Author: Sharise Plescia

I just returned from the NFRW Convention in Indianapolis, home state of our Vice President Mike Pence.  In Indiana, Republicans hold every statewide-elected position, both U.S. Senate seats, seven U.S. House seats, super majorities in the Indiana House and Senate and 89% of County Commissioner seats: a goal the rest of the country should strive to achieve. While there, the Vice President learned of the NFRW Convention and dropped by the hotel to say, “Hi.”  Below is a short portion of what he had to say: “If you all will step forward, redouble your energy, get motivated this week and burst out of Indiana like this is the starting gate, and do all that you can in the days ahead, I believe we’re going to re-elect a Republican majority in…

Welcome back, we have survived the summer and fall is just around the corner. A lot of exciting things have happened: Former Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley was here to help Senator Gardner kick off his 2020 campaign and the National Popular Vote Referendum has qualified for the 2020 Colorado General Election ballot. Your children and grandchildren are off to school and college.  As I helped my granddaughter fold clothes and pack to leave for her first year of college, I couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy about what she is going to be exposed to.  Even knowing she has grown up with conservative values I still worry about the liberal influence she is going to face.  We need keep all of these young people in our…

I can’t believe as we are going into our May 2019 meeting it will be our last meeting before our summer recess.  We have had a lot of great programs and I’m sure this month with Amy Oliver Cooke will be just as informative. Don’t forget: we will be electing our delegates to the Annual CFRW Convention to be held the first weekend in October at this meeting.  Please consider becoming more involved and choose to attend the convention. I want to again thank our 3rd VP, Sue Kenfield, for setting up our member survey and want to thank those who took the time to participate. We’ve provided a quick summary on page 4. We again have links to articles with good information for you below: Ben Engen’s - ‘The…

If you missed the March meeting, you missed a fantastic program from David Flaherty of Magellan Strategies and Dick Wadhams, Political Consultant and called ‘The Political Grand Master’ by many.  David and Dick gave us great insight into what has happened in the past and what Colorado is looking forward to in the future and why.  Here is a link into research done by Magellan on the National Popular Vote that you will find interesting. There are way too many things written for us all to read them all or even find them for that matter.  If your DCRW Board finds something that we think would interest or educate you, we will be putting links to those items in the newsletter. To that end, here is a link to a…

Congratulations Ladies – The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was passed by Congress in 1919.  100 years later, we’re celebrating Women’s History Month. If you missed our February meeting, you missed a great program that was best described by Wynne Shaw, “It was a singular privilege today to hear Abraham Lincoln speak about the US Presidents who led our country between George Washington and himself -- and in the process delivered an amazing history lesson for Douglas County Republican Women and Associate Member men. In the Q&A session, President Lincoln was not only familiar with the historical facts surrounding each question asked, but added ‘the rest of the story’ for his fascinated listeners. Well done, John Voehl (as Abe Lincoln).” Congratulations to those Regular and Associate…