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• 1 r // Jun 22, 2008 at 6:52 am

  Are you in Rochester, NY or Rochester, MN?

• 2 rochester_veteran // Jun 22, 2008 at 7:53 am

  r,

  We’re in Rochester, NY.

• 3 David Jeffers // Jul 21, 2008 at 8:14 pm

  Hey bro, please email me. I lost your email address and I need to ask a favor!

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• 5 Barzilla // Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm

  A little off-topic but I want to remind you of one
  of your local men, David Lemcke of Hilton, NY.

  Dave was killed on May 21, 1968 along the DMZ. He was carried as MIA for many years. Although his burial site is known, his remains have yet to be recovered. This is first- hand knowledge on my part.

  Dear fellow Americans, Dear Uncle Sam

  My name is Dave Lemcke. Do you know who I am?

  I’m your brother, your cousin, your uncle, your Dad.

  I’m the first high school sweetheart that you ever had.

  I was drafted at nineteen and shipped out to Nam.

  “Do your duty” said Dad “Just come home”
  whispered Mom.

  I didn’t make it home though, I was killed at
  ALFA-One.

  And like thousands of others, my folks mourned
  their son.

  Just one of the thousands of men young and
  brave.

  Except I’m still here in Asia in an unmarked
  grave.

  That’s a miserable trade for the life that I
  gave.

  Please come and bring me home.

  Love

  Dave.

• 6 Janet // Nov 14, 2008 at 8:35 pm

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• 7 concerned citizen // Feb 19, 2009 at 8:49 am

  For the other side of the argument: socialistalternative.org

• 8 rochester_veteran // Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 am

  concerned citizen,

  As far as I’m concerned, socialism/communism is the bane of humanity. Socialists/communists murdered over 100 million of their own people during the 20th Century and we at RochesterConservative.com stand against socialism/communism!

• 9 concerned citizen // Feb 19, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  rochester veteran,

  I feel similarly about capitalism. I am assuming the systems of government which you are referring to (i.e. the soviet union) were actually dictatorships\perversions of socialist ideals.

  I don’t believe that our current system of government has the common man’s (the working man’s) best interests at heart. Any system that is built on greed can’t be. It is a fact that most of the wealth in our country is concentrated in a very, very small percentage of people. Equal opportunity doesn’t exist any more. Look at all the war, starvation, environmental damage that is happening all over the world. Our government certainly has blood on it’s hands as well. Clearly some change is needed. Big business needs to be taken into public ownership and held accountable.

  All I ask is that people open their hearts and minds and at least educate themselves on what is possible.

• 10 rochester_veteran // Feb 19, 2009 at 1:25 pm

  You look upon our system as one built in greed and that’s quite typical for socialists who prefer to have the nanny state take care of them and see the worst in every situation.

  The US version of government being a Constitutional Republic and our free-market economic system are a combination that made the US the freest, most prosperous nation the Earth has ever seen.

  Socialism/communism is deadly to their citizens and they have always failed, crumbling under their own weight. Never has a socialist/communist country succeeded in the long run.

  You’ll never get we at RochesterConservative.com to embrace socialism/communism as it’s the antithesis of freedom!

• 11 concerned citizen // Feb 19, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  I don’t view a socialist government as being a “nanny” government. Instead it is truly a government for the people, by the people, and of the people. It would be composed of everyday people getting involved in their communities and making decisions that affect their lives in a very direct manner.

  My idea of freedom is people having the ability to work together for the benefit of all living things. This is essentially what solidarity is all about. I think the idea of freedom you are referring to is the ability of one individual to profit off of another.

  At the very least I want people to stop being consumerist sheep and to start getting involved in their communities. To start caring about the world they live in, instead of being glued to a television set.

• 12 rochester_veteran // Feb 19, 2009 at 3:53 pm

  concerned citizen,

  Hey, it’s a free country and your entitled to your own opinions and beliefs.

  All socialist governments have been “nanny state” governments, thus far in history. Even the Pilgrims tried socialism and their experiment failed miserably and the colony almost starved to death and they lost half of their original settlers.

  Every attempt at socialism has failed since that ill-fated experiment in 1620.

• 13 phantomlord // Feb 19, 2009 at 4:08 pm

  The concentration of wealth is actually a GOOD thing… you see, if everyone has the exact same thing regardless of whether they serve fries or invest the money to create the restaurant, there’s no incentive to create new goods, no incentive to do more than the bare minimum required to get by, etc. Economically and socially we will stagnate.

