Editor:
Janine Hansen
March 2007
In the Year
of Our Lord
Vol. 34, No.
3
Victory
on SB98 Pharmacists Rights of Conscience!!!
The
Reno Gazette Journal on January 23, 2007 reported, “Pharmacy Board: (Senator)
“Schneider says he wants to ‘send a message’ and abolish the
state Board of Pharmacy for not cracking down on pharmacists who refuse to
fill prescriptions for birth control or morning after pills. “When the doctor prescribes something for the health of the patient,
they (pharmacists) have to do it. If they don’t want to do that, they can go
sell shoes,” stated Schneider. Senator Schneider leaves no doubt about what the
purpose of SB98 was.
During the last two Legislative Sessions 2003 and 2005 we
have been able to just barely defeat measures to deny pharmacists the right to
conscience, essentially the right to refuse to fill prescriptions for
abortifacients and birth control. These were promoted by Planned Parenthood. All
health care workers’ indeed everyone’s right of conscience should be
vigorously protected.
The Nevada Constitution guarantees the right of conscience
in Art. 1 Section 4, “Liberty of conscience. The free exercise and enjoyment
of religious profession and worship without discrimination or preference shall
be forever allowed in this state…the liberty of conscience is hereby
secured…”
Because of your E-mails, Senator Schneider, the sponsor of
SB98, decided to amend out the portion of SB98, which abolished the Board of
Pharmacy. He amended in some controls on drug advertisement, which the
Legislative Counsel Bureau said was unconstitutional.
So the threat this bill posed is dead for now. Several of the
Senators on the Committee mentioned how many emails they had received.
Senator Carlton said that she had received a large amount of email for so
early in the session. Thank you so much for your participation!
Grassroots lobbying works!!!
We NEED your E-Mail Address!
We need your help. The Legislature moves very fast.
We cannot send alerts through the mail in a timely way. We need your
email address. We will be posting
our Legislative calendar and alerts on the website at www.nevadafamilies.org
but that usually takes a day or so--- so please send us your current e-mail
address if you wish to receive the Alerts. AND update us on any changes to your
e-mail address. If you sent us your email address & haven’t received
email from us please send it again.
We need your e-mail address so we can send Legislative alerts. You
can mail them to us in the enclosed envelope or email them to director@nevadafamilies.org
with “Leg alerts” in the subject line.
Please be sure to include your name and county with the message.
We simply are not nearly as effective without your participation!!! In addition, please go to www.leg.state.nv.us
then on the right hand side go to “Who is my Legislature” and find out
who your State Assemblyman is and who your State Senator is. That way you will be able to specifically contact your
own Assemblyman or Senator as their constituents, as well as contacting
other Legislators.
SJR2, A proposed Constitutional Amendment provides for the
initial appointment instead of election of our Nevada Supreme Court and
District Court Judges. SJR2 would provide for the initial appointment by the
Governor of District Court and Supreme Court justices from candidates
recommended by the Commission on Judicial Selection. In other words, it is a
closed process. After that there then would be a ballot question asking the
voters if they want to retain that particular judge for a 6-year term.
The ballot question asking whether or not to retain him would have to get
60% of the vote each additional 6-year term he seeks. If he doesn’t get 60%
the Governor appoints someone else. There is no candidate on the ballot against
him. No competition or choice for the voters.
SJR2 Takes away our right to vote
for our Judges on the Supreme Court and District Court and makes them appointed
positions. Contact them ASAP. The vote could be anytime.
MESSAGE: Vote
NO on SJR2, We don’t want our judges to be appointed. We want to vote on
our judges for Supreme Court and District Court!
SJR 2 is sponsored by Senators Raggio, Hardy, Care,
Coffin, Carlton, Amodei, Mathews, McGinness, Titus and Townsend.
Amodei is the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, McGinness and Care are
members of the Committee. It’s very important that you contact all members
of the committee.
