PFRW President Meryl Hatton announces the PFRW Theme for 2013: “Our Children, Our Future.” She writes, ” look forward to working with each of you in 2013. It is about the future and as Republicans we have a lot of work to do to grow and secure our party. Our children and grandchildren are depending us to safeguard and pass on to them the America that we know and love.”
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FrackNation Producer Ann McElhinney to Speak at
2013 PA Leadership Conference
. (Harrisburg, PA) – Ann McElhinney, journalist, film maker and producer of FrackNation, the recently-released documentary on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the natural gas boom, will be a featured speaker at the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. Ann joins Steve Hayes of Fox News/The Weekly Standard; and Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli as announced speakers.
The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premier annual gathering of conservatives each year in the Keystone State. This year’s conference will be held on April 19-20 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania. In addition to the featured speakers, three workshop sessions focusing on Using Social Media, The 10th Amendment and States’ Rights and Citizen Lobbying have been announced.
The conference begins at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, April 19th with the social media and constitutional workshop sessions and ends at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, April 20th with the session on citizen lobbying. Speakers, interactive panel presentations, and three meal functions with featured speakers round out the schedule.
Registration for the two-day event is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org. Additional speakers and panel topics will be announced over the coming weeks.
Ann McElhinney is a journalist and documentary film director and producer. Her work examining the real life costs of environmental policies has outraged many in the environmentalist movement and she has received several death threats.
An inspiring and entertaining public speaker, she was voted the most popular speaker after Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter at CPAC. One blogger recently described her as “the Irish Sarah Palin” (it was not meant as a compliment.)
She is the director and producer of FrackNation (2013) – a documentary on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the natural gas boom in the U.S. and abroad. FrackNation shows how unfounded opposition to fracking is damaging the lives of some of the poorest and hardest working people in America. FrackNation dispels myths and tells the story of the people directly affected by fracking bans.
FrackNation premiered January 22, 2013 on Mark Cuban’s AXS TV. The New York Times called the film “meticulously researched…provocative.” And Variety said it was a “briskly paced…mischievous pic.”
FrackNation bypassed traditional funding methods and instead turned to Kickstarter, a crowd-funding website. In 60 days, 3,305 backers donated $212,265 to tell the truth about fracking. It was one of the most successful campaigns in Kickstarter history.
She has also recently produced and directed a series of short films exposing environmental hypocrites who want others to live with less, but who refuse to change their own lifestyles: James Cameron Hypocrite, Robert Redford Hypocrite, and Prince Charles Hypocrite. Her short films have garnered over 2.5 million views on YouTube.
In 2009, she produced and directed Not Evil Just Wrong, a film which examines the devastating consequences of the global warming hysteria. The film highlights the tragic consequences of the first triumph of the environmental movement, the ban on DDT, which has needlessly resulted in the deaths of more than 40 million children and adults in the developing world.
Previously, McElhinney produced and directed Mine Your Own Business (2006) – the first documentary that asks difficult questions of the environmental movement. As a result, 80 NGOs, including Greenpeace, called for the film to be banned when it was screened in the National Geographic auditorium in Washington DC. Protestors compared Mine Your Own Business to “Nazi propaganda” and “pornography” .
However, Canada’s The National Post said, “Mine Your Own Business is devastating because it combats prejudices and fantasies with pictures that refute thousands of weasel words. Images spun from afar. It deserves to be seen by anybody who wants to understand the impact on poor people of radical environmentalism.”
McElhinney has also made documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). The Search for Tristan’s Mum (RTE, 2005) concerned the case of Tristan Dowse, a baby who was adopted by an Irish man and his wife in Indonesia. Two years later, when the adoptive mother became pregnant, they abandoned Tristan in an Indonesian orphanage.
The case outraged Ireland and McElhinney tracked down Tristan’s natural mother and, going undercover, infiltrated the baby-selling ring. Tristan is now living with his natural mother in Indonesia and the baby sellers are serving lengthy jail sentences.
The Irish government initiated a high court protection order to protect Tristan’s interests and when delivering his judgment, Justice John McMenamin said McElhinney deserved the “highest of praise” for her investigative journalism.
McElhinney was featured in and was the Associate Producer of the highly controversial documentary Return to Sender (2005) for CBC.
