Madison County
Republican Women
Volume 1, Issue 6
The MCRW e-News
June 1, 2007
Multiple Sclerosis Luncheon Honors Mrs. Trisha Lott
Special points of interest:
• Election Year Calendar
• MCRW Salad Supper photos
• NFRW History
• Governor Haley Barbour
Reception
Happy Fathers Day !
Meet the CandidateSalad Supper photos
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Secretary of Education
Visits Charles B. Murphy
School in Kiln, MS
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History of the NFRW
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Support Our Troups
Operation We Care
Page 7
Meet the CandidateCharles Porter
District 20 Senate
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Meet the CandidateLee Yancey
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District 20 Senate
Meet the Candidate–
Bobby Blake
District 20 Senate
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Barbara Bolen (M) ,Mrs. Trent Lott and Cathy Grantham (M)
The First Annual
“Mississippi Women Against
Multiple Sclerosis” Luncheon
was held on May 3rd at the Old
Capitol Inn in Jackson. The
luncheon honoring Mrs. Trent
(Trisha) Lott was a huge success and the members of the
Madison County Republican
Women were glad to play a
very small part in the event’s
success. MCRW Member and
Event Organizer & Regional
Development Manager for the
Mississippi Division of the
National Multiple Sclerosis
Society, Becky Traweek did an
outstanding job bringing the
devastating disease to the attention to Mississippi Women.
The very successful luncheon
raised over $45,000 which most
importantly help support MSrelated research, vital programs,
information, professional seminars and support for persons
with MS. The MCRW dedicated their tables in memory
of Dave Davis and Karen
Mumbower, who both lost
tham, Barbara Bolen, Sarah
their courageous fights against
MS. Special Guest Sue Thomas who also MS was a wonderful speaker. I want to
Bullock, Helen Carney,
Donna Yowell, Dr. Marion
Tutor, Yvonne Porter,
Kathy Adcock, Sandra
Lambert, Jeanette Johnson
and others who attended
and support this great
event!
personally thank Sue Sautemeister, First Lady Pat Fordice, Era Jennings, Angie Antici, Julie Blake, Cathy Gran
Madison County Republican Women at the Old Capitol Inn
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MCRW Salad Supper a HUGE success!
Roberta Currie & Faye Johnston helped with decorations
State Auditor Candidate Stacey Pickering
Lt. Governor Candidate Senator Charlie Ross
Hinds County RW President Betsy Prior & Ross Hooper attended
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MCRW Salad Supper
Attorney General Candidate Al Hopkins speaks to MCRW
Candidate for Lt. Governor Phil Bryant
Pictured Janet Burgess, Era Jennings & Nancy Crisco
MCRW
4 Executive Board
2007
Committee Chairwomen
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2007 Executive Board
Mary McLaurin, President
Roberta Currie, 1st Vice-President
Kay Pace, 2nd Vice-President
Pat Bruce, Secretary
Sarah Bullock, Treasurer
Sec
Elec
2007 MCRW Advisory Board
(MCRW Past Presidents)
Cindy Phillips
Lois Russell
Donna Russell
Becky Pugh
Era Jennings
Judy Batson
Jane McGee
Americanism-Cindy Phillips
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John
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Helen Carney & Lois Russell assist with Registration
Teen Age Republican’s
Peg Broerman
Parliamentarian
Jane McGee
Chaplain/Invocation
Sarah Bullock
Hospitality
Kay Pace
Philanthropy
Era Jennings
Publicity & Scrapbook
Becky Pugh
Sunshine
Judy Batson
Newsletter/Finance
Mary McLaurin
Literacy
Judy Batson
Madison County Teen Age Republicans-Savannah Michaelson,
Mary Margaret Johnson, Mary Margaret Rich, Katey Smith, Jessica King
Legislative
Tawanna Tatum
Voter Registration
Lois Russell
Elizabeth Barber
Roberta Currie
Membership
Helen Carney
Membership Directory
Roberta Currie
Marcia Walker
Bylaws/Era Jennings
Communications/CAP Alert
Mary McLaurin
Outreach/Awards Chairwoman
Helen Carney
Commissioner of Agriculture Lester Spell
Thanks to A. J.’s Grill & State Auditor Phil Bryant for the Great Door Prizes!