Please contact the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Chairman Amodei, 775-684-1470 mamodei@sen.state.nv.us
Senators:
Washington, 775-684-1480 mwashington@sen.state.nv.us
McGinness, 775-684-1442, mmcginness@sen.state.nv.us
Nolan, 775-684-1421, dnolan@sen.state.nv.us
Care, 775-684-6503, tcare@sen.state.nv.us
Horsford, 775-684-1429, shorsford@sen.state.nv.us
Wiener, 775-684-1422, vwiener@sen.state.nv.us
Toll Free Numbers:
from Las Vegas 486-2626 (ask for message center)
From anywhere in State: 800-995-9086 (ask for message
center), Reno, Sparks, Carson message center: 684-6789.
Nevada Legislative website: www.leg.state.nv.us
REAL ID –The Real National ID Card
Real ID Act of 2005, which passed
Congress hidden in a funding bill for the Iraq War, is a mandate from the
federal government to the States, which will require them to link their record
keeping systems (driver’s licenses) to national databases. In other words, it
is a National ID. Real ID
will store every driver’s personal information and a photograph in a central
database. The specter of a National
Identity card, long antithetical to liberty loving Americans and a windfall for
identity thieves, was to be implemented by March 2008.
However, some 12 states began a
revolt including Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New
Hampshire, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. Faced with concerns over privacy issues
and the huge cost (in Nevada it is expected to cost $66 million over 4 years)
Legislators balked.
Missouri State Rep James Guest, a
Republican, formed a coalition of lawmakers from 34 states to file bills that
oppose or protest Real ID. Guest
said, “This is almost a frontal assault on the freedoms of America when they
require us to carry a national ID to monitor where we are.”
Nevada Legislators Senator Nolan and Assemblyman Atkinson have introduced
a Resolution urging Congress to Repeal the REAL ID Act. Because of the national outcry the Bush Administration has
agreed to offer an 18-month extension to states who want to delay
implementation.
Although Governor Gibbons has placed in his budget an initial $30 million
for implementing REAL ID, another means of opposing REAL ID is simply for the
State Legislature to refuse to fund it. This
could be accomplished in the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means
Committees. Interestingly, the
Federal Government recently offered to allow states to use 20% of Homeland
Security funds to help defray the costs of REAL ID.
Nevada Eagle Forum has made
opposition to REAL ID a priority for our Legislative agenda. We have met with
Nolan and Atkinson. We will alert
you when these important measures appear.
REAL ID and the North American Union
In November, Phyllis Schlafly organized a special training
conference in Washington D.C. with Dr. Jerry Corsi, the leading expert on the
North American Union (the combining of the US with Mexico and Canada essentially
erasing our borders and national sovereignty). 35 Eagles from around the country
including your State Eagle Forum President Janine Hansen attended the week-long
conference. NAU is officially known as SPP—the Security and Prosperity
Partnership. www.spp.gov
Months later, while preparing for the hour- long television
show, Liberty and Justice for All, I discovered a telltale connection between
REAL ID and the North American Union. Dr. Robert Pastor who was the author of
the Panama Canal give away (now controlled by the Chinese) is also the author of
the Council on Foreign Relations’ blue print for the North American Union.
The CFR is considered by many to be part of America’s Shadow
Government. Robert Pastor, a
professor at American University, also wrote the report of the Carter-Baker
Commission on Federal Election Reform, which calls for interoperable
databases between states and the use of REAL ID (a national ID).
Three of the 87 recommendations
made by the Commission chaired by Robert Pastor include:
·
“The Commission recommends that states…organize and
update their lists and that the US. Election Assistance Commission take the lead
in making the lists interoperable …between states.”
·
“…states should require voters to present a REAL
ID card at the polls.”
·
“States should make voter
registration and ID’s accessible to all eligible citizens by using mobile
offices and other means to register more voters and issue photo ID cards.”
An article in Human Events by James Plummer on July 7, 2006 quotes Paul
Rosenzeig Dept. of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary who touted something
called the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which is identified as a
“passport card.” This
passport card is to be required by people entering the US from Canada and
Mexico. The Government Accountability Office reported to Congress,
“that when states adopt driver’s licenses with enhanced security
features in accordance with REAL ID Act, the document should be
sufficient for land border crossings under the Travel Initiative.”
The Plummer article continues, “The REAL ID Act will force
Homeland-Security-written standards onto state drivers’ licenses and link
the state databases into a national ID system. 9/11 Commissioner Slade
Gorton testified to Congress on how machine-readable REAL ID drivers’ licenses
“can be combined with other requirements, like the Western Hemisphere Travel
Initiative, for purposes like border crossing.”