  The solution for the fry guy that is envious of the restaurant owner isn’t to demand that the owner give up his right to a profit after risking his capital, it’s for the fry guy to learn all he can and to risk his own capital to create a competing restaurant. If he works hard enough, he might just find himself on top rather than on the bottom.

  Socialism and communism ensure that everyone suffers equally, not that everyone will have the benefits of the wealthiest. In fact, it will drive the wealthiest out of their country, taking their capital with them, ensuring that we sink even farther.

  Socialism is when the government controls the means of production. It is dichotomous to freedom. I’ll take freedom every day over being a slave to the government, even if it means the freedom to fail comes along with the freedom to succeed.

• 14 SMZ // Feb 20, 2009 at 10:39 am

  Don’t forget that socialism and communism still breed a ruling class oligarchy that is above the law and above the proletariat.

• 15 Leavingroch // Feb 20, 2009 at 10:57 am

  I don’t get the appeal of socialism… as children we strive to get out from the control of our parents.. we strive to be independent.. I am not sure what the motivation is to be taken care of??

  It is like a game, if everyone wins where is the motivation to play?

  IF we can’t better ourselves what is the motivation to try… I just don’t get it.

  I love freedom, I love that if I mess up it is MY fault and I can’t blame the next guy.. And if you mess up you can’t blame me.

• 16 Lanceq // Feb 24, 2009 at 9:31 pm

  I like you guys… Im a college student in/from Minnesota and a vet. Its hard to walk the halls in my college these days and not be reminded of the heavy liberal vews that flow threw the halls on a college campus. We need more people like you and you/we need to be heared! Some time I would like to share the paintings that where hung at our school while a military ball was taking place in the next room.

• 17 rochester_veteran // Feb 25, 2009 at 5:48 am

  Lanceq,

  I’m a vet as well (Vietnam Era). My youngest son is in college and he’s told me of the liberal slant to things in campus and how it was almost unbearable during this past election.

  Please do share with us the paintings! Did you take photos of them? I’ll run an article about it on RochesterConservative.com:

  rochester_veteran@yahoo.com

• 18 Lanceq // Feb 25, 2009 at 5:02 pm

  Yes I did take pics and I’ll send them to the link above… If you dont get them let me know and I’ll try again.

• 19 Enoch // Mar 15, 2009 at 12:37 am

  Has anyone read Mao, The Unknown Story?

• 20 rochester_veteran // Mar 16, 2009 at 10:34 am

  Enoch,

  I haven’t read “Mao, The Unknown Story”, but I just reviewed the wikipedia page on it and I see it’s not a complimentary account of Mao. That’s a good thing! Mao was responsible for more citizen deaths in peace time than Hitler or Stalin.

• 21 Brenda // Mar 25, 2009 at 10:31 am

  How did it take me so long to find you?! I thought conservatism was on the brink of extinction in New York.
  My sons are students in the City Schools (grades 8 and 5) and I am concerned that they are not learning to think. I counter as much of their narrow education as I can by giving them another view of the situation, but I am feeling that I am not doing enough.
  Would appreciate suggestions!

• 22 rochester_veteran // Mar 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  Brenda,

  Welcome to RochesterConservative! Yeah, there are still some conservatives in Monroe County and we’ re trying to keep the fires of freedom burning.

  My two oldest kids started in Rochester City Schools. It was due to the rough situation in the schools and the deterioration of our neighborhood (westside, 19th Ward) that we moved out to Chili and enrolled our kids in the Churchville Chili School District. They did well there.

  When living in the city, the alternatives to RCSD are private schools and they can be pricey. Maybe you can look into some home schooling material and augment your sons education with that.

  I’ll put a call out to some of the other regulars here and see if they can post some suggestions.

  RV

• 23 Leavingroch // Mar 27, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  Hi Brenda, Welcome

  I can tell you from experience, you need to work with the teachers. At those grade levels it is almost too late to volunteer but first talk with the teachers, principal and other staff members.

  You can ask to see the studies before they are offered and offer suggestions, look for extra credit (sometimes that will stir more guestions and thinking). I am not familiar with the city schools so much. But I imagine it is all the same.

  Also reading to or with your kids, watching the news with the oldest, talking about things. Asking WHY is a good way to get things started. Asking them WHY they feel what they do, and then explaining the other sides. Most times the why question will get them to question themselves or the teacher on their beliefs. Giving you a chance to show them there are other ways of thinking.