McElhinney has also written for or is a regular contributor to an array of international media organizations including CNN, FOX News, ABC (US), BBC, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), RTE (Ireland), The Sunday Times and the Irish Times. She is a regular on a number of US talk radio shows including Hugh Hewitt, the Dennis Miller and Randi Rhodes show.
She is a regular contributor to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site.
McElhinney has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in the US, Canada, Romania, Bulgaria, Chile, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Ghana and Uganda.
She has most recently spoken at conferences in Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto, Grand Rapids, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City. She also lectures on campuses across the U.S. on the dangers of environmental extremists and the scam of sustainability.
McElhinney produces and directs documentaries with her husband Phelim McAleer.
Registration for the 2013 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org.
Patriots, there is a new site called “Tea Party Community.” It is similar to Facebook. I am sure you have seen the talk about it on the news. Please be aware that the site’s privacy laws state that they may use your postings and pictures for their benefit without compensation to you. You never know what they will do with your posting or pictures.
Lisa Nancollas,
Mifflin County Tea Party Patriots, Coordinator
Tea Party Party Patriots PA State Coordinator
SUN Area Council of Republican Women thank Matthew Wagner spoke at their January 2013 meeting regarding right-to-work initiatives across the nation, the benefits that employee freedom brings to workers and the economy, and the importance of pursuing right-to-work legislation in Pennsylvania in 2013. We hope to make Pennsylvania the 25th state in the nation to pass pro-freedom legislation for all workers.
Aaron Harris stated that he has posted a Facebook Page, Pennsylvania Ag Republicans with the hope to provide people with information about the PA Ag Republicans. Please log on and click like.
Robert DeSousa spoke representing Senator Pat Toomey. Senator Toomey was unable to attend the PA Ag Republican meeting, but will be attending the PA Farm show later in the week. He thanked everyone for their support of Senator Toomey and stated, “ we can’t do it without the rural farm voters.” He discussed that government needs to stay out of rural farm family lives and let them run their farm and family. We must strip our zealous regulations. Colonel DeSousa stated that Senator Pat Toomey has a “Had Enough” place on his website. When you have had enough and the government is trying order senseless regulations on you, you can log on to this website and click had enough and enter and your thoughts on regulations. Some of the other topics he discussed included: the biggest budget ever and the national debt (currently $16 thousand billion).
Congressman Glenn (GT) Thompson also addressed the group at the 2013 PA Ag Republican Annual Meeting. He thanked everyone who supports PA’s number one industry, agricultural, in any way. He is honored to serve on the Ag Committee for the third term; and also serving on the conservation, forestry subcommittee. Conservation pays and they are looking at safety nets. A one year extension was put on the farm bill. There needs to be more free market and less subsidies. Eight dollar a gallon milk would crush the market. There is a need to work on reauthorization of the farm bill and they hope to do so in the first quarter. There are two main issues with the farm bill, supply and management and food stamps. Food stamps have increased 275% over ten years and are in the farm bill. He spoke on taxes and thanked everyone for their support and work. Mike announced that once again there will be a fundraiser breakfast for GT the Wednesday of Ag Progress Days.
Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley was present and spoke to the group. He and Governor Tom Corbett are very thankful for everything the PA Ag Republicans have done for the ag community. One in every seven jobs in Pennsylvania has a link either directly or indirectly to agricultural. The group was very glad to hear Lt. Cawley report that the inheritance tax, otherwise known as the death tax is now dead in Pennsylvania; families can focus on improving the family farm rather than focusing on how to pay taxes when a loved one dies. He also reported that since he and Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2012 2,000 acres have been preserved through Farmland Preservation. Those 2,000 acres are on 22 farms in 17 counties. This program preserves a way of life, not just farming and all Pennsylvanians benefit. One of the first bills Corbett signed as governor was the PA Preferred; this was very important to him being the emphasis was on products in PA; made in PA makes a difference. Lt Gov. Cawley spoke on many topics of a variety of items happening in Harrisburg and how it affects the agricultural community; some items of interest were pensions, transportation, PSU, privatizing liquor stores, and privatizing the lottery system.
Mike Firestine gave a brief synopsis of the Fall 2012 Election and thanked everyone for their support of the candidates. He also reminded the group that we need to keep working, although this may be a slower year with our judge candidates, 2014 will be a major election again.
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