The MCRW e-News
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Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling visits Charles B. Murphy School
The students attending
Gulfview-Charles B. Murphy
Elementary School in Kiln,
Mississippi got a special treat
when Secretary of Education
Margaret Spelling visited the
school on April 18th-19th.
The trip was a collaboration
of the school receiving a
$75,000 grant through the
Laura Bush Library Foundation Gulf Coast Initiative and
the Official Kick Off in a
Welcome
New & Renewing
Members
partnership with First Book and
Scholastic. Secretary Spelling
also announced the 2007 Gulf
Coast Summer Reading Initiative. Laura Bush was sched-
uled to visit the school but
was unable due to the horrific
tragedy at Virginia Tech on
April 16th.
Secretary Spelling speaks to Educators & Children
reading and that they come back ready
to learn in the Fall.
In spite of the adversity of Katrina,
these students have continued to
achieve and excel, recently earning a
Level 5 Superior ranking by the State
of Mississippi.” In addition, the
Gulfview- Charles B. Murphy School
will get a new schools in 2008 to make
help with overcrowding.
They were also a recipient of a new
KABOOM playground and a $50,000
grant from the NEC. The Madison
County Republican Women are proud
to have played a small part in the rebuilding efforts of these schools.
Spelling reads to students in Kiln
Cathy Wilson, Public Relations Director with the Hancock County
Schools was excited to report the
Secretary’s visit with the MCRW.
They are so proud to have been a
part of such a wonderful program
and the children are already benefiting! Principal Jan White commented "making things normal again
starts with Gulfview-Charles B.
Murphy's new library and keeping
students' love of reading intact. Let's
face it—books are the center of a
school." Secretary Spelling writes
on the Dept. of Education Website
“She couldn't be more right! I hope
these books help nurture these students' love for
Secretary Spelling & students from Charles B. Murphy
Lester Spell (A)
Max Phillips (A)
Deborah Bryant (A)
Elsie Johnson
Michael Guest (A)
Charles Porter (A)
Lee Yancey (A)
Phillips Strickland (A)
Timothea Naylor
Veronica Naylor
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The History of the National Federation of Republican Women
The story of Republican
women's clubs begins many years
before women even had the right to
vote. Inspired by the Republican
Platform of 1872, which said: "The
Republican Party is mindful of its
obligation to the loyal women of
America for their noble devotion to
the cause of Freedom ...," Republican women’s clubs were off and
running. In fact, the oldest such
club on record was founded in
Salt Lake City in the late 1800s.
Hundreds of independent Republican women’s clubs grew up
around the nation in the years to
come. For example, there were
140 clubs in Indiana alone by the
late 1930s.
It was in 1938 that Marion Martin, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee,
called a meeting at the Palmer
House in Chicago to organize
these clubs into a national organization.
States in which Republican
women’s clubs were organized on
a “statewide” basis – with 60 percent of their counties organized –
sent delegates and alternates to
that meeting with a request to affiliate with such an organization.
The delegates adopted rules
governing the establishment of a
National Federation of Republican
Women’s Clubs, with the following
purposes: "to foster and encourage loyalty to the Republican Party
and the ideals for which it stands to promote education along political
lines - to encourage closer cooperation between independent
groups and the regular party organization, which are working for
the same objectives, namely sound
government - to promote an interchange of ideas and experiences
of various clubs to the end that the
policies which have proven particularly effective in one state may be
adopted in another - and to encourage a national attitude and national
approach to the problems facing
the Republican Party."
At the time of NFRW’s founding,
three states – Maryland, Virginia,
and Alabama – had not even ratified the 19th amendment to the
U.S. Constitution granting suffrage
to women.