  Also talking about things and asking them to come to their own answers, not what they learned in school, reminding them that the teacher is only one person and the schools are only one side.. encourage them to look things up. I know in school the kids were taught narrow views of Viet Nam, and during 9/11 and the aftermath I can tell you horror stories of what some of the teachers said and done. Talking with my kids and watching news stories, and making them look things up helped.

  You can contact me thru the Prirate Forum privately if you want more suggestions or want to bounce ideas off me…

  good luck, what ever you do it is a great investment to teach your kids to see all the sides of things and to question.

• 24 Jon White // Mar 30, 2009 at 10:25 am

  Hi,

  I’m very interested in the upcoming Tax Day Tea Party, and I’m interested in doing a little more than just show up. I’m a Photographer, and I’m planning on Photographing the event. I’d like to get in touch with the organizers in advance.

  Thank you for your time and attention in this matter.

• 25 rochester_veteran // Mar 30, 2009 at 12:37 pm

  Jon,

  Thanks for you interest in the Rochester Tax Day Tea Party. I’m one of the organizers. My email address is:

  rochester_veteran@yahoo.com

• 26 Abigail // Jun 28, 2009 at 10:52 pm

  We attended the Tax Day Tea Party and look forward to your upcoming event as well. We share the same concerns and continue to look for specific actions to fix our government. We’ve created a website to try to educate those who don’t yet understand where this country is heading and to promote citizens voting out our representatives who continue to misrepresent.

  Please check out our site at http://www.1andDone.org.

• 27 rochester_veteran // Jun 29, 2009 at 5:53 am

  Abigail,

  Thanks for your participation in the Tax Day Tea Party! It was pretty cool, wasn’t it! We’ll see you on Friday at Charlotte, it should be another good one.

  I’ll add the link to you website to the RC Blogroll.

  RV

• 28 Abigail // Jun 29, 2009 at 8:59 pm

  Thanks RV…we appreciate it! See you Friday!

• 29 FreeMarket! // Aug 3, 2009 at 10:54 am

  Rochester veteran.

  Do you have plans of attending Eric Massa’s upcoming town hall at the Mendon Town Center. I saw a flyer for it last week, and was searching for a date and time online. Be a great time for a tea party to break out!

• 30 JB // Sep 3, 2009 at 5:04 pm

  Any buses going to the Washington rally?

• 31 rochester_veteran // Sep 4, 2009 at 6:04 am

  JB,

  You’ve come to the right place to find out about buses to Washington DC for 9/12! We already have two buses filled and are working on filling a third bus! Contact Erik Anderson at vroom@rochester.rr.com to let him know that you’d like to go. Round trip tickets are $75 each. Email Erik for more details.

• 32 angie // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm

  this may sound lame and you may have answered this somewhere but are you on facebook?

• 33 rochester_veteran // Sep 4, 2009 at 4:10 pm

  angie,

  It’s not a lame inquiry as facebook is a good tool for announcing and organizing events.

  Erik made the decision to keep this on email to protect the confidentiality of participants. Anybody can glean information from facebook, but that’s tougher to do with a mailing list, where participants are vetted.

• 34 Doug L // Oct 23, 2009 at 3:23 pm

  OT: LOUISE SLAUGHTER TO DISCUSS HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!!

  Sunday Nov 1 9:50 AM at DUPC (supposed to be free and open to public)

