

I am respectfully asking each of you to please listen to the interview noted below of Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, on the subject of health insurance exchanges, federal grant money to develop them, and why states should not establish an exchange. Bottom line is that the exchanges are not free market and do not work.

I am grateful that the Senate has stalled HB 2130; it is understood that there may be pressure to go ahead with similar language attached to another bill, or to submit a committee substitute to establish what is characterized as an “Oklahoma exchange”.

It is perhaps past time to recognize the fact that, despite the reputation and credibility of a certain well-thought-of conservative foundation advocating for exchanges, insurance exchanges do not work. Not one already-established exchange has fulfilled the advertised expectations, unless those expectations included failure as an outcome.

I am asking for a NO vote on any such efforts to build/establish an Oklahoma insurance exchange, with or without federal grant money, regardless of which bill the language may be attached to, and regardless of whom the author may be.

Respectfully yours,
Amanda Teegarden
Executive Director
OK-SAFE, Inc.

Recent OK-SAFE Newsletter

On Mon, 4/4/11, OK-SAFE, Inc. wrote:
From: OK-SAFE, Inc.
Subject: OK-SAFE – Cato’s Michael F. Cannon Interview; OK Senate Stalls “ObamaCare” Enabler – sort of
Date: Monday, April 4, 2011, 10:04 PM

For recent OK-SAFE newsletter April 4, 2011 in its entirety –  Please click here

Some excerpts below:

Listen to America in the Balance on Truth in Focus Internet radio.

4/3/11 – Guest Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, discusses why “Obamacare Can’t Be Fixed, and Now is the Time to Dismantle It”; federal grants for state-based health insurance exchanges; and why states should not institute insurance exchanges.

3/27/11 – Hosts Amanda and James discuss the 5 questions Gov. Fallin answered in a press release about the $54 M Early Innovator Grant; 2nd Half is a discussion of the recent Tulsa County Republican Convention and the two resolutions opposing HB 2130 and the exchanges.

3/20/11 – Guest researcher Vicky Davis discusses the reinvention of America’s health care system; the move toward exchanges; and managed competition.

2/27/11 – Interview with Mark Croucher, independent insurance agent in Oklahoma, discussing concerns with the Health Insurance Exchange and its’ link to “ObamaCare”.

[OK-SAFE recently had the opportunity to interview Michael F. Cannon on their America in the Balance radio program. The subjects included the definition of insurance exchanges, federal funding grants, and why states should not implement exchanges. Podcast of the 4/3/11 interview here]

Michael F. Cannon is the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare and the Second Amendment. He is the author of many articles and opinion pieces, including Obamacare Can’t Be Fixed, and Now Is the Time to Dismantle It (which appeared in the 3/21/11 issue of National Review), ObamaCare: a Federal Takeover, No Matter Who Runs the Exchanges (at Cato@Liberty Blog), and US Healthcare: What Hath Obama Wrought?

Some of the key points made during the interview were:

• Contrary to rumor, exchanges are not the “free market”
• Health Insurance Exchanges create new government bureaucracies, both state and federal
• The federal tax code is the problem and state bureaucracies cannot fix the federal tax code
• Once created, these bureaucracies grow and become a constituency – a constituency that lobbies for more power, owing their paychecks and power to more government.
• Grants follow the golden rule: The one with the gold rules. OK took the grant from the feds – guess who rules?
• Utah’s exchange has failed. By 2014 Utah’s exchange will either have to become an Obamacare exchange, as bad as Massachusetts’, or it will become defunct.
• Whether the state or the federal government sets up the exchange, rule making authority still lies in D.C.
• More and more states are backing away from the exchanges..
• State-based exchanges are to be looked at as a taxpayer-funded,, pro-Obamacare lobbying group.
• The states that are not setting up an exchange are trying to shape the future and will be better positioned economically in the future.
• States that implement their own exchanges will not have the flexibility to not comply with the federal requirements; the only flexibility states will have is to be more regulatory or to move to a single-payer system.

The $54 Million Grant – who pulls Oklahoma’s strings?

Click here to listen to the 4/3/11 Michael F. Cannon interview.

OK-SAFE continues to urge legislators to resist using any grant money for the implementation of insurance exchanges, and to not add language to any bills this session that would allow for the creation of an exchange in Oklahoma.

(Note: Oklahoma did not join the Florida lawsuit. Oklahoma filed a stand-alone lawsuit, modeled after the VA lawsuit, and the individual mandate is the only subject.)

Psalm 118: 8,9 - “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man; It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.”