THE PALMER HOUSE, CHICAGOThe NFRW was founded here
The campaign of 1936 had
reelected Franklin D. Roosevelt over Alf Landon with only
two states – Maine and Vermont – going Republican.
There were only six Republican governors, 89 Republicans in the U.S. House of
Representatives, and 16 in
the Senate.
And yet the National Federation of Republican Women
– born in a climate of defeat –
grew in size and strength,
providing a vehicle for women
concerned with the direction
of our government.
Today, the NFRW consists
of approximately 100,000
members in about 1,825 local
clubs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
Guam and the Virgin Islands.
The goals of those women
who met in Chicago in 1938
continue to be the goals of the
NFRW – to encourage
women’s participation in the
governing of our nation, to
elect Republicans to office at
all levels, and to promote
public awareness of the issues that shape America.
Thirty-three national conventions have been held in cities
across the nation, with U.S. presidents and vice presidents, homemakers and first ladies, cabinet
members and celebrities attending. Presidential candidates never
miss these meetings. They know
that many of those attending will
be delegates to the Republican
National Convention or will be
instrumental in the delegate selection process. They know that
these women are the Party’s
grassroots activists.
Millions of American women,
ages 19 to 90, have helped
shape our nation through wartime
and peace, through depression
and prosperity, through good
times and bad – all through the
National Federation of Republican Women.
Programs such as NFRW’s campaign management schools,
women candidate seminars, and
polling schools have trained literally thousands of Republican
women and men to help elect
GOP candidates, and communities throughout the nation have
benefited from the volunteer services of NFRW’s Caring for
America and Barbara Bush Literacy programs.
Source credit:nfrw.org
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Support Our Troops-Operation We Care
If you are interested in donating go
to:
www.warhorsechaplain.blogspot.com
Click on the WALL OF BLESSINGS
to track the support boxes that you
send. Please read the following note
is from CPT Kevin Wainwright who is
a son of a NFRW member Kevin is on
his second tour in Iraq.
Ms. McLaurin,
NFRW Goal is 10,000 soccer balls!
The Madison County Republican
Women are in need of soccer ball donations to ship to our soldiers in Iraq. We
will begin collecting soccer balls over
the summer and will ship to the soldiers
in Iraq in early fall. The Mississippi Federation as well as the National Federation of Republican Women will be tracking how many balls each club ships to
Iraq as a 50 state Republican Women
project.
The Operation We Care will provide
the Soccer balls, ball pumps, soccer
shoes to help outfit the Iraqi children to
play soccer. The Madison County Republican Women have contacted CPT
Kevin Wainwright and are working toward shipping the balls in early fall. BG
(Ret) James Hesson states “It is far
better to have the young Iraqi’s kicking
donated soccer balls than being trained
to make IED’s. As Iraq gets stabilized
we must convince the younger generation that our intentions are honorable
and we are friends”. Some of have
son’s, daughters or grand children who
have played soccer that have outgrown
their shoes season after season. Lets
put these shoes to good use and help
our soldiers.
Thank you for your kind
words and support. The soccer balls do not have to be
inflated. In fact, we prefer
that they not be.
It makes our soldiers
feel good if they can go
outside the wire and pass
these items out to the children. You can send the boxes
to...
CH Wainwright
HHC 3/8 CAV, 1CD
LSAA
APOAE 09391
As a side note, my in-laws
live in Starkville. My father-in-law is the head of
the English Dept. at MSU.
Take care.
Gratia et Veritas
CH (CPT) Kevin Wainwright
3-8 CAB, First Cavalry Division
"Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid nor be
dismayed; for the Lord your
God is with you wherever you
go." -Joshua 1:9
Please contact the MCRW if you
would like to donate! We are also
looking for balls, pumps and Beanie
Baby’s.
Contact the:
madisoncountymsrepublicanwomen@yahoo.com for more
information.
The National
Federation
Of
Republican
Women’s
34th Biennial Convention in
Palm Springs, California
is
September 26-30th, 2007
Register on the
NFRW Website
Now for Early bird
Specials.