  see: http://www.dupc.org/downloads/health_series_2009.pdf

  http://www.dupc.org/index.html
  http://www.dupc.org/schedule.html

• 35 Doug L // Oct 26, 2009 at 8:33 am

  Oops that’s 9:50 am

• 36 ScottG.223 // Nov 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm

  Sorry I never met Charlie Eames. I enjoyed reading his posts- especially regarding the two totally different states that live in one ‘New York State.” We need a new state called ‘Western New York’ – border on the Hudson. Let New York City go its own way. Every so often someone runs for mayor on the statehood idea and gets a lot of New York City votes. Let’s just be agreeable, shall we? Action Plan#1- About 14 counties surround New York City called the ‘Watershed District.” They are governed by a permit-issuing entity from NYC called the Department of Environmental Preservation. New York City got an exemption from the Clean Waters Act years ago. It would cost them billions to comply. Instead they interfere with development in the surrounding counties so that the water supply remains ‘pure.’ Residents of these counties don’t like it much, of course. Can we help? Action Plan #2- New York City desperately needs Western New York – as a garbage dump. We should be able to get local liberal democratic politicians (working with conservationists!!) to impale themselves on this issue. They have to break with NYC politicos in order to avoid making Upstate a garbage disposal. Action Plan #3- We have cheap hydroelectric power here which could support industry and other livelihood/jobs, but instead it goes into the grid and powers NYC air conditioners. Let’s keep our power at home. Action Plan #4- Does New York use Upstate as a dumping ground for sex offenders on parole? Action Plan #5- Like the Working Families Party, a separatist party for Upstate New York could cross endorse candidates in order to get a line on the ballet.
  I’m a newcomer to this forum. Thank you for letting me speak a little on this subject. Voted Conservative not Republican last time. Who knows where I’ll be next year!!

• 37 ScottG.223 // Nov 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  One last thing- Magic Sam was IT!!

• 38 rochester_veteran // Nov 15, 2009 at 12:40 pm

  ScottG.223,

  Welcome to RochesterConservative.com! Please keep on posting your comments and if you have something you’d like to contribute, let us know:

  rochester_veteran@rochesterconservative.com

  phantomlord@rochesterconservative.com

  BTW, I’m registered as an independent and I’m a conservative as well and not beholdened to the D’s or the R’s. We need to vote in citizens (not professional politicians) who will cut government down to size and eliminate mandates, confiscatory taxes and fees.

• 39 BruceDunn // Mar 27, 2010 at 6:29 am

  I’ve been looking for a local site and am glad to have found one finally. I have been trying to find out if anyone is running against Louise Slaughter this year. We need to retire this woman, along with both of our senators. NY has lousy representation in Washington and because of the Obama election, we have been given a grand opportunity to send some good people to Washington who will work to get our country returned to its former greatness.

• 40 Cheryl Kesel // Mar 28, 2010 at 1:07 pm

  If people truly want to change NYS than they need to sign the petition for the “People’s Constitutional Convention to Reform New York”. It will be on the ballot in November if people sign this petition and pressure their legislatures. A convention will allow the people to amend the NYS constitution and finally have term limits, no pork, campaign reform, remove waste, no more lobbyists, balanced budgets, etc. You can go to americans4reform@yahoo.com to sign the petition and read more about it. Brian Kolb assemblyman from Canandaigia NY sponsored bill # A9157 in Decemeber to call a people’s convention. If Albany won’t do it we will have too.

• 41 rochester_veteran // Mar 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm

  Cheryl,

  I hope that a Constitutional Convention will be of help in reforming NYS government.

  There’s over 800 “Authorities” in NYS and something needs to be done to address their “back door borrowing”. Read about RochesterConservative.com’s concerns here:

  In Memory of Charlie – Upstate Ultimatum

  Charlie Eames was a long-time local libertarian/conservative activist, who was a supporter of Upstate NY seceding from Albany and Downstate.

  RV

• 42 phantomlord // Mar 29, 2010 at 12:08 am

  I’m am a staunch advocate of reforming NY (in fact, I want to split the state in two), but I firmly believe a Constitutional Convention is a VERY, VERY, VERY bad idea.

  Exactly who is going to be writing this revised Constitution? It’s going to be the politically well connected and the last thing they’re going to do is give us tools to actually remove the corruption from Albany, recall politicians, initiate our own referendums, etc. We’re going to get the people that opted to remove all the male gender pronouns from the Constitution back in 2000, not people that want to empower the citizens.

  The ONLY way to fix upstate is to shed the albatross of downstate. The NYC/Hudson Corridor region has absolutely nothing in common with the rest of the state, but due to the population of NYC, they cram their regulations and their ideas down our throats. They could care less how the rest of NY has languished in decline for decades. And yet, they get to choose a little more than half of the people rewriting the NYS Constitution.

  We MUST split the state, so that upstate can act in its own interests before we opt to write a new Constitution or we’ll wish for the days when we had the awful government we do now… No more Sheldon Silver, no more corrupt NYC/Hudson governors, but real change based on the needs of western/upstate NY.

