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Let's hope the new year brings us a better next election in 2016!
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Happy Labor Day! 36 reasons to thank labor unions.
Happy Labor Day from the Harrison County Democratic Party! Here are 36 things brought to you by the labor movement, and 36 things the Koch Brothers and Tea Party Republicans would take away if they got the chance.
Did you know that labor unions made the following 36 things possible?
- Weekends without work
- All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks
- Paid vacation
- Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Sick leave
- Social Security
- Minimum wage
- Civil Rights Act/Title VII - prohibits employer discrimination
- 8-hour work day
- Overtime pay
- Child labor laws
- Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
- 40-hour work week
- Workers' compensation (workers' comp)
- Unemployment insurance
- Pensions
- Workplace safety standards and regulations
- Employer health care insurance
- Collective bargaining rights for employees
- Wrongful termination laws
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
- Whistleblower protection laws
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) - prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee
- Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
- Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises)
- Sexual harassment laws
- Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Holiday pay
- Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
- Privacy rights
- Pregnancy and parental leave
- Military leave
- The right to strike
- Public education for children
- Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 - requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work
- Laws ending sweatshops in the United States
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| Something the Tea Party and Koch Brothers don't believe in. |
Friday, July 4, 2014
Happy 238th Birthday to the United States of America
Happy Birthday to our nation. On July 4, 1776, the Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence, and it was signed thereafter, thence making it the first day of our country. Interestingly, two of our founding fathers and Presidents, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, died exactly 50 years later from their signing of the Declaration of Independence. Adams' relatives said that his last words were "Jefferson survives". However, he did not know that Jefferson had died earlier in the day.
Here is the text of the Declaration of Independence, courtesy of the National Acheives:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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| The Signing of the Declaration of Independence |
Here is the text of the Declaration of Independence, courtesy of the National Acheives:
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Friday, June 6, 2014
70th Anniversary of D-Day: Thank you to our World War II Veterans
Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the landing of Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy in northern France to begin the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. Thank you to our World War II veterans, from those that gave their lives overseas, have passed on since then, and those still with us. We never forget the sacrifices for our nation's freedom.
Here is a brief description of the day from the U.S. Army:
This link is also a good resource for the history of the Normandy landings, including General Eisenhower's address, videos, images, maps, and other important resources.
Here is a brief description of the day from the U.S. Army:
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolph Hitler’s crack troops.Source: http://www.army.mil/d-day/
This link is also a good resource for the history of the Normandy landings, including General Eisenhower's address, videos, images, maps, and other important resources.
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| American Cemetery in Normandy |
Monday, May 26, 2014
Celebrate Memorial Day
Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War and a desire to honor our
dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan,
national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11.
“The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with
flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in
defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now
lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,”
he proclaimed. The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen
because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.
During that first national celebration, former Union Gen. and sitting Ohio Congressman James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were buried there.
In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and established that Memorial Day was to be celebrated on the last Monday of May.Memorial Day is celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery each year with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each grave. Traditionally, the President or Vice President lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. About 5,000 people attend the ceremony annually.
Information Source: www.pbs.org
During that first national celebration, former Union Gen. and sitting Ohio Congressman James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were buried there.
“We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”This event was inspired by local observances of the day that had taken place in several towns throughout America in the three years after the Civil War. In 1873, New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day as a legal holiday. By the late 1800s, many more cities and communities observed Memorial Day, and several states had declared it a legal holiday. After World War I, it became an occasion for honoring those who died in all of America’s wars and was then more widely established as a national holiday throughout the United States.
- James A. Garfield
May 30, 1868 Arlington National Cemetery
In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and established that Memorial Day was to be celebrated on the last Monday of May.Memorial Day is celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery each year with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each grave. Traditionally, the President or Vice President lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. About 5,000 people attend the ceremony annually.
Information Source: www.pbs.org
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Elizabeth Memorial Day Parade
The Harrison County Democratic Party will have a float at the Elizabeth Memorial Day parade (yes, it is on Memorial Day- Monday). We will have our wagon for riders and will need others to pass out candy. The parade begins at 11:00 A.M., but we will start lining up between 10:00 and 10:30. Several of our candidates will also have entries in the parade, including Terry L. Miller, candidate for Harrison County Commissioner, Heidi Sellers, candidate for Indiana State Representative, District 70, and Rachael Armstrong, candidate for Prosecuting Attorney. Come out and support our party and honor those that gave their lives in service to our great nation.
Rachael will have her Army Truck driven by her husband, Rob, an Afghanistan war veteran. Terry L. Miller is a U.S. Air Force veteran. Roger D. Davis, our candidate for Judge is a Vietnam Veteran, and Councilman Gordon Pendleton is a U.S. Army Veteran. Harrison County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Kincaid is also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Rachael will have her Army Truck driven by her husband, Rob, an Afghanistan war veteran. Terry L. Miller is a U.S. Air Force veteran. Roger D. Davis, our candidate for Judge is a Vietnam Veteran, and Councilman Gordon Pendleton is a U.S. Army Veteran. Harrison County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Kincaid is also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.
