interesting article

Prob won’t hear too much on the news about this.

“fired Fannie Mae contract worker pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he planted a virus designed to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant’s 4,000 computer servers nationwide”

more here:

http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MjU2MzgzMA==

Whitehouse agenda

FYI
Here is a link to the agenda of the White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov./agenda/

If this does not worry you…

Dick Morris has written an excellent article regarding all of the lovely things our beloved country has to look forward to. If we do not get serious about these serious times, we are all in Big Trouble. Here is the link.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-obama-presidency–here-comes-socialism-2009-01-20.html

Also, please keep your eyes open for more posts in the very near future. My goal is to publish at least one per week going forward.

a Different idea for energy

a friend sent me this link and thought i would share.

Doing some rough math on this, the unit cost 25 million and powers 20K homes. Averaging over a 5 year span puts a household power bill about 21.oo a month.

http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

Granville GOP has it’s own Facebook Group

There is a new Facebook group called Granville County NC Republicans that can be viewed at this link.
Hope that you will join in and help unite Granville County republicans. It is change that we want.

CM1

Good-bye to a True Leader!

To Nancy, Andrew, Jeb, Amanda, and “Tiny”

Granville County and North Carolina have lost only not a great Republican today but a wonderful man and friend. 
    I met Bob almost nine years ago at a street arts show in Creedmoor.  He and the vice -chair at the time, were holding voter registration and selling hot dogs for the county Party.
    I told him I had moved here a little over a year ago but had been active in the Durham GOP for a few years back.  (Wrong response to this man!)  I quickly became the ‘appointed Butner precinct chair, then next thing I knew I was the appointed county vice-chair for almost two years, to then be elected for another two years to that office!  (Thanks Bob : )
    Bob and I roomed together at several state functions and usually the state annual conventions.  It became known to me very quickly how much this man really did know about politics and how many people from all over NC he knew!
    I remember walking with Bob into a room with Bob in Charlotte and someone yells out, “Hey Bob.”  It was our former governor Jim Martin.  Before the weekend would be out several congressmen, local officials, and state officials would speak to him without him ever having to say a word first.
    Bob founded the NC County Chairman’s Association approximately 11 years ago. He was running for re-election at one of the State conventions and every elevator had his opponent’s name and picture up for Bob’s founding and incumbent seat.
    In 24 hours a few signs were made with his name on them for re-election of the Chairman’s seat.  ( A seat that he founded and held up until his death)  He won the election by over 77% with just about all 100 county chairs and vice-chairs voting!
    I wouldn’t begin to count how many hours I had spent working with Bob on precinct lists, phone banks, finding observers, or going to classes he was holding.  He always believed we could make the Republican Party and stronger.
    I was honored by the Granville county GOP and the 13th Congressional District in 2005 to be nominated to the State GOP Hall of Fame.  A few nights later after the county nomination, Bob showed up on my doorstep and said, “Richard we need to sit down and start writing a good letter for your state nomination.”  I think it was close to midnight when he left.  Bob indicated to me that I was the third person from Granville county to have been nominated for this that he knew of but yet he was willing to stay up half the night to write a letter on my behalf to the state judges.  (Bob was inducted several years ago to the Hall of Fame)
    Being the history teacher that he was as well as an encyclopedia of such, we had some great conversations about our relatives in the Civil War.  We talked several times about going to a battlefield that neither of us had been to but he seemed to have been to about all of them.  (I still never could get him to fly to any of them!)
    There were times Bob and I would disagree on things but the longer I knew Bob the more I realized that it was ok to disagree and still be friends.
    I thought about Bob two weeks ago when we laid my 93 year old grandmother to rest the day after Thanksgiving.  He, Nancy and the kids met her in Hickory a few years ago.  Bob had told me that I needed to be taking a tape recorder with me while she talked about the depression and her parents coming back to the US from Canada in the early 1900′s.  Now I really wish I had listened to him.
     Bob will greatly be missed especially with his dozen telephone numbers, but I can still say to this day that Bob Rector was one of the finest Christian men, leaders, and friends that I’ve ever known.  Now he’ll take his justly earned rest with our maker.
  God Bless you all Nancy!
Sincerely,
Richard Smith
(former Granville Vice-Chair 2003-2007)