• 43 All The Way Live // Mar 30, 2010 at 4:10 am

  First and foremost I commend you on your expression of the 1st amendment. Second, I want to clarify something for you. Socialism is NOT a form of government, it is a socio-economic system, like Capitalism. In countries which are ‘socialist’ the means of production, the outcome, and the control of all things within that system are regulated by one central government, the Soviet Union for instance was a Socialist economic system but politically they were more or less an oligarchy. A small group of like minded militants bent on creating a war machine to topple the world, who hated anything “non-Soviet”, God, peace, life. It wasn’t socialism that killed the Soviet Union, it was the fascist militants who wanted to wage war against the world that eventually devoured themselves. Please, please do not take what I say as an attempt to shun your beliefs or viewpoints, by all means I am not trying to do that or to start an argument. I know 1st hand what the Soviet brand of Socialism was like having come from a former Soviet bloc nation here.

• 44 phantomlord // Mar 30, 2010 at 5:49 am

  Socialism requires a totalitarian central authority or else it breaks down because it requires that people act counter to their own self-interests.

  We’ve never seen socialism without totalitarianism at the national level (take your pick – Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot, et al) and even at the small commune level, it has routinely failed (virtually all of the hippy communes of the 60s and 70s failed due to internal breakdowns).

  Socialism, communism and all varieties of Marxism only look good in theory, and even then, only when you completely ignore obvious things like people tend to act in their own self-interest and prefer to do as little as possible while also demanding a reward as large as possible. In practice, collectivism has never worked, especially on a large scale and especially not with a culturally heterogeneous society.

• 45 Michelle // Apr 15, 2010 at 9:09 pm

  Did you have the Tea Party today at April 15th
  Genesee Crossroads Park
  11:30am to 1pm ?
  Michelle

• 46 phantomlord // Apr 15, 2010 at 9:59 pm

  You bet… videos of the speeches can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/rochesternyteaparty1

• 47 ChrisJGavin // Jun 11, 2010 at 2:48 am

  I just so happened to stumble across your site from Tea Party Patriots. Love it and I’ll be back often. Drop me an email when you get a chance. Been looking around for some Tea Party groups but can’t find any in this town. Maybe we can get some coffee and meet up and talk. Anyways, hit me up!

• 48 rochester_veteran // Jun 11, 2010 at 5:28 am

  Welcome Chris! I’ll send you an email.

• 49 Alan Aszkler // Jul 6, 2010 at 10:54 am

  Does the Party have a candidate to run against Louise Slaughter in the 23rd?

• 50 rochester_veteran // Jul 6, 2010 at 11:12 am

  Alan Aszkler posted:

  Does the Party have a candidate to run against Louise Slaughter in the 23rd?

  Actually, it’s the NY 28th.

  There’s a few folks who are opposing Slaughter. One is Dr. Jill Rowland, a dentist from Buffalo that I got to hear speak and also met with her and her husband. I like her, but it’s going to be hard to beat Slaughter as she has a built-in constituency with the entitlement class and liberals in Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

• 51 Tommy // Apr 1, 2011 at 9:44 pm

  Hey there,

  I thought you might like this. I made this version of the Gadsden flag back in 2009 when I started getting involved in the Tea Party.

  http://cgi.ebay.com/Gadsden-Flag-Tea-Party-alternate-version-/160553141614?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2561b6856e

  As you can see, after alot of positive feedback by people from the rallies, I decided to bite the bullet and get some quality flags made up and I’m now selling them on Ebay.

  Let me know what you think. I would really appreciate the feedback.

• 52 Bob Pfeiffer // Nov 8, 2011 at 8:15 pm

  Dear RochesterConservative.com,
  As you know entitlements are out of control. The federal government spent $358 billion on 12 antipoverty programs in 2010 but it only would have taken $165 billion (Census Bureau numbers) to pull every American out of poverty! It is time for serious reform and elimination or consolidation of many of these programs.
  I am a private citizen working to educate the public and push for meaningful change. When the citizens are armed with facts it seems to me that good things happen. I seek no financial gain whatsoever.
  Would you help spread the word? Please point people to the website – FederalSafetyNet.com. Here is a link:
  http://www.federalsafetynet.com
  I would also be happy to send you brochures which summarize the information. Just let me know how many and where to send them.
  Thanks for helping and all the best,
  Bob

• 53 Patterhaar // Dec 21, 2011 at 2:04 pm

  I have just finished reading the blogs on this site. It was the most enjoyable hour I have had in a long time. I am so glad I found you. I have been wanting to feel connected to a groups uch as yours for a while. will keep up with things now and hopefully be able to connect socially as well. Thanks

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