Go to nfrw.org,
Use login: federation
Password: 1938nfrw
choose News & Events,
choose Conventions for
information on early bird
specials!
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Madison County
Republican Women
2007
Membership
Directory
Our thanks to the following
business’s who have committed
to advertising in the 2007
MCRW Membership Directory.
Please let them know that you
saw their ad in this directory!
Ted & Judy Batson
REMAX
Jeri McKnightMUTUAL OF OMAHA
PALLADIUM PROPERTIES
THE ORCHARD
RETIREMENT
COMMUNITY
THE MADISON
COUNTY BANK
STUMP RUSSELL
A.J.’s RESTAURANT
THE MADISON COUNTY
REPUBLICAN PARTY
JAMIE HANRY
EAST & ASSOCIATTES
REAL ESTATE
KAY PACE,
MADISON COUNTY TAX
COLLECTOR
HELEN CARNEY
THE COFFEE NEWS
Meet the Candidate –Charles Porter-Candidate Senate District 20
Seeing the fast-pace
growth…
Charles Porter is a dedicated family man and long
term resident of Rankin
County, Mississippi. He,
his wife Cherri Roberts Porter and their daughter Cady,
currently reside at the Ross
Barnett Reservoir. Charles'
son Matt Porter, is beginning his own future and
keeps his residence in Rankin County.
As a citizen of Rankin
County and an area builder,
Charles Porter is aware of
the concerns that face
Madison and Rankin Counties. The past several
years has shown a large
growth with expanding areas and a population
boom. Many areas in and
around Madison and Rankin Counties are struggling
to maintain or adjust its
infrastructure. Congested
roadways are a particular
problem.
Meeting the needs of a
larger population…
Special attention must
be given to the education
system in these two counties. Attracting qualified
teachers and constructing
new schools are important
to facilitate the influx of new
students to keep Madison
and Rankin school systems
on top.
Area law enforcement
agencies must also be assisted to meet the demands
of an ever growing population. Additional law enforcement officers, state-ofthe-art equipment, and
emergency management
updates are important issues in assuring our communities remain peaceful
and desirable living areas.
President George Bush, Charles Porter & Mike Parker
Constructing for the
future…
As a successful business
owner of Porter Construction,
Inc. since 1984, Charles Porter understands the value of
hard work, how to plan well
designed communities with its
future in mind, manage time
and budgets, and obtain desirable results to satisfy the
home buyers of Madison and
Rankin Counties for today and
tomorrow. His ideal has always been to enhance the
community with every detail
built to endure. He can put
this knowledge to work in the
Mississippi Senate to lead
these two great counties into
a well planned, more structured future.
Charles Porter for Mississippi Senate - District 20
Madison and Rankin Counties.
Republican Party. Conservative.
A Business Professional
not a Professional Politician:
Approaches concerns of Madison and Rankin citizens with a
business viewpoint not to win
points.
A Leader for Fast Growth
Counties:
Will meet the needs of these
two fast growing counties headon. Infrastructure problems,
overcrowded school systems,
and the strain on law enforcement created by the growth
boom being major priorities.
For more information go to:
porterforsenate.com
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2007 Calendar of Events
This calendar is an easy tool
to keep you and others informed
about what is happening in our
communities.
Attention Ladies
The next MCRW
meeting Is
September 11th,
2007
Mark your
December
October
Tuesday, October 9th,
2007
MCRW October MeetingTBA
SUMMER BREAK
Don’t forget that the May
8th, 2007 meeting was the
last MCRW Meeting
until the
MS. STATE
September 11th, 2007
TEEN AGE REPUBLICAN
meeting.
CONVENTION
October 3 & 4, 2007
JULY 25-26
Regency Hotel,
Jackson, MS
Neshoba County Fair In
Philadelphia
August
DON’T FORGET TO
VOTE
August 7th, 2007
PRIMARY ELECTION
Tuesday, August 28th
PRIMARY RUN-OFF
ELECTION
September
Tuesday, September 11th,
2007
MCRW September
Meeting-
calendar now!