One of the major purposes of the Security and Prosperity Partnership is
to create a seamless North American Union where there are no borders interfering
with trade or the movement of people. The
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative through the use of the REAL ID will
facilitate the disappearance of the American border merging us into a trilateral
Mexico-US-Canada North American Union. Janine Hansen
For more information on the North American Union visit www.eagleforum.org
or search the web for
Dr.
Jerry Corsi.
By
the time you receive this newsletter AB157 will have been heard on Monday
March 12, at 3:45 in room 1214.
Full Day kindergarten is a project
of the Teachers Union and the Educrats to increase tax spending thereby
increasing job security, union membership, and continue empire building. The cost
is estimated at $186 million. The
Cato Institute Study, like many others, show that there are no long term
benefits even to at risk children. Dr.
Raymond Moore in his book School Can Wait sites some 6,000 studies, which
show the benefits of later school attendance and the negatives of going early.
Early school attendance is especially harmful to boys who lag behind
girls developmentally at least a year. That’s one reason why so many more boys
are in remedial classes.
National Education
Associations resolutions passed in 2006 call for: B-1 Early Childhood Education
in the public school for children from birth through age 8…should include
mandatory kindergarten with compulsory attendance.
This bill will no doubt go to the whole Assembly.
You can leave a message for all members of the Assembly by calling
Toll Free Numbers:
from Las Vegas 486-2626 (ask for message center)
From anywhere in State: 800-995-9086 (ask for message
center), Reno, Sparks, Carson message center: 684-6789.
Nevada Legislative website: www.leg.state.nv.us
MESSAGE:
Vote no on AB157 – Full Day Kindergarten.
A
Barrage of Eminent Domain Bills
After the horrendous US Supreme
Court Decision in Kelo v City of New London, which spurred the passage of
Nevada’s Eminent Domain Ballot Question 2, PISTOL, the Legislature has come
alive with good Eminent Domain bills. The
Assembly is considering AB102 and AB129, which prohibit eminent domain
from being used to take private property for economic development (to increase
the tax base). In addition, AJR
3 is a compromise
Constitutional Amendment worked out with the authors of PISTOL (which will be on
the ballot again in 2008) to allay some of the fears of the government.
We support PISTOL but have agreed with the authors of PISTOL that this
compromise, although not as strong as PISTOL, still protects citizens from the
abuse of eminent domain.
The Senate heard SB85,
SB130 and SB16 all
good eminent domain bills. Your
Eagle Forum team was there supporting these important bills and opposing
continued government abuse of eminent domain.
For more information on the abuses of Kelo go to www.eagleforum.org
Audit “so-called” Non Profits who Receive
Tax Dollars
SB87
sponsored by Senator Amodei requires non government entities which receive tax
dollars to agree to Legislative audits.
The Legislature and the public should know how our money is being
spent. This is long overdue. This
bill passed unanimously out of Senate Legislative Operations and Elections and
will now go to the Senate floor. Your
Eagle Forum team were the only ones who testified in favor of this bill besides
the sponsor.
Elections,
Petitions, and “so called” Ethics
There are so many bills good and bad in this category, which
we have testified on that it is impossible to mention them all.
But, AB142 is absolutely undeniable the worst in years!
AB142 destroys free speech. It
forces lobbyists (paid or unpaid) to file a report listing all legislation which
he opposed, supported or suggested a change. This must be signed under penalty
of perjury. We are following 300
bills. In addition, it requires
registration as a lobbyist if you want to talk to someone, anyone, in the
Executive branch of government. Did
you ever attend a hearing of an agency or talk to the Governor?
It essentially makes the Secretary of State the Speech Police.
It makes violation of the registration requirements a misdemeanor and has
a fiscal note for newly increased terms of imprisonment for all of us pesky
citizen lobbyists who violate their fascist rules by exercising free speech
without asking permission and registering.
Since our testimony, it has been placed in a “Working Group” of the
Assembly Elections Committee for suggestions on how to change it.
I wonder if they ever read the First Amendment!
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