Turning the Tide...: April 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Candace Salima for National Delegate

OPEN LETTER TO

Utah GOP State Delegates

MY NAME IS CANDACE SALIMA AND I AM RUNNING TO REPRESENT THE GREAT STATE OF UTAH AS A NATIONAL DELEGATE AT THE RNC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN TAMPA BAY, FL.

We stand at an historical point in America. We are on the precipice of becoming a nation based on European Socialism – or – will we hold on to the Republic our Founding Fathers gave us? Years ago, I promised my father I would fight to keep from happening in America what happened in Europe when World War II broke out. As current presidential candidate Mitt Romney often says, “We are in a fight for the very heart and soul of America.” This is a fight I am unwilling to lose.

Extremely active in politics for nearly two decades, I have served our party in a variety of capacities, and have counted it an honor to do so. And now, it would be my great honor to represent the great state of Utah at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay Florida on August 27-30, 2012.

If delegates are released at the RNC National Convention, I will vote for Mitt Romney. Should he become an nonviable candidate at some juncture, I will vote according to the voter rankings from the Utah Primary.

I invite you to visit my website at www.elect.candacesalima.com and learn more about what drives me as an American, a Republican and a Utahan. Feel free to email me at ces@candacesalima.com. I ask for your vote as well as welcome your questions and thoughts.

Thank you,

Candace E. Salima

Monday, April 16, 2012

May Fundraiser for Alvin Salima

May 4th (Businesses) and May 5th (Individuals and Families) are the dates for the May Fundraiser for Alvin's Kidney Transplant and associated costs. Our target is to pre-sell 700 plates between businesses and individuals. This will pay for the remainder of his dental needs (thanks to our old dentist) and get us back on track for the actual transplant. We have some amazing food waiting for those who take advantage. Not to mention, May 4th is our 17th Wedding Anniversary. How I adore my sweet husband, Alvin.

You may also email your pre-orders to me.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

This Tea Partier Does Support Mitt Romney

I tend to read a lot of newspapers and news sites. As such, I often run across columns I agree with, and many, many more I disagree with. Today, in The Daily Caller, some self-avowed leader of the "tea party" announced:

The leader of the Tea Party Nation organization has a blunt message for likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: Tea partiers will likely vote for you, but don’t expect them to get energized and campaign for you.

“The tea party is not going to coalesce around Romney,” Judson Phillips told The Daily Caller on Thursday. “Most of us will vote for Romney, but we will not be out there with signs for him or in his campaign.”

Well THIS tea party leader IS not only voting for Mitt Romney, I will fight day and night to make sure he is elected. Because unlike others, I've looked at the whole picture, researched Mitt Romney thoroughly and know two salient facts:

1) Another four years of Barack Obama, especially as a lame duck president, will be exceedingly dangerous to this nation and her people. He has stated over and over he's a Marxist and intends to break American down and rebuild her into a communist nation. All I can say about that is, over my dead body.

2) Mitt Romney is unique qualified to lead America out of the economic quagmire. He understands, as so many don't, the differences between Article 1, Section 8 and the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. He's stated outright that a department that must be maintained by money from China, is on the chopping block. He's explicitly stated he will turn many of the government's services back over to the states to be handled at that level, which is how it should be. And last, but not least, Mitt Romney is a man of integrity, courage and strength who has remained faithful, and in love, with his sweet wife of 42 years. He and Ann have raised five wonderful sons who, by all counts, have become useful members of society, emulating what they were taught by their parents. They are the grandparents to 16 wonderful grandchildren. They have fought for and lived the American Dream. The Marxist or the Capitalist? Oh, I choose Mitt Romney every single time and six ways from Sunday. As the turn-around king, he is the man who must become our next POTUS.

Those tea partiers who have fought day and night over the last 3 1/2 years to save America, will effectively be throwing in the towel and tossing a vote Barack Obama's way if they do not rally around Mitt Romney as the Republican Nominee, which he will become.

You may email extended comments to this post directly to Candace Salima.

Monday, April 2, 2012

The Republican Party IS America

The Republican Party is the party of every day Americans, working hard to make a difference. We live, we laugh, we love, and we fight tooth and nail for this nation we love so much. We believe in self-responsibility, self-reliance, entrepreneurship, free enterprise, the right to defend ourselves, God, family and the American Dream. We discriminate against no one, and cheer each other on (unless they're running in a campaign against one another.) THAT's the grand ol' party. We are America through and through!

And while I'm waxing poetic! God Bless America, for we are in the fight for the very heart and soul of America. And make no mistake about it, we will win. For the alternative is too unbearable to consider.