September 25th-30th, 2007
NFRW 34th Biennial
Convention
Palm Springs, California
All MCRW Members are
encouraged and invited
to attend
REGISTER NOW!
Madison County GOP
Golf Tournament
November
Tuesday, November
6th, 2007
GENERAL ELECTION
Tuesday, November
20th, 2007
GENERAL RUN-OFF
ELECTION
Tuesday,
November 13th, 2007
MCRW November
Meeting-
Sunday, December 9, 2007
MCRW Christmas Tea & Toy
Drive Amy Palmer’s home
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MCRW Members attend Barbour Reception
Pictured are Donna Shanks and Cindy Phillips (M)
Pictured are Judy Batson, Cindy Phillips, First Lady Marsha Barbour, Liz Bowen, Mike & Donna Nigro
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Governor Haley Barbour Reception continued
Mary McLaurin (M), Governor Haley Barbour & Judy Batson (M)
Pictured are Editor Keith & Attorney Sharon Plunkett
Large crowd gathers to listen to Governor Barbour
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Meet the Candidate-Lee Yancey-Senate District 20
Christian Leader
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Member of Pine Lake Baptist Church
(served as Interim High School Pastor,
Decision Counselor, Sunday School
Teacher/Small Group Leader, Representative on the Board of Casa Hogar,
Matamoros, Mexico)
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Consultant with the Christian Action
Commission of the Mississippi Baptist
Convention -(monitored social and
moral issues in the Mississippi legislature)
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Served on Ministerial Staff in Baptist
Churches 1987-2000
Lee Yancey, daughter Benton, son Blakeley, wife Courtney
Educational Leader
Who I Am…
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Conservative Leader
Community Leader
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Lifelong Republican
President of the Choose Life
Car Tag Committee
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Rankin County Republican Executive Committee 2002-2006
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Support lower taxes, efficient government, personal accountability,
and family values. Member - National Rifle Association (NRA),
Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement
(MFIRE)
For more information please go to my
website at: www.leeyancey.org
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Member of the Flowood
Rotary Club
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Northwest Rankin Athletic
Association: Coached baseball and football
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stration): New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
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Master of Divinity: New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary
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Bachelor of Arts: Mississippi College
Family
• Married for 14 years to Courtney Fagan
• Two children: Benton (age 12) and
Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society: Coached and participated in the Team in
Training Marathon Program
and raised over $6,700 for
cancer research
Volunteer in Political Races of Haley Barbour, Amy Tuck, and Chip
Pickering
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2006 Pro-Lifer of the Year
(awarded by Pro-Life Mississippi)
Co-Chair of George W. Bush 2004
Re-election Campaign in Rankin
County
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Doctor of Ministry (Leadership Admini-
PineLake Baptist Church:
Coached Upward Basketball
My Commitment...
I'm running for the State Senate because I want to see District 20 continue its
outstanding growth in a manner that is in
the best interest of families. We need continued quality economic development,
more lanes of traffic to accommodate our
growing areas, and need to ensure that
public education remains at the highest
accreditation attainable. I am pro-life, profamily, and believe that America is still
"One nation under God."
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I support fully-funding public education.
I oppose ANY new taxes.
I support traditional family values.
I support enforcing Mississippi's
immigration laws.
* I support quality economic development.
* I support the right to bear arms.
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Meet the Candidate- Bobby Blake-Senate District 20
Mississippi is a great state, and it is
getting better all the time. Our economy
is growing, and education is improving.
We are at a critical crossroads where
we must ask ourselves: Can we sustain
this growth or must we fall back into the
same old rut? Why are we ranked last
nationally in so many critical areas, and
must we stay there?
Having asked myself these same
questions, I concluded that we could
sustain our momentum and address our
problem areas with the right leadership.
We need leadership with the passion
to fix problems that affect all of us, instead of following the agenda of a small
special interest group.