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| Rose Hill Cemetery |
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Happy Mother's Day!
The Harrison County Democratic Party would like to wish all the moms out there a Happy Mother's Day! May your day be a blessed and happy one!
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Today is Election Day: Go out and Vote!
The polling places today will be open today until 6:00 P.M. You will need to present a photo I.D. to vote. Go out and vote! Tell you friends and family to go out and vote today! And be sure to request a Democratic primary ballot!
Here are the precinct locations this year. Remember, the precincts highlighted have new locations this year.
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| Harrison County Precinct Map |
Here are the precinct locations this year. Remember, the precincts highlighted have new locations this year.
| # | PRECINCT | POLLING LOCATION |
| 1 | North Blue River | Blue River Baptist Church, 13520 North Rd.NW, Depauw, 47115 |
| 2 | South Blue River | Milltown Housing for the Elderly, 115 Spencer St, Depauw, 47115 |
| 3 | East Boone | Boone Township Fire House, 10850 S. Hwy 11 SE, Laconia 47135 |
| 4 | West Boone | Boone Township Fire House, 10850 S. Hwy 11 SE, Laconia 47135 |
| 5 | Central Franklin | New Life Christian Church, 8090 Tandy Rd. NE, Lanesville, 47136 |
| 6 | North Franklin | New Life Christian Church, 8090 Tandy Rd. NE, Lanesville, 47136 |
| 7 | South Franklin | New Life Christian Church, 8090 Tandy Rd. NE, Lanesville, 47136 |
| 37 | West Franklin | New Life Christian Church, 8090 Tandy Rd. NE, Lanesville, 47136 |
| 8 | East Harrison | Government Center, 245 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 - Conference Room C |
| 10 | Northeast Harrison | Government Center, 245 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 - Surveyor's Office, 2nd floor |
| 36 | Northwest Harrison | Government Center, 245 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 - Assessor's Office, 2nd floor |
| 38 | South Harrison | Government Center, 245 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 - SBOA Room, 2nd floor |
| 12 | Southeast Harrison | Government Center, 245 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 - Veterans Office |
| 11 | Corydon West | CCHS Auxiliary Gym, 375 Country Club Rd, Corydon 47112 |
| 35 | Corydon East | CCHS Auxiliary Gym, 375 Country Club Rd, Corydon 47112 |
| 39 | Corydon South | CCHS Auxiliary Gym, 375 Country Club Rd, Corydon 47112 |
| 9 | North Harrison | Health Department, Ground Level, 241 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 |
| 13 | Southwest Harrison | Health Department, Ground Level, 241 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 |
| 14 | West Harrison | Health Department, Ground Level, 241 Atwood St, Corydon 47112 |
| 15 | East Heth | Heth Washington Elementary, 2450 Heth-Wash. Rd. SW, Central 47110 |
| 16 | West Heth | Heth Washington Elementary, 2450 Heth-Wash. Rd. SW, Central 47110 |
| 32 | North Jackson | North Harrison Middle School, 1180 Hwy 64 NW, Ramsey 47166 |
| 17 | Northeast Jackson | North Harrison Middle School, 1180 Hwy 64 NW, Ramsey 47166 |
| 18 | Northwest Jackson | North Harrison Middle School, 1180 Hwy 64 NW, Ramsey 47166 |
| 19 | Southeast Jackson | Community Center, 6120 Main St. NE, Crandall, 47114 |
| 20 | Southwest Jackson | North Harrison Middle School, 1180 Hwy 64 NW, Ramsey 47166 |
| 21 | Northeast Morgan | Morgan Elementary, 12225 SR 135 NW, Palmyra 47164 |
| 22 | Northwest Morgan | Morgan Elementary, 12225 SR 135 NW, Palmyra 47164 |
| 23 | South Morgan | Morgan Elementary, 12225 SR 135 NW, Palmyra 47164 |
| 30 | Southwest Morgan | Morgan Elementary, 12225 SR 135 NW, Palmyra 47164 |
| 24 | Northeast Posey | South Harrison Community Development Corp., 5101 Main St, Elizabeth, 47117 |
| 25 | Southeast Posey | South Harrison Community Development Corp., 5101 Main St, Elizabeth, 47117 |
| 26 | West Posey | South Harrison Community Development Corp., 5101 Main St, Elizabeth, 47117 |
| 27 | North Spencer | Frenchtown Community Center, 7663 Hwy 337 NW, Depauw, 47115 |
| 28 | South Spencer | Frenchtown Community Center, 7663 Hwy 337 NW, Depauw, 47115 |
| 29 | Taylor | South Harrison Community Development Corp., 5101 Main St, Elizabeth, 47117 |
| 31 | Washington | New Amsterdam Townhall, 7563 Main St., Central, 47110 |
| 33 | East Webster | New Middletown Fire House, 4055 Fire Ln., New Middletown, 47160 |
| 34 | West Webster | New Middletown Fire House, 4055 Fire Ln., New Middletown, 47160 |
Sunday, April 20, 2014
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