We need leadership with the strong
desire to help our children learn, instead
of giving education lip service and then
forgetting about it post election.
District 20 has safe communities,
but how long will it take before the
crime disease infesting parts of Jackson moves our way? Jackson is our
Capital City, and all elected officials in
the Metro area along with law enforcement and economic development authorities must work together to reclaim
our State Capital. Jackson must become our state's pride again.
The election primaries are August
7, and on that date I ask for you to vote
and make Bobby Blake your District 20
State Senator.
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We need leadership that says crime
in the Jackson area seriously affects
Rankin County, Madison County, Hinds
County and the State, instead of sticking
our heads in the sand while pointing a
finger at our Capital City and saying "It's
their problem."
So, I chose to run for the Mississippi
State Senate District 20. I want to be a
part of the solution… on the playing
field, not as a spectator. Together let’s
become a Mississippi that attracts new
businesses and expands old ones. This
will create more and better jobs for our
children and grandchildren right here in
the state. We will not have to watch our
children move to other states looking for
better jobs and lifestyles.
To attract and expand businesses,
we must offer quality education statewide. We must improve education for all
our children. District 20 is blessed with
excellent schools, but can we keep our
children in Mississippi if jobs don’t exist
when they graduate from high school
and college?
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Married 36 years to Julie Norris
Blake
Father of 3 adult children and
grandfather of 7
33 years of business management
experience
Senate District 20 Candidate-Bobby Blake
13 years as small business owner
of Blake Publishing, Inc. with wife
Julie
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Graduate of Jackson Public
School System
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Graduate of Mississippi State University, College of Business &
Industry
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Fire Commissioner for the Rankin
County Reservoir Fire Department
Leader of Work Teams to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina
Organized Habitat for Humanity
work teams
Past Mentor for Rankin County
Human Services
Boy Scouts of America Merit
Badge Counselor
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Member of Saint Mark's United
Methodist Church
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Past Chairperson of Administrative
Council St. Mark's UMC
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Foreign Missions board member,
Salt & Light Honduras Ministry
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If you have questions or need more
information go to:
www.blakeforsenate.com
Active member of Methodist Cursillo of
Mississippi Community
Active member of Mississippi Kairos
Prison Ministry
Active member and past president of St.
Mark's United Methodist Men
Past Lay member of the Board of Ministry, Mississippi Conference of the United
Methodist Church
Sunday School Teacher
Member of Metro Jackson Chamber of
Commerce
Member of Rankin County Chamber of
Commerce
Member of Madison County Chamber of
Commerce
Member of Mississippi Association of
REALTORS®
Member of Meridian Board of REALTORS®, Inc.
Member of Northeast Mississippi Board
of Realtors
Member of Jackson Association of REALTORS®
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Madison County
Republican Women
P. O. Box 411, Madison, Mississippi 39130
Phone: 601-201-3050 (c)
Fax: 601-856-9567
madisoncountymsrepublicanwomen@yahoo.com
CELEBRATING
30 YEARS
Get Out the Vote-sign up to hold registration event
It is critical for the Madison County Republican Women to help grow
the Republican Party in our county, state and nationally and expand the voting base. This year with State, Local and next year with our Presidential
Election at risk we cannot afford to disregard new potential voters. We
need to maintain and expand in areas where we have registration advantages of Republicans. If you own a business, belong to neighborhood home
owners association, belong to civic groups or other organizations such as
church’s that are more likely to vote conservative please contact MCRW to
schedule a voter registration event as soon as possible. It is easy! Just contact MCRW to and we will supply the volunteers.
SERVING
MADISON COUNTY
SINCE 1977
Please make us aware of any upcoming events such as picnics, ball
games, church events that that are scheduled. We need to greatly improve
the Republican Party’s chances for victory by getting out the vote. Remember, the people that we vote into office now will affect our lives, our children’s
lives and our grand children’s lives.
For more information, contact: Elizabeth Barber at: liz@barberandmann.com
or Mary McLaurin at madisoncountymsrepublicanwomen@yahoo.com